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Not sure why people are getting so precious about this. Even AFL fans are disgusted by the idea of it.
Let it fizzle out and never be mentioned again.
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+x+x+xLove reading these posts. AFL has dropped the ball. In schools its basketball or soccer. Even the ELF pitches have football GE's played on them. If you said 25 years ago how popular football was people would now be people would think your were sokkah's equivalent of Mister Football. If you had said 15 years ago how many kids would be playing people would laugh. If you had said 30 years ago our top football players would earn 5 to ten times more than our top Aussie rules players they'd lock you up. but that has happen, not because of what the AFL did or din't do......but because football in Australia became a professional organisation in Australia, it because Frank took a shit hole organisation abd brought in a group of pro people to run FFA it doesn't matter what the AFL does,if t wasn't the AFL it be some other sport organisation doing it Yeah but youre missing the part where afl has been involved in a conspiracy against football for the last 50 years. Sure there were problems within the game... but dont give me that shit. This latest barrage from afl puppets is not the first rodeo. U been living under an eastern european rock?
Is Wellington diverse? Dont know, however this is a club that has no historical or existing link to a specific migrant group - Rusty Einstein
The negative stereotypes are perpetuated by people who either have no idea or are serving a vested interest; neither viewpoint should get anywhere near running Australian football - Ange Postecoglou
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AFL already has leagues in many countries.
How will they convince expats to adopt the smaller version?
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Handball is s much bigger than than you give it credit tbh
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+xBy fielding smaller teams and playing on a soccer pitch, he said it was easier than full-scale football to take overseas and may one day form a part of the AFL's international expansion plans. When will the AFL hierarchy stop oscillating their hands up and down their phalluses and forget expansion overseas? I've lived and travelled overseas for years and years and have never, ever read one word about aerial ping pong. The story must have only appeared in SA, WA, Victorian or Tasmanian media. Anywhere else it would be ridiculed. Maybe you need to get out a bit more. AFL will never expand overseas. Not ever. Quits simply, it's too late. They would've had to do it decades ago (which was obviously impossible). The world is too set in its ways and globalised. No country will embrace something so new, especially when it has no prospects for them. There are other sports in the world much bigger than AFL, such as gridiron and baseball, and even these have very little marketability outside of America. Except maybe Japan for baseball. again....AFL doesn't need to have Pro-Leagues in countries to expand.....do you see rugby union have pro leagues all around the world, 96 countries where in the Rugby World Cup qualifying, 39 of those countries from Europe....did you watch Croatia vs Netherlands Rugby World Cup qualifying, match? no, but it happen , both countries have a National team , with out a pro League AFL X will expand. AFL football outside of Australia, because the game will fit on a soccer ground It wont catch on simply because their sport is shit, let alone a bastardized version. If AFL was so wonderful then why is it only played in half the country. FMD I am loving this shit because this is paranoia and insecurities in the extreme. I hope they go broke trying. that your view...the game no more shit then European Handball I don't mind European handball. I can watch that anytime. Cool sport.
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gain....AFL doesn't need to have Pro-Leagues in countries to expand.....do you see rugby union have pro leagues all around the world,
96 countries where in the Rugby World Cup qualifying, 39 of those countries from Europe....did you watch Croatia vs Netherlands Rugby World Cup qualifying, match? no, but it happen , both countries have a National team , with out a pro League
AFL X will expand. AFL football outside of Australia, because the
Adrtho2. the AFL hierarchy have their heads too far up their rear ends to realise what a complete waste of time they will be embarking on.
AFL and aflX will always be a peculiar Australian game .It may be a novelty to people in other countries ,like Gallic football,handball or chasing a goats head on horseback.
But if there is even a remote chance that an amateur league is established overseas.....So what?
Do AFL types really believe this is a gateway game to suck new foreigners into AFL?
Imagine AFL tactics.....Hey we are coming to your country to rape and pillage your soccer pitches .We don't give a stuff about turning them into cow paddocks...and ffs it's Soccer!
