I wouldn’t like if AFL went international. But I think it would be cool if more international people played In the league. As much as people for some reason hate mason Cox you have to give him props for the fact that he signed a contract and moved country for a sport he has hardly knows. It will be cool if there are people all around the world trying to get in the AFL internationally like Australians want to get into the NFL, NBA and even something like the premier league.
Really excellent video to watch mate. Thoroughly enjoyed learning about it, and knowing more about that fascinating and volatile time in VFL/AFL history. I knew a bit about the proposal from that story in 2017, but not in much detail. This was an excellent watch. Great stuff!
I guess it's not too crazy of an idea, seeing how the Super Rugby has teams from Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Japan all in the same competition
That was detrimental to the competition and should be avoided where possible. The Argentinean side and the Japanese side have been scrapped. They've realised the best thing for those countries is to promote their own domestic league and let that develop rather than joining other ones. If anything, it's been a learning lesson. If you look at super rugby now, the South African sides might very well join the European rugby competitions to avoid time zone issues (which has always been an issue for super rugby). Australia and New Zealand are looking at either: 1. doing a trans-tasman comp with one another; or 2. just doing their own domesticrugby comps; or 3. Each doing their a domestic style super rugby comp but then the top sides play off in an international super rugby comp, hopefully with south African sides and potentially with room for Japanese, Argentinean, Polynesian or American sides. That is like an inter-league play-off which we already see in Europe's soccer and rugby club comps. Having such a globally expanded single competition isn't such a crazy idea but it sure as well isn't an ideal one. There's massive cost, travel and time zone implications. If the game doesn't grow as intended then it's even worse. AFL is commercially strong the way it is, which is the most important thing. Unfortunately it isn't global which isn't any fun. Any half decent rugby player can go over seas to Europe, Americas or Asia and get paid to play rugby. That's something aussie rules players miss out on.
I noticed that your video’s time bar is divided into segments for the different parts of the video, this is a small editing thing that I noticed with this video, but this extra detail adds to the quality of these videos, it looks like you out a lot of effort into your videos, you deserve a lot more subscribers!
Thanks, yeah that's a relatively new feature that I wanted to take advantage on with this particular video because the way I wrote it was broken up into chapters. Appreciate the kind words!
That is a pretty crazy idea. 14 hour flights with the time difference, imagine the jetlag. A New Zealand team would obviously make more sense, but I think there'd need to be more grass roots support for it to be feasible.
currently the best way to go at this stage, is broadcasting rights, change the timeslot games are televised around the USA and try to advertise it, with the chances of buildng interest. there is already a certain amount of interest in the USA, through the United States Australian Football League (USAFL), but there needs to be more development in the future, a major way to accomplish this, is by having developmental programs for Americans interested in playing Aussie Rules, it might take a number of years, but in the long run, it may yield results.
awesome video - just one thing, you talk really fast and its a bit hard to understand sometimes - maybe slowing down your speaking a tad bit would help out, but the content you're producing is still brilliant and so needed for AFL youtube!
Thanks! It's definitely something I'm aware of, and if you compare it to my first episode of the Video Essays series I think I've slowed down at least a little bit. I guess it might be a bit harder to follow along as I don't speak directly to camera at any points. If it helps, I upload every script as Captions so everyone can follow along.
yer it would have to be the International rules series which is more like the Irish form of the game to give the Americans more ownership over the concept America having such a large Irish Heritage demographic.
MisterTeeBag You New Zealand have a successful team in the NBL and Afl is a lot more popular than Aussie basketball so i think they would be fine on the fan base part
MisterTeeBag You There is new zealanders in the league mate should fact check first. they might not be born in new zealand but have a mother or father who are new zealanders. Dustin Martin ring any bells?
I don't think it would be feasible to base an AFL club here in the States, but there are a growing number of us who love this great game, hence the growth of the USAFL. And though COVID has stomped out this season, club members are still working out and staying fit and looking forward to having a kick in 2021. Including the Los Angeles Dragons.
