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Nice retort, I am so wrong but you cannot even explain why. Nice logic.
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Does your interest in the AFL wane when the WC is on?
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If you like the WC you'll enjoy following a the European Leagues. WC is great but following a good title race through a season while having the Champions League going as well is fun. The AFL is lucky soccer is on after hours imo.
What's amazing is how few such players there have been given there are 800 players on AFL lists in a game with the broadest skill and athletic basis and from a 80% of its player pool from a population of 12 million
There are about 3 times the rostered players (~2500) in the top 5 soccer leagues drawing from a pool provide where the sport is the most popular sport in about 2 billionish people
Absolutely innumerate conclusion from the evidence
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Nah, WC is all that interests me.
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What are these so called "genetic difficulties" you speak of?
Switched to the socceroos over WCE-Ess blow out, you'd be mad not to unless you're a fan of those clubs.
Would probably switch from any blow out game to any WC soccer game but particularly if I like the match up.
I can watch a lot of sport in a day but certainly watching more late night games of soccer here and there probably decreases my appetite for games of footy. The good timing with the byes has meant less AFL games to watch anyway.
I'll see how the finals cross over with AFL games. I've only watched bits of group games so far, the finals I'll be keen to watch whole games.
Would probably switch from any blow out game to any WC soccer game but particularly if I like the match up.
I can watch a lot of sport in a day but certainly watching more late night games of soccer here and there probably decreases my appetite for games of footy. The good timing with the byes has meant less AFL games to watch anyway.
I'll see how the finals cross over with AFL games. I've only watched bits of group games so far, the finals I'll be keen to watch whole games.
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Well considering the total pool of Australians who have never played soccer before is quite a bit less than 24 million, yet the total pool of non-Australians who have never played Aussie Rules before is about 6 billion, that's hardly surprising.
I would think the more telling question is, given the enormous pool of sports talent worldwide, and given the insane competition for top-level places, why have so few of these hugely talented overseas athletes that come here to play Aussie Rules never made it to the very top in AFL? Yes, we've had a few dozen who have come into the game with no previous experience of it, and eventually played senior level, but really, only Jim Stynes, Tadhg Kenneally and Mike Pyke have made it to the very top.
I suspect that because Australia is such a small pond, if you have excellent sporting skills by world standards it's not impossible to go a fair way in Aussie Rules, but I think the true elite freaks of the AFL, the Buddys, Abletts Snr and Jnr, Wayne Careys etc, have abilities that barely exist anywhere.
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Totally different that comes down to talent pool. Basketball and American football are similar where athleticism and size are so important you can pick up the game without a background in it
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The post you responded to was wrong but so is yours.
AFL can carry different players because there is 18 people on the field and the ones who move across are athletic freaks. There isn't 5ft6 former American baseballers playing AFL.
NFL is probably the most insanely tactical sport on earth and Jarryd Hayne walked into an NFL side.
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So? Why are you telling me?
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I expected this thread to be 10 pages of dumb blokes agreeing with each other that soccer is boring. I wasn’t disappointed.
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Was a great (but disappointing) game last night. Feel for Socceroos and coach who have hardly put a foot wrong
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Just because someone finds soccer boring doesn’t mean they’re dumb. A lot of people find it fascinating. A lot of people find it painfully devoid of interest. I doubt you can prove an intellectual correlation with either.
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GOOD quality soccer is great. But bad quality anything isn’t.
Was very watchable last night. Disappointing but great match
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No. Barely noticing the WC.
My interest in AFL often increases when I'm on the WC though.
My interest in AFL often increases when I'm on the WC though.
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See I beg to differ. If that was a “good” soccer game, well, in my frame of reference (which of course is as subjective as anyone else’s), it’s not a very interesting spectacle, bordering on plain silly.
You saw a “great match”. I saw 90 minutes of 22 blokes chasing a ball round a rectangle not being allowed to use their hands.
One man’s meat...
The AFL is constantly changing yet people get spooked by an average year and think this is forever.
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You don’t enjoy the amazing passes? To me this aligns with AFL a bit i.e excellent field kicks etc.
Anyway - like you say we all like different things
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Because the thread topic is about current interest in football
Love it when people play the insular card about the McDonalds of sport.
I will and have watched the Socceroos but that's where my interest starts and ends
I've made an effort in previous world cups, watched plenty of games, tried to get into it, only for too much being decided by dives and penalty shoot-outs. I'm not bothering this year. Haven't even watched the highlights. Not going to criticise the game, but it's not for me.
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