Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Vicious said:
For talented kids or youth to play elite competition soccer the cost is over $3000 per season plus addition costs for additional academy training which is generally required to allow each child/youth to continue developing at the required rate and give them a chance of becoming a paid player down the track.
So you are realistically looking at $5000 plus as a starting point to give talented young soccer players a realistic chance of making it to become a professional or semi professional player in their adult years.
So when you compare that, Rugby League is truly the peoples and working class sport where the most talented players are not priced out of the market and hence why the numbers are massive in the middle to lower class economic of the West and South West of Sydney.
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Im not talking elite, Im talking getting started in the sport.
 
finnzo said:
There very different sports and require complete different skills it’s hard to match them up. But athletisism and fitness? I would argue that. I love to see a soccer play play in the middle for 80 minutes
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Look I get I'm on a Rugby League forum so I'm gonna get hammered haha but I'd like to see these big meaty NRL forwards try & play 90 minutes of football every 2-3 days sometimes.
 
Tucker said:
I hear different.
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Depends on the "level" that your kid plays.
If you have ambitions for him, and of course have $$$$$ . . . you will sooner or later get swept up in the "Youth League" system. It's a higher level of competition, generally better coached and better players competing in it. But full of politics and agendas.
And then on the other hand . . . it costs you maybe 3k per year, a lot of clubs have massive agendas as to who plays and who rides the pine. For example, your religion, your ethnic background, if you drive a top level Land Rover, if your Mrs has had the girls done, if the coach fancies himself with your Mrs or her new girls, and of course if there's any spots left in the team after all the sponsor's nephews have been picked.
This 3k payment inevitably is to pay the senior players of that club, though you will be told it's for the development of your little Messi.
Generally, after 5 odd years of 3k p/a, your kid will be either sick of sport, be too involved with school/girls/other distractions, or just wants to go back to Park soccer and play with his mates.
 
Go_You_Good_Things said:
Depends on the "level" that your kid plays.
If you have ambitions for him, and of course have $$$$$ . . . you will sooner or later get swept up in the "Youth League" system. It's a higher level of competition, generally better coached and better players competing in it. But full of politics and agendas.
And then on the other hand . . . it costs you maybe 3k per year, a lot of clubs have massive agendas as to who plays and who rides the pine. For example, your religion, your ethnic background, if you drive a top level Land Rover, if your Mrs has had the girls done, if the coach fancies himself with your Mrs or her new girls, and of course if there's any spots left in the team after all the sponsor's nephews have been picked.
This 3k payment inevitably is to pay the senior players of that club, though you will be told it's for the development of your little Messi.
Generally, after 5 odd years of 3k p/a, your kid will be either sick of sport, be too involved with school/girls/other distractions, or just wants to go back to Park soccer and play with his mates.
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Thats true of every sport.
There exists horrible nepotism and favouritism in RL juniors as well.
I think its highly likely that we have not seen the best players ever, actually play the sport in top grade, rather we have seen the elite of those who could be bothered to stick it out.
 
Every sport has a top bar skill level that can never be reached, and the more money in the sport the higher the bar keeps going. If marbles had million dollar tournaments you would have people displaying amazing skills.

It is very hard to compare different sports against each other on a skill level as they all require a slightly different skill set, but money usually keeps pushing the skill level higher
 
Buttface said:
What about the cigs at halftime? That blows me away.

Pardon the pun.
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Yep
Used to do my head in seeing 1 or 2 players having a cigarette in the change room at halftime while the coach was giving advice for the 2nd half.
Or the reserves eating any of the orange’s 🍊 at halftime 😂
 
WesternSuburbsBoy said:
Look I get I'm on a Rugby League forum so I'm gonna get hammered haha but I'd like to see these big meaty NRL forwards try & play 90 minutes of football every 2-3 days sometimes.
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Completely off topic but I'll indulge.

I completely agree. My son had to choose between rep soccer and rugby league and he soccer mainly because he enjoyed it more but also the fact that the technical skills from soccer take a lot longer to perfect than rugby league.
 
They’d find it hard to do a slide tackle because they are taught that’s an illegal move. Athleticism would not hold them back. RL players consistently dive so it would be picked up very quickly.
Soccer players would struggle to tackle effectively no matter how much they trained as they aren’t strong enough.
 
Tucker said:
They’d find it hard to do a slide tackle because they are taught that’s an illegal move. Athleticism would not hold them back. RL players consistently dive so it would be picked up very quickly.
Soccer players would struggle to tackle effectively no matter how much they trained as they aren’t strong enough.
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Depends what position... if you're asking a winger (in football) to make a Rugby League tackle no they probably wouldn't be able to because their game isn't built on strength but if you're asking a Centre Back or a Centre Defensive Midfielder or even a Striker I think they probably could.
 
WesternSuburbsBoy said:
Depends what position... if you're asking a winger (in football) to make a Rugby League tackle no they probably wouldn't be able to because their game isn't built on strength but if you're asking a Centre Back or a Centre Defensive Midfielder or even a Striker I think they probably could.
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They’d be able to bring down a rampaging Martin or Haas or Tino?
They aren’t strong enough. The difference between gym strength and work strength is vast. Soccer players don’t need the strength at work that RL players do. They just wouldn’t be able to do it very long if at all…and we haven’t even discussed how much they’d be murdered with ball in hand….
 
Tucker said:
They’d be able to bring down a rampaging Martin or Haas or Tino?
They aren’t strong enough. The difference between gym strength and work strength is vast. Soccer players don’t need the strength at work that RL players do. They just wouldn’t be able to do it very long if at all…and we haven’t even discussed how much they’d be murdered with ball in hand….
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Mate not many Rugby League guys could bring those guys down 1 on 1 let alone soccer players lol.
 
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