A-League vs AFL interviews

[RoosterLad]

It doesn't need to convert anyone!! It is by far the most popular sport in the world, just because it's not the biggest sport in Australia doesn't mean shit. Look anywhere else in the world, it is hugely popular. So why would they need to change the rules just so a few people like you can get into it? The Americans wanted larger goals and no offside or something just to get more goals. Billions of people are obsessed with the game for a reason, I really don't think the sport really cares about fantasydreamer 88.

It's like the AFL constantly changes it's rules to "improve" the game yet the majority of changes just ____ with the game even further.

 

[RoosterLad]

Not my favourite sport, but more happens there than in soccer. Runs, wickets....sometimes a whole soccer game goes by without a score. What a waste of everyone's time!

Yep and sometimes you can play a Test match where nobody wins and nobody looks like winning.

Team A bats for 2 days and scores 550. Team B does the same. Team A plods until it gets towards the end of Day 5, no chance of a result so it's a draw.

Thanks for coming.

 

[fightingdreamer88]

Yep and sometimes you can play a Test match where nobody wins and nobody looks like winning.

Team A bats for 2 days and scores 550. Team B does the same. Team A plods until it gets towards the end of Day 5, no chance of a result so it's a draw.

Absolutely, and that's why test cricket isn't my favourite game to watch. What elevates it above soccer though is that scores ARE made during those drawn games, whether it be wickets or runs, something happens which is better than watching yet another 0-0 play out over the course of multiple hours.

 

[Alex99]

Yep and sometimes you can play a Test match where nobody wins and nobody looks like winning.

Team A bats for 2 days and scores 550. Team B does the same. Team A plods until it gets towards the end of Day 5, no chance of a result so it's a draw.

Thanks for coming.

And that’s the strategy of the game, not to be boring but to play the other team out of the game.

Soccer is the same, keep the ball until you can see an opening to score. If that takes 15 or 20 passes, so be it. But if you go hell for leather and just attack, you will get beaten on the counter attack.

If teams in cricket play a test match like a one day match they will loss in 3 days

 

[RoosterLad]

And that’s the strategy of the game, not to be boring but to play the other team out of the game.

Soccer is the same, keep the ball until you can see an opening to score. If that takes 15 or 20 passes, so be it. But if you go hell for leather and just attack, you will get beaten on the counter attack.

If teams in cricket play a test match like a one day match they will loss in 3 days

Yep.. especially if you are playing away in Europe. Like Man Utd did in Rome, they played on the counter attack to try and keep Rome out and were lucky enough to take their chances and score two goals. It was good to watch even though it wasn't all out attack.

I love Test cricket also, more than a one dayer, and sometimes you do get a boring game. Same goes for footy, look at the floodathons, not pretty to watch but those teams obviously think it's the best way to win a game.

Not every footy match is a shootout where 50 goals are kicked.

It's a shame FD88 and Drummy miss out on The World Game. It's a wonderful sport.

 

[Drummond]

Yep.. especially if you are playing away in Europe. Like Man Utd did in Rome, they played on the counter attack to try and keep Rome out and were lucky enough to take their chances and score two goals. It was good to watch even though it wasn't all out attack.

I love Test cricket also, more than a one dayer, and sometimes you do get a boring game. Same goes for footy, look at the floodathons, not pretty to watch but those teams obviously think it's the best way to win a game.

Not every footy match is a shootout where 50 goals are kicked.

It's a shame FD88 and Drummy miss out on The World Game. It's a wonderful sport.

I'm better off without it, I get enough sleep as is.

 

[fightingdreamer88]

I'm better off without it, I get enough sleep as is.

C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!

 

[smoovy]

KG and Cornesy's knowledge of any other sport is terrible. For a so called 'sports' show the 'gurus' are anything but.

KG doesn't even know anything about cricket. This a man who played state cricket yet could not answer a simple question about the laws of the game (explained once to a listener that if run out going for a 3rd run, the previous 2 runs to count).

I look forward to the annual question from a listener about how percentage works on the AFL and the 'gurus' stumbling around in their explanation.

 

[Punchy Bassett]

Just because you have the attention of a walnut, doesn’t mean everyone else does.

If you cannot appreciate the art of soccer and what the game represents, shut up about it.

Nail. Hammer. Head. If you don't like the game don't come into a thread that is about it and tell everyone how much you hate it. I think Tennis, Basketball, Golf and especially anything to do with the Olympics are boring as bat shit. But I respect other people like it and don't go around bad mouthing them all at every opportunity.

 

[Bosley]

90 seconds too many. No one cares about Adelaide United at the best of times, let alone when they’re off to Vietnam to play in some competition no one cares about.

I have a theory that Adelaide United actually have more supporters than Port Adelaide. I propose a random sample of 10,000 South Australians to prove this. Admittedly a lot of this is latent support (people who are interested in their progress, want them to win but don't attend games) but it could be converted into behinds on seats with the right incentives and continued good performances.

At my work today at least 4 people mentioned this morning they were happy that United had won and the majority of people follow AFL. The Showdown was hardly discussed on Monday because people get too sensitive about it (particularly as I work in the Port).

As for contact sports, I was referring to sports where you actually make physical contact with other players, not balls, nets or bats. Gee, even swimmers could claim they play a contact sport as their hands slap the water if you go by that definition.

And to the gurus - this morning on 5AA the hosts were speaking to KG and asked if the next match was at home. KG said yes it is and they then said "That's for the quarter finals" which KG didn't correct. Is the system that complicated?!

Pleased to see this topic has gained legs, disappointed it has devolved in some part to the usual Aussie Rules vs Soccer debate which was not the intention.

Liverpool vs Arsenal was described as a "classic" by one of the commentators. Gee, that was the same description Gerard Healy gave the Showdown