Agreed, definately the best game I have watched this year, I wish my side (WCE) would play like either of those two sides. Anyways off to watch the WCE in Canberra tomorrow, hopefully we will be 4-0 too !!! Not confident though......so much so that I put $20 on the Kangaroos @ $2.65 so if we lose at least i'll have covered my petol money to Canberra & back
who cares if its international, i think the fact that AFL is uniquely australian makes it better not worse. what other country has a nationwide pro sport as big as Aussie rules that is played only in that country? the fact that only we play it and understand the beauty of it makes it all the more special. the fact that we miss out on international competitions like the world cup does take it down a peg or 2 though.
VIC, SA, WA, NT, ACT, and Tassie are all footy first states, and QLD and NSW have fairly large and passionate supporter bases, you rugby guys are outnumbered by a fair margin.
Supporters and crowd numbers tell the story...i read a couple of years ago that AFL had more than 7 million in crowd numbers for the year. That is huge.
Im not sure if you meat Ray Warren instead of Darrell Eastlake. Big Darrell used to do the commentary but ol' Golden Tonsils Ray Warren has been the lead NRL caller for the past 5-6 years. Ray Warren also does the swimming on Channel Bert, I mean channel 9.