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Message: [QUOTE="john1420, post: 3677592, member: 2077"] My perspective on the NRL v AFL thing, I'm probably in a very different situation to the vast majority of you all. I was born and raised in Adelaide, never lived anywhere else. My family live and breath Aussie Rules, it's like a religion. So for me, it's not an NRL fan trying out AFL to see if I like it; I grew up with it, LOVED it. Then 1 day, I realised I just wasn't enjoying it anymore. This was after about 20 years of following the game. The more I thought about it, the more I saw why. There are 2 main reasons. The first is that the game is too scrappy most of the time. Yes there are times when it isn't, and when it is free flowing I still see the beauty in it, but it's too little, too rare. The game, on the whole, could be re-created with 2 flocks of seagulls and 1 hot chip. The second reason is the basic fabric of the game is too easy. Bear with me on this. The ultimate goal of AFL is to kick the ball between 2 posts. If there's somebody in between you and the posts, no matter, just kick it over their head. If you are too far away from the posts, just kick it to a mate who is closer to the posts, and as long as he catches it, nobody is allowed to touch him. At it's core, none of this is particularly difficult. Compare this to RL, where the object is to put the ball down over the line and there are 13 blokes between you and that line. If you want to throw it to a mate, he has to be behind you. If you want to kick it over the heads of those 13 blokes, the eventual catcher has to be behind you and thus in a worse position on the field than the 13 blokes in terms of getting to the ball. The basic fabric of the game is designed to be difficult. It's what makes the game exciting. Aside from the occasional snap from the pocket, there's nothing exciting about an AFL goal, because it's just not that hard. What makes an AFL goal exciting isn't the act itself, it's having an emotional investment in the team, and that goal helping your team win. But a RL try is usually exciting/entertaining to watch in and of itself because it so much harder to do. It's why, for me, RL is a far more entertaining game to watch. Even in the old days when AFL ruled my world, I only watched the 1 game per week 'my' team played in, because even then, without the emotional investment in 1 of the teams playing I couldn't sit through a whole game; it was and still is, just so boring. [/QUOTE]

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