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[November Tests 2017 EOYT] Scotland vs. Australia (25/11/2017)
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<blockquote data-quote="RoosTah" data-source="post: 881189" data-attributes="member: 12207"><p>The post I was responding to was looking at the raw numbers of players and effectively making a claim based on that. I get soccer is a big deal in the UK generally and all that, but soccer doesn't dip into your talent pool the way having a couple much larger and more organized contact football codes like League and Australian Football does in Australia. </p><p></p><p>For instance, there aren't too many locks going through high school that a soccer coach is going to go and scout at rugby games to see if they'd be great strikers, but in the AFL states there are coaches doing that looking for good ruckmen and in the League states they'll happily offer a contract to a lock that is just good in the contact areas.</p><p></p><p>That's the difference - Rugby may get dominated by soccer in Scotland and the rest of the UK, but soccer might as well be cricket for the transferability of its skill set to rugby and vice versa so you don't bleed talent to it like we do to the NRL and AFL.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoosTah, post: 881189, member: 12207"] The post I was responding to was looking at the raw numbers of players and effectively making a claim based on that. I get soccer is a big deal in the UK generally and all that, but soccer doesn’t dip into your talent pool the way having a couple much larger and more organized contact football codes like League and Australian Football does in Australia. For instance, there aren’t too many locks going through high school that a soccer coach is going to go and scout at rugby games to see if they’d be great strikers, but in the AFL states there are coaches doing that looking for good ruckmen and in the League states they’ll happily offer a contract to a lock that is just good in the contact areas. That’s the difference - Rugby may get dominated by soccer in Scotland and the rest of the UK, but soccer might as well be cricket for the transferability of its skill set to rugby and vice versa so you don’t bleed talent to it like we do to the NRL and AFL. [/QUOTE]
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