Irish Team In The AFL

[Giuseepe]

if you don't show me why my idea is impossible in the fairly distant future maybe I'll start threads that talk about ideas that are impossibe for real. My idea is a serious one, it is not a joke, and I am not on drugs.

 

[purplesoul]

Sheeds would be proud of your lateral thinking. But think bigger. In the distant future AFL will be the true global game, with each continent having it's own league or conference, with the winners going on to play each other for world dominance. Ahh, the future.

 

[AD_03]

Originally posted by Giuseepe
Give me a valid reason why this is impossible even in the fairly distant future only then can this thread be justly called stupid and pointless.

Read the posts. Alot of people already have.

 

[taff wa]

Originally posted by Giuseepe
Give me a valid reason why this is impossible even in the fairly distant future only then can this thread be justly called stupid and pointless.

An example could be Grid Iron, and do they have their teams go play overseas. And those clubs/league in the US have multi millions more than the AFL will ever have.

 

[tt_eaglesfan]

but its AFL Australian football League not IFL international footy league

 

[mantis]

Originally posted by Giuseepe
if you don't show me why my idea is impossible in the fairly distant future maybe I'll start threads that talk about ideas that are impossibe for real. My idea is a serious one, it is not a joke, and I am not on drugs.

If that's the case then you have real problems, I was sure this was a p***take.

It is impossible because the cost of the airfares would be enormous & the AFL couldn't afford it, plus it will be a long, long, long, long, long, long, time before they have planes that can fly from Australia to Ireland in two hours, now go away & stop being silly.

 

[Giuseepe]

look I said in the distant future, how expensive are airfares from Australia to Ireland? an airline company could sponsor them

 

[taff wa]

If thats where u think AFL is heading, why dont you ring up Andrew Demetriou with this suggestion and let us know his reaction please.

 

[Giuseepe]

Originally posted by taff wa
If thats where u think AFL is heading, why dont you ring up Andrew Demetriou with this suggestion and let us know his reaction please.

Ok maybe I will do that.

 

[Gary Shadforth]

Originally posted by Giuseepe
Ok maybe I will do that.

Dont waste his or your time!

 

[Giuseepe]

Originally posted by Gary Shadforth
Dont waste his or your time!

How would this waist time?

 

[taff wa]

OMG, think about it.

 

[AD_03]

Originally posted by Giuseepe
How would this waist time?

 

[Thunderer]

I see where you're getting at mate. But the only true way to international development is to make strong domestic Footy leagues. Irealand already has a league of its own, and it'll probably take decades before the standard can be up to par with the state leagues in Australia.

Now lets enter areas of imagination and hypothetical consideration. Suppose, the AFL was strong enough and had the financial swinging power of the American NFL, creating a single proffessional Irish team to join the AFL is ludicrous and insane - even if the new supersonic passenger planes are released as we speak. A more viable option would be to help create a Pan-European League, since we have several strong Footy Leagues in Europe as in Denmark, UK, Ireland and a gradually developing German league. Suppose that the AFL helps set up a couple of teams from each dwindling league and make a professional European league. The travel costs would not be a great issue and neither would be the time to take to travel. Sponsorship could come from branches of Australian companies in the respective countries and the AFL would award schorlarships to several players from each country to train with an AFL team in Australia.

..... reads what he has read and concludes... yeah that's the basis of my THEORY or HYPOTHESIS, and yes the stuff I am smoking is especially strong today Nowhere can I see an overseas team competing in the AFL, apart from New Zealand.

 

[Giuseepe]

Originally posted by Thunderer
I see where you're getting at mate. But the only true way to international development is to make strong domestic Footy leagues. Irealand already has a league of its own, and it'll probably take decades before the standard can be up to par with the state leagues in Australia.

Now lets enter areas of imagination and hypothetical consideration. Suppose, the AFL was strong enough and had the financial swinging power of the American NFL, creating a single proffessional Irish team to join the AFL is ludicrous and insane - even if the new supersonic passenger planes are released as we speak. A more viable option would be to help create a Pan-European League, since we have several strong Footy Leagues in Europe as in Denmark, UK, Ireland and a gradually developing German league. Suppose that the AFL helps set up a couple of teams from each dwindling league and make a professional European league. The travel costs would not be a great issue and neither would be the time to take to travel. Sponsorship could come from branches of Australian companies in the respective countries and the AFL would award schorlarships to several players from each country to train with an AFL team in Australia.

