News Giants want to play in LA

[Cuzz09]

Might as well send us over there while we are complete rabble but only if it's a GWS home game

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[Football Smith]

Of all the cities in the States, why would they choose that utter dump of a city?

This. LA is a shithole these days.

 

[Blackas87]

Thought the point of creating the Giants was to grow the game in Sydney

 

[czns]

Let's not have a repeat of the whole China game circus. No one will ever care about Australian rules overseas, the only people who will go will be expats.

 

[sherb]

Thought the point of creating the Giants was to grow the game in Sydney

Exactly - Western Sydney to be specific.

 

[COOGRE]

Thought the point of creating the Giants was to grow the game in Sydney

They already play half their games in canberra. May aswell turn them into a touring act and send them on world tours every year.

 

[BigVic]

Let's not have a repeat of the whole China game circus. No one will ever care about Australian rules overseas, the only people who will go will be expats.

The Chinese didn't care about footy and the only people at the ground in Shanghai were expats. An Aussie Rules match in America will be different. It'll be broadcast on TV via ABC America and ESPN or Fox and they'll be interest. Interest in Aussie Rules was up in March 2020 with Pat McAfee watching game.

 

[Rob R]

The Chinese didn't care about footy and the only people at the ground in Shanghai were expats. An Aussie Rules match in America will be different. It'll be broadcast on TV via ABC America and ESPN or Fox and they'll be interest. Interest in Aussie Rules was up in March 2020 with Pat McAfee watching game.

Was in LA a few weeks back and our group were pleasantly surprised when the baseball finished one night and the Irish pub turned the TV without request to show the Pies v Carlton live.

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[Obeanie1]

Who would be the other traveling team?

And what to they get out of travelling a 24,000 km round trip overseas? Apart from a very good chance of catching covid.

 

[Tackle Bag]

Complete waste of time.

 

[Blackas87]

The Chinese didn't care about footy and the only people at the ground in Shanghai were expats. An Aussie Rules match in America will be different. It'll be broadcast on TV via ABC America and ESPN or Fox and they'll be interest. Interest in Aussie Rules was up in March 2020 with Pat McAfee watching game.

The games in China were broadcasted on free to air across China. Americans won’t have any more interest than the people of China. When Pat McAfee watched it there was no other sport in the world playing, by the Richmond Geelong Grand Final there was not one mention of it on his show because his fans had zero interest.

 

[BigVic]

The game will most likely be on cable in America FS1 or ESPN