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[Croket66]

A topic about australian rules football

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Rugby and aussie rules players :

current player

FROM RUGBY UNION TO AUSTRALIAN RULES
[TABLE="width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]player[/TD]
[TD]top rugby union level[/TD]
[TD]top aussie rules level[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Mike Pyke (Canada)[/TD]
[TD]Top14, Canada[/TD]
[TD]AFL[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Karmichael Hunt [/TD]
[TD]Top14[/TD]
[TD]AFL[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

FROM RUGBY LEAGUE TO AUSTRALIAN RULES[TABLE="width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]player[/TD]
[TD]top rugby league level[/TD]
[TD]top australian rules level[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Ray Smith[/TD]
[TD]Queensland RL[/TD]
[TD]VFL[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Fabian Francis[/TD]
[TD]Northern Territory RL[/TD]
[TD]AFL[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Karmichael Hunt[/TD]
[TD]Australia, NRL[/TD]
[TD]AFL[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Israel Folau[/TD]
[TD]Australia, NRL[/TD]
[TD]AFL[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

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FROM AUSTRALIAN RULES TO RUGBY UNION
[TABLE="width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]player[/TD]
[TD]top australian rules level[/TD]
[TD]top rugby union level[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Nick Evans[/TD]
[TD]New Zealand U21[/TD]
[TD]All Blacks[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Rambo Tavana[/TD]
[TD]Samoa[/TD]
[TD]Samoa, Top14[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Mike Pesamino[/TD]
[TD]Samoa[/TD]
[TD]Samoa, Samoa 7's[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Alec Boswell Timms[/TD]
[TD]AFL[/TD]
[TD]Scotland[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Reg Morrison[/TD]
[TD]AFL[/TD]
[TD]Scotland[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Israel Folau[/TD]
[TD]AFL[/TD]
[TD]Super Rugby[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

FROM AUSTRALIAN RULES TO RUGBY LEAGUE
[TABLE="width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]player[/TD]
[TD]top aussie rules level[/TD]
[TD]top rugby league level[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Barry Spring[/TD]
[TD]Queensland AFL[/TD]
[TD]Queensland RL[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Adrian Barich[/TD]
[TD]AFL[/TD]
[TD]ARL[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Matt Duffie[/TD]
[TD]New Zealand[/TD]
[TD]New Zealand, NRL[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Shaun Johnson[/TD]
[TD]New Zealand[/TD]
[TD]New Zealand, NRL[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

 

[InsaneAsylum]

Interesting, definitely remember Adrian Barich and Fabian Francis playing when I was a kid, didn't realise they were code converts.
I still think Berrick Barnes is talented enough to play AFL

 

[Zed]

Adrian Barich played 1 trial game for the Western Reds, but never played in a 1st grade game for them.

 

[Al Bangor]

This thread has been cold for several years, but I watched the 2022 AFL Grand Final today and just wanted to pass along the score. Now that's a blow out.

 

[Kiwiwomble]

This thread has been cold for several years, but I watched the 2022 AFL Grand Final today and just wanted to pass along the score. Now that's a blow out.

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......i dont want to talk about it, what made you check it out (without talking about the actual game)

 

[BrokenWing]

I've been watching bits of this on BT sport and trying to get to grips with it.

As with lots of sports that you're unfamiliar with, the commentators and crowd get VERY excited about things that look fairly straightforward to the untrained eye.

Like when they call a mark in the D bit and then put what looks like a pretty basic kick through the posts and everyone loses their ****? I know it's on a cricket oval so is that kick a lot further than I'm giving it credit for or is it similar to a standard rugby touch finder?

 

[Kiwiwomble]

I've been watching bits of this on BT sport and trying to get to grips with it.

As with lots of sports that you're unfamiliar with, the commentators and crowd get VERY excited about things that look fairly straightforward to the untrained eye.

Like when they call a mark in the D bit and then put what looks like a pretty basic kick through the posts and everyone loses their ****? I know it's on a cricket oval so is that kick a lot further than I'm giving it credit for or is it similar to a standard rugby touch finder?

ive really got in to AFL since coming to aus

a lot of the kicks are pretty impressive, 50-60m on the run after flooding forward from D, or banana kicks from the pocket, taking huge marks in the air climbing over others, the more average goals being celebrated just come down to how popular the sport is, several of the clubs have over 100k members, 80-90k people for a mid season mid table game (ie nothing really riding on it) is not unusual

finally, the really excited fans you see behind the goal are actually a cheer squad, fans groups that get together, make banners every game for the teams to run through so they really are the hard out fans