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Australian Football Stuff - not worthy of a thread

Big Al

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Feel free to move but:

Macarthur FC players Matthew Millar and Jed Drew have been named in court documents to have allegedly participated in a bet-fixing scheme.

Snake - lololololololol

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Are they the ones not good enough to do it properly in the later games. It was mentioned two failed attempts later on.

So many of them it’s almost insulting if you weren’t asked.
 

Archie

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In other news footage has come out of Preston Lions fans attacking a Northcote City fan in a carpark after a game or vise versa, it was on 7 news
 

MrCelery

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Good articulate report on ABC News: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/9CYm7LjA5B4wG2JJ/

I just wish they had also included the issue of media control/bias and lack of marketing as reasons for domestic football not getting to their potential audience.

It always irks me to see codes like NRL and AFL getting vastly more coverage than the A-League thanks mainly to the Murdoch media and other media outlets. Even the ABC doesn't provide A-League match reports.

The A-League has hundreds of good stories to tell. Yet all you get are stories about NRL biffo boys getting an ingrown toenail or an AFL players ruptured testicle, or someone's latest offensive tattoo.
 

MrCelery

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They could also have talked about the hundreds of millions in govt grants to the AFL and NRL over the last ten years as compared with bugger all for the A League.
Good point, although Bruce did touch on that briefly but got cut off.

They also didn't fully make the connection between the cost of junior football and the Matildas and Socceroos. It's OK to complain about paying $1,000s for grass roots, but the Socceroos and Matildas (and Olyroos, Joeys, Pararoos, et al) don't come cheap. I can't see the AFL paying a lot of money out for their International teams!
 

Stuartmcateer

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Good point, although Bruce did touch on that briefly but got cut off.

They also didn't fully make the connection between the cost of junior football and the Matildas and Socceroos. It's OK to complain about paying $1,000s for grass roots, but the Socceroos and Matildas (and Olyroos, Joeys, Pararoos, et al) don't come cheap. I can't see the AFL paying a lot of money out for their International teams!
How much of the $3k to play for Mariners or CCU (or any other NPL club) would actually be reduced though? Or the $250 to play in the CCF comp?

Old has been like Ziggy and O'Donovan would just get bigger $$ and clubs would have bigger cash hordes. Or FFA would buy a second floor in Shelley Street.

The average mum and dad wouldn't see much of a reduction in what they have to fork out.

There's very little evidence showing that the high fees translate into funding national teams or that more money to fund national teams would trickle down to make football cheaper for the grassroots.
 

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