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AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Gman said:Not much...
TRY again...
westdog54 said:If you can't acknowledge the strength/skill required to make some of those tackles you truly are ignorant
Spewing said:Check your eyes sweety lol,i can't believe i just called a man sweety lol......
ringleader said:Paul Carige would've been a star at AFL.
Spewing said:Let me rephrase that, talk about good RL and how AFL sux !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spewing said:Deep deep down you know they're the greatest hits you ever seen ,but just can't admit it.Well whatever bro one day you will come out of the closet.
Port_GW said:Why do these Rugby League people insist on coming here and try to justify how their sport is better than Aussie Rules. Most Aussie Rules supporters who grew up with the sport, cant get enough of the dual facets of toughness and uncanny skills of Aussie Rules, but we simply cannot fathom that Rugby League with its repetitive type of nature can have anything barely resembling the types of skills that there are in Aussie Rules.
To Rugby League supporters i simply say.....the average staunch Aussie Rules supporter simply does not care about Rugby League, we dismiss any notion that it has any type of skill basis, or the fact that its exciting to watch, its just simply way too boring. We're not going to change our opinions on your sport by what you post on here, so please go onto your RL boards and criticise and ridicule the great Australian game, we simply do not care, your sport just isn't worth giving any attention to. This Aussie Rules part of Big Footy should be for followers of the greatest game to debate our magnificent sport, not to justify it to supporters of an alternative sport, who have no appreciation for it!!!!!
Gman said:No probs bro, do you wear a mo, just for show, cause you sound like a pro, who likes blow, catch my driff bro?
Well if the topic never got out of proportion the way it has then us rugby league supporters wouldn't be here,it just goes to show that afl supporters love giving it to league players and supporters until that stops were staying put.And as for you why are you posting if you don't care?did someone throw you a stick lol.Port_GW said:Why do these Rugby League people insist on coming here and try to justify how their sport is better than Aussie Rules. Most Aussie Rules supporters who grew up with the sport, cant get enough of the dual facets of toughness and uncanny skills of Aussie Rules, but we simply cannot fathom that Rugby League with its repetitive type of nature can have anything barely resembling the types of skills that there are in Aussie Rules.
To Rugby League supporters i simply say.....the average staunch Aussie Rules supporter simply does not care about Rugby League, we dismiss any notion that it has any type of skill basis, or the fact that its exciting to watch, its just simply way too boring. We're not going to change our opinions on your sport by what you post on here, so please go onto your RL boards and criticise and ridicule the great Australian game, we simply do not care, your sport just isn't worth giving any attention to. This Aussie Rules part of Big Footy should be for followers of the greatest game to debate our magnificent sport, not to justify it to supporters of an alternative sport, who have no appreciation for it!!!!!
Spewing said:We have a comedian ladies and gentleman.......
fishmonger said:With that sort of pay, he'd have to be one of the top 40 players in the AFL.
There are other reasons for switching codes though.
Adrian Barich signed with the Western Reds after his career at the West Coast Eagles. I remember seeing him play rugby league. He wasn't bad.
It was SuperLeague, not technically the NRL, but proves it can happen.
The Demons Matthew Whelan would have made a great NRL player, growing up in Darwin playing league. He chose Aussie Rules instead. He has had to keep his weight trim to play footy, but for a little guy he is an absolute axe and has really worked on his kicking accuracy.
Kurt Angle © said:Fishmonger, you're a liar who discreidts the AFL side of the argument everytime you open your mouth.
Adrian Barich did not play 2 season of RL, and his pedigree also would say AFL isn't as tough as you make it out to be.
Adrian Barich is the son of a well known preacher, whose name escapes me at the moment, was raised in Canberra before moving to Perth at age 15.
That why he has(had) an interest in the rugby codes, so then moving to Perth at 15 he takes the games of Victorian Rules football seriously, and he ends up playing for WA... so much for being an uber-skillful game. Tadhg Keneally also never kicked an oval ball in his life until he moved to Australia.
Additionally, Barich only played off the bench in 2 trial games in the 1995 pre-season for the Western Reds. He was signed only for promotional reasons, getting a high profile local name into the team.
Living in Canberra he played union until he was 16 before converting to footy in 1980. Adrian moved back to Perth in 1983
In 1995 he joined WA's newly formed National Rugby League club, the Western Reds and played for two seasons