A "secret trial" of the Australian Football League's concept game, AFLX, was "conducted at Albert Park," according to Lauren Wood of the HERALD SUN. Players from Victorian Football League teams Port Melbourne and Coburg "faced off behind closed doors at Lakeside Stadium on Friday night." It was the league’s "third official trial of the shortened version of the game, inspired by Twenty20 cricket." The high-scoring affair "appeared to be overseen by at least one AFL official, with members of the official supporter feedback group, AFL Fan Focus, invited to attend and share their immediate impressions." In the trial, Port Melbourne and Coburg played four 10-minute quarters, "two of them with eight players a side and two with seven." Five-time premiership player and former Geelong and Adelaide coach Gary Ayres was "recently approached by the AFL to see whether his team would be interested in taking part in the trial." While he "recommended a few tweaks, he was largely glowing in praise of what he saw." Ayres: "It is very, very fast. It’s very much about high-scoring, fast play" (HERALD SUN, 3/11).