It's true porkchop. It's true and you're right - they are desperate for interational relevance.
Though we should clarify that it's desperation on a sub-conscious level most of the time. You'll hear time and time again false lines like "we dont care, we're the biggest in australia". But we all know the AFL and its fans are desperate to achieve something internationally. They're spending millions on o/s promotions that fall flat on their arse time and time again. They've been playing some hybrid game with the irish and getting their arses kicked by irish amateur butchers, bakers, tradies and garbage men who play gaelic footy for next to nothing.

That concept is dead in the water too. Then there was some halfbaked idea to pay all expenses for 8 odd people from o/s to spend six months in aus and to support an AFL team

Ahhh how'd that end up? I heard sven from sweden got heaps of roots on the weekends but didnt bother turning up to the AFL matches :_<> :_<> idiots down at AFL hq! That doozy woulda cost atleast a million for jack diddly squat in return.
South africa, china, india, new zealand, the states, europe all could not give two shits about the code even tho the AFL have tried hard to be accepted.
A major part of the problem is the name, just like american football...if you are dumb enough to name a sport after a country then dont go dreaming of expansion across the world

the dimwits are effectively going o/s with a sport that's name literally says "its ours not yours"

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idiots! :_<>

:_<> at least american footy players have a nation of 300plus million keen on the code and the athletes are fairly supreme...
And when you look at that picture of the AFL laddettes next to COLLEGE american footy players their code's irrelevance is so...so so so. sooo soo so so so so soooooooo profound

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