Ah swines ..Swans4ever wrote:1st not really disputing anything about Soccer/football That was the figure from Football NSW strategic plan not AFL214Four wrote:Afew issues with that data swans, the main one is that the figure for registered football players in NSW is missing 50 thousand. that amount does not include the registered players in the Northern NSW federation (cos football is so strong in NSW the state has two federations FNSW & NNSWF), total of 250K registered football players in NSW, to make it compareable to the AFL figure i need to add 15K from ACT so total of 265K.Swans4ever wrote:Registered players Football NSW - 200,868
Registered Netballers in NSW - 112,401
Registered cricketers in NSW - 108,000
Registered Rugby League players in NSW - 96,041
Registered Tennis players in NSW - 41,405
Registered Rugby Union players in NSW - 40,685
Registered AFL players in NSW/ACT - 28,468.
http://www.footballnsw.com.au/fileadmin ... tegic-Plan
The AFL is Australia's premier spectator sport attracting millions of people each year. According to research conducted in 2000, it had the third highest number of registered players of any Australian sport, at 443,978.
http://australia.gov.au/about-australia ... -australia
Well I think we can put to bed the whole issue of AF being on the decline clearly 28,468 registered players in NSW is not irrelevant it's almost a 3rd the number of RL registered players in their heartland state - as opposed to RL in Vic, SA, WA, Tas and NT not even cracking 10,000 less than half and just over a third of NSW alone!
AFLNSW here to stay - good luck with than 5year NRL plan!
Including the ACT registered rugby league players only increases its figures by about 5 thousand so thats no biggie.
When looking at the figure of 28.5K registered AFL players in NSW and ACT without delving into the figures it looks good, but the vast (i mean VAST) majority of that 28 thousand would be from the areas in NSW that borders with Victoria which as you would know swans has been AFL territory from day dot. taking away the registered players from those areas (as there not expansion markets) and thats when the real picture is seen. 7000 in sydney metro and id guess even less than that between NSWs central coast and tweed heads.
i believe he got it from here Cracker...Cracker wrote:Links if you wouldn't mind. For all I know those figures came from nowhere.
http://www.footballnsw.com.au/fileadmin ... tegic-Plan
2nd it doesn't break down where they come from just that they are NSW registered players.
Lastly the point of the post was to disprove AFLCRAPPER's suggestion there is no meaningful presence - you'll see the opening post was about total participation is a lot higher with Auskick figures - he kept asking for the number of registered players - I gave it now he has gone silent.
It's not being suggested in any way that AF is a dominant code just that the health for an expansion marked is in good shape.
Telling lies again...
I have not gone silent....my laptop shit itself.
Now for the lie..
Can you show me where i said "' AFLCRAPPER's suggestion there is no meaningful presence"..
I'll wait.
I laughed at the Participation numbers,because that is ALL that is ever quoted by fumblehouse.
REAL numbers are never quoted...you had to go looking for them .
& as Lawson explained...They use the Participation numbers to give the PERCEPTION that AFL is going great..
So please show me where i said what you claimed..
If not ..i will expect an apology.
& one last question....
Is being a compulsive liar a pre requsite of being a fumblefan ?
It seems to be a major affliction around here.
liar extraordinaire 
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