The thread is, I was just talking in regards to his comment and I'm really trying to impress him so I wanted to strike up a convo.

If we have multi-sports they should be good ones. I'd pick Boxing, Skateboarding, Handball, Calcio Storico, that snow game with the cross country shooting for starters


Edited by tsf: 19/5/2016 12:27:10 PM

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Sport   Club name   Founded   Joined HIF   Home venue
Athletics   Hammarby IF Friidrottsförening         
Bandy   Hammarby IF Bandy   1905   1905   Zinkensdamms IP
Basketball   Hammarby IF Basket   1975   2015   Farstahallen
Boule   Hammarby IF Bouleförening         
Bowling   Hammarby IF Bowlingförening         Brännkyrka Bowlingcenter
Boxing   Hammarby IF Boxningsförening         
Floorball   Hammarby IF Innebandy   1993   1993   Sjöstadshallen
Football   Hammarby IF Fotbollförening (men) Hammarby IF Damfotbollförening (women)   1915
Goalball   Hammarby IF Goalbollförening         
Handball   Hammarby IF Handboll   1939   1939   Eriksdalshallen
Ice hockey   Hammarby IF Ishockeyförening Hammarby IF Damishockeyförening
Orienteering   Hammarby IF Orienteringsförening         
Rowing   Hammarby IF Roddförening   1889   1889   
Rugby union   Hammarby IF Rugby   2000   2000   
Speedway   Hammarby Speedway         
Skiing   Hammarby IF Skidförening         
Table tennis   Hammarby IF Bordtennisförening         

irrelevant in the world maybe, but arguably the most popular sport for each gender in Australia. Clearly the intention is to cross-market both games to each others fan base. That' smart, and could hurt other codes in participation and financial terms.

Netball Australia overlooks northern franchise in favour of east coast teams in new competition

Netball Australia (NA) has overlooked a possible northern Australia franchise in favour of more eastern state teams in its new-look domestic only competition.

Three more teams will be introduced to the Australian netball landscape in 2017 with Collingwood Football Club, Melbourne Storm and the GWS Giants all likely to have secured respective franchises in Melbourne, the Sunshine Coast and Sydney.

Earlier this week, Netball Queensland (NQ) announced they had placed a bid for a 'northern Australian' side that would hypothetically share home games between Townsville and Darwin.

Currently young talent from the far north is forced to move states if they wish to forge a netball career, something NQ chief executive Catherine Clark told News Limited it was hoping to counteract.

"The northern Australia option is about more access, opportunity, pathways for our athletes in the north of Australia and growing the profile to an audience that we haven't really engaged in this league," Clark said.

"It also taps into the natural parochialism of the north and that wonderful country-city rivalry."

However the bid was overlooked by an independent panel, which surveyed all proposals based on personal objectives and cultural alignment.

NA chief executive Kate Palmer said the location for each bid was another major factor, considering the organisation is hoping to boost its television ratings.

"We had a number of entities express interest and what we were looking for was strength of brand, capability, the ability to deliver a high performance environment for our athletes and to be sustainable financially," Palmer said.

"They're certainly highly capable organisations, but also on the eastern seaboard for our broadcasters. We need more eyeballs and more people sitting in the stands."

Some are worried about the prospect of dual teams in Melbourne, Sydney and the Queensland coast area competing for fan bases.

But Palmer says current state-bodied clubs will simply have to lift their game, and the result will only lift the bar across the sport and professional league.

"They know they're going to be challenged and that they're going to have to work on their positioning about how they run their game day so they can increase their fans," she said.

"They want more fans, they want more members, they want more profile. Certainly they're well positioned and of course we will work in partnership with them to do that."

The five-year broadcast deal is the first revenue-generating agreement NA has been able to secure in its history, meaning additional resources and funds will be pumped into the game.

That capital will benefit the league but more importantly filter down to its players, leading a charge towards professional pay packets for sportswomen in Australia.

"Those young athletes who are at our 17 and unders national camp in Canberra starting today, they're the future," she said.

"They're the full professional athletes and this is the next step in that journey to full professionalism for our sport."

Womens soccer is now more played than netball remember

Two of the most irrelevant competitions in world sport uniting as one...seems like a perfect fit.

A-league clubs do have franchise partnerships...it's called the W-league.

Barcelona run

FC Barcelona (Mens Football)
Futbol Club Barcelona Femení (Womens)

And just about to build a newe 12,000 seat stadium for their indoors teams
Regal FC Barcelona (Mens basketball)
UB-Barça (Women's basketball)
FC Barcelona (handball)
FC Barcelona-Institut Guttman (wheelchair basketball)
Futsal

It's not an easy path to go down though,because if it is perceived one sport is given favoured treatment over another,the fans won't put up with it .

As some have already said here Geelong would be a logical choice. Even the A-League club could be still know as the cats whether officially or not. Might one day if it works then see the return of the Geelong Supercats in the NBL.

Funny you mention the Supercats - they're currently lobbying local Federal and State MP's for about $25 million to build a brand new basketball stadium in the south of the city source

Whether this would include a bid for NBL status remains to be seen but it would be a logical next step should this stadium come to fruition.

GWS would be desperate to flog off any type of merchandise and try and tap into a female supporter base as they sure as hell dont have one now.

As for football, we should focus on building up the W-league first.

GWS CEO Dave Matthews was on SEN this morning. Reckons that 40% of their members are women. Find it hard to believe but that's what he said. My guess is that 39% of those members would have been handed a free membership.

If we want more franchise then we are looking at sport the wrong way.

We need mre CLUBS, not franchises

GWS CEO Dave Matthews was on SEN this morning. Reckons that 40% of their members are women. Find it hard to believe but that's what he said. My guess is that 39% of those members would have been handed a free membership.

Did have some decent players come through, especially Carlton SC. But agreed, as a general rule it was a colossal failure.

The same thing right across the AFL, at least 40% of all members are women. I'm not really sure why anyone would find that hard to believe. It's the biggest football league in the land because it attracts a large cross-section of society (both genders, multi-generational, ethnic diversity, etc).

lol

If you dont follow AFL and live in Melbourne arent you considered a social outcast?

This probably was the main reason post war immigrants chose to drop football.

Source ?

Birthplace   No. of arrivals
July 1949 - June 2000[20]   July 1949 - June 1959[21]   July 1959 - June 1970[22]   July 1970 - June 1980
1 United Kingdom & Ireland   1,787,449(31.6%)   419,946 (33.5%)   654,640 (45.3%)   342,373 (35.8%)
2 Italy   390,810 (6.9%)   201,428 (16.1%)   150,669 (10.4%)   28,800 (3.0%)
3 New Zealand   371,683 (6.6%)   29,649 (2.4%)   30,341 (2.1%)   58,163 (6.1%)
4 Germany   255,930 (4.5%)   162,756 (13.0%)   50,452 (3.5%)   not in top 10
5 Greece   220,603 (3.9%)   55,326 (4.4%)   124,324 (8.6%)   30,907 (3.2%)
6 Yugoslavia
(Yugoslavia recorded until 1994 –95 inclusive)   206,554 (3.7%)   not in top 10   94,555 (6.5%)   61,283 (6.4%)

[quote=scott21]If you dont follow AFL and live in Melbourne arent you considered a social outcast?

This probably was the main reason post war immigrants chose to drop football.