At the beginning of 2013 the friendly Telstra engineers threw away the simple filing pattern that was once in place, with the result that the video links no longer showed any sensible pattern at all. It was possible to discover them after the replays went live but it was apparently not possible to predict anything ahead of time. So for two years the community had to be served by altruistic contributors who posted the game links, one by one, as they went up.
The situation became worse in 2015 when Telstra decided to put all their replays past and present behind a paywall. This reduced the number of people who could discover the links in the first place (at least by any of the methods covered earlier in this series) to those who had paid for an AFL Live Pass.
But a solution to the problem soon came to light, and Sandbelt is indebted to Zappy_32 who in April posted a very useful algorithm on BigFooty's Match Replay Thread. The algorithm (which I won't go so far as to repeat here) is so regular that it invites someone to write a program to automate it.
And so, Sandbelt Software presents a replay downloader for Windows that gives access to everything from Round 1 2010 onwards. It looks like this:
There is no installer: just download the zip file, extract AFLReplays.exe to somewhere convenient and run it. Be aware though that the AFL servers are geoblocked to Australia and NZ, so if you live elsewhere you will need a VPN.
Other OSs
AFLReplays is a Windows program, based on the .NET framework. As such it has been run successfully in Linux under mono, installed like this. By extension it will also run in MacOS, though Sandbelt Software offers no guides or technical assistance in this respect.
Caveats
This program, as goes without saying, come without warranty, implied support or express permissions other than that you can do what you like in private.