Rugby League vs AFL

[mud n blood]

Just found this on a mega-popular rugby league site ....

enjoy!

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AFL is a disgrace to all Australians!

This country, has over many decades, built and prided itself on our reputation as a nation of people that are hard but fair. Mane times we have proven ourselves in battle as being tough and uncompromising. That reputation is epitomised by each national team that takes the field and in most domestic sports played in this country. And then we have AFL or more commonly known as AwFuL!

This game is nothing but a bunch of unskilled marshmallows kicking a ball around an oval. There is absolutely no skill involved in this game apart from being able to kick. The players are the softest, pussy arsed, so called men ever to pull on a ‘football’ jersey. You can’t tackle them to high or to low, or to hard, it has to be just right or they all fall down with injuries or suspensions. People want to see hard men playing a hard sport, not the cry baby bitch slapping that permeates AFL, it’s a disgrace as a game and a sport!

Apart from those facts there is no international stage for this pathetic sport and there never will be. Why, because it has been tried and failed! For many recent years this garbage has been touted as THE winter sport in Australia. Yet even with its increase in popularity there is still nothing for the laughable AFL All Australian side to do but stand around in their jerseys (sorry I’m laughing as I write this) and play with each other. Which is acceptable to all of them as the motion for punch passing in AFL mimics exactly what men do when they **** off! So standing around tugging one another off comes naturally for an AFL player.

This so called game has reached its peak. It will never ever be as popular as it is right now. With the re-emergence of League domestically, the vast improvement in the standard of play in the Super League comp in the UK, the expansion of the game in both South Africa and the USA, League will once again strive and succeed taking its rightful place as Australia’s premier winter sport.

Fret not, as AwFuL will continue to be played in ever diminishing circles of influence, particularly in the southern states, however its glory days are over. Not Eddie Moronquire, or the blue’s bugged-faced Elliot or Ken Sleezy will save your pathetic game from falling to the bottom of the pile. The current **** fights and name-calling and finger pointing between club CEOs is just the beginning of the end for AFL. Enjoy this season AwFuL fans, it very well could be the last great hooray for AFL!

 

[Portia]

Rugby will never be Australia's #1 winter sport for as long as it ignores anywhere west of Wagga or south of the Murray. This guy must be the sabre of that site

 

[barry]

Whats the site.?

These dinosaurs are slowly diminishing as AFL becomes more and more accepted in the northern states.
A few years back you would get lots of this sort of stuff on aus.sport.rugby-league, but over time they have accepted that RL is not no.1 and AFL isnt that bad.
Now days these outbursts are few and far between.

 

[RacerX]

Seems the rugby boys are feeling threatened!

Sadly, there might just be a smidgin of truth in the last paragraph. The AFL, IMO, is at a peak at the moment and probably won't get a lot bigger until the powers that be agree on a common direction for the game.

 

[nut]

I would like to see a The ALL Australian AFL side V the Rugby League Australian Side Play each other in both forms of the game and see which is more skillful. I'm sure if our blokes trained for about 2 months and learnt the game of Rugby League we would fair better at there game than they would at ours. We could Put together a reasonable outfit I would think and if we stuck to kicking field goals it might be closer than they would think.

Our game is far more Developed than the sniffer game. The Oldest Football Code in the World is Australian Rules Football. But I agree it will never be an International success unless we stop refering it as AUSTRALIAN rules football.

 

[nut]

To quote ALI ' Rugby can touch, what Rugby can't see' we would be to quick for them.

 

[happy hawker]

What a ridiculous load of crap.

Please, please tell us the site where you got it. I always get a perverse thrill at seeing the idiot fringe converse with each other.

 

[Smokin]

LMAO!!!

That stupid post reeks of fear and frustration!! AFL is taking over this country and they cant accept that FACT.

Whats best is that guy blabbers on about all that garbage - then this weekend that lame excuse for a sport and entertainment will attract an average of 8,000 to a game!

Rugby League is played in a handful of countries - and is "the" sport in ZERO of em! Its a second rate sport for second rate people.

They wanna talk about skill??

Thing is - Australian Football is renowned over all the world as unbeleivably tough, exciting and the game in Oz!

League is known as a second rate sport. That is FACT.

League fans - dont flatter yourselves! - AFL's biggest threat in this country is soccer, not that poo-sniffing garbage nobody watches.

 

[Rob]

Originally posted by RacerX
Seems the rugby boys are feeling threatened!

Sadly, there might just be a smidgin of truth in the last paragraph. The AFL, IMO, is at a peak at the moment and probably won't get a lot bigger until the powers that be agree on a common direction for the game.

Yep, i'd agree with that. The AFL seem to have changed their priorities from expanding the game further into NSW and Queensland to sucking up to Victorians.
From here, the AFL will struggle to grow at any great rate in those states while there is still only one team in each. The Swans are just not big enough and can not generate enough interest and coverage on their own to ensure footy steps up as a major player. Likewise Brisbane, although on a smaller scale. In addition, the rivalries that local derbies should create in those cities would be the best promotion the game could get.

 

[Foxtrot]

Heard it all my life.

Me thinks they protest too much.

 

[Falchoon]

Rugby League is worldwide? The bumsniffers favorite argument?

Rugby League is the number 1 sport in zero countries,
AFL in one.

And to compare skills between the two? seriously, tackle, and hold the ball whilst being tackled, they are the two skills that the majority of players show.

