What? My post was tongue in cheek at the stupidity of the assertion that ethnic groups taking up any sports somehow leads to a decline in participation from 'traditional demographics'. You've actually proved my point. How would participation in any sport be different?
I never claimed it didn't. Most sports in Australia have a mix of ethnicities including the rugby codes that's part of our multicultural society.
Should we attribute the different ethnic backgrounds to the decline in AUstralian Footballs health in Queensland?
Lol. Grow up. Why does a list of players from one team prove that an entire demographic has left a sport?
Maybe they're more open to people of different demographics and rather than leaving it's actually changed through shifts in society.
Whats your ideal vision of Football, mark? Stuck in a...
Ok, Mark or should I call you Phillip?
Did I mis quote you?
You're probably the most xenophobic person on here. I say that as a Pacific Islander myself. If we all started playing Football (like my children do) you'd be the first person to deem that a bad thing.
Haha and that somehow makes it any less racist/xenophobic to claim that their participation in a sport is not legitimate or is somehow spoiling the traditions. The Pacific Islander have been playing both rugby codes for as long as the game has been played. Rugby League people aren't making these...
You do realise Pacific Islanders have been playing the sport for as long as it's being played right? And some people with Pacific Island backgrounds are actually locals right? This isn't white Australia anymore.
If people of pacific island backgrounds started playing our game in great numbers...
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