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Colin Carter keeps crusading for the cause

Authored by: Harley Vague
on Wednesday, March 04 2015 @ 05:28 am ACDT

I agree totally with the sentiments expressed. The AFL has lifted it's game immensely in the last decade but it has mostly been AFL-centric. i.e. to generate AFL players or promote the business of the AFL. NZ has seen a top to bottom approach with AFL games, school programs and other programs. That's very encouraging for NZ but costly to replicate in more countries. This is where IMO second tier competitions could become involved. WAFL clubs could play competition games in the RSA and adopt an O/S club at a fraction of the cost of an AFL game. The NEAFL needs to be the pathway for PNG and NZ teams Overall I believe that the constant comparison of standards wrt Australia is a distraction from the importance of events like the International Cup.

Colin Carter keeps crusading for the cause

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Wednesday, March 04 2015 @ 02:06 pm ACDT

You're spot on Harley.
Too AFL-centric and seemingly to have this focus on getting teams from NZ and South Africa and elsewhere into the AFL competition by 2020 or 2030 or some date way off in the future.

The final statement in the article "Imagine in 2030 having several million people playing our game down there (South Africa) and following the Cape Town team in the AFL" actually says it all but also seriously misses the whole point.

Just "Imagine in 2020 or 2025 having a million people in South Africa and 30,000-40,000 people in each of Europe and USA and Canada, China and across the Pacific playing the game with another 5,000 - 10,000 in Japan, across South East Asia, India and elsewhere playing the game and the fans in those countries spending their money watching international matches like South Africa v Germany or Great Britain v USA or France v Indonesia or even Croatia v Queensland"

ANYHOW! Cape Town v Collingwood in Cape Town just ludicrous idea, its nigh on impossible leveraging Collingwood out of Victoria to play in Perth or Brisbane let alone Cape Town :-)

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