Thanks for your concern. It’s ok though, Auskick is strictly non-contact. Out of interest, what are your thoughts on kids playing soccer? The fact they’re encouraged to routinely allow the ball to smash them in the head must worry you?
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Thanks for your concern. It’s ok though, Auskick is strictly non-contact. Out of interest, what are your thoughts on kids playing soccer? The fact they’re encouraged to routinely allow the ball to smash them in the head must worry you?
I wonder why the AFL "... is on a more prominent network ..."? And netball is quite a popular sport. So popular that it averages 2,000 more (that's more - not less) viewers than the NRL & A-League combined (yes - combined) in Melbourne, so for the AFL to get more Sydney viewers than netball (not to mention the hapless A-League) is actually very good in comparison.
And stop pretending you're a Swans supporter. Your posting history shows a peculiar hatred and paranoia about the growth of our Australian game right from the very start.
Well thankfully Auskick with its modified rules is about as non-contact and safe as any ball sport can get.
I've read the disturbing studies on the concussion affects of kids heading soccer balls, as widely reported on the BBC and the New York Times (resulting in a sudden downturn in junior soccer numbers in the USA), so that really should be avoided.
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I imagine soccer will eliminate heading before too long - not sure what will happen to afl
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Outside NRL, bbl & wallabies TV ratings for other codes in Sydney so low not worth boasting about. Wonder what netball costs 9 & compare that to afl deal.
The answer to that should tell you everything you need to know. It costs 9 a GREAT deal less to buy the rights to Netball than it costs to buy the rights to AFL. And Netball had to sweeten the deal by taking a profit sharing arrangement to get that.
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You aren’t a Swans fan Pip
And if a frontier sport like Aussie Rules is irrelevant up here it must be truely gutting to you that a heartland sport like football is in an even worse predicament.
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Yet it gets about same rating in Sydney
Wrong again, like always.....ABC main channel has over double the audience of 7 Mate.....humiliated again...you really are a glutton for punishment aren't you?
And yet AFL gets paid WAY more.
What a mystery this is.
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How many ads do ABC run? 7 constantly promoting
That’s not an answer. Would you subject your child to a sport that requires, as a fundamental skill, the repeated thudding of a heavy ball against their frontal lobe? Would that concern you? Or is only football-related head trauma that keeps you awake at night?
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Play futsal
Hahah, so the reason that Sydney siders collectively watch over 300K hours of the AFL during NRL season each weekend on a secondary channel - while watching only 30K hours of the A League on the primary channel of the national broadcaster's main channel in the off season - is because the ads tell them to?
Seriously, this is too easy. Are you a parody of a soccer troll? It's like you are setting yourself up
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Well, in AFL or should we say, in Australian Football, heading of the ball has never been a problem.
I thought that would be obvious to anyone with any knowledge of the Australian game.
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1. The AFL 2019 Official Regd. Participation Report will soon be announced, showing significant growth in NSW & the ACT (& most other parts of Aust.).
Strong female growth is contributing to the increases in NSW & the ACT (& all other states of Aust.).
The Australian J. Stensholt 19.2.20
Stensholt said "Women & girls are putting on the boots in such numbers that...R.Goyder credited their involvement as powering the success of footy...".
AFL Commission Chairman R. Goyder said "The desire of women & girls to be part of our game at every level drives our growth".
"586,422 women & girls playing the game".
(The AFL's 2019 figure of 586,422 is rubbery. As with all Aust. sporting organisations official regd. nos., less than half of these are in the only truly relevant nos.:club & school competition regd. nos.)
Glebe (Sydney inner WS) JFC president S. Tracy said "Girls' teams & girls' footy have exploded and we have seen such fantastic growth. But the girls have nowhere to get changed...".
www.theaustralian.com.au
(Behind paywall- can anyone open?)
2. Whilst this link below refers to GR female AF on the far north coast only of NSW, where "female footy continues to boom", I have decided to include it here- since it gives reasons for the female AF growth. The comments are probably applicable throughout all NSW & ACT (& Aust.).
Re North Coast female netball & soccer players reasons for playing AF, females "love the extra physical contact"; & for local basketballers, females "...love the extra space to move in".
aflnorthcoast.com.au
3. Canberra Star/ Daily Telegraph K. Christian 10.6.19
Christian said, referring to female ACT GR AF growth in 2018 "There has been a phenomenal 169% increase in the number of females...from 484 in 2016 to 1304 in 2018. The under 10 & under 12 girls were experiencing the biggest surge in numbers..".
(Following the time-honoured Club trajectory, this virtually guarantees, along with the recent even greater surge in Club Auskick nos. for 5 y.o-8 y.o males & females, that current ACT club male & female nos. will be approx. double in 2030).
