Just a question to the NAFL, from your website it seems that you never seem to have more than maybe well 16 guys (8 against 8) on the ground at any one time.

How many guys did you have at each of your games last season?

Normally in japan it is 11 or 12 a side yes?

Are you playing football or 5 a side?

Just an observer to this war on footy here. It would appear that the gentleman from the NAFL is speaking a load of WAFL and no, I don’t mean the Western Australian Football league, but the other, more widely used term, crap.

Anyone who has half a brain would only need to recognise that this NAFL gentleman is grasping at straws. He sounds like a woman scorned. He continues to argue how great and innovative this NAFL league is and all the positives from playing in it but doesn't seem to point out the VERY OBVIOUS frailties with it.

Shall I point some of them out? OK, you twisted my arm.

1. He promotes the fact that as a foreigner you can represent the NAFL Japanese NATIONAL side and travel to Vancouver to play the US and CANADA.

This is great... but... how does this help the game of football? Who heard of a National team being made up of ex pats? Nationalised citizens like Alex (in the Japanese Soccer team) I can understand but blokes on a working holiday visa? oh please. The only reason the NAFL offers this seems quite obvious. The NAFL doesn't have enough Japanese players in the league to field an entirely Japanese team (even at just 11 a side and not the 18 that we have at home). Why would an Aussie want to represent Japan anyway (nationalised Japanese citizens excluded)?

2. Arguments that football is too dangerous to play in summer? My god boy. Where you from? Tasmania? They do play football in Queensland, Western Australia, Darwin and even, believe it or not, Alice Springs when, even in winter the temperature can be above 30 degrees. And just so you don’t start crapping yourself about ice vests, and the like, blokes playing footy in Alice are more likely to be drinking VB stubbies at half time than hitting the old water bottles. You can’t tell me that that's safe? Even the AFL starts their Pre season comp in the middle of summer. Sounds like NAFL spokesman is a pussy and don't like the sunshine. You don’t think that regardless of what the powers that be at Dingoes says, that if the players felt it was too dangerous to play they wouldn’t pull out? Are you serious?

3. Another painfully obvious frailty in the NAFL legitimacy argument seems to be their lack of evidence. Anyone who looked at this as an outsider would see that everything this Osaka Dingoes member has said has been backed up by links to verify claims. Obvious ties with the AFL and an established league in Tokyo can only help to support his arguments. Anything the NAFL says is accompanied by the same email and web address. I can only suspect that the reason there is nothing to quantify the NAFL’s claim is because they are trying to promote themselves ONLY and can’t quantify claims because it’s all rubbish. After all, the NAFL is a rebel league yeah? (full of pussies, but rebel none the less.)

4. Also, not actually believing the Osaka Dingoes person, I decided to check his claim that this so highly rated NAFL league wasn’t affiliated with the AFL. So away I go and, would you believe it, it seems Osaka Dingoes person is right. I couldn’t see NAFL anywhere. I looked, but I didn’t find. Which makes me wonder how this NAFL gentleman can stake such claims as he has done. Having a friend who used to be an AFL player doesn’t make you affiliated with it. I have a friend who plays for Collingwood but you don’t see me going around saying I’m a Collingwood player do you? Idiot!

5. The fastest growing league in Japan? Anyone can make up a team name, slap it on a web page and claim it’s a new team, but have they played any games? Do they actually exist? Here’s a couple of names I’ve just thought of that you may like to use for your next new teams. The NAFL cons. The Hamamatsu Humm Bags. The “your full of shit and it should be slapped on your jumper!”.

6. My NAFL friend who calls other people retards should be very careful. Anybody who writes as a native English speaker, and the following is an extract of his advertisement,

“Please ask first what country they come from, then ask if they are associated with the Nippon Australian Football League. If they say "no" to either question then they are the false advertisers we are warning about.”

is truly a spastic. What mentally challenged socially inept spastic says “no” to the question “Where are you from”? For “no” aint no country I heard of and I’m damn sure that if I asked a mentally institutionalized person the same question, they’d come back with a different answer… probably something along the lines of a country name or in your case NAFL boy, NAFL.

7. For the good of the GAME, FOOTBALL, I hope you people can work your differences out because it sounds like there’s a lot of hate in there and that always makes for an interesting game. Oh and if Andy, you read this, you are a very ugly man and I can understand why you chose Japan. You’ve obviously only been laid here and are afraid to leave.

Ladies and Gentlemen

“We are the only National Australian Football organisation in Osaka approved by both the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and the Australian Professional AFL”.


REPLY = There is another Osaka based　club which belongs to the JAFL which is approved by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs.

REPLYI = the NAFL approved by a former AFL player or THE AFL?.
The JAFL is approved and supported by the AFL”.

REPLY = Look at http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=intleagues
I do not see a NAFL logo.


“We are also offering the chance to all foreigners and Japanese to play in our National team in Vancouver next year against the US and Canada”.

REPLY = It does not seem to a real national team if none Japanese nationals are playing in it
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The JAFL have invited none Japanese national to go to the Arafura games.
The JAFL also sent a team to the Melbourne International Cup (but this is only for Japanese nationals because it is a national team).

・1995年　Arafura games 1995　　　 4位
・1997年　Arafura games 1997 　　　6位
・1999年　Arafura games 1999 　　　8位
・2001年　Arafura games 2001 　　　4位
・2002年　AFL International Cup 　10位
・2005年　Arahura games 2005　　　 2位 Silver medal

They have done quite well recently.



“Please be warned that these organisations are advertising games being played in July and August. We must seriously warn people not to play these games as a sport such as this in such heat will be hazardous to your health and in worse case scenarios lead to a fatality. These organisations are putting people's health at risk to promote their own agendas”.

REPLY = We promote football for the good of football not ourselves.

REPLY In Australia during the closed season, it is normal is it not to put on 10kg in pure beer then start the pre-season (when it is very hot) and go for 1 hour runs 10 kgs heavier than you should be.
Playing in Osaka between 5 and 7 in July and preseason or summer in Queensland or Darwin seems to be about the same.