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Love the fact all this money is being poured into facilities in SA for the girls. My junior club has 1,600 kids playing football with around 380 girls and guess what .... we don’t have a single changing room for boys or girls. It’s finny how the AFL can find this money but the FFA can’t?
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+xLove the fact all this money is being poured into facilities in SA for the girls. My junior club has 1,600 kids playing football with around 380 girls and guess what .... we don’t have a single changing room for boys or girls. It’s finny how the AFL can find this money but the FFA can’t? There's no change rooms for the public park near me which only has 12 football pitches marked out on it. The oval for the aussie rules club across the rd has changerooms, clubhouse and poker machines. And of course not a cent paid to the council for the lease. They'll probably get an 8 screen cinema if they claim they invented women like all the other aussie fools clubs are.
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+xLove the fact all this money is being poured into facilities in SA for the girls. My junior club has 1,600 kids playing football with around 380 girls and guess what .... we don’t have a single changing room for boys or girls. It’s funny how the AFL can find this money but the FFA can’t? $2.4 billion TV deal helps with that.
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+x+xLove the fact all this money is being poured into facilities in SA for the girls. My junior club has 1,600 kids playing football with around 380 girls and guess what .... we don’t have a single changing room for boys or girls. It’s funny how the AFL can find this money but the FFA can’t? $2.4 billion TV deal helps with that. Not to mention millions in government funding and support.
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+xLove the fact all this money is being poured into facilities in SA for the girls. My junior club has 1,600 kids playing football with around 380 girls and guess what .... we don’t have a single changing room for boys or girls. It’s finny how the AFL can find this money but the FFA can’t? my old club had to beg for change room upgrades, even now , with all the womens team , we have to play half the games somewhere else... Adelaide is the AFL's bitch .. the state labor party just keeps giving the AFL money
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Caroline Wilson on Offsiders today complaining in her words the appalling lack of fields available to the AFL in NEW. QLD & ACT.. talk about double standards
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+x+xLove the fact all this money is being poured into facilities in SA for the girls. My junior club has 1,600 kids playing football with around 380 girls and guess what .... we don’t have a single changing room for boys or girls. It’s funny how the AFL can find this money but the FFA can’t? $2.4 billion TV deal helps with that. Does it? Do the AFL put money from their TV deal into facilities like this, or are they able to shake down the taxpayer for them?
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@ mid, is that bitch still moaning from beyond the fkn grave!?
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Nachoman
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+xCaroline Wilson on Offsiders today complaining in her words the appalling lack of fields available to the AFL in NEW. QLD & ACT.. talk about double standards wow she sure does suit the AFL mantra of always asking for a hand out.... someone needs to remind her which sport has the highest registration numbers ...
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So when is this circus on at Hindmarsh? The pitch already looks screwed.
If football was united in SA, this would never happen. In fact if it was united the local federation would still control/own the ground.
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+xSo when is this circus on at Hindmarsh? The pitch already looks screwed. If football was united in SA, this would never happen. In fact if it was united the local federation would still control/own the ground. As of last week, it's reunited.
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Football seems to be getting eased out of Hindmarsh now- what with concerts etc and aflx moving in. The only football you get now is Adelaide United games. In the old days a much greater variety of football was played there, as well as national league games. You had senior internationals, Olyroo games, junior internationals, womens internationals, state team games, visiting overseas teams, federation cup finals, amateur cup finals etc etc.
Football (soccer) has been played there since about 1907.. shame if we get forced out now.
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+x+x+xLove the fact all this money is being poured into facilities in SA for the girls. My junior club has 1,600 kids playing football with around 380 girls and guess what .... we don’t have a single changing room for boys or girls. It’s funny how the AFL can find this money but the FFA can’t? $2.4 billion TV deal helps with that. Does it? Do the AFL put money from their TV deal into facilities like this, or are they able to shake down the taxpayer for them? More than likely.
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Nachoman
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+xFootball seems to be getting eased out of Hindmarsh now- what with concerts etc and aflx moving in. The only football you get now is Adelaide United games. In the old days a much greater variety of football was played there, as well as national league games. You had senior internationals, Olyroo games, junior internationals, womens internationals, state team games, visiting overseas teams, federation cup finals, amateur cup finals etc etc. Football (soccer) has been played there since about 1907.. shame if we get forced out now. missed out on the amateur cup finals , hopefully the over 35's can make it to the final at hindmarsh
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+x@ mid, is that bitch still moaning from beyond the fkn grave!? You're thinking of Rebecca Wilson
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+xFootball seems to be getting eased out of Hindmarsh now- what with concerts etc and aflx moving in. The only football you get now is Adelaide United games. In the old days a much greater variety of football was played there, as well as national league games. You had senior internationals, Olyroo games, junior internationals, womens internationals, state team games, visiting overseas teams, federation cup finals, amateur cup finals etc etc. Football (soccer) has been played there since about 1907.. shame if we get forced out now. NPL finals are at Hindmarsh. Hindmarsh doesn't have much of a say in whether FFA schedules internationals or youth internationals in Adelaide. And if they do there's no point paying overs on rent when Marden (or others such as the new Kilburn sportsplex) are suitable.
