Battle of Football Codes (and poll hijack)

[marinermick]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/afl/cracking-the-codes/story-e6frexx0-1225805176969

 

[Paolo]

I wonder which code has the bigger penis?

 

[marinermick]

I wonder which code has the bigger penis?

well, football does have more africans

 

[serious14]

I wonder which code has the bigger penis?

well, football does have more africans

Reported........

FOR AWESOME!!!  ;D

 

[midfielder]

The first thing that comes to mind is the bull shit research they have done..

Registered player Numbers from the article.

AFL ......................700, 000

Football ................400, 000

RU.........................85, 000

RL ......................175, 000

Meaning AFL has more players than Football, RL & RU combined ... complete crap... set up by an AFL think tank in Melbourne and the TerrOR has fallen for ...

 

[Honkee]

Pardon my ignorence, I call bullshit on AFL having more registered players then football (soccer)

Can I suggest posting this link on the coves, squadron, MV supporters boards?
Id do it myself, but Im not registered.

 

[bulldogmariner]

AFL include in their numbers any kick who attends OZ Kick. They are nearly in every school hence a large pool of numbers.

 

[midfielder]

One of the things the AFL is excellent is telling a wopper ... getting it published in the TerrOR and then saying to sponsors / advertisers ... we are the biggest in fact bigger than all the rest put together ... its all to help get the 1 billion dollar deal...

 

[LFCMariners]

Say what you want about the AFL, they are great at spinning s**t. They also have one of the most arrogant administrators of any sport on earth.

 

[Brighty]

Say what you want about the AFL, they are great at spinning s**t. They also have one of the most arrogant administrators of any sport on earth.

 

Aint that where Buckley originally came from??? :

 

[adz]

cant argue afl's crowd and membership figures are pretty impressive though.... Melb has one of the smallest membership bases in the afl and is at around 14k already for the 2010 season and it doesn't even start for a few months

 

[Forum Phoenix]

Those participation numbers to football seem ridiculously bogus.
Nearly twice as many people playing AFL??
WTF?

 

[Paolo]

Those participation numbers to football seem ridiculously bogus.
Nearly twice as many people playing AFL??
WTF?

They re including the AFL Auskick program in which kids are pressured into playing at school....or play just to get time out of class

 

[adz]

Those participation numbers to football seem ridiculously bogus.
Nearly twice as many people playing AFL??
WTF?

They re including the AFL Auskick program in which kids are pressured into playing at school....or play just to get time out of class

And you know this because you went to school in melbourne?

 

[adz]

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Products/4901.0~Apr+2009~Main+Features~Organised+sport?OpenDocument

In 2009, the most popular sport for children was swimming with a participation rate of 19% (502,900). This was followed by outdoor soccer at 13% (360,400) and Australian Rules football at 9% (235,100). For boys, the most popular sports were outdoor soccer (20% or 277,800), swimming (17% or 240,100) and Australian Rules football (16% or 223,700). In comparison, the sports most popular among girls were swimming (20% or 262,800), netball (17% or 225,000) and gymnastics (8% or 101,200). (Table 1)

 

[Sym]

I'd agree with that

love the beach...

 

[elevated position]

Thats funny because every statistic I see eludes to Football having almost 1 mill in registered players at all levels and degree of games

 

[Forum Phoenix]

This is an area where the FFA should have all stats varified, and be leaping onto any bullshit claims.

 

[RADINHO]

This article is bullshit! Everywhere in the media says football has 900,000-1,000,000 players even Archie Fraser mentions that figure ("If you put all of those factors together - a million people playing, the World Cup boosting the game every four years, possibly hosting a World Cup in 2018 or 2022, and the fact that the game can be played by both men and women - I do think that will point a lot of people towards playing football.").

Bloody Terrorgraph!

 

[curious]

This article is bullshit! Everywhere in the media says football has 900,000-1,000,000 players even Archie Fraser mentions that figure ("If you put all of those factors together - a million people playing, the World Cup boosting the game every four years, possibly hosting a World Cup in 2018 or 2022, and the fact that the game can be played by both men and women - I do think that will point a lot of people towards playing football.").

Bloody Terrorgraph!

Yes. it's bloody terrible when the media claim statistics without publishing a reputable source for their information. I'm glad you did Mr. Rad. We would hate to think you're just like the Terror.