A.F.L. Thread II

[benchmark00]

Im telling you ****s, Folau has more upside than KHunt. Needs a better kicking technique though tbf.

 

[Jono]

No one is disagreeing with you ffs.

 

[benchmark00]

Nah ****, let's take this to the car park.

 

[Jono]

Love playing kick-to-kick in the MCG car park.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Lol. Happy for people to think NRL is better than AFL or whatever, but to call it footy is so stupid. You barely kick the ball ffs, there is very little usage of the actual foot!

Yeah, look that's all well and nice, but you blokes get all hormonal when anyone dares call association football football & it's a code where taking marks by catching the ball with one's hands is noteably absent.

Glass houses, etc.

 

[benchmark00]

Was just saying to a mate the other day, no better feeling than walking up to the gates to watch your team play. Mixture of excitement, nervousness and optimism.

Well as a Richmond fan you probably don't experience the third emotion often but you know.

 

[benchmark00]

Yeah, look that's all well and nice, but you blokes get all hormonal when anyone dares call association football football & it's a code where taking marks by catching the ball with one's hands is noteably absent.

Glass houses, etc.

You mean soccer?

Have always said that for a sport to be called football it needs to pass one test and that is that the maximum points you can score must be achieved by kicking the ball only.

And last time I watched a game of soccer (around 1993 when I needed a way to get to sleep) the bloke in front of the net wearing pyjamas and mittens regularly plucked the ball out of the air with his hands.

 

[Jono]

Yeah, look that's all well and nice, but you blokes get all hormonal when anyone dares call association football football & it's a code where taking marks by catching the ball with one's hands is noteably absent.

Glass houses, etc.

Do we? Always used "football" when describing soccer except in situations where it would confuse people.

FFA has the word Football in it etc. etc.

 

[Spikey]

it's all football

except for cricket

 

[Jono]

Do we? Always used "football" when describing soccer except in situations where it would confuse people.

FFA has the word Football in it etc. etc.

In fact, I can't remember too many people saying "it's soccer, not football". Pretty sure most people actually having a whinge are soccer fans saying "it's football, not soccer".

 

[BoyBrumby]

You mean soccer?

Have always said that for a sport to be called football it needs to pass one test and that is that the maximum points you can score must be achieved by kicking the ball only.

And last time I watched a game of soccer (around 1993 when I needed a way to get to sleep) the bloke in front of the net wearing pyjamas and mittens regularly plucked the ball out of the air with his hands.

Well, yeah. Goalkeepers can catch the ball in their own penalty area (42 yards wide and 18 yards long), but cannot use their hands outside it and none of the other players can at all.

Do we? Always used "football" when describing soccer except in situations where it would confuse people.

FFA has the word Football in it etc. etc.

I meant Aussie Rules fans as opposed to Australians per se.

Anyway, the point I was making is that they're all codes of football because kicking forms part of the game.

 

[Jono]

I was complaining the use of the term "footy" to be fair. AFL (and any Aussie Rules football league at any level) generally has the term "football" in its name. Can't say the same for Rugby League (NRL etc.). In fact, in conversation here in Sydney I once used the term "rugby" when I was referring to League and not Union and 2 people jumped down my throat.

But if I used "League" (everything is a league for ****'s sake) or "footy" they'd know what I was referring to.

********.

 

[benchmark00]

Well, yeah. Goalkeepers can catch the ball in their own penalty area (42 yards wide and 18 yards long), but cannot use their hands outside it and none of the other players can at all.

Soccer Law 15 – The Throw-in

 

[Jono]

but cannot use their hands outside it and none of the other players can at all.

Obviously soccer is a code of football and I'm not denying that or whatever, but the fact is players can use their head, their chest, and even their arse if they wanted to score. Only the hands is illegal.

In Aussie Rules footy you can only score a goal with your foot.

So neither sport has a claim to having a more "genuine" entitlement to the name football.

 

[benchmark00]

Btw, Maradona used his hand to great effect in '86.

Oh snaaaap!

 

[BoyBrumby]

Soccer Law 15 – The Throw-in

****. tbf.

"On the field of play" I should've said.

Obviously soccer is a code of football and I'm not denying that or whatever, but the fact is players can use their head, their chest, and even their arse if they wanted to score. Only the hands is illegal.

In Aussie Rules footy you can only score a goal with your foot.

So neither sport has a claim to having a more "genuine" entitlement to the name football.

That's my point exactly. We all have preferences, but I think it's impossible to say one is more "genuine" in being called football.

 

[Jono]

Nah I quite truly believe that calling rugby league or rugby union "footy" is ********. Soccer being called football I have no issue with.

And that's not even a slight on the sport. But a huge proportion of the play just doesn't involve the foot.

 

[benchmark00]

Therefore can we say that 80% of Richmond players aren't footballers because they can't get a kick?

 

[Jono]

Going to mass quote all your Richmond jibes from October last year til July 22 when we thump you in 17.

 

[benchmark00]

Not enough space on the CW server IMO.