Who follows footy (any code) [Archive]

View Full Version : Who follows footy (any code)

echnidna

20th October 2005, 09:10 PM

Who follows footy (any code)

doug the slug

20th October 2005, 09:23 PM

i thought if you wanted to discuss religion, it had to be in the closed forumhttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon10.gifhttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon10.gifhttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon10.gif

Gumby

20th October 2005, 09:29 PM

Not me, I barrack for Collingwood. :D

Bodgy

20th October 2005, 10:06 PM

joseph84

20th October 2005, 11:09 PM

carnnnnnnnnnnn the hawkkkkkkkkkkkkks :D

Daddles

21st October 2005, 12:36 AM

carnnnnnnnnnnn the hawkkkkkkkkkkkkks :D

But neither the Hawks nor Collingwood play in the A-league. Why are we talking about them here :confused:

Richard

bennylaird

21st October 2005, 08:00 AM

What the Hell is an A-league?????

Waldo

21st October 2005, 09:31 AM

G'day,

I was going to pick yes, but the question is who follows football (any code)? So if I tick yes that'd mean I watch anything with a ball. :confused:

Yeah righto, that's spitting hairs. Being a Qldr in the Antartic down here I follow rugby league which means the Broncos. Which is a bit hard down here, but next year they're holding the final of the State of Origin down here - can't wait. :)

The other footy - AFL. Can't stand. Used to play it at school. But it's like religion down here and you turn on the news and it gets rammed down your throat evry minute! It's the first news story, it's all the news on the sport, then throughout the night you get flamming sports updates - anything like that makes me hate it. :mad:

But I do love AFL when the season is over. :D

Is that correct use of those things?

shrek

21st October 2005, 10:08 AM

Hey Waldo,

The Queensland Reds are looking good for a title in a couple of years time, if they can keep the bunch of young blokes that they currently have. I reckon they'll be the number 1 Australian team soon.

Got to agree with you about AFL. To me it has always looked like an organised game of kill the dill with the pill. Now I love my rugby, was still playing 1st grade at 38, but it doesn't rule my life. I have always been amazed at how much AFL dominates most peoples lives in Melbourne. I was down there a while ago, watching T.V., when a news flash interrupted the program I was watching. I thought this must be important, World War 3 breaking out or something. It was just to say that a certain player had passed a fitness test and would be playing on the weekend.

bennylaird

21st October 2005, 10:11 AM

There are those that do and those that don't but without AFL the world would be a drab boring place for us real Aussies, lol.

Much more popular than Church down here, lol.

Daddles

21st October 2005, 10:37 AM

You can have your AFL. They ruined the game years ago - it's no longer the aussie rules that I played as a kid. Although it's faster and that has introduced some new skills, it too easily turns scrappy and many of the skills that made it unique have vanished (like actually having to control the ball to get a mark, being able to bump, true rucking contests, the beloved drop kick, etc).

I followed the rugby when I lived in Squidly and Brissy - even got to the point where I could understand it :eek: But the urge hasn't been there to watch it since.

When my lad started playing soccer, I was a tad confused - where were the pointy ends of the ball? And he's not a wog :confused: But I've learned to love the game ... being forced to watch it every week for seven years does that to you :rolleyes: The new A-league is good stuff ... and it helps the Reds (Adelaide United) are doing so well ;)

Cheers
Richard

bennylaird

21st October 2005, 10:42 AM

Again to each his own, I can get no enjoyment from watching soccer, all the dancing and acting with no scoring just bores me to tears.

I agree on AFL the real game has long since gone, but still lives on in the the suburban and country games to a point.

Waldo

21st October 2005, 10:43 AM

it too easily turns scrappy and many of the skills that made it unique have vanished (like actually having to control the ball to get a mark, being able to bump, true rucking contests, the beloved drop kick, etc).

Got that right. Give me the biff and barge of league, union or rugby anyday. Go the Reds (although I watch very little Union, sorry Shrek), and bury Newcastle, Manly and South Sydney into the ground.

bennylaird

21st October 2005, 10:59 AM

At least Rugby gives players the oportunity to explore the inner self? Isn't that what Hopawarti (however it's spelt) was doing?

Wongo

21st October 2005, 11:20 AM

I am a sport junkie.

Go the swongs.

shrek

21st October 2005, 11:28 AM

At least Rugby gives players the oportunity to explore the inner self? Isn't that what Hopawarti (however it's spelt) was doing?

Ha ha ha.

Just out of curiosity, do the Melbourne media report on any misbehavior by the AFL players or is that sort of thing off limits? There was a period up here where rugby players, league and union, were making the headlines every day.

Admittedly some of the things that occurred were terrible and the players involved deserved to be held accountable. But some of the stuff was minor and it seemed like a footy player couldn't fart in public without it ending up in the papers.

Waldo

21st October 2005, 12:51 PM

G'day Shrek,

Hell yeah. Player A gets done for a pub brawl (or mele s.p?, if you're an AFL follower afficinado) and player B gets done for an alleged rape then you have a full 1/2 of the news filled up.

Nothing else happens in the world when it's AFL season, WWW 3 wouldn't even make the news.

bennylaird

21st October 2005, 01:38 PM

Watching the box in Adelaide you wouldn't even know there were other clubs around, same goes for W.A. If AFL is a religion in Vic then it has serious Cult memberships in the others mentioned.

DaveInOz

21st October 2005, 03:01 PM

See Avatar for details

Corunetes

22nd October 2005, 11:09 PM

Look at the pics and you will realise that nothing more needs to be said...........

echnidna

22nd October 2005, 11:25 PM

I gather the Newcastle Knoghts is a footy club :D :D

Waldo

23rd October 2005, 12:10 AM

G'day,

Go the Broncos, booooooooo to the Knights, boooooo to Andrew Johns. :)

Corunetes

23rd October 2005, 03:25 PM

G'day,

Go the Broncos, booooooooo to the Knights, boooooo to Andrew Johns. :)

Ooooh! How tewwibwy rood! :eek:

jshaw

23rd October 2005, 05:51 PM

Huge Brumbies/Wallabies fan with a slice of Edinburgh Gunners/Scotland on the side. Since moving to this civilised country 5 years ago I've got quite into League too and will watch big games of Aussie Rules (Dockers for my sins, well, Perth was the first place I lived in Australia and West Coast were a bit too up themselves at the time). Hate soccer for much the same reasons as Waldo can't be doing with AFL - I grew up in Scotland where obsession with the round ball game is on ecilpsed by their complete and utter inability to play the game. Doesn't stop it being force-fed to the punters though.

bennylaird

24th October 2005, 08:22 AM

I gather the Newcastle Knoghts is a footy club :D :D

Beats me, don't remember and footy clubs by that name? Might be in a country league or something up bush?

(unless it's not real footy?)

barnsey

24th October 2005, 10:01 AM

I've been to an FA cup at Wembley - an international at Twickenham - state of origin in Melbourne and they were all fantastic but the biggest thrill has always been a Grand Final at the MCG. :D

OK I'm a native of southern climes but I would rate an AFL Grand Final above F1,
Bathurst, and the others above, perhaps because of good fortune but I've experienced a lot of them and give me Aussie Rules anytime ;) ;) :D

Jamie