Ibrahimovic is 6ft 5. You might be surprised at how tall the players are these days. Shortarse Ronaldo is 6ft 1Take a look at the best players in the game and tell me why there are very few players over 6ft 3 performing in them.
Ibrahimovic is 6ft 5. You might be surprised at how tall the players are these days. Shortarse Ronaldo is 6ft 1Take a look at the best players in the game and tell me why there are very few players over 6ft 3 performing in them.
Is Buddy Franklin a superior athlete to Matthew Leckie? Jesus H Christ.
Ibrahimovic is 6ft 5. You might be surprised at how tall the players are these days. Shortarse Ronaldo is 6ft 1
yeah forgot about that. Good that it could be either the Welsh or the Scots in though!Not yet. Wales have got through Leg1, their 2nd leg is a playoff against either Scotland or Ukraine who's 1st leg was delayed until June for obvious reasons.
Pendlebury? Nah he couldnt play any other sport than Aussie Rules........ Pendles would have the best chance of the 3 to make it.
The biggest myth that AFL fans believe - and it actually makes me laugh - is the misguided view that AFL is the most skilful sport in the world.
I have no doubt that when the World Cup is on, very few people will care about how Qatar got the hosting rights. It's the biggest sporting event in the World and will still be watched and enjoyed by billions.Qatar’s nothing cup.
When the extent of the bid corruption was uncovered. Sacking people wasn’t enough. Qatar should have been stripped and the cup awarded to the second placed bid, which was in actual fact by far the most solid bid. And that was the US bid.
Blind Freddy could see how bizarre a bid it was. I mean Qatar FFS? A sandy desert peninsula that really only has one city. So you have one host city and a few Bedouin nomadic host villages, with stadiums built over the bones of the Bangladeshi and Pakastani indentured labour, in the middle of the desert. Perhaps it could have been jointly hosted by Qatar and the UAE to at least make it look a bit genuine, with actual host cities. From a logistical point of view you would be tempted to say Saudi Arabia as a joint host, given they have a genuine history in the game, But clearly you couldn't do it, due to political reasoning. That said, FIFA seem pretty malleable, depending on who's paying the most under the table.I have no doubt that when the World Cup is on, very few people will care about how Qatar got the hosting rights. It's the biggest sporting event in the World and will still be watched and enjoyed by billions.
Leckie/Butler is a good analogy.Yes, the Netherlands don't play footy.
Buddy is burly because he's done weights for 18 years. Have a look at the skinny kid who came into the league in 2005. He's shorter than Peter Crouch, and roughly 17 times the athlete. But no, he couldn't have made it as a soccer player. Soccer's a magical mystery game and only soccer players can play soccer. But only if they're soccer players. If they didn't choose soccer they had no chance of being good at it if they had.
Matthew Leckie.
Will have plenty of time to walk his dog.'I've given my best': Graham Arnold faces down critics as Socceroos prepare for final World Cup qualifier
The only silver lining to that statement is that it looks like Arnold is on the way out.
Blind Freddy could see how bizarre a bid it was. I mean Qatar FFS? A sandy desert peninsula that really only has one city. So you have one host city and a few Bedouin nomadic host villages, with stadiums built over the bones of the Bangladeshi and Pakastani indentured labour, in the middle of the desert. Perhaps it could have been jointly hosted by Qatar and the UAE to at least make it look a bit genuine, with actual host cities. From a logistical point of view you would be tempted to say Saudi Arabia as a joint host, given they have a genuine history in the game, But clearly you couldn't do it, due to political reasoning. That said, FIFA seem pretty malleable, depending on who's paying the most under the table.
May as well have the Pilbara put in a bid in it's own right next. The atmosphere and conditions wouldn't be much different.
Regarding the US. They have so many existing stadiums to choose from - both professional and college stadiums. They would theoretically be ready to host if Qatar was stripped now and the US only had months to prepare. It really was by far the best bid.
I'm actually of the belief that Oceania should have been disbanded and absorbed into Asia. It becomes an Asia-Pacific Confederation.If it wasn't for FIFA's inner workings we would never have moved from Oceania to the Asian Confederation. That move was a massive boost for soccer in Australia.
I'm actually of the belief that Oceania should have been disbanded and absorbed into Asia. It becomes an Asia-Pacific Confederation.
agree. completely different skill set.Ah, that old chestnut. Do you really want to get into this?
Ron Barassi famously said in 1964 that VFL players can beat Sokkah at their own sport. Jack Dyer organised a match and lost 8-0 in a friendly against a local amateur side.
Nick Davis recently tweeted something similar. He claimed it would be easier for an AFL player to convert to the A-League and harder for an A-League player to convert to AFL.
Some of these naïve comments make me laugh sometimes.
My question to you is this: how many basketball players and sportsman that were poached from other sports (such as Gaelic football, rugby and so on) manage to make the grade in AFL? How many pure athletes with minimal footy skills are drafted? The answer is… a lot. In fact, many of these "imports" are actually better kicks of the footy than somewone who grew up playing the game.
Now let me ask you... how many sportsman convert to Sokkah at age 15-16, then becomes a star of the game? The answer is zero. The moral of the story is that it takes significantly more practice to be a professional Sokkah player compared to being a professional AFL player. Remember Usain Bolt at Central Coast Mariners?
Yet you think Buddy, Dusty and Pendles can make the grade in Sokkah? It takes a different type of athlete to play the game. you need to be quick, nimble and have a low centre of gravity. Perhaps a crumbing forward would fit that mould. Some indigenous players might. Dusty would be too big and wouldn't last 90 minutes unless he slimmed down. Buddy can’t even kick on his right foot. Pendles would have the best chance of the 3 to make it.
The biggest myth that AFL fans believe - and it actually makes me laugh - is the misguided view that AFL is the most skilful sport in the world.
To use your signature. Oceania = "Dud, delist."I'm not. It took a lot of lobbying, selling of votes, and Blatter's support to get Australia a fair run into the World Cup. Lowey used his personal relationship with Blatter to get us into the AFC. So while the FIFA way of doing *smile* was abhorrent, I'll always bite my tongue a little because we used it to our advantage and it made a massive difference to the sport in Australia.
Yep, which is universally what the footballing world thought of Australia.To use your signature. Oceania = "Dud, delist."