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regardless of all our disagreements & indiscresions we all agree Australian Rules is the best damn sport ever invented ....& ever will be invented !!


We just need it to take hold Internationally for it to survive another 100 + years.

for these simple reasons:

the majority of Australian Rules followers want an International level to our game.

It will bring millions of dollars into our country.

Pride of your own club will be taken to an even further level.. Pride of your country.

We dont want soccer, rugby or any other sport to take over our hold on this country.

the list of positives would go on & on..


THE POLL :

ALL IN FAVOUR OF AN INTERNATIONAL COMP VOTE YES


ALL IN FAVOUR TO KEEP THE AFL AS IT IS VOTE NO


ANYONE UNSURE VOTE UN-DECIDED
 

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hmmmmmm- so many yes's.

I cant understand why we want our game to become big internationally.

Ive always been of the opinion that as long were happy with it, then who cares what the rest of the world thinks. Its like our little secret, that we own the worlds best (by far) sport.

I also think our game can survive just fine for another 100 years without having to take it all around the place.
Plus itll take that long for anyone else to become competitive at it with us.

anyway- my 2 cents.

cheers.

A.
 
The problem with Aussie Rules becoming international is that most countries in the world don't have oval fields so it would harder for those countries to adapt to the game.
 
No

Im with Arch. Why let others in on the secret? It will only reduce (long term) the quality at home. Otherwise Okon,Kewell,Bozza and the like would all still be living here.

Facts are if it went interantional we couldnt afford to pay what they could O'seas.
 
YES absolutely YES!

But watching national sports programs on the weekend you'd be forgiven for thinking that AFL was an insignificant sport when compared to rugby league. When are those pricks in Sydney going to stop dreaming?
 
No - in spite of encouraging signs from New Zealand, PNG, Denmark and Yankeeland

We have to win over the rest of Australia first.

with regard to the Rugby states, we have to :

1) get the game on the sports curriculum of the top schools in Sydney and Brisbane.

2) Get the game on TV in Sydney and Brisbane at an hour when 8-15 year olds can watch it in the evening with their parents.

3) Get better depth and quality in the SFL and QSFL

4) Reclaim Canberra as an Aussie Rules city, firstly by playing there for premiership points on a regular basis.

5) Get more home-grown footballing talent in the Swans and the Lions

The game has taken some hugely impressive strides up here over the last few years - but there is just so much more to do to win over these states before we can even think about taking the game to the rest of the world....
 

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The AFL fund NZ mostly in relation to expanding the code overseas, so Id say it would be a while before it really starts to take off in other parts.

There is an Aussie Rules World Cup held in Melbourne next year - about 12 teams coming (Australia is not in it). Im not sure what the standard is gonna be like, but its a start I guess.
 
I'd have to go with NO - this is our game and always will be. Sure, promote the game overseas - thats great, but for an international football series (not the Irish stuff they play at the end of the year) It would detract from the game.
 
Eagle_Fan I am not paying you out ( Not intentionally) but you said about promoting the game overseas but you dont want to let it take hold overseas ? why promote it in the first place ? the only reason you promte something is for that reason !


I think people are afraid of having Aussie Rules played overseas with soccer like riots which would bring ill repute to our game - but I am sure that would not happen - because if other countrys adopt our game they will also adopt the unique way we support it too !
 
I am very much an anti-racist person & I hope all of you guys are also!!!

I dont know about you guys but wouldn't this gesture of bringing a new (old) sport to the world be seen as a good gesture ?

Were talking about a lot of money eg:

We sell Merchandise ie : Guernseys, flags, magazines so on and so forth..

We as Australians own the right to sell the rights to Television stations.

It (if it became popularised) would attract Sponsership from all over the globe ie: Microsoft, Chevrolet, AT&T, Nike, Adidas, IBM, heaps of huge overseas companys.

Tourism for Australia everytime there was a Major (World Cup).

More Jobs... In all aspects, Hospitality, Industry, Retail, Marketing etc....

So there is no reason we could not own or have playing fields big enough established overseas. because with all that money coming in to our game we would not even need a bank loan to pay for a brand new stadium !

(But where talking about 20 years from now !)

Whats wrong with sharing the game with the world ?

