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Re: Does South African AR have more participants than rl.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 5:32 pm
by ParraEelsNRL
footyWild Extreme
AFL Eye opener ! South Africa's footyWild programme - how good is this?
Since the re-introduction of Aussie Rules in S.A. in 1995, participation in the 3 levels described below now exceeds 100,000, across 4 provinces and is jointly funded by Aust Gov AusAid, S.A Gov, AFL & 4 AFL Clubs, WCE, Freo, Carlton & Collingwood (each has a province) plus local sponsors. The National Sports Academy has AR as one of its 13 selected sports.
OVER 30 footyWild centres have been set up with staff, coaches & volunteers to cover
1. BIG5 - Each centre hosts up to 4 Primary Schools for a 90 minute after school session Mon-Thurs concentrating on the Big5 viz Marking / Kicking / Handball / Evasive Skills / Defence & tackling. On Friday afternoons for 20 weeks non-competitive scratch games are played to teach sportsmanship incl respect for players, teachers, volunteers & umpires. (8-13 yr olds from over 100 primary schools are involved )
2. footyWild High - Up to 2 high schools are assigned to each centre (49 so far) and they play in 16 aside teams in their own comp to AFL rules as the next stage of development.
3. footyWild Extreme - 26 of the centres now have open age senior teams who play in the 3 Provincial League Comps - 14 in North West, 6 in KwaZulu Natal (Durban), 6 in West Cape ( Capetown) while Gauteng Province based on Johannesburg is a year or two away from a comp.
National Championships are held annually between the Provincial teams drawn from 3. above and the National Team (Lions) is selected from this for the I'nat Cup, Annual Aust Indigenous V Lions clash & visiting teams (AFL Academy, Geelong Grammar etc)
The word from Ron Barassi & Brett Kirk is that the mass participation programme has been an astounding success. The way that South Africans have embraced the code at all levels right through to sponsorships is nothing short of "staggering and awe inspiring".
Is it any wonder AFL coaches have their eyes set on S.A. for AFL subsidised International rookie recruit lists ?
5 months ago
Re: Does South African AR have more participants than rl.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 5:33 pm
by ParraEelsNRL
As I said, a heap of shiit where you count every kid that takes part in a 30 min school clinic and pass them off as participation numbers.
From your own phucking link dumbarse.
Re: Does South African AR have more participants than rl.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 5:43 pm
by cos789
ParraEelsNRL wrote:As I said, a heap of shiit where you count every kid that takes part .
in a useless rl exercise
Re: Does South African AR have more participants than rl.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 5:44 pm
by ParraEelsNRL
footyWild Extreme LOL.
Re: Does South African AR have more participants than rl.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:10 pm
by NSWAFL
It works!
Re: Does South African AR have more participants than rl.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:31 pm
by ParraEelsNRL
It's a fraud.
Re: Does South African AR have more participants than rl.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:44 pm
by ParraEelsNRL
Conceding SA to RL now sara?
Re: Does South African AR have more participants than rl.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:20 pm
by cos789
ParraEelsNRL wrote:Conceding SA to RL now sara?
I was going to ask you whether you're conceding ?
Less rl clubs according to rlp and less rl participation compared to AR.
Re: Does South African AR have more participants than rl.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:53 pm
by ParraEelsNRL
Footywild is not afl sara.
Re: Does South African AR have more participants than rl.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:18 pm
by NSWAFL
Yes it is. Concede. Now.
Re: Does South African AR have more participants than rl.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:27 pm
by cos789
ParraEelsNRL wrote:Footywild is not afl sara.
Like in Newcastle parafeel , like in Newcastle
Re: Does South African AR have more participants than rl.
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:32 pm
by cos789
RFL is not the BARLA eh parafeel.
Re: Does South African AR have more participants than rl.
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:36 pm
by ParraEelsNRL
RFL is not Barla sara.
And forcings back is not Australian feebleball and Newcastle has never played AFL.
South African AR has more participants than rl.
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:43 pm
by cos789
So the RFL is not big like BARLA ?
South African AR has more participants than rl.
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 5:02 pm
by cos789
cos789 wrote:
So the RFL is not big like BARLA ?
Hmmn difficult question