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Post by redunderthebed » Sat May 19, 2012 6:35 am

is the reason you still stick with your team no matter how stupid and illogical it is.

Port Adelaide 14.11.95
North Melbourne 13.15.93

WHAT A FUCKING WIN! ran over the kangas im still shaking i was yelling at the tv like a deranged lunatic and when the final siren went i cried.
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Sat May 19, 2012 6:59 am

Are those scores or dates? :dunno:
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Post by redunderthebed » Sat May 19, 2012 7:27 am

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Are those scores or dates? :dunno:
Scores........... aussie rules is scored thus

Goals (worth six points) Behinds (worth one point if you miss the goal) Points.

So if a team scored 14.11.95

They have scored 14 goals 11 behinds for a total of 95 points.
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Sat May 19, 2012 7:30 am

Oh. I see. So... who won? :tea:
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Post by redunderthebed » Sat May 19, 2012 7:31 am

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Oh. I see. So... who won? :tea:
Daft cunt. :hehe:
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Post by Rum » Sat May 19, 2012 8:03 am

Scoring a 'behind'. :hehe:

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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Sat May 19, 2012 8:09 am

Rum wrote:Scoring a 'behind'. :hehe:
We were winning until they scored my behind - couldn't sit down for a month after that! :shock:
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Post by redunderthebed » Sat May 19, 2012 8:13 am

Rum wrote:Scoring a 'behind'. :hehe:
I'd like to think that i know a fair bit about aussie rules but i have no fucking idea where that came from?. :think:

I'm a bit scared to google it too. :nervous:
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Sat May 19, 2012 8:14 am

redunderthebed wrote:
Rum wrote:Scoring a 'behind'. :hehe:
I'd like to think that i know a fair bit about aussie rules but i have no fucking idea where that came from?. :think:

I'm a bit scared to google it too. :nervous:
If I catch you googling my behind, you'll get a slap you won't forget in a hurry, young man! :lay:
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Post by redunderthebed » Sat May 19, 2012 8:26 am

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... esFootball

If ya interested this has to be easily the most irreverent and funny explanation of the AFL. :)

I liked the bit "collingwood fans yanks think oakland raiders brits think liverpool fans" its funny because its true. :funny:

EDIT: an explanation for the behind terminology and no its not an homosexual act. :prof:

In early forms of football - association, rugby etc., when the ball was kicked past the goals, it was said to be "behind". Most early rules (circa 1860) allowed that the team defending a goal could kick the ball back into play from a specified area when the ball went "behind". This aspect of play still exists in Association Football and Australian Football.
In Australian Football, when the game transitioned to cricket grounds in the 1860s, two posts were added either side of the goal posts to mark the kickout area. Consequently, when the ball passed between the goal post and the kickout post (now called the point post) a behind had occurred.

Many year later the behinds began being reported in the results and eventually became a part of the score. At the same time the "kickout" area shrank from an area stretching from kickout post to kickout post to just the area in front of the goal posts.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_did_beh ... z1vInmE7bn
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Post by PsychoSerenity » Sat May 19, 2012 9:07 am

So, is it a bit like Quidditch?

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Post by redunderthebed » Sat May 19, 2012 9:29 am

Trolldor wrote:Ahh cardinal Pell. He's like a monkey after a lobotomy and three lines of cocaine.
The Pope was today knocked down at the start of Christmas mass by a woman who hopped over the barriers. The woman was said to be, "Mentally unstable."

Which is probably why she went unnoticed among a crowd of Christians.
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Post by Strontium Dog » Fri May 25, 2012 11:40 pm

I remember they used to show Aussie Rules Football highlights over here (or, as someone once memorably suggested it be called, Aussie No-Rules Rugby).

What I used to like about it is that at the end of the highlights they would list the score and scorers, followed by a list of all the injuries.
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