ha ha the unprecedented success of the Dockers this year has clearly made him delusional, Moimoi would be the last style of player tha would be able to play AFL!

He'd be like Forrest Gump playing gridiron.

guys it shows how much RL AFL people watch hey?

im sure daniel anderson or wayne bennett arent watching essendon thinking hey, id like to sign james hurd

I doubt very much that this AFL coach is an idiot and he more than likely knows his game inside out, but singling out Moi Moi is mind boggling.
Yes Dally, he may well watch plenty of league, but he obviously has no clue whatsoever how it works. Of all the rugby league plasyers in the NRL he picks out someone who I'd imagine would struggle to out leap a plant pot.

true but the fact he was impressed by fui fui is a good thing

most RL fans love the way fui fui plays, so clearly this AFL coach can appreciate our game.

the more of them that watch our game the better for us

They just want publicity from RL,they know they can't get it from anywhere else lol.

They just want publicity from RL,they know they can't get it from anywhere else lol.

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sheldon hiding your head in the sand wont change reality.

the nrl is just a feeder system for other sports... players do their apprenticeship in league before being snapped up by cashed up competitors.

You realise that the Dockers coach is taking the mickey out of the whole grabbing NRL players don't you?

He's joking.

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AFL players must be pretty annoyed, especially the young ones looking a shot at the big time.

After Hunt went we thought it was PR and probably wouldn't happen again. It's obvious now that they will continue to raid the NRL and the NRL can do nothing about it. Young RL players with a chance to make money in AFL now have $$ in their eyes.

There is not an unlimited supply of super stars, and if they start leaving for AFL they are completley wasted on kicking a ball for 3000 minutes or however long an AFL match is.

I understand that the AFL has started to offer contracts to Irish based Amateur Gealic Football players and that I can understand.....as the ball may be a different shape, but the catching and kicking (that's all AFL is isn't it?) skills are pretty much the same. My point is, why would the AFL waste millions on a name.....a name that can't kick or dribble/bounce, when there are probably a thousand young Australians who are better than izzy and another 1,000 paddy's as well?
It seems to me, from a business point of view, that this is a massive gamble and if (when) he fails, the AFL fans will be all over him from game 2.
As for calling him a judas...I suspect that everyone on here would do a lot worse than swap codes for the kind of money on offer. I think he will be back in the NRL or (ARU) Within 2 years.

www.nzherald.co.nz/league/news/a ... d=10649512 Great player AND talks sense.

www.nzherald.co.nz/league/news/a ... d=10649512 Great player AND talks sense.

They haven't signed them for their AFL playing skills! They've signed them for their publicity and to show 12 year old islander RL playing kids in the West of Sydney that they could switch games and be a superstar in another code. They have probably already had $4mill worth of NSW airtime and media coverage for the GWS team in the last week alone!

he's right, a journolist said last night that a dozen nrl players, through their agents, contacted afl clubs just after falou signed expressing their interest to play afl.

What's really weird is that there seems to be very little concept of loyalty at all within the NRL playing ranks. Very few talk about anything but money it seems.

And there you have it!
The Game will survive and I honestly believe that the NRL saying little or nothing is better than gnashing teeth in public......let the players who want to go, go.......most will be back. The game is different from union and the AFL and as history points to....cross code movement works vary rarely.....as I said, the game will survive.

Their are blokes who I don't think would ever leave.

It the young breed their greedy buggers!

Gen Y and i, it's all about me!

sorry....I am 45yrs old, I like my boss, I work for a great comapny, get paid very well and am happy. If the competition came in with 3 times my current package, you could paint me black and call me kizzy....I'm outta here!
Market forces.....and who can blame a young man with a short sports career from cashing in?

don't be sorry.

Some people will always be driven by money, some won't be.

Whatever makes you happy.

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We have to get a grip on this before it becomes an exodus.WTF is going on in RL in Aus.

If the likes of Hunt,Folau are going to AFL what is going to stop the likes of Inglis,Slater,Hayne or whoever going to that game FFS.

dont worry nothing will kill off RL in OZ,not even super league came close in killing it.