Lets stuff up our game even more...................

[Lazza]

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/a ... ral7s.html

Geez, what next?

Play footy on snow so that we can have Scandinavian teams????

Absolutely bloody bizarre

[Jezza]

Supporters are not happy and rightly so.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/l ... rb8i7.html

[Presti35]

It would never surpass the real game. I have no problem with them trailing new things, and this might become some kind of summer league thing.

I just hope it isnt some kind of attempt to make it an olympic sport.

[ronrat]

Are they seriously paying supporters money to come up with this stuff. They having been playing a 9 a side version in Asia for years. There is an annual tournamnet in Bali every October attended by the likes of BT and attracts Australian sides. Gary Buckenara is life patron of the Borneo bears and thats how they play it there . Singapore, Cambodia, laos, vietnam,, Thailand, Phillipines Myanmat, Dubai, pakistan, Timor leste all play it. There are websites all over the joints. Doug Hawkins and Glen Archer have been to see it play.

They could have got a work experience kid to come up with this. Oh wait we have made it 7 a side.

The Chief Football writer should get off her arse an d write a piece about the AFL wasting money on this stuff and redirect the funds to the expat footy sides in the Asia pacific area trying to bring a version of the game to the locals without the benefit of footies and other gear. The President and vice President of the Asian footy leagues will hear about this.

[ronrat]

Got an email about this about 10 minutes after I posted form the President of the Borneo Bears. He read the article in the SMH, He said they started the same 7 a side concept in 2008 because they had only a soccer field and had marked the 35 metre line so you could only score from inside.


And to the AFL. Indoor soccer, cricket and rugby 7s ring a bell.

[David]

If they want to create a new sport, good on them, I suppose. Just as long as this doesn't turn out to be some kind of 'Super League' endeavour...

[Mountains Magpie]

Supporters are not happy and rightly so.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/l ... rb8i7.html

This from the above: "It was a great game before it became a business"

So was test cricket and so was rugby league. Is everything about money and TV ratings now?

For shame, for shame.

MM

[woodys_world69]

the ambition for a year round sport?

thats ludicrous.
Is there any other sport in the world that does this? not even Basketball where its played god damn indoors!

[ronrat]

The crazy thing is that the AFL paid a 10,000 dollar bonus to the joker in the AFL think tank and now the lawsuits are flying. The AFL has declared it has a commercial value. The Asia boys have gone mad as they had published internet content with rules going back at least 8 years . And they have been asking for help to grow the game in the form of material support like footys to no avail. .

Cricket and soccer, Rugby all have truncated games.There is nothing new.

[woodys_world69]

The crazy thing is that the AFL paid a 10,000 dollar bonus to the joker in the AFL think tank and now the lawsuits are flying. The AFL has declared it has a commercial value. The Asia boys have gone mad as they had published internet content with rules going back at least 8 years . And they have been asking for help to grow the game in the form of material support like footys to no avail. .

Cricket and soccer, Rugby all have truncated games.There is nothing new.

Test match cricket is dead because of it.
Rugby Union is pretty much dead, nobody has cared about that sport in australia for a decade.
And soccer was already a world known sport.