Opinion Non-Crows AFL 6: This Is Getting Cruel

[FR0GGY]

If the afl did it for publicity it’s worked, no such thing as bad publicity remember.

 

[jackster83]

I can see Soccer passing Cricket though ....hopeless organisation is the ACA

Cricket has no excuse, particularly with the large amount of migration here from cricket loving parts of the world (England, India, Sri Lanka, NZ, etc).

Tennis feels like it should be bigger in this country as well.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

Cricket has no excuse, particularly with the large amount of migration here from cricket loving parts of the world (England, India, Sri Lanka, NZ, etc).

Tennis feels like it should be bigger in this country as well.

Tennis was huge ..... any weekend, whichever park you went to, there were half a dozen Tennis Courts

Tennis was level, if not bigger than Cricket .....but like CA, Tennis Australia became lazy, arrogant, and now believe one tournament a year keeps the sport relevant

Park tennis courts ....what are they now

 

[cleanhands]

Tennis was huge ..... any weekend, whichever park you went to, there were half a dozen Tennis Courts

Tennis was level, if not bigger than Cricket .....but like CA, Tennis Australia became lazy, arrogant, and now believe one tournament a year keeps the sport relevant

Park tennis courts ....what are they now

Privately used by nimby‘s in Nth Adelaide

 

[jackster83]

Tennis was huge ..... any weekend, whichever park you went to, there were half a dozen Tennis Courts

Tennis was level, if not bigger than Cricket .....but like CA, Tennis Australia became lazy, arrogant, and now believe one tournament a year keeps the sport relevant

Park tennis courts ....what are they now

You only have to look at the new housing developments to see part of the issue.

Maximum amount of houses crammed in, with **** all recreation facilities. If you're lucky you get a combined netball/tennis/basketball court, otherwise the developers get away with the school oval counting as the rec space.

 

[Golumless]

I can see Soccer passing Cricket though ....hopeless organisation is the ACA

You are yet to meet Football Australia, or even FIFA.

When it comes to sports governance, no matter the sport, they're all equally useless.

 

[Wazzy36]

Cricket has no excuse, particularly with the large amount of migration here from cricket loving parts of the world (England, India, Sri Lanka, NZ, etc).

Tennis feels like it should be bigger in this country as well.

Crickets excuse is that it’s a shit boring game to watch.

 

[displacedaussie]

Cricket has no excuse, particularly with the large amount of migration here from cricket loving parts of the world (England, India, Sri Lanka, NZ, etc).

The England vs India T20 world cup match was the loudest I'd ever heard Adelaide oval. Second best "experience" I've had from a crowd perspective at the ground - after the Geelong game back in 2017...

 

[brucetiki]

Tennis was huge ..... any weekend, whichever park you went to, there were half a dozen Tennis Courts

Tennis was level, if not bigger than Cricket .....but like CA, Tennis Australia became lazy, arrogant, and now believe one tournament a year keeps the sport relevant

Park tennis courts ....what are they now

We made the Davis Cup final the other week, and it barely rated a mention (though how tennis has destroyed the Davis Cup in recent years is another story in itself).

 

[arrowman]

I guess this thread is the right place for this....

 

[Mutineer]

You only have to look at the new housing developments to see part of the issue.

Maximum amount of houses crammed in, with * all recreation facilities. If you're lucky you get a combined netball/tennis/basketball court, otherwise the developers get away with the school oval counting as the rec space.

Yep Ballarat is growing massively re housing, great big houses with virtually no backyards or front yards, and you can shake hands with your neighbours on the sides of the houses, not even room for the trusty hlls hoist. All with great big airconditioners and no doubt energy eating clothes dryers laid on. Their like bloody rabbit warrens and bugger all new sporting ovals or green spaces for the kids to kick a footy etc.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

You are yet to meet Football Australia, or even FIFA.

When it comes to sports governance, no matter the sport, they're all equally useless.

The number of complaints on radio, about the cost of junior soccer is ridiculous ......AFL has that to it's advantage, as I understand it

Part of the reason for Soccer's high, school participation is the precarious nature of legal action in schools, with kids getting hurt on playgrounds ......Soccer is seen as the safer option, particularly with those schools using synthetic turf

 

[Truck25]

i could be wrong but i was under the impression A-League moved to summer to line up with the European leagues' transfer windows and stuff to make player movement easier ?

