Why it's better to play rugby league than Australian rules!

[Perth Red]

Watching all the social media from the different World Cup training camps the lads seem to be having a great time and really pumped to be representing their countries. Sports like afl that don't offer this opportunity must be very jealous!

Let's have more international RL!

 

[thorson1987]

Another reason, AFL is shit.

 

[Stallion]

Another reason, AFL is shit.

Agree. The code of AFL is actually a training run! Victorian cricketers created this game as a fill in over the winter whilst waiting for the cricket season.
I also experienced playing a game of AFL for a training run whilst on a NSW tertiary student representative rugby league tour in Melbourne. We played it and it was fun however not 'hard' ! If you reverse the scenario and have an AFL team play rugby league for training it would not happen. They would hurt themselves! Besides they would be too timid to play such a physical contact sport! That summation isnt been spoken of in this politically correct world we live in at the moment.

 

[kdalymc]

But but but they get tackled from 360 degrees

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Players can now play professionally in England, Australia, PNG, France, New Zealand and Canada.

USA will soon be added to this list as will hopefully Fiji

With a good decade of development it could be reasonably said that Wales could also become a destination for fully professional players.

Exciting times!

 

[Rory]

AFL will always be stronger. Lets be honest, Rugby league is QLD and NSW, AFL is NT,VIC,WA,TAS,SA. Unfortunate, but its Australias game.

 

[Emu01]

AFL will always be stronger. Lets be honest, Rugby league is QLD and NSW, AFL is NT,VIC,WA,TAS,SA. Unfortunate, but its Australias game.

I wouldn’t say Nt is completely afl. When I was up there the Nrl footy show was on Thursday nights and the Sunday 4pm nrl game was on channel 9.Lots of Cowboys fans in Nt..

What about the ACT mate? That’s Rugby League.

 

[Stallion]

But but but they get tackled from 360 degrees

You call that a tackle!? Chance collision does not cut it with toughness.
You lace up a rugby league boot you know you are putting your body on the line!
In AFL its a possibility not a certainty!
And I might add cheap shots don't count as tough as well! Something the AFL 'boys' do repeatedly! For instance, if someone told me I was playing a game of AFL tomorrow I wouldn't flinch! However if I was told I was playing rugby league then I would be thinking about what I'm about to face and do!
I had a conversation with one my old footy mates early last year and we got talking about our kids. He was a terrier of a footballer and I quizzed him about if his son was playing footy? He answered that his son did not learn to tackle in the early years(7-10) and tried to play RL at 15 but could not aim up. He then advised his son to go and play AFL which he easily did!

 

[Rory]

You call that a tackle!? Chance collision does not cut it with toughness.
You lace up a rugby league boot you know you are putting your body on the line!
In AFL its a possibility not a certainty!
And I might add cheap shots don't count as tough as well! Something the AFL 'boys' do repeatedly! For instance, if someone told me I was playing a game of AFL tomorrow I wouldn't flinch! However if I was told I was playing rugby league then I would be thinking about what I'm about to face and do!
I had a conversation with one my old footy mates early last year and we got talking about our kids. He was a terrier of a footballer and I quizzed him about if his son was playing footy? He answered that his son did not learn to tackle in the early years(7-10) and tried to play RL at 15 but could not aim up. He then advised his son to go and play AFL which he easily did!

I've play AFL and Rugby League, so from first hand experience, rugby league is a much more simpler game, and yeah its tough, but if you go hard then you've got nothing to worry about. Worst i've had is a head clash. Where as in AFL i've had my legs taken under me and landed on my head, lucky not to have broken my neck. I've also been slug tackle on numerous occasions.

Out of all this, you simply cannot call a sport tougher unless it has no contact, because injuries happen all the time. I question why you didnt flinch, maybe you didnt flinch because it was a low division? Because guaranteed if you tried div 1, youd have your ribs broken and head ripped off. May sound like im defending AFL (which im not) but people need to understand the difference first.

 

[Rory]

I wouldn’t say Nt is completely afl. When I was up there the Nrl footy show was on Thursday nights and the Sunday 4pm nrl game was on channel 9.Lots of Cowboys fans in Nt..

What about the ACT mate? That’s Rugby League.

compare afl players from NT than rugby league, theres your answer bud

 

[Emu01]

compare afl players from NT than rugby league, theres your answer bud

What about the A.C.T you left them off the list altogether.

 

[Stallion]

I've play AFL and Rugby League, so from first hand experience, rugby league is a much more simpler game, and yeah its tough, but if you go hard then you've got nothing to worry about. Worst i've had is a head clash. Where as in AFL i've had my legs taken under me and landed on my head, lucky not to have broken my neck. I've also been slug tackle on numerous occasions.

