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Re: 20,000 South Africans to play aussie rules by 2010

Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 6:53 pm
by kilonewton
Huge crowds for the first Aussie Rules event in Scotland for 2013....oh hang on, there wasn't as it was cancelled due to the snow.

Nines, can you get over to Scotland and bash some sense into the bloke (an Aussie. Very short, very angry, but I don't go in for stereotypes :lol: ) who seems to want to destroy the sport in Scotland? We play 9 a side due to low numbers, and this fool wants to reduce the number of matches, and bring in rules mandating the use of "Scottish" players. His definition of Scottish would actually rule out members of the Scottish team under the current rules for international eligibility from qualifying as "Scottish" players in the league, and thus basically kill off 2 of the 3 teams.

Re: 20,000 South Africans to play aussie rules by 2010

Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 8:45 pm
by Simmo79
Nines is hanging out at Talking Footy's Fight Club - there are retards from all the codes battling it out over there.

Re: 20,000 South Africans to play aussie rules by 2010

Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 6:37 pm
by IanRitchie
is nines drunk or has the troll forgotten to log out?

Re: 20,000 South Africans to play aussie rules by 2010

Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 10:13 pm
by Simmo79
It's like a seagull swooped in, shat in ten threads and then buggered off again

Re: 20,000 South Africans to play aussie rules by 2010

Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:11 am
by yob
:lol:

Re: 20,000 South Africans to play aussie rules by 2010

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 6:31 pm
by nobleoz
stats re registered participants in today's news item about NZ match:

South Africa 20,00 staff 16
NZ 30,000 staff 4
PNG & Pacific 65,000 staff 17
North America 2,000 staff 1
Europe 5,000 staff 1

Re: 20,000 South Africans to play aussie rules by 2010

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 6:41 pm
by yob
Bullshit.

Re: 20,000 South Africans to play aussie rules by 2010

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:30 am
by bazza
yob wrote:Bullshit.
it was in today's news item
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Re: 20,000 South Africans to play aussie rules by 2010

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:34 am
by Simmo79
so it must be true

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Re: 20,000 South Africans to play aussie rules by 2010

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 1:23 pm
by yob
Absolutely massive strides for aussie rules in New Zealand, with St Kilda signing a NZ player under a scholarship programme. Amazingly, this one has played the game before. For a month.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-04-26/s ... -kiwi-call

Re: 20,000 South Africans to play aussie rules by 2010

Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 2:17 pm
by gyfox
Number of footballers in South Africa - 4,540,410.
Number of registered footballers in South Africa - 1,469,410.
Number of football officials in South Africa - 20,557.

They must be very worried about the pimple on their a*se that is AFL.

Re: 20,000 South Africans to play aussie rules by 2010

Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 4:15 pm
by yob
I think the 20,000 number playing AFL would be plausible if you put sporting participation to a ballot.

As long as it's in alphabetical order.

Re: 20,000 South Africans to play aussie rules by 2010

Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 4:27 pm
by the crow
Behind abseiling, aerobics, aikido, American football, archery & athletics.

Re: 20,000 South Africans to play aussie rules by 2010

Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 9:48 pm
by Spirit of Santos
yob wrote:Absolutely massive strides for aussie rules in New Zealand, with St Kilda signing a NZ player under a scholarship programme. Amazingly, this one has played the game before. For a month.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-04-26/s ... -kiwi-call
Unconfirmed reports that on receiving his guernsey and shorts from an AFL media manager pre-photo shoot the young man was heard to say:

"Do I have to wear this bro?"

Re: 20,000 South Africans to play aussie rules by 2010

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 1:24 pm
by yob
If the game is growing overseas... why aren't we hearing about it from them? Because it doesn't exist. All they're doing is promoting this idea of foreign conquest to garner support for the game's administration at home.

Governments do it all the time, it's called propaganda. And all you're doing is reinforcing the game's image as the bogan game.

Hey, I mean knock yourself out buddy. I've got plenty more oxygen here to laugh with.