Americans reaction to seeing AFL for the first time. (youtube)

[AFLcrap1]

Post proof or GTFO

proof of what? That 9 of the AFL's 18 clubs are based outside Melbourne?

You are getting trolled by a Fumblefan .
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[King-Eliagh]

From your link
"South Africa

The AFL has contributed $400,000 annually for the past five years."



You asked "show me where the millions are flog"

ahhhh > 400k x 5 = $2,000,000.00

Jesus Christ wookie are you the full quid matey? And if we add on the list revenue of the nab footify an international fan six month junket then we have prob another mil wasted then their work in Wellington, wook yA got any links to show how much is going down the drain there? oh and ur link on China spending puts the AFL in a very bad light indeed, looks like they were all partnered up, sent officials there and all and then when the shit hit the fan and the Chinese team never eventuates the AFL bolted and as you say "expressly denied funding the development of an AFL oval"

im right members :D in fukkin right! The AFL have squandered millions o/s during the past years and for what? Shit fukk all.

Thanks for the links wookie but dude? I knew it all along! :_<> :_<>

Beaussie? Have you zipped up ur pants mate? Shows definitely over now. Your boy lost big time

Crickets chirping.


Beaussie, you ok bro?

[NRL4life]

You wish

Feel free to carry on like a fuckwit.

Awww you're too kind. Thank you. But I was only merely stating the truth.

[leeroy*NRL*]

AFL is never heard of outside Flinders street Melbourne and this cracker is talking about AFL in the US.

you do realise the AFL had attendances of nearly 1 million in Adelaide last year, and 780k in Perth? Thats over half the NRL's yearly attendance for their entire competition.

In fact all 3 of NRL's QLD teams only had 730k attendance last year. If you include NZ and Canberra the total was only just over 1 million, comparable with the AFL in Adelaide on its own. :_<>

So to suggest that the AFL is about Melbourne only is pretty stupid

Thats simple to undetstand.
Perth and adelaide..

The talk of the town
For things to do on the weekend is to go to the football.
And thats what they do..

[Xman]

AFL is never heard of outside Flinders street Melbourne and this cracker is talking about AFL in the US.

you do realise the AFL had attendances of nearly 1 million in Adelaide last year, and 780k in Perth? Thats over half the NRL's yearly attendance for their entire competition.

In fact all 3 of NRL's QLD teams only had 730k attendance last year. If you include NZ and Canberra the total was only just over 1 million, comparable with the AFL in Adelaide on its own. :_<>

So to suggest that the AFL is about Melbourne only is pretty stupid

Thats simple to undetstand.
Perth and adelaide..

The talk of the town
For things to do on the weekend is to go to the football.
And thats what they do..

and they dont do that in NSW and QLD?

[pussycat]

An Americans view of Rugby League - Slightly different to the tight shorts view of the AFL



Cam Inman
FOX SPORTS
May 28, 2015 9:00AM

CAM INMAN covers the San Francisco 49ers for the Bay Area News Group. After hearing so much about State of Origin since Jarryd Hayne’s NFL switch, he decided to watch his first game.

SANTA CLARA - California is my state of origin, which might explain why I had never watched an Australian rugby league game until now.

I quickly found myself fixated Wednesday on the spectacle that was Queensland’s 11-10 win over New South Wales in the State of Origin opener.

Those men were old-school tough. That match was tense to the last second. The sport, it has gained an overseas fan.

In 15 years of covering the NFL from the San Francisco Bay Area, I’ve watched America’s most popular sport grow enormously. It’s becoming bogged down, in the process, as both updated safety measures and constant referee interaction diminish the gladiator element.

No pads makes for a gladiatorial contest, which impressed NFL writer Cam Inman. Picture: Gregg Porteous Source: News Corp Australia

Perhaps that’s why it was so refreshing to watch the Blues and Maroons bang their non-padded, helmet-less bodies for 80 bruising minutes, at a hurried pace. Along the way, teamwork proved essential, and sportsmanship should be applauded, if merely for the lack of taunting opponents or harassing officials.

If the NFL looks more like this in 10 years, I wouldn’t be surprised, as long as more points are scored.

All of which makes it more intriguing to follow Jarryd Hayne’s attempt at a NFL career with the 49ers after his success with Parramatta and NSW.


What follows is as amateur an analysis as possible. It will take more than a couple hours of television viewing to master rugby-league rules. But I’ve made a career out of watching and sports – and writing about many of which I’ve never played - so here are some quick observations:

-- Hayne’s former New South Wales club came out strong, sternly ready to defend last year’s results. That intensity lagged after halftime, however, and the exhausted Blues were fortunate to lose by only a point. Queensland’s attacks kept coming and coming.

-- These aren’t your NFL-style tackles, where too often defenders want to knock out their foe with a hard hit. Here, gang tackles rule. Bodies are brought down by multiple players, often with arms lassoed around necks while elbows sneakily are wedged into backs. Spear tackles are illegal, just as they are in the NFL.

