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South Pacific defeat Tasmania in U16s

Authored by: Rory Slater
on Sunday, July 10 2011 @ 04:48 pm ACST

I believe you are twisting what i am only putting up for discussion on a forum that can be rather blinkered in it's quest to see the code go truly global.

The fact is that there are many who devalue and deride our code for a percieved naivety of disciplines, saying anyone could pick up it's skill set given a modicum of athleticism, so are they correct?

I know from my own experience that it takes a long period of time to raise the status of codes i.e. Union or League or Soccer in demographics that historically do not play these, certainly a lot longer than seems to be so in respect of Australian Football.

Given these sorts of rapid improvements an especially the World result against a demographic that boasts the highest support for our code per capita nationally, you would have to say yes, the game of Australian Footy is incredibly easy to master.

Brett,

The player list I have see,s shows the SP side overwhelmingly stocked with 18 yo with some 17year olds?

South Pacific defeat Tasmania in U16s

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Sunday, July 10 2011 @ 05:39 pm ACST

Rory you're saying the South Pacific side is "overwhelmingly stocked with 18 yo".

I'm looking at the list here: South Pacific U16 squad for NAB AFL Nationals

By my maths, excluding the two unspecified birthdays and the emergencies, that gives 7 that are 18 year olds, 11 that are 17 year olds, 8 that are 16 year olds and 1 that is 15.

So a fair summary is that they are mostly 17 with a mix of 16 and 18 year olds. Not overwhelmingly stocked. But yes they still have an average age concession, which of course undermines your original point somewhat about the game being easy to pick up.

Hopefully the AFL will create a World Under 19s to compete in the Under 18s next year and some of these top age players can play in that. However this is just speculation on behalf.

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