85,154 under 12 players ... in NSW alone .. in one age divsion
this number supposedly doubling in the space of a few years
86K in just one age division in a non traditional state ............ wot moron would believe such a thing when some facts are presented in analysis of this AFL Claim ?
like there being only 4 U12 sides ( so 80 players ) in the Cronulla district .. & only another 24 that cover the entire Western Sydney region ( 480 more players)
they don't even have an U11's comp in West Syd
if there were 100 U 12 sides in all of Sydney ... unlikley .. but lets just keep the delusion going
thats only about 2K U12 kids in all Sydney
so where are the other 84K from then ?
this is what we're dealing with here folks .. the AFL
an organisation that has no problem making stuff up ... just clearly falsifying figures ... corrupting data .. & telling massive porkies
to make themselves out to be doing far better then they actually are
zero credibility .. in fact les then zero .. can be assigned to this mob
& nothing they " sprout out " can be believed
& this is the proof
http://asiancorrespondent.com/54477/wha ... rn-sydney/
The highest profile competition of Australia’s indigenous code of football, the AFL, recently hit the jackpot with a $1.25 billion television deal that will ensure the code’s future for years to come.
It’s interesting, however, to have a closer look at some of the claims the code made just before the deal was done.
In particular, this article in the Sydney Morning Herald contains some very strange claims:
With the winter junior sport season starting across Sydney this morning, AFL NSW/ACT says junior Australian rules numbers have doubled for under-12s since 2005, from 41,807 to 85,154 last year…
In rugby league, 38,119 juniors signed up to play last year.
The suggestion that appears to come out of this article that twice as many kids in NSW play AFL under 12s than all age groups in rugby league is beyond ridiculous.
In the Sutherland Shire, for example, there are more than 250 junior rugby league teams including 19 under 12 teams.
By comparison, there are only four under 12 Aussie Rules teams in the same area, with the kids having to travel to St George and Bankstown to make up a competition – and these are areas where rugby league is equally dominant over a code known universally **** the kids as “Gay FL”.
Most telling of all, the AFL is not setting the world alight in western Sydney, the area where the AFL has invested millions of dollars to recruit young new fans, with representatives visiting schools across the region offering bags of merchandise to kids who sign up.
The western Sydney AFL junior competition for under 12s has 24 teams, taking in a huge sweep of western Sydney, and there is no under 11 competition.
Going through the junior rugby league tables in the same regions of Penrith, Parramatta and western Sydney, there are 107 under 12 junior rugby league teams and more again in an under 11 competition - that the AFL is not catering for.
By now you should be getting some kind of sense that any suggestion there are twice as many under 12s playing AFL in NSW than all the kids playing rugby league is not quite correct.
There is some evidence that AFL is being adopted by the kids of worried mums in more affluent areas of central and northern Sydney, which is the heartland of rugby union.
However, the death of rugby league in Sydney has been exaggerated, and the millions invested in western Sydney by the AFL have so far been wasted.
