AFL Vanuatu is born, and uses Tonga trip to announce itself

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AFL Vanuatu is born, and uses Tonga trip to announce itself

Authored by: Michael Christiansen
on Friday, December 10 2010 @ 04:20 pm ACDT

It's a fine line isn't it - and the AFL has certainly pushed self sustainability ahead of 'paid loyalties' - which means there's no off shore drip feeding and now mercenary style loyalty until the money runs out.
THe result is pretty clear to see - that those playing and involved in the game are doing it for all the right reasons. So, certainly - you'd have to tread carefully to not eroded that. However, if lads show interest but just can't sustain the 'expense/effort' and are lured to other more 'cashed up' codes - then, there'd be an issue to address.

I guess the main thing is to open up the channels of communication - so that Mal and Justin could alert the broader community of any issues they are having - - - such that they may only need advice/guidance, or, there might be funding options or whatever.

What I'd like to see is more Convicts or convicts style tours. There's probably no reason a 'Splinter Convicts' couldn't run trips around the South Pacific playing games and coaching on a more regular basis and most likely somewhat cheaper.

AFL Vanuatu is born, and uses Tonga trip to announce itself

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Friday, December 10 2010 @ 04:33 pm ACDT

Yeah, I certainly think fundraising is necessary for those bigger ticket items. And you'd like to think that at some point the AFL would fund the best few players from each country to attend academies etc - it gives their clubs more player options, it grows the game's international flavour which must help in areas like GWS, etc. I believe they already do fund some of that, but for the best young players you'd hope it would become just a given. But maintaining wider competitions, that will always come from locals, be it in Vanuatu, Auckland, Madrid, Adelaide, Perth, ....

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