South Pacific talent surprises for the right reason

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South Pacific talent surprises for the right reason

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Sunday, January 23 2011 @ 08:38 pm ACDT

The comments by Kevin Sheehan and the data from the Combine are very significant. To my knowledge it's the first time testing of international Aussie Rules players has shown up such really competitive results, both athletically and skills. Several of these young guys simply must be given an opportunity at AFL clubs.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

South Pacific talent surprises for the right reason

Authored by: Michael Christiansen
on Monday, January 24 2011 @ 07:13 am ACDT

The Karmichael Hunt comments are interesting, reading that, you'd suggest that what he really wanted to do was play a game more like Australian Football and less rigidly structured than the Rugby codes.

The 'freedoms' within Aust Footy can see some people run around like headless chooks - but, the message that often comes through loud and clear from the 'international' converts is that they appreciate the freedoms.

This is a 'football' market that has precious few 'football' options - in the general sense of codes of footy without off-side or hugely restrictive rules (no forward passing, or no hands and as former All Black Grant Fox once opined that the RU rule book was too big and full of "dont's").

A number of the better players who were profiled from Fiji had Rugby and good Rugby in their sporting CV. Now it'll be interesting to see how many 'stick' compared to how many return to Rugby with a new level of flair and skill.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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