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maybe auskick isnt a viable product to adults as the tag and tackle versions of the game satisfy demand.Since when do adults play Auskick?
Oztag and Touch are different sports to League. And adults play them as well.
Auskick is more inline with mini and mod footy as its only for kids.
maybe auskick isnt a viable product to adults as the tag and tackle versions of the game satisfy demand.
Again mini and mod are just the amended rules for kids.
I thought kids played normal afl but could also play auskick on the side?
Is a sport different because it is run by a different governing body?? I thought it was based on the sport itself.
Ie if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck
then guess what....
it is a duck.
Besides passing backwards what does touch have to do with league?
The scrums, the numbers, the kicking?You mean like, rolling the ball between the legs, a dummy half, onside, offside, intercepts etc. etc.
Everything I've read about touch links back to the South Sydney RL Club. The game is the mirror image of RL without the tackling.
The scrums, the numbers, the kicking?
So are you going to include union in the numbers as well?And? You asked what Touch had in relation to RL besides passing backwards so I gave you some. Even as a young boy back in NZ we used touch as part of our training. Not having a scrum and handing the ball back was common when you dropped it. Surely with your RL background it shouldn't be too hard to accept where the game got its origins.
So are you going to include union in the numbers as well?
You know origins and all
I couldnt care less how its started.I couldn't give a **** about numbers. It's all a bullshit chest beating exercise. As I said earlier, everything I've read about the history of touch leads back to two men from the SSRL club. If you have anything which counters this then feel free to post it.
I couldnt care less how its started.
I was replying to someone else who said that touch is the same as Auskick.
This is blatently wrong.
If you want to beat your league chest some more qoute someone else.
I will be dancing the mumbo when the NRL dies (a guy can dream).
If i wanted bias league nrl bull id go to rleague world, or is the big one league unlimited now?If you don't want your questions answered then maybe don't ask them.
You mean like, rolling the ball between the legs, a dummy half, onside, offside, intercepts etc. etc.
Everything I've read about touch links back to the South Sydney RL Club. The game is the mirror image of RL without the tackling.
If i wanted bias league nrl bull id go to rleague world, or is the big one league unlimited now?
The historical link is true, but until last year thats literally all it was.
What bias? I merely answered your question in honest manner
Riiiiight.
You involved yourself in another convo and picked one post.
Interesting you didnt hammer pappa for his "chest beating" as well considering he was on the nrl side.
When I said I couldn't give a **** about the participation numbers it wasn't aimed just at you. I've posted before on the issue. For me participation numbers are easy manipulated by different sports. An example would be say my son doing Auskick, playing for his local club, and then playing for his school. He'd be counted 3 times as a participant. Same would happen in other sports which have varying levels of participation.
Alas that wasn't my point and we really could've ended this earlier with a simple fair point AM.
There's not much point continuing any further. If u can't see the similarities between touch and auskick. Goodluck to u.
Ummm adios.There's not much point continuing any further. If u can't see the similarities between touch and auskick. Goodluck to u.
The link between participation and watching is weakWookies main points are right.
The link between participation and viewing is overrated/non existant. There are more examples Ping Pong, BBall and NBL, pool / billiards , lawn bowls etc.
People watch tv because they enjoy the show, not because they play the sport... obviously there are a lot of people who both enjoy the sport and the show but they are separate things. Look at the soccer world cup, heaps of people watch it regardless of whether they play soccer or not, they enjoy the show and the nationalistic pride/failure they don't go watch a league because they don't enjoy that show.
As for rugby league merging with touch to increase participation numbers despite having very good viewership numbers. That was a business case copied from the AFL who created a non contact version to artificially increase player numbers and obtain government grants. League just copied the business practice.
Oddly enough I am pretty sure touch (again essentially rugby league) is considered union in England. Odd that, considering how difficult most union people find rugby league and rugby league concepts.
As for the Brisbane lions, I think once a second Brisbane / another se qld team is created in rugby league it will further nail in the coffin of union, but the lions will continue what they have always done and that is give another option / operate for a niche, obviously the other option is more enticing when they are winning. Anyways its qld viewers for the afl they provide that and I am sure that more then covers any loan costs otherwise the afl wouldn't do it.
The link between participation and watching is weak
There are school kids playing soccer in Melbourne who would sooner play Australian football but can't at that school.
There are school kids playing Australian football in Sydney who would sooner play Rugby League, again can't at that school.
The only numbers that matter in my opinion are registered players.
i was a broncos
the addition of qld talent through the academy is growing and this will only help, jonathan freeman, liam dawson, reuben william, ben keays, eric hipwood and almost certainly jacob allison and jack rolls next year plus recent qld recruits dayne beams and tom bell is fantastic for the future of the game. queenslanders are in general very parochial and will support there own v the southern interlopers you only have to look at the s.o.o. to confirm that.
the lions roar will return.