`  :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.   `