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Cape Town canned - again!

Authored by: Sean Finlayson
on Sunday, September 06 2009 @ 04:23 pm ACST

With all due respect, the only thing outlandish here is the AFL's appalling attitude to international development.

They must be very proud to have such strong apologists on this site.

Cape Town canned - again!

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Sunday, September 06 2009 @ 10:43 pm ACST

You made a connection between current crowds and international football. It seemed completely unreasonable to me so I asked you to back that up. That seems to have fired you up yet you seemed to shift the debate sideways to a publicity picture of Karmichael Hunt.

But I guess this was always going to come to a head - as you know I'm very big on reasoning and examining both sides of a story and the whole issue of the AFL and international development is not the black and white, in my opinion, that a few people such as yourself strongly believe. Without their major support of South Africa and PNG and AFL Oceania in recent years the game would be a lot less advanced internationally. I believe making that case is just being honest and rational. It's very easy to just shout insults when there's any kind of setback. If the overall trend is very much upward then throwing the baby out with the bathwater doesn't seem to do anyone any favours.

As requested in your email I'm happy to end this here.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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