Well that's stupid, The Baseball has an advantage of playing off season, they get players from the US to come out here from affiliated clubs to get game time. Pretty sure the Australian teams would have more chance of affiliating with European clubs and they send out their development players during the off season. Plus they wouldn't lose gun players midseason damaging their brand. Sounds like an excuse that they know they can't compete with AFL and NRL

 

[Ramify]

Nobody calls it gridiron. Ask any American if they are watching the gridiron game and they will not have any idea wtf you are on about.

And a UK based magazine calling itself Gridiron whilst covering the NFL doesn't mean anything.

Now can we get back to discussing the demise of Melbourne Rules Football.

Dude, it's effing Gridiron. That's literally the name of the sport and always has been. Ask any American over 20 y.o and they will tell you exactly this.

How old are you?

 

[Ramify]

The number of complaints on radio, about the cost of junior soccer is ridiculous ......AFL has that to it's advantage, as I understand it

Part of the reason for Soccer's high school participation is the precarious nature of legal action in schools, with kids getting hurt on playgrounds ......Soccer is seen as the safer option, particularly with those schools using synthetic turf

Been saying the same thing since I was a kid. I'd say the participation rate thing has a lot more to do with the logistics of facilitating a home game of Soccer vs Australian football. Its so much simpler and Schools have become so much lazier/cost concerned.

Soccer in this country is corrupt to the core. Makes Australian Rules look like the sport of .

 

[Ramify]

Been saying the same thing since I was a kid. I'd say the participation rate thing has a lot more to do with the logistics of facilitating a home game of Soccer vs Australian football. Its so much simpler and Schools have become so much lazier/cost concerned.

Soccer in this country is corrupt to the core. Makes Australian Rules look like the sport of .

Someone told me not too long ago, that A-League ref's get close to 2k per game. Can anyone confirm/deny these figures?

 

[Mostyn]

Dude, it's effing Gridiron. That's literally the name of the sport and always has been. Ask any American over 20 y.o and they will tell you exactly this.

How old are you?

 

[Ramify]

If I had a Reddit account, I'd suggest Simply Soccer-X 2.0.

 

[bayside_crow]

i could be wrong but i was under the impression A-League moved to summer to line up with the European leagues' transfer windows and stuff to make player movement easier ?

What you said, plus allows alignment of representative soccer windows, so tournaments, friendlies and qualifiers can draw players from all leagues for team selection.


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[Redline]

We made the Davis Cup final the other week, and it barely rated a mention (though how tennis has destroyed the Davis Cup in recent years is another story in itself).

As you say more to do with how the Davis Cup is run now a days. Tennis still has a lot of interest around the majors but it's been due to the popularity of players like Kyrgios and Barty.

 

[Sanders]

i could be wrong but i was under the impression A-League moved to summer to line up with the European leagues' transfer windows and stuff to make player movement easier ?

Easier for who? The European leagues don’t find it difficult, they’re the ones with all the money who take when and how they want

Players have release clauses in contracts so their pissy little club has to release them to bigger opportunities

The local clubs aligned for their benefit, no one else’s

 

[radiojake]

Easier for who? The European leagues don’t find it difficult, they’re the ones with all the money who take when and how they want

Players have release clauses in contracts so their pissy little club has to release them to bigger opportunities

The local clubs aligned for their benefit, no one else’s

I don't know the specifics, I just feel like I remember hearing/reading it around the time it happened

like I said, I could be wrong

 

[AFC979810]

Dude, it's effing Gridiron. That's literally the name of the sport and always has been. Ask any American over 20 y.o and they will tell you exactly this.

How old are you?

Old enough to know that nobody has or ever has called it Gridiron in America.

 

[moogerfooger]

Dude, it's effing Gridiron. That's literally the name of the sport and always has been. Ask any American over 20 y.o and they will tell you exactly this.

How old are you?

I've lived in the US over 20 years and I've hardly ever heard the term and even then nearly always in reference to the pitch, not the sport. People just call it football. You might hear an old commentator say something like "here's what's been happening out on the gridiron" but you never hear anyone say "hey, I'm going to watch some gridiron".

When you tell people here Australians call the sport gridiron, they usually laugh or if they're not really into NFL, they have no idea what you're talking about.

 

[jenny61_99]

Interesting topic FWIW my nine year old lad has zero interest in Aussie rules it's all soccer for him and for a lot of his mates.

My now 21 year old… played AFL from age 5-15, then played soccer in final two years at school (to our dismay) and became a soccer fanatic, (playing FIFA and even filming and commentating on them) and picked his international team. I’m very grateful to say, he’s equally as fanatical about his footy as he is his soccer. He is even taking a bunch of international grad students to AFL games, and encouraging them to pick a team to support next season.