AFL looks to play in India?!

[finders]

"Olympic Games" isn't a sport, it's a meet. Rugby Union has Super 14, Guinness Premiership, Top 14, and others.

But only a few countries play RU at the elite level. Similar to the other pommie game cricket.

Even in Australia its only two States that provide players to the so called "national team"
RL is even more pathetic internationally.

 

[The Frederick]

But only a few countries play RU at the elite level. Similar to the other pommie game cricket.

Even in Australia its only two States that provide players to the so called "national team"
RL is even more pathetic internationally.

RU still blows AFL out of the water internationally.

 

[Rooster]

The Frederick - thanks for your wisdom... hope there's still a little left.

250 years ago... people laughed at soccer - since nobody was ever going to knock off "cane hoop being banged with a stick" as the greatest sport on the planet....

guess what - soccer is slightly less boring than banging the cane hoop...
... and where are we today ???

Footy is a much much better product - so I have no doubt that it will one day get the global recognition that it deserves.


On a different topic ??? do you know what makes somebody or something successful ???

 

[The Frederick]

The Frederick - thanks for your wisdom... hope there's still a little left.

250 years ago... people laughed at soccer - since nobody was ever going to knock off "cane hoop being banged with a stick" as the greatest sport on the planet....

guess what - soccer is slightly less boring than banging the cane hoop...
... and where are we today ???

250 years ago, none of the codes of football existed. Each town/school/whatever played it's own game.

Footy is a much much better product - so I have no doubt that it will one day get the global recognition that it deserves.

No. It's not. And no. It won't. I watched the Carlton-Essendon game today, and it seriously bored me to tears. When the FA Cup match started, I was never more thrilled to see Pompey in my life.

 

[theworldgame008]

http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/afl-looking-to-play-in-india/2008/03/29/1206207499802.html

An interesting development on the international theme, and a rather leftfield route into wider Sydney...

why not play a game in Lebanon too, or maybe even the moon...

 

[The Frederick]

why not play a game in Lebanon too, or maybe even the moon...

We can take AFL to new places that the rest of the world ignores! Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Somalia, Greenland, Svalbard... Think of the possibilities!

 

[theworldgame008]

We can take AFL to new places that the rest of the world ignores! Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Somalia, Greenland, Svalbard... Think of the possibilities!

you forgot the falkland islands

 

[VikingSven]

Be careful what you wish for.

Iraq - Great idea for community development for the Australian armed forces currently stationed there, ditto for East Timor and the Pacific (e.g. Solomon Islands) wherever the armed forces are stationed.

Iran - Tough but not impossible. Footy has been running for a couple of years in the Swat Valley in northern Pakistan - in between Punjab and Afghanistan.

Lebanon - there was a fledgling league there a number of years ago. It seems to have faded but there is no reason why it can't start up again with time.

Greenland - a couple of guys from Greenland have played in the Danish AFL over the years. Maybe one day they will go home, bring the sport with them and start something.

Svalbard - I met an Aussie Rules fan there (working for the BBC) on my last trip. With a small population of about 3000 and a summer of 2 months, it would be hard to see any non-winter sport take really hold there, and if it does it would be aligned to Norway.

Falklands (or any low populated, isolated islands) - difficult for any sport.

North Korea - a new sport for their million man army?

Somalia and the rest of Africa - Soccer is not everyones No. 1 sport and there are opportunities for an high action sport like Aussie Rules.

The Vatican? I heard the Pope was a Saints supporter. Rumour has it that the Melbourne FC were shown the door during their last post-season visit - "casting out demons" (boom-boom)

How about far northern Iceland, way above the arctic circle?

 

[The Frederick]

Be careful what you wish for.

Iraq - Great idea for community development for the Australian armed forces currently stationed there, ditto for East Timor and the Pacific (e.g. Solomon Islands) wherever the armed forces are stationed.

Iran - Tough but not impossible. Footy has been running for a couple of years in the Swat Valley in northern Pakistan - in between Punjab and Afghanistan.

Lebanon - there was a fledgling league there a number of years ago. It seems to have faded but there is no reason why it can't start up again with time.

Greenland - a couple of guys from Greenland have played in the Danish AFL over the years. Maybe one day they will go home, bring the sport with them and start something.

Svalbard - I met an Aussie Rules fan there (working for the BBC) on my last trip. With a small population of about 3000 and a summer of 2 months, it would be hard to see any non-winter sport take really hold there, and if it does it would be aligned to Norway.

Falklands (or any low populated, isolated islands) - difficult for any sport.

North Korea - a new sport for their million man army?

Somalia and the rest of Africa - Soccer is not everyones No. 1 sport and there are opportunities for an high action sport like Aussie Rules.

The Vatican? I heard the Pope was a Saints supporter. Rumour has it that the Melbourne FC were shown the door during their last post-season visit - "casting out demons" (boom-boom)

How about far northern Iceland, way above the arctic circle?

... Are you for real?

Also, the Vatican owns a assoc. football team, AC Ancona.

 

[NMFCMUFC]

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Do it everyone, everyone on the melbournevictory.net/forum did and its better for it.

 

[cos789]

Any news on that Somalian kid that Essendon was mentoring ,
that went to the NT ?

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[golazo]

Frederick, please stop using the internet.

 

[Peter P]

The Age story was not coming out of thin air.

see http://www.afl.com.au/News/NewsArticle/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsId=60561

and http://www.afl.com.au/News/NewsArticle/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsId=56311

There is a toehold in India and a lot of enthusiasm in the new footy organisation there it would seem. It also appears to be coming from the Indians, not AD going over and trying to sell the game on the streets of Mumbai.

Australian Football is not professional or semi-pro anywhere but Oz. It may be 1, 2 or 3 decades before it is. But every year for the past 15 there have been more players, teams, leagues and junior clinics outside Oz than the year before. On that trajectory the day will come when Australian Football will have an international dimension - probably akin to field hockey, baseball or maybe rugby union or less likely but possibly even cricket - sometime before end of this century. No-one seems to be saying it already is or will be in the immediate future

So what is the angst about - Frederick and WorldGame008?

 

[Southerntakeover]

The last thing we need are more sporting ties to India.