Football - Australian Rules

For season 2011, as of 22/02/2011 there are 53,244 members of the Collingwood Football Club. The season is yet to start so this number will increase. The club's target for 2011 is 70,000 members.

No Team has. The AFL was born in 1990 and No Team has won 4 since then!! Brisbane has come close playing in 4 Grand finals but only winning 3 (In a row!)! Collingwood is the only Team to win 4 Premierships in a row but that was as a VFL Team! ("THE ONLY" Team worth barracking for, i.m.h.o!) Collingwood has "barrackers", the rest have fans or members! Check Our Club anthem and you'll see why!

No if you are playing for a soccer team then it's a no. If you did it would go against the health and safety act... but if you go out with your family then i guess it is ok, just don't get tackled...

There are officially two new tems into the competition commencing the 2011 season. One of these is from the Gold Coast in Queensland.

However, the very last one formed/applying for the competition in 2011 is the new team based in NSW.

Unions gained political influence

WCE first season the AFL was 1987 (actually it was still called the VFL in 1987 and renamed the AFL in 1990).

The club was actually formed in August of 1986, thus making the Eagles 14 years old in August 2010.

A stab punt is kicked with the same action as a tab kick/pass with the exception of the split second adjustment of kicking the ball just before instead of just after it hits the ground. This means the ball is kept in very tight to the body, in effect kicking the ball with the knee in front of the point of boot and ball contact. Of course you are leaning over the ball. The kick must be able to be accomplished running at full pace. The point of ball destination must be to the advantage of the player so he can run on to it and mark/catch it. You must estimate this and it must be in clear space preferable ahead of him. The tighter in you kick the ball the lower the pass will travel. The ball cannot be dropped vertically. In the old days, 1949, when muddy and variable surfaces were commonplace and the stab pass could not be kicked I invented the stab punt, An Australian Rules football Development. The following entry was in the Face to Face Exhibition at The Lilydale Museum, 13 October to 13 November 2011 Page 1 

Face to Face: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives 

 Muddy Conditions Countered. Johnson was outstanding in the mud with clever turning and accurate disposal, in muddy, windy and rain swept conditions. -Ringwood Mail, August1951 
 In 1949 Mt Evelyn football ground's surface was uneven and often very muddy. Studying Jack Dyer's drop-punt, 14-year-old Mt Evelyn player Jim Johnson adapted it into a field pass in 1948. Then, at 15, Jim invented and used a low, fast punt kick known as a 'stab-punt pass'. 
Jim used both the field pass and the stab-punt pass at full pace. Because the ball was kicked before it touched the ground, and stayed low, it was accurate in mud and windy conditions. Journalists didn't know what to call Jim's techniques. Frank Casey wrote in The Post on 8 September 1960, 'Johnson sent his delightful little drop punt pass direct to Manfield'. The same day Davey Crocket reported in the Ringwood Mail, 'Johnson should write a book on stab kicking - he has found the lost art'. 
Both kicks are in constant use today in Australian Rules football as they are suitable for fast play-on football.

A goal is signaled when the goal umpire shows both of his hands in front of them and points.

3 Premierships

The question is actually invalid, because both Essendon and Carlton have won the most at 16 premierships each. Therefore, the next team will have won the third most AFL Premierships; and that is Collingwood. The Collingwood Magpies have won 15, but they have lost many more grand finals than they have won!

The minimum salary for an AFL player is somewhere around $30,000. The league average salary is around $75,000 with top players making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.

Australia is the only country in Australia. Australia is sometimes mistaken for the geographical region of Oceania, but it is quite different. Australia is a country and a continent, and contains just one country, which is the Commonwealth of Australia.

Australia does, however, have six states and two mainland territories, as well as seven offshore territories.

"I like AFL better out of them both. But I will admit that NRL is popular to. But NRL will finish in around 10 years and they say AFL will go on for over fifty years.

So my answer is, AFL is more popular."

-Guy Before Me

Alright, let me improve on this answer by first saying, the guy above is a bloody idiot. NRL has lasted 100 years, it ain't gonna end in another 10 unless something happen along the line of a nuclear war or the sun exploding...

The reason why NRL is far more popular is:

#In 2006, the highest sale of ANY sporting Jersey was of the Canterbury Bulldogs, an NRL, They topped nay other football team, even the State Of Origin Blue or the Rugby Union Wallabies!

#NRL has much higher TV ratings. The NRL Grandfinals Oblideterates the AFL Grandfinal Nationally, Australians most viewed event of the year (not just sports, I mean anything) is the State Of Origin.

