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AFL = "Australasian Football League". The game was called "Australasian Football" for a decade or so around 1890-1910 including with a carnival with Australian states plus NZ. At the time it was reported there were 100 NZ clubs. NZ played very well against the Aussie states, though as usual...

Having played a few seasons of Gaelic footy - drop kicks can work well. The ball is smaller and heavier than a soccer ball and goes straighter for longer than a soccer ball. When travelling fast it is hard to catch because of the heavier mass and force, you wouldn't want to try heading it. I...

Though the debate is pertinent to this thread. 9's makes a lot of sense for a crowded place like China....and for western Sydney, Australian primary schools etc for that matter - http://www.worldfootynews.com/article.php/20091227191919490?query=9-a-side

3 articles in The Age today, Chad Rintoul's is the most sobering http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/concussion-victim-calls-for-week-off-20100419-spcs.html . Also the Adelaide board has a thread - http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=694109 I'm no expert but googling around...

I'm not sure if in American Football there is frees awarded for high tackles and whether players sometimes duck to get hit high. What would be interesting if this is the case - is if knowing you're out of action for minimum 3 weeks if you get concussed causes players to be more cautious. If...

Did any of you see Catalyst on ABC TV last week - about repeated concussion in American NFL players - and all autopsied brains so far of NFL players (11 brains in all) had quite severe brain damage of the boxer "punch drunk" syndrome. The program showed that the NFL has done a U-turn on...

It hopefully shouldn't impact on the SANFL and WAFL. I don't live in Vic and clearly the VFL-old VFA and things in Tassie both need some thought. For those reasons I wouldn't like to see it expand to an Australia wide second tier league. But for the development of the code in NSW, Qld...

I was trying to recall if Bayanda Sobetwa was the same South African who attended the AIS/AFL camp and was almost as good as Buckley in kicking style, googled and found he was. It just goes to show the value of the overseas footy leagues (that now have over 50,000 regulars) and that...

I titled this post - "9's - the 'rugby 7's or 'T20' of Australian Football" - to really indicate how just about every other major team sport has smaller versions that fill niches - particularly for social games and juniors to increase skills and participation and to take the sports to expanding...

Trouble is there is virtually no 18-a-side Australian Rules Football left in primary schools, it is almost all basketball and soccer. Also you at least confirm the BigFooty slogan - "the most passionate AFL fans talk here" ....But if you hold your horses or anything else for that matter...

Thanks Cos - well put and more succinct than I've been :thumbsu:

This webpage from the AFL website was pointed out to me by a commentator on my original article on www.worldfootynews.com = http://www.afl.com.au/portals/0/afl_docs/afl_hq/policies/junior_policy/AFL%20Junior%20Match%20Program%209-10%20years.pdf Essentially the AFL do have a 9's policy quite...

WikipediaAFLProject - good ideas but I still think a once a year AFL weekend carnival of 9's would promote the concept best - thereafter state league carnivals and clinics in schools would have far more effect presumably. Leedawsom - interesting questions, I know I've pushed this hard on this...

A person with username "Krabby Me" posted a link to the AFL's policy for short and smaller versions of the game in the comments section of http://www.worldfootynews.com/article.php/20091227191919490 The link is...

10,000% correct Perry Pie about schools footy. But the AFL should do a T20 style game - but only as an annual tournament - can play multiple teams at one venue in same day similar to Rugby 7's. But main reason should be (as you imply) to promote 9's as a valid "cool" version of the game for...

Even at AFL level 9's would be useful for honing match skills with the fast aerobic format and needing to pass to the 3 forwards. Probably less risk of injury as a bit more open and less large packs than NAB Cup. But wouldn't give full squad a run and also wouldn't really help clubs much with...

ok Cos, fair points i see with more explanation from you - particularly if you've got a group of Brits or Frenchmen wanting to play on a Rugby pitch, but i'd like to see minimal changes from the full size game (except the size in players and field!) for continuity with the full game...

Cos789 - with reference to your earlier post that had quite a lot of rule changes, I'd keep it simple for full contact 9's - same 4 goal posts at each end of a shortened ground, same rules - only change I think (from the 9's I got my high school team to play for training) and from what I've seen...

Actually fabulousphil I did send the idea to the AFL back around 1991 when there was no footy team (but soccer and basketball) at my son's primary school - and got a reply (old typewriter - before computers and most word-processors) from the AFL saying essentially "interesting idea but we don't...

Subprime - in my longer article on www.worldfootynews.com I comment on the EU Cup and USAFL Metro-footy as two examples of how 9's has helped footy grow in Europe and the USA. As far as I know however there is no standardisation of 9's rules. The AFL could embrace 9's and standardise the...

I don't know what the AFL's views or actions or policy on 9's is. One reason I raise the idea again here on BF! I do recall that a lightening 9's carnival was mooted for the centenary of the VFL/AFL a decade or so ago but it never eventuated.

I don't think merging contact 9's with non-contact RecFooty is needed - but agree formalising of rules of 9's and promotion by AFL teams playing them is definitely worthwhile. Both need promotion. Some AFL clubs have links with Netball clubs - they could compete in a Mixed Netball carnival and...

A few years ago on BF I floated the idea (others have too) that the AFL and other Australian Football leagues should more formally develop and promote a 9-a-side version. I think it worth a re-run, particularly with the ongoing success of Rugby 7's in taking a small version of that code to new...

I've written an article at http://www.worldfootynews.com/article.php/20091227191919490 on the benefits of 9-a-side footy. In particular 9's is far better for primary school age kids - continuous aerobic play in shortened match format; fits on the small primary school playing field (often a...

On these two points - as a contributor to www.worldfootynews.com and having watched the growth of footy overseas over the past 10 years - it is highly likely we'll see several not just one footballer who learnt the game outside of Australia. On the second point - I'm not so confident. I...

The AFL claims a bit over 600,000 participants (including Auskickers) play Australian Football. Thus each of the 16 AFL clubs recruit from nearly 40,000 participants - but in fact much less if one considers only ages 16 to 22. Sheedy has been criticised as talking the equivalent of...

Nice thought, but do you seriously think the A-League would allow it?? Australia has had good IR goal-keepers in the past - Kellaway, Silvagni and Fletcher. Bock should go to full-back on the 196cm Irish full-forward who was a real target for the Irish. Put some livewire agile defender...

There has been around 200 or more games of International Rules all around the world at lower levels between GAA and Aussie Rules clubs including representative tours by Masters, Womens and Australian Amateur Football leagues u23 side. See www.worldfootynews.com and 66 stories on IR over the...

Last night's game started slow but the second half showed passages of IR at its fast, frenetic best. With the warm-up out of the way, the game in Melbourne should be even better, particularly as the wind and weather were factors at Subiaco. In fact given the conditions the skill from both...

Need a new goal-keeper for IR Bock should be moved from goal-keeper to full-back to stand the giant Irish full-forward. In the past Dustin Fletcher, Andrew Kellaway and Steve Silvagni have all been pretty good goal-keepers. We need someone much more agile than Bocky.