cos789 wrote:Raiderdave wrote:cos789 wrote:
WTF for I didn't say the Cronulla JAFC and affiliated clubs did I.
And if you don't count Auskick why do you want to count below U9s.
FFS.
they are club players
Well that really puts holes in your rl player numbers.
Auskick numbers at clubs are similarly members of clubs. They pay registrations and play a season etc.
the only difference is the format of the game.
Yet we don't count them as players. We count them as Auskickers being so young.
The Auskick programs run at schools are independant.
On top of that, in Victoria they call Auskickup to age 13, so many school programs in NSW mistakingly get put under the Auskick banner when they should be under the "modified" banner,
no they're not
they are not independant numbers when participating as part of schools clinics ... they don't have a say if they even want to take part
they may be clubs players already... but in NSW & QLD.. most are not .. & never will be
read this
There must be concern, however, that primary school-aged children participating in modified Australia Rules via school programs will not necessarily translate into meaningful support for the code. Even in general terms, caution should be exercised when drawing parallels between participation in a sport and the likelihood of people going to see that sport live at an elite level or watching matches on television. If the committee were to accept that participation were a precursor to a viable supporter base,
it is of the opinion that Auskick does not represent the sort of proactive,
voluntary, participation that the AFL can depend on. Australian Rules football is barely played at club level in the area, and the weakness of the Sydney competition is most forcefully demonstrated by the fact that the existing recent premiership winning team based in Sydney, the Sydney Swans, can find no suitable competition for its reserves team in Greater Sydney and choose to send that team to play in the Canberra competition. The Committee believes this fact highlights the weakness of the market for AFL in the Sydney Basin, and underlines the risks being taken by the AFL in its decision to prioritise this market over Tasmania.
it is a fudged misleading .. & near fraudulent way of calculating playing numbers
our minis players are .. registered club players
they voluntarily participate
they most certainly should be included when REAL numbers are put forward .. auskick & its numbers in all its forms.. should not be included.
a hole in our numbers ?
wot utter nonsense
252 teams in the shire ... how many more then 14 is that cuzzy ?