..... reads what he has read and concludes... yeah that's the basis of my THEORY or HYPOTHESIS, and yes the stuff I am smoking is especially strong today Nowhere can I see an overseas team competing in the AFL, apart from New Zealand.

It is about time someone came up with an alternative suggestion instead of just paying me out. Good idea!

 

[westernnugget]

i reckon a irish team in melbourne would be a great idea

well done guiseppi, i like ur courage, i have done many stupid threads myself

 

[westernnugget]

sorry big fella

but us people post stupid things have to stick together

 

[Fire]

what's wrong with my thread and my posts. My idea would be interesting if it could work and what is it about travelling long distances that where's people out? I believe It could work in the fairly distant future.

Not having a go at you here, but two points about this.

1: It is 20 minutes,not 2 hours.
2: The technology you are talking about is (presumidly) air-to-space technology that not only hanst ben invented yet, but not confirmed physically possible. (although it will eventually like everything else in history).

Unless of course your talking about SCRAM jet engines, which I dont know much about except that they dont actually work.

So no, not the near distaint future. Far distaint yes, but there are greater issues in between.

 

[Giuseepe]

I was talking about SCRAM jets. If SCRAM jets could work than maybe my idea could be possible.

 

[westernnugget]

Originally posted by bigsjsmith
Yeah - I used to post stupid threads when I started... only because I didn't know the type of stuff people post.

Now I only post stats threads or a news thread - don't generally ask questions like there should be an AFL team in Antartica.

Hang in Giuseepe, as time goes by you shall grow and grow!

Thats inspires me mate,

bigsjsmith is a peoples person

 

[Mark Viduka]

Originally posted by Giuseepe
The travelling time could be cut down with new jets that could travel from Australia to Ireland in about two hours. This technology is available to make planes that could go that fast. It wouldn't be that big a deal for Australian teams as they would probably only play on game there each year.

ROFL Lets work this one out....

The distance from Melbourne to Dublin is exactly 17,223 km as the crow flies. That means for the plane to arrive in Dublin the plane would be needing to go at the speed of 8,611kp/h..... in fact more.. because it takes a while to get to cruising speed....

Now..... that means it would need to travel at Mach 5 which is 8,685 km/h The Concorde which I believe is no longer in use.... was able to get to Mach 2... about twice the speed of sound.. which is approx 2,400kp/h The fastest known aircraft to man is the SR-71 which can do 3,300kp/h but that only seats 1 or 2 people at a time.... so it would need a few trips back and forth to transport the whole team and some waterboys... and even then it would still take 6 hours to get there.

Apparantly the USA are working on a secret reconnaisance vehicle called "Aurora" which uses either scramjets or pulse-detonation wave engines.... and apparantly can do 5,435 km/h to 8,685 km/h in a pinch... which means you would get there in just over 2 hours.... but we have 2 problems here... nobody even knows if it really exists... The SR-71 was in production for 40 years before the rest of world found out that the US even had a plane that could go that fast..... planes were still ferrying people across the country in Prop engine aircraft that were falling out of the sky while the US had a jet powered plane that could travel faster than anyone thought possible.

So basically I wouldnt be mortgaging your house on the fact we will have a passenger aircraft that seats 300, that can fly at 5 times the speed of sound and get us to Ireland in under 2 hours... not for at least 50 years

 

[Fire]

With the retirement of concords the speed of aircrafts are actually going backwards arent they?

(Oh, and I heard somewhere that the SCRAM jt engine can do mach 5. Or could if it worked.)

 

[Fire]

In any case, The order should be Technology, Irish side. not the other way around.

 

[Thunderer]

Originally posted by Mark Viduka
The fastest known aircraft to man is the SR-71 which can do 3,300kp/h but that only seats 1 or 2 people at a time.... so it would need a few trips back and forth to transport the whole team and some waterboys... and even then it would still take 6 hours to get there.

I know. Each team should buy a fleet of 15 to 30 SR-71's, and the players should be given pilot training. That could easily solve all our transport problems.

 

[Crow-mosone]

Originally posted by Giuseepe
maybe away teams may not have much chance of winning but you could make it easier with two australian teams going over to play game so that it would be on equal terms and one of the teams could stay a week and have a reasonable chance of beating the irish the next week.

just a stupid idea, plain and simple.
very dumb idea.

Aside from the practical issues, which are insurmountable - they don't even play Aussie Rules;

what's in it for them? why would they care.