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@bigoz1977 4 ай бұрын

Not sure when you recorded this but we had the games yesterday and they were the first 2 games of the 2024 season. By all accounts it seemed to of been a hit with a little over 40,000 people in the stadium. The rest of the first round for us in Australia start on Thursday.

@MenkeYT 4 ай бұрын

The video was recorded a couple weeks ago however there were some issues with uploading it :/ Thanks for watching though! Seemed like a great time in Vegas! Looking forward to the rest of the season.

@bigoz1977 4 ай бұрын

@@MenkeYT oh ok cool also good to see you back dude 👍🏻

@joshuaerickson1969 4 ай бұрын

Really few weeks ahead of the AFL Premiership ?

@joshrees1985 4 ай бұрын

We call it football or footy here in New South Wales and up in Queensland where the game is played. It very much depends on what state in Australia you go to or are in. For instance in Victoria which is more known for AFL than Rugby League , Australian Rules football is called footy in Victoria and other states of Australia because that’s what the people in these states know as football. Here in NSW we call Rugby Union Rugby because the games are different from each other. I come from the Southern Sydney suburb of Sutherland where the Cronulla Sharks are my team there are 6 teams here three of which played in Las Vegas to open the season 😊. It will be back next year as it’s the first year of a five year deal there are teams interested already in doing the Las Vegas trip next season

@MissAussieChick84 4 ай бұрын

Also, here in QLD, rugby league or NRL is generally played in state schools - or government run. Rugby union is generally a private school sport. AFL isn’t super huge like the NRL is here. I’m from mascot originally which is in south Sydney so the Rabbitohs are my team

@brentdavis3102 4 ай бұрын

NRL IS WAY HARDER & TOUGHER THAN AFL...THAT'S NOT OPINION, THAT'S BASIC FACT

@baccycones7644 4 ай бұрын

Oath

@paulywalnutz5855 4 ай бұрын

afl is tougher in one area, called gut running, which is just continued sprint efforts at max capacity

@dragonoftheeast695 4 ай бұрын

Wrong

@baccycones7644 4 ай бұрын

@@paulywalnutz5855 nrl players have a faster top speed

@kinchegayowie6167 4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 for real, dude , what is it called then when a league player runs full tilt, and gets tackled, our players make up to 40 tackles a game, and AFL , 5 maybe , your AFL players cannot hack the physicality of our game , i know, i have been taking footy clubs for years and teaching how to tackle properly, they cannot take the hits nor can they handle the endurance side @@paulywalnutz5855

@spankmeflanders1466 4 ай бұрын

Drop kicks are a lot harder than regular kicks

@israelmccarthy 4 ай бұрын

Endurance is the big difference between NRL and NFL. Both are tough, both have talented athletes, but the fitness of league players, is far superior.

@juliedeveson9275 4 ай бұрын

Russell is one of the owners of the Rabbitohs, largely why he is doing the promo

@27531 4 ай бұрын

It's easier to understand than that NFL game you call tough lol..

@MenkeYT 4 ай бұрын

😅 took a couple decades

@PepeAgain1025 4 ай бұрын

NRL is waaay more harder on the body as far as physical contact goes comapred to AFL, Aussie Rules is definitely more cardiovascular heavy tho. But comparing in NRL where you tackle for 90% verses AFL where your passing taking kicks, marks most the game its no comparison

@jamesrowe3606 4 ай бұрын

Rather than ask why a rugby try isn't called a touchdown, we could ask why an American football score is.

@JayWhy1964 4 ай бұрын

From Wiki: The term "try" comes from "try at goal", signifying that grounding the ball originally only gave the attacking team the opportunity to try to score with a kick at goal.

@israelmccarthy 4 ай бұрын

It was called a try, because once upon a time it was worth 3 points (tri). Wiki and everyone else get it right!

@daveg2104 4 ай бұрын

@@israelmccarthy That's not right. In the early days of Rugby, you got no points for touching the ball down in the in-goal area, you got a try for goal - 'When a goal is kicked from a try, only the goal is scored'. In the mid to late 1800s there were a lot of different scoring systems in place though. I think the Northern Union (Rugby League) used 3 points for a try from the start, as that was the official practice in Union at the time. Union and League kept the name "try" for a touchdown in-goal, out of tradition and I suppose because you still got a try for goal, plus points for the "touchdown". Anyway, "try" doesn't mean three - that would be "tri". You could read about the history of Rugby on various Rugby websites. But WIKI is correct anyway, because they would be referencing those official websites. (The references should be listed at the bottom of the WIKI page, if you didn't know that).

