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The_Wookie does all that mean 697k girls, boys, women and men are registered/participated in a competitive game of footy for points or a trophy at the end of a season for the team they represented? And that 300k was at school footy and the other 397k elsewhere which I assume means club footy?
Ah I should have looked closer - 371,311 participants Club Football and 25,406 Social Football participation in AFL 9s competition.I believe so
I probably shoulda just waited for you to post....happy for you to merge mine into yours
Actually, by "merge" I was keen to see my post still exist from the thread I started...
repost it then.
In Vic., & I suspect in other States, some Private Schools play on Saturdays . From U16, many don't double up, as they are too sore; or want to devote more time to studies, so drop their Club sides (who always play on Sundays). Also, many private schools ban their students from playing AF for Club sides.Still think the school numbers should not be counted, anyone playing club footy is certainly[NOT NECESSARILY] playing school as well so it’s just a double count.
Good numbers overall though.
In Vic., & I suspect in other States, some Private Schools play on Saturdays . From U16, many don't double up, as they are too sore; or want to devote more time to studies, so drop their Club sides (who always play on Sundays).
There is doubling up of stats nos. with school & Club -but all codes do this, so I don't think the AFL should desist. None of the codes "cross reference"their regd. playing nos. across the school/Club etc. comps. -they want their nos. to be inflated for govt grants/prestige etc.
The BIGGEST beneficiary of double counting/triple counting of regd. playing nos. is soccer -since soccer is now played in nearly EVERY secondary school around Aust. (whereas AF is still underrepresented in Qld. & NSW). Female soccer is also huge in nearly all Secondary Schools around Aust.
Due to the major decline in male teachers in Primary Schools all over Aust., AF in Primary Schools in Vic., WA. SA. Tas., & NT is under some pressure -so much easier for female teachers to push/coach/umpire the SAFER & SIMPLER game of soccer.
Thus the FFA regd. nos. could be triple or even quadruple counted -club, school team comp., futsal, school phys. ed/Recreation Sport program, Club & Private Org. training programs.
The % of kids in single parent families today is c.23%, nearly always with the mother having custody -in 1970, it was c.5%. This is definitely hurting AF culture, & regd. playing nos. It is usually fathers who push AF the most.
Also, some fathers, when they have custody on weekends, don't want to lose the "rare time one-on-one"with their child; and/or have custody of more than 1 child: so Club football is sacrificed. Additionally, this scenario often means adult males can't themselves play AF -as they have custody of their children only on weekends/every second week, so adult Club football is sacrificed.
My boys play club footy but different sports for school, and that's not uncommon at our club (partly because the club puts a lot of work in to keeping them even when they want to give others sports at school a go)Still think the school numbers should not be counted, anyone playing club footy is certainly playing school as well so it’s just a double count.
Good numbers overall though.
Exactly. Participation numbers are always a joke and you can take SFA out of them when they start counting "programs".Just because others double count or triple count it doesn’t matter.
It just makes the whole document a pile of lies. They are not real numbers if that is what they are doing.
Why not just tell us the truth.
Exactly. Participation numbers are always a joke and you can take SFA out of them when they start counting "programs".
All sports are as bad as each other.