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+x+xFootball seems to be getting eased out of Hindmarsh now- what with concerts etc and aflx moving in. The only football you get now is Adelaide United games. In the old days a much greater variety of football was played there, as well as national league games. You had senior internationals, Olyroo games, junior internationals, womens internationals, state team games, visiting overseas teams, federation cup finals, amateur cup finals etc etc. Football (soccer) has been played there since about 1907.. shame if we get forced out now. NPL finals are at Hindmarsh. Hindmarsh doesn't have much of a say in whether FFA schedules internationals or youth internationals in Adelaide. And if they do there's no point paying overs on rent when Marden (or others such as the new Kilburn sportsplex) are suitable. kilburn is artificial turf ?
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+x+x+xFootball seems to be getting eased out of Hindmarsh now- what with concerts etc and aflx moving in. The only football you get now is Adelaide United games. In the old days a much greater variety of football was played there, as well as national league games. You had senior internationals, Olyroo games, junior internationals, womens internationals, state team games, visiting overseas teams, federation cup finals, amateur cup finals etc etc. Football (soccer) has been played there since about 1907.. shame if we get forced out now. NPL finals are at Hindmarsh. Hindmarsh doesn't have much of a say in whether FFA schedules internationals or youth internationals in Adelaide. And if they do there's no point paying overs on rent when Marden (or others such as the new Kilburn sportsplex) are suitable. kilburn is artificial turf ? Is it? Disappointing. Looks like they went artificial for the main pitch and grass for the secondary.
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Burton is artifical turf as well i think
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+xThe FFA needs to stop dreaming that the mainstream Australians are going to watch football anytime soon, we need to go back to the woggy niche sport and just do it as well as we can and as true to football as we can. This means multiple divisions, P/R, transfers, no salary cap. We can't rely on TV deals and mainstream acceptance, but we can function well as part of a global market. Stop trying to be like AFL or NRL and be like Football. FFA is out of its depth and swimming downwards. This. That's not to say we'll stop welcoming new fans from 'skip' or other 'non-traditional' football backgrounds but they have to stop being prioritised over the diehards who've lived and bled for the game their whole lives. The johnny-come-latelies should be the ones in the passenger seats, yet FFA's given them freebies at the wheel of the Ferrari for too long IMHO. Truth-bomb: the Socceroos could be made up mostly/solely of Anglo-Australians, the average HAL crowd could be perfectly indistinguishable from their AFL/NRL counterparts and the FFA could be led by a junta of Gillon McLachlan, Todd Greenberg, James Sutherland and Larry Kestelman... ...and the Australian establishment's opinion of football still wouldn't improve one jot💡
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Push for equal playing grounds in Ballarat women’s game
WENDOUREE MP Sharon Knight will this week step up her lobbying for adequate female change facilities in Ballarat grassroots sport.
Ms Knight flagged a bid for AFL compliant, female-friendly changerooms at Western Oval to Victorian Sports Minister John Eren in the final sitting of parliament last year.
Now, with Minister Eren officially confirming funding decisions were imminent, Ms Knight plans to keep the importance of the project high on his agenda. “Women’s sport has really turned a corner. The culture is changing and people are recognising how valuable women’s sports are,” Ms Knight said. “A lack of facilities, or no facilities, those are the things that prevent women participating.” City of Ballarat and Redan Football Netball Club have applied for a grant under the Community Sports Infrastructure Fund, which shares in a $14 million pledge for developing and improving female facilities, for Western Oval. The ground has traditionally played home to the club’s juniors and is increasingly becoming the base for the Lions’ booming female football program. “The push for female facilities at grassroots will hopefully lead to equal pay, equal sponsorship so elite sportswomen and sportsmen can enjoy a level playing field,” Ms Knight said.
Redan vice-president Tracey Boyce said the Lions considered themselves as one of the leaders in women’s football in the region and it was important to have the right, comfortable facilities to match. The Lions have been a founding club in all levels of female competition in Ballarat, starting with the inaugural Ballarat Football League youth girls season in 2011. They fielded five female teams last season, from under-12s through to open women plus more than 20 girl Auskickers. And numbers keep growing.
