Talking Footy

pussycat wrote:

Fred wrote:

Why don't both sides just accept that both codes have different skill sets that at elite level are performed at a high standard. Trying to understand rl or ar from your own codes perspective is futile as two completely different games. If it were ru and rl i could understand more. Even goal kicking is totally different. I don't think by putting down the other code makes your code somwhow better? If you like what you do ... Who cares.

That would be like a six foot man telling a three foot man that they were similar height. Why would anybody do that?

Particularly since one code consists of fat men, constantly fondling and penetrating each other whilst they hand the ball to each other until they fall down due to sheer exhaustion after running a couple of meters for which they give them points for trying - the other consists of highly fit athletes who are expected to run on average 15k during a match, kick the ball, handball, bounce the ball, mark the ball, tackle and display skill sets of all football codes and basketball! Just not in the same sentence really!!

Bhaaaaaa .
& yet when your top athletes step out of the fumble bubble . A midget ex jockey RL player thrashed them .
What does that say about Aflol .

AFLcrap1 wrote:

Bhaaaaaa .
& yet when your top athletes step out of the fumble bubble . A midget ex jockey RL player thrashed them .
What does that say about Aflol .

it says anyone who thinks that a small sample size represented in the rexona challenge was a genuine test of the athletic ability of both codes is kidding themselves.

Hey bert dildo was one of your best .
Got beaten in a kicking challenge by Slater .
Lol

AFLcrap1 wrote:

Hey bert dildo was one of your best .
Got beaten in a kicking challenge by Slater .
Lol

Though Dildo was probably under the impression you got points for missing.

AFLcrap1 wrote:

Hey bert dildo was one of your best .
Got beaten in a kicking challenge by Slater .
Lol

No he was not - he was and still is a spud!

Bullshit . He has a long list of honours

AFLcrap1 wrote:

Hey bert dildo was one of your best .
Got beaten in a kicking challenge by Slater .
Lol

we've been over this. Deludio is one of Richmond's better players but not even in the top 50 AFL players. Even if he was its no proof he is one of the comps better athletes, since being a top athlete and a top player arent necessarily the same. Then there's the way they assessed what an athlete means. As the results showed, the smaller athletes were far more successful, with the larger athletes almost always down the bottom. Then there's the whole 1 sample size issue.

An interesting idea but entirely meaningless from a comp v comp perspective

Of course it is . Whenever the fumblers are shown up its all meaningless

if you think 1 player representing 700 is an accurate analysis you're beyond help

Haha how many times over how many seasons lol.

leagueiscrap wrote:

pussycat wrote:

Swans4ever wrote:

pussycat wrote:

In the early years of League they also had marks, the goal kicker would than got a 'free' - a shot for goal from that position. Only they had to drop kick the ball, which is much more difficult than a punt kick - nor did you get a point for missing. Daily Messenger was renown for kicking goals from the other side of halfway. Including a goal from 72m out that was in the Guinness Book of Records.

But not anymore pussy - Daily M also played Union and AF when he lived in Sth Melb. Which is precisely my point - the skill set required to score in such a fashion obviously has been lost to RL!

No, the skill set has never been higher. Rugby league has just freed itself from the crap that was holing it back. That point can be back'd up by the fact that RL is the most watched sport in Australia.

And if Messengers had any experience with AFL. It was as a kid in the backyard while holidaying with his aunt.

Skill and league cannot be used in the same sentence!
Run forward with the ball under your arm then get it over a line the width of the field

I dont know, i have seen some pretty amazing tries watch rl. Lots of skill. I do think they need to expand the game at grassroots level to increase the pool of young folk to choose from to stop the skill level dropping. I think the AFL have done a good job in this regard by inceasing an already sunstantial grassroots in non traditional markets.

To be fair, if you asked me where dilido sits on the scale of top players i would not have him anywhere near the top.

Was billy slater really a jockey. I heard an interview and thought he never made it to being a jockey. Did track work maybe as a stable hand but a jockey ?

Billt slater is a freak. I would regard him as the best player rl has seen for a long while.. Particuarly if i was asked a few years ago. The eqivilent in AFL would be ablett re size and agility. Billy slater also done a lot of training witg AFL clubs. Regardless, to on one hand to try and demote his athletic ability by referring to him as a jockey in that that somehow suggests the AFL player could not beat even a jockey, yet that same jockey is one of the greats of nrl kind of says more about nrl ... Which seems silly as yoy aretrying to promote nrl?

Rexona challenge was a bit of fun. Seriously, if anyone puts any credance in it then more fool them. I am surprised they did not have to skull a beerin between tasks.

A comparable person would be gary ablett junior. That would be agood contestto watch.

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

pussycat wrote:

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!