2008 International Cup - updated country attendance likelihood list

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2008 International Cup - updated country attendance likelihood list

Authored by: Michael Christiansen
on Friday, December 07 2007 @ 08:58 am ACDT

2 questions. How long until we see a bit more of GB splitting into England, Scotland and Wales. I know it'd be very costly for an IC trip to Aust, but are they planning on going down that route more so in future 'local' euro comps? (basically 'expands' the number of 'nations'!!)

Re. Juniors. Has the AFL got any position on this, as, an allied junior IC even if just for example Sth Africa, PNG, Denmark, Canada, GB and maybe the US, maybe Sweden, maybe an NZ. That's surely what would make people sit up and take notice. And that might be a chance to really hook in some junior talent.

2008 International Cup - updated country attendance likelihood list

Authored by: Luc Le Quiniat
on Friday, December 07 2007 @ 11:25 am ACDT

Then why not add Australia. If it's just Juniors then surely it doesn't matter if Australia cleans up? The experience should be huge for the other countries.

2008 International Cup - updated country attendance likelihood list

Authored by: Aaron Richard
on Friday, December 07 2007 @ 03:57 pm ACDT

As Brett mentioned, the AFL supports the Barassi International Footy
tournament - http://www.biafyt.net - which has been held a few times and is
intended to become a youth world cup of sorts.

The USA brought a juniors team to Australia a few years ago, they played
matches against ACT and regional NSW juniors teams and I think went ok.

South Africa, PNG and NZ all have done so in past too. Maybe a few others
also have, not sure.

On the GB question - it depends on a lot of things, there's a lot of discussion
and restructuring going on in Britain at the moment.

2008 International Cup - updated country attendance likelihood list

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Friday, December 07 2007 @ 05:06 pm ACDT

That link didn't work for me. Try http://www.biafyt.asn.au

They do say they focus on school sides, but they also have accepted national sides in the past, and have said the aim is ultimately a youth World Cup.

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