what skills would they bring- Indians

[saintbrat]

http://afl.com.au/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsid=56134
India latest to embrace AFL
Tony Abate
9:38 AM Thu 13 March, 2008

THE AFL has announced a team from India as the latest entrant for in the Australian Football International Cup which is being held in Warrnambool and Melbourne in August, 2008 as part of the 150th year celebrations.

The Indian side joins the likes of USA, South Africa, Canada, Great Britain, Sweden, Denmark, PNG, New Zealand, Japan, China, Ireland, Spain, Nauru, Samoa, Finland, and the Peace Team from Israel and Palestine.

It will be the first time that India has taken part in the International Cup.

AFL talent and international manager Kevin Sheehan said their inclusion was further testimony to the game’s growth.

“Our game of Australian Football is spreading to other countries and the fact that India is taking part this year is a further endorsement of the growing popularity of the game,â€

[Iceman234]

29 views and no replies - no disrespect to bratty, fair topic thrown up - preliminarily indicates a possible reflection on the summer just gone........

[battye]

Gehrig at full forward, Harbhajan Singh at full back. I'd pay to see that

[joffaboy]

Could threaten to go home if they get a bad decision.

Has anybody told the Indians that, unlike cricket and the BCCI, the AFl frowns on racial abuse?

May keep them off the phone at my place while I am trying to have tea though.

[saintbrat]

29 views and no replies - no disrespect to bratty, fair topic thrown up - preliminarily indicates a possible reflection on the summer just gone........

thanks iceman234- but also shows the time of the evening and the day of the week-- the no I'm not wacthing the footy show brigade are checking out the footy show and whether or not it's changed;

and I expected some barjjjiii connections.

[Iceman234]

[quote="saintbrat the no I'm not wacthing the footy show brigade are checking out the footy show and whether or not it's changed;

[/quote]

Who?

[saintbrat]

hey you get my latest e-mail and pick the fault iceman234- I think I could run a competition with a prize for recipients who pick the most typos throughout the year:
the "No - I'm not watching the footy show brigade;" are checking out the footy show and whether or not it's changed"
just note the lack of traffic on ehre between 9.30 and 10.30

hey it's 11 pm and they finally mention the Saints win .

[st_Trav_ofWA]

Could threaten to go home if they get a bad decision.

Has anybody told the Indians that, unlike cricket and the BCCI, the AFl frowns on racial abuse?

May keep them off the phone at my place while I am trying to have tea though.

yeah nothing racist in insinuating all indians are going to boycot matches and all indians are racist

serioulsy this could be huge in india while i was over there in november i took my little cousin a sherrin as a gift and we went out for a kick you should of ssen the crowd gather when they saw this funny samed ball flying through the air i spent near on 3 hrs showing the local kids how to kick handball and mark the ball they loved it . the thing with india is they love their sport so this could be a real big market to tap heck they even have their own pin up boy with Daniel Kerr being of indian decent !

[I love Dally best]

Cheating skills. They'd be the masters of tanking

[I love Dally best]

Could threaten to go home if they get a bad decision.

Has anybody told the Indians that, unlike cricket and the BCCI, the AFl frowns on racial abuse?

May keep them off the phone at my place while I am trying to have tea though.

yeah nothing racist in insinuating all indians are going to boycot matches and all indians are racist

serioulsy this could be huge in india while i was over there in november i took my little cousin a sherrin as a gift and we went out for a kick you should of ssen the crowd gather when they saw this funny samed ball flying through the air i spent near on 3 hrs showing the local kids how to kick handball and mark the ball they loved it . the thing with india is they love their sport so this could be a real big market to tap heck they even have their own pin up boy with Daniel Kerr being of indian decent !

