Does your interest in the AFL wane when the WC is on?

[Scroater]

Oraaaaazzzzzzzzioo, I wanted to smash the TV.

So you enjoyed the titbit about Kyle Langford and his dad?

 

[jameses]

Just lol at people pretending the world game is no good. How typically insular. AFL is brilliant but there’s a big world out there.

Lol it’s subjective. You don’t have to like soccer, just because it’s one of the most popular sports in the world.

What an odd comment.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

I want to be Mile 'The Iceman' Jedinak - pictured with his wife .....just sayin'

By the way 'Up yours Schmeichel' !! - you think you can intimidate an Aussie with some lame sledging ?? We invented it !!

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Certainly they both look better without their beards.

 

[Coops93]

It’s funny, I’ve much preferred to watch this World Cup over Aussie Rules and I’m actually watching full games.
Yet I still like Aussie Rules more and will mock soccer if/when I need to.
Divers!

There's something about the world cup. It's a global event, like the Olympics in that most people never, ever watch or care the slightest about athletics yet will watch loads of the events at the Olympics. Football world cup has the same impact. As much as I do prefer AFL to soccer I'm watching world cup matches instead of AFL matches without hesitation at the moment.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

But if you have a short attention span then you’re definitely starting off behind the eight ball when watching soccer.

I don’t have a short attention span and I find it mesmerising in the same way I find a screen saver mesmerising, but that’s about it.

Some don’t like it purely for the staging and diving, which is more commonly seen in leagues and tournaments outside of the EPL like the WC given the wider cross section of players and cultures. I understand that, even if it’s now an obvious double standard given the increasing prevalence of it in the AFL.

But as others, including myself have pointed out, in soccer this sort of behaviour is accepted. In Aussie Rules it’s mocked and called out. And in soccer the scoring is so low that diving can win matches, which is disgusting.

 

[Purplrrr]

Eh. I think I get a lot of enjoyment out of really committing to a sport, to really caring, but that takes up a lot of time and energy. I've got footy, I can't be bothered with soccer. It's too much time to invest in figuring out the details, when to my uneducated soccer mind, not a lot happens. And I'm not a dimwit, before that gets thrown out there. I just haven't got time. Others have, and that's great. Guess I'm probably more of a footy fan than a sports fan, and that's fine.
I do imagine actually being at the World Cup would be something else! Would be an amazing atmosphere.

 

[Ron The Bear]

Flicked over after the footy and saw a scoreless half, albeit an entertaining one by soccer standards.

Australia's only alive through a couple of opposition handballs. We lack the imagination and flair of traditional soccer nations.

 

[NoobPie]

Flicked over after the footy and saw a scoreless half, albeit an entertaining one by soccer standards.

Australia's only alive through a couple of opposition handballs. We lack the imagination and flair of traditional soccer nations.

...lack the creative midfielders and opportunistic and efficient forwards of an age that can play 90 minutes

 

[AndyLucimitis]

Flicked over after the footy and saw a scoreless half

Funny saw the same thing at the Carlton/Freo game on Saturday. Where was the VAR when we needed it !!

 

[thestew]

Lol no. Only watched about 20 min of WC so far and I've already seen 6 players go down appearing to have been shot during regulation pieces of play and no goals. Hang on some Morocco player just got hit, hope he survives. Thats makes it 7.

It was funny though during the Hawks game there was a cheer in the crowd when Australia scored.

I was right in front of the AFL Members Reserve Bar in the Southern Stand when we equalised and the cheer went around. I was pretty tempted to leave and go watch the rest of it given how the 3rd quarter was transpiring.

 

[hawkman]

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.

The knockout games are on at midnight and 4am so there will be no crossover

 

[Sunset]

Mate, we're talking about people that view football as "product".

It's not as if they are actually representative of human beings, they're cold clinical marketeers.

Well said. To them it's just like My Kitchen Rules in terms of ads and viewership numbers. Quality control is non existent and lacks any soul.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

It's similar to test cricket in that sense. You need to be patient and pay attention to the intricacies to enjoy it, not everyone wants to watch a sport of intricacies and have long waits for payoffs to occur. As you say, these things are not conducive to the enjoyment of your average dimwit.

Test cricket is a whole different order of magnitude. No-one realistically expects wall-to-wall thrills and spills for five days straight.

But an encounter of a mere hour and a half? I think one can reasonably expect a bit more something. That game last night, to me, was 90 minutes of almost.

 

[madmug]

Test cricket is a whole different order of magnitude. No-one realistically expects wall-to-wall thrills and spills for five days straight.

But an encounter of a mere hour and a half? I think one can reasonably expect a bit more something. That game last night, to me, was 90 minutes of almost.

Well thats the nature of soccah in a nutshell. Almost this & almost that. Rare bits of amazing sport, bits of most games a great, chunks are so so, large sections are downright boring. A bit like how AFL games have been in the last year or so.

The real difference with soccah is the crowd. They adapt to make themselves interesting even when the game is shyte. They sing, dance, dress up, clean up stadiums, or fight & smash stadiums up. Interesting to watch even if the game isn't.

 

[Ron The Bear]

It's similar to test cricket in that sense. You need to be patient and pay attention to the intricacies to enjoy it, not everyone wants to watch a sport of intricacies and have long waits for payoffs to occur. As you say, these things are not conducive to the enjoyment of your average dimwit.

Reckon it's more like chess, the way the ball is worked forward incrementally in an attempt to set up a whammo! moment. Australia's style is kinda like the Scholar's Mate.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Well thats the nature of soccah in a nutshell. Almost this & almost that. Rare bits of amazing sport, bits of most games a great, chunks are so so, large sections are downright boring. A bit like how AFL games have been in the last year or so.

The real difference with soccah is the crowd. They adapt to make themselves interesting even when the game is shyte. They sing, dance, dress up, clean up stadiums, or fight & smash stadiums up. Interesting to watch even if the game isn't.

Things are pretty arse-up for a sport when things get so dull out on the field that the crowd is the main attraction.

 

[Bazzar]

Things are pretty arse-up for a sport when things get so dull out on the field that the crowd is the main attraction.

Setting off flares, punchups, silly songs and chants, they need something to liven up such a deadly dull sport.

 

[SdKfz 181]

Why would my interest in the AFL be affected by a boring competition like the soccer world cup ??? It is BARELY a sport ..........




My interest due to Carlton playing like crap .......

Carlton, is barely an AFL team ..........

 

[Eagle Wrath]

Watching the world cup really puts Rances diving in perspective.

 

[onebillsdrive]

Hang on i thought this thread was about West Coast

 

[NoobPie]

Neymar....I think the upside is the VAR will get rid of that crap if they persist with it

 

[Ekomaira]

Hang on i thought this thread was about West Coast

since when does a thread title have anything to do with the thread's content

 

[craigos]

Setting off flares, punchups, silly songs and chants, they need something to liven up such a deadly dull sport.

Exactly, why would you worry about this when you can just punch on in a bar without the need to raid the supplies from the boat.

 

[im_a_lazy_sod]

I honestly thought the OP meant would your interest wane if a west coast game was on

But to answer the OP - yep, absolutely it does. Not that there’s much crossovers with game times which helps

 

[coryne]

Carlton, is barely an AFL team ..........

And Richmond supporters are barely human .....