"Already this year there has been a significant number of enquiries from parents looking to start their girls in juniors and from open women new to town,” Mr Boyce said. “With the AFLW season starting we’re expecting another surge of interest, just like it did last year.”
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EXPRESSIONS of interest from local football and netball clubs operating in the Gannawarra Shire are invited to seek funding through the 2018-2019 Country Football and Netball Program. The program is a Victorian Government funding program, delivered in partnership with the AFL, AFL Victoria and Netball Victoria. The program aims to help country football and netball clubs who may be struggling with outdated, overused or non-compliant facilities. Mayor Brian Gibson said only local government authorities are able to apply directly to the Victorian Government for funding from this grants program. “Grants of up to $100,000 are available for projects that improve facilities,” he said. “Some examples of projects may include change room facilities for players and umpires of both genders, the development or upgrading of football playing fields and netball facilities, or lighting to improve participation. “Council will be looking for projects that are well planned, align with the program guidelines, maintain or increase participation in football and netball and projects that bring people together to share their love of sport and community. ‘‘Expressions of interest must also provide an indicative budget, which can include matched funding from council at a ratio of 1:1 of the cash contribution from the club.’’ Mayor Gibson said a submission of an expression of interest does not guarantee funding. “It allows the process to begin with council and to review and select projects it wishes to endorse,’’ he said. Applications close February 28. For more information visit sport.vic.gov.au/grants-and-funding/our-grants
Chance for sports clubs to cash up | Riverine Herald
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in country vic and sth NSW aussie rules has always partnered with netball, good basis for getting cash injections into local facilities
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AFL launches AFLX, using rectangular fields to attract new supporters overseas By Peter Lusted Updated  If the AFL is to succeed overseas it will do so on rectangular pitches — that is the thinking behind the game's new format AFLX.The modified seven-a-side game, with two 10-minute halves, is played on a rectangular field, as used in the rugby codes and football. What is AFLX?- The game will be played on a rectangular field (100-120m x 60-70m)
- Each side has 10 players - seven on the field, three on the interchange
- Two 10-minute halves will be contested
- A super goal is worth 10 points
- A ruck ball up will be used
AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan said a lack of oval space led to the new format."The facility challenge was the original issue or the original part of the creation of this concept, and really it wasn't international it was domestically in the eastern suburbs of Sydney," McLachlan said at Tuesday's AFLX launch at Docklands in Melbourne."There's still so much unknown but we've got to try stuff and it's an opportunity that means we can get onto different ovals in New South Wales and internationally in different spots, and it's just a different format for a different audience."The 2018 AFLX tournament will run February 15-17, with each day featuring two pools of three teams playing off before a grand final is held at the end of each day.
The tournament will be played at Adelaide's Hindmarsh Stadium, Melbourne's Docklands and the Sydney Football Stadium.North Melbourne's Shaun Atley said AFLX would be a fast-pace, high-scoring format with little rest for the players."There's barely any stop-start. Usually if you kick a goal you'll get a rest and come back to the centre square, but as soon as a goal is kicked the other team's bringing it back in," he said.
The AFL held its first match outside of Australia and New Zealand last year, with Port Adelaide taking on the Gold Coast in Shanghai. But McLachlan said AFLX could become a better model to sell the game."We have had trouble taking our game internationally. Now, this is not our traditional game AFLX, but it's got all the best bits of it," he said."It means that we could go to Hong Kong in November next year with not only two clubs."But we could take six clubs and play a mini-tournament to take our game, showcase all the best bits of it and actually not have to build infrastructure like we do in Shanghai." http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-06/aflx-launched-by-afl-to-attract-new-supporters/9400956---------------------------------------------------------------- This sport is cancer
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I love the articles. It's always empty seats at A-League games in the photos.
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The best bits of aussie rules. So, an egg shaped ball, tackling, and kicking at upright posts
Never seen it on a rectangular pitch hey
The one in a million person in the world who watches this shit will be a Union convert. It's poetic in a way.
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They are so deluded it is hilarious
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And when they take this crap to Asia they'll again be busted doctoring photographs to make cities look more polluted. You know, to give their fans something to be proud of. Air. But not just any air. Wooorrrrld class air.
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http://theconversation.com/back-to-the-future-has-the-afl-lost-its-community-62100Interesting article regarding the AFLs mentality. If someone could copy and paste the content for me that would be great. Can't seem to achieve it on my phone.
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