By Johns - 7 Aug 2022 2:26 PM
From my experiences I was a year 10 year old being taken to games in the NSW 1st Division in the early 1970s
i loved the different European communities teams, but deep down I could see the majority of the spectators were elderly Europeans.
So where were their children like me ? Well sadly following Rugby League..
I estimate that from all the kids that I knew roughly my age ( from school, neighbourhood, my soccer teams, relatives etc) that’s 200 kids only 6 kids followed and attended games..
The outcomes were that from the 1970s the attendances were poor for these clubs and by the early 2000s just 5 teams survived.
of these 4 of the 5 teams attendances were around 1,000…
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By Midfielder - 23 Aug 2022 1:25 PM
What caused the decline of the ethnic team????
My answer is reasonably short.... refusal to move with the times, and when faced with obvious road blocks refusal to change operating models...finally inability to see huge changes in migration demographics from what was in the late 40's thu to the mid 70's ... to after the say the late 70's thu to today...
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