Will we ever see someone score 100 tries in a season?

[leeroy*NRL*]

With all the talk of which code has the superior skills, Buddy Franklin now on 37 goals for the season so far and tracking towards 100 goals. It got me thinking has a rugby league player EVER scored 100 tries in a season??? After all all they have to do is fall on the ground over a line that is 68 meters long - Franklin has to kick the ball usually under pressure and as the other night showed sometimes 70 meters from goal!!!! That's almost the length of a rugby league pitch, so I went looking and found that not only have NONE even achieved half that in a season with more games in a year but also the highest of all time was Kevin Irvine with 212 back in 1973 for his ENTIRE CAREER!! How incredible pitiful are these RL players at their own game that the nearest is Steve Menzies with 180 in 2008? No wonder no one bothers to turn up to a match!

No JOKE POSIBBLY the worst POST YET>

I will not even bother to read pass this point..

You are in a bubble mate..

[AFLcrap1]

A represtative from each major sport was selelected - Billy even beat him in the AFL Kicking, event ,

This was a one of challenge Billy just about in his prime, Delidio a rookie and no where near the top 200. Yet you people bring it up? Well suppose if you say something often enough you might start believing it is so! So keep going fellas!

Love how you try to downplay one of your star fumblers because he got smashed

Lol not in the top 200


Kevin Sheehan Medal winner: 2004
U-18 All Australian: 2004
TAC Cup Team of the Year: 2004
AFL

AFL Rising Star: 2005
International Rules Series Player: 2005
AFLPA Best First-Year Player: 2005
2× All-Australian: 2012, 2015
AFLCA All-Australian team: 2015
Yiooken Award: 2012
2x Ian Stewart Medal: 2011, 2015
AFL Army Award: 2008
Richmond

Best First Year Player: 2005
Kevin Bartlett Medal: 2007
2× Best and Fairest: 2008, 2009
2x Jack Titus Medal: 2011, 2012
Fred Swift Medal: 2013
Maurie Fleming Medal: 2015
Life Member
Richmond Vice-Captain 2013-


Lots of achievements up to 09 when the challenge was held

[Xman]

Billy Slater's achievements:

2004: Dally M Peter Frilingos Memorial Award for the headline moment of the year
2005: Dally M Joint Top Try Scorer 19 Tries in the NRL
2007: Melbourne Storm Team of the Decade (Fullback)
2007: Melbourne Storm Back of the Year Award
2008: Dally M Fullback of the Year
2008: Rugby League Week Player of the Year Award
2008: Melbourne Storm Player of the Year Award
2008: Rugby League World Cup Player of the Tournament and Top Try Scorer
2008: Golden Boot Award Rugby League World International Player of the Year
2009: Australia's Greatest Athlete (Australian TV Game Show) Inaugural Winner
2009: Clive Churchill Medal
2009: Melbourne Storm Player of the Year Award
2010: Australia's Greatest Athlete (Australian TV Game Show) season two winner
2010: Wally Lewis Medal (State of Origin)
2011: Dally M Fullback of the Year
2011: Dally M Medal best and fairest player

"Kangaroos and Melbourne Storm fullback Billy Slater has been crowned the world's best player at a glittering awards presentation at the Tower of London that was dominated by Australian players".
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So he was pretty much the best that the world of RL could have chosen


Now for Brett Deledio's achievements:

AFL

AFL Rising Star: 2005 - which is the best debut player of that year
International Rules Series Player: 2005 - Chosen in a squad of about 30 players
AFLPA Best First-Year Player: 2005 - best dubut player in 2005
2× All-Australian: 2012, 2015 - one of the best 22 players in these years
AFLCA All-Australian team: 2015 -
Yiooken Award: 2012
2x Ian Stewart Medal: 2011, 2015
AFL Army Award: 2008

Richmond

Best First Year Player: 2005
Kevin Bartlett Medal: 2007
2× Best and Fairest: 2008, 2009
2x Jack Titus Medal: 2011, 2012
Fred Swift Medal: 2013
Maurie Fleming Medal: 2015
Life Member
Richmond Vice-Captain 2013-

So basically Deledio was the best debut player of 2005, in the best 22 players in the AFL in 2012 and 2015.

