Talking Footy

Lol.
Just lol .
You fumblers can't wait to sprout PARTICIPATION ..lol numbers yet when RL counts it's non tackle game it's but but but .
Jesus .




Yet Souths leading the way in a code pushing new promotional boundaries is not new.
On the night of February 9, 1968, premiers South Sydney hosted rugby league's first touch football tournament at Redfern Oval.
Only two Sydney teams did not participate – Wests were probably still at Lidcombe's Railway Hotel and the Bulldogs were a no-show.
Jack Gibson was the coach of the Roosters, Dave Bolton was in the Balmain team, Dick Thornett and Barry Rushworth ran out for the Eels, as did Barry Beath and Dick Huddart for the Dragons, while the Sea Eagles fielded a strong team, including Bob Fulton, Frank Stanton, Denis Ward and Fred Jones.
South Sydney paraded the pride of their 1967 premiership team, coached by Clive Churchill – John Sattler, Ron Coote, Bob McCarthy, Ivan Jones, Jim Lisle, Bobby Honan and Brian James.
James is credited in the official program with promoting the evening, which included sprint and mile races.
Co-organiser, Jack Thom, writes: "The idea came from Brian James, our South Sydney winger, and without his hard work and time generously spent, this function could not have been organised."
Thom, a South Sydney stalwart, was also a lawyer and defended the mother-in-law of Balmain's Bobby Lulham, accused of poisoning the international winger.
The seven men per side, seven minutes per half competition was not called touch, although the official rules declare: "A player is 'tackled' when he is touched with two hands by an opposition player."
The tournament was actually named, the "Figaro" Football Competition, named after a prominent hair tonic whose advertising slogan was: "If there's a bee in your bonnet, put Figaro on it."
The program has a photo of a very suave, suited but pensive Sattler, sitting cross-legged on a bar stool, hair suitably treated.
Billed as "South Sydney Charity Night", all proceeds went to the ****** Centre. It obviously pre-dated the Charity Shield match between the Rabbitohs and Dragons, which began in 1982.
James argues that history should credit himself and Thom with initiating touch football, an important issue following last year's historic amalgamation of the Australian Touch Football Association and the ARL Commission.
Wikipedia says: "The first actual official game of touch was played in late 1968 and the first official competition, organised by Bob Dyke and Ray Vawdon [two officials of the South Sydney Junior Rugby League Club], was held at Snape Park, Sydney in 1969."
James points out that his tournament preceded the Juniors' match by at least six months. Asked who formulated the rules, James said: "To my memory Jack Thom, myself and the NSWRL Referees Association produced these rules from scratch.
"If someone else produced these rules, why would they wait so long to arrange a match?"
Fair point. The rules, as recorded in the program, are most precise and the referees and touch judges came from the NSWRL Referees Association.
James cannot recall who won the tournament but he was in good form three months later to be selected in the World Cup, which Australia won with four Immortals - John Raper, Graeme Langlands, Arthur Beetson and Fulton.


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NRL, get off the drugs and stop trying everything possible to make it look like Touch and tag are not forms of RUGBY LEAGUE YOU DUMB FUCKER.

NOT NRL, never has been, the game is called Rugby League. Before that it was called Northern Union and before that it was known as the Northern Rugby Football Union. In Some places it is called Rugby XIII and has been for 100 years.

Can I ask you fraudster, who the fuck make 9 a side AFL, and if it wasn't made by the sport itself then, it's not part of the AFL, seems fair huh?

Oh no, wookie wouldn't like that, the afls participation numbers drop at least 3 quarters because they don't play a sport that the AFL created itself eh? Same diff, but oh no, only RL can not have a smaller non contact version of their sport whilst all others can even though it was made at South Sydney training run over however long as a training drill for Rugby League players huh?

I suppose their world record crowd of 40 odd thousand is a myth too eh, it was made possible because the NSWRL GF between Saints and Parra had Touch Rugby League played as the hald time entertainment back in the late 1970's.

