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The importance of football stadia

Authored by: Wesley Hull
on Thursday, November 27 2014 @ 06:44 am ACDT

One of the fascinating insights I got from Kevin Sheedy in the interview earlier this year was his belief that whilst it would be ideal to have our 18 a side format played everywhere, the reality is that it won't happen. He stated that we need to constantly modify and evolve our game and make it fit the needs of any local environment. He felt that the game can successfully played whether on an oval, in a rectangle, with 18 a side, with 5 a side...whatever it takes to grow the wider love of the game...then maybe increase stadium sizes down the track once the numbers and support have grown. I hope one day we see Aussie Rules played far and wide on large ovals with huge crowds...but that's a long, long way off. For now I am content with a stadium consisting of four deck chairs and a port-a-loo (not unlike our own home ground here in Cairns).

The importance of football stadia

Authored by: Harley Vague
on Thursday, November 27 2014 @ 12:02 pm ACDT

9-a-side football has been and is critical to the development of Australian Football. It could be argued that playing 18-a-side might be detrimental to people just introduced to the game. A bit like the old days where someone might stand around and see no action if the teams were unbalanced or played through their favourites, thus getting disenchanted.There are some high level competitions that use 9-a-side and some people have toyed with the idea of even higher levels of competition. There is a "problem" with this, that being, if you have teams with a high level of ability then the game becomes more sterile than a shootout. Like professional tennis, with all the focus on the serve, "professional" 9-a-side has all the attention on the bounce with players having less trouble than basketball to score. When 9-a-side reaches this level there is a need for evolution and my suggestion would be to take a kick-out from the opposite to that scored so that the attacking team would have at least two kicks to goal again.

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