Now clear out you wog poofters and let us kick our heavy oval balls.
Yes we know you already prefer to kick oval balls in rugby or league ,but this is dumber so maybe you will appreciate it more.
I just find this hilarious.This is a clear smoke screen for attacking Australian Football ,otherwise the only conclusion is that the AFL hierachy are engaging in mass delusion.
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+x+x+x+x+x+xBy fielding smaller teams and playing on a soccer pitch, he said it was easier than full-scale football to take overseas and may one day form a part of the AFL's international expansion plans. When will the AFL hierarchy stop oscillating their hands up and down their phalluses and forget expansion overseas? I've lived and travelled overseas for years and years and have never, ever read one word about aerial ping pong. The story must have only appeared in SA, WA, Victorian or Tasmanian media. Anywhere else it would be ridiculed. Maybe you need to get out a bit more. AFL will never expand overseas. Not ever. Quits simply, it's too late. They would've had to do it decades ago (which was obviously impossible). The world is too set in its ways and globalised. No country will embrace something so new, especially when it has no prospects for them. There are other sports in the world much bigger than AFL, such as gridiron and baseball, and even these have very little marketability outside of America. Except maybe Japan for baseball. again....AFL doesn't need to have Pro-Leagues in countries to expand.....do you see rugby union have pro leagues all around the world, 96 countries where in the Rugby World Cup qualifying, 39 of those countries from Europe....did you watch Croatia vs Netherlands Rugby World Cup qualifying, match? no, but it happen , both countries have a National team , with out a pro League AFL X will expand. AFL football outside of Australia, because the game will fit on a soccer ground It wont catch on simply because their sport is shit, let alone a bastardized version. If AFL was so wonderful then why is it only played in half the country. FMD I am loving this shit because this is paranoia and insecurities in the extreme. I hope they go broke trying. that your view...the game no more shit then European Handball
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+xEuropeans can't catch a ball. but yet they some how mange to play basketball and Handball
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+x+xLove reading these posts. AFL has dropped the ball. In schools its basketball or soccer. Even the ELF pitches have football GE's played on them. If you said 25 years ago how popular football was people would now be people would think your were sokkah's equivalent of Mister Football. If you had said 15 years ago how many kids would be playing people would laugh. If you had said 30 years ago our top football players would earn 5 to ten times more than our top Aussie rules players they'd lock you up. but that has happen, not because of what the AFL did or din't do......but because football in Australia became a professional organisation in Australia, it because Frank took a shit hole organisation abd brought in a group of pro people to run FFA it doesn't matter what the AFL does,if t wasn't the AFL it be some other sport organisation doing it
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+x+x+x+x+xBy fielding smaller teams and playing on a soccer pitch, he said it was easier than full-scale football to take overseas and may one day form a part of the AFL's international expansion plans. When will the AFL hierarchy stop oscillating their hands up and down their phalluses and forget expansion overseas? I've lived and travelled overseas for years and years and have never, ever read one word about aerial ping pong. The story must have only appeared in SA, WA, Victorian or Tasmanian media. Anywhere else it would be ridiculed. Maybe you need to get out a bit more. AFL will never expand overseas. Not ever. Quits simply, it's too late. They would've had to do it decades ago (which was obviously impossible). The world is too set in its ways and globalised. No country will embrace something so new, especially when it has no prospects for them. There are other sports in the world much bigger than AFL, such as gridiron and baseball, and even these have very little marketability outside of America. Except maybe Japan for baseball. again....AFL doesn't need to have Pro-Leagues in countries to expand.....do you see rugby union have pro leagues all around the world, 96 countries where in the Rugby World Cup qualifying, 39 of those countries from Europe....did you watch Croatia vs Netherlands Rugby World Cup qualifying, match? no, but it happen , both countries have a National team , with out a pro League AFL X will expand. AFL football outside of Australia, because the game will fit on a soccer ground It wont catch on simply because their sport is shit, let alone a bastardized version. If AFL was so wonderful then why is it only played in half the country. FMD I am loving this shit because this is paranoia and insecurities in the extreme. I hope they go broke trying.
