Talking Footy

Phelpsy wrote:

What was touch football a few years back. Union could claim it is a non contact for of union ? I don't by it ... If it wasn't rl two years ago I can't see how it can be rl now

Like wayward child has been brought back home.
Ask yourself.
Who runs the sport ?
Who owns the sport?
Which sport is it a non contact version of?
& please don't say RU...The ball is played,after being touched just like the full contact version.
When you answer those then you might have a fucking clue which sport it is .

Phelpsy wrote:

Let's throw in oztag .. Or is that union lol. Smells of desperation. Fact is there are more kids and adults playing AFL than there are rl ... Rl barely exists outside its heartland simple as that. Add up the amount of clubs and leagues of each sport and AFL shits it in. I get wanting to include another sport such as touch, if I was you and arguing that rl is right up there with AFL I'd be hanging my hat on that too. Why wouldn't you but truth is touch is not rl just as union is not league

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Don't deflect.
This debate is about PARTICIPANTS.
& while I don't agree with wht is classed as ONE,it is something you tards wank on & on about .
SO counting participants who has the higher number.
RL .

AFL easy I would say if we are looking at clubs ... AFL had clubs all over the country at a significant level whereas rl (not touch) doesn't have near the amount if clubs... Add in the extra players required for AFL?

And I thought I answered that in the earlier post .. No deflection.

Phelpsy wrote:

And I thought I answered that in the earlier post .. No deflection.

But you are deflecting.
A participant by AFL or NRL standards ,does NOT have to be part of club.
Those counted can be a school clinic or after school clinics.

Clubs are only part of the "PARTICIPATION " numbers,but you are trying to say that it is all of it

Phelpsy wrote:

AFL easy I would say if we are looking at clubs ... AFL had clubs all over the country at a significant level whereas rl (not touch) doesn't have near the amount if clubs... Add in the extra players required for AFL?

Sorry TRL is part of RL,too bad if you cant accept it ,so your rant about clubs is just that A RANT.

A participant is someone who plays the game on my book. Happy to have auskick and nrl equivalent but none of these two day programs and such. Let's focus on those belonging to a club as to many variables otherwise .. So happy to wipe aus kick etc.

Was touch rl two years ago lol ... Don't buy it sorry ... A pathetic attempt by rl to boost numbers lol. A smart move if they sell it to government etc but it's just a facade and we all know it. So let's compare players of both codes ... Add in touch later as it will show how bad rl is doing.

Phelpsy wrote:

A participant is someone who plays the game on my book. Happy to have auskick and nrl equivalent but none of these two day programs and such. Let's focus on those belonging to a club as to many variables otherwise .. So happy to wipe aus kick etc.

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this singlet wearin wombat was first in line in the fumblers circle jerk in here when the VFL announced their participation figures in QLD & NSW :_<> :_<>

funny >
I don't recall him having a ........ book back then
or any guidelines

but suddenly when RL starts playing the same game

its
oh no no no
we can't have that

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Fuckin Hilarious
pants wetting stuff from our fumblers


theres a saying somewhere .... about a goose & a gander I believe

You can say what you want,doesnt alter the fact that TRL is the non contact version of RL.
Owned & run by the ARLC.
Makes it RL in anyones opinion ,except insular AFL fans.

Phelpsy wrote:

Was touch rl two years ago lol ... Don't buy it sorry ... A pathetic attempt by rl to boost numbers lol. A smart move if they sell it to government etc but it's just a facade and we all know it. So let's compare players of both codes ... Add in touch later as it will show how bad rl is doing.

fact remains more then twice the number of Australians play a sport where you have
6 uses of the ball in a set
you pass the ball with your hands & can't pass it forward
& after either being tackled , touched ... or having your tag removed , you bring the ball back into play via a play the ball
rolling it back with yr hand or foot between yr legs to an acting half
Union does not resemble the above in any way shape or form
As I explained in another thread
RL's purchase of its own non contact variants is part of a wider strategy to double our contact versions registered club numbers by driving touch hard throughout the nation into schools etc including a big program into the sthn markets which is virtually untapped .... with massive media rights deals we are chased up & able to start financing these programs & achieving our goals as a sport

be afraid fumbler
be very afraid

Man, we will just have to agree to disagree otherwise we will just go round in circles. We both think we are right and neither of us will be convinced by the other. If touch was considered rl 5 years ago you may sway me but to me it just looks like a ploy.. A fair one at that must admit.

Man, we will just have to agree to disagree otherwise we will just go round in circles. We both think we are right and neither of us will be convinced by the other. If touch was considered rl 5 years ago you may sway me but to me it just looks like a ploy.. A fair one at that must admit.

The International Rugby Board, world governing body of the rules of Rugby Union, published in November 2010 a draft of leisure rules of Touch Rugby IRB for developmental purposes. Those Laws were adapted from the FIT playing rules for the sport of Touch.

The document says literally: "Council agreed that these Leisure Rugby Laws are issued as a guide for developmental purposes and Unions are not bound to apply the Laws" and "IRB Leisure Rugby Laws have been designed so that Unions may develop non-Contact Rugby. These Laws have been produced so that there are some guidelines and principles in place for IRB Leisure Rugby. Unions having jurisdiction over their developmental processes, matches, competitions and festivals may need to vary these Laws as deemed appropriate. This allows domestic Rugby clubs to adapt to the FIT playing rules, provided domestic Touch Associations are in agreeance."

Touch ... Is it union ... Is it league or is it just touch ... Just a league sprung from the loins of union ... So to has touch. Both league and union seem to lay claim ... But it seems it's a sport in its own right