MUFC Soccer is the most overrated ‘sport’ in the world and is played by overpaid flops that dive, fake injuries and pretend they’ve been shot just to get free kicks and get opponents carded < Aussie rules football is a real man’s sport and is Australia’s indigenous game that has always been and always will be Australia’s number 1 sport. By 2060, soccer will continue to be AFL’s bitch and the laughingstock of sport in the country
He is right a US billionaire could keep a team afloat in the US that is how MLS lasted so long with very little TV or Streaming audience and low ticket prices compared to the US's four major sports but what is the point you guys know you have a great game and do not need the rest of the world to tell you so just keep your national game great and be yourself.
Is it possible to have a second tier competition based in America. 2020 has been an interesting year for americans interested in AFL footy. If you relocate the second tier teams to america. I think the american economy could support the concept if the league was created with simplicity. An eight team would be sufficient for starters with AFL clubs partnering each club. Just a thought
i wonder if next year we should have a few games in the us before the bye round. use Pat McAfee to help promote it more.. im sure it could be done now. maybe have a hub sort of situation over there send over 6 teams play a few rounds then come back then have a bye for those clubs
@@milochanel9491 you scared of growing the game? I'm seeing comments everywhere of Americans enjoying our game. I'm sure they would like the chance of going to a game
It would have been great to be able to hop on I-5 for a few hours to take in an AFL game. However, one would think that the ground at the Rose Bowl or the Coliseum would be tiny compared to the MCG.
Mate, I've been looking for a channel like yours for a very long time now... I have an interesting prospect/question for you: what do you think about making a compilation video of every V.F.L./A.F.L. year to date? Of course, the first few decades would only have some borrowed information from Wikipedia and other places, you can get some pictures/videos and show the ladder after certain rounds; show the important key match-ups that year; and they (the first few decades, that is) should only go for 4-5 minutes, but once you get around the 70s and onwards, each video can go for 15 minutes or so. It could be something similar to the compilations the Brownlow medal shows when they go through each week, one by one. You could have a massive playlist, and it'd get tens of thousands of views. It'd be amazing! Yes, it's a lot of work, but I think, if anyone's up for it, you are. Your channel's very professional. Think about it, will you? :)
Thanks for the kind words mate! That's a hell of a task, not going to lie, and while I do think it'd be enjoyable, I think the Kick to Kick podcast do a pretty great job of this already (albeit in audio format). They're going back through every single season of the VFL/AFL from its inception and are up to 1949. Check them out, www.kicktokickpodcast.com/
Jeez, talk about supreme optimism. Delusional forecasting RE crowds and local athlete uptake. You’ve also got to consider that there are no grounds large enough in terms of playing surface dimensions, and obviously the travel thing. Not even viable until we have high-speed air travel.
Thanks for the video extravers. I really enjoyed it. Top stuff👍 I have a had a fascination with this particular subject for a while aswell. I, like you, believe Aussie rules football is destined for world domination. With all our clever marketing campaigns and tv rights we have undertaken over the decades, we have yeilded very little traction . I believe we have been tackling this beast the completely wrong way. Instead of starting at the top we should be starting at the bottom. Instead of trying to start a league from scratch and investing millions we should be doing the opposite. To put it simply we should be investing in kids. If the AFL shift their focus on a much younger generation this expansion dream will have an easier path in coming to fruition. I suggest each existing AFL club allocate a town or region of the United states to set up base. And each of those Clubs introduce an Auskick program in all the local schools. Strictly from grades 1-5. And maintain that for 5 years... Then we double down on the same process, this time including junior high for another 5years. As the decade draws to a close the AFL would have indoctrinated thousands of children to the fundamentals of our game. Those kids teach other kids and so on and so on. Essentially letting the children spread the word about our game themselves. But the real kicker is that with each region establishing a kinship with that particular club back home we have created the talent pool this guy was striving for. And then the flow on effect is in full motion. The striking thing about this approach is that each club back home would have created a brother club in the United States essentially creating a US branch of the same club. With a possible future of one club in two leagues, the USAFL and the premiere Australian Football League. . Anyway let me know what you think. And if you could do a hypothetical episode about it one day. Cheers👍
one time when i went to marvel stadium for a north game, me and my dad met allen aylett in the elevator. didn’t know who he was until we got to our seats and my dad told me how much of a legend he is
They totally did it wrong....🥴🥴🥴 You don't start a club or a league straight away... 🤬🤬🤬 EACH AFL club should just pick a region in the USA to do AUSKICK for 10 years.... ONLY CHILDREN... the game would grow from there.. That way EACH AFL club has a brother club... Essentially the same club.. with a US base.. that FEEDS into the AFL.. the league will grow from there.... THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN... there is no stopping it. AFL WILL.BE. A COSMOPOLITAN SPORT.. the issue is the SHAPE.... This plan of attack takes away the need of big financial backers... With a strong grass roots approach the financial backers start lining up and start waiting for YOU..
the thing that we really suck at is trying to find ways in making this game watched around the world. plus its more harder in the AFL due to the fact the timezones are insane, are never global friendly. and they should spend more money in the USAFL program.