"Where do we fit everybody...".
Female AF players "...love to bump, they love to tackle...".
The article is incorrect that female AF Club nos. are greater than male AF club raw nos. in the ACT- only the % increase is bigger.
4. Female private & govt. school (both primary & secondary) AF growth has been having significant growth in Sydney in the last few years.
Here is a snapshot.
Loreto College, a private girls' school with 1100 students in Normanhurst, Sydney's upper North Shore, has introduced competitionl seasonal AF for its senior girls on 15.2.20.
This link has a video of the senior girls' first training session on 11.11.19!; & photos of the 4 smiling teams on 15.2.20.
twitter.com
(go to tweets dated 15.2.20 & 11.11.19)
Strong female growth is contributing to the increases in NSW & the ACT (& all other states of Aust.).
The Australian J. Stensholt 19.2.20
Stensholt said "Women & girls are putting on the boots in such numbers that...R.Goyder credited their involvement as powering the success of footy...".
AFL Commission Chairman R. Goyder said "The desire of women & girls to be part of our game at every level drives our growth".
"586,422 women & girls playing the game".
(The AFL's 2019 figure of 586,422 is rubbery. As with all Aust. sporting organisations official regd. nos., less than half of these are in the only truly relevant nos.:club & school competition regd. nos.)
Glebe (Sydney inner WS) JFC president S. Tracy said "Girls' teams & girls' footy have exploded and we have seen such fantastic growth. But the girls have nowhere to get changed...".
NoCookies | The Australian
2. Whilst this link below refers to GR female AF on the far north coast only of NSW, where "female footy continues to boom", I have decided to include it here- since it gives reasons for the female AF growth. The comments are probably applicable throughout all NSW & ACT (& Aust.).
Re North Coast female netball & soccer players reasons for playing AF, females "love the extra physical contact"; & for local basketballers, females "...love the extra space to move in".
Female footy continues to boom! - AFL North Coast
The 2020 AFLW competition is two rounds old and has already captured the imagination of women and girls across the North Coast. Being able to see top line Women’s footy on free to air TV is driving interest amongst females…Read more ›
aflnorthcoast.com.au
3. Canberra Star/ Daily Telegraph K. Christian 10.6.19
Christian said, referring to female ACT GR AF growth in 2018 "There has been a phenomenal 169% increase in the number of females...from 484 in 2016 to 1304 in 2018. The under 10 & under 12 girls were experiencing the biggest surge in numbers..".
(Following the time-honoured Club trajectory, this virtually guarantees, along with the recent even greater surge in Club Auskick nos. for 5 y.o-8 y.o males & females, that current ACT club male & female nos. will be approx. double in 2030).
"Where do we fit everybody...".
Female AF players "...love to bump, they love to tackle...".
The article is incorrect that female AF Club nos. are greater than male AF club raw nos. in the ACT- only the % increase is bigger.
4. Female private & govt. school (both primary & secondary) AF growth has been having significant growth in Sydney in the last few years.
Here is a snapshot.
Loreto College, a private girls' school with 1100 students in Normanhurst, Sydney's upper North Shore, has introduced competitionl seasonal AF for its senior girls on 15.2.20.
This link has a video of the senior girls' first training session on 11.11.19!; & photos of the 4 smiling teams on 15.2.20.
LON Sport (@loretonhsport) | Twitter
The latest Tweets from LON Sport (@loretonhsport). Sports Department at Loreto Normanhurst. Normanhurst, Sydney
twitter.com
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We wont be around in 30 years to see it
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Ideally the league gets up to 23 teams so that we can play a 22 round season and alternate home and away each year. I don't think we need to double up the derbies, playing them once a year just makes them more special to win because you have to wait a whole year for revenge (like the old state of origin). Plus if we end up with 3 teams in each state then each club still has 2 derby games anyway.
With 5 new teams I imagine it would be 1 in each of wa, sa and nsw, plus Tassie and one of qld or nt
With 5 new teams I imagine it would be 1 in each of wa, sa and nsw, plus Tassie and one of qld or nt
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Why not? I won't be dying anytime soon.We wont be around in 30 years to see it
14 if the 'more teams, more, more' nutters who dont give a toss over the standard of the game get their way !!
Do the Yanks keep adding teams in grid iron, Gil seems keen to follow them.
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If Australian Football truly wins the north and become the first choice sport in Qld and NSW there would be a huge increase in the talent pool.
On a side note. The standard of the game or as i prefer to say the standard of the bad teams, has dropped off significantly, as bad clubs are so much younger than they ever were. When you see clubs playing 7 teenagers or 10 guys under 22 you realise why the bad teams have no chance and the "State of the Game" gets called into question. They're playing glorified colts sides. Raise the draft age and it will raise the standard.
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