skilbeck
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Post by skilbeck on Oct 14, 2007 13:54:24 GMT 10
For those on the forum that follow a variety of sports, what is the order that you favor the sports? even if football is your only sport, what is the order from least annoying to most annoying? ill go first:
football
motor racing
rugby union
cricket
rugby league
{every other sport not listed}
equestrian
lawn bowls
tennis
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Post by Foriegnmariner on Oct 14, 2007 19:40:43 GMT 10
Football
cricket
Aussie rules
league
horse racing
motor racing
curling
Every other sport....
Baseball
synchronised swimming
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Post by kanewillow on Oct 14, 2007 21:39:11 GMT 10
cricket
football
AFL
every other sport
motor racing
horse racing
Rl
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Post by midfielder on Oct 15, 2007 0:28:02 GMT 10
Football - tragic
Cricket - keen follower
RL - interest only
Other sports - Head line stuff i.e. rugby world cup, Tennis if an Aussie is in it. Bathurst once a year
No Interest
AFL
Horse racing or any racing for that matter
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Post by shipwreck on Oct 17, 2007 13:01:35 GMT 10
Football
Tennis
Cricket
*******
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*******
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AFL
******* = insert any sport here
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Post by Bearinator on Oct 17, 2007 14:48:49 GMT 10
Football Anything that wins me money  |
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RECKY
Local league player
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Post by RECKY on Oct 19, 2007 10:29:07 GMT 10
football
nrl
afl
moto gp...(since barry sheene, no bandwagons jumped in the recky household)
super 14's
hurling
gaelic footy
UFC / MMA
Hey Bear, does pro wrestling count...hahahahaha
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Post by newieutd on Oct 19, 2007 13:54:41 GMT 10
Football Anything that wins me money I like the honesty. |
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Post by texasmariner on Oct 27, 2007 4:17:23 GMT 10
Football as in Soccer? I thought you guys called Aussie Rules 'football'.
Either way:
Footy
Baseball
College Football (American)
Formula 1
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happy
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Post by happy on Oct 27, 2007 17:58:59 GMT 10
Football
Handball
Basketball
I follow he headlines of ice hockey
But what's Aussie rules?
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Post by Bearinator on Oct 27, 2007 19:25:03 GMT 10
Football Handball Basketball I follow he headlines of ice hockey But what's Aussie rules? Aussie rules is AFL. Shit game. Google it Football is Rugby League. Shit game. Google it Rugby is Rugby Union. Violent game, I love it. Google it Soccer is what people in Australia call the REAL Football, the round ball game, as we know it. No need to google ;D |
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Post by omni on Oct 27, 2007 19:41:59 GMT 10
Football
Cricket
Rugby
AFL
Athletics (GO MOTTRAM)
Cycling (GO CADEL!)
Baseball
Handball
Hockey - as in real hockey not the one on ice
Volleyball
Anything that isn't Rugby League
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happy
Local league player
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Post by happy on Oct 27, 2007 20:06:02 GMT 10
Football Handball Basketball I follow he headlines of ice hockey But what's Aussie rules? Aussie rules is AFL. Shit game. Google it Football is Rugby League. Shit game. Google it Rugby is Rugby Union. Violent game, I love it. Google it Soccer is what people in Australia call the REAL Football, the round ball game, as we know it. No need to google ;D I will google it ;D You have strange words for the different sports which are quite different from those we learnt in our English classes at school |
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Post by Foriegnmariner on Oct 27, 2007 21:12:43 GMT 10
Football as in Soccer? I thought you guys called Aussie Rules 'football'. Either way: Footy Baseball College Football (American) Formula 1 Only aussie bogans (rednecks ot you yanks  ) call Aussie Rules football or if you live in the 4 southern/western states of Australia. Aussie rules is AFL. Shit game. Google it Football is Rugby League. Shit game. Google it Rugby is Rugby Union. Violent game, I love it. Google it Soccer is what people in Australia call the REAL Football, the round ball game, as we know it. No need to google ;D I will google it ;D You have strange words for the different sports which are quite different from those we learnt in our English classes at school Don't worry happy. it's just really hard here in australia because we have 4 sports all wanting to call themselves football. It all depends on where in the country you live. But we all on this forum know what the REAL footbal is [ |
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Post by Pete on Oct 28, 2007 8:38:46 GMT 10
