What AFL players could take on rugby league?

I have no doubt some could play RL....but seriously who would want to ! One taste of the sherrin and its no going back. RlL is a media game, owned by the media, run by the media for media profit...thats all !

No AFL player would possibly make it in the NRL simply because they dont learn how to tackle front on. In league you need to know how to work with other defenders to stop those big forwards thundering at you. If an opposing team sees one weak link in defence guess were they will be "directing traffic".

"No one ever talks about the tactics etc in league." Second man plays? Line speed? Up-and-in defence? Fullback used as a second-receiver/five-eighth? Tackling techniques to slow down the play-the-ball? Ball-runners changing their line upon reception? Halves positioning their backlines flat instead of deep (IE. Kimmorley used to do it a fair bit). Positional play by five-eighthes, hookers, fullbacks to capitalise on off-loads? (Terry Lamb was great at it, so is Matty Bowen for the Cowboys). Phil Gould is always talking about these aspects of the game. So does Peter Sterling. Anyone who takes notice of the game, as opposed to just sitting there in a stupor, is aware of the commentary.

I do not drink.

There's a line that should have made it on to Lennon's song.

Also, we're pretty sure they're all communist vanguards of the ChiComms here to ruin our way of life and to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

"I’ve been telling the Aussie rules fans..." a lot of stuff that sounds like Oikee twelve glasses into his liquid lunch but not half as friendly! :)

HAHAHA dale thomas, jack riewoldt and brett deledio in the wing and centres. that team would concede 50-60 points just from those three human turnstyles. jarred petrenko, david rodan and patrick dangerfield would be far more solid in defence and overall would contribute more to the team. all of those forwards would get torn to pieces aaron sandilands would be a 7 foot target. dave taylor is the same weight and a foot shorter, much faster and a second rower.

QGIRL, You really should be marketing for the NRL and bring back Tina Turner. Maybe she can sing an NRl song with a broken leg.

Imagine there were no hypothetical situations

I'm awe-struck by the courage of the players. We're talking about men who weigh over 100kgs running into one another at full speed, only to get up as if nothing happened when they're knocked to the ground. I've seen headclashes between massive props that would leave an average man knocked out, yet the props it happened to were on their feet and running, albeit in a sick manner. Players battle on with broken legs, broken arms, broken jaws, broken cheekbones, punctured lungs. You have to admire their toughness, especially during an age when people are wimpier than ever. For every dollar a soccer player earns, a rugby league player should earn $1,000,000. Soccer players just don't deserve the amount of money they're given.

Because he is talking out of his behind. No one ever talks about the tactics etc in league. All the talk is about how 'hard' they all are and how big that last hit was. It's really quite sad

Titus, Titus, Titus enlighten me on how to fix rugby league then since it seems these days 'experts' from other codes think there 2 cents is worth than us leagues so by all means lead us the way to the light. I partially agree on the emphasis on toughness but you do have to consider and with you being an ex-watcher should of know there is a degree of physicality involved and those representing RL in the media very few have actual credibility besides Peter Stirling the rest are just plain awful. Titus if I was to criticize football people for banging about how beautiful the game is I'm sure you provide the same type of retort and then I make baseless assumptions about how this would hold back the QLD/NSW culture around the same lines of your first post of this thread. Of course I don't mean any of this just providing an example that your type of criticism can go both ways but they have one thing in common there opinions not fact. Good night.

I'm sure it can but why do you keep banging on about how tough it is?

"I lost interest in it because it is so limited by this fact, it has very little intelligent analysis, very little style and sophistication " The game play in rugby league can be very complex. The problem is silly people don't have the brains to understand it. It's why they go support soccer.

"Sandilands weighs 122kg, and moves well for a man of his size. I can assure you that he would rarely come off second best, no matter who he ran into." He's get creamed by the 12-year-old halfbacks who play in the Greater Brisbane Junior Rugby League. Aussie rules players just don't have the guts, skill and manliness that is inborn into those kids who play the real code of football, rugby league. :D

"I don’t think any AFL player will be able to slot into 5/8 or halfback. They wouldn’t have the skill set or the knowledge to do it." You know your stuff Socrates. I've been telling the Aussie rules fans on here that the halfbacks and five-eighthes in rugby league have a superior kicking game, more agility, better spatial awareness and the added bonus of having fine motor skills in their hands (something that is foreign to most Aussie rules players) to the blokes who run around in the AFL. A 12-year-old junior rugby league player would be better equipped to play in the NRL than the strongest, fittest, most talented player in the AFL.

This article is not meant to be about AFL players making the transition, it's about those who would have been good if they had played League from an early age - it's a hypothetical.

Why would they take a pay cut just so they can be a big hard man and pway Wugby Weague???

Yeh, fair enough, Davies' 119kg is close to Sandilands' 122kg - my guess is that Sandilands would be a bit quicker. ps having another look at it - talk about a hospital pass, Davies had barely half a step with the ball before he was collected!