But no, it has nothing at all to do with Rugby League does it, you don't pass the ball backwards, you don't play the ball, you don't have 6 plays to score blh blah blah.

Wookie is a frauster, always has been and will lie and cheat to make his AFL look bigger than it really is, it clouds his judgment something shocking.

Rugby League, that's the name of the sport and it just so happens that it is wayyyyyyy bigger than your game, big deal, I don't cry because union and soccer are bigger than Rugby League and I also don't deny they have smaller non contact versions of their games too and other versions with less players on the pitch.

Get over it, Touch and Tag Rugby League are just that, RUGBY LEAGUE!

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

NRL, get off the drugs and stop trying everything possible to make it look like Touch and tag are not forms of RUGBY LEAGUE YOU DUMB FUCKER.

NOT NRL, never has been, the game is called Rugby League. Before that it was called Northern Union and before that it was known as the Northern Rugby Football Union. In Some places it is called Rugby XIII and has been for 100 years.

Can I ask you fraudster, who the fuck make 9 a side AFL, and if it wasn't made by the sport itself then, it's not part of the AFL, seems fair huh?

Oh no, wookie wouldn't like that, the afls participation numbers drop at least 3 quarters because they don't play a sport that the AFL created itself eh? Same diff, but oh no, only RL can not have a smaller non contact version of their sport whilst all others can even though it was made at South Sydney training run over however long as a training drill for Rugby League players huh?

I suppose their world record crowd of 40 odd thousand is a myth too eh, it was made possible because the NSWRL GF between Saints and Parra had Touch Rugby League played as the hald time entertainment back in the late 1970's.

But no, it has nothing at all to do with Rugby League does it, you don't pass the ball backwards, you don't play the ball, you don't have 6 plays to score blh blah blah.

Wookie is a frauster, always has been and will lie and cheat to make his AFL look bigger than it really is, it clouds his judgment something shocking.

Rugby League, that's the name of the sport and it just so happens that it is wayyyyyyy bigger than your game, big deal, I don't cry because union and soccer are bigger than Rugby League and I also don't deny they have smaller non contact versions of their games too and other versions with less players on the pitch.

Get over it, Touch and Tag Rugby League are just that, RUGBY LEAGUE!

lol what are we up to 1.2. or 1.3 million apparently play touch as to what the NRLOL's annual report listed
just a number of over inflated figures just like the NRLOL's crowds have been.

the majority of people do not play touch out of the love for rugby league, believe it or not they play it for fitness and social reasons
(something normal people do)

COLLINGWOOD coach Nathan Buckley remains on track to lead the Magpies on Monday following surgery on his hamstring.

Magpies football director Neil Balme said Buckley would be available for the Queen’s Birthday clash with Melbourne after tearing his hamstring playing touch rugby on Tuesday.

“Bucks is going very well ... the surgery went well, reattached (hamstring) without any problems,” Balme told the club’s website.
http://www.foxsports.com.au/AFL/AFL-pre ... 7381542737

Oh my .
It doesn't matter what reason people play touch .
They still fucking play it .
It's the non tackle form of RL .
You can but but but all you want ...does not change a thing .
They still play .

leagueiscrap wrote:

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

Get over it, Touch and Tag Rugby League are just that, RUGBY LEAGUE!

lol what are we up to 1.2. or 1.3 million apparently play touch as to what the NRLOL's annual report listed
just a number of over inflated figures just like the NRLOL's crowds have been.

COLLINGWOOD coach Nathan Buckley remains on track to lead the Magpies on Monday following surgery on his hamstring.

Magpies football director Neil Balme said Buckley would be available for the Queen’s Birthday clash with Melbourne after tearing his hamstring playing touch rugby on Tuesday.

“Bucks is going very well ... the surgery went well, reattached (hamstring) without any problems,” Balme told the club’s website.
http://www.foxsports.com.au/AFL/AFL-pre ... 7381542737

So I guess we are to accept Nathan Buckley is a rugby league player/participant because he played touch footy? My gawd, how desperate and pathetic are the NRL and its supporters in trying to inflate participation numbers.

