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Fantastic result for the AFL… and this is just for the Australian market!
Even just 1% of this deal committed towards international footy programs and spread out over the next 5 years would be a massive step towards strengthening and enhancing the growth of the game overseas.
Mammoth AFL rights deal finally hunted down
Sorry but I’d rather see that $2 million go to US Footy (USAFL).
Mammoth AFL rights deal finally hunted down
No excuse now not to kick in even more $ into the international growth and expansion of the game.
AFL silences doubters with $1.25 billion broadcast deal
Sure Eddie Everywhere can, and there is very little anyone can do about it.
Have you taken off the raybans and seriously considered that a vast majority of Melburnians are simply uninterested in club level rugby league and therefore CH9 programs this accordingly?
Eddie again shows he can't wear two hats
This is all very well except that the game actually on delay into Melbourne after all.
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/big-clash-wont-be-live-on-tv-20110403-1ct87.html
Tending the begonias has come up trumps again!
Live football shouldn't be news, it should be mandatory
Not so sure on some of these. Too radical for a conservative like me.
But I think the addition of wild beasts randomly injected into the playing surface from underground/above (a la “Gladiator”) would certainly add to the spectacle somewhat.
That and players wearing jet packs and donning superhero costumes.
Simple ideas to improve the AFL spectacle
9-a-side is probably the best thing to happen to Australian Football in Europe in the last decade.
I don’t see any reason why it can’t be popular in Australia.
Sheedy spruiks 'AFL 11s'
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!
Australia and Korea are set for epic showdown
Inspiring 67 metre return from Marshawn Lynch. Youtube if anyone wants to see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynn7VGY2Asc
NFL Playoffs: Seattle stun Super Bowl Saints
This is perhaps where I think clubs have a slight luxury to take a risk with an international player on a longer term “project player basis”. The precedents are already there with Canadian Mike Pyke (Sydney) and Setanta O’Hailpin (Carlton), both with some success.
There are some pretty tall North America and Europe. Those Dutchies and Scandinavians are certainly tall, agile and can be quite skillful for their size.
What's the time frame on a 'project player'?
Very interesting.
The EU (Euro) Cup 9-a-side tournaments used this rule from 2005-2009 on the basis that it would almost always see the ball returned to the middle corridor of the field (and avoid an additional boundary throw in), as much as solve a problem with finding boundary umpires for the games. It sure made a game a lot faster (which was seen as important for a match of 24 minutes clock time)!
In 2010, we decided to revert to a “ball up” 10m from the boundary line instead, to both slow down the game a touch, and to bring back some emphasis on teams fielding a ruckman. It’s still fast though!
Will be interesting to see how this rule affects full format footy on a full sized field at a non-amateur level.
AFL to trial new out-of-bounds rule
Perhaps Foz meant that now the distraction of the World Cup bid is now over, the FFA can concentrate of reforming the HAL. In a poetic sense, it could be now be said to be “on firmer ground”.
Our FIFA problem: We are small and speak English
If you want real answers, start with soccer international governing body by asking them why 21 votes went elsewhere. Find out what motivates them (probably cash and lots of it) and you’re half way there to forming a successful bid for the next time.
Seriously, it would have been a case of Demetri-who? and AFLWTF in Zurich. It’s just such a non-issue that any suggestion of AFL skullduggery or schadenfreude is laughable.
Our FIFA problem: We are small and speak English
It is said the stadiums will be disassembled after the tournament and shipped elsewhere. They must be designed and erected in such a way that it makes it easy to do.
Perhaps the coalition of the willing can send in its crack troops to pinch the stadiums before the tournament starts?
That’ll teach ’em.
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Our FIFA problem: We are small and speak English
Agreed. It is clear that the sport has got a lot of work to do locally and much to prove internationally before we can really look FIFA square in the eye and ask that they entrust us with their cash cow.
The 2022 Qatar result should not be accepted
Agreed. They make their cash off TV rights, not tickets, so it’s probably more in thier interests that the crowds stay at home and watch on the box. I’m sure the technology to “paint in” crowds in the background will be well advanced in 2022.
Female fans biggest World Cup bid losers
Spiro,
FIFA gave the FFA an absolute smackdown – and the worst possible conclusion with no real opportunity to positively spin or save face. We got absolutely PWNED on the world stage and looked incredibly amateur, and in doing so used up a lot of political capital and diminished the working relationships with our other winter ball codes. Soccer in this country may not be able to rely on the generous leg-up from the Feds – let alone the other codes. Time will tell.
I sincerely hope this result will force the FFA to look inward, take stock and the difficult decision to focus on establish a self-sustaining, local competition that leads to a irresistible and successful bid for the World Cup sometime in the future. (This, and learning from Qatar’s example in winning over a majority of the (22 or) 24 ExCo voters who make the final decision, whatever it takes.)
Russia, despite the hyperbole from Western media, is a very hospitable and welcoming country – and much has changed over the last decade. I think their cup will be a tremendous success, despite all. They did put the first man in space…
Our FIFA problem: We are small and speak English
Just wanted to add that “under Australian law, bribery of foreign officials by an Australian organisation and its employees is illegal and can be prosecuted in an Australian court, even if the bribery happened abroad.”
In such a high profile public exercise as a World Cup bid, it would be counter productive to get caught participating in palm-greasing and then be prosecuted back in Australia. Wouldn’t be a good look for the bid.
Skippy is not to blame for our World Cup demise
Agreed. Purely a business decision here. Nothing to see… move along.
Kennett is right, the AFL must temper its arrogance
“..result in England’s exclusion from future World Cup finals”. LOL
Aren’t they usually home before their postcards anyway?
Little sympathy for Australian football from rival codes
Biggest Event on Earth?
Christmas surely must be the biggest event on Earth, and I humbly suggest that all Australians unite once again and put in a bid for hosting Santa’s workshop in 2011.
Qatar win 2022, but football will still thrive in Australia
Too easy to blame one individual. If you want answers, start asking the 21 voters in Zurich who voted against us.
We lost, now it's time for football to move on
Initially perhaps, but certainly not over the longer term. The HAL is really in dire trouble now.
Qatar win 2022, but football will still thrive in Australia
I suspect it is shunned for a reason. Very few are interested or watch it. Certainly not in the numbers justified for a more viewer friendly time.
AFL TV deal makes no difference up north