 

[Macca19]

LOL
what a tool. How jealous can one person be!!!!
Rather hypocritical calling our game unskilled when all they bloody do is throw a ball and run into each other

 

[Pessimistic]

Rugby could help itself if it didn't split every 50 years or so.

How many versions are there at the moment ?


Now look at soccer - never had a split and universally popular.

 

[The Boot]

Didn't they have a "World" Cup recently, with a "Lebanese" team with all the players from Sydney, and a "Russian" team with players with names like O'Flaherty. !!!, because they couldn't scape together a full team of real Russian or Lebanese players.

 

[MSB ROYS]

In reply to nut...

In a hybrid game both teams would get slaughtered. I think the AFL would do better than the NRL though.
I the Rugby Union team of Oz would get slaughtered at League as well....

Cheers,
Mark

 

[happy hawker]

It's amazing how one sided this argument is. It's always morons on the rugby league side who go on about how terrible the AFL is versus league. Rarely the other way around.

They must be afraid the AFL is making serious dents in the rugby league heartlands, which they are of course.

Oh well, when you are NUMBER 1 you don't need to denigrate other sports, just sit back and enjoy the view from the top of the mountain.

Australian Rules football, the undisputed number one sport in the country.

 

[*Paul*]

Originally posted by nut
I'm sure if our blokes trained for about 2 months and learnt the game of Rugby League we would fair better at there game than they would at ours.

At the risk of enraging everyone, the tackle is at the heart of League, And to my eyes Aussie Rules players aren't very good it at all. A few years back there where 2 games played bewtween the English League champions and the Union champs. Despite the games having many similarities, the Union blokes got slaughtered at League, because they couldn't handle the defensive requirements. (The league team was thrashed at Union for different reasons). Of course, League players can't kick to save their lives.

It's amazing how one sided this argument is. It's always morons on the rugby league side who go on about how terrible the AFL is versus league. Rarely the other way around.

This made me literally laugh out loud.

 

[SMW]

Does it really matter which code is better?

The thing I don't get is why some people feel that they have to take sides. They either hate Footy and love Rugby or vice-versa. I honestly don't care which sport is 'better', they're both good codes and they both require alot of skill.

 

[Sydneyfan]

The comment that Rugby League is more skillful than Aussie Rules is completely laughable. Aussie Rules without a shadow of a doubt is a far more skillful game which requires good hand-eye co-ordination, foot skills, hand skills, agility, toughness, strength, peripheral vision, etc. There would be very few sportsmen who could take up Aussie Rules and within one year be skillful enough to compete at AFL level, whereas I could see AFL players in the same scenario being capable of playing NRL standard within a year, particularly players of large builds such as Schwarz, David King, Carey, etc. About 4 or 5 years back, a promising young NRL star Dean Raper gave up playing for St.George to take up Aussie Rules, hoping to one day achieve AFL ranks, doing so he took a huge risk and pay cut, last I heard he was playing for Campbelltown in the Sydney AFL.

Rugby League's a fun sport to play and is easy to take up. The most difficult part of RL is being able to deliver decent tackles and take tackles and hits yourself. Throwing a pass and catching a pass is no great skill, offloading the ball while being tackled is not as high a skill as RL commentators seem to think, with practice kicking in general play is learnt relatively easily and besides only 2 or 3 players (at most) on any team do the majority of the kicking in general play in RL. Take AFL players away for a week and teach them the skills of RL before playing a game against a Rugby League side and I am certain that the AFL players would give a better account of themselves than the RL players if the scenario was reversed.

Rugby League is a skillful sport though in my opinion it is the least skillful football code in Australia behind Rugby Union, Soccer, and AFL. This type of tripe was often sprouted by League fans in the 80s and early 90s but not as often now, probably because half the gooses who made these remarks no longer follow Rugby League anyway!

 

[happy hawker]

I'm happy to see I could bring a little joy into your life *Paul* .

 

[*Paul*]

Thanks mate, being a League fan means I precious little entertainment in my life.

 

[happy hawker]

Originally posted by *Paul*
Thanks mate, being a League fan means I precious little entertainment in my life.

Don't worry *Paul*, I know your a League fan. You deliberately made your sentence grammatically incorrect so as to remove all doubt.

 

[Carl]

Originally posted by nut
I would like to see a The ALL Australian AFL side V the Rugby League Australian Side Play each other in both forms of the game and see which is more skillful. I'm sure if our blokes trained for about 2 months and learnt the game of Rugby League we would fair better at there game than they would at ours. We could Put together a reasonable outfit I would think and if we stuck to kicking field goals it might be closer than they would think.

Our game is far more Developed than the sniffer game. The Oldest Football Code in the World is Australian Rules Football. But I agree it will never be an International success unless we stop refering it as AUSTRALIAN rules football.

HAHA-how is aussie rules the oldest football code?What about the real football(some people call it soccer here).
If anyone can prove to me aussie rules is older then football(soccer)then please be my guest.

 

[Rusty Brookes]

Given that the Sydney Swans and the Brisbane Lions outdraw any Rugby League Team, I'd suggest this person is speaking straight through his rectal passage.

 

[Rusty Brookes]

Originally posted by Carl


HAHA-how is aussie rules the oldest football code?What about the real football(some people call it soccer here).
If anyone can prove to me aussie rules is older then football(soccer)then please be my guest.

.Although forms of soccer did exist dating back to around 200 AD, a formal code of rules was not adopted until 1870-the first set of formal rules for Australian Rules was adopted in 1858.

So although soccer is an older sport per se, Australian Rules is the oldest code.