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Authored by: Sean Finlayson
on Monday, October 15 2007 @ 08:47 am ACST

The biggest reason for the slow takeup in Victoria has been the drought. This effectively cancelled most Rec Footy seasons halfway though last year as local councils began not to allow "casual sports" in parks during summer.

Thus AFL Victoria has been reduced to 2 metropolitan venues, one in the west and one in the south with poor access to transport. Both of these venues are too far away from most Melburnians, who live in the inner, eastern, south eastern and northern suburbs. Given that the games are played shortly after most people finish work, many potential players (a lot of which are office workers) are left without a place to play.

Last year there was a comp at Victoria Park in Collingwood near the city, which was highly popular. If there was another such competition, the numbers would be growing rather than shrinking in Victoria.

Personally, I feel that the competitions should be run during the footy season. There would be better access to grounds and there wouldn't be so many highly skilled players competing against novices (one of the big problems for casual players). The down side of this is that qualified umpires would be difficult to source.

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Authored by: Aaron Richard
on Monday, October 15 2007 @ 07:15 pm ACST

You could run it year-round I guess, separate winter and summer seasons. It's
quite likely a big part of the target market could do one or the other, but not
both.

I think the other problem is people just don't know about it...

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Authored by: Brett Northey
on Friday, October 19 2007 @ 08:42 pm ACST

Actually I had wondered whether the drought was an issue when I spoke with the AFL but the feedback was that it wasn't a major factor - sounds like it in fact was.

Difficult to see any major leagues wanting to run Rec Footy in the same season as the main game - too much risk of losing players from the primary sport to the new version. I personally don't think they should run at the same time. To reduce the issue of top players up against rookies etc the best thing will be for the sport to keep growing so that divisions can be used in any given league. You'll always have good players so divisions is the way to go. That's the next step that sports like touch football took in the non-traditional Rugby states.

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