What don't the fuckwits just start playing football?

Yeah whilst I am in no way pro AFL or NRL teams having teams in our leagues, you can't say that the prior experiences are anything substantial to go on.

...As part of a mongrel-outfit with the Bergers @ a time when there was no pressing incentive for AFL/NRL clubs to be involved in our game (AUS still in Oceania w/no international club competition/s to aspire to, semi-professional NSL out of sight & mind of Oz public-consciousness, said comp populated by mono-ethnic clubs next to disinterested in embracing the wider community, etc.)

That whole shebang of Collingwood Warriors/Carlton SC/Parramatta Power was 15-20 years ahead of its time - that's why they failed.

Collingwood already tried the NSL

Probably about to post how this is revolutionary and has 3.2 million tv viewers across the world

gonna be great. there are so many good sports created by marketing departments.

The NRL has NRLtouch with 600k+ participants.
Football has Futsall with god knows how many participants 1m+

The AFL is playing catchup in this area and its 9's version is not cutting it.

Thats my theory anyways.  :D

The Aussie Rules leagues I played in England only allowed 3 Aussies per team on the field at any time for 9 a-side and 4 for 18 a-side. In Spain there were only 6 clubs but most had only 1 or 2 Aussies. Some had none.

@BA81

Even if the AFL and A-League don't release clubs ip they should at least do a swap. WSW for Collingwood. Transform GWS into WSW and enter Collingwood into the A-League.

Where is MrFootball at?

Off to the afl subforum you go!

;)

That's the best thing about it, we don't need to fight back. They attack us by stabbing themselves repeatedly and we just crack ope a coldie and watch.

Round ball?
If it's played on a football field, with an oval ball ,won't you just need two,kicks to score?Sounds like everyone will be on the halfway mark and will be 7ft or will there be height restrictions and long kick restrictions?
Maybe they will market it as the big kick league or two kick.
This could be fun to watch on a windy day.Pointsxoring could be quicker than basketball.

Well played AFL they can split a normal team into 3 teams and probably have them play 2-3 matches on one day.

This is probably aimed at kids, who will be subsidized.

Can see them trying to install posts at public football grounds.

So they're playing with reduced numbers on a rectangular field to increase overseas appeal?

Seems like a legitimate tactic, I mean it's not like there's some other game that's so similar they can play an 'international rules' with the AFL every few years that is played on a rectangular ground and also completely lacks any kind of following outside its country of origin.

Carn the Hawks

The poor folks @ the AFL Commission (& ol' mate Gill himself) really need to get laid, from the sounds of it:laugh:

The only way anything to do with their game can/will get ANY legitimate international exposure is to let their clubs field sides in the HAL, NRL or NBL-  end of. Nothing else can or will do.

The problem for me is the AFL is the governing body and these hybrid games shouldn't be AFL anything. In soccer there is Small Sided Games (not FIFA SSG), or Futsal etc.League have touch footy, again not NRL Touch.

The problem is that the AFL is acting with brand imprint their main priority rather than actually developing a game. AFL 9's (again with the AFL brand used) obviously hasn't been taken up enough by locals?? (Any ideas on numbers??) Only one comp held in the area that I live, and there are about 3 different summer soccer competitions in the same catchment. If their argument is you can't tackle, then why not do what many Summer Soccer (SSG) tournaments do ... have a competitive and social competition. Allow tackling in the competitive comp.

Does the FFA or curriculum have any organised leagues in the summer season.
I play aussie rules in winter but would love to play the round ball over summer but i'm struggling to find anything about it...

I already got yelled at because I was the only white guy amongst a bunch of Karen dudes playing Association Football on a proper synthetic pitch because a local Aussie Rules team had booked it for preseason training. If this came through there would be nowhere to play our sport at all. Which is probably the point.

That's because they can only find18 ex-pats (with a few local numpties) tops willing to play. 

This is a compeition proposed to try and expand their game. 

The idea is nothing new. 9-a-side Aussie Rules played on Football or Rugby pitches is known as Metro Footy, in the USA and Europe.
I played 9-a-side in England and in Spain while I was living there, as well as 18 or 15 a-side in England. They were playing in aussie rules in summer in Europe, so I could finish my winter football season and start playing aussie rules in the summer with only a little bit of overlap in May and September.  

Even better if they make it so that only the keeper can touch the ball with their hands...

I heard the AFL had recently looked at launching a new version of AFL, with 11 players on a rectangular field, touching the ball with your hands is prohibited, and rather than vertical posts they had a rectangular box on both ends of the field through which they had to kick the ball past an opponent in order to score a 'goal'.

A revolutionary idea. 

I have a feeling I've seen that before somewhere....

Probably helps that amateur Basketball players are more than capable of being a success in the AFL despite having played 0 games in their life.

Not wanting to give the kunts ideas or anything but they could make the ball heavier like they do in futsal so you can't physically kick it 60m.

Years ago they redesigned the javelin because they were nearly hitting the track inside stadiums.

 

Not if they bring in offside, make the goal shorter, remove point posts and bring in a keeper 

one more step in trying to relate itself to the nba. AFL already tries to compare themselves to it in every facet.