Aussie rules is AFL. Shit game. Google it Football is Rugby League. Shit game. Google it Rugby is Rugby Union. Violent game, I love it. Google it Soccer is what people in Australia call the REAL Football, the round ball game, as we know it. No need to google ;D I will google it ;D You have strange words for the different sports which are quite different from those we learnt in our English classes at school Happy, To assist you when you check out AFL, NRL and Rugby Union, also check out their histories. The AFL game has been going nearly as long as Football. It is similar, in some ways, to Gaelic Football (Ireland). Google that too if you like. Why do I say check out the histories? Because one of the men (Wills?) who started up AFL (Aussie Rules), was an old Rugby school captain. He was a 'colonial' boy, meaning his parents were English, but he was born in Australia - at a time when Australia was just a bunch of separate English colonies. Those who could afford it would send their kids off to England to get 'proper' schooling, obviously Wills' parents did that. His schooling at Rugby was either just prior, during or just after the set up of the English FA and the start of our Football, Association Football. The initial politics behind the start of the English FA was basically (very basically) Rugby playing schools & clubs vs. schools & clubs that were prepared to look at a compromise of their own distinct styles of 'football'. So when Wills came back to Australia, he would have been aware of the start of Association Football, sooner or later. I suspect that it as far back as this time, when Association Football was just starting that the AFL's deep seated hatred of Football began. Being a Rugby old boy, and the split from Association Football being recent at that time, followers of AFL and Wills would have been very wary of getting involved with Association Football. Wills had also been involved with Cricket (a ball sport usually played in the summer months), and Cricket had at that time, just started up representative matches. He wanted to keep his cricket players fit and through his Grammar school in Melbourne set about playing football. There is conjecture that the initial games were played under Rugby rules, but later politics surrounding AFL means it is difficult to establish this (they hate Rugby just as much as Football). Shortly after Wills and the other 'football' clubs that had started up, adapted some rules and hence the name Australian Rules, or Aussie Rules. It sprang up from the southern colonies (Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia) and spread to Western Australia. Upon Federation, these States had a flourishing state wide comp in each of them. By the 1980s or so, they branched out to Sydney, New South Wales and also to Brisbane, Queensland, and the competition of the pre dominant state comp in Victoria changed it's name from VFL (Victorian Football League) to AFL (Australian Football League). They then went National. It is a huge sport both spectator and corporate $$ wise, particularly in these southern and western states. But it's shortcomings are this. 1) It is a national sport only and has no other country playing the same rules. (Ireland has Gaelic Football and the players' abilities are very similar, so the Irish League and the AFL do put on a compromise game called International Rules, but that is just an excuse for the Irish and All Australian players to belt the daylights out of each other!) 2) While it draws pay TV rights and corporate sponsorship it hinders other football codes (Rugby Union, Rugby League and Football) from those sponsors -there's simply not enough money to go around. 3) The politics around AFL means you have sections of the media, and the spectating public being very anti any other football code. They are very aware of their shortcomings and realise they must protect their turf as much as possible. Melbourne Victory's success last season in the Hyundai A-League must ahve sent a ripple of discontent amongst the AFL fraternity, not only because they won the comp, but they also took over the Telstra Dome and drew good crowds consistently. EDIT: Wills' full name is Thomas Wentworth Wills, was born in Molongolo, New South Wales. His father, Horatio, was a pastoralist (farmer) and Horatio was Australian born. Wills went to Rugby school between about 1852-1856. |
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Post by Auburn Mariner on Oct 28, 2007 22:40:17 GMT 10
Cricket, Football, AFL, Middle-Distance Running (Hicham El Gherrouj, Kenesise Bekele and Haile Gebrseselassie are unbelievable to watch), NFL, Baseball, Squash, Tour de France, League & Union.
DO NOT LIKE: Synchronised Swimming, ALL Extreme Sports, Greyhounds
On the subject of AFL, it is played in PNG, South Africa, New Zealand and some small Melanesian Pacific Islands. It is the VICTORIAN AFL press that are massively conservative and anti-everything else, although a few (particularly ABC 774AM in Mexico City) are pretty good with the Storm.
This country has 4 National games; Cricket, Netball, AFL & Football.
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Post by serious14 on Oct 28, 2007 23:43:06 GMT 10
Football, all variants of. South American Futsal is particularly mind bendingly spectacular, but the regular on-grass-eleven-on-eleven caper goes alright too. Rugby Union - up the 'Tahs!!! NFL I don't mind AFL if I'm bored and there's nothing else on...... NRL can go jump off a cliff for all I care. |
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) call Aussie Rules football or if you live in the 4 southern/western states of Australia.
