Firstly we know it takes many a skinny kid living in the southern depths of australia years of real determination, practice, competition, more practice, training and learning through experience playing amongst other skinny kids from the southern depths of australia. Years and years of hard work it takes these southerners....and we must really applaud them for their efforts =D> I mean they try harder in life than the vast majority of southern hicks who frequent this forum.
ORRRRRRRRRR...what else does it take?
Well we know there's also substantial evidence that an NRL player with diddly squat marngrook experience can perform better than many of said skinny kids who've worked all their lives to make it
ORRRRRR
We also know that Irish Gaelic amateur footy players can make the cut and perform above the vast majority of aussie southerner players without even trying
ORRRRRRR
We also know that American Rugby players with no experience (or was mike pyke Canadian?) can absolutely romp it in and become a better contested marker than 99% of players who've come from southern aus and worked their guts out for more than two decades
ORRRRRR
We also know, as of last weekend, that an American gangly engineer college student/basketballer can make Eddie McRacist, president of the Collinwood team give us yet another example of an AFL supporter premmie ejaculation by saying he was, and i quote
:_<>Eddie McRacistchins wrote:“Like everybody our eyes dropped to see where it was going and out came big Mason hands out and he got it.
“It was one of the great highlights that I’ve been involved with at the Pies, I just loved it when he nailed that kick. I jumped up like we won the flag I must admit.”
'Ave a read of this article folks.
http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/americ ... e08cc5699e
I know i've told yas all how little americans know about the afl from my recent field research there but the quotes from the yanks in this article, as well as eddie's are just damn funny reading.
So to reiterate the requirements to make it in the AFL are:
a) Southern ancestry, skinnyness and years of trying ur guts out.
b)Rugby League/NRL experience
c) Rugby Union experience at semi professional level
d) Amateur Gaelic rules experience
e) A combination of basketball and engineering studies.
because its true!