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

I went to Normanhurst Boys' in the 70s. It was, according to the sports master, very much a rugby school but over my six years it was swamped by a wave of footballers. By the end of my days rugby was barely played and we won the Tasman Cup (state knock out) two years running.

Interestingly, though we all played football for the school and on the weekend, we only played league (tackle, not touch) at recess, lunchtime etc. And very brutal it was.
 
In terms of ABC and SBS TV media, in Tasmania we are saturated with AFL. There is virtually no league coverage in Tas.

I've just been in FNQ for a month and league is the most prominent, but I was surprised that AFL still had second position? I assumed union would have far more media presence than AFL in Queensland?

Then since the Turkey win, football came to the fore in FNQ and even in Tas since I've returned. To their credit SBS and ABC have been keen to cover migrant/refugee Aussies - and - embrace diversity.

AFL must be smelling a brief fear until the WC finishes.
 
If Soccer as a code wanted to play dirty with the other football codes they could probably go in on the concussion issues in them.
 
melbcityguy said:


This is a real gotcha moment former afl CEO said sport bring people together no I think one sport does a pretty good job more then other sports 😂
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Still not as big as state of origin, and money coming into the game is laughable. Basically we get talked about a few times once every 4 years. Then it’s back to “who r u”.
 
NoMates said:
Still not as big as state of origin, and money coming into the game is laughable. Basically we get talked about a few times once every 4 years. Then it’s back to “who r u”.
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Way behind league and AFL but...

These are the times we need to be leveraging the Socceroos to generate interest in the local game. I don't know what the angle is... maybe unearthing the next generation of Socceroos stars given we are a development league?
 
Those of us here at the start of the AL will remember Chad Gilbert and the first ever AL advert. It was pretty cool, given there was no AL history. Now we have 20+ years and could have an ad featuring the likes of Nestory, Bos, Herrington, Toure et al doing amazing things in Europe and for the Socceroos but also showing footage of when they were emerging in the AL.

Obviously I'm the converted, but I would find such an ad quite inspiring.
 
Mr Cleansheets said:
Way behind league and AFL but...

These are the times we need to be leveraging the Socceroos to generate interest in the local game. I don't know what the angle is... maybe unearthing the next generation of Socceroos stars given we are a development league?
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Well here’s the things, we have A-league players/former players at the World Cup but our ALM is on struggle street funding wise. Look at Netball is just coming off a $80m over 4 years tv deal and there next one is stated to be $160m for another 4 years. Netball can bring in good international players to the comp where as the ALM have to developed youth and bring in 3rd rate imports.
We can’t bring in more viewers or more interest on dole cheque squads. Robbie Slater said the new TV deal,is only around $18m a year and with that kind of funding there is no way u can build/promote the top league in Australia.
 
Everything can be fixed with money, there's no other way around it. Marketing, making it cheaper to play, linking with schools, etc

As an aside it's criminal what the Bakries have done in what should be one of our biggest markets, and again if the A-L or FA had money they would be able to put a stop to it.
 
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