Soccer.....five minutes of excitment.....seventy five of kicking a ball backwards and fowards to each other.
AFL for me!!
Collo.
fwdoz said
06:53 PM Jul 18, 2020
Not to mention the diving & faking leg injuries
Cupie said
10:10 PM Jul 18, 2020
About as exciting as watching grass grow.
All they need to do to spice it up is one rule change - eliminate off side, just like hockey.
dorian said
05:27 AM Jul 19, 2020
fwdoz wrote:
Not to mention the diving & faking leg injuries
I prefer to watch the women. When they fall over, they just get up and keep going. AISI, soccer is a game where the women play like men, and the men play like women.
Q: How do you recognise the Italian Olympic diving team?
A: They're the ones with the soccer boots.
-- Edited by dorian on Sunday 19th of July 2020 05:32:42 AM
Magnarc said
09:48 AM Jul 19, 2020
I have long since thought that these guys should all be members of actors equity union. Since the game takes 90 minutes, what do you suggest they are doing for the extra ten Collo???? hehe.
-- Edited by Magnarc on Sunday 19th of July 2020 09:51:09 AM
The Belmont Bear said
10:08 AM Jul 19, 2020
Collo wrote:
Soccer.....five minutes of excitment.....seventy five of kicking a ball backwards and fowards to each other.
AFL for me!!
Collo.
Lucky you put soccer up front Collo or that desciption could have been the same for the AFL especially the second part of your sentence.....actually I enjoy watching any of them I watch all the NRL games, I watch soccer if the Jets are playing or the AFL if the swans are going around. Rugy union is about the only code I cant get into its too stop start, has too many rules and the referee is usually the most influential player on the ground.
Anyhow each to their own Im just glad to have live sport back.....
Cheers
BB
Collo said
10:11 AM Jul 19, 2020
Whoops....I thought it was two forty minute halves....my mistake!
Collo.
Magnarc said
10:33 AM Jul 19, 2020
Ah BB, There has got to be something peculiar about a game in which players have to pass the ball backwards when the overall objective of the game is to go forward??????
The Belmont Bear said
12:01 PM Jul 19, 2020
Magnarc wrote:
Ah BB, There has got to be something peculiar about a game in which players have to pass the ball backwards when the overall objective of the game is to go forward??????
Magnarc I guess its nearly as peculiar as getting a point for missing...
BB
iana said
12:40 PM Jul 19, 2020
Ha ha Ha Ha with Rugby league, you get 4 points just for trying!
Magnarc said
01:37 PM Jul 19, 2020
BB. Touche mate!
Tony Bev said
02:29 PM Jul 19, 2020
There is nothing wrong with soccer, or any other sport
It is the actors, who sometimes spoil it
The vid is 47 seconds
Mike Harding said
05:23 PM Jul 19, 2020
Forgive me; I'm not across much of this sport stuff any more but how many countries play internationally in the AFL competition?
The Belmont Bear said
07:03 PM Jul 19, 2020
iana wrote:
Ha ha Ha Ha with Rugby league, you get 4 points just for trying!
Thats right Iana 4 points for a try - imagine how much better our scores could be if we copied the AFL and got points for nearly getting the ball over the line ......
BB
littledick said
11:40 AM Jul 20, 2020
It's obvious some on here have never played soccer or if they did, sucked at it.
And following a game only played in Aust,
Dick.
Craig1 said
03:36 PM Jul 20, 2020
Yep, 1st game of soccer I played, my team pointed at one end and said " that is your goal ". Coming from a dinky di Aussie Rules State, Tassie, I got the ball and booted it, fair into my goal. "They were not happy Jan". So to me Soccer cant even get that right.
Magnarc said
09:47 AM Jul 21, 2020
Being a tall lad for my age, 13, I was selected to be goalkeeper in the school team in UK. Having had a few lessons from the sports master, I ventured forth to play my first game against our bitter rivals, the Catholic mob on the other side of town, who were definately on the "right" side of the tracks, the other side to us!
At the final whistle we came off the pitch 7 to 1 losers, two of our lads were red carded, one of their blokes had a broken nose and I hit my head on the goal post trying to save one of two penalties that were given against us. The single goal registered to us was scored by their fullback back backheeling to his goalie who missed it! This was also my first and final game. Soccer in the fifties was a far cry from the game played today even at school level.
