Door opening for New Zealand AFL club

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Door opening for New Zealand AFL club

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 10:18 pm ACDT

30,000 registered players in New Zealand????

20 clubs in the four leagues x 50 to 60 players in firsts and seconds = 1000 to 1200 players. A couple of hundred juniors associated with each of these clubs = 4000 junior players.

Running total = 5200 players.

20 clubs (we in Aussie don't know about) with 100 players each = 2000 players.

Running total = 7200 players.

200 to 300 university competition players(if this exists) = 300 players.

Running Total = 7500 players.

500 Schools with 20 to 30 players each = 10,000.

Running total = 17,500 players.

Please add competitions (with numbers) that I have omitted so that the other 12,500 registered players don't feel left out. All Registered???

30,000 registerd players ?????

I'd love to see the break down of where all these players are playing their footy. My maths is not this new fangled electronic calculator stuff, so I might be way off getting the numbers right, but would love to see where my maths is up the creek!!!!!!!!!!

Door opening for New Zealand AFL club

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 11:21 pm ACDT

I expect the vast majority to be in Auskick style clinics and to a lesser extent the Hawks Cup high school comp.

I think we all agree Auskick / Kiwikick style participation is less permanent or ingrained as club or school footy so in some ways these numbers are overly positive if one doesn't understand the details. But it's still a very good first step towards mass participation.

I hope to get data breakdown from the AFL later. Expect to see similar numbers, with the breakdown, for South Africa in the next 2 weeks - just working on that article now.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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