AFL team!!! hahahahaha
that was the news just on the radio 5 mins ago.The afl team has announced a press conference for this morning
Surely it's a gimmick or a promotional role,Imagine him playing afl? lol
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Karmichael Hunt to Gold Coast AFL...
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Yes heard the same thing haha its gotta be a joke...... But than again...
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Yeah this is crazy news. They don't enter the comp til 2011 so he can spend all of 2010 learning how to play I guess.
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July 29th, 2009
KARMICHAEL Hunt, star of the Brisbane Broncos rugby league team, is set to announce his signing with the Gold Coast AFL club, according to early reports on Channel Nine.
On the Today Show this morning, reports said Hunt, a State of Origin and Kangaroos sensation, will announce his switch to the Aussie rules code with the fledgling Gold Coast club.
It has been confirmed that there will be a press conference at the Gold Coast Arts Centre at 10.30am today at which it is believed Hunt will make the shock announcement.
More details as they become available
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Damn Dougie, you beat me to it
Oh well. At least he's not playing for the Broncos. I'd say it's not a very smart move.. but, each to their own..
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I hate how they say SHOCK announcement when everyone already knows what it is. Originally Posted by titanstattman
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I just read he played afl at high school and had afl scouts after him then so maybe it'll be a good move for him. He's tall,can jump,can catch a ball well
he'll just have to learn to bump chests and slap others like real afl players LOL
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BRISBANE Broncos NRL star Karmichael Hunt has shocked the football world by crossing codes to AFL to sign with the Gold Coast Football Club.
In an unprecedented cross-code switch, Hunt will be on the Coast this morning to announce that he is signing with the GCFC, which will join the AFL in 2011.
Hunt is expected to hone his trade by playing with the club in VFL next year before the club's entrance into the big league a year later.
It is the first time a rugby league international has switched to play Australian Rules. The move will intensify the fierce turf war between the strongest football codes in Australia, with rugby league in danger of suffering further raids on its most talented players, especially if Hunt makes a successful transition.
Fellow Test players Greg Inglis, Billy Slater and Israel Folau are other obvious targets for AFL clubs.
Hunt played some Australian Rules as a schoolboy in Brisbane, attracting the attention of Queensland AFL scouts, before joining the Broncos as a 17-year-old in 2004.
The Auckland-born fullback has since played 10 State of Origin matches for Queensland and 11 Tests for Australia.
With Hunt's contract with the Broncos up at the end of the 2009 NRL season, the 22-year-old's future has been a hot topic in recent months.
He knocked back a $1.2 million three-year deal from the Broncos earlier this year and his manager David Riolo has been overseas looking at his options.
There had been speculation he could move to Japan to play rugby, but Hunt will make his shock code-switch announcement at media conference at the Gold Coast Arts Centre at 10.30am today.
He will be joined at the media conference by GCFC hierarchy, including coach Guy McKenna, chief executive Travis Auld and recruiting manager Scott Clayton.
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It sounds like a deadset April Fool's joke. I just find it hard to fathom how a rugby league player would enjoy playing AFL.
But they will spin this into a spear and attempt to throw it at our heart. That even rugby league players are jumping ship and that their grand game is of such overwhelming national signifigance that all elite quality Australian....sorry Kiwi athletes are attracted.
It'll even fuel more ridiculous poaching rumours.
But it does give our game a bloody nose. We are losing a Premiership winning Maroon and Kangaroo. And he is at the top of the game. Also it actually gives GCAFL some profile.
AFL are playing for keeps.
OMG footage from the press conference, I can not believe this is real.
Broncos fans would be spewing! Especially as their Finals campaign is nearly on the rocks.
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