Huh, never knew this was even a thing. And ironic given how Americans are now discovering and falling in love with the sport thanks to the COVID lockdowns
@@joshuahansen7050 The big positive is the AFL season starts after the NFL season ends, then finishes at the beginning of the NFL season. There is opportunity here.
that concept cant work ,what would work is if they had there own league with 12 of the states having teams and having a final at the end of the year and an international final after that. maybe NFL players that are not cutting the mustard could have another option.
As a kiwi I'd love us to have a AFL side, but I just can't see it happening quickly. Not sure what we could do to make the game more popular here - having the games on sky (fox) is not helping much. My hope is with the growth in Queensland and NSW will have an impact here, as most kiwis expats live in those states.
The only foreign countries which play serious Aussie football are neighbours PNG and NZ - where it is a minor sport but has established competition ( think gridiron / Gaelic football/ lacrosse in Australia ) Sure the Irish easily adapt ( well relatively ) and the North Americans do it as a novelty and various drinking , sorry Aussie football clubs exist in Europe but all these places also have quidditch clubs which are pretty similar in popularity
I really like the idea of a USA based team, but I feel this wouldn’t work in today’s game. However if this did happen, I’d prefer it to be named after the USA if there isn’t plans for a second team.
I could think of some great names for American teams relating to Irish heritage,like the Shamrocks or The Blarney stones or the Bansheys. if they are of Italian heritage they could be the Gladiators, and of French heritage they could be the Celts and so on, each demographics team could have a name that reflects its heritage.
@@gogogeedus I know it’s been a year, but I kind of like that. I know a lot of Americans who are proud of their heritage (even if it is very slim or about 20 billion generations haha) would find it easier to relate to the local club (bit like Massachusites with the Celtics)
Just as well this didn’t happen. Could you imagine the logistical nightmare it would have been these last two years? Not to mention the ridiculous travel time. Not really practical at all.
I dont want an American AFL team, I want an American AFL or IRS league! Bring it on, dont worry you would get lots of coach's wanting a holiday in the states.
They should make it like soccer leagues around the world not add international teams to the AFL. THen they could have a champions league after the other countries embrace the sport. It would be so mint!
The only thing is a lot of soccer leagues do have international teams in their league systems, just that they're neighboring. Canadian teams in the US leagues, Sammarinese teams in the Italy leagues, Monégasque teams in the French leagues, Andorran teams in Spain, etc. However, I definitely think that an AFL Champions league would be extremely interesting
We yanks really don't want the AFL in the US ( we got the USAFL) and the Aussies really don't care for non-Aussies playing their great game. (see international tournament playing in a local park!!!)
@@bishgroundwork3089 why would I be upset 🤣🤣the delusion is comical . The AFL zealots seem to think that if only people could watch a few games then they’d be hooked for life . 😂😂 How’d the China experiment go ? Gil had to lie big time about how full the stadium was 🤣 How’d NZ go Here I’ll quote the local councillor “Cycle ways to nowhere is more popular than AFL” How about worrying about conquering all of Aust before you take over the world .
@@darrenbaxter8042 who thinks that? why are you even watching and commenting? you are obviously upset that AFL is the biggest sport in Australia. Maybe go cry yourself to sleep.
7:55 As a North Melbourne supporter, it's nice to know that there was a relocation proposal that didn't involve us
@J G kinda cringe you’d post this under every comment on this vid
@Raushaan Seychell lol I know right
Imagine how pissed off Tassie would be if LA got an AFL team before them !😀
God I thought the NFL trying to get a franchise in London was crazy enough.
