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Awesome Aussie youth win one-sided contest

Authored by: Sean Finlayson
on Wednesday, April 22 2009 @ 06:04 pm ACST

Surely those International Rules kits are a major tackling advantage to South Africa. Makes the loss even more depressing. The Papuans seemed to have a lot been more competitive against the Flying Boomerangs than the Buffaloes/Lions were and the program there is arguably growing just as fast if not faster. It still baffles me why the AFL doesn't sieze the massive promotional opportunity of playing matches against our nearest neighbours. AIS vs Mosquitos in Port Moresby or Lae would pull thousands of specators and be massive news in the rugby league states where the AFL is trying to market. At least for the time being let the young AAFC, the Convicts and maybe WAFL juniors tour South Africa instead I say.

Awesome Aussie youth win one-sided contest

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Wednesday, April 22 2009 @ 07:59 pm ACST

My gut feeling leading up to the match was that PNG's open age side is probably 10 to 15 goals behind an elite group of Aussies like that who I'd expect are 16 and 17 year olds.

And PNG is roughly 10 goals better than South Africa's at this point in time.

So I was expecting around about 20 to 25 goals the margin. Plus I doubt the Lions had anywhere near the same preparation as the AIS squad, which would have players in season and also as a team played the warm up match.

Possibly the most difficult aspect to manage must be the desire not to ease up versus the fact that the Australian kids are playing for their careers - a bad report could be the difference between being a solid draft pick and not being picked at all.

My personal opinion, weighing up all the factors, is that it's probably worthwhile because the tour comes as a package and it's part of a longer term program. Hopefully we'll see a narrowing of the gap in the next 5 years, but patience is a virtue we all have in short supply.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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