footy finals

[Shannon]

Does anyone else find it amusing that the NRL is playing its final in sydney without any NSW sides and the AFL is playing its final in Melbourne without and Victorian sides??

Pretty cool I think, hopefully both will still be sellouts.

I know most will be watching Saturday, but I say bring on Sunday night!!!!!

[bennylaird]

We won the cricket and the basketball, is footy still going?

[Zed]

itrs only fair that we let the cane toads and the mexicans win the NRL considering we won the AFL last year and will probably win again this year :)

[Grunt]

Go Eagles!

What's NRL?

[bennylaird]

Weagles at the MCG?????

Gunna choke again?????

[Grunt]

Benny, I think we need to have a wager on this. If Sydney win you get to kiss Zed and if the Eagles win you get to kiss Al.

West Coast have won more finals in Melbourne than Sydney have. Losing by less than a kick in the last 30 seconds of a match is hardly choking.

[bennylaird]

[QUOTE=Grunt;379723]Benny, I think we need to have a wager on this. If Sydney win you get to kiss Zed and if the Eagles win you get to kiss Al.

QUOTE]


:confused: Either way I loose????:confused:

As for choking the Pies have that thrown at them even when they loose by a point when the ball was clearly out of bounds etc. Any loss is a choke lol.

Weagle Wobbles an up and coming term?

Actually don't really care just like to see Wortsfold or however you spell it suffer. Remembering his treatment of Micky McGuane years ok. Some people are just nasty.:p

[silentC]

Losing by less than a kick
Serve 'em right for playing a game where you get a point for missing :p

[Doughboy]

I agree SilentC it is the only game where if you miss you still get a pat on the back



'' Oh we can see what you were trying to do but you were just a little bit off but we will give you a point for the effort..''

Oh please come on.

Pete

For the record... Go the Swannies and the Storm!!!!!!

[Grunt]

I agree SilentC it is the only game where if you miss you still get a pat on the back

Who gets a pat on the back for a point?


Serve 'em right for playing a game where you get a point for missing :p

It's gotta be better than the game where they stick thier fingers up each others bum. :) Well, I suppose the recipient players got the point.

[silentC]

the game where they stick thier fingers up each others bum
Imagine if you judged the whole of the AFL on Warrick Capper!

[DanP]

At least in AFL once you are caught, that's it. In Thugby you get caught, they let you up and you get another go...five more times.

[silentC]

Thugby? Oh, you must be thinking of that other game, Rugby League. Silly game. Now, in Rugby, you keep going until you either turn over the ball or score a try. None of this 5 tackles crap.

[bennylaird]

Sorta brings out the animal instinct, my dogs always have to sniff another dogs date whenever they can as well?

[DanP]

Thugby? Oh, you must be thinking of that other game, Rugby League. Silly game. Now, in Rugby, you keep going until you either turn over the ball or score a try. None of this 5 tackles crap.

You mean that game where big tough blokes try to get their head as far as they can up the bum of other big tough blokes?

[silentC]

If you have a close look, you'll realise that they have their heads between the two players in front, not between the thighs of one of them. It's funny how many AFL fans think that way. Could be something Freudian going on there? :p

I was having this same conversation with an ex-pat Vic on Saturday night. He won the argument for me when he described how, unlike rugby players who stay rooted to the ground, AFL players 'float like butterflies'. I nearly spilled my beer. Butterflies!! :D

[DanP]

Mate, I'm a sports fan, if they had cockroach races on telly, i'd probably watch it. I find the whole Aerial ping pong V's Throwball V's Thugby V's Wogball arguments pretty amusing and stir the pot where possible. :p

Dan

PS. 'butterflies' :rolleyes:

[bennylaird]

Sting like a Bee!!!!!

Might be something about free flowing rather than running into brick walls over and over and over and over and over, opps now do it the other way?

[bennylaird]

:D Hey Dan? Are you allowed to incite violence on your own time??????:D :D

[silentC]

He's just trying to keep himself in a job!

Totally unrelated but I saw Rod Quantock on Denton last night. Denton was asking him what he really felt about Jeff Kennet. He had a few unpleasant things to say but then said at least when he retired, Little Johnny came along and filled the gap. Denton told him he was lucky there were always politicians around to poke fun at. Quantock says "yes, in a perfect world, I'd be out of a job" :D

Actually, the free-flowing thing is one of the things I dislike about AFL because it doesn't translate well to the TV. I get lost :o

Rugby can be free-flowing, unlike League which is just as you say, one brick wall after another. Frustrating game to watch sometimes. Nearly as frustrating as Soccer :D

[bennylaird]

Good fun to poke fun at codes as it is to poke fun amounst the individual teams, keeps us busy and entertained and rarely a punch throw unless everyone is pussed.

What I want to know is when the next cockroach races are on Dan? Whose the favourite?

[Waldo]

G'day,

At least in thugy you get some biffo, in AFL you put a silver spoon in your mouth and call it a mela (typo?).

"Yes officer, some chap came up to me and hit me in the nose and we had a mela" :D
































GO THE BRONCOS!

[DanP]

Each of the codes have their moments, AFL with umpires interpretations of rules and flooding. ARL, why do they bother with scrums, RU the way the S'effrikans used to play (penalty goals, no trys) and Wogball with the nancy falling over.

I find with a lot of sports, those who really knock them usually don't understand them. Like test cricket, once you understand the tactics involved, it makes it a lot more interesting.

Dan

[bennylaird]

Thats AFL, come see the real Aussie rules out bush and in the suburbs, still plenty of biff around :D :D :p

[Waldo]

What I want to know is when the next cockroach races are on Dan? Whose the favourite?

G'dau Bennylaird,

The next cockroach races will probably be on at the Caxton Hotel, Brisbane this Sunday beofre the NRL Grand Final.

[DanP]

Waldo, Melee rules are one of the biggest wanks the game has ever seen. Most fans and even players would think they are bullsh it. you've the AFL management to thank for that one...

[bennylaird]

58 Days to go, Watchout you Pommy Barstools.:D :D :D :p

[Waldo]

G'day DanP,

Yep, agree with that. And the the tosser boss of AFL, Andrew Greekolopigus has a lot do with that IMHO.

[bennylaird]

G'dau Bennylaird,

The next cockroach races will probably be on at the Caxton Hotel, Brisbane this Sunday beofre the NRL Grand Final.

Any hot tips? TAB covering it?:D

[DanP]

What I want to know is when the next cockroach races are on Dan? Whose the favourite?

If it's not on telly, who cares?


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A fitting curtain raiser for the NRL GF.

[Waldo]

Any hot tips?

Yeah, the big black roach number 9. :)

[silentC]

I find with a lot of sports, those who really knock them usually don't understand them.
Yeah but I draw the line at 20/20. It's like stopping dinner after the entree...

[bennylaird]

Foxtel will cover it, I mean they actually put wogball on so not much difference:D :D :p

[Waldo]

the pretend Victorian

G'day DanP,

There's no way I'm even pretending to be a Victorian. No way! Just because I live in Antartica doesn't mean I'm a Victorian. "Always on the move" my no. plate says - there's agood reson for that. Nope, I'm a Queenslander. :p

[DanP]

They put poker on the sports channel so cockroach racing would be a walk up start.

[bennylaird]

Yeah but I draw the line at 20/20. It's like stopping dinner after the entree...


Trouble is the network can sell them so they will subject us to more, rather see them go the bash in the 50 over game. At least Test cricket retains most of its original style.:cool:

See what tv has done to Aussies rules, and I suspect the other codes.:( :(