@J G bro your everywhere relax
I wouldn’t like if AFL went international. But I think it would be cool if more international people played In the league. As much as people for some reason hate mason Cox you have to give him props for the fact that he signed a contract and moved country for a sport he has hardly knows. It will be cool if there are people all around the world trying to get in the AFL internationally like Australians want to get into the NFL, NBA and even something like the premier league.
Wow I've never heard of this story
Really excellent video to watch mate. Thoroughly enjoyed learning about it, and knowing more about that fascinating and volatile time in VFL/AFL history. I knew a bit about the proposal from that story in 2017, but not in much detail. This was an excellent watch. Great stuff!
"Am I a joke to you?
-Hawaii, probably
Guam as a United States territory would be closer.
LordOfNothingham Marshall Islands?
@MUFC are you a bot or do you spend time commenting on all these videos? If you're not getting paid for this, it's pretty sad.
@MUFC hell no not in USA people are too in love with the NBA and NFL
Keep up the great content mate finally seeing footy get a channel like this
I guess it's not too crazy of an idea, seeing how the Super Rugby has teams from Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Japan all in the same competition
Ben Sproat yeah but that nearly killed super rugby, afl shouldn’t get any crazy ideas
Yes. And it's dying in the arse. Funnily enough people want to get to bed at 2 am in the morning.
@@nickhanlon9331 would also help if people in Australia actually turned up to games
Nick Hanlon yeah, luckily I go for the highlanders so I don’t have to go to bed to late
That was detrimental to the competition and should be avoided where possible.
The Argentinean side and the Japanese side have been scrapped. They've realised the best thing for those countries is to promote their own domestic league and let that develop rather than joining other ones. If anything, it's been a learning lesson.
If you look at super rugby now, the South African sides might very well join the European rugby competitions to avoid time zone issues (which has always been an issue for super rugby).
Australia and New Zealand are looking at either:
1. doing a trans-tasman comp with one another; or
2. just doing their own domesticrugby comps; or
3. Each doing their a domestic style super rugby comp but then the top sides play off in an international super rugby comp, hopefully with south African sides and potentially with room for Japanese, Argentinean, Polynesian or American sides. That is like an inter-league play-off which we already see in Europe's soccer and rugby club comps.
Having such a globally expanded single competition isn't such a crazy idea but it sure as well isn't an ideal one. There's massive cost, travel and time zone implications. If the game doesn't grow as intended then it's even worse.
AFL is commercially strong the way it is, which is the most important thing. Unfortunately it isn't global which isn't any fun. Any half decent rugby player can go over seas to Europe, Americas or Asia and get paid to play rugby. That's something aussie rules players miss out on.
I noticed that your video’s time bar is divided into segments for the different parts of the video, this is a small editing thing that I noticed with this video, but this extra detail adds to the quality of these videos, it looks like you out a lot of effort into your videos, you deserve a lot more subscribers!
Thanks, yeah that's a relatively new feature that I wanted to take advantage on with this particular video because the way I wrote it was broken up into chapters. Appreciate the kind words!
That is a pretty crazy idea. 14 hour flights with the time difference, imagine the jetlag. A New Zealand team would obviously make more sense, but I think there'd need to be more grass roots support for it to be feasible.
currently the best way to go at this stage, is broadcasting rights, change the timeslot games are televised around the USA and try to advertise it, with the chances of buildng interest. there is already a certain amount of interest in the USA, through the United States Australian Football League (USAFL), but there needs to be more development in the future, a major way to accomplish this, is by having developmental programs for Americans interested in playing Aussie Rules, it might take a number of years, but in the long run, it may yield results.
I actually never knew about this until I watched this video. Thanks for posting!
You'd need a wheel barrel to haul all the ass this channel kicks. I fucking love it.
That jet lag from travel and time zone. Would need a bye upon arrival. Either way excellent video.
Great video
awesome video - just one thing, you talk really fast and its a bit hard to understand sometimes - maybe slowing down your speaking a tad bit would help out, but the content you're producing is still brilliant and so needed for AFL youtube!
Thanks! It's definitely something I'm aware of, and if you compare it to my first episode of the Video Essays series I think I've slowed down at least a little bit. I guess it might be a bit harder to follow along as I don't speak directly to camera at any points. If it helps, I upload every script as Captions so everyone can follow along.
Tbh i know what you mean and im not sure if your from Australia but alot of people talk like this kinda normal
As an American and a huge AFL fan, I'm so glad this never happened. The sport needs to stay purely Australian.
