Well I don't think they'll come to you .

In the mean time another province has taken up Australian Football
and the numbers continue to grow .

The 2008 International Cup is going to be very interesting .

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From wikipedia citing the AFL's Australian football census.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian ... uth_Africa


In fact here's all the info on AFL International that you'd need. Surprised not much is made of the 9,000 players in China...
http://www.afl.com.au/Portals/0/afl_doc ... 240807.pdf

Paint-drying interesting or grass-growing interesting?

Train-wreck interesting?

so %0.042553191489361702127659574468085 of the population care.

with this in mind this forum should be called 47 245 495 South Africans dont care much for AFL.

but i suppose the country has a history of minorities influencing in the majority.

at least then you can ponder what sort of locos they are, etc. and so on...

I remember the last international cup when the PNG player did his knee - most spectacular knee i've seen since Richard Osborne.

But then we'd have to add all the other sports they don't care about as well , wouldn't we.
At least many thousands of juniors are playing Australian Football and are taking the game of Australain football up an accelerating rate . With the AFL now being shown in South Africa and the upcoming AFL NAB games being played there , South Africans might start caring about AFL as well .

Interesting to note that when the WCE trained in RSA and conducted AFL clinics
Whoosha predicted that RSA would be WAFL standard soon .

Didn't know WA football was going that badly.

Subiaco has already invested its own money into coaching clinics in South Africa. I am just wondering what on earth for, unless it is only to increase the brand name of Subiaco.

The WAFL premiers Subiaco played the SANFL premiers in a match in RSA .
I think the idea is to include an RSA team in the WAFL in the future .

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Owned by Subiaco Football Club?

Subiaco had funded the whole trip by themselves, without the AFL or WAFC commission.

However they had consultation with the AFL for the coaching clinics. Maybe it is to look at players in the region...probably testing the area out for a regular season WAFL game, rather then a team being based out of South Africa.

Its a 9 hour flight to Perth from Johannesburg...so I doubt getting a WAFL team is sustainable at the moment.

Subiaco would obviously be in RSA primarily for Subiaco's sake .
Which would be a combination of things - end of year trip , taining , promotion , recruitment , experimentation and goodwill .
The WAFC has made noises with regard to the area and would have had talks with Subiaco.
The obvious starting point is some promotional games .
When you say they held AFL clinics I think that would be Australian Football clinics . But correct me if I'm wrong .

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Subiaco Football Club on its main website said it had done Auskick Clinics in assocation with the AFL Development Officer. Subiaco have taken as big a leap as any of the AFL teams into South Africa.

And it will be very interesting to see how it develops...one thing you have to congratulate about Subiaco, despite the rorting of the cap, they are a very progressive football club.

My opinion is that the costs for Subiaco, other then big noting itself, was not worth it. It received little promotion (came across it on their website). There is no regular coverage of games that can be watched weekly in South Africa to entrench the marketability of games and all it did was do coaching clinics.

I would be quite interested to see the 'real' reason of the exhibition, rather then just trying to build the code up in South Africa.