25,000 New Zealanders playing Aussie Rules in 2013

[yob]

Under new president Peter Summers, the Saints released their strategic framework, dubbed St Kilda - More than a Football Club,

The NSW agreed to build this for GWS to match the AFL's promise of a mintie wrapper, with the little crusty mint bits stuck to the wrinkly bits licked off.

[IanRitchie]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-spor ... -admission

Fewer than half the 13,285 people who attended this year's Anzac Day Aussie Rules match at Westpac Stadium paid for their tickets - a revelation that could put the future of the annual event in jeopardy.

It was understood just 6400 people paid face value for their tickets to watch St Kilda lose to Brisbane.

What a success!

[yob]

More than a GWS game...

[the crow]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-spor ... -admission

Fewer than half the 13,285 people who attended this year's Anzac Day Aussie Rules match at Westpac Stadium paid for their tickets - a revelation that could put the future of the annual event in jeopardy.

It was understood just 6400 people paid face value for their tickets to watch St Kilda lose to Brisbane.

What a success!

Sounds like everyone lost at that game.

[Egan]

All depends if they got 3-4,000 people flying in from Australia of the 6,400 tickets bought.

[yob]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-06-28/s ... i-presence

"We'd like to get more people attending the game, not just from Melbourne but also from domestic cities in New Zealand, such as Auckland where there is actually quite a good AFL footprint," Finnis said.

[Simmo79]

"We're also putting a strategy together around how we link in with the centenary of Anzac Day next year and the opening of a new Australian war memorial in Wellington on the same day."

Do these c***s have no shame?

[yob]

Nothing could possibly be wrong at home - the game is marching on toward international conquest. Thymosin Bet^^nyarghh gimme that

[yob]

http://www.smh.com.au/afl/afl-news/sain ... zspdz.html

St Kilda CEO Matt Finnis has strongly denied a theory opined by former Saints coach Grant Thomas that appointing a New Zealand-based director is a portent to a permanent international move.

The Saints on Saturday unveiled veteran New Zealand sports administrator and Wellington local Liz Dawson to their board, the first time an AFL club has had a director located overseas.

While suggesting that the relationship between St Kilda and New Zealand was getting stronger, Finnis categorically ruled out relocation.

"New Zealand is a completely immature market compared to say, Tasmania. We're really just that step beyond exhibition games," Finnis said on radio's SEN.

Thank god they poured water on this raging inferno

[yob]

Do these c***s have no shame?

This week against Richmond, at Docklands, they hired some Maori to perform the Haka for them.

[yob]

Move over New Zealand.





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[bazza]

Wellington Council is part of the conspiracy to stop Aussie Rules becoming the #1 sport in New Zealand

The man who helped bring AFL to Wellington says he is "deeply disappointed" the city council has given it the boot.

After three years of treating the capital as a second home, the Melbourne AFL club St Kilda will not be returning to Wellington next year.

The Wellington City Council and the club were unable to reach a deal to keep the Anzac day test fixture alive.

The council is understood to have spent more than $1 million on the three-year deal to bring St Kilda to Westpac Stadium. But after a strong crowd in 2013, interest in Aussie Rules has waned in Wellington and the council started questioning its worth as game crowds diminished.

Former Wellington city councillor John Morrison was deeply involved in stitching the AFL deal together.

On Monday he said dropping the only AFL test outside of Australia was a "lost opportunity" for Wellington. The games were a unique opportunity to attract Australian dollars to the capital and forge closer business ties with Melbourne, he said.

"It is pretty disappointing because we did a lot of work to get it down here."

Morrison said AFL had made a strong start but there had been a lack of commitment to making it work long term after he had left council.

"There is more interest in cycleways to nowhere in Island Bay than in AFL."

But Deputy Mayor Justin Lester said while the fixture had brought some economic benefits, it was not enough to justify continued financial support.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/sp ... s-the-boot

[yob]

Still another 200 countries to extract rent from.

[dibo]

25,000 Libyans playing Aussie Rules in 2019

[yob]

25,000 Libyans playing Aussie Rules in 2019

With a dictator's head