As an American AFL Fan, who’s particularly a Swans Supporter, I agree
That One American Dude Who watches AFL Footy I just watched them lose a close one 69-63
LordOfNothingham Yeah, it sucks that the Swans lost, but at least things look hopeful, especially when they have the third overall pick.
Would love to see the game expand, but I wouldn't mind either way.
yer it would have to be the International rules series which is more like the Irish form of the game to give the Americans more ownership over the concept America having such a large Irish Heritage demographic.
I never want to see an Afl team in America. A team in New Zealand would be sick though
Maybe Tasmania first though
Actually wait who cares about them
NT and Tazzy before NZ. They deserve it more.
MisterTeeBag How so?
MisterTeeBag You New Zealand have a successful team in the NBL and Afl is a lot more popular than Aussie basketball so i think they would be fine on the fan base part
MisterTeeBag You There is new zealanders in the league mate should fact check first. they might not be born in new zealand but have a mother or father who are new zealanders. Dustin Martin ring any bells?
I wouldn’t like the AFL to go international
I don't think it would be feasible to base an AFL club here in the States, but there are a growing number of us who love this great game, hence the growth of the USAFL. And though COVID has stomped out this season, club members are still working out and staying fit and looking forward to having a kick in 2021.
Including the Los Angeles Dragons.
MUFC when?
MUFC Soccer is the most overrated ‘sport’ in the world and is played by overpaid flops that dive, fake injuries and pretend they’ve been shot just to get free kicks and get opponents carded < Aussie rules football is a real man’s sport and is Australia’s indigenous game that has always been and always will be Australia’s number 1 sport. By 2060, soccer will continue to be AFL’s bitch and the laughingstock of sport in the country
@MUFC We're not getting shamed to love soccerball. Go away.
@MUFC G’day Matey. I see that you’re still the silliest man alive. Soccer is the worst code of football in the world. You know it.
excellent video - thanks
He is right a US billionaire could keep a team afloat in the US that is how MLS lasted so long with very little TV or Streaming audience and low ticket prices compared to the US's four major sports but what is the point you guys know you have a great game and do not need the rest of the world to tell you so just keep your national game great and be yourself.
Thanx man,it is a great game!
Tv networks would see our sport as more valuable ad wise compared to soccer fuck a shootout would rank in hundreds of millions
Is it possible to have a second tier competition based in America. 2020 has been an interesting year for americans interested in AFL footy. If you relocate the second tier teams to america. I think the american economy could support the concept if the league was created with simplicity. An eight team would be sufficient for starters with AFL clubs partnering each club. Just a thought
i wonder if next year we should have a few games in the us before the bye round. use Pat McAfee to help promote it more.. im sure it could be done now. maybe have a hub sort of situation over there send over 6 teams play a few rounds then come back then have a bye for those clubs
after corona
No.
@@jackgarrix4150 why not?
sleepyoufool1 because Americans don’t care.
@@milochanel9491 you scared of growing the game? I'm seeing comments everywhere of Americans enjoying our game. I'm sure they would like the chance of going to a game
This is fascinating. Are the planning documents available anywhere?
Thanks! Yeah, the full 20-page proposal from the Marron Property Group is publicly available. I've linked it in the description now.
It would have been great to be able to hop on I-5 for a few hours to take in an AFL game. However, one would think that the ground at the Rose Bowl or the Coliseum would be tiny compared to the MCG.
Love the Nt thunder footage. Good video
Mate, I've been looking for a channel like yours for a very long time now... I have an interesting prospect/question for you: what do you think about making a compilation video of every V.F.L./A.F.L. year to date? Of course, the first few decades would only have some borrowed information from Wikipedia and other places, you can get some pictures/videos and show the ladder after certain rounds; show the important key match-ups that year; and they (the first few decades, that is) should only go for 4-5 minutes, but once you get around the 70s and onwards, each video can go for 15 minutes or so. It could be something similar to the compilations the Brownlow medal shows when they go through each week, one by one. You could have a massive playlist, and it'd get tens of thousands of views. It'd be amazing! Yes, it's a lot of work, but I think, if anyone's up for it, you are. Your channel's very professional. Think about it, will you? :)
Thanks for the kind words mate! That's a hell of a task, not going to lie, and while I do think it'd be enjoyable, I think the Kick to Kick podcast do a pretty great job of this already (albeit in audio format). They're going back through every single season of the VFL/AFL from its inception and are up to 1949. Check them out, www.kicktokickpodcast.com/
Wow good story
at this stage probably best to just keep playing a few games in different countries each season to figure out the best options.
