"Can you smell the fear?", do the other football codes in Australia (AFL,NRL), genuinely fear football?

[BA81]

The story itself is fine, it was just a shit headline.

It was touching on Josh Rachele's time in the Melbourne City youth system and had been a Joey before ultimating going down the Aussie Rules path.

Only thing I’d ask Josh Rachele is his workout/fitness regimen, so that Jordy Bos can replicate it(esp. building up upper-body strength)

 

[JS96]

AFL rejoice and the Socceroos will be forgotten in a week.

 

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Rebel probably already had the Australian gear in an awkward spot after ordering surplus UEFA kits that didn't sell.

 

[Monoethnic Social Club]

AFL rejoice and the Socceroos will be forgotten in a week.

Sad but true. WC forgotten by Tuesday

 

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AI slops?

 

[BA81]

Sad but true. WC forgotten by Tuesday

And to add insult to injury, bc there’s just no fucken way they were being genuine w/this:

 

[SpiritOf06]

They're just leeches attaching themselves to whatever is popular. No-one is as shameless as the AFL.

AFL rejoice and the Socceroos will be forgotten in a week.

Aus Gov needs to do a Vichy France

Confiscate every stadium, clubhouse, uniform & bank account controlled by the AFL and give it to the FA. Also ban the AFL from using the word football for the next half century.

Most Aussies would be happy to see it happen I think, it'd give us enough money to build a Home of Football and attract a top coach.

 

[Hounddog]

The NRL may be about to get $5 billion for a broadcast rights deal.

If the A-League standard was high enough, it would get the same kind of money.

WC results will not necessarily result in broadcasters paying more for A-League broadcast rights.

Improve the standard of the A-League, and the game will become a powerhouse. That requires money, so it is a chicken and egg situation.

Winning starts in the boardroom.

 

[BA81]

Confiscate every stadium, clubhouse, uniform & bank account controlled by the AFL and give it to the FA. Also ban the AFL from using the word football for the next half century.

Most Aussies would be happy to see it happen I think, it'd give us enough money to build a Home of Football and attract a top coach.

Just hire computer-hackers to drain said bank-accounts and siphon it all into the FFA/APL’s coffers; not straightaway though as that’d be trackable. Putting it into 100 different Swiss/Bahamian shell-company accounts first for a period of 9 months to a year ought to do the trick

 

[Football us life]

Football's growth in Australia is about carving out a more significant share of the national "sporting diet." The success of the Matildas and the Socceroos demonstrates that the Australian public has an enormous appetite for the "round ball" game when it features on the global stage.

The sport’s future likely lies in leveraging its demographic strength as the most representative sport of contemporary, multicultural Australia to build better domestic pathways, improve the quality of the A-League, and modernise sports infrastructure to be more welcoming to rectangular football...

Ultimately, the goal had to be to ensure that the sport with the highest participation numbers stops being a "feeder" for other codes or overseas leagues and starts becoming an essential, self-sustaining part of the Australian cultural weekend.

 

[BA81]

Ultimately, the goal has to be to ensure that the sport with the highest participation numbers stops being a "feeder" for other codes or overseas leagues and starts becoming an essential, self-sustaining part of the Australian cultural weekend.

Stops being a feeder-league? Impossible, not to mention in no way mutually-exclusive w/being what you say in your last line.

But the only thing that is guaranteed to bring about both in synergy..is the introduction of pro/rel.

There is literally no other way

 

[Quicky]

They're just leeches attaching themselves to whatever is popular. No-one is as shameless as the AFL.


Aus Gov needs to do a Vichy France

Confiscate every stadium, clubhouse, uniform & bank account controlled by the AFL and give it to the FA. Also ban the AFL from using the word football for the next half century.

Most Aussies would be happy to see it happen I think, it'd give us enough money to build a Home of Football and attract a top coach.

Are you being facetious?

 

[Robbos]

Maybe in Melbourne, because AFL is the biggest sport in the world in Melbourne.
As I drove around Sydney on the weekend all the sporting grounds were filled with people young and old playing and watching football (Soccer for the people from Melbourne),:the people I talked too while sad of knockout of Socceroos, still discussed how good was Cape Verde and the French were favs for WC.
Thankfully in Sydney, the AFL was nowhere to be seen or heard.

 

[BA81]

Thankfully in Sydney, the AFL was nowhere to be seen or heard.

And that is what burns them(the AFL) up arguably moreso than the wider-world not giving a fvck.

In any case, this sums it up:

“They just absolutely cannot handle the fact that literally no one outside of 3 or 4 states in a single country gives a flying fuck about the sport. 1.4B people in China didn't give a rat’s arse, and even the Irish had to modify the hell out of it to make it worth even considering.

The fear is off the charts. Tiny fish in a big, big pond overall ”

 

[Quicky]

If football can lower fees at grass roots level and offer a sport where your kid isn't at risk of brain injury that may pretty pursuasive for parents.

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[BA81]

If football can lower fees at grassroots level and offer a sport where your kid isn't at constant risk of brain injury that may pretty pursuasive for parents.

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Had to modify your post in context of some people out there expressing similar concerns re. heading the ball in our game.

That said, thankfully the risk of ending up as a para/quadriplegic through severe injury in our game is virtually nonexistent compared to theirs.

 

[Monoethnic Social Club]

And that is what burns them(the AFL) up arguably moreso than the wider-world not giving a fvck.

In any case, this sums it up:

“They just absolutely cannot handle the fact that literally no one outside of 3 or 4 states in a single country gives a flying fuck about the sport. 1.4B people in China didn't give a rat’s arse, and even the Irish had to modify the hell out of it to make it worth even considering.

The fear is off the charts. Tiny fish in a big, big pond overall ”

Don't know about being that unique to AFL mate.. At least the AFL Premiers don't play in a World Series

Was talking to an Irish mate and there are equivalences with hurling and Gaelic sport in general over there.

 

[Quicky]

Had to modify your post in context of some people out there expressing similar concerns re. heading the ball in our game.

That said, thankfully the risk of ending up as a para/quadriplegic through severe injury in our game is virtually nonexistent compared to theirs.

Yes but its manageable at underage levels.

 

[BA81]

Was talking to an Irish mate and there are equivalences with hurling and Gaelic sport in general over there.

The difference is that the Irish have largely moved on from any pertinent notion of ‘code-wars’, plus the small matter of them never having entertained any delusions about making Gaelic Football/hurling etc. global in the truest definition of the word.

And this is in context of them having hated ️ and in the now-distant past because they were the sports of the coloniser ; once those sports transcended their inherent English/British-ness in the eyes of the Irish, they became co-national sports alongside their indigenous ones.