Big Cat Lover said:
collector said:
& yet I still don't get this. You lot keep repeating this sh!t .... What exactly is wrong with the NRL?
Couldn't give a crapola whether you like the sport or not, I'm well aware most on here prefer to watch fumbles and dropsies than footballers with actual skill ... but what is actually wrong with their recruiting structure?
collector said:
hehe
I played soccer mostly at school, but did play 1 game of Aussie Rules to help them into the semis ... I would have been counted these days under the "player participation" counting.
Once again, people need to do their own investigation of what gets reported in the media before parroting the BS propaganda that is sprouted.
Once again * 2 - Crowd attendances mean absoloutely jack sh!t in terms of a games popularity whether Victorian's like it or not.
Sponsorship/Revenue - The game has a much greater FTA & media presence than RL, so yes, the game brings in more money. Quite simple really. RL has to compete for air time in Sydney media, unlike the VFL which is given a cushy free ride throughoutn the Melbourne media, who take any chance they can to put down opposing sports - Look at how Vlad used a compliant Herald Scum to wage war on the World Cup bid, even though the paper knew damn well the MCG reconfiguration proposal had been scrapped many months before they printed.
I actually thought you had been making some good points until you revealed your true colours with this little gem
Personally enjoy all sports at the elite level, have been to RL live and watched on TV and think it is a great game. The intensity and skill in SOO games is amazing, at last they broadcast it live here last year!
Your line about fumbles & dropsies and not having skill when referrring to AFL also shows an ignorance and bias. Every sport at the elite level has great skills.
Pity, you made some decent points until the end - if you dislike aussie rules so much I wonder why you purchased multiple memberships?
I don't dislike the game at all mate. Just find it an immense struggle to watch on tv, lest it be a Richmond game.
Due to the large dimmensions of the field, and the lack of an offside rule, the game is played at all times on several parts of the field at all times. Whereas a game like RL is essentially played where the ball is.
Watching on tv, you can't see the entire field, you can't see the build up of a play that a team is working on, the leading players in the forward line, the scragging going on for better positioning, all you generally see live is the player with ball in hand, you then see the rest on replay.
In comparison to the live experience, yes, Aussie Rules is a terrible tv game. It's not a knock on the sport as a whole it just doesn't suit television.
& yeah, I'll admit, the fumbles & dropsies comment was probably a tad to far, nothing annoys me more than insular Victorians who think the rest of the country think like they do. Aussie Rules has plenty of skills that RL could take advantage of the training to make their players better - For one, I always wonder when watching players kick the ball out 15-20 metres when given a penalty, why they don't get some of the Aussie Rules boys down to teach them how to pin point a 50 metre pass (Maybe not Richmond's boys of course
) which would give a huge field position advantage if they had someone who could kick like that.
