Will Victorian ever produce a player good enough to play for Australia?

[mozza91]

Victorians can scarcely produce a cricketer good enough to play for Australia, let alone a league player.

They should stick to Fumbleball where they don't have to worry about national team selection.

Or having any athletic ability.

 

[typicalfan]

Gary Ablett Jr, 8 time All Australian....

Checkmate

I am no chess master but I do know you can't put yourself into a check.

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

No. If they were going to, the Storm would have done it by now rather than constantly raiding our pantry.

 

[Cactus]

Victorians are tardy.

Its where the abbreviated phrase vic-tard comes from.

 

[mongoose]

I thought AFL players were good enough to dominate any sport? League, soccer, NFL, Kabadi, midget tossing

 

[TheRam]

Prince George will die of old age before Victoria produce a born and bread player for Australia.
(excluding Maori or Islander heritage)

Hell they can't even produce a 1st grader ffs.

 

[TheRam]

I thought AFL players were good enough to dominate any sport? League, soccer, NFL, Kabadi, midget tossing

Only as spectators.

 

[sempmrh]

Victoria’s first dedicated state centre for grassroots rugby league hasn’t even been built yet. If Victoria had a facility like that 20 years ago maybe things would be further along by now.

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

Victoria’s first dedicated state centre for grassroots rugby league hasn’t even been built yet. If Victoria had a facility like that 20 years ago maybe things would be further along by now.

It's not hard to get into the ears of local schools and encouraging them to run a concurrent RL system alongside AFL. Note I said concurrent, because if you walk in there expecting to convince them to drop AFL for League, you're going to get laughed off campus.

Clubs had no problem maintaining flows of juniors from their respective states long before having a shiny new building to sell yourself with was vogue.

 

[sempmrh]

It's not hard to get into the ears of local schools and encouraging them to run a concurrent RL system alongside AFL. Note I said concurrent, because if you walk in there expecting to convince them to drop AFL for League, you're going to get laughed off campus.

Clubs had no problem maintaining flows of juniors from their respective states long before having a shiny new building to sell yourself with was vogue.

I’m Victorian and finished year 12 in 2004. Not once did anyone from rugby league come to my school. Someone from rugby union did, though - and this wasn’t even a private school. Younger family members have never had anyone from rugby league come to their school either.

 

[GongPanther]

Ex-Panther Peter Wallace is from Victoria.

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

Ex-Panther Peter Wallace is from Victoria.

He played for Scotland.

 

[Cockadoodledoo]

Rather watch Hurley for 1 minute than Warne for a day.

I bet she could do more with a ball than Warnie.

 

[moffla]

Storms existence has increased Rugby League's popularity in Victoria. Prior to their introduction, the game wasn't even mentioned. Shit, it's only been the last decade where we've not had to stay up until 11.30pm to watch NRL on FTA.

We now finally have a solid physical presence Melbourne's sporting landscape. That's step one. Step two is now getting these newly invested generation into playing the game and building on the back of that. Doesn't happen overnight. Probably still the better part of a decade off - but there's a good foundation for it to happen

 

[kdalymc]

Who?

Who did he play against?

Did Ablett ever go over and play against the Irish?

 

[Generalzod]

Storms existence has increased Rugby League's popularity in Victoria. Prior to their introduction, the game wasn't even mentioned. Shit, it's only been the last decade where we've not had to stay up until 11.30pm to watch NRL on FTA.

We now finally have a solid physical presence Melbourne's sporting landscape. That's step one. Step two is now getting these newly invested generation into playing the game and building on the back of that. Doesn't happen overnight. Probably still the better part of a decade off - but there's a good foundation for it to happen

If winning comps haven’t made inroads in Victoria what will,

 

[Twizzle]

I thought AFL players were good enough to dominate any sport? League, soccer, NFL, Kabadi, midget tossing

banter aside, the only difference between AFL players and NRL players is that they were born south of the Murray, SA included

such a waste of talent as they could really boost our stocks of league, union and football (soccer) players

 

[Perth Red]

It's not hard to get into the ears of local schools and encouraging them to run a concurrent RL system alongside AFL. Note I said concurrent, because if you walk in there expecting to convince them to drop AFL for League, you're going to get laughed off campus.

Clubs had no problem maintaining flows of juniors from their respective states long before having a shiny new building to sell yourself with was vogue.

You really have no idea.. It is in fact very hard to get schools to adopt other sports programs they have no history or exposure to.

 

[Perth Red]

If winning comps haven’t made inroads in Victoria what will,

Inroads? You mean like the Storm being one of the best supported clubs in rugby league or the 500k Victorians tuning in to their GF's?

 

[Generalzod]

Inroads? You mean like the Storm being one of the best supported clubs in rugby league or the 500k Victorians tuning in to their GF's?

Right on cue here’s the Storm spokesmen lol