Karmichael Hunt. a meathead trying to become a sophisticate

I would love to punch you in the spleen. and by punch I don't mean that nancy boy shirt grabbing name calling **** you skirts do in that poor excuse for a sport.

This is good news for us Blues supporters.:happy Good ridince!

 

I think he has a chance to make it.

Theres how many Irish players that have tranformed into AFL players.

Plus i think most are forgetting as a youngster he was scouted by the AFL as he played both codes.
He will get payed more so i can blame him and i think he felt there wasnt much chance of him getting back in the Aussie squad and really he didnt have much more to prove as a League player.

I know a lot fellas in here are just League fans but i can see him doing ok.
There was a bloke from my town that had played junior Volleyball for Australia. They put him in a Aussie Rules jumper for two years as a junior and he was drafted by StKilda.

The game has changed in AFL. Today you need talent, speed and Stamina.

Thats about it. Dean Brogan that plays for Port Adelaide won a NBL title with the 36ers and then they put as a Ruckman and look at him today. Making a heap more cash.

I'd like to know his contract with Brisbane if he accepted 1 mill over 3 years.

It means he was probably getting 100 to 150k less a year playing his preferred game.

I love both codes but fellas league is a danger unless they do something and fast.

 

I disagree. It's said all the time, but all statistics point to this not being the case. It's just a constant media bash-a-thon with league.

League has continued to get stronger over the last few years and will hold QLD and NSW for many years to come.

 

I heard he recently turned down a $300,000 per year deal with the Bronco's.

It's going to be a tough transition as both sports have very little in common with another. If he can't kick the ball on the run, and during play, then he's ****ed. Aside from that, he'll have to learn to do a crank up his stamina, as he'll be doing a lot more running, and a lot of it will be in sudden spurts.

1 million a year for 3 years?! Wow. Thats just crazy.

Still, I hope he goes well, but I have my douts that he'll make it. I heard earlier on that he's only played the game at schoolboy level. Are you sure he was being scouted by the AFL earlier on Boppa?

I've also heard that he's become disillusioned with league, and apart from doing video sessions at training, he'll never even watch it.

A ballsy challenge, and I hope it goes well for him.

 

I hope Hunt breaks his leg the first games.

 

It's a tough one. No doubt the large exodus of players over the years is a concern, but if the salary cap increases teams just wont be able to stay afloat.
Players have found out that theres more options out there (UK league, European Rugby, Japanese rugby, and in this case, AFL).

In some cases, players leave the NRL to simply take up another challenge, but in most cases, it's for the money. To put it simply, there needs to be more money going around in league in order for clubs to be able to handle a salary cap increase.

Still, all thats probably exempt in this case as Karmichael was apparently losing interest in league.

 

Just to fill you in, the NRL is not a code, it's a competition. Rugby League is the name of the sport, and although the AFL is more supported than the NRL, theres probably more people in the world who care more about league than Aussie Rules.

Although the league World Cup was a bit of a joke, the game is still played internationally, and gets well supported over in England.

 

The NRL and Super League crowd averages combined, are still around 12,000 short of an average AFL crowd, so that could be debated.

 

The NRL crowds are poor, but the tv ratings are more comparable to AFL's.
Theres a lot of 'stay at home fans' in the NRL, or perhaps it's just a NSW thing seeing as how Sydney FC fail to draw in big crowds, even when they won the league they still struggled to bring in crowds.

I just think that worldwide theres more people either playing league or supporting it than there is with Aussie Rules.

I'm not trying to have a bash at AFL. I understand it's a comp thats supported a lot, and had I have been born in Melbourne with my parents drumming it into me when I was little, I'd probably be supporting it very passionately.
I also played it during PE in high school and it was a very fun game to play.

I'm not the kind of person who can just pick a team and support them very passionately, I need some kind of link to them or something.
I'm a massive football (soccer) fan yet can't really get up for Sydney FC in the A-League as much as I'd like to. It just kinda feels weird.

 

Pecks...Soccer, Union, Aussie Rules & League are all called football, go figure.
Using the term code is a figure of speach widley used when mentioning any of football brands in sentence, paragraph or entire article....its not an insult.....dont take as one.

I went to see the Storm beat the Rabitohs at Challenge Stadium here in Perth a month back....how is it WA can pull a crowd of 20,000 and where it is revered an average turn out is approximatley 17,000 per game year round? That is 20,000 less than the AFL average (38,000 as in [url]www.convictcreations.com/football/battlestats.html[/url]) per game year round!
What is it with QLD's & NSW's supporters not getting out to support thier teams...??

 

I don't know, it never stopped James Manson.

(One for the Melbourne people.)

 

The NRL has a real battle on its hands.They are losing players at a rate of knots.They better do something about it real quick , otherwise this problem is going to spiral out of control, and in the end there will be no NRL. Also the quality of the game is being eroded due to the mass exodus of talented players.

 

Come on Thurston, take that cake. I dare you

 

atsch

Given the total AFL team salary cap is around 9mil, I think you pulled that figure out of your arse or the rest of the team is getting paid in favours...

(18 players on field, 4 interchangers, reserves etc...)