Rabbit_Attack wrote:Lol as much as i'm a league fan, you may find a few of the teams in Melbourne do actually hail from what would be termed as cities also
please mate, i hardly classify melbourne itself as a city its that far behind sydney.
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dally messenger wrote:anyway mate, rather than spending most of your time talking up AFL, why not try and get out to some NRL games, and actually watch more of the NRL yourself.
Maybe one day, when the NRL realises the N stands for National and not NSW!
Australia only has 10 or so major population centres, how hard is it to get a team in each of them?
WEST COAST PIRATES NRL expansion? Sometime soon, maybe......
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yes then the aussies bashes them ............
winning like never before. decoys. mouse traps. chicken wings. lollie pops. shepperds. the crusher. grapples. big league. In 1935 The Dragon Slayers as they were known defeated Canterbury bulldogs 91-6, which is still the biggest win in the Club's History. In 1907, the St George district had a club in the Sydney rugby union competition. Interestingly, the team's area was referred to as the 'Illawarra suburbs'. A resolution to form a St George rugby league club was made at a local meeting held in early 1908, but the movement faltered and collapsed. St George, wearing the district colours of red and white, played in the NSWRL's Third Grade competition in 1910, and formed a President's Cup team in 1911. References were found at the time to district teams being called 'The Saints'.the perfect 11
ffs as much as i'm a league man through & through, AFL absolutely kills us for passion, crowds, marketing, sponsorship, they are 100 times more proffesional in the way they run their game.
They understand having massive amounts of members for clubs is a sure way of making money, we lag behind.
If you think League is ahead of AFL on a national level then you truelly have your head in the sand
Rabbit_Attack wrote:ffs as much as i'm a league man through & through, AFL absolutely kills us for passion, crowds, marketing, sponsorship, they are 100 times more proffesional in the way they run their game.
They understand having massive amounts of members for clubs is a sure way of making money, we lag behind.
If you think League is ahead of AFL on a national level then you truelly have your head in the sand
Agree except for the parts I've bolded. Passion? At Homebush I've seen 25'000 RL fans make more atmosphere than 60'000 AFL fans. There's no comparison.
As for professionalism, a lot of it is just the impressions given from their all powerful PR department. Look at how the NRL, AFL and A-League have all handled expansion to the GC. Amateurs would be able to do a better job than what the AFL have done.
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