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Scandal rocks AFL's biggest rival

Authored by: Aaron Richard
on Friday, April 23 2010 @ 09:42 am ACST

I tend to agree with Chris - from a code development point of view, the punishment is suicidal.

I haven't heard what state RL is in in Melbourne for a while, but someone who was involved in a RL club here told me 2-3 years back that there was less RL being played at a grassroots level at that time, than there was in the days before the Storm were created. When I was at high school in Gippsland in the 90s, there was a strong 8-team senior RL comp in the area, which was completely gone ten years later.

I'll check the number, but AFAIK there is far less club rugby league played in Victoria than Australian rules in Sydney.

One very important stat is that there are basically zero SA/WA/Vic players on NRL club lists, whereas there are plenty of NSW/ACT/Qld player at AFL clubs, even if they're a minority.

Rugby union on the other hand seem to be doing fairly well down here in schools and club level. The Melbourne Rebels (once they presumably let Waldron go) could be the ones who really benefit out of the Storm's crash.

Scandal rocks AFL's biggest rival

Authored by: Aaron Richard
on Friday, April 23 2010 @ 09:54 am ACST

Checking some numbers, there are 13 RL clubs in Victoria (not including the Storm), 7 of which have juniors.

Some Vic-born players have made it into the NRL, but only one has ever played at an NRL club having come through the junior system (Jeremy Smith), and even though he technically is a VRL product, he moved to Queensland as a teenager and was drafted from a Gold Coast club. Furthermore, under RL rules he is a New Zealander and played for NZ at the last RLWC.

This compares with around 10,000 senior Australian rules players in the AFLNSW/ACT, and dozens of NSW draftees in the AFL over of the years.

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