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The Australian National Football Team General Discussion*OFFICIAL*

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📆 19.06.25
⏰ 11:00am AEST

That'll be it tomorrow. Or 2 Greek friendlies sponsored by a yoghurt company?
 
JS96 said:
Profiting twats can inject some money into the game unlike our scarf photo shoot pollies.
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I will never get why the govt dont see benefit in putting money into football. By miles the biggest participant sport and dwarfing the other codes combined. Where are our lobbyists?

FFS...
 
Mr Cleansheets said:
I will never get why the govt dont see benefit in putting money into football. By miles the biggest participant sport and dwarfing the other codes combined. Where are our lobbyists?

FFS...
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Um excuse me. The AFL and NRL invented women's sport and are the pinnacle in women's sporting ability. That's where the money and future is....

It sickens me that even with the Matildas success that the entire game gets stiffed.
 
JS96 said:
Um excuse me. The AFL and NRL invented women's sport and are the pinnacle in women's sporting ability. That's where the money and future is....

It sickens me that even with the Matildas success that the entire game gets stiffed.
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I always assume people know the answer to this but for those who don't. Afl and Nrl each have there own media organisations, seven and nine. They don't just show the matches, they embed it into a much of their media as possible and aim to embed it culturally. Watch the daily news for these networks and half of it will be news stories that are advertisements for the sports.

Funding support for these sports helps to grant you favourable coverage from these media networks generally, not just to do with the sport itself.

A good analogy is banning sport betting advertising. Everyone hates it, banning it would be an easy popularity win. But it hasn't been done, why? Because the networks would hate it, so even though they would be forced to cover it relatively fairly, they would then fuck the politician on every other issue they can. One win on gambling, or support for the matildas etc, doesn't overcome having the media org bending you over on every other issue.
 
Cunningstunt said:
I always assume people know the answer to this but for those who don't. Afl and Nrl each have there own media organisations, seven and nine. They don't just show the matches, they embed it into a much of their media as possible and aim to embed it culturally. Watch the daily news for these networks and half of it will be news stories that are advertisements for the sports.

Funding support for these sports helps to grant you favourable coverage from these media networks generally, not just to do with the sport itself.

A good analogy is banning sport betting advertising. Everyone hates it, banning it would be an easy popularity win. But it hasn't been done, why? Because the networks would hate it, so even though they would be forced to cover it relatively fairly, they would then fuck the politician on every other issue they can. One win on gambling, or support for the matildas etc, doesn't overcome having the media org bending you over on every other issue.
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One aspect with the APL wasting all that money on attempting to do that media company was correct. And probably the underlying reason behind why they tried. You will never get coverage of the Aleague because each media org is basically owned by the sports they support. Add to this news limited, which is attached to both and ruthlessly cuts anything they don't support.

This is why you have a crime reporter waiting outside the a league grand final. Or why the bulldogs fans setting off flares in the street and harassing traffic is promoted as a positive. It is an advertisement for their own products. Not personal, just business.

It is also why football bosses have always attempted to appeal outside of the football community to be mainstream. Much to the annoyance of many in football. The only way to get actual positive coverage and funding support is to be so popular it becomes bad business to ignore it. You might say fuck it we don't need them, but also know that is a decision to be called a criminal for attending a match.
 
Cunningstunt said:
I always assume people know the answer to this but for those who don't. Afl and Nrl each have there own media organisations, seven and nine. They don't just show the matches, they embed it into a much of their media as possible and aim to embed it culturally. Watch the daily news for these networks and half of it will be news stories that are advertisements for the sports.

Funding support for these sports helps to grant you favourable coverage from these media networks generally, not just to do with the sport itself.

A good analogy is banning sport betting advertising. Everyone hates it, banning it would be an easy popularity win. But it hasn't been done, why? Because the networks would hate it, so even though they would be forced to cover it relatively fairly, they would then fuck the politician on every other issue they can. One win on gambling, or support for the matildas etc, doesn't overcome having the media org bending you over on every other issue.
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Cunningstunt said:
One aspect with the APL wasting all that money on attempting to do that media company was correct. And probably the underlying reason behind why they tried. You will never get coverage of the Aleague because each media org is basically owned by the sports they support. Add to this news limited, which is attached to both and ruthlessly cuts anything they don't support.

This is why you have a crime reporter waiting outside the a league grand final. Or why the bulldogs fans setting off flares in the street and harassing traffic is promoted as a positive. It is an advertisement for their own products. Not personal, just business.

It is also why football bosses have always attempted to appeal outside of the football community to be mainstream. Much to the annoyance of many in football. The only way to get actual positive coverage and funding support is to be so popular it becomes bad business to ignore it. You might say fuck it we don't need them, but also know that is a decision to be called a criminal for attending a match.
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Mr Cleansheets said:
I will never get why the govt dont see benefit in putting money into football. By miles the biggest participant sport and dwarfing the other codes combined. Where are our lobbyists?

FFS...
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I've recently resigned from the Labor Party, but whilst a member was a Vice Pres of a policy Action Caucus in this state. I had easy access to a lot of local MPs, and even 3 Feds - even have their mobiles.

Yet to contact Annika Wells, Sports Minister, to raise football issues, it was virtually impossible to get an audience!
 
Some pretty reliable football Twitter people saying Aus USA in Denver in October. That'd mean another concacaf game in the US the same window hopefully.
 
Looking forward to some friendlies - without so much riding on every game and experimenting with new players.

Did I read we are playing the Kiwis twice? I'd prefer a different opponent, more battle hardened from a tough WCQ campaign.

Given we are playing USA in friendlies, I'd prefer Mexico.
 
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