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Will International footy reshape Australian Football?

Authored by: Joel Adin Porretta
on Wednesday, November 11 2009 @ 03:25 pm ACDT

If the 9 a side game played mainly in Europe was introduced to Australia it could strengthen the game here even more. First it could boost the number of clubs in New South Wales and Queensland (due to the amount of Rugby grounds). Second it could bring Football to hundreds of more towns in Victoria that are unfortunate enough to have a Club due the lack of numbers. I'm sure that if these ideas are taken into consideration enough they can and should help keep Football's stronghold for many more years to come. And who knows within a few years time there could even be an official 9 a side World Cup feturing Australia.

Will International footy reshape Australian Football?

Authored by: Joel Adin Porretta
on Wednesday, November 11 2009 @ 03:27 pm ACDT

Sorry about that. I meant to say unfortunate enough NOT to have a Club. Sorry about that.

Will International footy reshape Australian Football?

Authored by: Michael Christiansen
on Thursday, November 12 2009 @ 09:32 am ACDT

That's something in the back of my mind too - I just want to get effectively a demo 9's tourney lightning premiership under the belt next year - - I've already had informal discussion with Michael Sholley at the VAFA and will hopefully work a bit with their football committee if appropriate.

We've got out season fixtures now for season 2010, so I can start attempting some serious action on getting things in place.

If it works then we have a basis to take it to regional areas etc where it may at least help with 'veterens', 'ladies' and reserves footy where otherwise such might not be practical. After all, we don't want relatively small sided games like soccer winning by default because a lack of Aust Footy flexibility in it's product range (heck, just look at crickets product range now with T20 being a very popular grass roots 'add on' to the normal season.)

Will International footy reshape Australian Football?

Authored by: craig
on Thursday, November 12 2009 @ 07:40 pm ACDT

I think the T20 comparison is a good one. 9 a side is fast and furious as you don't get a rest because you're never more than a kick from the action. Why not develop different variants of the sport like cricket? There's no reason why 9 a side and 18 a side can't survive in the same towns/leagues, just like cricket has test matches, one dayers and T20s.

Will International footy reshape Australian Football?

Authored by: Eurofooty
on Monday, November 16 2009 @ 08:11 pm ACDT

Regarding a visual example of tournament based 9s is played in Europe, I've uploaded the entire webstream from the main field at the 2008 EU Cup in Prague, Czech Republic here (RAR torrent):

http://aus.sierules.com/australian_fo...s-s-648.ts

NB: Not one Australian player featured in the top 3 finishing teams.

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