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It's true that the women's world cup is not going to translate into any great interest in domestic leagues, but why are we pretending the AFLW is anything noteworthy? There's no women's league of any kind that is popular, and I include the biggest of them all in that, the WNBA. I agree with...

Came in here to post 14, and was surprised to see so many replies suggesting the same thing. 14.

The format doesn't matter if you don't have the popularity in the first place. It's why the two most popular leagues in the world, the EPL and NBA, have structures that are complete opposite to one another. And yet they both work because both sports are popular. It doesn't matter what you do...

Definitely agree that if you've grown up with soccer and follow it, you're likelier to prefer tight, low-scoring games. My best memories are still of the Swans Eagles GFs, despite being a fan of neither team. That to me represented the peak of the game, in which skill levels were high and both...

Just look at a couple of newspapers to get a sense of what matters in Sweden, or anywhere. http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/ http://www.eurosport.se/ http://www.expressen.se/sport/ http://www.svd.se/sport/ http://www.dn.se/sport In Sweden, its clear that if you're not soccer or ice...

Re: Mick Malthouse shoots Nathan Buckley between the eyess Was it Maxwell that came out and said that the game plan is the same? Whoever did doesn't realize that there is a reason why coaches are valuable to teams. You cannot lose the experience you have with Malthouse and expect that the...

Would love to quote everyone in this thread. There's not enough humble pie to go around.

Those figures are registered players only, which make soccer looks pretty poor as the supposed most popular sport. While it probably has that amount of registered players roughly, the actual figures are much higher. Take Nigeria for example, soccer mad and only 58,000 registered players. The 6.6...

21st biggest club in the UK? You having a laugh? Not even in the top 35. And thats in England. In the UK, its outside the top 40. This is one of the reasons why the list is slightly skewed. You have Leeds United almost 150 places below Blackpool. Basically their one season in the Premier League...

The first by a country mile.

Haven't felt as good about a North player for some time. Feels weird knowing we have a future Brownlow contender playing for us.

It's bold, and aesthetically pleasing. Would have no qualms with it being used more often. Then again I like our traditional top as well, so either way it's a win-win.

Costs money to run a club-owned TV station. And there's very little benefit of a club channel unless you have an international audience. United, and all the other clubs that do it, have them for their international audiences primarily; the big drawcard being a replay of all the games played...

What? We're talking about the NAB cup right? Disagree with first part of the sentence; as for the second I'm not sure how it even relates to this discussion.

And it certainly doesn't help that they're televised. I can't for the life of me think why anyone would attend, unless they're planning on heading out after being Saturday and all.