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AFL Canada Nationals kickoff this weekend : Day 2 Scores added

Authored by: Harley Vague
on Friday, May 27 2016 @ 11:17 am ACST

Even though this tournament was named "National" or "Provincial Championship" It is really national tryouts, so it is about the number of Canadians on the team. Also Vancouver is home to four full-blown teams and Edmonton and Calgary compete each as one representive team. Toronto certainly has the depth but their performance could be about selection availability, travel and home ground adavantage.
The good news is that almost everywhere something is going on and leagues/clubs are generally pumping out information. However, almost everybody is focused on their immediate target area - their club, their league and their country. When I travel I try to impress upon people the need to educate Aussies (and the rest of the world) as ultimately that is where the biggest leverage can be achieved.
Perhaps we need an AFL World to similar to AFL Europe to organize, assist, promote Australian Football since there are many topics unique to football outside of the AFL..AFL Europe seems to have had a positive influence on Europe wrt umpiring, coaching and organisation to name three but sometimes you need to collect feedback. The idea of training teachers in the sport of AFL seems to be one of those.

AFL Canada Nationals kickoff this weekend : Day 2 Scores added

Authored by: Harley Vague
on Friday, May 27 2016 @ 03:52 pm ACST

Also it seems the Ontario League is just starting.

AFL Canada Nationals kickoff this weekend : Day 2 Scores added

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Saturday, May 28 2016 @ 09:29 pm ACST

Still nothing on AFL Canada website (Saturday night SA time). You are so right Harley, getting news, information out there, raising awareness across the world is so important.

Tonight Channel Seven Adelaide news ran a clip about footy in Sweden featuring players from Bromma Vikings and Solna Axemen. Only lasted about 3 or 4 mins but it came only about half an hour or so before the Adelaide Crows v GWS Giants match got under way. Mark Soderstrom, Sevens Sports presenter and Football commentator presented the piece and it would have been seen by hundreds of thousands viewers already tuned to Seven for the AFL broadcast. I believe the vast majority of those viewers would have been very surprised to see that Footy is played in Sweden.

Maybe we should be encouraging our international leagues and clubs to make a video clip showcasing their footy and send them off to Mark Soderstrom at Channel Seven Adelaide. If he got enough of them he might be prompted into making it a regular segment as happened tonight. :-)

I really hope AFL Europe continue with their match and player of the week and around the grounds news items started this week. Maybe we need to encourage them also to send them off to the AFL every week, again if they received enough of these the AFL might just be forced to puublish them on the AFL website.

I must admit it took a while to pick my jaw up off the floor when I saw the Sweden segment, who knows where the Seven News team got it from and what prompted them to run it.

AFL Canada Nationals kickoff this weekend : Day 2 Scores added

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Saturday, May 28 2016 @ 11:17 pm ACST

Harley, Ontario is the league based around Toronto, with the Ottawa Swans making up the tenth club in the league, and they have played at 18-a-side for years. I also believe that they have a four team reserves competition (played at 14-a-side) and if the women (four teams) are included number over 600 players. So BC winning this "inter-provincial" competition could be the result of them having a long running junior competition starting to bear fruit.

The comp could be likened to "State of Origin" but having no ex-pats the major restriction. If it had been club based as the US Nationals (or Champions League like) many of the best players around the country would not have played.

Not so much national "tryouts" but getting all (or at least as many as possible) of the best players in the one place at the same time and playing against each other.

AFL Canada Nationals kickoff this weekend : Day 2 Scores added

Authored by: Harley Vague
on Monday, May 30 2016 @ 11:05 am ACST

The problem has and will always be to move from nodding heads with agreement to heads bobbing with activity.

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