AFL: The worst sport ever - AFLXtreme edition

I don’t think anybody was. You also can’t say it doesn’t take any skill to play it at a professional level.

I don’t think anybody was.

No one is saying they have no skill, it’s just misplaced. They’ve got a bunch of guys who can run real far, real fast, instead of guys who can catch a football or kick straight.

Haaland could play in the AFL next season if he wanted to.

True but the arguments being put up are the same ones that are readily complained about and dismissed on here, and by football fans in general, when it comes to the A League and football.
When someone makes an ill-informed comment based on the difference in quality between the EPL and the A League they’re dismissed as a Eurosnob.
When someone says soccer is boring because they just kick it to each other and there’s hardly any goals scored we get defensive and try and explain the nuances starting at “it’s football, not soccer”.

Yes, they get a point for “missing” but in basketball a matter of inches is the difference between 2 points and 3 points.
In American Football a touchdown is worth 6 points but when you run the same play immediately after a touchdown and achieve the same result it is only worth 2 points. A field goal is worth 3 points but a PAT is only worth 1 yet they go through the same goal.

It’s not about forcing people to like something, it’s about the people not liking something justifying their position using a misinformed argument.

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None of those things are the same as getting a benefit for not achieving the desired outcome.

And from observation it’s hard to see whether behinds are contributing to a lack of focus on kicking accuracy or whether they were introduced because of the quality of kicking wasn’t up to snuff.

The main thing I don’t understand is why a team with more behinds can beat a team with more goals. Would make more sense to me if behinds were only counted as a tie-breaker for when both sides have the same number of goals.

My biggest gripes with the AFL are the fuckwits running the game and the fact that it’s a gigantic talent suck for top level athletes who could be playing football.

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You can get a goal in our sport and win the game without even attacking the goal. A defender plays the ball back to the GK, it rolls under his foot and goes in the goal. It’s worth the same as someone scoring a 35m worldie.
The AFL goal is ~20m wide. You get different points for where and how it goes through that 20m. How is that different to the variety of scoring methods in Basketball and American football where you get a different reward for achieving the same outcome depending on circumstance?

Really not willing to die on this hill though :wink:

Attacking the goal isn’t an outcome, it’s a method. The outcome is the ball in the net.

Zlatan could play in the AFL.

You still get points in darts if you don’t hit the bullseye.

Look - some people enjoy watching the AFL, myself included. Some don’t.

It’s the same for every sport. If you don’t enjoy it, I doubt there’s anything that will convince you otherwise.

I learnt a long time to just enjoy what you enjoy, regardless of what it is, and forget what others think.

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No accounting for bad taste.

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Alright you said not being able to take a mark is similar to a boxer not being able to throw a jab.

Alverez, a generational talent, landed 3 out of every 10 of his jabs vs Charlo.

The jab, which most pro boxers would drill hundreds/thousands of times a day, may only land 30% of the time. By that logic it would seem he can’t do the fundamentals but we know that isn’t true at all.

Effective disposals for the AFL GF was in the mid 70% for both teams. For every 10 handballs or kicks, 7 hit their target and we’re caught.

It’s apples and oranges and means sweet FA. Perhaps the intensity with which the game is played is the trade off for effective disposals, at any rate they’re still hitting their mark 7/10 times.

Darts is not a sport, it’s a game.

It fails one of the two criteria for sports

1 - You need to put your ciggy out to participate at a high level
2 - You don’t get points for how you look.

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Come on, an opponent’s head is a target trying to avoid connecting, disposal targets are the opposite.

AFL sucks arse, it requires such a generic skill set and has such a piss poor talent pool that they could literally recruit some tall and moderately athletic gimp from the other side of the world that hasn’t even heard of the sport, and have them playing at the highest level within a year.
The GF was entertaining enough though, with the scores being close or whatever.

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Im surprised they didn’t try to convert Usain Bolt.

Zlatan created the AFL. Zlatan came up with the idea as a form of a competitive game for those who count on their fingers and think Clag Glue is an acceptable replacement for butter on sandwiches.

Then he retired to his avocado farm