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I can agree with just about all of that. Thank you for making it clearer, and thank you for educating me about North Queensland. I had no idea they were so obsessed. I still think, though, that the Barassi line is a useful indicator for that southern boundary between ""most popular codes"", and hence language. I think your use of the word ""resistance"" is not quite right. The point is that in Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne, etc, ""football"" largely means something else, and only one ""something else"". Those who use it that way aren't going to stop using it that way because another sport to wants make ""football"" its name. that means Those people will keep using the old name, ""soccer"", for that sport.   "