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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><B>Crowd attendances for the home and away season have been on a steady decline for the past few years and kids are taking up soccer in droves.
Yet we see increasing millions of dollars thrown at a game that perhaps is well past its heyday. The focus of the game has shifted to where heavily bulked-up men run into each other until their knees can no longer cope, at about the age of thirty. What mother would wish this fate upon her son?
Another of the reasons the popularity of aussie rules is on a downwards spiral is the ever increasing accessibility to multimedia and thus the ability to keep right up to date with world sports.
In past decades our isolation from the rest of the world has seen the game of aussie rules thrive almost by default, and as virtually the only game in town the media and sponsors would receive value for their investment.
The globalisation of sport through the advent of far improved media coverage as well as the Internet, should give us an indication that we need to move with the world instead of throwing good money after a stagnating game that has no chance of ever going any further than it is today.
Time and time again we have shown the world that despite our size we can not only match it with the best but also actually beat them in many a discipline.
How sad is it then that our best young athletes wallow in a provincial competition where even the best can only hope to earn in a year what some real football players earn in a month in Europe. What great "real football" players the Jakoviches, Sylvanis or Loewes would have made!
We already know that most kids nowadays chose to play soccer and if only the media came onboard instead of consistently throwing money at Aussie Rules, Australia would be without a doubt amongst the best in World Football. The time has come for the mainstream media to get behind the "Beautiful Game" and the rewards for its sponsors as well as Australia as a great sporting nation will surely follow.
Aussie rules will always have its place as a true-blue Aussie game but its place in the media far exceeds its value to the nation. The best thing Aussie rules has going for it at present is the totally inept administration of soccer in this country.
Face it boys, you're flogging a dead horse and on top of that throwing good money after bad, trying to revive a game that has run its course. Accept the fact that in the future it will be nothing more than a diehard sentimentalists VFL out of Melbourne with isolated struggling pockets of support dotted throughout the nation perhaps.
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What a load of crap. These guys are pathetic.
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