Hunt to AFL???!?!!

[mightybears]

this is a marketing coup we did not need afl to get, my god he must have been offered a lot of $.

 

[bulldog]

Silly bogger-ballers, but it's not as if they can look overseas to expand their player pool is it?

 

[aids]

a place where he can get away with debauchery , and not read about it in the papers.
good thinking

 

[Sir Biffo]

Silly bogger-ballers, but it's not as if they can look overseas to expand their player pool is it?

They got a Canadian onion player who is now a regular starter for "Sydney's number one football team :lol:".

That fumbleball is such a difficult game to master.

 

[Twizzle]

Hunt set for shock AFL switch

Posted July 29, 2009 08:57:00
Updated July 29, 2009 09:00:00


Brisbane Broncos full-back Karmichael Hunt is set for an unprecedented code switch from rugby league to the AFL for the new Gold Coast team.

It was expected Hunt would move overseas to play either rugby league or rugby union.

The 22-year-old has not played Australian rules football since his early teens.

Gold Coast does not join the competition until 2011 and it is likely Hunt will spend next season playing in a second tier competition.

The Gold Coast has called a press conference for later this morning.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/29/2639451.htm?site=sport&section=all

 

[_Johnsy]

This speaks volumes about the mindset of AFL, they are more concerned about "point scoring" and getting "headlines" at any cost in SE QLD, rather than setting up a football club.

This will be an expensive failure.

 

[Lambretta]

I just don't know how AFL on the Gold Coast will go. Titans have done great up there. Everywhere you go on the Gold Coast there is kids with Titans gear on. They have established a strong foot hold and are successful on the field. You would think the AFL team will struggle on the field for a few years, and if Titans continue to have success, then things are gonna be tough for them.

AFL games on the Gold Coast have something like 14 of the 20 lowest AFL crowd attendances since the 1980's. I think since 1988.

Swans in Canberra would probably be the other ones.

A journalist for InSports wrote an article on this expansion into the Gold Coast some time back. There was a game played up there between the Homeless Kangaroos and some other Melbourne side. He interviewed the people who were attending the game. The first 20 people he spoke to were people from the Southern States visting the area or living there and desperate to see some AFL regardless of who was playing.

The 21st person was a cab driver who was waiting for the game to end for a fare to drive someone from the game.

There were less than 10,000 people at the game.

I know that local Gold Coats people will give more of a sh*t about their own side than a Melbourne team playing up there for a day - but it throws up serious questions about the feasibility of a team in the area.

 

[feeding frenzy]

Just a quick question regarding AFL balls. Has anyone ever tried catching one? Out of all the balls from different codes that I've stuffed around with throwing and kicking in the park, the AFL ball would have to be the easiest of all balls to catch with the possible exception of a Gridiron ball.

They're kinda soft coated things that just stick to your hands regardless. You have to be making some sort of effort to drop one.

Which is why they do drop them - getting touched without the ball gets you a free kick in AFL so they throw them to the floor and pretend it's been dropped. It's more a form of acting with a ball than a game of football when you think about it. Oh well.

Lambretta i played afl when i was younger then moved on to league , And the AFL ball is probably the hardest to catch the afl ball is leather and it isnt soft and esoecially hard to catch when it is wet .

 

[aids]

traitor to his country
traitor to the code


classy guy.

 

[Bluebags1908]

This is a massive compliment for Rugby League. The fact that the AFL are so so desparate about promoting their game on RL turf that they have to rely on Rugby League to promote themselves shows how worried they are about the establishment of this new team.

The ARU have tried this publicity ambush to promote themselves using a Rugby League angle for last 10 years by signing Rogers, Tuqiri, Sailor, and Tahu - these guys were the 'poster boys' and featured in many newspaper articles over and above the established RU players, but did it work? No.

 

[Ziggy the God]

Proves that there is no skill in AFL, because they pick up any athlete and throw them in at the top level.

You can hear the recruiter, "So son you played (insert: League, Union, Gaelic, Boggerball), no problem, you can play at the top level of our sport".

Can you imagine any other sport doing that?

This is akin to Fergie at Man U calling up some AFL player to run on at Old Trafford against Arsenal. Fergie says at the press conference that the he played a bit of Soccer when he was 17.

Laughable.:lol:

 

[nathanbrown'sghost]

This is a massive compliment for Rugby League. The fact that the AFL are so so desparate about promoting their game on RL turf that they have to rely on Rugby League to promote themselves shows how worried they are about the establishment of this new team.

The ARU have tried this publicity ambush to promote themselves using a Rugby League angle for last 10 years by signing Rogers, Tuqiri, Sailor, and Tahu - these guys were the 'poster boys' and featured in many newspaper articles over and above the established RU players, but did it work? No.

I agree. Can the AFL really see die hard league fans following one player to the new Gold Coast franchise? For me, AFL is using Karmichael Hunt as a advertisement for the Gold Coast team and nothing more. I would be pretty angry if I was an established AFL team that has to get players through a draft. Gold Coast seem to have gone to an open market system!

Good luck to Karmichael though. If he thinks he will be better off in AFL then so be it. I won't be paying any attention though.

 

[$$Poor Boy Blues$$]

Hunt is a sh*t merkin if this is true.

this is where people attitudes are wrong, and insecure.

he should be allowed to do whatever he wants. if he does not want to play our game, that is ok. we can ask ourselves how we can make our game more fun and compelling to be a part of, and this may help to keep more people here, but at the end of the day, people can do what they want.

 

[Brutus]

Lets compile a list of players rugby league has lost to other codes over the years.

It's getting big.

 

[STG-Dragon]

Lol this is so dumb! KH is a joke. f**k we really need to ban players for good that switch (Bar Wendell ). They are treating RL as a joke because they know they will be accepted back so easily when the switch goes to sh*t!

 

[JW]

this is where people attitudes are wrong, and insecure.

he should be allowed to do whatever he wants. if he does not want to play our game, that is ok. we can ask ourselves how we can make our game more fun and compelling to be a part of, and this may help to keep more people here, but at the end of the day, people can do what they want.

Under normal circumstances i'd agree. But the strong possibility of a stunt aside, this sh*t's just hilarious.

I want to experience other cultures, i've always wanted to play overseas, i'm sick of the media following me around, I hate the Qld fishbowl i'm living in. Piss, moan, whinge, whine.

Solution: I'll move to the Gold Coast!

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

Proves that there is no skill in AFL, because they pick up any athlete and throw them in at the top level.

You can hear the recruiter, "So son you played (insert: League, Union, Gaelic, Boggerball), no problem, you can play at the top level of our sport".

Can you imagine any other sport doing that?

This is akin to Fergie at Man U calling up some AFL player to run on at Old Trafford against Arsenal. Fergie says at the press conference that the he played a bit of Soccer when he was 17.

Laughable.:lol:

Spot on Zig. Let's hope the NRL have half an idea on how to PR this to our advantage.

 

[bulldog]

They got a Canadian onion player who is now a regular starter for "Sydney's number one football team :lol:".

That fumbleball is such a difficult game to master.

Oh sh!t, I forgot about that, 6 months from "never f^&king heard of it" to professional bogger-baller.

 

[$$Poor Boy Blues$$]

This speaks volumes about the mindset of AFL, they are more concerned about "point scoring" and getting "headlines" at any cost in SE QLD, rather than setting up a football club.

This will be an expensive failure.

um how they play to win?

no one likes a loser

i am having a big smile today - its almost a laugh.

What a coup. No one expected this. A surprise.

Good on you hunt and co.

I did say you are either the predator or the prey. RL IS THE PREY

 

[Edwahu]

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Why else would you copy a Aru tactic?