coolian2
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i wasn't saying you were, i was just saying the benefits to all sports from it will outweigh losing a couple of weeks.I'm not, I don't give a shit what happens.
i wasn't saying you were, i was just saying the benefits to all sports from it will outweigh losing a couple of weeks.I'm not, I don't give a shit what happens.
i think it would be absolutely brilliant, i would love to see us get it. i'm just up in arms that everything has to be put on hold for two months.
is that a serious question?One thing that would interest me would be the attendances for the matches, will they mostly fill up to capacity?
is that a serious question?
Well, yes. Soccer, I don't believe is the most popular sport in Oz since you have AFL, NRL etc. But on second thoughts, people would be so far up into the excitement of the World Cup that it certainly might as well sell out stadiums. So I should've thought twice before asking that question.
are 50k+ going to deck out telstra dome to see Ghana v Bahrain, or something? don't think so.
the minimum stadium size is upwards of 40,000. fifa wouldn't demand that if they didn't know they could fill them.This is where 30k capacity stadiums would come in handy, though i'm not too sure if many of that calibre actually exist in Australia and are of good quality. Whatever it is, there's still time to change things if the country were to win a bid.
forget about the local market when the world cup rolls around. even if it could sell out a stadium by itself, there are huge, huge numbers of traveling fans who will fill up the mcg no problems at all.Yep, you're correct. Most (or even all) of those attendances are very, very large.
"something different" isn't a reason mate
So what if the season ends in November rather than September, not gonna make any difference to anything whatsoever. The last Saturday in September is a load of bollocks anyway (see 1994 and 2000).
And then the Herald Sun comes out with a typical scare campaign about how the whole season will be cancelled for wogball or whatever, wankers. And that 4 clubs are gonna die because of the FIFA World Cup. Sensationalism much?
It'll be one AFL season, and once we snare 2022, we won't probably have another World Cup until 2080 at the earliest.
It'll be awesome.
The way I see it, it should be the World Cup's responsibility to ensure that it does not negatively impact regularly scheduled tournaments of other sports.
Honestly, I don't give two hoots if we get the Cup or not, and if it fucks around the Aussie Rules season, then I don't want it. But I find it VERY hard to believe it would end up fucking the season around severely; with that many years to plan, you'd think alternative arrangements could be made. It's not as if Melbourne's short of AFL venues.
The way I see it, it should be the World Cup's responsibility to ensure that it does not negatively impact regularly scheduled tournaments of other sports.
I certainly won't be crying buckets of tears if Australia don't win any of the bids
2022 is being decided in December 2010, at the same time 2018 is announced.
The AFL pre-season need not be as long as it is (get rid of the 4 week wankfest that is the Wizard Cup for a start)...and teams can still play matches at the non-World Cup venues, Gabba, the new boutique AFL stadium/Princes Park, Subiwhacko, SCG, and Docklands). It'll be fine, it won't screw the AFL season up....the AFL's good at doing that themselves anyway.
I will...
don't get me wrong people. i'd love to see the world cup here.
but not if it impedes century-long traditions.
they can hold it october, november, december, january, february, march... and i'll be the first to celebrate if we get it.,
2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
australian
england
japan
qatar - 2022 only
russia
south korea - 2022 only
states
belgium/holland
portugal/spain
indonesia - 2022 only
they have to host it when they do because every single competition in the world have their off-season then.
the question is, if the afl get to keep etihad for the duration of the tournament (which is quite likely given fifa would not look kindly on two circular venues in the same city) who cares?