I don’t think it would work, but it would’ve been interesting.
Jeez, talk about supreme optimism.
Delusional forecasting RE crowds and local athlete uptake.
You’ve also got to consider that there are no grounds large enough in terms of playing surface dimensions, and obviously the travel thing.
Not even viable until we have high-speed air travel.
This is like if Outback Steakhouse was an AFL Team.
Thanks for the video extravers. I really enjoyed it. Top stuff👍 I have a had a fascination with this particular subject for a while aswell. I, like you, believe Aussie rules football is destined for world domination. With all our clever marketing campaigns and tv rights we have undertaken over the decades, we have yeilded very little traction . I believe we have been tackling this beast the completely wrong way. Instead of starting at the top we should be starting at the bottom. Instead of trying to start a league from scratch and investing millions we should be doing the opposite. To put it simply we should be investing in kids. If the AFL shift their focus on a much younger generation this expansion dream will have an easier path in coming to fruition. I suggest each existing AFL club allocate a town or region of the United states to set up base. And each of those Clubs introduce an Auskick program in all the local schools. Strictly from grades 1-5. And maintain that for 5 years... Then we double down on the same process, this time including junior high for another 5years. As the decade draws to a close the AFL would have indoctrinated thousands of children to the fundamentals of our game. Those kids teach other kids and so on and so on. Essentially letting the children spread the word about our game themselves. But the real kicker is that with each region establishing a kinship with that particular club back home we have created the talent pool this guy was striving for. And then the flow on effect is in full motion. The striking thing about this approach is that each club back home would have created a brother club in the United States essentially creating a US branch of the same club. With a possible future of one club in two leagues, the USAFL and the premiere Australian Football League. . Anyway let me know what you think. And if you could do a hypothetical episode about it one day. Cheers👍
one time when i went to marvel stadium for a north game, me and my dad met allen aylett in the elevator. didn’t know who he was until we got to our seats and my dad told me how much of a legend he is
They totally did it wrong....🥴🥴🥴 You don't start a club or a league straight away... 🤬🤬🤬
EACH AFL club should just pick a region in the USA to do AUSKICK for 10 years.... ONLY CHILDREN... the game would grow from there..
That way EACH AFL club has a brother club... Essentially the same club.. with a US base.. that FEEDS into the AFL.. the league will grow from there....
THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN... there is no stopping it. AFL WILL.BE. A COSMOPOLITAN SPORT.. the issue is the SHAPE....
This plan of attack takes away the need of big financial backers... With a strong grass roots approach the financial backers start lining up and start waiting for YOU..
Interesting video. Had no idea about this. Thanks for putting it together.
This is the best comedy on the net 🤣🤣🤣
Really. How come? Does it make you angry?
@@bishgroundwork3089 you clearly missed my laughing emojis .
There’s fantasy & then there’s out of this world fantasy .
Both make me laugh . 🤣🤣
@@darrenbaxter8042 ahhh got you. That's excellent.
the thing that we really suck at is trying to find ways in making this game watched around the world. plus its more harder in the AFL due to the fact the timezones are insane, are never global friendly. and they should spend more money in the USAFL program.
Huh, never knew this was even a thing.
And ironic given how Americans are now discovering and falling in love with the sport thanks to the COVID lockdowns
Are they really
Joshua Hansen Yep! Plenty of people overseas have discovered it and fallen in love with it.
Thinh__ that’s so cool
@@joshuahansen7050 The big positive is the AFL season starts after the NFL season ends, then finishes at the beginning of the NFL season. There is opportunity here.
They should relocate a team to Canberra though
Where was Ross Oakley when Gold Coast and GWS were forced upon us? He was spot on about this terrible idea.
It won’t work. U.S is too far. Travelling would be a real bummer.
that concept cant work ,what would work is if they had there own league with 12 of the states having teams and having a final at the end of the year and an international final after that. maybe NFL players that are not cutting the mustard could have another option.
