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Sa Yeah you're right mate, good thinking. AFL has nothing to worry about.

Soccer has far more firepower than just the A-league that will prick the aFL's ass from so many directions - World Cup, Matilda's, Olympics, asian champions league, asian cup, ICC, international friendlies, the list could go on. Meanwhile all the AFL has is, just AFL - that's all! Maybe include...

You may well have the right to speak on behalf of the world claiming soccer is boring but the reality is AFL is going to have a hard time fending off all the different forms of showcase events that soccer comes in. World Cup, Asian Champions League, Federations Cup, Club friendlies...

Good growth path for AR! Improverished countries in the third world. Mate, I could go there, hand out polished turds to them and they would take it - and then I could put a photo on the front page of the Scum. It's not growth story mate - just an AFL handout of a sherrin and bombers...

The AFL Victorian fanatics (they're nowhere else) who gloat about AFL's international growth remind me of the yank I was talking to in a pub last year. He slurred that NFL is growing world wide. I said what makes him think of that. He said there are American football teams and comps in...

As I have said time and time again, the challenge between soccer and aust rules won't be about bums on seats. AFL will dominate that. Soccer will gain ground in other areas that you conveniently ignore. And there's lots of them to be optomistic about: Women's league (AFL has nothing here)...

Soccer's building a good package that will grow. The comparison of crowds argument is naive and expected of AFL fanatics - but that's not how soccer will chip away slowly at AFL's dominance. Not overtake, but erode AFL's dominance. See if you can you can figure out how soccer might do this...

Reading that feedback from FIFA gives me a warm tingly feeling. I was expecting it to be a standard line they troll out for every country, but was surpirsed that it was specific to Australia so the FIFA delegates have done some work. Glad the media wasn't invited so they haven't been able to...

Crime in South Africa was down 80% during the World Cup. Can that also be added to the benefits of a world cup?

More intensity than Rugby Union?

How would Ian Collins feel? FIFA delegates are out in Melbourne inspecting grounds worthy of holding world cup games, and they have left Etihad completely out! All the while the indigenous AFL sport he has backed (by closing the door of Etihad on world cup) is laying the boot into his turf...

How do the AFL soft turf loverboys on this forum explain why other countries that hold the soccer world cup, want to hold it again? Japan, Korea, UK, USA - all want to bid for the rights again. Why, if it's a waste of money as you say? I am waiting to be enlightened on why this does not...

I reckon if you saw a list of what the government spent your taxpayer money on, then put next to it the social cost/benefit of each expense, you would find much bigger wastes of money than the soccer bid - with no social benefit! This issue's not world cup versus hospitals as you're trying to...

You're talking about specific players. The club didn't walk off. Every club has soft players. I'm talking about a whole AFL club boycotting b/c the ground is not soft enough for their mummy boy feet! Do you think those paddocks in Kazackstan and China's Kunming that the socceroos played...

I read in the AFL express yesterday (HUN) that Hawthorn is ready to boycot playing at Etihad because the grass is not soft enough! ANother team is complaining they have to travel too much around Australia! Compare Melbourne Victory - played on the Etihad surface after an AC/DC concert...

What I can't understand is why some people spend so much of their time and energy bagging a game they don't care about? Most of these poeple are inexperienced and new to the forum (ie. started on bigfooty less than 6 months ago, so they're like under 8 footy players going up for marks in...

Do people forget USA hosted the world cup in 1994? It won't win the world cup hosting again after just 7 world cup tournaments. No country has ever, ever done this. England the home of football hasn't even won the re-hosting rights after 52 years (13 tournaments), assuming it even gets the...

These AFL people commenting on Herald Sun website have gone into absolute overdrive about the jackson artlicle. Seems they all get a bit shirty when there sport is called a pussy sport. Coupled with the soft free kicks, diving creeping into the game, too hard to back up week after week...

What about Schillachi? Anybody remember him?

Is your whinge about government support for the sport itself, or the world cup bid? If its about sport, can you compare the government's expsenditure on soccer versus all othe rsports, including olympic sports and AIS? Real numbers. If its about the bid - this has been covered before. Name a...

I was waiting to see how somebody could justify the expense of the grand prix is worth it but the world cup isn't. Just proves anything can be argued. The grand prix cost is real, and it yearly - and it's straight from the Annual report - do a google check. It's not about setting up Albert...

The bid for the world cup will cost as much as one grand prix in Melbourne ($40-45m). You do the sums: World cup bid is a one-off. Grand Prix cost is ongoing yearly (we'd spend $480m on grand prix's by the year of the 2022 world cup! - but pppsssttt guess what, no-one's complaining!)...

There was a rerun of an AFL game on ONE HD at the same time as the soccer world cup. Why on earth were you watching the soccer over AFL? Please piss off from watching our soccer game. Go stick with AFL. Do you think a soccer fan like me would wait for the AFL grand final then quickly hop...

You're right - soccer needs to make goals easier like footy, that way it can get high numbers up on the scoreboard. Let's get rid of the goal keeper, remove the top crossbar, add extra posts each side to award 'minor' scores, then wait - the best part, make one goal equal six points and a miss...

AFL is the greatest game on the planet, everybody knows this. Those people in their own countries that claim their indigenous sport is the best, like Ireland and the US, are just wrong. Deep down they know AFL is better than their own code and they make baseless claims their sport is growing...

After reading this thread I am now convinced that I soccer zealots like me need to convert from soccer to Aust rules. I am now a believer of what I read on this forum: AFL is the greatest sport in the world. If a world-wide survey asked this question, AFL would win. Aust rules is the...

Zig and Zag AFL-zealots (you know who you both are - your posts dominate this thread), You need to take a break like your AFL heroes and take time to allow others to enjoy the biggest sporting event this world can hold - nothing the AFL can do will ever, ever come close to the passion...

Already read that one, thanks. Just highlights that AFL players are overpaid for their lack of skill, touch and balance - that's why no AFL player could make it in professional soccer. I'd love to take on Judd, Abblett, Brown in soccer - they'd never get the ball off me, and I don't get paid...

I' ve had about a dozen Aust rules players try and join my various soccer teams over the years. They couldn't cut it and never got a game (one did). They all run in stupid predictable straight lines with their shoulders up and couldn't change their body balance to trick any other players or...

Wasn't cut up about Asian Korfball becasue I don't care, but the important thing is I wasn't on a forum cheering on Australia's opposition. Maybe you're not understanding the difference.