@Youser57 4 ай бұрын

@@daveg2104 thanks for saving me the story. Yeah goes back to when you "tried" gaining points by kicking a goal. Interesting concept . Eventually the tries themselves were given a points value

@davidspendlove5900 4 ай бұрын

@@israelmccarthyIf you cross the try line and ground the ball this did not score , you would then "try" to score with the conversion. The old 3 point try has nothing to do with tri as in 3.

@emetahava 4 ай бұрын

Rugby is BOTH CODES, League and Yawnion.....

@richardnraikaraika5507 4 ай бұрын

Dude it won't take long for you to get this game. ❤❤

@goodmaro 4 ай бұрын

There've been clubs in the USA and Canada for Rugby League before. I saw some play in 1995 in Baltimore. For some reason League has a long tradition in the Canadian Maritimes. Australian Rules in the USA has chiefly been popular as a slight change of pace among Gaelic football players.

@chulkcha 4 ай бұрын

Id like to see NFL players do 2 half's rounds of 40min game with no stoppage, time out or changing from offensive to defensive team.

@deedee2172 4 ай бұрын

The stadium was packed

@deedee2172 4 ай бұрын

NO HELMETS NO PADS!!!😂 And a touch down means exactly that!! #TOUCHDOWN

@splattered63 4 ай бұрын

Rugby League NRL - Rugby is usually referring to Rugby Union - totally different game.

@emetahava 4 ай бұрын

Rugby is BOTH CODES, League and Yawnion.....

@DeepThought9999 4 ай бұрын

@@emetahava No, sorry. Rugby (union) is the original rugby-type sport and continues the name “rugby”. Rugby League is a late-coming upstart relative to Rugby Union. Use of the term “rugby” for NRL or Rugby League only serves to confuse people who are unaware of the significant differences between the two different (but with some lingering similarities) rugby-type sports. Although I do follow Rugby in preference to Rugby League, I do like your term “Rugby Yawnion”. Certainly there are difficulties with some of the laws and their interpretation in Rugby that slow the game down needlessly (some of which are being addressed as we speak) but for me, I enjoy and appreciate watching the subtleties, technicalities and physical challenges to be found in much of the Rugby Union forwards’ play nearly as much as I enjoy the different skills and speed of the backs’ play. I can understand that for some people those subtleties and technicalities are rather opaque and detract from the spectacle, hence your term “yawnion”.

@siryogiwan 4 ай бұрын

if you didn't see game yet, NRL have uploaded at least 1st game to their youtube page

@rodneycampbell2964 4 ай бұрын

I think they equal in the area of toughness, however I don’t think Rugby League players would be willing to take Ballerina Dancing lessons to play AFL 😂😂opps most likely poked the bear 😮

@oneboot1 4 ай бұрын

How do you POCK a bear.

@rodneycampbell2964 4 ай бұрын

@@oneboot1 🤣sorry typo poked the bear, the bear meaning AFL supporters, I’m a Queenslander I love both sports, but the Mexicans “Victorians” are easily offended if you knock their game. You can tell I’m a Queenslander I can’t even bloody spell 😒

@TraumaQueen65 4 ай бұрын

The game you're watching is rugby LEAGUE. "Rugby" refers to UNION which is a different game.

@Foxstar1387 4 ай бұрын

If you wanna see the highlights of the Best of the Super League (European Rugby League ) and the NRL. Look up the 2024 World Club Challenge. That happened Between Wigan Warriors( My home town team) and the Penrith Panthers.

@Tully_23_32 2 ай бұрын

In league u get a set of six, so 99% of the players tackling hard, hearing 2 bodies colliding at a live game is brilliant as it echos all over the stadium. In Afl they run around & scrap a bit more but they don't tackle as much

@adu1978 4 ай бұрын

Rugby league definitely a harder game

@Richard1H65S 4 ай бұрын

Not pre season games.

@gavingiant6900 4 ай бұрын

The NFL has been coming to England for quite some time now. If I remember properly they used to play in different stadiums, but now they only do it in London. Don't quote me on that, but they definitely go to London. More and more people on KZfaq are reacting to it, more people getting into it and people wanting to watch it in person. I'm just abit confused why not the British, unless we turned it down for some strange reason (maybe because NRL sounds like NFL to ease more people into the sport?). But with NRL they might get the Haka with it being international if this match goes well and other teams are asked, I wonder what Americans will think of that.

@emetahava 4 ай бұрын

UK.....

@gavingiant6900 4 ай бұрын

@@emetahava Not sure what you mean, can you elaborate please?

@impelmagna4921 4 ай бұрын

NRL is way closer to NFL than AFL is. I personally think it’s more entertaining as the play flows instead of stopping after every play like NFL.

@dom3335 4 ай бұрын

A drop kick is way harder than a normal kick. The reason it's only worth 1 point is because it can be taken at any time during the game whereas the Conversion(2 points) is only after a Try or when a Penalty is awarded. Also there is no other kick that can score points. It's not like the AFL where you can just kick it normally through the posts.