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+x+x+x+x+xBy fielding smaller teams and playing on a soccer pitch, he said it was easier than full-scale football to take overseas and may one day form a part of the AFL's international expansion plans. When will the AFL hierarchy stop oscillating their hands up and down their phalluses and forget expansion overseas? I've lived and travelled overseas for years and years and have never, ever read one word about aerial ping pong. The story must have only appeared in SA, WA, Victorian or Tasmanian media. Anywhere else it would be ridiculed. Maybe you need to get out a bit more. AFL will never expand overseas. Not ever. Quits simply, it's too late. They would've had to do it decades ago (which was obviously impossible). The world is too set in its ways and globalised. No country will embrace something so new, especially when it has no prospects for them. There are other sports in the world much bigger than AFL, such as gridiron and baseball, and even these have very little marketability outside of America. Except maybe Japan for baseball. again....AFL doesn't need to have Pro-Leagues in countries to expand.....do you see rugby union have pro leagues all around the world, 96 countries where in the Rugby World Cup qualifying, 39 of those countries from Europe....did you watch Croatia vs Netherlands Rugby World Cup qualifying, match? no, but it happen , both countries have a National team , with out a pro League AFL X will expand. AFL football outside of Australia, because the game will fit on a soccer ground You are just as deluded as they are. AFL will never expand overseas, with or without this "X" nonsense. A few may see it as an amusing novelty, but it will never be taken up in a serious or large scale way.
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Europeans can't catch a ball.
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+x+x+x+xBy fielding smaller teams and playing on a soccer pitch, he said it was easier than full-scale football to take overseas and may one day form a part of the AFL's international expansion plans. When will the AFL hierarchy stop oscillating their hands up and down their phalluses and forget expansion overseas? I've lived and travelled overseas for years and years and have never, ever read one word about aerial ping pong. The story must have only appeared in SA, WA, Victorian or Tasmanian media. Anywhere else it would be ridiculed. Maybe you need to get out a bit more. AFL will never expand overseas. Not ever. Quits simply, it's too late. They would've had to do it decades ago (which was obviously impossible). The world is too set in its ways and globalised. No country will embrace something so new, especially when it has no prospects for them. There are other sports in the world much bigger than AFL, such as gridiron and baseball, and even these have very little marketability outside of America. Except maybe Japan for baseball. again....AFL doesn't need to have Pro-Leagues in countries to expand.....do you see rugby union have pro leagues all around the world, 96 countries where in the Rugby World Cup qualifying, 39 of those countries from Europe....did you watch Croatia vs Netherlands Rugby World Cup qualifying, match? no, but it happen , both countries have a National team , with out a pro League AFL X will expand. AFL football outside of Australia, because the game will fit on a soccer ground
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+xOne thought occurred to me,Why are AFL referring to playing on soccer fields rather than rugby or NRL fields.They are all pretty much the same dimensions?plus rugby and league fields get much less use in summer.Or here is an idea.Why not divide up AFL ovals and play on their own turf?Are they just wanting to chop up the playing surface which is so much more important to football? because there no NRL fields on most of the world this games AFL X is all about playing AFL football in countries that don't have cricket grounds
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+x+x+xBy fielding smaller teams and playing on a soccer pitch, he said it was easier than full-scale football to take overseas and may one day form a part of the AFL's international expansion plans. When will the AFL hierarchy stop oscillating their hands up and down their phalluses and forget expansion overseas? I've lived and travelled overseas for years and years and have never, ever read one word about aerial ping pong. The story must have only appeared in SA, WA, Victorian or Tasmanian media. Anywhere else it would be ridiculed. Maybe you need to get out a bit more. Pot meet kettle.
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+xLove reading these posts. AFL has dropped the ball. In schools its basketball or soccer. Even the ELF pitches have football GE's played on them. If you said 25 years ago how popular football was people would now be people would think your were sokkah's equivalent of Mister Football. If you had said 15 years ago how many kids would be playing people would laugh. If you had said 30 years ago our top football players would earn 5 to ten times more than our top Aussie rules players they'd lock you up.
