Yay!CJ wrote:
JimC wrote:I'm kicking of this thread which is to talk about the sublime game that is Aussie rules football, and in particular, to delight in the performance of the mighty Geelong Cats, premiers in '07, runners-up last year, and with a good chance of being in the finals this year.
GabrielJ is a Collingwood man. Known as the Magpies (or just the Pies), this club produces the most rabid set of fans known to mankind! I'm sure he will have lots to say... :twisted:
Coincidentally, tonight is the grand final of the pre-season cup, and, you guessed it, the 2 contenders are the Cats and the Pies!
Go Cats!
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Xamonas Chegwé wrote:What's with these Aussies - we give them 3 perfectly good kinds of football but they have to go and invent their own that no-one else can be arsed to play.
.I've supported Port Adelaide since i was little i had no choice in this matter i think my mother would of disowned me if i supported the cows. 
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."Trolldor wrote:Ahh cardinal Pell. He's like a monkey after a lobotomy and three lines of cocaine.
Cormac wrote: One thing of which I am certain. The world is a better place with you in it. Stick around please. The universe will eventually get around to offing all of us. No need to help it in its efforts...
All of those points apply equally well to Rugby Union and Rugby League. Games that people outside Oz care about. I did say there were 3 kinds of football before you went and made up one just for yourselves.JimC wrote: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.
2. We have the excitement of seeing many more than one or 2 goals a match.
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:
And there is a fair bit of both Rugby codes played in Oz as well (with little crowd violence as well), & I have enjoyed watching both at times, but rules is simply better...Xamonas Chegwé wrote:All of those points apply equally well to Rugby Union and Rugby League. Games that people outside Oz care about. I did say there were 3 kinds of football before you went and made up one just for yourselves.JimC wrote: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.
2. We have the excitement of seeing many more than one or 2 goals a match.
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:
JimC wrote: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.
2. We have the excitement of seeing many more than one or 2 goals a match.
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:
Stop compairing european football to ours ours is largely free of crowd violence and we have gestapo guards as pigs and security. 
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."Trolldor wrote:Ahh cardinal Pell. He's like a monkey after a lobotomy and three lines of cocaine.
Cormac wrote: One thing of which I am certain. The world is a better place with you in it. Stick around please. The universe will eventually get around to offing all of us. No need to help it in its efforts...
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