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Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, October 06 2011 @ 02:35 pm ACDT

If it is to remain in Australia I'd love to see it in Adelaide but realistically footy seems to be too unhealthy here to open its collective mind to such things. I would think Gold Coast followed by Perth would be the best chances.

Would love to see a country or group of countries put a very well researched and coordinated bid to the AFL to host it outside Australia - this is a regular topic of conversation which I'm pretty confident will not eventuate but if it was going to it seems Europe would be the best chance. The key obstacles would be travel costs for developing countries across Oceania, visa issues for them as well, the desire of players to visit Australia and see AFL matches, the number of players already in Australia that probably wouldn't travel (*), and all the AFL support staff and local volunteers that would not be available.

Yes I'm listing all the negatives, I'm just being pragmatic and pointing out what hurdles have to be overcome. If someone wants to demonstrate why they can be overcome fire away.

* This point alone I think would've meant several teams wouldn't have played, such as India and China. In terms of travel I doubt we would've seen Fiji, Tonga, Timor-Leste, or the cream of PNG and Ireland. On the other hand if it was in Europe we would've almost certainly got about 6 to 10 extra sides from there, and probably been cheaper for the US and Canada.

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IC11 Behind the Scenes - Volunteers, Media and more

Authored by: Harley Vague
on Saturday, October 08 2011 @ 04:46 pm ACDT

Whilst the players are footing the bill I'm sure the overwhelming consensus is Australia and Melbourne for the big event .
That's not to say Northern and Southern hemisphere events aren't going to grow in importance or that another Australian city cannot complement Melbourne .
This year the AFL covered the connecting costs of Sydney to Melbourne . That would have to be repeated at the very least .
Any host city needs the following to have the best chance at being successful (no order) .
1. Stadia for single games .
2. Multi-ground tournament arena
3. AFL ambiance
4. City ambiance .
5. Community links .
6. Media  interest .
7. Low cost base .
8. Transport ease .
Most places should be able to procure stadia but a tournament arena such as Blacktown is rare .
Temporary facilities could turn parklands into prominent venues especially beside an established venue e.g. SCG,VP
IMO Sydney lacked by not having a SCG game the second week (that changes with the GWS).
Again Sydney is a hot tourist spot but it's difficult(by team bus) to get around and to Blacktown .
IMO the WAFL and SANFL are the best chance of forging some curtain raiser/lowering games .
Also the smaller the city the easier it is to get media attention .
Melbourne is swamped by AFL news and politically correct Sydney mentioned only briefly the Peace team and Tonga (indirectly affects the NRL)
I don't know the detail about accomodation but one team was staying in Woollongong this year .
The USAFL host city arranges an accomodation deal for the 300 or so attendees to their national tournament.
For transport nothing really beats Melbourne ,Blacktown is awkward for buses and the GC is far from Brisbane or Carrara .
IMO no destination ticks all the boxes .I do like the two city approach .If the connection costs were covered and teams were seeded
I' go so far as to suggest a different city for each pool for the first week .

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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