When we came to Oz I could hardly believe my eyes, Aussie rules, a game that I have loved ever since. Teddy Whitten, the great G Ablett Sen (and son) and countless others that have made this game such a delight to thousands of fans.
A game that gets 100,000 fans to a Grand Final at the best stadium in Oz, what other game played here can say that??? (BB?) (Very big grin!)
PS. Born a Pom but a proud Aussie since 1970.
The Belmont Bear said
12:52 PM Jul 21, 2020
Magnarc wrote:
Being a tall lad for my age, 13, I was selected to be goalkeeper in the school team in UK. Having had a few lessons from the sports master, I ventured forth to play my first game against our bitter rivals, the Catholic mob on the other side of town, who were definately on the "right" side of the tracks, the other side to us!
At the final whistle we came off the pitch 7 to 1 losers, two of our lads were red carded, one of their blokes had a broken nose and I hit my head on the goal post trying to save one of two penalties that were given against us. The single goal registered to us was scored by their fullback back backheeling to his goalie who missed it! This was also my first and final game. Soccer in the fifties was a far cry from the game played today even at school level.
When we came to Oz I could hardly believe my eyes, Aussie rules, a game that I have loved ever since. Teddy Whitten, the great G Ablett Sen (and son) and countless others that have made this game such a delight to thousands of fans.
A game that gets 100,000 fans to a Grand Final at the best stadium in Oz, what other game played here can say that??? (BB?) (Very big grin!)
PS. Born a Pom but a proud Aussie since 1970.
Magnarc we cant do that because at the moment we dont have a stadium big enough to hold 100,000 but for one year we did. The 1999 grand final played at the Homebush Olympic Stadium between the Storm and St George drew a crowd of 107,558, not possible nowadays because the capacity of that stadium was reduced after the Olympics from 110,000 back to 80,000. Just a normal double header club game at that stadium (which I attended earlier that year also drew over 100,000. There was a sell out 110,000 crowd for a Wallaby/All Black match which we also went to just before the olympics when Johna Lomu famously scored a try in the dying seconds to snatch the game.. My experience of trying to get out of that place after the games made me decide that I wasn't going to go anywhere near the place during the olympics. By the way there was a GF replay played over in your old homeland in 1954 between Halifax and Warrington that drew more than 102,000 people. I agree the MCG is probably the best ground in Australia to watch cricket but in my opinion the best ground for watching the codes played on rectangular pitches is in Brisbane - I don't like admitting that because I'm not fond of the cane toads who happen to call it home.
BB
Phillipn said
07:58 PM Jul 21, 2020
The latest competition is guessing how many points the Brisbane Broncos will be defeated by [ how many points to nil].
The Belmont Bear said
09:05 PM Jul 21, 2020
Phillipn wrote:
The latest competition is guessing how many points the Brisbane Broncos will be defeated by [ how many points to nil].
I can,t believe whats coming out of Qld about the Broncos at the moment they have been a top side ever since they entered the competition. One bad year and everyone up there wants to disown them. i guess you find out who your real supporters are when youre losing not when youre winning.
BB
Gundog said
04:06 PM Jul 27, 2020
Just to set the record straight, no sporting event held in Australia can hold a candle to the MCG.
The MCG also holds the record for the biggest VFL/AFL crowd (121,696), the highest recorded crowd for a cricket match (93,013 at the 2015 World Cup Final) the largest crowd for a single day of Test cricket (91,112) and the record crowd for a domestic cricket match (80,883).
Craig1 said
05:42 PM Jul 27, 2020
Attended in 1969 when over 119,000, standing room area. Built stilts out of steel beer cans to see something.
Soccer.....five minutes of excitment.....seventy five of kicking a ball backwards and fowards to each other.
AFL for me!!
Collo.
Not to mention the diving & faking leg injuries
About as exciting as watching grass grow.
All they need to do to spice it up is one rule change - eliminate off side, just like hockey.
I prefer to watch the women. When they fall over, they just get up and keep going. AISI, soccer is a game where the women play like men, and the men play like women.
Q: How do you recognise the Italian Olympic diving team?
