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West Australians to play match in Mumbai, India

Authored by: Sean Finlayson
on Wednesday, August 31 2005 @ 03:21 am ACST

These are fantastic ideas from the Sandgropers!

I would definately travel to Perth to see the World Cup. Maybe this would wake up some football spoilt Victorians, and I think it would be a great thing for WA. Hopefully this is more than a rumor, because I think the people of Perth would get right behind it (I'd expect nothing less than a bumper crowd for the upcoming International Rules in Perth and recent Rugby Union internationals have drawn big crowds in Perth). They seem to be a bit more openminded than Victorians about the game. I think they'd get many people from SA and Vic coming across to see the World Cup if it was hosted there, as I'm sure the WA government would put more effort into interstate promotion than the AFL/Vic government did here.

As for the it is great to see some local leagues thinking outside the square to promote the game in their neighbouring regions. Of course, people from India wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a top-level AFL game and West Australian sides. The standard is lightyears above what they would have ever seen if anything, and with the right promotion could do really well. More frequent exhibition games is just what the game needs, and it would be great if other state leagues could do something similar, as the AFL seems to have capacity for a couple a year, and it is too big world to cover for one league.

It would be a good strategy for the AFL to carve the world up into regions and delegate them to state based AFL clubs and state leagues to use them as exclusive feeders (Queensland - PNG, Samoa; NSW - New Zealand; WA - South Africa, India etc.), and give state leagues extra impetus to run their own promotions to grow the game internationally and at the same time enahnce the quality and grass-roots footy in their own states.

West Australians to play match in Mumbai, India

Authored by: Aaron Richard
on Thursday, September 01 2005 @ 12:36 am ACST

Already happening to some extent.

PNG already is 'zoned' to Queensland - the PNG juniors compete in the Queensland state championships and they are planning matches against the Cairns AFL and such.

New Zealand are going to start competing in the Victorian Country Football League interleague series against the rep sides from the various Victorian country leagues. (Can't remember if we've officially announced that yet - but it's in motion).

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