Talk:History of Australian rules football

Original rules
I inserted the section with the original 10 handwritten rules. It was taken from More Than A Game: An Unauthorised History of Australian Rules Football (foreword by Martin Flanagan) - ISBN 0522847722. The author/s quoted the orignal text, I quoted them. -- Htra0497 12:46, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Influences on the game
It would appear we have someone seeking to delete any references to the influences that other football games being formulated at the time had on the creation of Aussie rules, despite multiple sources indicating the contrary. No referencing or reasoning has been offered for this repeated deletion. The game of Aussie rules did not spring unadulterated from the mind of Tom Wills one day in 1858, it was formulated with a view to creating a new game but was influenced by rules from other sports. That is what the sources say. It would be good if the constant deleter would make an effort to explain themselves. Mdw0 (talk) 02:12, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Blainey page 2
This whole area of history is quite blurry, with nearly all writers making conclusions from what sparse evidence there is. It is very difficult to find any references that definitively rule anything in or out. Certainly the Blainey reference being quoted cannot be used to dismiss any influence of Gaelic football or soccer on the early games of Australian rules. These sports were not formulated overnight. Like Aussie Rules both soccer and Gaelic football took a period of time to develop. Both soccer and Gaelic football-style games were being played well before the early Aussie Rules games. What Blainey is saying is that their end-formulation did not happen until after Aussie Rules started to be played. He then indicates when the first clubs were formed. He never says that soccer or Gaelic football were not being played before these clubs were formed. Any examination of Tom Wills life shows he played soccer in England. Various versions of Gaelic football were also familiar to people of Irish decent playing early games of Aussie Rules. At no point does Blainey say that aspects of these games were not used in early games of Aussie Rules, certainly not enough to contradict the other sources that say soccer and Gaelic football were in the mix. Mdw0 (talk) 23:51, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Australian Football internationally
Within this section there is mention that there is not an international governing body for reason that the sport is not large enough outside of Australia yet. Is this assertion still current? There are around 200,000 participants annually outside of Australia according to the Annual Reports and other sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:14A3:300:2830:B2C7:F148:5FA6 (talk) 16:39, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

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