Disappointed he did not stick to it ..you have to be willing to give it 2 or 3 yrs . I watch a lot of NFL and I think he could of given it a real go , can not expect to be a blow in and be taken seriously . One day a young kid will give it a real shot !
That's what I mean by delusional, he thinks he can roll up and learn a game that he didn't grow up playing in a few months and get a spot on a team in one of the most cut throat competitive sports in the world.
Was a million to one!!!
Funny when I offered anyone who thought he'd make it to put their money where their mouth is they all went quiet.
I disagree, these guys arent far off cracking it. It will only take one to open up the floodgates.
NRL can not compete with NFL, they will come knocking sooner than later.
All it takes is a coach willing to take a chance. our guys, well some of them are very suited to the game.
I don't agree because I believe fundamentally the games are too different.
League and Union are the most alike and even then most players would struggle to make the transition from elite level of one code to elite at the other.
Granted for NFL, you don't need to be elite to earn a pretty penny. However, NFL is no more like League than AFL is, and similarly suits different athletic experience and body types. You get a guy like Holmes who has been training in elite League for 10 years, then tries to shift to a radically different form of sport.
If it's purely athleticism you are after, there's no particular reason why AFL could not have been raiding rugby league stocks for decades, and they had one half-go at it, for a miserable failure.
Some might make it in NFL, but so far the only ones to make it are punters, simply because they only have to learn to kick Dukes rather than Sherrins.
I just don't think league boys can compete with the 3-5 million American kids who grow up playing football every year, to then fill less than 2000 pro NFL roster spots.
