Will South Africa Get A Team Before Us
It's Time
I found with interest a recent article written by Tim Harcourt in the Sydney Morning Herald. It was about how the AFL is growing it’s international interests to satisfy a variety economic reasons.
One point that was made in the article was:
But it’s not just expatriates playing for fun; the AFL is organising matches around the world on a regular basis now. As well as the UAE, there are regular matches in South Africa, as there will soon be as many AFL footballers in South Africa as in Tasmania.
Could this mean we could expect a South African team to enter the AFL after the Gold Coast and West Sydney.
It was also noted in the article that the AFL are not after global domination, they want to grow the international participation in the game, to serve the Australian expatriate market and to grow the game financially among Australian and international business interests, and the main focus is directed towards national development hence the Gold Coast and Western Sydney.
If the AFL are devoted to growing their brand nationally then why do they keep snubbing a Tasmanian proposal! Why – Because the dollars are not in Tasmania. Why invest in Tassie when the returns are not going to be there.
They can just keep plundering our talent until the game is dead in our state. By then their will be plenty of young South Africans getting their names called out on draft day.