[quoe]''After the revelations about their actual number of local players, the NSW AFL specifically requested not to be allocated to Birchgrove Oval,'' Byrne said.

In the local AFL body's original submission to council, it was claimed they had 1644 registered players before later reducing the total to 238.[/quote]


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Go and read what the real participation starts are collected by 3rd party sources. It shows AFL is far more popular than the nrlol

Lol .but but but .

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

NRL, get off the drugs and stop trying everything possible to make it look like Touch and tag are not forms of RUGBY LEAGUE YOU DUMB FUCKER.

NOT NRL, never has been, the game is called Rugby League. Before that it was called Northern Union and before that it was known as the Northern Rugby Football Union. In Some places it is called Rugby XIII and has been for 100 years.

Can I ask you fraudster, who the fuck make 9 a side AFL, and if it wasn't made by the sport itself then, it's not part of the AFL, seems fair huh?

Oh no, wookie wouldn't like that, the afls participation numbers drop at least 3 quarters because they don't play a sport that the AFL created itself eh? Same diff, but oh no, only RL can not have a smaller non contact version of their sport whilst all others can even though it was made at South Sydney training run over however long as a training drill for Rugby League players huh?

I suppose their world record crowd of 40 odd thousand is a myth too eh, it was made possible because the NSWRL GF between Saints and Parra had Touch Rugby League played as the hald time entertainment back in the late 1970's.

But no, it has nothing at all to do with Rugby League does it, you don't pass the ball backwards, you don't play the ball, you don't have 6 plays to score blh blah blah.

Wookie is a frauster, always has been and will lie and cheat to make his AFL look bigger than it really is, it clouds his judgment something shocking.

Rugby League, that's the name of the sport and it just so happens that it is wayyyyyyy bigger than your game, big deal, I don't cry because union and soccer are bigger than Rugby League and I also don't deny they have smaller non contact versions of their games too and other versions with less players on the pitch.

Get over it, Touch and Tag Rugby League are just that, RUGBY LEAGUE!

I have to ask, why where the touch and tag figures not included in the numbers before league paid for the privilege ? It would appear that this has very quickly become rugby league dogma, and now the facts are being made to fit the rhetoric.

leagueiscrap wrote:

Go and read what the real participation starts are collected by 3rd party sources. It shows AFL is far more popular than the nrlol

What it would say is that any person , regardless of coordination skills . Basically anyone you can point to on any given street corner, on any given day. And they could play AFL. However not everyone can play Rugby League.

pussycat wrote:

leagueiscrap wrote:

Go and read what the real participation starts are collected by 3rd party sources. It shows AFL is far more popular than the nrlol

What it would say is that any person , regardless of coordination skills . Basically anyone you can point to on any given street corner, on any given day. And they could play AFL. However not everyone can play Rugby League.

Any meat head can play league!
Jog up a field with a ball under your arm, in a line with your team mate. Then when about to be tackled make that tough decision to throw a 7 meter pass left or right.
But some one as simple and thick as you basement dwellers that might be a difficult tast

So who made AFL 9's, the AFL or some ex player or fan, come on you fraudster Clarke Kents, don't be fucking hypocrites, answer the question, or will the answer you have to give, not line up with the war of propaganda you paid for AFL lackeys clearly here are going along with?

LOL AFL 9's isn't even played on a proper AFL field, it's played on a rugby or soccer pitch yet you hypocrites wanna blast RL for taking back a form of its game that even a fucking blind person can connect the frigging dots?

