The Aussie Rules thread

[JimC]

Ok, she has sung. Pretty good win, by 67 points, Pre-season cup premiers.

Go Cats!

[leo-rcc]

Aussie rules is the only kind of football I enjoy watching.

[JimC]

Aussie rules is the only kind of football I enjoy watching.

[Trolldor]

...eww.

[owtth]

Are the combined rules (Irish & aussie) games popular down there? I´ve never watched aussie rules but I´ve always found the combined games good for a spectacle, the spectacle being farmers kicking seven shades of shit out of each other.

[JimC]

Are the combined rules (Irish & aussie) games popular down there? I´ve never watched aussie rules but I´ve always found the combined games good for a spectacle, the spectacle being farmers kicking seven shades of shit out of each other.

Sure, the International rules series are great! (except for the round ball... )

If you get a field full of mad Irish and Australian blokes, there's bound to be a dust-up somewhere!

[Pappa]

I knew an Aussie who called Aussie Rules Football "Gay FL".

[JimC]

I knew an Aussie who called Aussie Rules Football "Gay FL".

A Rugby bloke with a sloping forehead and a persistent desire to be involved in mass gropes scrums full of big hairy men? :twisted:

Tell him to state that opinion during saturday night in a Collingwood pub...

[GabrielJBuckley]

Ok, she has sung. Pretty good win, by 67 points, Pre-season cup premiers.

Go Cats!

Indeed, well done. We had our colours well and truly lowered.

Now I'm off further up the mountain to live the life of a football monk...

...until the premiership season starts anyway.

[owtth]

Are the combined rules (Irish & aussie) games popular down there? I´ve never watched aussie rules but I´ve always found the combined games good for a spectacle, the spectacle being farmers kicking seven shades of shit out of each other.

Sure, the International rules series are great! (except for the round ball... )

If you get a field full of mad Irish and Australian blokes, there's bound to be a dust-up somewhere!

Well, round ball therefore rectangular field, crazy ball therefore round field, perfect logic.

[redunderthebed]

15 days until the mighty Port Adelaide play.

[daveateam]

There are several vital distinctions between a game of soccer, and a game of Aussie rules:

1. The round ball makes the game boring predictable, the oval ball adds unpredictable bounce and demands exquisite skill to manage. Rugby

2. We have the excitement of seeing many more than one or 2 goals a match. Hockey (although goals are an intellectually bankrupt argument, it's end to end excitement that really matters, some of the most exciting football and hockey games I've watched were 1-0)

3. There is virtually no crowd violence at an Aussie rules match (although there are certainly vast torrents of filthy, drunken verbal abuse). Soccer matches, however (in Oz as well) are quite famous for violence and hooliganism. The reason is simple; Aussie rules has so much violence on the field, that the crowd's bloodlust is satisfied vicariously... :twisted: Outdated.

[redunderthebed]

There are several vital distinctions between a game of soccer, and a game of Aussie rules:

1. The round ball makes the game boring predictable, the oval ball adds unpredictable bounce and demands exquisite skill to manage. Rugby

2. We have the excitement of seeing many more than one or 2 goals a match. Hockey (although goals are an intellectually bankrupt argument, it's end to end excitement that really matters, some of the most exciting football and hockey games I've watched were 1-0)

3. There is virtually no crowd violence at an Aussie rules match (although there are certainly vast torrents of filthy, drunken verbal abuse). Soccer matches, however (in Oz as well) are quite famous for violence and hooliganism. The reason is simple; Aussie rules has so much violence on the field, that the crowd's bloodlust is satisfied vicariously... :twisted: Outdated.

Well put sir.

[JimC]

OK, the season proper starts next week. So far, I have identified 2 rabid fans other than myself...

redunderthebed is a mad Port Power supporter. He probably hates the Adelaide Crows more than any other team (a case of within city rivalry, perhaps a little like Man U vs Man City...)

GabrielJBuckley is a feral Collingwood (Magpies) fan. Enough said, really, although I would love to post a pic of Joffa to make my point... :twisted:

I, of course, am a fan of Geelong, a cultured, intellectual and yet physically powerful team, with our nickname being the Cats...

CCL would be a natural supporter of our team, and I know that leo-rc loves the game too... (I always thought he was a man of discernment...)

Remember, you will always get totallly unbiased reporting from me as to how the season unfolds...

[charlou]

I don't support any one team, just really like to watch a ripper of a game.