23 teams set for IC14, AFL 9s scrapped

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23 teams set for IC14, AFL 9s scrapped

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Tuesday, February 25 2014 @ 11:34 pm ACDT

Cost has and will continue to have a huge bearing on which nations will attend the IC's, regardless of where they are held.

Germany has chosen till now to give the IC's a miss but they have competed in both European Championships to date and also have played some other 'Internationals" in Europe so there are a number of guys who have played for their country. (tho' not at IC level)

The detrimental affect of spending up big to attend an IC nearly always bring the spotlight back on Spain and as someone suggested was due to the fact that it was very early in the formation of AFL Spain (read Madrid, a one club set up).

Probably the ideal situation would be to have the IC's every four years and a regional (as in European Championships) tournament (less costly travel wise) staggered half way in between. The smaller/poorer leagues/nations would be able to make the regional champs their focus for now. The hosts of these regional champs would benefit promotionally as well. Fiji takes a point with hosting under 16's I think. Oceania/South Pacific and Asian (possibly a North and South) Championships should be targets set by the AFL (world ruling body) for the near furure.

The GFC did not help a lot of countries (Croatia had wanted to attend IC11 but it seems cost killed off their attempt. (hope to see them here this time tho) Finland also went home winless after an IC and the inaugural Europe Champs so enthusiasm was hit for a six. Timor Leste (and Spain by the way) were winless (mind Timor Leste lost 2 games by only a goal) so enthusiasm got whacked again with them.

Heaps money spent for no wins :-(

Despite all the above its great to see Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Indonesia and Pakistan all put their hands up this year as well as Croatia, and good to see Finland having another crack at it. Best of luck to all of them. Just hope that the AFL (world ruling body) is giving them all as much assistance (eg. helping organising travel group concessions, accommodation ditto, etc) as possible.

Qantas looks like they need the customers, AFL use some clout here couldn't they :-)

If all 30 nations attend (guys and gals) that's about at least 2 jumbo jets full coming to Aussie.

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