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KEVIN Sheedy wants the GWS Giants to play the opening game of the 2013 AFL season in China.Not content with opening next year's AFL season in a stand-alone weekend clash against Sydney at ANZ Stadium on March 24, the Giants coach is determined to push to play the AFL's first overseas match for premiership points the following year.Sheedy has already spoken with Giants chairman Tony Shepherd about the prospect, saying the AFL's newest club needed to think big in its infancy."The most important thing for this club is to build a big vision for this club from the very start," Sheedy said this week as the Giants launched into their first pre-season training."In more than 150 years of playing the game, no one has put their hands up to play a game for premiership points overseas, and I don't want anyone to beat us to it.http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/kevin-sheedy-wants-gws-to-play-afl-game-in-china-for-premiership-points-in-2013/story-e6frf9jf-1226193505438
THE AFL plans to play a premiership game in China by as soon as 2016 with Greater Western Sydney coach Kevin Sheedy saying the Giants are interested in going. Melbourne would also be a logical choice, having forged close ties to China, having played an exhibition game against the Brisbane Lions in Shanghai in 2010 and exploring the possibility of taking pre-season training to the mountainous region of Kunming recently. The AFL has also taken a number of significant steps in gaining a foothold in China, ensuring one game a week is beamed live into Shanghai and funding an AFL oval in Tianjin."If you've got that type of energy behind it, there's no reason why we can't aim for that type of outcome in the next three to five years," AFL international development manager Tony Woods told the Herald Sun."Ultimately, you've got to have two clubs who are really keen and driving it. It has to sit within our fixturing here and in the end it has to be a joint decision and endorsed by the AFL Commission."Absolutely, playing a game there for premiership points in the future is a consideration."In November, Sheedy declared he wanted to take the Giants to China for a home and away game. "A lot of clubs wouldn't be interested, but we are saying that we want to do it," Sheedy said."I have spoken to our chairman about it as it is in our best interests to be first."I haven't spoken to anyone at the AFL yet, but they know it is something that I want to do."We could even [open the 2013 season] with a game, and I think it would work really well."The Demons are also keen to play in China with chief executive Cameron Schwab declaring that Melbourne is a "pioneering" club. "At some point there will be a venue, a time, a reason and there will be enough momentum behind it that there will be clubs prepared to host games in other countries," Schwab told the Herald Sun."It makes a lot of sense for that to be in China, given the number of levels we relate to China on."http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/127046/default.aspx
QuoteTHE AFL plans to play a premiership game in China by as soon as 2016 with Greater Western Sydney coach Kevin Sheedy saying the Giants are interested in going. Melbourne would also be a logical choice, having forged close ties to China, having played an exhibition game against the Brisbane Lions in Shanghai in 2010 and exploring the possibility of taking pre-season training to the mountainous region of Kunming recently. The AFL has also taken a number of significant steps in gaining a foothold in China, ensuring one game a week is beamed live into Shanghai and funding an AFL oval in Tianjin."If you've got that type of energy behind it, there's no reason why we can't aim for that type of outcome in the next three to five years," AFL international development manager Tony Woods told the Herald Sun."Ultimately, you've got to have two clubs who are really keen and driving it. It has to sit within our fixturing here and in the end it has to be a joint decision and endorsed by the AFL Commission."Absolutely, playing a game there for premiership points in the future is a consideration."In November, Sheedy declared he wanted to take the Giants to China for a home and away game. "A lot of clubs wouldn't be interested, but we are saying that we want to do it," Sheedy said."I have spoken to our chairman about it as it is in our best interests to be first."I haven't spoken to anyone at the AFL yet, but they know it is something that I want to do."We could even [open the 2013 season] with a game, and I think it would work really well."The Demons are also keen to play in China with chief executive Cameron Schwab declaring that Melbourne is a "pioneering" club. "At some point there will be a venue, a time, a reason and there will be enough momentum behind it that there will be clubs prepared to host games in other countries," Schwab told the Herald Sun."It makes a lot of sense for that to be in China, given the number of levels we relate to China on."http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/127046/default.aspxI know you gotta keep an eye on the future but AFL should for the time being focus on GWS. After that I believe Tasmania or a 3rd W.A team would be the go. If AFL wants to have international success I think NZ would be the best target.
Speaking of Tassie they should never host Test Cricket again. No-one turns up. Even when it could be Punter's last game. Bunch of povs.Not convinced footy wouldn't be the same.
I wouldn't want the tigers playing over there, they would be killing our players and grinding there knobs up for aphrodisiacs.