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+x+x+xBy fielding smaller teams and playing on a soccer pitch, he said it was easier than full-scale football to take overseas and may one day form a part of the AFL's international expansion plans. When will the AFL hierarchy stop oscillating their hands up and down their phalluses and forget expansion overseas? I've lived and travelled overseas for years and years and have never, ever read one word about aerial ping pong. The story must have only appeared in SA, WA, Victorian or Tasmanian media. Anywhere else it would be ridiculed. Maybe you need to get out a bit more. AFL will never expand overseas. Not ever. Quits simply, it's too late. They would've had to do it decades ago (which was obviously impossible). The world is too set in its ways and globalised. No country will embrace something so new, especially when it has no prospects for them. There are other sports in the world much bigger than AFL, such as gridiron and baseball, and even these have very little marketability outside of America. Except maybe Japan for baseball.
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+x+xBy fielding smaller teams and playing on a soccer pitch, he said it was easier than full-scale football to take overseas and may one day form a part of the AFL's international expansion plans. When will the AFL hierarchy stop oscillating their hands up and down their phalluses and forget expansion overseas? I've lived and travelled overseas for years and years and have never, ever read one word about aerial ping pong. The story must have only appeared in SA, WA, Victorian or Tasmanian media. Anywhere else it would be ridiculed. Maybe you need to get out a bit more.
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One thought occurred to me,
Why are AFL referring to playing on soccer fields rather than rugby or NRL fields.They are all pretty much the same dimensions?
plus rugby and league fields get much less use in summer.
Or here is an idea.
Why not divide up AFL ovals and play on their own turf?
Are they just wanting to chop up the playing surface which is so much more important to football?
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The trial game played at the weekend between Coburg and Northern VFL teams ended 170-140, so scoring was very easy by the looks of it. They even got 10 points for goals kicked from outside a 40m line across the pitch. They played 10 minute quarters.
So I presume they're going with the 'people only wanna see goals and high scores' mantra, huh?
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The more I think about it this AFX is going to be more like basketball with an oval ball.Make it a round ball and play on synthetic pitches and they might spread it world wide.
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As was said before reengineer the ball and make it heavier / softer etc so it can't go as far.
They did it in futsal.
It's an easy fix if they want to go down that path.
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The problem with engineering the ball to make it travel less,is it is taking away the most attractive feature of the whole game.Kicking high and long.No one wants to watch or play a stupid game where you break your leg kicking an oval ball 10m and players jumping high for a 10m mark.
Hahaha look on the bright side.The shorter the field ,the game will be more like basket ball with kicking.
The high scores in the trial game suggest each side scores when it gets the ball and the loser is the team that misses the most.Something like basketball.
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+x+x+x+xThe facts are very disturbing for AFL, on the ground here in Victoria, i can tell you I have been going to junior football all season with my kids and have been to a few dual code facilities, on every single occasion, the football pitches had 6-10 games at any time. The 3 AFL ovals were empty, no one. I was in a coastal town St Leonards which would have no more than 5000 residents, the local AFL ground had 4 games of football on it and the facts are I have not seen 1 AFL game around Melbourne all year. So all this cheerleading from all forms of media here in Victoria, AFL is in big trouble in its heartland , they tell us Girls are taking the game up in their droves, I have not seen or know anyone who has seen them play the sport. So this AFL x rubbish is just another smoke screen from the AFL , which the media cheerleaders have run with to continue the myth that AFL is some unstoppable beast. In the part of Adelaide I grew up in... the local football club is a 3 way merger between the local suburban team, and old scholars football team, and another suburban club from 12km away. It has a club house supported by machines that steal pensions. Their seniors play a game there each week. Directly over the road is a large reserve with space for 6 rectangular fields. The ground has 6 matches of junior football at a time for half of a Saturday. Doesn't sound like much of an Aussie rules area, yeah: Except it's the suburb where SANFL Football Park was for 40 years... So we have two people in AFL heartland who attest that hardly any junior AFL is being played at all, and that it is pretty much football being played. Can anyone else in Vic, SA or WA see this trend or are all my dreams coming true. In 10-20 years all these kids playing the unstrayian game will be pretty much football fans. I can see further growth in football much to AFL's chagrin. I watched the transition of aussie rules from the semi amateur days to professionalism and the AFL takeover of the sport in Adelaide, and subsequent murder of the SANFL. Much of what has killed the sport here is that the AFL has gone to war with its own roots trying to take over governing the whole game. One of the things they did was run down the SANFL clubs so they no longer did a lot of junior development, and instead the AFL shunted kids in to the new Auskick programme. So instead of belonging to a local football club you belonged to some shitty 45 minute drills session in school and got to kick the ball at half time of an AFL game for 12 minutes. A registered "pariticpant" today in aussie rules is nowhere near the quality as 30 years ago. Not even close. AFL has been digging a hole for itself in Adelaide since 1990 and it'll be a pleasure to see them fall in. All of this. Why it was so easy to fall out of love with the game.
