Second club locked in for proposed China game

[Ghost Dog]

Hope the boys have their industrial strength 3M pollution masks ready. Welcome to China.

[Ghost Dog]

My point is we've got to start somewhere and China is as good a market as any.

Wait and see I guess.

AFL will never take off in China. They are terrible at team sports. If the round ball game can't take off here, even with Xi Jinping being an all out fan and throwing money at their national team, AFL has buckley's. With a one child policy, young people are treated with kid gloves here. They will take one look at an AFL highlights reel and run a mile. I know, because I'm always trying to spruik the game to my friends at my local in Shanghai. They think it's a sport for madmen.

[BornInDroopSt'54]

AFL will never take off in China. They are terrible at team sports. If the round ball game can't take off here, even with Xi Jinping being an all out fan and throwing money at their national team, AFL has buckley's. With a one child policy, young people are treated with kid gloves here. They will take one look at an AFL highlights reel and run a mile. I know, because I'm always trying to spruik the game to my friends at my local in Shanghai. They think it's a sport for madmen.

And they'd be right of course. Interesting to get your perspective from China. Maybe enough of an audience could be captured to get a leg in and as the singer Paul Kelly noted about Mabo, from little things big things grow. Maybe they could take AFL as a spectator sport even though they don't see themselves playing? Let's face it, it is the best team sport spectacle on earth, even a single Chinese child could see that surely?
It must be a different world over there.

[Ghost Dog]

And they'd be right of course. Interesting to get your perspective from China. Maybe enough of an audience could be captured to get a leg in and as the singer Paul Kelly noted about Mabo, from little things big things grow. Maybe they could take AFL as a spectator sport even though they don't see themselves playing? Let's face it, it is the best team sport spectacle on earth, even a single Chinese child could see that surely?
It must be a different world over there.

Basketball is the game of choice. A lot of that has to do with their love of American stuff. If AFL players start wearing baggy shorts, we might have a shot! And Lin Jong is our marketing weapon!
Even AFL fans would have to admit, it's bafflingly hard to understand the rules at times.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

I thought Collingfilth and ourselves were angling for a Rnd 1 game against each other? Now all of a sudden we're going to China to play Port to count as one of our home games? I'm not a fan of that outcome. Much rather an MCG game against the Pies.

[hujsh]

Short of having our debt wiped I'm not a fan of it, unless the club sincerely believes it will reap future financial benefits from it.

And why do Port get to play all these away games at neutral venues? What makes them so special?

[GVGjr]

Short of having our debt wiped I'm not a fan of it, unless the club sincerely believes it will reap future financial benefits from it.

And why do Port get to play all these away games at neutral venues? What makes them so special?

The China game is due to the commitment they signed with the state government etc on playing 11 home games.

[hujsh]

The China game is due to the commitment they signed with the state government etc on playing 11 home games.

Doesn't really answer why they get so many away games at neutral venues, just why they can't give up any home games.

[westdog54]

Doesn't really answer why they get so many away games at neutral venues, just why they can't give up any home games.

This. They can't have their cake and eat it too.

If they want to do a deal with the State Government that constrains their fixture, they can't then expect other clubs to do the heavy lifting when they go to pursue other ventures.

[bornadog]

It was reported over the weekend that the Western Bulldogs have shown interest, but the club has confirmed to The Age they have not been in contact with neither Port Adelaide nor the AFL.The Bulldogs are committed to playing either one or two games in Ballarat next season and wouldn't be interested in the China game unless circumstances drastically.

Full story here

[westdog54]

Full story here

Great news, thanks BAD.

[Ghost Dog]

Full story here

As much as I would love to see the boys at Pudong airport, I would much rather we somehow manage an extra game in another regional area like Ballarat, Canberra or somewhere somebody cares about what's happening on field.

Ballarat will be a sell out. There is really not much else going on and a lot of neutral supporters will go just for kicks.

[bulldogtragic]

First, they took our land & jobs (They tuk ar jobs!) and now China takes an AFEL game from Australia. Well actually fact checked, they did none of that a stuff except buy a game. Thank god it's not us, it's Port vs Gold Coast in Round 8.

[Twodogs]

Actually I wouldn't mind it being us. If we weren't already doing Ballarat and Cairns.