AFL sinks boot into rugby's heart

[ParraEelsNRL]

1 point for stewie.

[Raiderdave]

Football in a Canberra school

http://goo.gl/maps/WZDC0

lol, you can still see the side lines marked where their real sports play.

Not even an oval

It's still football in a Canberra school

on a rectangle pitch .. & for 1 day

wow
isn't the victorian game held in high esteem in our capitals schools

[Stewie]

It's still more than what the nRL has in a city with more than triple the population of Canberra

[Raiderdave]

It's still more than what the nRL has in a city with more than triple the population of Canberra

we have a VFL side though ?


does Twatelaide have an NRL side .... no

game ova

[Stewie]

It's still more than what the nRL has in a city with more than triple the population of Canberra

we have a VFL side though ?


does Twatelaide have an NRL side .... no

game ova

Canberra has an AFL team? Canberra is host to an AFL team that plays matches there, but is not based there. Big difference.

[ParraEelsNRL]

It's still their team though.
Greater Universal and all considered.

[Raiderdave]

It's still more than what the nRL has in a city with more than triple the population of Canberra

we have a VFL side though ?


does Twatelaide have an NRL side .... no

game ova

Canberra has an AFL team? Canberra is host to an AFL team that plays matches there, but is not based there. Big difference.

oh .... you'd better tell their captain then d head

GIANTS Co-Captain Phil Davis said the players were looking forward to the opportunity to meet local fans and members in Canberra in the lead up to the 2013 season.

“Canberra is the home of the GIANTS and it’s a great chance for all of us to get out in the community and engage with our supporters,” said Davis.



http://www.gwsgiants.com.au/giant-commu ... berra.html

[ParraEelsNRL]

Stewie just gave that point he earned earlier back, what a surprise.

Easy come easy go eh?

[Stewie]

Lol Phil Davis... ex Crow, that explains it.

Does Perth have two nRL teams now because they hosted two nRL games last year?

[ParraEelsNRL]

But but but but but, aye spewster?

[Xman]

FORMER NRL great PJ Marsh was not his usual, enthusiastic self last week.

Marsh had just called CQ NRL Bid CEO Denis Keeffe and Keeffe said Marsh hadn't been himself because he had just signed his son up to the AFL's Auskick program.

While Marsh said he supported his son in whatever endeavour he chose, he questioned why the NRL did not have a similar program for youngsters.

He said AFL had made its presence known in the mining town of Middlemount, where the Marsh family was based, but rugby league had not made the same effort in the three years he lived there.

"It is like the NRL in general has taken its popularity in western and central Queensland for granted and not followed up with junior programs, like Auskick, therefore losing kids to different football codes," Marsh said.

"I don't know what the NRL should do, but obviously the AFL do.

"The NRL needs to step up."

Growing up in Blackwater, Marsh said he remembered an AFL field but not playing on it and not knowing much about the code until he was 12 or 13 years old. Meanwhile, his son was a professed West Coast Eagles fan and knew the players in the team. He suggested the NRL needed to talk to the AFL because it had obviously implemented a program that worked. Above all, Marsh encouraged central Queensland to get behind the CQ NRL Bid.

"We need to get behind it and push harder," Marsh said.

http://www.cqnews.com.au/news/taken-for-granted/1647529

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[Stewie]

FORMER NRL great PJ Marsh was not his usual, enthusiastic self last week.

Marsh had just called CQ NRL Bid CEO Denis Keeffe and Keeffe said Marsh hadn't been himself because he had just signed his son up to the AFL's Auskick program.

While Marsh said he supported his son in whatever endeavour he chose, he questioned why the NRL did not have a similar program for youngsters.

He said AFL had made its presence known in the mining town of Middlemount, where the Marsh family was based, but rugby league had not made the same effort in the three years he lived there.

"It is like the NRL in general has taken its popularity in western and central Queensland for granted and not followed up with junior programs, like Auskick, therefore losing kids to different football codes," Marsh said.

"I don't know what the NRL should do, but obviously the AFL do.

"The NRL needs to step up."

Growing up in Blackwater, Marsh said he remembered an AFL field but not playing on it and not knowing much about the code until he was 12 or 13 years old. Meanwhile, his son was a professed West Coast Eagles fan and knew the players in the team. He suggested the NRL needed to talk to the AFL because it had obviously implemented a program that worked. Above all, Marsh encouraged central Queensland to get behind the CQ NRL Bid.

"We need to get behind it and push harder," Marsh said.

http://www.cqnews.com.au/news/taken-for-granted/1647529

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[cos789]

What nrl should do is start playing AFL.

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[Raiderdave]

FORMER NRL great PJ Marsh was not his usual, enthusiastic self last week.

Marsh had just called CQ NRL Bid CEO Denis Keeffe and Keeffe said Marsh hadn't been himself because he had just signed his son up to the AFL's Auskick program.

While Marsh said he supported his son in whatever endeavour he chose, he questioned why the NRL did not have a similar program for youngsters.

He said AFL had made its presence known in the mining town of Middlemount, where the Marsh family was based, but rugby league had not made the same effort in the three years he lived there.

"It is like the NRL in general has taken its popularity in western and central Queensland for granted and not followed up with junior programs, like Auskick, therefore losing kids to different football codes," Marsh said.

"I don't know what the NRL should do, but obviously the AFL do.

"The NRL needs to step up."

Growing up in Blackwater, Marsh said he remembered an AFL field but not playing on it and not knowing much about the code until he was 12 or 13 years old. Meanwhile, his son was a professed West Coast Eagles fan and knew the players in the team. He suggested the NRL needed to talk to the AFL because it had obviously implemented a program that worked. Above all, Marsh encouraged central Queensland to get behind the CQ NRL Bid.

"We need to get behind it and push harder," Marsh said.

http://www.cqnews.com.au/news/taken-for-granted/1647529

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so
his son will spend 30 minutes being taught to fumble , bumble & miss
its comps you need ... not clinics

& as we know .... registered club player numbers north of the murray for vicky kicky .... are falling
VFL doomed

[Xman]

FORMER NRL great PJ Marsh was not his usual, enthusiastic self last week.

Marsh had just called CQ NRL Bid CEO Denis Keeffe and Keeffe said Marsh hadn't been himself because he had just signed his son up to the AFL's Auskick program.

While Marsh said he supported his son in whatever endeavour he chose, he questioned why the NRL did not have a similar program for youngsters.

He said AFL had made its presence known in the mining town of Middlemount, where the Marsh family was based, but rugby league had not made the same effort in the three years he lived there.

"It is like the NRL in general has taken its popularity in western and central Queensland for granted and not followed up with junior programs, like Auskick, therefore losing kids to different football codes," Marsh said.

"I don't know what the NRL should do, but obviously the AFL do.

"The NRL needs to step up."

Growing up in Blackwater, Marsh said he remembered an AFL field but not playing on it and not knowing much about the code until he was 12 or 13 years old. Meanwhile, his son was a professed West Coast Eagles fan and knew the players in the team. He suggested the NRL needed to talk to the AFL because it had obviously implemented a program that worked. Above all, Marsh encouraged central Queensland to get behind the CQ NRL Bid.

"We need to get behind it and push harder," Marsh said.

http://www.cqnews.com.au/news/taken-for-granted/1647529

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so
his son will spend 30 minutes being taught to fumble , bumble & miss
its comps you need ... not clinics

& as we know .... registered club player numbers north of the murray for vicky kicky .... are falling
VFL doomed

hmmm, to believe Dave, or the people involved who are expressing serious concerns about the AFL grow rate and the NRL failing....