Opinion: Half sized versions of Australian Football have much to offer

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Opinion: Half sized versions of Australian Football have much to offer

Authored by: Peter Parry
on Saturday, January 02 2010 @ 09:06 am ACDT

Thanks for the positive comments to the article. I was just reading the USA section of "country snapshots" and there was a bit more said on Metrofooty - in particular how the 9's version was able to be played pre-match or half-time at American football and Major League Soccer matches - as a promotion. This clearly illustrates the promotional power of a 9's version in a world full of smaller rectangular stadiums.

Opinion: Half sized versions of Australian Football have much to offer

Authored by: Stephen Alomes
on Saturday, January 02 2010 @ 01:05 pm ACDT

Two things.

1. In Australia most of us played pick up matches after school or at lunchtime, sometimes with created goals and sometimes with some rule variations- in the era of Majak, the African rookie at North Melbourne, I can report having seen mainly African kids play in the nearby government housing flats, appropriately perhaps using gum trees as one of the goals

2. Rugby 7s, which the IRB is now telecasting in Europe, has begun to rate highly in part because it is faster and more skills are on display than regular rugby. To the non-rugby aficionado regular rugby, particularly the mysteries of what in the hell happens in the scrum, is boring and hard to watch. Perhaps, like 7s different versions of our game introduce the skills and increase the appeal for the newcomer.

What is interesting is that this debate has legs, as the journos say, both internationally and in Aus. Hope the powers that be are listening.

Steve

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