-- Breakaway runs are scarce. This is how the old NFL must have been before the forward pass sparked today’s offensive fireworks. Josh Dugan, however, made his mad dash count when he raced nearly 30 yards before his kick bounced up to Josh Morris for NSW’s first try. Some players look more suited as NFL offensive linemen and tight ends, rather than quick-footed running backs, which Hayne is attempting to become.

-- Ah, the video referee. Yes, replay challenges have become incorporated more and more in American sports, in a positive way. Best part here is that the verdict comes across on the stadium’s video board, along with an ad for Kentucky Fried Chicken (which was founded in my late grandmother’s hometown).

-- Blues captain Robbie Farah got body slammed onto his left shoulder, and he kept playing. Queensland’s Johnathan Thurston got flipped by two defenders, and he tried a 45-metre penalty kick. Tough guys, there. As tough as trying to score around the edge against the Maroons.



-- Cooper Cronk scores the first try, and finishes the Blues off with a field goal. Cronk? Oh, like Gronk? That would be Rob Gronkowski, who helped the New England Patriots win the last Super Bowl. Should have made that connection and placed a wager.

-- Why aren’t more field goals attempted? That question is best meant for the Blues. In a related note, the 45-degree angle kicks after tries offer the type of challenge the NFL needs. It’s better than simply moving point-after kicks back 15 yards, which is what the NFL decided to do last week.

-- The head coaches aren’t on the field and instead sit in a suite behind glass? Many NFL assistants do the same but not the head coaches. Must cut down on player/coach confrontations that reporters exploit.


-- A line you’ll never hear in a NFL broadcast: “The chicken wing could be the only reason for that penalty.”

-- A line I may borrow if the 49ers offense struggles like NSW: “You can put the sprinklers on at the other end of the field. There’s been no play down there.”

-- Amazing how those jerseys don’t rip. Reminds me when Canterbury rugby shirts were an American fad, decades ago. As for the rest of those uniforms, short shorts haven’t been seen like that in American sports since those on a NBA court, decades ago.

-- Fox Sports’ pregame coverage offered cool, different approaches than most NFL games, and that goes beyond last year’s clip of a teary-eyed Hayne saying: “It’s been a long time.” Interviewing the captains after the coin flip and the coaches from their locker rooms extended the hype. Updating the “wagering lines” is understandable, and so un-American, as pro sports here pretend as if no one gambles on them outside of Nevada (where it’s legal). Also, voyeurs get spoiled with cameras spying on locker rooms before the game, after it and at halftime.

-- There’s a beauty in not needing officials to mark where a ball was downed after every tackle, as players simply trust each other enough to carry on and keep the game moving forward – or backward with those passes.

-- I need to go on a beer run before State of Origin 2. As an impartial and neophyte observer, I’ll buy both XXXX and Victoria Bitter. Cheers, mates.

[Swans4ever]

An Americans view of Rugby League - Slightly different to the tight shorts view of the AFL



Cam Inman
FOX SPORTS
May 28, 2015 9:00AM

CAM INMAN covers the San Francisco 49ers for the Bay Area News Group. After hearing so much about State of Origin since Jarryd Hayne’s NFL switch, he decided to watch his first game.

SANTA CLARA - California is my state of origin, which might explain why I had never watched an Australian rugby league game until now.

I quickly found myself fixated Wednesday on the spectacle that was Queensland’s 11-10 win over New South Wales in the State of Origin opener.

Those men were old-school tough. That match was tense to the last second. The sport, it has gained an overseas fan.

In 15 years of covering the NFL from the San Francisco Bay Area, I’ve watched America’s most popular sport grow enormously. It’s becoming bogged down, in the process, as both updated safety measures and constant referee interaction diminish the gladiator element.

No pads makes for a gladiatorial contest, which impressed NFL writer Cam Inman. Picture: Gregg Porteous Source: News Corp Australia

Perhaps that’s why it was so refreshing to watch the Blues and Maroons bang their non-padded, helmet-less bodies for 80 bruising minutes, at a hurried pace. Along the way, teamwork proved essential, and sportsmanship should be applauded, if merely for the lack of taunting opponents or harassing officials.

If the NFL looks more like this in 10 years, I wouldn’t be surprised, as long as more points are scored.

All of which makes it more intriguing to follow Jarryd Hayne’s attempt at a NFL career with the 49ers after his success with Parramatta and NSW.


What follows is as amateur an analysis as possible. It will take more than a couple hours of television viewing to master rugby-league rules. But I’ve made a career out of watching and sports – and writing about many of which I’ve never played - so here are some quick observations:

-- Hayne’s former New South Wales club came out strong, sternly ready to defend last year’s results. That intensity lagged after halftime, however, and the exhausted Blues were fortunate to lose by only a point. Queensland’s attacks kept coming and coming.

-- These aren’t your NFL-style tackles, where too often defenders want to knock out their foe with a hard hit. Here, gang tackles rule. Bodies are brought down by multiple players, often with arms lassoed around necks while elbows sneakily are wedged into backs. Spear tackles are illegal, just as they are in the NFL.

