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4,621 for a Friday night A-League game in Sydney.
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Football world cup saved the UK from going into recession.
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World Cup fans save UK from slipping into recession
New figures show the British economy grew by 0.1 per cent in November, defying economists’ forecast of a contraction.
RedV3x
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Why are you always trying to derail threads that don't suit your agenda?
Please start some serious discussion and drop the tiresome stuff.
I have replied so you can stop repeating yourself.
RedV3x
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As long as people stop trolling and trying to invite comparisons as you do.
My point is, there are far more that do not, which sort of negates the comment "Strange that you wouldn't want to play your chosen sport overseas and get paid for it and take in others countries cultures", because its not strange, its rather normal.
And speaking as one who did live overseas, its not that the best and brightest go, and the rest stay, plenty of bog average Australians overseas.
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FEAR THE JUGGERNAUT!!!
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Also, compared to Australia, 99% of the world is an absolute craphole of a joint.
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It's like any profession. It's a question of how much money and the ties that bind.
There are very few people who have the qualifications and the lack of ties to make a long-term commitment.
More like "something different".
"Culture" is something that attracts tourists but to an immigrant it's grappling with a new system of doing things.
i love the different cultures i have visited but as to living in these places, i would see it as a general negative.
Plenty of time to visit places around the world when you have finished playing professionally in Australia.
I travel a lot now because I am in the position that I am in now.
IMO, you have to be an elite sports person to be able play overseas and come back with more money than if you'd stayed.
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Finally a sensible post - the power of sport to uplift.
All around the world we have various sporting events that have the power to lift the population's spirits (in general).
The NFL Superbowl happens every year so i would put that out there over a every four year event like the Olympics.
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Doing a job you love after retiring from a professional sport.
I think this is a great story
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I think this is a great story
Boxing champ Ampofo swaps ring for chickens
From Ghana to Britain, boxing to chicken farming - the story of Francis Ampofo's success.
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I think that this has nothing to do with a
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Wow you have been to 99% of the world and i thought i was doing well having worked in or visited 16 countries.
I have worked in or visited 44 countries and a lot but not 99% are shitholes compared to Australia.
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Much needed cash for Tennis Australia after a couple of slower and very expensive years
alas, Nick withdrawn and Barty retired, it leaves a very big hole in the TV ratings. Will be interesting to see if the BBL can make a dent in the AO ratings at all.
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There have been a couple of similar article on this the last couple of years that I have quoted from in other posts on the Port board. This one in 2021 gives a good long history of Nathan Chapman's work with his Prokick Australia academy
‘It’s an instinct’: how Aussie punters took over US college football
A pair of Australian punters will take the field when TCU and Georgia meet in Monday’s national title game, exponents of what become one of college football’s most prolific pipelineswww.theguardian.com
Prokick Australia Changed Punting, And Football, By Doing What Comes Naturally | Defector
The clips started circulating a decade or so ago, viral examples of the least-loved play in football.
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In a half a generation’s time, Australians have gone from football interlopers to standard-bearers. It is not just their massing ranks (this season, nearly 40 percent of Division 1 punters hail from the country) or statistical success (a pair of Australians lead the NFL in cumulative yardage); it is their reshaping of the sport’s interlude, its universal fridge break, into something worth sticking around for........
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Ask around among alums, and you’ll get different explanations for that success: the Aussie’s knack for boot on leather, Chapman’s eye for leg-swing and ear for contact, Smith’s pursuit of American coaches’ attention. But it tends to come back to something deeper. Almost everybody there, from founder to first-timer, has floundered elsewhere, and is now working to wrest success from setback. The punt is too perfect a metaphor. “If something’s not going well, how people in the States might throw a baseball, we chill out with our mates, kick a ball, release the energy,” Chapman told me. “It’s an expression of who we are.”
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Since the inaugural class in 2009, 182 Prokickers have won scholarships to U.S. colleges.
This Sports Illustrated article from 4 or 5 months
Influx of Aussie Punters Has Changed Special Teams Approach
One Melbourne, AUS company has completely rebuilt the traditional American punter.
www.si.com
And whilst looking for the links I found this story about Oz punters that has even made Forbes 10 days ago.
How Australian Punters Became Mainstays In College Football And The NFL
On Monday night in Los Angeles, TCU plays Georgia in the College Football Playoff national title game. Both programs have starting punters from Australia, a country that has become a breeding ground for punters.
www.forbes.com
RedV3x
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Similarly, Gaelic Football goalies are in demand for the EPL.
Tall basketballers are in demand as ruckmen.
Sprinters in demand for receivers.
All specialist positions.
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Seems to have shifted from actual AFL players to people who play Aussie Rules and are willing to do the effort and time with prokick.There have been a couple of similar article on this the last couple of years that I have quoted from in other posts on the Port board. This one in 2021 gives a good long history of Nathan Chapman's work with his Prokick Australia academy
Prokick Australia Changed Punting, And Football, By Doing What Comes Naturally | Defector
The clips started circulating a decade or so ago, viral examples of the least-loved play in football.
