Passionate AFL fans live for the game

The headline reads: "Passionate AFL fans live for the game" The article didn't reveal anything we didn't already know but the headline is ringing very true at this time of year... 86 days till the NAB cup and counting..haha!

That is correct - Fitzpatrick is a WA person in name only - Would have only a passing knowledge of WA footy now. Richard Goyder who is resident in Perth said last week on his upcoming appointment that he was looking forward to looking after WA footy interests on the Commission. WA footy now considers itself no 2 behind the Vics in the footy hierarchy these days. Some other WA footy news which may interest Roar AFL supporters. The WA Sports Minister said the drilling for core samples at the Burswood site is nearly complete and the exact site for the new 60,000 seat stadium will be known in January and Design works will be underway soon. Apparently the WA State Tennis Centre and the Burswood Golf Course are going to make way for the stadium. The 2 Perth AFL Club reserve teams are likely to play WAFL clubs in a seperate comp to the WAFL when the WAFL has its byes. This is to combat the Melb clubs running proper reserve teams - The AFL "arms race continues -

More passion when baseball teams have moved IMO

Look at the college football programs, Al, some of those people would die for their alma mater. And the mess with the Cleveland, Art Modello and Baltimore is also instructive.

Yep, although as you say, he has lived in Melbourne for a long time.

Mike Fitzpatrick the Chairman is a West Australian though he might not have lived there for a few years.

i think Colin Carter was the last West Aussie on the board, and he was voted off, but i can't remember why ?. Bassat has a fortune estimated at 120 million, but i would imagine his expertise will be used in the next media deals, the internet etc .

It was reported today that two high profile businessmen had joined the AFL Commission replacing two long term outgoing commissioners. They were Richard Goyder boss of Wesfarmers who control Coles and Bunnings. Richard is a West Aussie and is very passionate about the game. At long last WA has a rep on the Commission. The other guy is Paul Bassat co-founder of Seek the worlds largest on-line employment agency. Bassat said about his appointment-- He was passonate about the sport (AFL) and considered his new role a "privilege". Its all good.

At the State Sports Centre at Olympic Park. If you know the area, it's next to the hockey centre. It's where the Swifts in the netball play their home games.

With the risk of getting bagged out by everyone, If you are missing sport in the off-season give A-league a go, go watch a game Im havin a great time going to games, I took three more mates with me on sat night they are all keen to go to the next one. We are all AFL fans and are getting our live sport fix via HAL.

mds where is it held exactly? (as in which venue)

There's not a lot of AFL content at the moment because other than Eddie and Sheeds' war of words there's been little activity. The draft on Thursday night will be the next big talking point. I'll be attending the draft, and I'll put up.some thoughts in an article on here after it's happened.

Went to a Sth Melbourne pub last week for a gathering of supporters of an interstate club who live in Melb. Hardly anyone over 50, 50% M/F, all had interesting jobs. We chatted about selling/buying/renting homes, changes in employment & relationships, travel plans & Christmas. Just usual stuff when Aussies get together. But the real topic was that we really miss the footy & can't wait for next season. That's AFL supporters!

I agree, bugger all happening, i have suggested this before, and IMO it will happen, fox will get the rights to the NTAFL, and will show friday night games from Darwin in the off season from Marrara. Fev was up there earlier, plenty of other ex AFL players make the trek, as well as a talented bunch of locals, including a Tiwi island team, it all makes for some entertaining games. Hopefully the AFL will keep there nose out of the NTAFL to a degree.

It's a long off-season, and the natives start getting restless around this time of year. The biggest AFL story on Fox Sports news the last two days has been the Suns trekking up and down Arizona. Thankfully, we have the draft to look forward to at the end of this week, and that will keep us going up to Christmas at least.

The article is written with the AFL in mind. Membership, september finals, club songs etc can be used in a article on other sports, but combined together without the words AFL , most people would pick Australian football, if they had to pick a word to fit with the sentence. Pretty petty argument, to say the writer should be more generic, when quite clearly he attempted to do the opposite, albeit not the best i have read, but im not pointing fingers, i have yet to write one.

Taking a step back, this article does appear to lack a bit of focus, it doesn't really contain anything that one can link directly to the AFL, or to AFL culture, etc. For example, if one wanted to explore a unique aspect of AFL fan culture, it might be their propensity to purchase memberships in large numbers, or something like that. Or if it wanted to explore the propensity of AFL fans to resist change relating to club colours or something similar, then it could have done that a bit more explicitly. Without wishing to sound too critical, I was left wondering what the purpose of the article was, what issues it was trying to explore.

Stabpass, But theres nothing unique to AFL in the article.

How much passion is there for American Football when the teams are moved from city to city constantly?

Every article could become generic if we wanted, the whole point of this article was to attempt to explain a fans POV from Australian football.