Daniel Kerr maybe half Indian and half Sri Lankan but he aint decent

[st_Trav_ofWA]

Cheating skills. They'd be the masters of tanking

right....... and the under arm delivery to NZ was fair ?
jesus you would think australia was full of choir boys the way we taint india

[Saintschampions08]

Cheating skills. They'd be the masters of tanking

right....... and the under arm delivery to NZ was fair ?
jesus you would think australia was full of choir boys the way we taint india

Compared to ball tampering its angelic.

[saintsRrising]

What skills will they bring????

I think it is that the AFL is more eying off a few TV right sales to a billion Indians if they get some interest in the game going there...

[Apu]

Great news!!!! I'd love to see it really take off in India as it is IMO the best sport in the world.

Kerrs father was Indian. I believe Balraj Singh was the first "full" indian to be drafted, but he never got a game.

Actually Im surpised how few of them there are in AFL/VFL history given the number of Indians living in Australia these days (Melbourne especially).
Perhaps its a genetic thing that makes them unco at most sports. I know i sure as hell am

[rogerwa]

trav i hoped you showed em some of the real finer points of footy ie

the good old fashioned shirt front
the ankle tap
the rib tickler
the coat hanger
the nut cruncher(sqirrel)
the rabbit

the stab pass
the drop kick
the flick pass


& not just the airy fairy chyt

[st_Trav_ofWA]

trav i hoped you showed em some of the real finer points of footy ie

the good old fashioned shirt front
the ankle tap
the rib tickler
the coat hanger
the nut cruncher(sqirrel)
the rabbit

the stab pass
the drop kick
the flick pass


& not just the airy fairy chyt

definatly if it wasnt for the fact i was off to dehli the next day i would of organised a proper game for the kids they loved the whole physical side of it i mean they only really get into cricket and hockey over there so to actually belt someone is great fun

[st_Trav_ofWA]

Great news!!!! I'd love to see it really take off in India as it is IMO the best sport in the world.

Kerrs father was Indian. I believe Balraj Singh was the first "full" indian to be drafted, but he never got a game.

Actually Im surpised how few of them there are in AFL/VFL history given the number of Indians living in Australia these days (Melbourne especially).
Perhaps its a genetic thing that makes them unco at most sports. I know i sure as hell am

i think as we indian boys get older we become more unco as a kid i could play almost any sport now as an adult i have trouble playing lawn bowls

but the kids over there have heaps of energy it was like 38deg and the humidity was killing me and there these kids were pleading "uncle uncle kick it higher "

[nicola69]

They would not be very good. The reason is that only a rich minority in India get to participate in things like representative sports. That's why they are no good in most world sports when on the numbers, they should dominate. Even in cricket, it's once in a blue moon they perform .

1 billion people and they can't even find 11 good soccer players. What makes you think they can find 11 more to make up an AFL team?

[I love Dally best]

Don't think they'll be much chop in F1 either

[Richter]

1 billion people and they can't even find 11 good soccer players. What makes you think they can find 11 more to make up an AFL team?

They'd definitely get creamed if they only fielded 11 in their AFL team.....

[riccardo]

1 billion people and they can't even find 11 good soccer players. What makes you think they can find 11 more to make up an AFL team?

Actually, India are the best Southern Asian football nation right now, they've won 5 out of 7 South Asia Football Federation championships, and are the riegning champions.

I don't think AFL is suited to every particular person or country, but we would be stupid not to at least consider giving them a go.

[st_Trav_ofWA]

They would not be very good. The reason is that only a rich minority in India get to participate in things like representative sports. That's why they are no good in most world sports when on the numbers, they should dominate. Even in cricket, it's once in a blue moon they perform .

1 billion people and they can't even find 11 good soccer players. What makes you think they can find 11 more to make up an AFL team?

have you been to india ? you seriously have no idea sport is the one thing that is freely available to everyone in india you go down to the parks and ovals and there are thousands of kids playing sports (often with makeshift equipment )

there is an influx of the rich kids making the national team because they basicallyplay in the big comps and play for the important schools (not much differant to the rest of the world ) but the following of the game would be worth it