-- Breakaway runs are scarce. This is how the old NFL must have been before the forward pass sparked today’s offensive fireworks. Josh Dugan, however, made his mad dash count when he raced nearly 30 yards before his kick bounced up to Josh Morris for NSW’s first try. Some players look more suited as NFL offensive linemen and tight ends, rather than quick-footed running backs, which Hayne is attempting to become.

-- Ah, the video referee. Yes, replay challenges have become incorporated more and more in American sports, in a positive way. Best part here is that the verdict comes across on the stadium’s video board, along with an ad for Kentucky Fried Chicken (which was founded in my late grandmother’s hometown).

-- Blues captain Robbie Farah got body slammed onto his left shoulder, and he kept playing. Queensland’s Johnathan Thurston got flipped by two defenders, and he tried a 45-metre penalty kick. Tough guys, there. As tough as trying to score around the edge against the Maroons.



-- Cooper Cronk scores the first try, and finishes the Blues off with a field goal. Cronk? Oh, like Gronk? That would be Rob Gronkowski, who helped the New England Patriots win the last Super Bowl. Should have made that connection and placed a wager.

-- Why aren’t more field goals attempted? That question is best meant for the Blues. In a related note, the 45-degree angle kicks after tries offer the type of challenge the NFL needs. It’s better than simply moving point-after kicks back 15 yards, which is what the NFL decided to do last week.

-- The head coaches aren’t on the field and instead sit in a suite behind glass? Many NFL assistants do the same but not the head coaches. Must cut down on player/coach confrontations that reporters exploit.


-- A line you’ll never hear in a NFL broadcast: “The chicken wing could be the only reason for that penalty.”

-- A line I may borrow if the 49ers offense struggles like NSW: “You can put the sprinklers on at the other end of the field. There’s been no play down there.”

-- Amazing how those jerseys don’t rip. Reminds me when Canterbury rugby shirts were an American fad, decades ago. As for the rest of those uniforms, short shorts haven’t been seen like that in American sports since those on a NBA court, decades ago.

-- Fox Sports’ pregame coverage offered cool, different approaches than most NFL games, and that goes beyond last year’s clip of a teary-eyed Hayne saying: “It’s been a long time.” Interviewing the captains after the coin flip and the coaches from their locker rooms extended the hype. Updating the “wagering lines” is understandable, and so un-American, as pro sports here pretend as if no one gambles on them outside of Nevada (where it’s legal). Also, voyeurs get spoiled with cameras spying on locker rooms before the game, after it and at halftime.

-- There’s a beauty in not needing officials to mark where a ball was downed after every tackle, as players simply trust each other enough to carry on and keep the game moving forward – or backward with those passes.

-- I need to go on a beer run before State of Origin 2. As an impartial and neophyte observer, I’ll buy both XXXX and Victoria Bitter. Cheers, mates.

And if he saw the Raiders v west tigers during SOO with 3 people at the ground - yawn fest!

[AFLsforPussies]

Swans4ever how can you call pussycat full of shit when you were the last to post mate

Thought I would revive it to refresh your memory.

[Swans4ever]

Swans4ever how can you call pussycat full of shit when you were the last to post mate

Thought I would revive it to refresh your memory.

Your a stranger to the point of things aren't you! By the way you do know that Todd Shapiro is a Canadian radio program so even the title of this thread is wrong - like pretty much everything else you say!

[AFLcrap1]

Just like you caught out bullshitting in the other thread .

You never change sarge .

[AFLsforPussies]

Swans4ever how can you call pussycat full of shit when you were the last to post mate

Thought I would revive it to refresh your memory.

Your a stranger to the point of things aren't you! By the way you do know that Todd Shapiro is a Canadian radio program so even the title of this thread is wrong - like pretty much everything else you say!

Is still American NFL fans laughing at how crap AFL is which ever way you look at it.
They say exactly the same things about AFL as Rugby League fans do lol..

[AFLcrap1]

Swans4ever how can you call pussycat full of shit when you were the last to post mate

Thought I would revive it to refresh your memory.

Your a stranger to the point of things aren't you! By the way you do know that Todd Shapiro is a Canadian radio program so even the title of this thread is wrong - like pretty much everything else you say!

Is still American NFL fans laughing at how crap AFL is which ever way you look at it.
They say exactly the same things about AFL as Rugby League fans do lol..

& doesn't it cut them up .

[AFLsforPussies]

Swans4ever how can you call pussycat full of shit when you were the last to post mate

Thought I would revive it to refresh your memory.

Your a stranger to the point of things aren't you! By the way you do know that Todd Shapiro is a Canadian radio program so even the title of this thread is wrong - like pretty much everything else you say!

Is still American NFL fans laughing at how crap AFL is which ever way you look at it.
They say exactly the same things about AFL as Rugby League fans do lol..

& doesn't it cut them up .

Hehe it really does.

[AFLcrap1]

It's a yearly thing .
Meltdown after meltdown .
& if we have a 4 nations or World Cup at the end of our season that sets them off again .

[Swans4ever]

Just like you caught out bullshitting in the other thread .

You never change sarge .

Your opinion ain't fact - I don't BS but I do exaggerate to get an reaction! Hahaha but you just change the subject and disagree out of hand! A hypocrite of the highest order! Hahaha