What an exciting prospect. Australia has had an influx of recent immigrants from Africa, Asia, South Pacific Islands, South America and Mars. Soccer, Rugby, Basketball, Cricket and Baseball were revolutionised by multiculturalism. How much improvement at AFL level will our new citizens bring over the next few decades?

Depends how many take up the sport I guess.

Driving home thurs I saw a couple of tall somalian kids with a cricket bat and stumps.

I just hope that they were playing cricket with them!

I live in an area where there are quite a lot of african immigrants and quite a lot of them are appartenty getting into footy. I'd say with in about 5-6 years there'll be at least a couple of african kids playing AFL.

I live in an area where there are quite a lot of african immigrants and quite a lot of them are appartenty getting into footy. I'd say with in about 5-6 years there'll be at least a couple of african kids playing AFL.

give it 15 years, we won't believe how many of them there are..

Driving home thurs I saw a couple of tall somalian kids with a cricket bat and stumps.

I just hope that they were playing cricket with them!

Good observation. I saw a dozen or so of them the other night, kicking the soccer ball around. Whilst I'm glad it was a ball they were kicking, I wasn't impressed that it was a soccer ball. If I had a old sherrin I would of gone back and given it to them. They're pretty quick too...

give it 15 years, we won't believe how many of them there are..

Yes. We'll see a few in the AFL by then.