25,000 New Zealanders playing Aussie Rules in 2013

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There are fewer than 30,000 club participants in NSW/ACT (and falling, according to the 2012 Annual Report, p78). Are you trying to tell us there are almost as many players in NZ as NSW/ACT, or that the 'participation' is the far weaker test of having shown up to a clinic or similar (the one which gives the fanciful number of 844,000 in Australia and nearly 150,000 in NSW)?

If the former, source please; if the latter, hold your fire son.

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It'll be 500 club players and 24,500 sprogs who've had a sherrin thrust in their hands during daycare.

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Not to worry. Maybe we will just have to wait a bit and they will all disappear just like the 25,000 South Africans in that missing thread did.

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we aren't even done with 2013. if this growth continues at this rate we may hit 50k by the end of the year!

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IanRitchie wrote:we aren't even done with 2013. if this growth continues at this rate we may hit 50k by the end of the year!
Are flying pigs in plague proportions over there this year?

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Simmo79 wrote:It'll be 500 club players and 24,500 sprogs who've had a sherrin thrust in their hands during daycare.
And 4 English backpacker types in a park.

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Yeah, I walked up to the guy with an english accent at night in a park.


SAID NO ONE EVER

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i bet nobody's even sold 25,000 sherrins in new zealand.

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f**k I bet there isn't 25,000 Cheries in New Zealand.

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please start more threads

i need this

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Nines wrote:people are even talking of putting an AFL team in NZ.
When do you predict that there will be a NZ based AFL team?

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Re: 25,000 New Zealanders playing Aussie Rules in 2013

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When will the AFL change it's name to the WFL (world football league) can't be long now.

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Wouldn't it be Australian World Football League

or AWFL

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To put this into context rugby league in NZ had 35,788 registered players in 2012

http://www.nzrl.co.nz/news-archive/rugb ... rowth.aspx

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:lol:

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