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The AFL and NRL will dominate for a long time yet : Comments

By Chris Lewis, published 18/5/2021

International rugby and domestic soccer lag well behind the entrenched franchises of League and Rules.

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Yup! But there's room for all the others. This leads me to televised golf, which has to rate amoung the most boring TV eve visited on humanity, surely? Never could see the object of hitting a minute ball around an extremely large one or spoiling a good walk. Playing golf with a gun dog might work for me especially if said dog was the ultimate retriever?

Golf buggies could be all-terrain and fast so to beat said dog to the lay and the next shot!? Or chase it down where you lost the race, given that'd be the only ball in play. I'd call it, speed golf.

Get the lead out Monty and the ball outta the sand trap, he's nearly here! Woof, woof, Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. OMG! Not that ball, Rover! The pain, the pain!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Tuesday, 18 May 2021 1:06:39 PM
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... AFL and NRL will dominate ...
Alan b,
Can't you provide better News, a war somewhere etc ?
Posted by individual, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 6:10:46 PM
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No individual, as strange as it seems, I've yet to have an article published on OLO or the forum. So I don't choose the topic! If I did it list all of the irrevocable reasons to transition our economy to thorium and with it an industrial renaissance.

In a little over twelve months, there will be a working prototype pumping 500 MW into the Indonesian grid as we sit denying the current reality. And I'm fairly certain they won't privatise it so the new owners can price-gouge Joe public, all over the joint! As Mr Smirk counts his donated dollars/retirement fund?

Coal needs to be mined! So does thorium and the list of extremely valuable minerals that usually accompany it. If that makes the American industrial Giant Peabody file for bankruptcy?

How does that hurt us. Particularly if in the proposal we avoid the looming carbon tariffs that'd further harm the economy, presided over by the coal-fired head buriers we're currently saddled with and like yourself, obviously, a science-free zone who excels at just being a S.A/smirking airhead!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Tuesday, 18 May 2021 6:44:43 PM
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Alan B,
Between my National Service & your Thorium we could get this Nation back into the top 10 again !
Posted by individual, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 8:00:08 AM
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Chris mate, bite the bullet & call it soccer so we know what the hell you are talking about.

It is a bit of a nuisance, with so much of this stuff clogging up the airwaves, leaving little space for anything interesting. Meanwhile a young Ozzie, Jack Miller has just won 2 MotoGP, the worlds top motorbike racing formula, effectively the world championship, in a row.
Posted by Hasbeen, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 5:28:24 PM
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The sport I was best at was Rugby Union, the one I most enjoy watching is football aka soccer. (I started watching Newcastle United in 1954-55 season.) The problem with the A-League is the very poor quality, having tv access to European leagues and competitions renders the A-League hard to watch. And VAR seriously detracts from the enjoyment of the game wherever it's used.
Posted by Faustino, Monday, 24 May 2021 2:23:16 PM
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Interesting overview of how AFL/NRL dominates, but one would suggest, in the past and for the medium term this will change.

On data, Australia is ageing (see third tier in regions...) with nowadays many rusted on legacy media viewers (and common tvs), the AFL has spruiked 'audience' numbers (required for advertising) and blocking moves on competitive threats i.e. football e.g. AFLX (to try occupy rectangular stadia), then WAFL usurping existing women's leagues (in Melbourne) and poaching women from other codes.

One does not bat an eyelid now at primary and/or high school, alternating between codes, thanks to more exposure and interest beyond traditional sports; this may take another generation to really become apparent.

However, for a young woman or man wanting to participate in a well remunerated (outside of elites) global sporting career, football and basketball are the way to go.
Posted by Andras Smith, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 2:40:05 AM
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