Australian Under 18s thrash of the Titans

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Australian Under 18s thrash of the Titans

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 03:19 pm ACST

Any body know what sort of crowd turned out to see this match and the Legions match in England?

Cam

Australian Under 18s thrash of the Titans

Authored by: Olivier Tresca
on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 04:07 am ACST

I was at the Titan's game, and the crowd was virtually non existant. There was about 50 people who were friends and familly of the AIS players. Some locals from the Chantilly Polo Club turned up to see what was going on, but they didn't stay long (I guess they had no idea what the game was about...). You wouldn't expect much of a crowd this far away from Paris, with no transport links and in the middle of the week...

I don't know what the crowd looked like in Surrey, but judging by the pictures I've seen it probably wasn't much better.

Australian Under 18s thrash of the Titans

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 09:43 am ACST

Olivier, Thanks for the reply to my query.

Oh! that sounds pretty dissappointing. I would have thought a few French Footy fans/players might have turned up to watch.

In what way was the CFNA involved in the running of the event, if any?

Cam

Australian Under 18s thrash of the Titans

Authored by: Olivier Tresca
on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 07:25 pm ACST

Cam,

I am not really involved with the CNFA anymore so I'm not sure what their involvment in the organisation was, but from what I understand it was quite limited. As for the attendees their was Thomas Urban the new president of the CNFA who was one of the boundary umpire and a representant of the UNSLL ( the "mother federation" of the CNFA). Cyril Talon was here aswell though he is not as involved in the CNFA anymore, the president of the new Cergy team, and me (but I don't really count as CNFA since I left France 3 years ago).

It was quite disapointing that nothing was done to try to attract spectators to the game. They was no communication on the event, and the choice of venu really did not help. Even the media coverage was very poor, only one local internet radio turned up for the first 5 minutes. I really hope that next year they'll make a bigger effort to make the game more spectator friendly, because even if the Titan were thrashed it was good fun to watch the AIS kids playing.

Australian Under 18s thrash of the Titans

Authored by: Olivier Tresca
on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 07:28 pm ACST

Also, some of the players from Paris wanted to come, but with the game being played at 11am on a thursday it meant taking a day off work to go see the game. Understandably none of them did.

Australian Under 18s thrash of the Titans

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 10:31 pm ACST

Olivier.

Thanks again.

Seems that the AFL, AFL Europe and/or whoever else was involved with the organisation of this event will need to take some lessons from this first effort on 'mainland ' Europe soil.

Seems a huge pity that more effort wasn't taken to cash in on the success of France's IC11 campaign.

Obviously, play the game on a weekend is paramount, a few paid advertisments, get CNFA involved more(eg. run BBQ and drinks, organise a bus to and from Paris and the venue) are just some of the little things which would make it more successful.

AFL are great at organising the big events but seem to lose the plot a bit at grassroots level.

Cam

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