Which football code is your favourite?

[Boss 290]

its tight between soccer and league but i chose league due to i watch more games but for me nothing beats the world cup of soccer. i dont mind afl but it looks like any drunk can play with the amount of fumbles and grabbing that goes on. im not a huge fan of union. the players are huge but it seems like there is alot of stopping and i cant stand it when they kick it out all the time....grid iron does not regester with me. you have to be blindly drunk to even endure such a boring game that last for like 3 or 4 hours. and they play with so much padding, its great when they pull off huge tackles though. hockeys alright but its not really in the same catorgoay as the others being all footballs

[JACK250]

It scares me to think that a game like rugby (which I have nothing against) could get so close to such an awesome game like aussie rules.

[RIPGMH]

AFL if you can't handle rugby
Rugby if you can't handle League
League if you can't handle war
Soccer if your sister takes it up the butt and you have kebabs for breakfast

[FlaminFiesta]

i would give my lefft arm to have the skill and toughness that some of the centres and backs have in league...

each sport has its goods and bads, i just love league

[robjh80]

I grew up in West London where Football is simply religion.

Every part of my life growing up was to do with Football, we used to play Football at every opportunity, before school, every break during the day and after school until we would lose the light.
Every newspaper would be full of the latest goings on in the Football Leagues.

True story.........I did not know that the sport of Rugby League even existed when I was growing up, I knew of Rugby to a small extent and obviously I had never ever heard of Aussie Rules.

[Ralliart]

dam it i like 2 sports i can't vote now :

[benoxr]

Aussie rules and English football.
I just dont understand the Rugby's and find them boring.
First sport I ever played was soccer.

Port Power and Man United

[bArNsY]

Union, Aussie rule, and NFL
I loave soccer

[Zedjay]

Originally Posted by EF, What else?

Run at me full speed and cop my shoulder, Id love to see your reaction

you mean like this

http://www.break.com/movies/rugbyhits.html

out:

i coach JRL so my vote is for NRL followed by NRU and i watch AFL when theres no leauge or union to watch.

but i would watch telletubies before id watch soccer
(dont call it footy in australia please)

[aualright]

Originally Posted by Walkinshaw

I like all codes apart from League. The game is a joke, the competetion is a joke, generaly I think you could say, well League is a joke. Gee we're not good enough to play world stage Union, better play a 1/2 arsed game of "somethingball." Get a real sport.

If you have EVER played the game, you would be embarrassed by your post. Many of these posts are laughable in how they bag another code, without really knowing much about it or having experienced playing it.

I can't sit though a game of aussie rules but it doesn't mean it has no skill.

And if you feel a game's international popularity means anything to Australians, your cultural cringe is cringeworthy??

At the end of the day, consistent TV ratings are the key and AFL and Rugby League rule the roost. In fact, 93 of the top 100 shows this year on Fox were Rugby League games. And some of you have mentioned that Rugby League is not growing....laughable.

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[EF, What else?]

Originally Posted by RIPGMH

AFL if you can't handle rugby
Rugby if you can't handle League
League if you can't handle war
Soccer if your sister takes it up the butt and you have kebabs for breakfast

OMG, that is brilliant. Hope you don't mind if I use it.
Havn't been on the site for a while, and I come back to find this thread still going hard and strong! Long live League! Quote of Phil Gould: "Netball is a contact sport, League is a collision sport!" : Seriously though, Australia is the only country in the world as far as I know where their are 4 professional forms of football, something we should be celebrating, not killing each other over. And I better say hi to all the Soccer and AFL supporters I antagonised last year! :king:

[Ralliart]

afl i follow it sometimes but more of a soccer fan, Go Chelsea if u spot my car i will have hugh chelsea crest in my back window

[coupdy do]

They are all ok except soccar can't stand it at any level the rules are too weak on the acting....if brad pitt took up soccar up he would be one of the best cause he's a great actor

[coupdy do]

Originally Posted by CongoAU2

Real Football for me. People seem to quickly forget that That there are more people registered in Australia playing soccer than any other football code. At least it is played everywhere else in the world AFL will never be played around the world like soccer and will slowly die off around AUS if the soccer continues to grow the way it has.

Must say it has been a long time coming. A lot of the credit has to go to Lowy And O'neil for the raqpid transformation of the game and not just Hiddink i think.

Tell him he's dreaming, AFL will never die :the_finge

[dannyxm]

I like all codes now actually. NRL, Union, AFL, Soccer
Im from Sydney and used to bag out AFL when i was younger.
Then went to see a few Swans games and i was hooked.
AFL is 100 times better to watch live than on tv.
I always liked soccer [now Football post world cup lol]
Its cool we live in Australia where we have a choice on what code of footy to watch.
Or just yell at the TV like me and watch them all!

[farah9]

League, Union, Afl and then diving oops! I mean soccer.

[Mrs B]

Rules Rules :

[partzkid]

AFL and NRL. i'm in melbourne so i get really good games of both codes, can't remember what the other two choices were.... oh thats right, i don't really care

[uranium_death]

AFL.

The only truly Australian game.

[Focussed]

AFL
Union
Soccer
League

[Quasi]

Far too many senoritas on this forum....LOL!

[coupdy do]

Crowd Number Crowd
Total Average Total Average
AFL 176 games 6,204,056 total crowd in season 35,250 Average per game 9 final games 532,178 total final crowd 59,131 average final game
NRL 180 games 2,808,235 total crowd in season 15,601 Average per game 9 final games 307,466 total final crowd 34,163 average final game
Super 14 26 games 624,443 total crowd in season 24,017 Average per game
A-League 48 (of 84)games 597,861 total crowd in season 12,455 0 (of 6) Average per game

Super 14 crowds include matches played in Australia only

Here are the spectator numbers if Soccar is the most played then its the has the poorest supporters cause AFL kicks its ....

The fact is alot of people have played AFL but its a harder game (as is union and league) to keep playing into old age (30's)

[MethodX]

The A leauge is only in its second year, its going ok.

plus the commercial stations have a vested interest in AFL and NRL, so they dont cover soccer as much as they should, and if they do its only the Pommy leauge - frustrating.

[335JET]

rugby league here, but am watching a lot more AFL lately.
by the way; GO THE DRAGONS

[willow 1]

Yeah mate,I'm with you,"DRAGONS" all the way...True blue ST.George fan!!!!

[Ryan]

If I was going to take up being a dedicated Football supporter, it wouldn't be any of those.

American Football!!!!!!!!!!!

Talk about hard hitting, and they still get bad injuries even with all of that padding, and protective gear.

I just find it more interesting.

[FlipXW]

Union, then League, then Soccer, then all the way down





here AFL.. cant stand it.

[kremmen]

League & Union equal. Nothing else really matters.

Unless you can represent your country, its a park game.

[MethodX]

The Uefa Champions league and the world cup.

Not the EPL
lol.

[Auslandau]

God who dragged this one up!!

AFL FTW!!!!

What is League & Union? Is that like "Lions Club" or "Rotary"?



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