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+x+x+x+xThe facts are very disturbing for AFL, on the ground here in Victoria, i can tell you I have been going to junior football all season with my kids and have been to a few dual code facilities, on every single occasion, the football pitches had 6-10 games at any time. The 3 AFL ovals were empty, no one. I was in a coastal town St Leonards which would have no more than 5000 residents, the local AFL ground had 4 games of football on it and the facts are I have not seen 1 AFL game around Melbourne all year. So all this cheerleading from all forms of media here in Victoria, AFL is in big trouble in its heartland , they tell us Girls are taking the game up in their droves, I have not seen or know anyone who has seen them play the sport. So this AFL x rubbish is just another smoke screen from the AFL , which the media cheerleaders have run with to continue the myth that AFL is some unstoppable beast. In the part of Adelaide I grew up in... the local football club is a 3 way merger between the local suburban team, and old scholars football team, and another suburban club from 12km away. It has a club house supported by machines that steal pensions. Their seniors play a game there each week. Directly over the road is a large reserve with space for 6 rectangular fields. The ground has 6 matches of junior football at a time for half of a Saturday. Doesn't sound like much of an Aussie rules area, yeah: Except it's the suburb where SANFL Football Park was for 40 years... So we have two people in AFL heartland who attest that hardly any junior AFL is being played at all, and that it is pretty much football being played. Can anyone else in Vic, SA or WA see this trend or are all my dreams coming true. In 10-20 years all these kids playing the unstrayian game will be pretty much football fans. I can see further growth in football much to AFL's chagrin. In SA, the two local AFL teams get media saturation.... cant help it... The print media is only newscorp, so pure AFL. Tv networks the same.. Only difference is radio.... 5AA ( part of 3aw network ) is pure AFL and hates our code. Triple M are a lot more tolerant towards our code...( funny given eddie mcguire in victoria ) I was more interested in seeing whats happening at grassroots/junior level. I am a little surprised to the extent of what I am hearing. I know participation in football numbers are huge across the country but I seriously thought in places like Vic, SA and WA that there would be a lot more kids playing AFL than what I am hearing. In all three states I knew football had more participants but it sounds pretty dire for the AFL.
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Love reading these posts. AFL has dropped the ball. In schools its basketball or soccer. Even the ELF pitches have football GE's played on them.
