Mauritian AFL team fails to take flight – A Metaphor

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Mauritian AFL team fails to take flight – A Metaphor

Authored by: Harley Vague
on Friday, September 18 2015 @ 10:56 pm ACST

Frustratingly the solution is simple. All players, clubs, leagues, umpires and associations are linked electronically to some degree if only from a league to club presidents.. If somebody took charge to develop a hierarachy then information could be broadcast quickly, easily and at no real cost. Anything from rule changes and insurance to mouthgards for players; Leagues could broadcast patways, representitve selection or camps etc But the league could broadast it's own news including overseas developments in much the same way it releases press statements now. It would be an extremely simple matter to offer invitations from overseas clubs or facilitate any other interactions. If all overseas clubs were also linked electronically then they could similarly invited to Australia. When I say "linked electronically" it's as simple as an email list and a send button.
Imagine by 2017 that the AFL can send an email that travels to every state league then to every affiliated league and then to each club and then to each player, umpire an official; that the email is headlined "2017 AFL International Cup" All of a sudden you have the attention of how many people?

Mauritian AFL team fails to take flight – A Metaphor

Authored by: Harley Vague
on Saturday, September 19 2015 @ 11:37 am ACST

To return to Tijs paper and there is the subject of lack of information and the supply of skewed information. We have long since lost the local dissemination of news by the local tabloid to have been replaced by national newspaper and national television interests which find it expedient and strategic to confine news distribution to what serves their pecuniary interest. Contrast the news of today with that of over a century ago. The SMH used to cover Australian Football in Sydney with the same (or more) gusto than RU. The public in Austalia and NZ would flock to games of (Colonial) football against the English because of the coverage in newspapers. Today the power base has largely moved to Sydney and thus a lot of Tijs sentiments reflect this and it is important to address this broad misrepresentation . Yes, NRL as a professional sport is important and we constantly hear about the threat of soccer but the reality is that soccer dominates the participation numbers in NSW only. The "threat" is to NSW and to the dominant professional code, RL and their participation numbers aren't flash. The threat is inaccurate reporting. Go to the ABC and I've found NRL finals promoted nationally but not the AFL finals. Similarly I've found the Swan's final missing from the NSW headlines, yet AFL attendances were multiples greater in magnitude. There is little fuss made when 90,000 attend a season AFL game. Maybe we are to used to this.

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