The chinese only heard ‘ping pong’ and said “were in”

MyGen, Over 50 metres.

Redb

Born in Sydney, he learned his kicking skills growing up in South Melbourne watching some of the greats who played Australian Rules.

Dally spent a part of his teenage years in South Melbourne, where he learnt to play Australian Rules. He attended the Albert Park Public School – the same school that produced Roy Cazaly barely a decade later.

Messenger was involved in negotiations between the VFL and NSWRL to merge Australian Rules with rugby league in 1908 – the hybrid game was to be called “Australeague”.

Both of Dally’s younger brothers chose to play Australian rules instead of rugby. Rumours persist that Dally played for the East Sydney club in 1903 (where Victor Trumper was the secretary) before deciding to seriously take up rugby two seasons later.

Dally Messenger, the greatest footballer to ever grace the rugby codes, had played Australian football for two seasons while living at Albert Park (South Melbourne) – he had idolised Essendon’s Albert Thurgood and Melbourne’s Pat O’Dea, two of the greatest kickers in Australian Football history.

“It would be the most wonderful thing in the world of sport if a game could be evolved containing the best features of rugby league and Australian rules,” said Messenger.

ANd Firestarter – you need to understand that RL founder Victor Trumper had 5 years earlier worked together with politician Edward O’Sullivan to establish an 11 team Aust Football league in Sydney (inspired by federation and a desire to be more ‘Australian’).

It was predominantly the financial success of the NZ based ‘All Golds’ tour that fully swayed Trumpber, Giltinan and included and effectively secured Messenger.

so really rah rah stole him :O

Perhaps you should have a closer look at the crawford report.

And what do you mean about cotton wool parents and female teachers, unless you have had your head in the sand this has been going on for about 20 years.

A lot of one child families around and this is what tends to happen as a result of this.

in a particular US example re ‘children’ playing/training the injury rate per 100 kids: baseball, 1.7; softball, 1.0; soccer, 2.1; and (US)football, 1.5.
However, of those, for soccer, 1% were ‘serious’ and in US Football 14% were serious.
So, ironically, more likely to get injured from soccer, but, more likely to be seriously injured from US Football.

but, back 10 years ago,

The epidemiology of sports and active recreation injury in the Latrobe Valley
Monash University Accident Research Centre – Report #151 – 1999

rates of population participation per 10,000 persons over 4 years of age were:
walking 2,315/10,000;
swimming 746;
bicycling 710;
basketball 712;
Australian football 477.

The rank order of medically treated injury frequency by sport, however, was Australian football, basketball, bicycling, netball, cricket and soccer.

the highest rates of injury per 1,000 participants were:
cricket (242/1,000),
horse riding (122/1,000),
soccer (107/1,000),
netball (51/1,000) and
Australian football (37/1,000).

Almost one-half (47%) of self-reported injuries in the community survey were inconsequential

Soccer actually came up worse in this survey.

around that time, Monash Uni Accident research centre document titled “Preventing Soccer Injuries”,
back then, with in 1997, 270,000 registered soccer players, soccer represented 8.1% of adult and 6% of child sports related injuries presenting to hospital emergency dept’s.
Soccer ranking then, 3rd for adults and 5th for children in such terms.

Main types – general sprains, strains etc that all the codes will suffer,
Lower limb injuries esp ankles/knees due being kicked/collisions/tackles
Head injury – associated with headers, either high impact ball ‘strike’, head to head or head to boot
others inc. falls, overuse, over-exertion and general being struck by the ball

anyone claiming soccer is ‘safe’ is stretching the friendship.

Gibbs also said players like Tony Lockett would struggle with the increased running in AFL now. Does this mean that only a few years ago there would have been less impediments to conversion? And if a few rules were re-tweaked so that AFL went back to less of a running game, would those impediments disappear again? Just a thought.

BTW, did Folau say Judd ran him off his feet over 40m, 400m or 1500m?

It’s amazing how often that comes up in AFL thinking.

They are also using a smooth round white ball and setting up a net across the centre square which players have to kick the ball over . . .

Goal umpires will have white ping pong bats instead of white flags to wave . . .

This bloke is about 22 years of age, had played college basketball, soccer and was also a high jumper, didn’t play NBA, but played two years professionally in Germany (basketball).

He sent a DVD of himself around to the clubs, and Collingwood happened to have someone in the States already, and asked him to pay him a visit, and then they brought him back for a 2 week trial, extended to three then signed him up as an international rookie (which effectively by-passes the draft).

Now judging by the DVD, this bloke can’t kick to save himself – but – like Pyke, he’s about 6ft 7 in and extremely athletic – so clubs are always going to be attracted to a bloke like that (because they can teach him to ruck in the AFL sense).

As for the salary – I can’t imagine it being too much more than $60,000 per annum for two years. What’s his motivation? Got no idea.

Anything Roy Masters says about AFL should be challenged for its truthfulness, he hates the AFL and will spin any story to suit his pro league agenda, which includes making the AFL look like the bad guy at every opportunity.

Dont beleive a word of it.

Redb

– shades of the Packer/Bond/Ch9 circus of a decade or 3? so ago!

Once we were knocked out of the tournament it didn’t hurt. the Olympics is no where near as important as the World Cup.

There is nothing stopping the AFL from getting kids to play the game with all the money they have and publicity they get. The only thing that stops more kids playing the game is the fear that a lot of parents have with collision sports. It’s not an unfounded fear either. There was an article in the paper here from a doctor who’s seen some of the horrific injuries that occur in the AFL and just aren’t publicised for fear of scaring off parents. At the elite level you have proper umpires, video and a lot of scrutiny. At the lower ranks and junior levels you don’t.

Not at all. I doff my hat to the AFL. They know how to fight the PR war and manage the media cycle.

I wish Sydney FC, an existing club, with an existing fan base and existing player stories got the same coverage as this proto-club. I’m jealous.