Yeah, not in the AFL tho, the pitch for a start is not even close to what the game is played on, at least RL touch and tag is played on the same pitch the NRL is.

http://afl9s.com.au/about/

McDonald’s AFL 9s is the AFL’s social version of the game. It’s a fast, free-flowing game that involves 9 players on each team playing on a smaller field. Best of all, it’s ‘touch football’ with no tackling or bumping, making it suitable for people of any age or skill level. Importantly, McDonald’s AFL 9s is easy to play, not too physically demanding and provides an environment where fun, enjoyment and safety are a priority.McDonald’s AFL 9s enables people of all ages and ability levels to participate in male, female or mixed competitions that fit around their busy lives and provide a social and fitness outlet.
The game is played between two teams of nine (9) with interchange players. The field has a recommended length of 100 metres (which can be modified depending on the age and ability level of participants) and is divided into three zones: a mid zone and two scoring zones.Teams score by kicking the football into their attacking scoring zone to designated forwards who are the only players permitted to score. A mark is awarded irrespective of the distance the ball has travelled and if the ball hits the ground it is an automatic turnover.McDonald’s AFL 9s is a non-contact version of the game which requires players to implement a touch in place of a tackle.

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

LOL AFL 9's isn't even played on a proper AFL field, it's played on a rugby or soccer pitch yet you hypocrites wanna blast RL for taking back a form of its game that even a fucking blind person can connect the frigging dots?

Yeah, not in the AFL tho, the pitch for a start is not even close to what the game is played on, at least RL touch and tag is played on the same pitch the NRL is.

http://afl9s.com.au/about/

McDonald’s AFL 9s is the AFL’s social version of the game. It’s a fast, free-flowing game that involves 9 players on each team playing on a smaller field. Best of all, it’s ‘touch football’ with no tackling or bumping, making it suitable for people of any age or skill level. Importantly, McDonald’s AFL 9s is easy to play, not too physically demanding and provides an environment where fun, enjoyment and safety are a priority.McDonald’s AFL 9s enables people of all ages and ability levels to participate in male, female or mixed competitions that fit around their busy lives and provide a social and fitness outlet.
The game is played between two teams of nine (9) with interchange players. The field has a recommended length of 100 metres (which can be modified depending on the age and ability level of participants) and is divided into three zones: a mid zone and two scoring zones.Teams score by kicking the football into their attacking scoring zone to designated forwards who are the only players permitted to score. A mark is awarded irrespective of the distance the ball has travelled and if the ball hits the ground it is an automatic turnover.McDonald’s AFL 9s is a non-contact version of the game which requires players to implement a touch in place of a tackle.

Its similar to touch, as most people would play it for fitness and social reason.
It actually requires skill unlike the simple ******* game of league

leagueiscrap wrote:

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

LOL AFL 9's isn't even played on a proper AFL field, it's played on a rugby or soccer pitch yet you hypocrites wanna blast RL for taking back a form of its game that even a fucking blind person can connect the frigging dots?

Yeah, not in the AFL tho, the pitch for a start is not even close to what the game is played on, at least RL touch and tag is played on the same pitch the NRL is.

http://afl9s.com.au/about/

McDonald’s AFL 9s is the AFL’s social version of the game. It’s a fast, free-flowing game that involves 9 players on each team playing on a smaller field. Best of all, it’s ‘touch football’ with no tackling or bumping, making it suitable for people of any age or skill level. Importantly, McDonald’s AFL 9s is easy to play, not too physically demanding and provides an environment where fun, enjoyment and safety are a priority.McDonald’s AFL 9s enables people of all ages and ability levels to participate in male, female or mixed competitions that fit around their busy lives and provide a social and fitness outlet.
The game is played between two teams of nine (9) with interchange players. The field has a recommended length of 100 metres (which can be modified depending on the age and ability level of participants) and is divided into three zones: a mid zone and two scoring zones.Teams score by kicking the football into their attacking scoring zone to designated forwards who are the only players permitted to score. A mark is awarded irrespective of the distance the ball has travelled and if the ball hits the ground it is an automatic turnover.McDonald’s AFL 9s is a non-contact version of the game which requires players to implement a touch in place of a tackle.

Its similar to touch, as most people would play it for fitness and social reason.
It actually requires skill unlike the simple ******* game of league

Lol .
How'd the fumblers go stepping outside the victaaard bubble .

Try boxing.....knocked out first fight .
Rexona challenge ....obliterated by a RL playing midget ex jockey .

Try to live in the real world dumbo .