Re: Melbourne Storm stripped of NRL premierships
I know 5 people that live in the Northen Territory, and another that has just moved to Queensland. 2 in Darwin, 1 in Alice Springs, and the other 3 spread across the state. Bar the 2 living in Darwin, none of them know each other. ALL of them play League and ALL of them live in communities that watch and play league. Very rough lifestyle in some of the schools up there and that crosses over to playing league. Also most of them know of people who have moved to northern Queensland to try out for the Cowboys team, or thereabouts. I used to have relatives that lived there as well, the confirm this. I know of one truckie that drives through the state and lives there at times and he supports AFL, but that's it, and it's not as if I don't know anybody from up there.
The areas that do play AFL are the Aboriginal areas, which is where the numbers come from. They use AFL to educate in poverished towns, they use it as a reward for young indigenous Australian's to go to school. It's a good system and is working. No offence intended out of anything said there.
AFL doesn't stand for much in schools up there, it simply isn't bogan or rough enough to play on the whole. Also no offence intended.
Unless I actually meet someone from NT that follows AFL, I'm hardly going to believe it. Like I said, I have family from there and they have their acquantances. Very few of them say that AFL is as big as it's supposed to be.
I'm not just saying this to bash AFL, but because I know these are true things. The Australian Bureau of Statistics says that my home town is one of the most violent in the country and yet I see little evidence of it.
Have you actual proof behind the statistics? Have you been to the NT?
I know 5 people that live in the Northen Territory, and another that has just moved to Queensland. 2 in Darwin, 1 in Alice Springs, and the other 3 spread across the state. Bar the 2 living in Darwin, none of them know each other. ALL of them play League and ALL of them live in communities that watch and play league. Very rough lifestyle in some of the schools up there and that crosses over to playing league. Also most of them know of people who have moved to northern Queensland to try out for the Cowboys team, or thereabouts. I used to have relatives that lived there as well, the confirm this. I know of one truckie that drives through the state and lives there at times and he supports AFL, but that's it, and it's not as if I don't know anybody from up there.
The areas that do play AFL are the Aboriginal areas, which is where the numbers come from. They use AFL to educate in poverished towns, they use it as a reward for young indigenous Australian's to go to school. It's a good system and is working. No offence intended out of anything said there.
AFL doesn't stand for much in schools up there, it simply isn't bogan or rough enough to play on the whole. Also no offence intended.
Unless I actually meet someone from NT that follows AFL, I'm hardly going to believe it. Like I said, I have family from there and they have their acquantances. Very few of them say that AFL is as big as it's supposed to be.
I'm not just saying this to bash AFL, but because I know these are true things. The Australian Bureau of Statistics says that my home town is one of the most violent in the country and yet I see little evidence of it.
Have you actual proof behind the statistics? Have you been to the NT?