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International future - Foxtel Cup and 250,000 players

Authored by: tinka13
on Thursday, August 18 2011 @ 09:31 pm ACST

I would certainly like to see the AFL promote the International Cup more on external media, If you live in WA or SA two traditional footy states, it has hardly rated a mention and most people are still surprised when they find out from friends that a International Cup is being played right now in Sydney with 23 teams competing????

International future - Foxtel Cup and 250,000 players

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, August 18 2011 @ 10:57 pm ACST

Yeah I've had family mention they haven't seen anything in the media in South Australia. It's slowly growing but not as fast as it deserves.

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International future - Foxtel Cup and 250,000 players

Authored by: Michael Christiansen
on Friday, August 19 2011 @ 05:54 am ACST

Listening to radio SEN, earlier in the week Mark Fine in the evenings made a cynical remark about having heard the PNG womens team had won so well - but, someone did provide him with a bit of a rebuke with some facts on the issue.

Then yesterday, (Thurs), Daniel Harford just after lunch, had Brett Kirk in, and Kirky was basically doing the best he could to pump up the international cup.

One of Kirk's lines is that he wasn't having to 'sell' the game during his travels, because, he was astounded by the passion for the game that existed. His realisation being that the game has an appeal and we shouldn't be hiding it away anymore.

I think part of the challenge now is to get some of the media personalities down to Royal Park, or, early enough to the 'G on Sat week.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

International future - Foxtel Cup and 250,000 players

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Friday, August 19 2011 @ 09:38 am ACST

It's a bit of a circular thing. The media will do the occasional piece, but they'll only take it seriously if the public is getting into it, and vice versa. The media is so AFL focussed the Cup will only ever get consistent reporting as a "serious" competition if it's played on the mainstream audiences in front of reasonably crowds, and that will then deliver further crowds etc. So it's a hard cycle to kick start and I believe it would really take a significant advertising budget.

Still, there have been some better turn outs for some games in Sydney in the last few days and I'm told that there should be some good numbers of kids getting along to Royal Park in Melbourne so it is building.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

International future - Foxtel Cup and 250,000 players

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Friday, August 19 2011 @ 09:57 am ACST

SBS had a piece about the Peace Team and they actually mentioned that the AFL International Cup was being played in Sydney(Les Murray would have been spitting chips :-) ) Absolutely nothing that I've seen on the other channels or in The Advertiser in SA.

Only WFN continues to fly the flag, Carry the banner, push the envelope!!!!!!!!!! :-)

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

International future - Foxtel Cup and 250,000 players

Authored by: Tobietta Rhyman
on Friday, August 19 2011 @ 12:05 pm ACST

Would love to take credit for the women's coverage, but yesterday two Sydney newspapers did stories on the PNG Flame vs Canadian Northern Lights game. One of them even had a double spread picture of the girls getting in there! Go ladies!

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Little Pommy Girl

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AFL England Women's Football Co-ordinator; WFN Female Football Writer

International future - Foxtel Cup and 250,000 players

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Friday, August 19 2011 @ 12:12 pm ACST

Hey Cam, I'm pushing my contacts at the Advertiser. Maybe you ought to call them and ask them why they haven't! 8)

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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