If there were to be an international team in the afl my money would be on new Zealand, Indonesia, fiji, etc
As a kiwi I'd love us to have a AFL side, but I just can't see it happening quickly. Not sure what we could do to make the game more popular here - having the games on sky (fox) is not helping much. My hope is with the growth in Queensland and NSW will have an impact here, as most kiwis expats live in those states.
It would be cool to have a american Aussie Football League
To think if it worked and the Americans would have gotten good and all American vs all Australian after the season
9:31 What about the (Previously) yearly matches at China
Good call, I actually forgot about them, shows how useful they are haha.
I’d think they should’ve play all their games in la so there’s less travel
Edit: no because then it would be unfair on travel
What a crazy and stupid idea
this game is a huge money spinner!
This a classic example of too much money and not enough sense.
The only foreign countries which play serious Aussie football are neighbours PNG and NZ - where it is a minor sport but has established competition ( think gridiron / Gaelic football/ lacrosse in Australia )
Sure the Irish easily adapt ( well relatively ) and the North Americans do it as a novelty and various drinking , sorry Aussie football clubs exist in Europe but all these places also have quidditch clubs which are pretty similar in popularity
I really like the idea of a USA based team, but I feel this wouldn’t work in today’s game. However if this did happen, I’d prefer it to be named after the USA if there isn’t plans for a second team.
I could think of some great names for American teams relating to Irish heritage,like the Shamrocks or The Blarney stones or the Bansheys. if they are of Italian heritage they could be the Gladiators, and of French heritage they could be the Celts and so on, each demographics team could have a name that reflects its heritage.
@@gogogeedus I know it’s been a year, but I kind of like that. I know a lot of Americans who are proud of their heritage (even if it is very slim or about 20 billion generations haha) would find it easier to relate to the local club (bit like Massachusites with the Celtics)
The only overseas team should be Tasmania.
THis is Mental
It really is it just says that things do happened behind closed doors
Yer Jim Jefferies it's mental!
Just as well this didn’t happen. Could you imagine the logistical nightmare it would have been these last two years? Not to mention the ridiculous travel time. Not really practical at all.
Could've at least had the American team winning the ruck contest in that mock up. Oof.
I dont want an American AFL team, I want an American AFL or IRS league! Bring it on, dont worry you would get lots of coach's wanting a holiday in the states.
AFL will never go global but IRS could
They should make it like soccer leagues around the world not add international teams to the AFL. THen they could have a champions league after the other countries embrace the sport. It would be so mint!
The only thing is a lot of soccer leagues do have international teams in their league systems, just that they're neighboring. Canadian teams in the US leagues, Sammarinese teams in the Italy leagues, Monégasque teams in the French leagues, Andorran teams in Spain, etc.
However, I definitely think that an AFL Champions league would be extremely interesting
i think new zealand would b more realistic if we were going international because it’s so close.
Ludicrous !
Really
We yanks really don't want the AFL in the US ( we got the USAFL) and the Aussies really don't care for non-Aussies playing their great game. (see international tournament playing in a local park!!!)
Spot fuckin on mate
Yeah, and any appeal of Australian culture to the US died in the 80's. Who wants our shit now
@@tspoon772 Your obviously a Pom,pretending to be an Aussie
@@gogogeedus thanks american who couldn't tell a brit and an aussie apart if they were right in front of yoy
"Oh Yeah" the AFL lads cant even stand lockdown, let alone, being in a foreign country, away from loved ones
Good it didn't go through
no u
Well it was a bad idea form the start!
Some of these comments are beyond delusional 🤣
Are you upset?
@@bishgroundwork3089 why would I be upset 🤣🤣the delusion is comical .
The AFL zealots seem to think that if only people could watch a few games then they’d be hooked for life . 😂😂
How’d the China experiment go ?
Gil had to lie big time about how full the stadium was 🤣
How’d NZ go Here I’ll quote the local councillor
“Cycle ways to nowhere is more popular than AFL”
How about worrying about conquering all of Aust before you take over the world .
@@darrenbaxter8042 who thinks that? why are you even watching and commenting? you are obviously upset that AFL is the biggest sport in Australia. Maybe go cry yourself to sleep.
What a ridiculous idea!
yer, its only going to work if that country has its own league.
Go North Los Angeles Kangaroos 2030
Mard