Talk:Australian rules football in Australia

"Tiers"
At present the article says:

Top Tier - AFL
 * Second Tier - SANFL, VFL, WAFL
 * Third Tier - Queensland State League, Sydney AFL, AFL Canberra, Northern Territory Football League, Ovens & Murray League
 * Fourth Tier - Northern Tasmanian Football League, Southern Tasmanian Football League, Southern Football League (Victoria)

Is there any official basis for this? Any references to support the esistence of this structure? In particular I find it hard to believe that the Ovens & Murray League is stronger than either of the Tasmanian leagues. Grant65 | Talk 03:31, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I think your right Grant65, the perceived "tiers" is completely POV. Still, it would be nice for the article to give some sort of context to the relative strength of the regional leagues. And it needs to consider other factors as well. ie. Some are strong but draw negligible crowds (like the VFL), others are weak but are well supported.  --Spewmaster 23:16, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Could it be based on salary cap ?? --Rulesfan 07:15, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Merger
Don't do it. The Australian Rules Football article was too big before and is now at ideal size. This information is specific to a country and is summarized in the parent article. --Spewmaster 02:16, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Merge tag removed. -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 14:51, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Black arm bands
On virtually every weekend, some or all members of a team (sometimes more than 1 team) wear black arm bands. Sometimes the commentators refer to these and explain that they're being worn to commemorate some former player, or family member of a current player, who's recently died. But sometimes there's no mention made of it at all. I've often wondered if players ever wear black arm bands simply as a fashion accessory, or is it always because someone has recently died. -- JackofOz (talk) 05:16, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Football in Australia
Just seeking to draw a wider range of informed opinion at Talk:Football in Australia regarding that article's future (whether persisting with the attempt at a comprehensive and well-balanced broad-concept article and how best to achieve that, or returning it to a simple disambiguation page). Cheers.--Gibson Flying V (talk) 02:41, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Please note, the disambiguate state last existed in 2009. --LauraHale (talk) 12:09, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

"To represent Australian culture as a whole"
This is still in the introduction - written by Rulesfan:

''The now archaic Barassi Line has been used in reference to the contrasting lesser of popularity of the sport in the states of Queensland and New South Wales. However in recent years the sport's popularity has grown nationally and it has grown in importance to represent Australian culture as a whole.''

That was added in June 2010 - so, not very "recently". It certainly needs to be made less vague, and possibly corrected if there are inaccurate statements. Is the Barassi Line really not a factor anymore? Are there sources that would agree that Aussie rules represents all of Australia? Has there been a big change in the sport's importance? (Personal biases aside, please) Demokra (talk) 15:46, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

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Rules?
It is disappointing to find that an article with the word rules in its title does not explain the rules of this game.

Not being Australian, I know nothing about Australian rules football but I just saw a small portion of a match on television and was amazed to see that the playing pitch is circular and that there are four goal posts at each end. For a while, I didn't know what game I was watching or in what country.

Perhaps the article could explain why this pitch is circular and what it means to have four goalposts instead of two at each end. That would be a fundamental requirement of any sporting article, to explain the game to readers. Most readers of Wikipedia are not Australians. O&#39;Dea (talk) 12:14, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Rules?
It's not even mentioned once in the article what the Australian rules are or neither how it's different from "regular" soccer. I still don't know what Australian fotball is..... 79.160.119.148 (talk) 15:13, 13 February 2023 (UTC)


 * This is one of the oddest failures I’ve seen on Wikipedia. 2600:1700:5FA1:61B0:3DB3:D43B:E3AB:6C03 (talk) 14:57, 1 September 2023 (UTC)