Queensland now an AFL State

[Highway1]

Agree and cant we just be happy it has a good presence.

well said my friend

 

[Highway1]

After living there for 22 years up until 2004 and visiting a number of times each year since. The sports news is still predominantly filled with stories about Thugby League apes.

But i do agree with another poster, that AFL could be the dominant sport in about 20-30 years, when a generation that has grown-up without only hearing about Thugby League is old enough to choose what sport they follow. Only then will things start to change.

yep a generation that is outbred by Victorians

 

[brjafi]

when north queensland has a team and i get to go to games every second weekend, thats when qld will be an AFL state

 

[damochandler]

SoO is dead mate. No-one cares about it in NSW and QLD.

what drugs are you on mate. state of origin is the most important thing to league and the way the fans follow it here in brisbane and sydney shows that. state of origin is alive and kicking

 

[damochandler]

when north queensland has a team and i get to go to games every second weekend, thats when qld will be an AFL state

the nrl will have another team up there before the afl even think about it

 

[B_GLassi]

yeah where are these new teams going to be placed?
certainly not North QLD (even with cairns, it still would be to difficult)
Certainly not western brisbane (because there is no such thing as western brisbane and ipswich has little to do with AFL)
Certainly not Logan (you know there is a brisbane lions social club located at logan)
certainly not Central QLD (rugby league would be too strong by then)
cenrtainly not sunshine coast (its one decentralised area man)

Err I was talking about the 4th NRL team or a Second Brisbane NRL team. It was in respose to a guy who said AFL will take over in 10 years.

 

[Highway1]

Err I was talking about the 4th NRL team or a Second Brisbane NRL team. It was in respose to a guy who said AFL will take over in 10 years.

sorry my mistake, I must of misread you post.
tell the guy that this is the situation AFL is facing in Queensland

 

[full on]

no thanks, we'll stick to whats cool

You're loss mate, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. One of the few people in Brisbane missing the mighty Lions boat

 

[full on]

you sure, have you been to Queensland during state of origin, because I have. and from the looks of it, they take state of origin very seriously. they are businesses which have a maroon themed day. There were uni students wearing state of origin jerseys, state origin made it to the front page news of the courier mail, it was headline news in Queensland as well. Don't you dare underestimate the Passion we have for smashing up NSW.

I live in Brisbane, but unfortunately i missed their Origin becuase i was watching paint dry. And i repeat most people only watch it to stay in the in crowd. In the next 10 years it will be Aussie rules.

 

[A Living God]

just like GC Bulletin is with GC17

When there is a rivalry, the AFL should make sure its friendly one, if it isn't then the AFL has made a big mistake. the relationship between the Lions and GC17 should be a brotherly one just the NRL teams in Queensland are.

thats if the gabba increases its capacity towards 50000

yeah its still true with the younger generation.

yeah where are these new teams going to be placed?
certainly not North QLD (even with cairns, it still would be to difficult)
Certainly not western brisbane (because there is no such thing as western brisbane and ipswich has little to do with AFL)
Certainly not Logan (you know there is a brisbane lions social club located at logan)
certainly not Central QLD (rugby league would be too strong by then)
cenrtainly not sunshine coast (its one decentralised area man)

spot on

AFL has been alive in Queensland for 150 years, and even then most QLDers still choose Rugby league as their most preferred sport. Thanks to the AFL commission, they've wiped out the first 130 years of QLD AFL

12 consecutive posts by one user, is that some sort of record?

 

[full on]

Scared RL fan boy???? In 10 years time the Bronco's will be playing 2nd fiddle to the mighty Lions and the Gazza's will be smashing the Titans

 

[damochandler]

Scared RL fan boy???? In 10 years time the Bronco's will be playing 2nd fiddle to the mighty Lions and the Gazza's will be smashing the Titans

who are the gazza's?

 

[full on]

who are the gazza's?

The new GC team

 

[Highway1]

I live in Brisbane, but unfortunately i missed their Origin becuase i was watching paint dry. And i repeat most people only watch it to stay in the in crowd. In the next 10 years it will be Aussie rules.

Maybe if you stopped watching paint dry and got out of home, to see what going around Brisbane, you then wouldn't need to type something as ridiculous as that.

 

[Highway1]

You're loss mate, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. One of the few people in Brisbane missing the mighty Lions boat

That's ok I'm comfortable with that
I'd rather go to lang park with 50,000 of my fellow friends from rugby league and watch the Broncos home grown players smash the crap out of the opposition, than watch the Lions play with a team mostly comprised of non Queenslanders

 

[Highway1]

Scared RL fan boy???? In 10 years time the Bronco's will be playing 2nd fiddle to the mighty Lions and the Gazza's will be smashing the Titans

not likely, unless AFL Queensland does some radical changes
like stating up an actual state league and encouraging clubs to nurture (not drafting) the juniors up to the big time. These stuff is what rugby league does really well at.

