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Time for Australia to get behind the 2022 world cup
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What a goose that journo is. He's completely missed the press release announcing the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the government and all the football codes including the AFL. If that isn't supporting the bid I don't know what is.
As for the rosy predictions, pass me the salt.
As for the rosy predictions, pass me the salt.
what a load of rubbish, we've been through all those false arguments a hundred times and more.
I'm not getting behind it. Simple as that.
I'm not getting behind it. Simple as that.
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I'm sure the soccer fans will come on and remind us that the herald sun is completely biased and beholden to the AFL, so doesn't write anything worthy of notice.
Soccer writers like this jerk, Craig Foster and Michael Cockerill seem to have been given licence to fabricate whatever they like, and no-one calls them on it.
Where is the evidence that the AFL leads, let alone contributes to "anti World cup propaganda". The AFL has publicly supported the bid and has made our biggest stadium available when they had no legal obligation to do so. This guy can't point to a single piece of "propaganda', but he makes the claim anyway. If that's not "anti AFL propaganda, what is?
The anti- AFL line has come from many people in soccer from the FFA down. They are peddlers of hate who are simply trying to build hostilty against our game as a means to promote their own. What a disgusting culture. That they would stoop to this shows how little faith they have that their game can succeed here on its own merits.
Where is the evidence that the AFL leads, let alone contributes to "anti World cup propaganda". The AFL has publicly supported the bid and has made our biggest stadium available when they had no legal obligation to do so. This guy can't point to a single piece of "propaganda', but he makes the claim anyway. If that's not "anti AFL propaganda, what is?
The anti- AFL line has come from many people in soccer from the FFA down. They are peddlers of hate who are simply trying to build hostilty against our game as a means to promote their own. What a disgusting culture. That they would stoop to this shows how little faith they have that their game can succeed here on its own merits.
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great story mate
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i read the article and i agree 100% with what he has written.
Evidence?
Or don't you bother with that either.
AFL is threading a fine line between trying it's best to jeopardise the WC bid, but not being obvious about it to the point where the public's perception will turn against them, if that hasn't happened already.
Now, let me hear you experts deny that AFL is against the WC bid, as you furiously type away in a forum named "Australian Football vs Association Football: the gloves are off". Can anyone see the irony of doing that?
Now, let me hear you experts deny that AFL is against the WC bid, as you furiously type away in a forum named "Australian Football vs Association Football: the gloves are off". Can anyone see the irony of doing that?
You've hit the nail on the head there..."publicly" they've supported the bid, but those in the know know full well where these anti-WC bid stories are eventuating.
I'll let you figure that one out for yourself.
Ooooh - let me have first guess.
You suspect that all opposition to the bid, or negative questions asked about it originate from AFL headquarters.
So that's it, is it? Idle speculation passes for evidence these days.
Tell us, who are "those in the know'? C Foster and F Lowy, perhaps?
Now would be a realy good time to put up or shut up.
I like this one as an example of AFL's attitude:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/ron barassi soccer photo/thechulloran/barassi_ohtards.jpg
Some ex player, I presume, ripping into a soccer ball underlined by a lie about Soccer wanting to stop 'ENTIRE SEASON" of AFL to stage the World Cup.
Now, thats what you call helping the bid...
http://media.photobucket.com/image/ron barassi soccer photo/thechulloran/barassi_ohtards.jpg
Some ex player, I presume, ripping into a soccer ball underlined by a lie about Soccer wanting to stop 'ENTIRE SEASON" of AFL to stage the World Cup.
Now, thats what you call helping the bid...
The bottom line is that, within the confines of the original agreement that the AFL would retain access to Docklands and would be locked out of the MCG for no more than 10 weeks, that the AFL gave the FFA every stadium they wanted for their World Cup bid.
Is that not support enough?
Is that not support enough?
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Lol!
You forgot to mention few other fine points of the deal, such as the 'substantial' compensation AFL will be asking for in return for their kindness. Or the fact some of the stadiums will be built or redeveloped to be oval or be in locations which benefits AFL and not soccer or the WC. But thats not the point.
If you follow the thread carefully you will notice there are people claiming that AFL has somehow supported the bid and never engaged in any 'propaganda", which i kindly prove incorrect with my link.
If you follow the thread carefully you will notice there are people claiming that AFL has somehow supported the bid and never engaged in any 'propaganda", which i kindly prove incorrect with my link.
Proof? You posted a link to a photo of Ron Barassi. He isn't employed by the AFL to the best of my knowledge, he was expressing his own personal view.
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This is by far the best and most accurate article to be published recently
It puts things into perspective, and has an independant group stating the figures.
The most applicable line in the article to most on this forum :
"If the AFL doesn't want to embrace the bid, then they should at least stop undermining it"
It puts things into perspective, and has an independant group stating the figures.
The most applicable line in the article to most on this forum :
"If the AFL doesn't want to embrace the bid, then they should at least stop undermining it"
I'm surprised that absolutely anyone would give rapturous applause to a piece that has obviously come out of a PR firm.
The economic argument was lost a long time ago, what's more, we know zero private funding will go towards hosting the WC, which pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the economics of it.
But I found this line interesting:
Shock horror - FFA are spending a whopping $11.37m of taxpayer-funded money on the bid.
Isn't the number actually $50 mill? (and rising)
The economic argument was lost a long time ago, what's more, we know zero private funding will go towards hosting the WC, which pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the economics of it.
But I found this line interesting:
Shock horror - FFA are spending a whopping $11.37m of taxpayer-funded money on the bid.
Isn't the number actually $50 mill? (and rising)
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Another Big Footy Apprentice signing up July 2010.
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Dont talk about wasting taxpayers money like that. When has the AFL really dipped into their own pockets lately? Their a 'billion dollar business' (how they got a billion really baffles me considering their limited output) yet they always nag state governments to build them new stadiums or to update teams training facilities.
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