In a half a generation’s time, Australians have gone from football interlopers to standard-bearers. It is not just their massing ranks (this season, nearly 40 percent of Division 1 punters hail from the country) or statistical success (a pair of Australians lead the NFL in cumulative yardage); it is their reshaping of the sport’s interlude, its universal fridge break, into something worth sticking around for........
....
Ask around among alums, and you’ll get different explanations for that success: the Aussie’s knack for boot on leather, Chapman’s eye for leg-swing and ear for contact, Smith’s pursuit of American coaches’ attention. But it tends to come back to something deeper. Almost everybody there, from founder to first-timer, has floundered elsewhere, and is now working to wrest success from setback. The punt is too perfect a metaphor. “If something’s not going well, how people in the States might throw a baseball, we chill out with our mates, kick a ball, release the energy,” Chapman told me. “It’s an expression of who we are.”
........
Since the inaugural class in 2009, 182 Prokickers have won scholarships to U.S. colleges.
This Sports Illustrated article from 4 or 5 months
Influx of Aussie Punters Has Changed Special Teams Approach
One Melbourne, AUS company has completely rebuilt the traditional American punter.
And whilst looking for the links I found this story about Oz punters that has even made Forbes 10 days ago.
How Australian Punters Became Mainstays In College Football And The NFL
On Monday night in Los Angeles, TCU plays Georgia in the College Football Playoff national title game. Both programs have starting punters from Australia, a country that has become a breeding ground for punters.
it is interesting how punting has changed in 20 years.
FIFA says more than half a million tickets already sold for 2023 Women's World Cup
The 2023 Women's World Cup soccer tournament in Australia and New Zealand continues to outsell previous tournaments, with FIFA aiming for upwards of 1.5 million tickets by July's kick-off.
The record for a womens world cup is 1.35 Mil in Canada in 2015. FIFA are aiming for at least 1.5Mil. Reckon they will smash that. There are a lot more games for one bue womens football has grown a lot in the last few years.
RedV3x
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Current AFL players are too expensive. Cheaper to target amateurs with good kicking ability.
NFL is a super conservative league and changes have been hard fought mainly from Aussie punters
who have the confidence to act outside of the box.
Around the world , but in Australia ?
Anyway it will be interesting to see.
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The early days was about ex AFL players with a huge kick, at the end of their career going and giving it a go, as they had nothing much to lose - Darren Bennett, Sav Rocca, Ben Graham and Nathan Chapman who out of it, saw the opportunity at the next level down.
Prokick is about giving guys in their early twenties, who have a huge kick on them, but aren't necessarily the athletic beasts the AFL system wants, an opportunity to win a scholarship at a decent college, get a good education, have an interesting 4 years compared to a normal life at home working and playing amateur footy. And if there is real talent, get signed up by an NFL team and make more money than most AFL players do.
Doesn't matter what the sport itself has done in Australia.
Women's Soccer is seen generally as a more serious elite sport than it was even a decade ago.
This means it will attract event goers, who may not have bothered in the past.
If you announced in the past that you watched the women's World cup, you could expect a response of "really? Why".
Not so much these days.
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RedV3x
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if you're talking about sport in Australia then it's obvious it's history in Australia is important.
"More serious". Strange phrasing. Yes, women's sport in general has grown in Australia
but it's a question of relativity and degree.
yes, but it's a question of relativity and degree.
Never heard that but it's a question of relativity and degree.
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Matildas have broken crowd records year after year. They will smash it soon. Selling out 80K seat stadium is no joke in any sport, let alone womens.
W-league(sorry, ALW) hasn't grown much but they have lost a lot of talent to the increasingly professional sides of Europe. This comes back to Sam Kerr. Sam Kerr would be in the top tier of known female sports stars, which wouldn't have happened if she didn't move overseas. Which builds the Matildas.
RedV3x
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Yes, proof is in the pudding not in the rose coloured glasses outlook.
Shoulda woulda coulda gunna. heard it all before.
If anything soccer has lost ground
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they were averaging getting 2,000 crowds back in the 00's and early 10's. Now, the Matildas are getting 10K min for every game and breaking records. If you even can't concede that point, then there is no point in this discussion
got better things to do
The A League Womens comp get s**t crowds!Seems to have shifted from actual AFL players to people who play Aussie Rules and are willing to do the effort and time with prokick.
it is interesting how punting has changed in 20 years.
FIFA says more than half a million tickets already sold for 2023 Women's World Cup
The 2023 Women's World Cup soccer tournament in Australia and New Zealand continues to outsell previous tournaments, with FIFA aiming for upwards of 1.5 million tickets by July's kick-off.www.abc.net.au
The record for a womens world cup is 1.35 Mil in Canada in 2015. FIFA are aiming for at least 1.5Mil. Reckon they will smash that. There are a lot more games for one bue womens football has grown a lot in the last few years.
Western Sydney Wanderers V Melbourne Victory 436 and Perth Glory v Wellington Phoenix 700 this week already!
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