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+x+x+xThe facts are very disturbing for AFL, on the ground here in Victoria, i can tell you I have been going to junior football all season with my kids and have been to a few dual code facilities, on every single occasion, the football pitches had 6-10 games at any time. The 3 AFL ovals were empty, no one. I was in a coastal town St Leonards which would have no more than 5000 residents, the local AFL ground had 4 games of football on it and the facts are I have not seen 1 AFL game around Melbourne all year. So all this cheerleading from all forms of media here in Victoria, AFL is in big trouble in its heartland , they tell us Girls are taking the game up in their droves, I have not seen or know anyone who has seen them play the sport. So this AFL x rubbish is just another smoke screen from the AFL , which the media cheerleaders have run with to continue the myth that AFL is some unstoppable beast. In the part of Adelaide I grew up in... the local football club is a 3 way merger between the local suburban team, and old scholars football team, and another suburban club from 12km away. It has a club house supported by machines that steal pensions. Their seniors play a game there each week. Directly over the road is a large reserve with space for 6 rectangular fields. The ground has 6 matches of junior football at a time for half of a Saturday. Doesn't sound like much of an Aussie rules area, yeah: Except it's the suburb where SANFL Football Park was for 40 years... So we have two people in AFL heartland who attest that hardly any junior AFL is being played at all, and that it is pretty much football being played. Can anyone else in Vic, SA or WA see this trend or are all my dreams coming true. In 10-20 years all these kids playing the unstrayian game will be pretty much football fans. I can see further growth in football much to AFL's chagrin. I watched the transition of aussie rules from the semi amateur days to professionalism and the AFL takeover of the sport in Adelaide, and subsequent murder of the SANFL. Much of what has killed the sport here is that the AFL has gone to war with its own roots trying to take over governing the whole game. One of the things they did was run down the SANFL clubs so they no longer did a lot of junior development, and instead the AFL shunted kids in to the new Auskick programme. So instead of belonging to a local football club you belonged to some shitty 45 minute drills session in school and got to kick the ball at half time of an AFL game for 12 minutes. A registered "pariticpant" today in aussie rules is nowhere near the quality as 30 years ago. Not even close. AFL has been digging a hole for itself in Adelaide since 1990 and it'll be a pleasure to see them fall in.
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+x+x+xThe facts are very disturbing for AFL, on the ground here in Victoria, i can tell you I have been going to junior football all season with my kids and have been to a few dual code facilities, on every single occasion, the football pitches had 6-10 games at any time. The 3 AFL ovals were empty, no one. I was in a coastal town St Leonards which would have no more than 5000 residents, the local AFL ground had 4 games of football on it and the facts are I have not seen 1 AFL game around Melbourne all year. So all this cheerleading from all forms of media here in Victoria, AFL is in big trouble in its heartland , they tell us Girls are taking the game up in their droves, I have not seen or know anyone who has seen them play the sport. So this AFL x rubbish is just another smoke screen from the AFL , which the media cheerleaders have run with to continue the myth that AFL is some unstoppable beast. In the part of Adelaide I grew up in... the local football club is a 3 way merger between the local suburban team, and old scholars football team, and another suburban club from 12km away. It has a club house supported by machines that steal pensions. Their seniors play a game there each week. Directly over the road is a large reserve with space for 6 rectangular fields. The ground has 6 matches of junior football at a time for half of a Saturday. Doesn't sound like much of an Aussie rules area, yeah: Except it's the suburb where SANFL Football Park was for 40 years... So we have two people in AFL heartland who attest that hardly any junior AFL is being played at all, and that it is pretty much football being played. Can anyone else in Vic, SA or WA see this trend or are all my dreams coming true. In 10-20 years all these kids playing the unstrayian game will be pretty much football fans. I can see further growth in football much to AFL's chagrin. In SA, the two local AFL teams get media saturation.... cant help it... The print media is only newscorp, so pure AFL. Tv networks the same.. Only difference is radio.... 5AA ( part of 3aw network ) is pure AFL and hates our code. Triple M are a lot more tolerant towards our code...( funny given eddie mcguire in victoria )
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Like to hear from overseas experiences...
In the last 5 years , i worked in china and SEAsia a fair bit. Nothing but football ( except china where basketball is also popular )
In the US , does the MLS experience this same sort of hatred from other codes ? and does that transpire from the media ?
Seems like here, its AFL taking on everyone ,using media and govt to galvanise their own lofty ambitions and put down other codes... Does this happen in the US ?