@markarnold6184 2 ай бұрын

You're right it's much harder. The real reason it is only worth 1 point, though, is because the rules designers wanted to reduce the focus on field goals and increase the focus on trys (because they were the best part!) Back in the 50s/60s, there was unlimited tackles, field goals were worth 2 points and tries worth 3 -- so the best play was always running from dummy-half until in range, then go for a drop-goal. Later they also increased the value of a try from 3 to 4 for similar reasons.

@dom3335 2 ай бұрын

@@markarnold6184 You're right, we basically said the same thing except I was explaining it in the way Menke asked the question, and also relating it to AFL because he knows that more. As I said if(when) it was worth more than 1 point they'd be snapping them every set they get in range because they can be taken at any time during a game and don't need a Try(like a conversion). Your explanation adds a lot more historical knowledge though which is interesting and good to know 👍 I guess I should have added that even though they are a lot harder than a normal kick, they are obviously easier than scoring a Try, and more points would alter the balance of the game. As it did back then.

@crikeyhunter 4 ай бұрын

try sounds better then touchdown in my opinion

@pat4281 14 күн бұрын

Hahaha Rugby league my man

@dous1492 4 ай бұрын

Russell Crowe is part owner of the South Sydney Rabbitohs

@dom3335 4 ай бұрын

You could argue AFL requires more fitness, you could say it's more skillful in certain areas, you could even argue it's more popular because it's pretty close, but no one is trying to argue it's tougher. Not even die hard AFL fans.

@symonyoung9388 4 ай бұрын

Funny the us advertised it as Major League Rugby the MLR will be thanking you for the publicity + alot of kiwis and Ozey would have been watching the NASCAR series because SGV shane van Gisbergen was racing in Vegas on the same day but i do like NRL to so Up The Wahs

@michellefuller5293 4 ай бұрын

Go manly

@kinchegayowie6167 4 ай бұрын

RUGBY LEAGUE FFS

@MrBeej72 4 ай бұрын

AFL is ballerinas out of work game

@TheBillABCTV 4 ай бұрын

Menke hello I am from Sydney Australia. I want to explain Rugby is Rugby Union 15 man game, Rugby League is 13 man game. NRL if name of a League. Both Rugby League and Australian Rules Football are tough. AFL is name of a League. The 4 Codes of Football in Australia are: Soccer Football, Rugby League Football, Rugby Union Football and Aussie Rules Football. In the UK in 1895 was when Rugby League was born.

@emetahava 4 ай бұрын

Rugby is BOTH CODES, League and Yawnion.....

@DeepThought9999 4 ай бұрын

@@emetahavaSee my other (earlier) reply above. The term “rugby” correctly ONLY refers to Rugby Union. The term “rugby” should NOT be used to refer to that other rugby-type sport. It grates when AFL followers and other foreigners (Mexicans?) mistakenly refer to the sport of Rugby League as “rugby”. Rugby League is a different sport to Rugby Union.

@SoundBoy808 4 ай бұрын

You mean the NFL shouldn't call it a Touchdown, as you don't touch it down in NFL. Its called a Try in RL as when you score you get a "try at Goal" which is the kick after.

@roystewart9995 4 ай бұрын

More Aussies watch AFL but NRL is my game, with another Aussie I came close to getting into fight because I thought the National Rugby League was a better game. I found out that day those AFL fans are really serious.

@kaumibon 4 ай бұрын

More people attend AFL games which is true but NRL had more viewers last year. I definitely prefer to watch AFL live but I like watching league on TV

@A2thaMFK 4 ай бұрын

AFL players are fitter than league players, but league players are bigger, stronger and NRL is way more brutal than AFL. For one simple fact, NRL is stacked with Polynesian players. we are talking fit, 6 foot plus, 100 kg plus players that would absolutely lay out AFL players.

@SoundBoy808 4 ай бұрын

yeah the AFL Pitch is basically the size of a small country, so fitness is everything.

@BBDA-CLEAR 4 ай бұрын

It wasn't a preseason game, it was the start of the 2024 NRL. I can't believe I'm listening to an American that can't pronounce Vegas.

@raptor1672 4 ай бұрын

Wait I know you from somewhere! 😉

@__R_E_K_O__ 4 ай бұрын

Even AFL is harder then NFL 😂😂😂😂

@impelmagna4921 4 ай бұрын

AFL is harder cardio wise. NRL is harder physically. Although AFL still requires lots of physicality and NRL still requires lots of cardio. So at the end of the day it’s just whatever sport you prefer to play lol

@rodeo4786 4 ай бұрын

Crowe stick to acting

@dous1492 4 ай бұрын

Russell Crowe is part owner of the South Sydney Rabbitohs team. The game loves him

@jvvoid 4 ай бұрын

AFL is nowhere near Rugby League. AFL is just a fumblefest.

