Break it Down #2

I really enjoyed watching the Melbourne Victory vs Adelaide United A-League Football (Soccer) grand final last night. It was a gritty match with some bad refereeing decisions. While Adelaide played well in patches, I think that Melbourne deserved the win. The highlight was seeing Roddy Vargas’ undershirt “I love Jesus.” Very cool. Here’s a pic.

Kaka is also known for wearing Jesus t-shirts under his soccer jersey. It was a capacity crowd, 54000, at last night’s game. This got me thinking. Where do A-League crowds rank compared to other football codes in Australia? Here’s what I found on wikipedia:

Average Attendances by Code

• 38,113 = Australian Football (AFL + finals)
• 17,313 = Rugby League (NRL, Finals, State of Origin + Tests)
• 16,800 = Association Football (A-League, Finals + Socceroos)
• 14,528 = Rugby Union (Super 14 + Wallabies)

Aussie Rules is dominating (mind you, American Football gets about 68,000 on average to their games!!). Soccer isn’t far behind League.  Rugby was surprisingly low considering Wallabies games were included. My prediction: give soccer 5 years and it will hit an average of 20,000 per game. All stats are from the 100% accurate wikipedia (here and here).

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The week in review from dave miers dot com (RSS or email):

• Welcome to March 09 – download a fresh calendar for your desktop
• SNAPSHOT – Nathan Lowery –  make sure you send me some related pics and a description to be in the running for a SNAPSHOT feature
  
• JI Packer on Baptism – if you didn’t read it on twitter/facebook – i got baptised on saturday… this was among the reading i’d been doing
  
• The King who SAVES – “It is finished”
• Protect your Marriage – some good discussion has been started… go join in!
  
• Getting Things Done – benny rocks the suburbs on getting things done. listen to him.
• Singing Praise to Jesus – i lead the service at church tonight -here’s the songs (1 change) that we did.
  
• God’s word on the bushfires – good sermon from Dominic Steele on Luke 13
  
• Ledger caps career with coveted Oscar – dead or alive, people thought he deserved this
  
• Break it Down # 1 – that post took longer than i thought it would last week!! took a while to get all the links for the music list.
  

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