Talking Footy

Ya, they have shown RL in the ME on their channel for years.

Even one of the King of Saudi Arabia's kids plays RL these days at the u18 level, they are sponsored by Ferrari :D

That's just awesome. Thanks for the info parra. It's a grand ol game indeed.

League kills it hands down. AFL is a mugs game full of mug shots and plenty of promise for a biff but turning into nothing but a shoving match between 2 teams. It is a joke.

Noodles wrote:

League kills it hands down. AFL is a mugs game full of mug shots and plenty of promise for a biff but turning into nothing but a shoving match between 2 teams. It is a joke.

Mug shots?

Promise of biff? They don't promise it. They penalise it. That's why the players push and shove at worst. Otherwise they get a long holiday. Your thug game of rugby virtually legitimizes violence by letting the biff go unpenalised. It's a disgrace!

Marngrook aka Victorian Rules is a violent game also Xman, its just they restrict the violence, which is actually a bad thing. You see fans enjoy fisticuffs and biffo. And players should be free to express their aggression like this in violent sports. Otherwise you get much more horrible unethical antics such as taking out players illegally from behind/away from play and taking out injured players while they limp off the field. These happenings in the AFL are a disgusting blight on the game of marngrook and if they could fight on field like they did in the old days noone would shoulder charge an injured player on their way off because they'd rightly get thumped good and proper for their unethical unsportsmanlike cowardice.

King-Eliagh wrote:

Marngrook aka Victorian Rules is a violent game also Xman, its just they restrict the violence, which is actually a bad thing. You see fans enjoy fisticuffs and biffo. And players should be free to express their aggression like this in violent sports. Otherwise you get much more horrible unethical antics such as taking out players illegally from behind/away from play and taking out injured players while they limp off the field. These happenings in the AFL are a disgusting blight on the game of marngrook and if they could fight on field like they did in the old days noone would shoulder charge an injured player on their way off because they'd rightly get thumped good and proper for their unethical unsportsmanlike cowardice.

A few points about your idiotic post:

- Australians rules is played over the entire country, not just Victoria. For someone who says they like the game you shine like a beacon of hate.

- violence in ARs is restricted because the public and officials see it for what it is - unnacceptable behaviour! In todays society the only people who participate in or encouraged violence are the intellectually inept, to make up for their lack of intelligence.

- Unfortunately RL is a disgraceful example to junior fans and players who think violence is acceptable because their heroes seem to do it without penalty. In fact RL supporters like you seem to think its good! what a f'ing disgrace!

- even behind the ball incidents are dealt severely in the AFL, in fact, even more so. This is the sort of example we need to be sending to our youth: violence is never the answer for anything.

- it is ridiculous to compare off the ball incidents in AFL and RL. In RL the offside rule and the structure of the game never allowtemp position players to mingle when not directly involved in the play. Imagine if they were allowed to? the game wouldn't even start for all the brawls!

A few points of rebuttle to your self absorbed wankfest above.

- The so called code of Australian Rules football emanated from a small area in the southeastern part of the country and if we are to call it the name of a region of land it is much more appropriate to call it victorian rules. Otherwise a perfctly good name for the sport would be marngrook. While it is termed Aussie rules it will always be viewed as inept and foreign by the majority of people in other countries and in nsw and qld.

= Violence is part of life and it has not been successfully restricted in perhaps every society of humankind since evolution. To restrict it as tightly as the sport of victorian rules has is akin to putting on a mask. The sport is naturally rough and violent and therefore naturally must be accepting of very basic and rarely dangerous violence such as fisticuffs. Instead it appears accepting of smacking an injured player who leaves the field...i've seen countless behind the ball incidents go unpunished by the AFL.

your last points are mangled and deformed, they somewhat relate to the second point but are without any strong philosophical or scientific backing. As i said a self absorbed individual wankfest.

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HAHA seriously why is there 58 pages for this thread?!?! AFL is just that, Australian, in australia lol if they were so 'international' they wouldnt be counting every child in a school PD/H/PE 30 minute kickathon program funded by the AFL, then calling them 'registered' players. All this to 'prove' the brainwashed diehard fans in Victoria that the world also loves Aussie Rules. LoL its the sort of propaganda that would make Stalin blush.

I seriously wonder what poor sheltered lives the people who seriously would have posted in this thread an argued in AFL's favour....

Bad Boy Bubby did it, you guys should give it a go too. VENTURE OUTSIDE THE BOX YOU CALL LIFE>

AFL is played in more countries than you think, buster! So who's living in a box? Not us!

Yeah by fat ex pats

And locals, idiot!

Have you been through this you knob. They are all australian's

justanotherleaguefan wrote:

Have you been through this you knob. They are all australian's

Shows how little you actually know dumbarse.

justanotherleaguefan wrote:

Have you been through this you knob. They are all australian's

Every single person who plays in the International Cup is NOT Australian! It's compulsory that every player for each country must be made up 100 percent of NON Australians!

So stick that up your clacker and pass it!

TLPG wrote:

justanotherleaguefan wrote:

Have you been through this you knob. They are all australian's

Every single person who plays in the International Cup is NOT Australian!

Player Eligibilty for AFL International Cup
Posted by AFLTL on May 29, 2011 at 9:20 PM
PLAYER ELIGIBILTY IC11
8. TEAM COMPOSITION
8.1 Squad
Each Team participating in the event shall provide to the AFL no later than July 25, the “Certification of Eligibility” Form (Appendix (AII)) listing players and providing:-
(a) the playing number allocated to each Player within the squad;
(b) the date of birth, height and weight of each Player;
(c) the local club of each Player;
(d) the names of the Coach and Team Manager;
(e) the names of the Captain and Vice Captain, and
(f) certification that all selected Players meet the eligibility requirements and have signed a participation form.
8.2 Eligibility
(a) A Player is eligible for selection by a League if:
(i) the Player was predominantly resident in the country of the League between 10 and 16 years of age, subject to the qualification in sub-clause 8.2(b); This does not apply for the women’s division for the 2011 International Cup (sub clauses 8.2 (a) & (b) do still apply)
(ii) the Player is a citizen of the country of the League at the time when the Competition is conducted, subject to the qualification in sub-clause 8.2(b); and
(iii) the Player is not under suspension in that Player’s local competition during the period of the Competition.
(iv) The player is included in the squad provided under Regulation 8.1.
(b) The AFL may, on a case by case basis, waive the eligibility requirements contained in sub-clause 8.2(a) and (b) if it is satisfied that a Player is a bona fide resident in the country of the League and his participation would be in the best interests of the Competition. Submissions in this regard must be made by lodging the Player Eligibility form attached as Appendix II before the commencement of the Competition.
8.3 Final Team Selection
(a) Each team shall provide to the Competition Manager a final list of players no later than the commencement time of the Team Managers meeting preceding the event.
(b) A player not listed in the squad provided in accordance with Regulation 8.1 shall be ineligible to participate.

These rules tell otherwise, 8.2(a)(ii) states a player only need to have citizenship of a country to be eligible... Theres alot of austrlians with dual citizenship of their parents homeland....
i admit that looking over those rules its seems the AFL has made more an attempt to put down rules on the eligibility of players for the International CUP but as it shows those rules dont mean much when The AFL can Still override all these if they believe it will benefit the competition.. so in other words the AFL will allow an australian born player to represent another country if they think it will strengthen up the competition which is the opposite of what you said. they used the term 'Bona-fide' because it basically means a vague reference without any real legal backing (said in good will)