It is exactly the same as having a new born baby ( MOST people who have a new baby are so proud they want to show the world.) well I love the GAME the same way and I want to show the world how good it is !!


Maybe some of you guys who voted NO dont have the same passion about our game ?
 
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why do all you people out there want our Australian game to turn into an international comp?

It's something that we can call our own. The AFL is surviving well now so what's your problem?

If it does become an international comp, I'll just die. It's been around for so long now, why change a good thing?

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!!!
 
First of all, I don't agree that Australian Rules is the best sport ever invented. That's a big claim. Best football code, probably, but best sport? No.

In favour of an international competition? Yes, but only in theory. Like BSA said, it's not even a national sport in Australia, which has a tiny population. The first step is obviously making the game national, and that is surely many years away. Creating interest in other countries and then making them competetive will take so many years that it's not even worth thinking about. There would need to be serious, grass roots promotion rather than symbolic exhibition games, which mean nothing.

On a similar topic, I would love to see soccer gain more popularity here and I’m sure it will. Australia has one of the best junior teams in the world and a lot of kids are playing the world game now. I am confident Australia will win the one true World Cup at some stage in my lifetime and it will be this country’s greatest sporting achievement when it happens.
 
An american who spends his time watching a boring game like Grid Iron or an English person who also has not even heard of Aussie rules but watches skillless and boring games of soccer is far more likely to ebrase a new code of football.

than a Nova Castrian from NSW who is too ignorant to try and learn the game of AFL !


Promote it NOW overseas and NSW & QLD will follow suit soon enough !

it is a fact the growth rate overseas far outweighs that of NSW !

I wont give up a fight to get this game into the next century with a healthy & better future (more enjoyable) to us and the rest of the world.

Stand up and take notice world this is Australia !!!
 
The AFL is exactly that... the AUSTRALIAN Football League.. then you have the DAFL (Danish Australian Football League) etc etc etc.. I think the sharing of the game with other countries is a good idea.. the idea of one world or hemisphere encompassing league I'm not so fussed on..

The thought of e.g. the afl encompassing PNG/NZ & Australia is a bad one because..
a) Supporters of say the Port Morseby Kangarooss, Christchurch Bulldogs & Auckland Saints would have a terrible time trying to travel to see away matches
b) The travel load on players these days is high enough as it is without players having to endure crossing the tasman sea or Torres Strait
c) it takes a partially interested supporter base to gradually draw more people in.. there aren't currently enough ex-pat aussies in the afformentioned area's to drum up the support needed

What I would love to see is leagues in other coutries being developed with partial AFL assistance in the hope of making the game a truely international one..

An Idea that crossed my mind was somewhat similar to that of the soccer in a sense..

What if there were say 8 leagues operating worldwide in different countries

Every 4 years the top team from each of the previous 4 seasons at the end of the home & away season qualified for an AFL World Cup Series.

This leaves you with a 32 team competition. In the event a team is top of the ladder in more than one season in the 4 season gap u take their first season on top as their qualification and in the subsequent season the runner up goes through (a different contingency could be developed this is just a rough outline)

The 32 teams play off (pool system similar to the world cup perhaps) winners go through to a round of 16 then 8 then 4 and so on....

Pipe dream yes.. questions over workload of players in the season.. possibly depending on how the system is worked. But I can't imagine that if there were 8 leagues around the world as strong as the AFL and your club ended up with the "World Cup" you wouldn't be proud as a pig in the proverbial...

This is the way if at all the game could be made international.. ideas ?? suggestions (except changing the name of the brownlow if the worldwide thing ever takes off
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Everyone haven't you worked out yet why Chev has started this campaign.
His team isn't in the finals so he is looking for some other way to amuse himself & stop frrom being bored. I guess it will keep him going until footy starts next year.

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Chev, I don't think you comprehend how much of a minority sport Australian Rules really is. But you repeatedly demonstrate your ignorance, so that's no surprise.

Has it occurred to you that gridiron and soccer fans are happy with their sport, and that many of them probably consider it the best in the world also? Just how much do you really know of these sports, anyway? You have to understand something before you have the right to criticise it.

I bet your knowledge of those sports is only slightly better than what the majority of their fans would know of Aussie Rules. Therefore they have just as much right to dismiss Australian Football as you do to discredit gridiron and soccer.
 

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