#The Two Most Populated States in Australia are NSW and QLD, both of which Are VERY dominated by NRL. VIC is Dominated by AFL and so is WA, SA and TAS, but all of the last three combined doesn't even have half of the population QLD does. Vic is also the least populated out of NSW, QLD and itself...

The only thing AFL has over NRL is it's Game attendance. An average AFL agme gets about 25-30 thousands, wher as NRL gets 25-30 thousand, but theres a big reason:

A) NRL's most support comes from the western suburbs of Sydney, the poorest general area in Australia,

B) AFL has much better membership packages. eg. an avg NRL membership would cost $200 for all home game whereas AFL cost $300 for home and away games, in other words twice as many games. So if you half the 300 bux because you get twice as many games, you now only have $150, that's a lot more money to some poorest people in Australia (according to the 2006 cenus standard of living)

But anyway, Football (soccer) is gonna be competing for top spot within the near future...

- guy before me

I agree, the call of NRL falling over in ten years is a little silly (but don't forget the 'super-league' fiasco and what they did to Melbourne Storm in 2010). Need to check the rest of your claims, unconvincing.

AFL and NRL Grand Finals average TV audience is within 300,000 people most years. However, AFL is played over 3 hours, (NRL 2) and peaks at over a million more (2010: 5.6million and 5.7 million viewers GF1&2 respectively), NRL 4.2 million.

Collingwood Football club has second highest attendance of any club in the world (after Manchester United) for 2010 (standard AFL membership more than $500 annually).

V/AFL and SANFL histories among the longest continually running competitions in the world, predating the various Rugby Leagues and the FA Cup.

NRL: Two states, one territory (54% pop but have four top-tier AFL teams and AFL is third most popular sport by participant no.s)

AFL: Four states, one territory (trying to make state) (46% pop but have 2? (I heard somewhere there was a team in Adelaide?) top-tier NRL teams, Union/League are 12th most popular sport combined by participant no.s)

Guy second from the top ur a nut case AFL is Australia's only sport so if you think NRL is better your a dick

IMPROVEMENT:

The AFL is by far the most attended sport in Australia with 7,145,488 people attending AFL matches in 2010 at an average of 38,417 per match. Collingwood averaged 63,917 per match. NRL number are FAR behind with a total attendance of 3,338,231 at an average of 17,756. Brisbane Broncos average 35,032 people per match.

There were 29 regular season games in the AFL with higher attendance than the highest NRL attended match.

The 2010 AFL Grand Final was watched by a 5 city average of 2.76 million viewers. The replay average 2.09 million viewers.

Finally, in a 2009 survey of 1500 people across Australia 21% nominated Australian Rules (AFL) as their favourite sport. Rugby League (NRL) was second with 12%

To me this says the AFL is more popular.

Here is a list of items used to play football:

Helmet

Socks (2 pairs)

Cleats

Shoulder Pads

Knee Pads

Football Pants

Football Jersey

Chin Strap

Mouth Piece

Elbow Pads

Tape

Cleats

The MCG was built in 1853

The Melbourne Cricket Ground was built in 1853 and the current location near the Yarra River was chosen because it was the right ground to host cricket matches.

Since then the MCG has hosted the 1956 Olympics, 2006 Commonwealth Games, yearly Boxing Day tests and VFL/AFL Grand Finals and also historic concerts and events like Sound Relief and Pope John Paul II's visit in 1986.

There will never be another AFL football game again. The reason why is the league went bankrupt due to the horrible economy.

the 27th of September

Fred Fanning kicked 18 goals, 1 behind in 1947

Jason Dunstall kicked 17.5 goals in 1992

Laurie Nash: Back in the 1934, when interstate carnivals were played in state versus state format, Laurie Nash, playing for Victoria, kicked 18 goals in a single game. Yet he did not play the full game on the forward line! At quarter time, he replaced the injured Bob Pratt at full forward, having played the first quarter at centre-half-back.

It is 4. Well that's what most of the time it is anyway. I'm not entirely sure.

Gary Lion - 10 for Melbourne v Footscray in the semi-final 18-Sep-1994.

10 (1920, 1921, 1932, 1934, 1943, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1974 and 1980)

Hazem el Mazri, winger for the Bulldogs, in round one of the 2009 NRL competition, reached 2,184 points passing former record holder Andrew Johns to become the highest points scorer in Australian Rugby League.

James Hird retired at 34. Although missing a few games through injury, he basically, played out the 2007 AFL season and then finished his career with two 'farewell' games (along with coach, Kevin Sheedy) after that - that same year.

South Fremantle won the 2009 wafl grand final by 18 points


Subiaco got defeated

Geelong defeated Brisbane by 172 points

the score was Geelong 239, Brisbane 75.