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+x+xThe facts are very disturbing for AFL, on the ground here in Victoria, i can tell you I have been going to junior football all season with my kids and have been to a few dual code facilities, on every single occasion, the football pitches had 6-10 games at any time. The 3 AFL ovals were empty, no one. I was in a coastal town St Leonards which would have no more than 5000 residents, the local AFL ground had 4 games of football on it and the facts are I have not seen 1 AFL game around Melbourne all year. So all this cheerleading from all forms of media here in Victoria, AFL is in big trouble in its heartland , they tell us Girls are taking the game up in their droves, I have not seen or know anyone who has seen them play the sport. So this AFL x rubbish is just another smoke screen from the AFL , which the media cheerleaders have run with to continue the myth that AFL is some unstoppable beast. In the part of Adelaide I grew up in... the local football club is a 3 way merger between the local suburban team, and old scholars football team, and another suburban club from 12km away. It has a club house supported by machines that steal pensions. Their seniors play a game there each week. Directly over the road is a large reserve with space for 6 rectangular fields. The ground has 6 matches of junior football at a time for half of a Saturday. Doesn't sound like much of an Aussie rules area, yeah: Except it's the suburb where SANFL Football Park was for 40 years... So we have two people in AFL heartland who attest that hardly any junior AFL is being played at all, and that it is pretty much football being played. Can anyone else in Vic, SA or WA see this trend or are all my dreams coming true. In 10-20 years all these kids playing the unstrayian game will be pretty much football fans. I can see further growth in football much to AFL's chagrin.
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Nachoman
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+x+xThe facts are very disturbing for AFL, on the ground here in Victoria, i can tell you I have been going to junior football all season with my kids and have been to a few dual code facilities, on every single occasion, the football pitches had 6-10 games at any time. The 3 AFL ovals were empty, no one. I was in a coastal town St Leonards which would have no more than 5000 residents, the local AFL ground had 4 games of football on it and the facts are I have not seen 1 AFL game around Melbourne all year. So all this cheerleading from all forms of media here in Victoria, AFL is in big trouble in its heartland , they tell us Girls are taking the game up in their droves, I have not seen or know anyone who has seen them play the sport. So this AFL x rubbish is just another smoke screen from the AFL , which the media cheerleaders have run with to continue the myth that AFL is some unstoppable beast. In the part of Adelaide I grew up in... the local aussie fools club is a 3 way merger between the local suburban team, and old scholars football team, and another suburban club from 12km away. It has a club house supported by machines that steal pensions. Their seniors play a game there each week. Directly over the road is a large reserve with space for 6 rectangular fields. The ground has 6 matches of junior football at a time for half of a Saturday. Doesn't sound like much of an Aussie rules area, yeah: Except it's the suburb where SANFL Football Park was for 40 years... up north in adelaide , its football . AFL still has support with the local SANFL team... but many amateur teams are folding...Some of them now co share their ground with an amateur football team . ( purely for revenue)
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bohemia
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+xThe facts are very disturbing for AFL, on the ground here in Victoria, i can tell you I have been going to junior football all season with my kids and have been to a few dual code facilities, on every single occasion, the football pitches had 6-10 games at any time. The 3 AFL ovals were empty, no one. I was in a coastal town St Leonards which would have no more than 5000 residents, the local AFL ground had 4 games of football on it and the facts are I have not seen 1 AFL game around Melbourne all year. So all this cheerleading from all forms of media here in Victoria, AFL is in big trouble in its heartland , they tell us Girls are taking the game up in their droves, I have not seen or know anyone who has seen them play the sport. So this AFL x rubbish is just another smoke screen from the AFL , which the media cheerleaders have run with to continue the myth that AFL is some unstoppable beast. In the part of Adelaide I grew up in... the local aussie fools club is a 3 way merger between the local suburban team, and old scholars football team, and another suburban club from 12km away. It has a club house supported by machines that steal pensions. Their seniors play a game there each week. Directly over the road is a large reserve with space for 6 rectangular fields. The ground has 6 matches of junior football at a time for half of a Saturday. Doesn't sound like much of an Aussie rules area, yeah: Except it's the suburb where SANFL Football Park was for 40 years...
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