@ZootZinBootZ 4 ай бұрын

To confusing for Americans 😂😂😂😂

@nathj4818 4 ай бұрын

Its called Rugby league mate not rugby.👍

@williamwebb8908 4 ай бұрын

You need some Cronulla Sharks gear mate.

@pat4281 14 күн бұрын

It's easier to play the game than explain it to an American

@harryg2453 4 ай бұрын

Rugby *League

@ashlloyde2635 4 ай бұрын

Nrl all day long

@user-tl3vi4zt7f 4 ай бұрын

russel the mussel crowe, ain't aye good actor, if you asked me

@michaelbaumert9533 4 ай бұрын

I'm a NRL fan but I have to concede to the fact AFL have harder hits.

@Joe-King 4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅😅

@stevejones6257 4 ай бұрын

Clown!

@A2thaMFK 4 ай бұрын

NRL is harder for one simple fact, it's stacked with Polynesian players. AFL players wouldn't know what hit them.

@Rafiki_lec 4 ай бұрын

The reason its called a try is because back in the day a try was worth 3 points hense try. But they changed it a loooooong time ago but the same stuck.

@goodmaro 4 ай бұрын

At one time I thought that, because it had been 3 points for a long time, and I thought it was funny (looong time ago -- now i feel so old) when they made it 4 shortly before I first played, and later in Union, 5. However, it originally counted 0, then a tiebreaker, then 1 point, then 2, before settling for generations at 3. It started being called a try when the unconverted ones were counted as tiebreakers. Originally it was just a matter of touching the ball down and restarting play with a punt -out from the goal line.

@kurgenimmortals2406 4 ай бұрын

Here is the problem with the idea of the AFL playing in the US, where are you going to play it?? The veld is huge, oval and we use cricket stadiums primarily, America doesn't have cricket so there would be nowhere to host AFL. Besides, many AFL fans are seriously butthurt about the NRL going to Vegas, but they are different games, the compassion is tenuous at best, so it's really a non issue,. If the NRL has any success in America it doesn't mean anything in releasing to Aussie rules, have to wait and see

@goodmaro 4 ай бұрын

We do have cricket grounds and even places where clubs play Australian football, but no provision for spectators to do anything but stand in the vicinity.

@joshuaerickson1969 4 ай бұрын

Yes NRL good but the premiership Rugby is more fast

@endub2207 4 ай бұрын

Rugby unions trash 😂 rugby league every day of the week

@joshuaerickson1969 4 ай бұрын

@@endub2207 I agree as rugby Union rules slow down the play of a rugby match fixture

@brentdavis3102 4 ай бұрын

How the hell is any Rugby union tournament faster than NRL or Rugby league for that matter. NRL is 10 times faster.

@rodeo4786 4 ай бұрын

Trash luegue is little brother always is always will 😂

@rodeo4786 4 ай бұрын

@endub2207 Try to sell urself to the yanks RWC held in the US 2035 fact

@AussieDave69 4 ай бұрын

league and soccer are similar in that watching the highlights is fantastic when a whole game can be boring as dog shit AFL is go go go all game none of this stop start bullshit

@nathj4818 4 ай бұрын

Lmao AFL is dog 💩 nobody outside of victoria really gives a toss about it slow your role mate 😂

@AndrewJacobsmusic 4 ай бұрын

Please stop calling it rugby, as it really annoys people , most people call it ‘league’ watch some footage of state of origin which is brutal

@philll9868 4 ай бұрын

mate is rugby thats how NRL promoted it RUGBY loigue

@SoundBoy808 4 ай бұрын

Yeah in OZ they call it league or footy. In UK / Europe its Rugby League.

@AndrewJacobsmusic 4 ай бұрын

@@philll9868 they didnt promote like that, thats what its called from early 1900s, the officials (peter v’landys)and everyone got sick of explaining so just went along with it in vegas until americans get the idea

@emetahava 4 ай бұрын

RUGBY League

@emetahava 4 ай бұрын

AFL is boring

@bittersweet340 4 ай бұрын

Explain American "English" Why is it a touchdown, when you don't place the ball on the ground..

@MenkeYT 4 ай бұрын

No clue

@goodmaro 4 ай бұрын

@@MenkeYTBecause originally touching the ball down was required to score. American and Canadian football, as well as Union and League, are all types of rugby, after all. However, in 1880 it became possible to touch the ball down after it became dead, which in most cases was a trivial requirement; it made a difference only when time ran out for a half before the ball could be brought to the spot and touched down, so eventually the requirement was eliminated.