Slater, best RL player in the world, best in Australia, Storm team of the decade

vs Deledio, best debut player in his first season (out of maybe 40 other debutants), one of Richmond's better players for a few years, and one of the top 22 AFL players in 2 seasons

Yeah, they are totally comparable!

LOL

[Xman]

Rexona challenge heavily favoured smaller athletes. None of the larger athletes like Deledio, Tuqiri, Hurst, Ling, Sailor, or Sullivan did any good.

Add to that, they had laughable "athletic challenges" like jet skiing, basketball freethrows, surfboat rowing, golf, cricket, goal kicking, dune buggy racing, etc. What a fantastic way to determine athletic ability :_<> :_<>

Season 1
Slater 178cm 89kg
Wincup ?
Deledio 188cm, 88kg
Hooker 187cm, 85kg
Symonds 187kg, ?
Tuqiri 191cm, ?
Ky Hurst 196cm, 87kg
Griffiths 181cm

Season 2
Slater 178cm 89kg
Eckstein ?
O'Connor 180cm, 88kg
Lowndes 182cm
Culina 175cm, 73kg
Ling 189cm, 94kg
Mitcham 174cm, 67kg
Sailor 191cm, ?

Season 3
Cooper 186cm
Eckstein ?
Wallace 190cm, ?
Gidley 178cm, 86kg
Sullivan 191cm, 80kg
Hodge 185cm, ?
Lapierre ?
Winterbottom ?

[Fred]

A represtative from each major sport was selelected - Billy even beat him in the AFL Kicking, event ,

This was a one of challenge Billy just about in his prime, Delidio a rookie and no where near the top 200. Yet you people bring it up? Well suppose if you say something often enough you might start believing it is so! So keep going fellas!

Love how you try to downplay one of your star fumblers because he got smashed

Lol not in the top 200


Kevin Sheehan Medal winner: 2004
U-18 All Australian: 2004
TAC Cup Team of the Year: 2004
AFL

AFL Rising Star: 2005
International Rules Series Player: 2005
AFLPA Best First-Year Player: 2005
2× All-Australian: 2012, 2015
AFLCA All-Australian team: 2015
Yiooken Award: 2012
2x Ian Stewart Medal: 2011, 2015
AFL Army Award: 2008
Richmond

Best First Year Player: 2005
Kevin Bartlett Medal: 2007
2× Best and Fairest: 2008, 2009
2x Jack Titus Medal: 2011, 2012
Fred Swift Medal: 2013
Maurie Fleming Medal: 2015
Life Member
Richmond Vice-Captain 2013-


Lots of achievements up to 09 when the challenge was held

Havent heard of three quarter of those awards ? Billy Slatter and gary ablett jnr maybr eqivilant. Delidio is a relative nobody really. Some are not even senior level if they are tac cup they are under 18 i think

[Swans4ever]

With all the talk of which code has the superior skills, Buddy Franklin now on 37 goals for the season so far and tracking towards 100 goals. It got me thinking has a rugby league player EVER scored 100 tries in a season??? After all all they have to do is fall on the ground over a line that is 68 meters long - Franklin has to kick the ball usually under pressure and as the other night showed sometimes 70 meters from goal!!!! That's almost the length of a rugby league pitch, so I went looking and found that not only have NONE even achieved half that in a season with more games in a year but also the highest of all time was Kevin Irvine with 212 back in 1973 for his ENTIRE CAREER!! How incredible pitiful are these RL players at their own game that the nearest is Steve Menzies with 180 in 2008? No wonder no one bothers to turn up to a match!

No JOKE POSIBBLY the worst POST YET>

I will not even bother to read pass this point..

You are in a bubble mate..

If you read some of the posts by pussy it seems those in times gone by did score more often - I watched a GF a couple of months ago between Paramatta and I think St.George at the SCG (80's) - it was very fast and free flowing and frequent tries, the players didn't all look like weight lifters like today. Could it be the direction of RL has resulted in lower scores and more of a dour contest?

[AFLcrap1]

Lol still won't compare kicking goals in. RL game to Kicking goals in a fumbleathon .

Why is that . A like v like comparison is fair .

[Swans4ever]

Lol still won't compare kicking goals in. RL game to Kicking goals in a fumbleathon .

