BruceOfRedfernNSW wrote:AFLsforPussies wrote:BruceOfRedfernNSW wrote:Nice to see a western Sydney women's AFL team, the Auburn GIANTS, playing a curtain-raiser at the MCG last weekend.
Following on from the recently successful Bachar Houli Cup in western Sydney, it appears AFL is comfortably seeded and growing among our western Sydney Muslim communities.
They day Muslims follow GWS and AFL over the Bulldogs will be the day AFL has test Matches lol..
Pigs flying will is more likely. Good luck with your wishful thinking. =D> =D>
From little things, BIG things grow.
I suggest you go read a few afl forums .
I have posted on here where the local volunteers/ players/fans tell how it really is .
How bad it really is as opposed to the usual feel good propaganda .
& how surprising ,last time I posted some posts it was howled down ,by the head in the sand mob on here .
http://www.redandwhiteonline.com/forum/ ... rn-arounds
Sadly, it's a good news story for ONE CLUB only CB, and congratulations to them.
As Norris points out, it was u/19's last year as well, so there is the normal attrition across all clubs, and the numbers coming through have dwindled alarmingly once again (just not at Parramatta).
Sadly, most of the u/19 div 2 teams are lucky to avoid a forfeit 2 weeks out of 3 ... and when they have a Sunday game, and can't draw on u/17's they are normally stuffed.
The statistics are shameful.
In 2013, there were SEVENTEEN (17) U/18's teams across 2 divisions, and the only true failure was the dysfunctional "Macarthur Giants", who proved to the AFL that regardless of how much time effort and money you want to throw, they never wanted to play as an entity in the first place, and they added an exclamation mark by going 0 and 18 ... the ONLY team that didn't win at least 2 games.
Since going to Sunday divisionalised juniors, the outcomes are staggering.
We now have an 8 team div 1 and a 7 team div 2 in u/19's (giving us an extra year to draw from), and both comps have winless teams who can't compete, and div 2 that is a player or 2 away from a couple of forfeits each week.
So, sorry to say, this is yet another indictment of the AFL's management (mismanagement?) of the sport in Sydney ... I still can't work out how rising junior participation numbers convert to reduced numbers in the next pathway??? ... oh unless those reports are somehow inaccurate ...
Whilst on the subject, wtf is going on at ECE?
... whilst their NEAFL team will win the Premier division in a hand canter, they've gone from fielding two u/18's teams in recent years to one team that is winless from 10 games in u/19s div 1, and struggling to get 19 players for a game ... how does the AFL measure that success?
Has this anything to do with the AFL's decision to "Westernise" Baulko juniors ... oh Magooo, they've done it again!
