Salary caps, spend caps, drafts, academies, compensation picks, equalisation payments.
All to support a competition that has a fixture more aligned to the thinking you'd employ for a touring rock band.
The natural inequities of the competition are a crutch to lean on for the AFL; they hide behind them. They don't try and mitigate it all, they just say, "well its naturallycompromised'. How about this, kms travelled equals number of home games?. Every 3000 kilometres you travel you get a home game.
Something anything.