OR are you greedy and want to keep it just for Southern States
OR just for Australia
and deny the rest of the world the enjoyment of playing and or watching & supporting our code in their own country ?
We invented Surf Lifesaving and exported it to the world. Why not AFL Football ?

your trying to reinvent the wheel with this question lexi.
one major problem that the afl faces is getting people to recognize just how good our code really is.
that you have to understand that the population that live in nsw and qld are so used to having rugby bashed at them. as we do with afl in the southern states that it is going to be very hard to get that real support for the game in these sates no matter how hard you try. they will get satisfactory results with the gold coast team with the amount of victorians living there now and gws will survive some how. but as towards any kind of real support that we see in the southern states.i just cant see it happening. not in my life time.
as for overseas.
well once again we face the same sort of issues. it is going to be incredibly hard for the afl to take our game to the world. but as you are aware it is allready happening in a lot of ways that go unnoticed by a lot of supporters of the code.
as much as people hate andrew dimitriou i can only say this about the man.
he is very passionate about our game. and he will stop at nothing to make sure that it is presented in such away that it is appealing. not only to the opposite sex, but to people of the world in general.
i give it about another 10 years and i think that we will see some real inroads into some of these countries that are allready providing our code with players now.
south africa being the country that could surprise us all.
cheers mate.

With the racism issue involving the media & Indian nationals, my query is whether any Indian nationals or person of Indian descent have ever played AFL footy. Many other nationalities have adopted the game & played at the highest level.

Andrew McLeod

I’m an NFL fan and when I hear the term contact sport I’m used to seeing superior athletes flying full speed at each other and with a massive collision a tackle is made. I caught a little AFL the other day and they kind of grab at each other and swing each other around, looks more like they are dancing more than anything else. Can anyone explain why they tackle like this?

they are not allowed to tackle above the waist.
they can charge another off the ball if it is within 3 metres of both players
shoulder only charges are allowed in rugby league
in rugby union the arms must be used as well as the shoulder in charging a player that has the ball