Let the niave think what they want. They've obviously never played ANY of the aforementioned games.

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You fucking clueless twat...

And the fact that some ARL players are now walking striaght into AFL proves you're right.

The NRL is really a bunch of no-neck neanderthals running into each other and grunting and having scrums to celebrate. I think you could train monkeys to play it. Awful sport, takes zero skill. Don't think many of their players could transition to football.

AFL on the other hand takes supreme fitness, good foot skills, good positioning and forethought (similar to off-the-ball movements in football), and I think a lot of those players would be able to transition easily to football. Being Melbourne-centric, a lot of the boys that play AFL are football-mad as well, and I've seen quite a few kick-arounds in training sessions where they prove how good they are.

I reckon your bigger, stronger forward types with good kicks (ie. your Pavliche) would make excellent footabllers.

LOLOLOLOLOL not much training? Go home you tard.

What about someone like Steve Hooker gold medalist pole vaulter.

6 months training: AFL, League, Union, Football.

At which game is he most likely to do well at?

And you wonder why the AFL tries to disrail the World Cup bid.
The FFA don't seem to need the AFL to ruin the bids though.
They do a good enough job themselves. lol

I'd love to watch you try out after 6 months training in any sport.
F*cking Hilarious I reckon.
Good Luck #-o

It doesnt take much technical training to become an nrl aru afl player, maybe 6 months? To become a ( soccer football) player you need years and years of technical development.

i know this is a hypothetical, but anyone who touches an eggball, dsnt deserve to play for the socceroos.

I'd say a great bulk of them.
They are athletes with a dedication to sport.
Being good about a particular sport is very much about the amount of effort someone puts into training, especially from a young age.
I'd say if the football players here in Australia, were born in England, they may already be playing soccer in the EPL. They don't have much of a choice to play other competitive team sports (there are exceptions. i.e. rugby). In Ireland they play football (Gaelic) too and a lot of their youngsters are more attracted to this than soccer.
Here in Australia, the football players had the choice to play soccer, but prefered football as a game I suppose.
Pretty sure that they would be good at both.
You don't have to be a genius to play soccer (or any of the sports for that matter), just dedication, effort, training and hard work.

yes it was and the week before that and the other week before that

anyway my vote goes to andrew demetriou

o:)

didnt we have this thread last week?

There is an interesting discussion going on over at the socceroos subreddit about which Australian sportsmen could make the socceroos if they played soccer as a kid.

http://www.reddit.com/r/socceroos/comments/cdr43/which_afl_union_or_league_players_would_have_made/

My thoughts are that these sports have some quality athletes but unlike the switch from league to union or Rugby to AFL there is no way you could switch from one of these sports to become a professional soccer player.

That being said it would be interesting to consider what the makeup of the socceroos side would be if some of these blokes played roundball rather than eggball.