From the ninemsn website:

AFL fever in South Africa

I can't get audio at my work PC, but I can draw my own conculsions from the footage...

i hear this then switched off. couldnt watch all of it.

"30 clubs having signed 15,000 players. most drawn to the possibility of big money in the land of opportunity"

bullshit.

hundreds of clubs worldwide and all around the world with no salary cap VS. 16 clubs, of which only VIC and SA care about...lol

Edited by beersandwich: 22/6/2010 06:39:07 PM

Edited by beersandwich: 22/6/2010 06:39:30 PM

Hahahahahahahahahaha.. That is fucking funny.

This is hilarious! I thought it was some comedy skit!

I dont get whats so funny about it?

Well it's funny because it has taken them 151 years to actually " discover " that these black kids from Soweto have " natural skill ", and its ironic because it is the original football that has dragged their sorry arses over there.
Rugby Union played by lily-white middle-class ( during apartheid anyway as all blacks were good for was to serve the master white race ) didn't drag these AFL " scouts " over there before aparently.



Edited by redcup: 23/6/2010 07:32:21 PM

AFL is desperate and is struggling to understand why others around the world struggle to get into the sport. All the games in London and Dubai really havent raised any interest levels and truely were full of expats anyway. Going to a poor country and trying to dangle potentially rich sporting contracts in peoples faces is certainly what drives kids to want to follow this, not necessarily the game itself.

They are trying to push it down Western Sydney's throats and the GC is full of former Victorians anyway, so they really are not new fans. They really need to learn that the game is not the best game in the world and that it never will be.

Extra time.

so they dont want us to bring the world here for them to advertise their sport....but they will travel half way across the world to do the marketing...

idiots.