Aussie X land Dragon\'s cash

Welcome to World Footy News Thursday, January 15 2026 @ 10:02 am ACDT

Aussie X land Dragon's cash | 5 comments | Create New Account

The following comments are owned by whomever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.

Comments are closed and no new posts are allowed.

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Tuesday, November 15 2011 @ 03:43 pm ACDT

We started to follow Emile's work back in 2008: Teaching footy to the kids in Canada

It goes to show these things take time and need a year after year commitment to slowly build them up, explore opportunities, bring in partners etc.

It's interesting to ponder where this could lead purely from a footy point of view. Getting so many kids exposed to the game must help the OAFL with future recruitment. To really make a big difference though either the program would have to get huge (hopefully it will) or there needs to be ongoing games at club or school level for some of the kids to feed into.

Hopefully somehow AFL Canada / the OAFL can make that connection to fully benefit from the groundwork. I've always seen so many similarities between Canada and Australia and see real potential for footy to become a reasonably popular amateur sport there.

---
Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

Aussie X land Dragon\\\'s cash

Authored by: Harley Vague
on Tuesday, November 15 2011 @ 05:33 pm ACDT

Canadians don't just share a similar population concentrated along the Southern extremities of a harsh land but what is simplest to sum up as a Commonwealth upbringing. They even have a East/West divide that extends to sports. In general terms the Canadian passion is ice hockey so acceptance of AFL is not a problem and IMO I see great potential. The question is quality Vs quantity. On the West coast we have the CDJAFL which has produced a senior team after junior teams progressed . In places where juniors have taken up AFL the problem has always been in providing the link. In Sydney it took a while for the high profile Sydney Swans to increase participation rates and then took another period to provide a pathway to senior clubs. If it was only a question of pathways then it'd be a nice problem to have.

---
Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

RSS news	RSS events
Twitter	Facebook

World Footy News

Search

Translate

User Functions

Events

Featured Sites

Older Stories

Friday 11-Apr

Sunday 30-Mar

Thursday 27-Mar

Friday 21-Mar

Thursday 06-Mar

Wednesday 05-Feb

Tuesday 04-Feb

Socials

Who's Online

What's New

Articles last 2 weeks

Comments last 2 weeks

Links last 2 weeks

Advertisements