A: They're the ones with the soccer boots.
-- Edited by dorian on Sunday 19th of July 2020 05:32:42 AM
I have long since thought that these guys should all be members of actors equity union. Since the game takes 90 minutes, what do you suggest they are doing for the extra ten Collo???? hehe.
-- Edited by Magnarc on Sunday 19th of July 2020 09:51:09 AM
Lucky you put soccer up front Collo or that desciption could have been the same for the AFL especially the second part of your sentence.....actually I enjoy watching any of them I watch all the NRL games, I watch soccer if the Jets are playing or the AFL if the swans are going around. Rugy union is about the only code I cant get into its too stop start, has too many rules and the referee is usually the most influential player on the ground.
Anyhow each to their own Im just glad to have live sport back.....
Cheers
BB
Whoops....I thought it was two forty minute halves....my mistake!
Collo.
Ah BB, There has got to be something peculiar about a game in which players have to pass the ball backwards when the overall objective of the game is to go forward??????
Magnarc I guess its nearly as peculiar as getting a point for missing...
BB
BB. Touche mate!
There is nothing wrong with soccer, or any other sport
It is the actors, who sometimes spoil it
The vid is 47 seconds
Forgive me; I'm not across much of this sport stuff any more but how many countries play internationally in the AFL competition?
Thats right Iana 4 points for a try - imagine how much better our scores could be if we copied the AFL and got points for nearly getting the ball over the line .....
.
BB
It's obvious some on here have never played soccer or if they did, sucked at it.
And following a game only played in Aust,
Dick.
Being a tall lad for my age, 13, I was selected to be goalkeeper in the school team in UK. Having had a few lessons from the sports master, I ventured forth to play my first game against our bitter rivals, the Catholic mob on the other side of town, who were definately on the "right" side of the tracks, the other side to us!
At the final whistle we came off the pitch 7 to 1 losers, two of our lads were red carded, one of their blokes had a broken nose and I hit my head on the goal post trying to save one of two penalties that were given against us. The single goal registered to us was scored by their fullback back backheeling to his goalie who missed it! This was also my first and final game. Soccer in the fifties was a far cry from the game played today even at school level.
When we came to Oz I could hardly believe my eyes, Aussie rules, a game that I have loved ever since. Teddy Whitten, the great G Ablett Sen (and son) and countless others that have made this game such a delight to thousands of fans.
A game that gets 100,000 fans to a Grand Final at the best stadium in Oz, what other game played here can say that??? (BB?) (Very big grin!)
PS. Born a Pom but a proud Aussie since 1970.
Magnarc we cant do that because at the moment we dont have a stadium big enough to hold 100,000 but for one year we did. The 1999 grand final played at the Homebush Olympic Stadium between the Storm and St George drew a crowd of 107,558, not possible nowadays because the capacity of that stadium was reduced after the Olympics from 110,000 back to 80,000. Just a normal double header club game at that stadium (which I attended earlier that year also drew over 100,000. There was a sell out 110,000 crowd for a Wallaby/All Black match which we also went to just before the olympics when Johna Lomu famously scored a try in the dying seconds to snatch the game.. My experience of trying to get out of that place after the games made me decide that I wasn't going to go anywhere near the place during the olympics. By the way there was a GF replay played over in your old homeland in 1954 between Halifax and Warrington that drew more than 102,000 people. I agree the MCG is probably the best ground in Australia to watch cricket but in my opinion the best ground for watching the codes played on rectangular pitches is in Brisbane - I don't like admitting that because I'm not fond of the cane toads who happen to call it home.
BB
The latest competition is guessing how many points the Brisbane Broncos will be defeated by [ how many points to nil]
.
I can,t believe whats coming out of Qld about the Broncos at the moment they have been a top side ever since they entered the competition. One bad year and everyone up there wants to disown them. i guess you find out who your real supporters are when youre losing not when youre winning.
BB
Just to set the record straight, no sporting event held in Australia can hold a candle to the MCG.
The MCG also holds the record for the biggest VFL/AFL crowd (121,696), the highest recorded crowd for a cricket match (93,013 at the 2015 World Cup Final) the largest crowd for a single day of Test cricket (91,112) and the record crowd for a domestic cricket match (80,883).