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Eddie Jones, the great "student" of the game of rugby union, one-time coach of the Reds, Brumbies, Wallabies, and currently the Saracens Director of…
Adam, you claim the following:
“Excluding the Swans, AFL is still a very small fish in the big pond that is NSW. The only media coverage is results in Monday’s paper and a weekly magazine program on Foxtel channel, Main Event.”
I’m not sure whether you live somewhere on the north coast of NSW and don’t read Sydney papers or something, but I see a truckload of column inches devoted to AFL. As much as rugby union, week in week out! Certainly league dominates(and I mostly read the SMH), but AFL is not as much of a small fish as it may be perceived- at least in terms of mindshare and column inches anyway.
Second Sydney team is a road to nowhere
Robyn- I can post you a copy if you like?
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Barbarians to make first trip to Australia
KB-
I definately hope it will fly- perhaps not so quickly in the face of politics though..
Gerry- If you take a look at the article in question you will see that it says: “Taking no more than eight hours to reconfigure the stands using this high-tech system, a Friday night Western Force crowd will be out celebrating while the stadium will be converted to AFL mode for the next West Coast Eagles or Fremantle Dockers home game.”
Management will be determined by an independant trust, as ren alluded to and as the website also says:
“The new stadium will be owned by the government and governed by an independent trust.
Day to day management of the new stadium which includes the oversight of bookings, hirers, scheduling, catering, cleaning, maintenance and ticketing will be determined by the trust prior to the completion of the stadium.”
http://www.perthstadium.com.au/index.php?id=33
So you just have to hope that said independant trust won’t be filled with pro-AFL members..
I have faith(despite my not living in Perth!) that this will go ahead and be probably the best thing for ALL codes in Perth.
Perth's new stadium is already in doubt
To all those doubters about the proposed stadium’s suitability for the rectangular codes, take a good look at this video: http://www.perthstadium.com.au/index.php?id=48 and this article: http://www.perthstadium.com.au/index.php?id=69 .
If as the article states “Sitting on the sideline at a Western Force game at Subiaco Oval you are currently 31 metres from the action, but with Perth’s new stadium you will be just 15 metres from the sideline and dead-ball line!
WA rugby fans will be closer to the action than crowds currently attending similar events at Sydney’s Telstra Stadium and Melbourne’s Telstra Dome” then surely it will not only be adequate but great. I’m sure that the Force would love a Suncorp or an SFS, but really they don’t have the pulling power- the AFL do!
Perth's new stadium is already in doubt
Benjamin- I’ve got some from wikipedia about the number of tries, but where else could I find statistics?
I was relying a bit on memory from post game-analyses, when the line-out and scrum numbers were mentioned..
I didn’t realise he’d worked there in 2006 though- probably as an advisor.
Colin- Understandable, I just saw this article and felt compelled to speak out really
Justin- My point exactly- that Eddie and everyone else who is judging the ELVs(myself too perhaps?) is judging them way to early.
Eddie Jones and the ELVs
Does the Roar even have an editor? Take another look at the article’s title: “How will Ablett fair as leader of the Suns?” should read: “How will Ablett fare as leader of the Suns?”
How will Ablett fare as leader of the Suns?