 

[full on]

That's ok I'm comfortable with that
I'd rather go to lang park with 50,000 of my fellow friends from rugby league and watch the Broncos home grown players smash the crap out of the opposition, than watch the Lions play with a team mostly comprised of non Queenslanders

Mate Auskick Numbers are going through the roof in Brisbane, it's only a matter of time when these kids starting flooding through to the big time. Then we'll see who is laughing.

 

[cos789]

Scared RL fan boy????

Seems that way . Why else would he post .

I'll just call him King Kanute .

.

 

[mediumsizered]

That's ok I'm comfortable with that
I'd rather go to lang park with 50,000 of my fellow friends from rugby league and watch the Broncos home grown players smash the crap out of the opposition, than watch the Lions play with a team mostly comprised of non Queenslanders

The sheep mentality is alive & well in Qld. People taking an interest in rugby league around State of Origin time, so as not to feel left out. A bit like those people who become experts on all things horse racing around Spring Racing Carnival time. A good example being the Kiwi lass at my work who watches the State of Origin matches because her partner knows someone who knew Billy Slater when he was growing up in North Qld. The rest of the rugby league season she, & her partner, have no interest.

 

[Highway1]

The sheep mentality is alive & well in Qld. People taking an interest in rugby league around State of Origin time, so as not to feel left out. A bit like those people who become experts on all things horse racing around Spring Racing Carnival time. A good example being the Kiwi lass at my work who watches the State of Origin matches because her partner knows someone who knew Billy Slater when he was growing up in North Qld. The rest of the rugby league season she, & her partner, have no interest.

Its not sheep mentality, its called state pride, jesus christ. So the same thing can be said when the Lions won 3 straight flags (as you call it), were the Brisbanites celebrathing the success just so they didn't feel left out?.
The Brisbane Council area has a million people, of course there will be people (a minority) with no interest in Rugby League or indeed Aussie Rules.

 

[Highway1]

Mate Auskick Numbers are going through the roof in Brisbane, it's only a matter of time when these kids starting flooding through to the big time. Then we'll see who is laughing.

yeah soccer participation number are also going through the roof, but it didn't guarantee them mainstream success did it.

I'll still be laughing, because the lions have admitted that they have only converted 642 juniors form a total of 29,260 Auskick participants in 2009

source: http://www.lions.com.au/portals/0/lions/newsletters/m091113.html

League are as strong as ever. from a suburb of corinda, there is at least 4 rugby league clubs within a 5km radius, with AFL there is only one. Funnily enough I went to a school which used to be an AFL school of excellence, didn't guarantee mainstream popularity though, kids still played touch footy on the oval and there was no sherrin in site.

 

[Highway1]

Scared RL fan boy???? In 10 years time the Bronco's will be playing 2nd fiddle to the mighty Lions and the Gazza's will be smashing the Titans

Unless Aussie rules football provides a sporting story and culture that rugby league and union has provided to Queensland for the last 100 years, next to zero chance.

 

[fabulousphil]

yeah soccer participation number are also going through the roof, but it didn't guarantee them mainstream success did it.

I'll still be laughing, because the lions have admitted that they have only converted 642 juniors form a total of 29,260 Auskick participants in 2009

source: http://www.lions.com.au/portals/0/lions/newsletters/m091113.html

League are as strong as ever. from a suburb of corinda, there is at least 4 rugby league clubs within a 5km radius, with AFL there is only one. Funnily enough I went to a school which used to be an AFL school of excellence, didn't guarantee mainstream popularity though, kids still played touch footy on the oval and there was no sherrin in site.

Do you actually understand that the 642 juniors became members of the Brisbane lions, the other 29,000 or whatever were still playing footy.

Can you follow anything, how many juniors play in RL comps and how many are members of the Broncos.

Have you been gang tackled one to many times or something.

Mate .. good luck to rugby league , move on.

 

[jakos]

yeah soccer participation number are also going through the roof, but it didn't guarantee them mainstream success did it.

I'll still be laughing, because the lions have admitted that they have only converted 642 juniors form a total of 29,260 Auskick participants in 2009

source: http://www.lions.com.au/portals/0/lions/newsletters/m091113.html

That's paid up junior members, at $100-130 each per season. So the Lions made $60,000 from junior members and are looking to grow that.

In actual fact, 642 members that's not far off the total membership numbers that some NRL clubs were posting over recent years...

 

[Catlike]

It's no surprise, we have the better game whether you are a player or spectator.