Out of all this, you simply cannot call a sport tougher unless it has no contact, because injuries happen all the time. I question why you didnt flinch, maybe you didnt flinch because it was a low division? Because guaranteed if you tried div 1, youd have your ribs broken and head ripped off. May sound like im defending AFL (which im not) but people need to understand the difference first.

You are missing the point. I am not saying that collisions don't occur, however in rugby league it is a certainty, no matter how you put it in AFL it is chance . The fact a rugby league tackle involves intense physical contact which is an integral part of the game necessitates it being a much more physical code than all others. Statistically speaking their are more tackles made in a rugby league game than any other code. (And I mean real tackles not cheap shots or grabs). Try tackling someone like Jason Taumalolo head on champ and the others that play this game!(Even in park footy its a hard ask) I reiterate I am not shaking in my boots when I'm about to play a game of Aust. rules or soccer for that matter. I am definitely thinking about what may happen and what I'm about to do when I played rugby league.

 

[Rory]

What about the A.C.T you left them off the list altogether.

No doubt league in ACT is the stronghold mate!

You are missing the point. I am not saying that collisions don't occur, however in rugby league it is a certainty, no matter how you put it in AFL it is chance . The fact a rugby league tackle involves intense physical contact which is an integral part of the game necessitates it being a much more physical code than all others. Statistically speaking their are more tackles made in a rugby league game than any other code. (And I mean real tackles not cheap shots or grabs). Try tackling someone like Jason Taumalolo head on champ and the others that play this game!(Even in park footy its a hard ask) I reiterate I am not shaking in my boots when I'm about to play a game of Aust. rules or soccer for that matter. I am definitely thinking about what may happen and what I'm about to do when I played rugby league.

I'm sorry, but that statement is f**king geniused. It is a certainty in AFL because as soon as you get 1 touch of the football, you've got 17 blokes trying to smash you, and its legal to do it after you kick it or handball it, just as long as its not in the head. Your delusional.

 

[Stallion]

No doubt league in ACT is the stronghold mate!



I'm sorry, but that statement is f**king geniused. It is a certainty in AFL because as soon as you get 1 touch of the football, you've got 17 blokes trying to smash you, and its legal to do it after you kick it or handball it, just as long as its not in the head. Your delusional.

Oh right with a ground as big as a cricket field. "17 blokes trying to smash you!" Lol! Spare me the crap mate! You are kidding yourself humiliating wimp!
I see you're the type of dude that's perpetuating the Aust Rules myth! Well done ! You have done a great job! I was talking to a Mum the other day and she would only allow her son to play Aust Rules as she feared the contact that is in rugby league!
Cricketers in Melbourne played Aust rules for a training run champ. That's how it started. It's the history of that code! You are trying to glorify a training run! And you mention cheap shots as legal. Well done you tough guy! It must be so good to sideswipe a bloke when he's not looking ! Real tough mate!
You cheap shot Charlie wimp!

 

[King hit]

AFL will always be stronger. Lets be honest, Rugby league is QLD and NSW, AFL is NT,VIC,WA,TAS,SA. Unfortunate, but its Australias game.

It isn't Australias game. Sure more states have AFL as the main winter sport but nobody reaally lives in WA, SA, NT and Tasmania. You can fit everyone in SA and NT into Brisbane with still 500,000 left over. NSW and QLD + ACT is at least 50% of the population and Rugby League viewing is about 60% of the viewing. Cricket is the national game with huge followings in every state and town

 

[Stallion]

It isn't Australias game. Sure more states have AFL as the main winter sport but nobody reaally lives in WA, SA, NT and Tasmania. You can fit everyone in SA and NT into Brisbane with still 500,000 left over. NSW and QLD + ACT is at least 50% of the population and Rugby League viewing is about 60% of the viewing. Cricket is the national game with huge followings in every state and town

And to cap it off if rugby league had universal access to schools like the other football codes then you would see a true and deserving giant of Australian sport!

 

[Rory]

I'm just not gonna try and educate lol

 

[hutch]

I'm just not gonna try and educate lol

We noticed. You’ve gone down the bullsh*t path instead.

 

[Pommy]

AFL will always be stronger. Lets be honest, Rugby league is QLD and NSW, AFL is NT,VIC,WA,TAS,SA. Unfortunate, but its Australias game.

A bit misleading though whats the population of all those places in comparison to NSW, QLD and ACT?

Plus isn’t Cricket Australia’s game?

 

[King hit]

A bit misleading though whats the population of all those places in comparison to NSW, QLD and ACT?

Plus isn’t Cricket Australia’s game?

Yes it most certainly is. Has over a million registered players, has massive followings in every state, the national team have played in every capital city, around 90% watch it in some way or another and the big bash is thriving.