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If Folau makes it in Gay FL ..... he can make it anywhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMIuW4issMo&feature=related
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Quigs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMIuW4issMo&feature=related
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Quigs
How is Matty Johns and his orgi mates going? Sorry bro, I like to go about my posts in a brutal way.
Funny...not a multi...but said practically the same thing...hmmm yeah...
Sydney culture eh bro.
We have been LOSING players to Union.. But NOW.. This!!! The AFL??
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Boxing, union now AFL...what next horse racing?
Will this have a positive or negative effect on the Nrl?
These signings make no sense from a player recruitment perspective and not much more from a marketing perspective if anyone thinks that the AFL is targeting entrenched league fans.
But they make a whole lot of sense when you consider the message that is being sent out to kids and young players of rugby league. "If these blokes can have a go at aussie rules and succeed, then maybe I can too" - this is the benefit that the AFL reaps from these signings.
The message is not 'Aussie Rules is better'. It is that 'You can have a go at Aussie Rules, even if your background is rugby league". It makes Aussie rules a viable option where it was not one before. It is hard to start from real grass-roots. Create junior clubs, sign up five year olds and volunteers and establish a sport. But if the message to the kids and teenagers already playing league out there is "This is an option for you" then the grass roots just became easier and 10 years closer.
Also consider the message sent out to Islander kids who may not have thought that aussie rules was an option. The sport may now be on the radar for some of these kids.
If signing Hunt & Folau achieves either of these things then the money they are paid is peanuts compared to what it would cost to get this message out by other means.
no he doesn't
he played less than 10 games of it when he was at school
watch 3:50 into . he says it himself
i think israel will make it, as in he'll be a required player but he'll never make the AFLs top 100 or anything, just a middle of the road player, hunt maybe a little different, he has a background in Aussie rules, he could end up being a very good player.
IMO slater/inglis would be a stars in the AFL, they can kick a sherrin and are very good movers with outstanding physical qualitys, but i also think (and i know ill get roasted for this) that Ablett/judd could be a stars in league, of coarse they'd need to bulk up though, slater/inglis/ablett/judd are supreme athletes, say what you like about AFL but i can tell you now, ablett and judd arnt exactly "soft", they have amazing evasive abilitys, speed to burn (especially judd) and are very strong through the hips (especially ablett), they can break tackles, and the other thing they have is composure under pressure and most importantly, they have great footwork, add 10kg of muscle to them and i think they'd surprise a lot of people on this forum, they are as slippery as they come.