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GWS Giants to make footprint in Prague

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Tuesday, July 19 2011 @ 12:16 pm ACST

What hiccups?

If you mean teams not attending, I can assure you that will happen for as long as the International Cup is open to all nations. In other words, if you have just the best 16 teams invited then as they become more professional with more resources then you can be confident they will attend.

But if you open it to all teams then you'll always have a new footy nation with a very small program trying to fundraise and get enough players available. So some of those will always fall over. Even a relatively well established footy nation like Great Britian is having some issues that players have suffered late injuries or work commitments, so they have late changes. Fortunately they have the depth to cover those players, but new countries will not.

So in 2014 we might have Russia express interest, but decide with a month to go that they just don't have enough money, or 4 players get injured, and they have to pull out.

It's that balance between trying to have a glossy tournament versus trying to keep it inclusive for everyone.

I think the medium term solution will be when we have 2 divisions, with no seeding first round. So perhaps a top 12 that are well established and presented more professionally to the public, then division 2 will simply grow or shrink as the developing footy nations join / pull out. At this stage the AFL have made it clear they welcome as many nations as can make it.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

GWS Giants to make footprint in Prague

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Tuesday, July 19 2011 @ 11:47 pm ACST

An article about these 3 players on the Giants' website:

http://www.gwsgiants.com.au/international-trio-off-to-giant-start.html

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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