Football and AFL are often the two lead combatants in the code wars, but share a need for spatial awareness, endurance and skill execution — although again, they are drastically different sports. What Rohan and I have sought to do this series is make judgements on the basis of the best available facts, data and information.
Each sport was given a points ranking based on its performance in each area; the highest-ranked sport in each field would be given one point and the lowest given five, with the aim to finish with the lowest score. The best possible score was four, the worst was It came down to the two degree sports in our assessment of agility. Ultimately, it was the only piece of quantitative ish evidence we could rely on to split the five sports. What gave it to Aussie rules at the end of the day was the need for players to be agile in an environment of strength-based tackling as well as in open space.
Football requires far more of a focus on the open-play aspect in comparison. The unpredictability of deflections and the bounce of the odd-shaped ball also makes it more reactive and less predictable than the other sports. Cricket came in last. There was some conjecture in the beginning between AFL and cricket, given we are assessing endurance on the basis of an individual game as well as over the course of a season.
A full-time member of the Australian Test cricket team could be expected to be plying his trade for more than 50 days a year, on his feet for up to six hours a day, plus all of the work that goes into training and preparation. Mitchell Johnson notched up 23 kms on the first day of the Boxing Day Test. Written By Sporting News sportingnewsau. Latest News.
Tough Sea Eagles half granted release to join new club. League 29m ago. Watch a lot of league players cringe and fumble when they go for the "high ball" and you'll see what I mean. I have had more physical injuries in aerial contests than anything else. Unlike league and union though, all positions have to be equaly physical probably with the exception of wings and flankers that mostly get tackled from only one side.
You need to be alot quicker and smarter to be realy good at footy. Anyway who really cares, for me footy is as much about the contest as the skill, finesse and sheer spectacle. With these things, the game wins hands down!
ALwaysNorth said:. It sounds like you were a rugby back , in which case you don't count. Try packing as a tight five forward in 40 odd rugby scrums every game and then get out of bed let alone play the next day.
I have played all three codes as a forward and from a soreness point of view the rugby codes are way in front. I haven't read a single post in this thread but clearly RL is "more physical" than Australian Rules..
RL is arguably the most physical game in the world surpassing Gridiron for that title. Australian Rules requires supreme fitness, natural skill, courage, etc Jan 7, 30 0 Cairns Other Teams bros. They are different games clearly. AFL is a game that needs less muscle mass and more fitness, the comment about Nic Davis was a good example. RL is a massive collison sport as some have already noted.
I would agree that it is the physical in terms of punishing on the body of all sports that are professional. You do need to be fit as well, but can carry more muscle on average than AFL players.
RU a bit different again. I have played both in the forwards and found the with league you ached all over the next day, where as with union you tended to ache in certain areas depending on your position. In terms of physically demanding I think league is hardest because you do need a high level of fitness to play the game as well as being incredibly strong. But like I said each game is different, needs different attributes.
Just on AFL, I think one reason some league fans don't like it is that lack of physicalness. Hitting from behind isn't tough in league, smashing a guy who knows its coming is much harder. Actually saw the new gold coast coaching staff at collingwood training talking to them about defence.
They were touring the pies training facilities which are meant to be just about the best in the country if not world. Show hidden low quality content. You must log in or register to reply here. Similar threads. Replies 0 Views 9. The canned background noise: "Nyah, nyah, nyah.
My game's better than yours! Upon the return of the NRL, however, there was one relevant point of comparison that suggested the northern game might indeed be showing the way. During its much-anticipated third round the NRL quickly got tired — but in a good way. This was the result of "V'landysball" , the ballistic new rugby league where ruck infringements are waived away with "six again" by the single referee and the inevitable fatigue created by repeat sets leaves defences gasping for air.
There was no time for tacklers to apply wrestling holds or for a third defender to jump in off the turnbuckle and create the kind of ugly scrimmage that takes seconds to untangle and gives hulking props a brief reprieve. Instead, as they sucked in the oxygen, defences had to weigh the risks of wasting vital energy by rushing into a tackle against the possibility of leaving a gaping hole as the ball flew from the ruck.
Risk and reward for both players and spectators. For years a philosophical war has been waged over the merits of increasing fatigue to reduce the two aspects of the game that are seen by older viewers, particularly, as eyesores. The ability of now fitter and stronger players, refreshed by stints on the bench, to flood areas of the field has created rolling mauls where repeated stoppages are used to thwart opposition momentum and implement set plays.
At the same time, re-energised players run back into zoned defences and use an area vacated by now wandering forwards to control the ball with chip kicks until space opens before them or the ball is switched across the ground. The result is a game that can — but certainly does not always — alternate between claustrophobic intensity, where basic skills are hard to execute, and uncontested possession, which is anathema to those brought up on the fierce one-on-one contests of the original game.
Having watched replays of old matches used to fill airtime during the AFL lockdown, The Age's respected chief football writer Jake Niall observed: "Players were slower, but the ball moved faster.
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