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geelongAREfootball wrote: Still don’t see how you come to that conclusion of 30,000 people playing the sport or that the would be a league and all the other fairytales you come up with
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ossie wrote:
AFL South Africa (the governing body for the game in SA) had in 2004, 160 senior and 540 junior players. By 2006, this number had grown to over 3000. I think this is indisputable evidence that the game is growing there.
and FIFA said football affect 1 in 5 people in the world
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ifnot4me wrote:
and FIFA said football affect 1 in 5 people in the world
Irrelevant. Please stay on topic. You disputed that there was evidence that Aussie Rules is growing in South Africa, and I provided some.
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This is rubbish, AFL will never take off anywhere but in southern Australia. What a waste of time and money this whole experiment is.
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ossie wrote:
AFL South Africa (the governing body for the game in SA) had in 2004, 160 senior and 540 junior players. By 2006, this number had grown to over 3000. I think this is indisputable evidence that the game is growing there.
look at you source AFL South Afirca
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ossie wrote:
Irrelevant. Please stay on topic. You disputed that there was evidence that Aussie Rules is growing in South Africa, and I provided some.
yes from the afl website
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geelongAREfootball wrote:
It isnt really a topic that can be talked about a whole lot. I was just pasting articles about the topic.
Does it hurt you that if the Socceroos dont qualify for the soccer world cup then the sport will completely collapse?
LOL collapse, unlike AFL, football is a world sport, just because Australia doesnt make it, the sport wont collapse.
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ifnot4me wrote:
look at you source
AFL South Afirca
That is the name of the governing body. Who else can provide details of registered numbers of players? (which by the way is now 7800) Who are you to dispute that figure? Have a look at this ABC article from as long ago as 2005:The South African Government has declared Australian Rules Football the sport for "the new South Africa", ...
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ossie wrote:That is the name of the governing body. Who else can provide details of registered numbers of players? (which by the way is now 7800) Who are you to dispute that figure? Have a look at this ABC article from as long ago as 2005:The South African Government has declared Australian Rules Football the sport for "the new South Africa", ... If thats what they declared then so be it. Lets see what the people say now
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http://www.safa.net/index.php?page=safainformationThe South African Football Association was founded on 8 December, 1991, the culmination of a long unity process that was to rid the sport in South Africa of all its past racial division. Four disparate units came together to form the organisation in Johannesburg to set South African soccer on the road to a return to international competition after a lifetime of apartheid in soccer. They were the Football Association of South Africa, the South African Soccer Association, the South African Soccer Federation and the South African National Football Association, who later withdrew from the process only to return again two years later. It was only natural that the game finally be united as the sport of soccer had long led the way into breaking the tight grip of racial oppression, written into South Africa’s laws by its successive apartheid governments. _________________ do you see my point now
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find me a news article from SA media outlet
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ifnot4me wrote:http://www.safa.net/index.php?page=safainformation
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do you see my point now Again, irrelevant. The point is whether Aussie Rules is growing in South Africa, which it is, at a rate of 160%. Nobody here gives a toss about soccer so stop bringing it up.
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If it's so irrelevant, why are people moved to comment on this thread? Does it pain you (or any of the others so inclined to comment on this thread), so much to see poor little AFL fans talking up their irrelevant sport and in an irrelevant country, that you just can't help yourself and have to tell us the God's own truth?
Dreaming is not a bad thing.
Put a sock in it or contribute constructively. Soccer, rugby league and rugby union have been doing the same bloody thing for ages.
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ifnot4me wrote:
Still don’t see how you come to that conclusion of 30,000 people playing the sport or that the would be a league and all the other fairytales you come up with
That is the AFL's stated aim. And it is a realistic figure. ifnot4me wrote:http://www.safa.net/index.php?page=safainformation
The South African Football Association was founded on 8 December, 1991, the culmination of a long unity process that was to rid the sport in South Africa of all its past racial division.
Four disparate units came together to form the organisation in Johannesburg to set South African soccer on the road to a return to international competition after a lifetime of apartheid in soccer.
They were the Football Association of South Africa, the South African Soccer Association, the South African Soccer Federation and the South African National Football Association, who later withdrew from the process only to return again two years later.
It was only natural that the game finally be united as the sport of soccer had long led the way into breaking the tight grip of racial oppression, written into South Africa’s laws by its successive apartheid governments.
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do you see my point now The joining together of four organisations is NOT the unification of the people. theFOOTBALLlover wrote:
LOL collapse, unlike AFL, football is a world sport, just because Australia doesnt make it, the sport wont collapse.
Im talking about in Australia, which is what all soccer fanatics in Australia are concerned with at the moment. ifnot4me wrote:find me a news article from SA media outlet Their primary source will be an AFL site. It all comes back to the official organisation of the sport.
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where is the article on AFL?
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click quote and then copy paste the address into your address barm then u can see the article.
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That is the AFL's stated aim. And it is a realistic figure
How is it realistic?
The joining together of four organisations is NOT the unification of the people
Yes and the afl is doing a better job by teaching 10 kicked how at kick a ball
Im talking about in Australia, which is what all soccer fanatics in Australia are concerned with at the moment
Who is concerned? The average attendance at the A-league is 15,000, what is the NRL
Please stop making things up to try prove your point
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geelongAREfootball wrote:click quote and then copy paste the address into your address barm then u can see the article. still can't find it what's the headline
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