20th AFL Team

[threenewpadlocks]

Our national sport is Surf Lifesaving, clearly

 

[Canberra Pear]

Was discussing this on the Tasmania thread, but got told to move it over here.

I think it's worth noting that while Tasmania has gone through so much to get their team, I don't think the burden will be as high for the 20th team - whether it's a third Perth team or Canberra.

Firstly, Tasmania really forced the AFL's hand. Expansion wasn't on the radar in that timeframe. The AFL gave Tasmania ridiculous hurdles, but they've met them, and now cleared the path for the 20th team.

We've established Perth is a big market, it's got already got a suitable stadium. It's not without its problems, but it will long-term be an easier set up than Tasmania.

Canberra is also a bigger market than Tasmania. Greater Canberra has more than double the population of Greater Hobart; its population growth is much greater; plus its median income is 54% higher. Canberra will have government funding (which all Canberran sports teams get), but they don't need "Tassie level money" to be sustainable.

Unless the NT somehow miraculously gets up, I expect Team 20 to be more able to stand on their own than Team 19 (less distro, less govt funding etc). That being said, bring on Tasmania!

 

[speedpeck23]

I see your misunderstanding.

Southport is on the Gold Coast, not Brisbane. There is no way a southport team would be playing out of Victoria Park, and there is no way a Southport team would be any more attractive to the Brisbane market than the Gold Coast already is.

Thanks for that.

Given the AFL has alluded to the possibility of a second AFL club in Brisbane, where do you think they may consider locating that club ?

 

[Canberra Pear]

Thanks for that.

Given the AFL has alluded to the possibility of a second AFL club in Brisbane, where do you think they may consider locating that club ?

Have they alluded to a second Brisbane team?

All I've ever heard was a journo ask and Dillon said "never say never". Which is probably what he'd say asked about Bunbury, Cairns or NZ as well.

 

[RedV3x]

Australian football is played on

....ovals......
most ovals in W.A. are named in fact "ovals" except for some "reserves" or "parks"etc
In fact, the only only oval in W.A. that I could find with "cricket" in it's name is the WACA
and football is no longer played at the WACA.

 

[hampton]

....ovals......
most ovals in W.A. are named in fact "ovals" except for some "reserves" or "parks"etc
In fact, the only only oval in W.A. that I could find with "cricket" in it's name is the WACA
and football is no longer played at the WACA.

The indigenous game had very English roots being played on cricket ovals and adapting rules from rugby. Using the word indigenous is hilarious to refer to Australian rules as it implies it’s been here before colonial settlers, yet it’s very well documented origin was as a pastime to keep cricketers fit. My gosh there’s so much spin from afl house that is bought hook line and sinker.

Maybe if we were playing Marn grook at the MCG, but we’re not.

 

[RedV3x]

England? I guess football's not as big in Wigan or Leeds but that's about it.

If you look at EPL map, EPL teams only exist central England. From Colchester to Leeds and from Cornwall to Bath.
Wales is rugby union and England is a part of the UK. That's hardly uniform.

US ok, you're right as Football isn't as big on the West Coast. Still have big teams in SF, San Diego and LA.

American Football is more popular in the South but the NFL has only 32 teams in 22 states that's NFL teams less than half of U.S.A. states.



So, if you believe in the idea of a national sport give me your criteria so what criteria?

 

[RedV3x]

The indigenous game

The indigenous game was inspired by a handful of colonials to keep cricketers fit during winter.
There were many influences to the early indigenous game but definitely NOT rugby.
In fact it is recorded that Tom Wills advised against adopting any rugby rules.
This can be seen in the first ten rules of the newly created indigenous game by absence of any rugby rules
and rules contre to rugby. Throwing, tackling and running (unless to kick) were banned.
The first games of the indigenous game were not played on ovals but open rectangular spaces.
Only when cricket saw the crowd and playing attraction of the indigenous game did cricket suggest the availability of their ovals.

Now you view of Australian sporting history is hilariously false.

You still haven't answered whether you believe in the idea of a national sport and it's criteria.
You're acting like a petulant Donald avoiding questions by creating distractions.

 

[The_Wookie]

The indigenous game had very English roots being played on cricket ovals and adapting rules from rugby. Using the word indigenous is hilarious to refer to Australian rules as it implies it’s been here before colonial settlers, yet it’s very well documented origin was as a pastime to keep cricketers fit. My gosh there’s so much spin from afl house that is bought hook line and sinker.

Maybe if we were playing Marn grook at the MCG, but we’re not.

Both rugby, cambridge and sheffield rules were drawn from - the creators very much not wanting the game to be like rugby.

Its formation and creation in a pub in Melbourne is historically documented and not up for debate. Indigenous does not exclusively mean aboriginal, it means native to the territory, and by definition the game is native to Australia.

 

[The_Wookie]

origin discussion is for another thread. take it there

 

[RedV3x]

In any case, 19th century "football" was interchangeable enough in the sense that there were still times that teams primarily playing different codes wouldn't even know what rules they were playing until they met each other, and that players would shift between one code and another if they moved city etc.

In any case, 19th century English football was interchangeable enough in the sense that there were still times that teams primarily playing different rules wouldn't even know what rules they were playing until they met each other, and that players would shift between one set of rules and another if they moved city etc.

By comparison Gaelic Football was and had been well organised for hundreds of years as part of Gaelic games.
There was a time when English Football was codified but it is not that period.
At that time all English Football looked like one almighty scrap.

Australian Football being Australian and indigenous is as much because it's a product of how it evolved and emerged and differentiated itself from other football codes over time.

The reason why Australian Football took off like a shot from a gun was that the creators had hit upon the basics of the game being a kick and catch game, for whatever undetermined influence but mainly by experimentation. The kick and catch game completely opened up the game as a spectacle and led to Australian Football being so popular and spreading around the colonies. The film, "The English game" displays how professionalism finally opened Association Football to the game something like we know it as today. Previous to that it was hard to distinguish Association Football from Rugby rules football.

Now this is relevant because the British establishment did everything in it's power to inhibit the development of what we now know as Australian Football in N.S.W. and Queensland. Today, the AFL is trying to reclaim those somewhat lost territories. The AFL has established four AFL teams in those states and we are questioning should there be more AFL teams in those two states. Is a 20th AFL team going to be in N.S.W. or Queensland ?