Tommy Smith said:
I would if i wasnt so gobsmacked. To suggest that football is easy is laughable and smacks of someone who has absolutely no idea. MistyBee, didnt you say you were sh!t at football? So obviously it isnt easy. Or are you just one of those uncoordinated people who are sh!t are everything?
I never said soccer was
easy. I said League required a greater range of skills
. Soccer is for the fleet footed. I imagine soccer players would make good dancers. I imagine somone like Alfie Langer, Benji Marshall, Joey Johns, Lockyer etc would be deft at soccer.
Where on the soccer field do you plonk Arthur Beetson, Shane Webcke, Eric Grothe, Greame Eadie, Trevor Gillmeister etc?
BTW, I never said I was sh*t at football. I said I was of the less skilled at soccer.There are a vast range of skills that a human bing may have, rather than dribbling a round ball and feigning a horrible death when you trip over a competitor.
Tommy Smith said:
Ive said it before and i'll say it again, its a simple matter of motor skills. Its much harder to perform skills at a high level withoyour feet than it is with your hands because we are much better at controlling our hands. And you dont just kick the ball. You have to control it, dribble it and when you do kick it it has to be very accurate - the speed has to be right, the timing, the flight if its through the air...anyone can kick a ball, but very few are actually high quality footballers. It is much easier to learn to catch and pass a rugby ball.
Not necessarily. It's far easier to kick somthing with one leg than pass it with 2. Besides, passing isn't the only skill in league.
Defence is a definite learned art. The 'art' of trackling low for a kid sometimes takes ages to master. Then at the top level, there's the ruck wars - which is all about the attacking player falling on thir chest to facilitate a quick play the ball - and the defence's skill in preventing that. These are skills more similar to trad wrestling movs, which sometimes involves the co-ordination of the entire body -not just a leg.
I'll grant you this - seeing a hugly skilled player in soccer doing their wizardry with the ball is one of the great thrills in sport. However, we never saw any of that last week. And in League/Union, the skill level is wider. That's why different types of people can play it.
Arthur Betson was the most skilled footballer I have ever seen, of any code -
note, not fastest, strongst, wisest etc. To me, his ball skills were unmatchable. And he's be sh*t at soccer. Doesn't mean he didn't have skill in abundance.
Tommy Smith said:
The socceroos players could quite easily become outside backs in Rugby League of a decent standard (not NRL but local comps) after a year or so. Forwards in Rugby league would never in a million years learn to play football and enither would most backs.
Until a big bloke like Eric Grothe or Matt King ran over top of 'em.
Then again, you class a decnt standard as Metro Cup, which by your estimations a bloke like Kewell could achieve after a year.
I reckon half the NRL could play A league in the same time.
besides, all NRL players already are at the top level in football. Just not soccer.
And when you say 'football', please elaborat on which of th 6 types of football you mean: Rugby League football, Rugby Union football, Australian Rules football, American football, Gaelic football or soccer.
