Apart from DailyM who is a harmless fantasist most on here agree with you. I certainly do.
Soccer is the world's No.1 sport but they were clever enough to learn from Notth America when coming up with the Euro Champions League which is in effect a delayed post season for top 4 finishing clubs in italy, Spain and England.
we need the same vision and AFL is a superb example of what is possible in Australia.
Realistically an aim of an average of 20,000 across the 9 Sydney clubs adn 25,000 in the one club towns with an overall average over 22,000 ought to be achievable in the next decade if we cop on to ourselves.....mind you Origin will have to be reduced to one game per annum and be taken away form mid season since it is seriously damaging attendances and only exists to try to show that we can equal Carlton V Collingwood - which we are miles away from.
yes ron mcauliffe only pushed the idea of origin because RL had nothing to compete with collingwood and carlton.
:lol:
other than those idiotic comments, the rest of that post isnt too bad.
within a decade id say sydney clubs should be averaging 25,000 myself with the dogs, tigers and souths at the top of that, and the smaller clubs at 18,000 - 20,000.
the broncos should top 40,000 one day, and i cant see much growth in either the titans or cowboys crowds given stadium constraints.
the storm should get to 20,000 in their new ground, expect of course when collingwood play carlton
