Sports Does AFL require more physical endurance than soccer?

[IKE TURNER]

soccer players need lots of energy to roll around on the ground when it looks like there might be slight contact

 

[La Dolce Vita]

easily...i'm a fan of both sports. It's not even comparable

 

[DragzLS1]

Played soccer since I was 10. If you look at cardiovascular on its own then ide say soccer may be higher, just. But the physical side of afl would tip the scales in afl's favour by a fair margin. You need to be a serous athlete these days with the constant crash and bash on the body with the burst running that is involved to play afl.

 

[Lethality]

AFLX is proving to be a better workout, so the size of the field and the fewer players probably suggests football is more of an endurance sport than AFL.

 

[PeakyBlinder71]

Simple answer is no. This was proven in 1964 when Jack Dyer, the then record games holder for the Richmond Tigers in the AFL. And let’s imagine he convenes the cream of the VFL’s players of the 1960s. Ted Whitten, the iconic captain coach of the Footscray Bulldogs. Australian Rules football’s biggest name, Ronald Dale Barassi. Reigning VFL Brownlow Medallist, Gordon Collis took on a bunch of semi-professional soccer players at their own game and got thrashed.

heres the thread, podcast and photo's:

https://sport.optus.com.au/news/football-belongs/os21234/football-belongs-clash-of-cultures

 

[blueboy25]

Simple answer is no. This was proven in 1964 when Jack Dyer, the then record games holder for the Richmond Tigers in the AFL. And let’s imagine he convenes the cream of the VFL’s players of the 1960s. Ted Whitten, the iconic captain coach of the Footscray Bulldogs. Australian Rules football’s biggest name, Ronald Dale Barassi. Reigning VFL Brownlow Medallist, Gordon Collis took on a bunch of semi-professional soccer players at their own game and got thrashed.

heres the thread, podcast and photo's:

https://sport.optus.com.au/news/football-belongs/os21234/football-belongs-clash-of-cultures

So a game held 60 years ago proves it?

I wonder how soccer players would go copping the hit AFL players and still run 15kms a game

 

[Kappa]

Simple answer is no. This was proven in 1964 when Jack Dyer, the then record games holder for the Richmond Tigers in the AFL. And let’s imagine he convenes the cream of the VFL’s players of the 1960s. Ted Whitten, the iconic captain coach of the Footscray Bulldogs. Australian Rules football’s biggest name, Ronald Dale Barassi. Reigning VFL Brownlow Medallist, Gordon Collis took on a bunch of semi-professional soccer players at their own game and got thrashed.

heres the thread, podcast and photo's:

https://sport.optus.com.au/news/football-belongs/os21234/football-belongs-clash-of-cultures

So... because some AF players lost a soccer game to a bunch of soccer players.... that means AFL doesn't require more endurance... are you.. all there?

 

[Bostonian]

Simple answer is no. This was proven in 1964 when Jack Dyer, the then record games holder for the Richmond Tigers in the AFL. And let’s imagine he convenes the cream of the VFL’s players of the 1960s. Ted Whitten, the iconic captain coach of the Footscray Bulldogs. Australian Rules football’s biggest name, Ronald Dale Barassi. Reigning VFL Brownlow Medallist, Gordon Collis took on a bunch of semi-professional soccer players at their own game and got thrashed.

heres the thread, podcast and photo's:

https://sport.optus.com.au/news/football-belongs/os21234/football-belongs-clash-of-cultures

And what happened when the soccer players played a full game of VFL against the likes of Ted Whitten and co?

I'm guessing it didn't happen because they knew they would getting totally and utterly wrecked.