AFL Versus 37 Sports Of The World
AFL Versus The World - Soccer
AFL Versus The World - Tennis
AFL Versus The World - Tug of War
AFL Versus The World - Cricket
AFL Versus The World - NFL
AFL Versus The World - NHL
AFL Versus The World - 4 X 100 Running Relay
AFL Versus The World - Gladiators TV Show
AFL Versus The World - Strongman Competition
AFL Versus The World - WWF Tag-Team Wrestling
AFL Versus The World - Volleyball
AFL Versus The World - Curling
AFL Versus The World - Frolf
AFL Versus The World - Lawn Bowls
AFL Versus The World - Rowing
AFL Versus The World - CFL
AFL Versus The World - Table Tennis
AFL Versus The World - Softball: Slow Pitch
AFL Versus The World - Jai Alai
AFL Versus The World - Slamball
AFL Versus The World - AFL
AFL Versus The World - Hoop Takraw
AFL Versus The World - Baseball
AFL Versus The World - Sport Stacking
AFL Versus The World - Roller Derby
AFL Versus The World - Bobsledding
AFL Versus The World - Indoor Lacrosse
AFL Versus The World - Rugby Union
AFL Versus The World - Field Hockey
AFL Versus The World - Whitewater Rafting
AFL Versus The World - Hornussen
AFL Versus The World - Dragonboat Racing
AFL Versus The World - Korfball
AFL Versus The World - Horseshoes
AFL Versus The World - Segway Polo
AFL Versus The World - European Handball
Choose any sport in the world, and a team will be made for it comprised of AFL footballers. Just leave a comment below, to suggest a team sport. Any sport, even obscure ones like jai-alai or soccer. A starting lineup or an entire team will be posted. You can also post your own idea for the AFL players who could form a team from other sports.
The teams will use players that have the right physical attributes for the sport, sometimes taking into account how they play AFL and if that would suit the other sport and also considering their sporting smarts as well, so there won't usually be players who are actually proficient at the other sport. There may be some unintended times when the AFL players did play the other sport, like Brogan below, but the players will be chosen only on their potential ability to play the sport.
Basketball
SF Patrick Ryder
PF Peter Street
C Aaron Sandilands
PG Sam Mitchell
SG Adam Goodes
Max Bailey - C
Dean Cox - F/C
Matthew Richardson - G/F
David Wojcinski - PG
Dean Brogan - PF
Luke McPharlin - G/F
David Gourdis - SG
Not too difficult, just choose the biggest players. Sandilands is the big centre a basketball team would need. Street should be a good player for shotblocking in a power forward and centre role. Mitchell is the on-field general for the Hawks, so he can be an on-court leader at point guard. He isn't the quickest player, so backing up Mitchell at the point guard position could be Wojcinski. Wojcinski has shown he can bounce a ball as he speeds past defenders.
With the centre and point guard spots under control, help at shooting guard and small forward is needed. Goodes and Ryder are athletic, rangy players and their size would seem right. Richardson may be a big guy on the AFL field, but in basketball he is a small forward, the same for Luke McPharlin. Gourdis can jump, always a good thing, and he probably has more basketball talent than Brett Rainbow anyway.
Bailey, Cox and Brogan are more size on the imaginary bench. Although Brogan has been there in real life too. Bailey seems like a backup centre but maybe Cox, with his agility and skills, would be someone who could play two or three positions on a basketball team.
AFL Versus The World - Tennis
AFL Versus The World - Tug of War
AFL Versus The World - Cricket
AFL Versus The World - NFL
AFL Versus The World - NHL
AFL Versus The World - 4 X 100 Running Relay
AFL Versus The World - Gladiators TV Show
AFL Versus The World - Strongman Competition
AFL Versus The World - WWF Tag-Team Wrestling
AFL Versus The World - Volleyball
AFL Versus The World - Curling
AFL Versus The World - Frolf
AFL Versus The World - Lawn Bowls
AFL Versus The World - Rowing
AFL Versus The World - CFL
AFL Versus The World - Table Tennis
AFL Versus The World - Softball: Slow Pitch
AFL Versus The World - Jai Alai
AFL Versus The World - Slamball
AFL Versus The World - AFL
AFL Versus The World - Hoop Takraw
AFL Versus The World - Baseball
AFL Versus The World - Sport Stacking
AFL Versus The World - Roller Derby
AFL Versus The World - Bobsledding
AFL Versus The World - Indoor Lacrosse
AFL Versus The World - Rugby Union
AFL Versus The World - Field Hockey
AFL Versus The World - Whitewater Rafting
AFL Versus The World - Hornussen
AFL Versus The World - Dragonboat Racing
AFL Versus The World - Korfball
AFL Versus The World - Horseshoes
AFL Versus The World - Segway Polo
AFL Versus The World - European Handball
Choose any sport in the world, and a team will be made for it comprised of AFL footballers. Just leave a comment below, to suggest a team sport. Any sport, even obscure ones like jai-alai or soccer. A starting lineup or an entire team will be posted. You can also post your own idea for the AFL players who could form a team from other sports.
The teams will use players that have the right physical attributes for the sport, sometimes taking into account how they play AFL and if that would suit the other sport and also considering their sporting smarts as well, so there won't usually be players who are actually proficient at the other sport. There may be some unintended times when the AFL players did play the other sport, like Brogan below, but the players will be chosen only on their potential ability to play the sport.
Basketball
SF Patrick Ryder
PF Peter Street
C Aaron Sandilands
PG Sam Mitchell
SG Adam Goodes
Max Bailey - C
Dean Cox - F/C
Matthew Richardson - G/F
David Wojcinski - PG
Dean Brogan - PF
Luke McPharlin - G/F
David Gourdis - SG
Not too difficult, just choose the biggest players. Sandilands is the big centre a basketball team would need. Street should be a good player for shotblocking in a power forward and centre role. Mitchell is the on-field general for the Hawks, so he can be an on-court leader at point guard. He isn't the quickest player, so backing up Mitchell at the point guard position could be Wojcinski. Wojcinski has shown he can bounce a ball as he speeds past defenders.
With the centre and point guard spots under control, help at shooting guard and small forward is needed. Goodes and Ryder are athletic, rangy players and their size would seem right. Richardson may be a big guy on the AFL field, but in basketball he is a small forward, the same for Luke McPharlin. Gourdis can jump, always a good thing, and he probably has more basketball talent than Brett Rainbow anyway.
Bailey, Cox and Brogan are more size on the imaginary bench. Although Brogan has been there in real life too. Bailey seems like a backup centre but maybe Cox, with his agility and skills, would be someone who could play two or three positions on a basketball team.
Basketball.
The teams for this concept will be made of AFL players who have the right size and athletic ability for the sports, and if they have played the sport before it isn't going to be used to select them. So AFL players like Martin and Todd Goldstein may be better on the basketball court than many of the players above but that isn't what the post is about. It is more about imagining how other sports would view AFL players as prospects, a bit like Carlton drafting an Irish hurling player.
He might be a bit undersized at shooting guard, but could probably score a lot as a point guard in a real basketball team.
The Brown brothers, at West Coast and Collingwood, were also good basketball players when they were younger too.