Why is that . A like v like comparison is fair .

And I said why I wouldn't firstly it's not your major form of scoring - second you kick off a plastic tee on the ground hardly the same as a drop punt!

[AFLcrap1]

Lol
We have to get it over a crossbar
Makes it harder
Your mob can dribble it along the ground & as long as it goes between the giant sticks ....it's a goal .

Lol I'll give this fail thread a ONE point
Because you in true unco fashion .
Tried & missed

[Swans4ever]

Lol
We have to get it over a crossbar
Makes it harder
Your mob can dribble it along the ground & as long as it goes between the giant sticks ....it's a goal .

Lol I'll give this fail thread a ONE point
Because you in true unco fashion .
Tried & missed

Oh please from 10 meters out! Don't make me laugh!

[AFLcrap1]

10 mtrs out l
Jesus son
Are you off your meds .

10 mtrs ..really

Try to post something close to truthful

[Swans4ever]

10 mtrs out l
Jesus son
Are you off your meds .

10 mtrs ..really

Try to post something close to truthful

How about you take some of your own advice!

[AFLcrap1]

Why post something that is bullshit .


Then deflect .

Most shots are taken on the20 or further .

But don't let the truth get in the way of your bullshit

[Xman]

Why post something that is bullshit .


Then deflect .

Most shots are taken on the20 or further .

But don't let the truth get in the way of your bullshit

which means the cross bar is effectively pointless. Unless you cant make the distance from 20m

One issue with the AFL is for set shot the player must kick over the person on the mark. A set shot from 50m needs to clear the players in the square as well so realistically it needs to travel 60m +

[pussycat]

Billy Slater's achievements:

2004: Dally M Peter Frilingos Memorial Award for the headline moment of the year
2005: Dally M Joint Top Try Scorer 19 Tries in the NRL
2007: Melbourne Storm Team of the Decade (Fullback)
2007: Melbourne Storm Back of the Year Award
2008: Dally M Fullback of the Year
2008: Rugby League Week Player of the Year Award
2008: Melbourne Storm Player of the Year Award
2008: Rugby League World Cup Player of the Tournament and Top Try Scorer
2008: Golden Boot Award Rugby League World International Player of the Year
2009: Australia's Greatest Athlete (Australian TV Game Show) Inaugural Winner
2009: Clive Churchill Medal
2009: Melbourne Storm Player of the Year Award
2010: Australia's Greatest Athlete (Australian TV Game Show) season two winner
2010: Wally Lewis Medal (State of Origin)
2011: Dally M Fullback of the Year
2011: Dally M Medal best and fairest player

"Kangaroos and Melbourne Storm fullback Billy Slater has been crowned the world's best player at a glittering awards presentation at the Tower of London that was dominated by Australian players".
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... z49ekOdaAM
Follow us: @smh on Twitter | sydneymorningherald on Facebook

So he was pretty much the best that the world of RL could have chosen


Now for Brett Deledio's achievements:

AFL

AFL Rising Star: 2005 - which is the best debut player of that year
International Rules Series Player: 2005 - Chosen in a squad of about 30 players
AFLPA Best First-Year Player: 2005 - best dubut player in 2005
2× All-Australian: 2012, 2015 - one of the best 22 players in these years
AFLCA All-Australian team: 2015 -
Yiooken Award: 2012
2x Ian Stewart Medal: 2011, 2015
AFL Army Award: 2008

Richmond

Best First Year Player: 2005
Kevin Bartlett Medal: 2007
2× Best and Fairest: 2008, 2009
2x Jack Titus Medal: 2011, 2012
Fred Swift Medal: 2013
Maurie Fleming Medal: 2015
Life Member
Richmond Vice-Captain 2013-

So basically Deledio was the best debut player of 2005, in the best 22 players in the AFL in 2012 and 2015.

Slater, best RL player in the world, best in Australia, Storm team of the decade

vs Deledio, best debut player in his first season (out of maybe 40 other debutants), one of Richmond's better players for a few years, and one of the top 22 AFL players in 2 seasons

Yeah, they are totally comparable!

LOL

The year after he beat Dildo he beat ding a ling Ling. He didn't go in it the next year and a Rugby union player won it. But but but but our sport produces such great athletes