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Bazza wrote:

westaussieguy wrote: Big State footy games have lost it , sad to say.
Seem to remember the Foxtel Cup being a good idea. But again the (so called) footy fans stayed away in droves. Big business was sinking money into it for no return, and now that's gone too! Sad to say but State Footy doesn't mean much now.

Yep, Foxtel were good to pump at fair bit of cash into that tear, sadly it never took hold so went under.

Its all about club footy now , the national comp killed state footy.

The first game of expanded VFL at Subiaco showed straight away the local comp was under pressure. At games end the masses exited of the 40,000 crowd to leave only 2,500 or so to watch the WAFL game straight after. That was the beginning of the end.

That game won't be played on the MCG.

It's a bit of a shame that interest in State of origin has ended and it definitely has.

I was surprised at how many AFL listed players are currently from NSW/ACT and Queensland.

I think it was 46 from NSW/ACT and 44 from QLD which is more than WA used to have back in the heyday of WA players going East in the 1980's.

On paper at least they would both have really good sides nowadays. I grew up in an era where it seemed impossible that QLD or NSW would ever produce more than a handful of AFL players let alone more than Tassie or even NT for that matter.

It might actually be a tough game for WA against either if played on their turf.

This is the QLD contingent. (46) Snuck up on me how many there are.

Kurt Tippett (Sydney) 164
Aliir Aliir (Sydney) 1
Shaun Hampson (Richmond) 89
Mabior Choi (Richmond) 0
Charlie Dixon (Port Adel) 77
Tom Hickey (St Kilda) 53
Nick Riewoldt (St Kilda) 309
Sam Gilbert (St Kilda) 169
David Armitage (St Kilda) 140
Braydon Preuss (North Melb) 0
Corey Wagner (North Melb) 0
Joel Tippett (North Melb) 9
Josh Wagner (Melbourne) 10
Jake Spencer (Melbourne) 36
Reuben William (Brisbane) 0
Ben Keays (Brisbane) 7
Archie Smith (Brisbane) 0
Tom Bell (Brisbane) 63
Jonathan Freeman (Brisbane) 14
Dayne Beams (Brisbane) 128
Claye Beams (Brisbane) 44
Matt Hammelmann (Brisbane) 0
Dayne Zorko (Brisbane) 92
Harris Andrews (Brisbane) 27
Liam Dawson (Brisbane) 13
Daniel Merrett (Brisbane) 191
Eric Hipwood (Brisbane) 0
Brendon Whitecross (Hawthorn) 88
Sam Reid (GWS) 25
Sam Michael (Essendon) 3
Courtenay Dempsey (Essendon) 125
Lachie Weller (Fremantle) 15
Lee Spurr (Fremantle) 94
Matt Uebergang (Fremantle) 0
Zac Smith (Geelong) 77
Wylie Buzza (Geelong) 0
Jarrod Harbrow (Gold Coast) 175
Alex Sexton (Gold Coast) 46
Rory Thompson (Gold Coast) 69
Clay Cameron (Gold Coast) 23
Jesse Joyce (Gold Coast) 2
Josh Thomas (Collingwood) 32
Lachlan Keefe (Collingwood) 40
Adam Oxley (Collingwood) 29
Josh Smith (Collingwood) 8
Jesse White (Collingwood) 114

Edit - NT would have to combine with QLDas previously mentioned, as they only have 13 listed players

Curtley Hampton (Adelaide) 51
Shaun Edwards (Essendon) 24
Matthew Stokes (Essendon) 196
Jake Long (Essendon) 0
Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti (Essendon) 11
Ryan Nyhuis (Fremantle) 0
Steven May (Gold Coast) 78
Cyril Rioli (Hawthorn) 168
Jed Anderson (North Melb) 11
Jake Neade (Port Adel) 46
Daniel Rioli (Richmond) 10
Nakia Cockatoo (Geelong) 16
Steven Motlop (Geelong) 100

I'll post the NSW/ACT ensemble later

NSW-ACT (52) Not a bad list of contenders

Isaac Smith (Hawthorn) 123
Luke Breust (Hawthorn) 128
Will Langford (Hawthorn) 43
Daniel Howe (Hawthorn) 11
Lachlan Langford (Hawthorn) 0
Daniel Lloyd (GWS) 0
Jacob Hopper (GWS) 5
Jeremy Finlayson (GWS) 0
Jack Steele (GWS) 15
Matt Kennedy (GWS) 0
Matthew Flynn (GWS) 0
Zac Williams (GWS) 41
Jake Barrett (GWS) 1
Harrison Himmelberg (GWS) 0
Craig Bird (Essendon) 146
Michael Hartley (Essendon) 9
Taylor Walker (Adelaide) 119
Paul Hunter (Adelaide) 0
Ryan Davis (Gold Coast) 23
Jarrod Witts (Collingwood) 40
Matt Suckling (Western Bulldogs) 110
Jacob Townsend (Richmond) 31
Anthony Miles (Richmond) 57
Sam Lloyd (Richmond) 32
Aaron Vandenberg (Melbourne) 18
Dean Terlich (Melbourne) 35
Max King (Melbourne) 0
Jarrad McVeigh (Sydney) 275
Kyle Galloway (Sydney) 0
Isaac Heeney (Sydney) 26
Sam Murray (Sydney) 0
Jordan Foote (Sydney) 0
Harry Cunningham (Sydney) 64
Abe Davis (Sydney) 0
Kieren Jack (Sydney) 197
Brandon Jack (Sydney) 27
Callum Mills (Sydney) 11
Jack Hiscox (Sydney) 1
Ben McGlynn (Sydney) 162
Dane Rampe (Sydney) 84
Daniel Robinson (Sydney) 11
Sam Naismith (Sydney) 1
Jack Cornell (Geelong) 0
Tom Hawkins (Geelong) 177
Sam Rowe (Carlton) 63
Jason Tutt (Carlton) 39
Mark Whitey (Carlton) 21
Dougal Howard (Port Adel) 5
Aidyn Johnson (Port Adel) 0
Logan Austin (Port Adel) 2
Josh Bruce (St Kilda) 58
Nick Coughlan (St Kilda) 0

Cant't understand how we (AFL) invented then lost state of origin and with rugby league it has greater importance than club/ARL rugby