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Yes, i have heard that as well, Croweaters have long claimed Australian football was formed in South Australia, good to see you are taking an interest and even learning about Australian football.
AFL is not indigenous but uniquely Australian
The WC does not interest me in the slightest, ( well maybe just a little – goal highlights) but i dont consider it important enough for our “real” football seasons to be stopped – AFL/NRL, but on the plus side, we can get some real good stadium upgrades for some AFL teams, Both the Dockers and Eagles have massive waiting lists.
If the WC can fix this, IMO it’s a win/win, although it has to be said that even if we dont get the WC, the stadiums will still be upgraded, but we will have to wait longer.
AFL, NRL and the whole World Cup threat
Australian Football said | Yes I am exhausted with this never ending code war.
Lie down !!, cup of tea ?.
AFL, NRL and the whole World Cup threat
I think BOC is on the money here, the Aleague went to summer because it was starved of attention, being a minnow on the football calendar.
I seem to remember last season many posts from people complaining that all the 20/20, 1 day cricket was taking attention away from the A league, well it seems now that cricket will ramp up it’s advertising etc and do the same as what the AFL/NRL were doing.
You repeat the same thing about technical and tactical soccer etc, but do you realise that people actually want entertainment and excitement !!.
AFL, NRL and the whole World Cup threat
Dont know whether “a bastardised version ” is quite right, every code would be in the same boat IMO.
The Storm and Rebels: going head-to-head
That sounds pretty well like the way i have heard it, cheers.
The Storm and Rebels: going head-to-head
Jedda Baxter said “AR was never bigger than rugby in NZ. Never”.
If you say so !!, its more than possible that Australian football was never bigger than rugby because not enough Victorian miners went to NZ (for gold rush), it’s more than possible rugby was bigger because immigration from the UK was a lot bigger, so therefore through sheer weight/culture of numbers one code swamped another.
Does not really mean that one game is better than the other, anyway Australian footy seems to be doing Ok in NZ today, considering NZ’s usual distaste of all things Australian.
The Storm and Rebels: going head-to-head
Dont know whether it was bigger than rugby, but i do understand that it was bought over from Australia by miners from the goldfields of Victoria, the same way Australian football was bought to WA.
“Miners were attracted from the Central Otago Gold Rush, and from Victoria, Australia where the Victorian Gold Rush had nearly finished”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Gold_Rush
Backs up my theory IMO that the Victorian goldfieds were very important in the formation of Australian football, Wills and Harrison spent some time there and i would not be suprised if many different kinds of folk football was being played, and being a sportsman he would have taken note.
Many Australian, Irish, American, English, Scottish, Welsh, etc on the goldfields mixing socially etc, for those days quite a melting pot.
AFL is not indigenous but uniquely Australian
yeah i know,
Soccer mums are just a myth !!.
AFL is not indigenous but uniquely Australian
Well i guess if you stop writing articles that many posters see as factually incorrect, and are also seen as sniping at other codes, and one in particular, then you probably will get outnumbered.
IMO you are just using the MCG/Docklands scenario to sink the slipper into Australian football, and recycling your well known prejudice with the same words moved around.
Our Cup bid avoids FIFA controversy
Doubt it, no cultural cringe here, wont be french, Australian wine or beer please ……. cheers !!.
Our Cup bid avoids FIFA controversy
Jiggles said ” in AFL you are taught to kick onto the man, where as in the rugby codes you tend to kick away from men into space “.
Sorry, jiggles, but you are taught in Australian football to kick to space so a player can lead onto the ball, and a little front of him so he can pprotect the ball from defenders.
No point kicking it onto him, so a defender can spoil.
No disrespect, but it’s more than likely that your mate was just a good average kick, it’s not just luck that so many ex australian football players have found their way into NFL sides as punters. the way rugby players can pass on both sides of their body, put in cut out passes, dummies etc is the same as aussie rules players practicing their drop punts, torpies, bananas, and dribbling the ball along the ground to break at angles etc.
AFL is not indigenous but uniquely Australian
( Jedda Baxter said “The FIFA WC is coming to Australia. Get ready for your final reality check people. Enjoy your last decade in the sun before joining your Eton Wall game relic brother.”)
Keep em coming, get it all out now Jedda.
AFL is not indigenous but uniquely Australian
I actually missed it, read the TiVo guide wrong and thought it was sunday night, from all reports a pretty tame affair, i guess no-one wanted a repeat of the last episodes.
Hope i get it right next week, big crowd for rural limerick, good money spinner for the GAA.
Goodes boots Australia to opening win
I can give you 2 off the top of my head ….. 8 hour day that stuck, and the secret ballot are from around that time.
But i guess the big thing is immigration, plenty of poms trying and dying to get out here, …. and today still, why would that be ?.
AFL is not indigenous but uniquely Australian
Titus said Oh, I dont really care.
Great, why are you still posting then !!, glad you admiited polocrosse was another geat Aussie sport.
AFL is not indigenous but uniquely Australian
Jedda Baxter said |It is Victorian, not Australian.
I am not a Victorian, NSWelshman by birth, but you cannot seriously believe that statement, really strikes at your credibility IMO.
You are in denial ….. and it aint the river.
AFL is not indigenous but uniquely Australian
Jedda Baxter said ” except for the one living in isolation in a city at the bottom end of the world. Time’s up now though isn’t it as the FIFA WC in Australia will soon prove. It will be your undoing.”
Well it took a while but you finally got it out, congrats.
Your agenda is much clearer now !!.
AFL is not indigenous but uniquely Australian
Titus said “I don’t like this idea that somehow the AFL is more Australian than other codes because it developed in isolation”.
For a start how do you figure it was developed in isolation, what exactly does that mean ?, was american football or basketball developed in isolation ?.
Secondly, the whole crux of this problem is people such as yourselves denying that Australian football was developed here, it was !!
Is vegemite more Australian than marmite, is pavlova more Australian than a mc flurry, IMO they are, does not mean that the other products are no good.
Unfortunately you have to deal with the reality that Australian football was signed, sealed and delivered HERE in AUSTRALIA, it appears to not suit the agendas of many who post on here.
AFL is not indigenous but uniquely Australian
There was a football game from downunder.
It caused deniers to rage with thunder.
But it’s surely clear.
From the evidence here.
That they have made a major blunder.
And no, i have not given up my day job.
AFL is not indigenous but uniquely Australian
One thing IMO that has been missed in all of this, is after returning to Australian Wills and his cousin Hammersley spent a couple of years on the goldfields, who knows what sort of football they were playing there, varius forms of Irish, English, folk etc and IMO as a sportsman he would have been interested.
1. The grandson of a convict trannsported for highway robbery.
2. Only white child in district, played with and had knowledge of the marn grook playing tribe.
3. Eductated at rugby school and in England for about 5 years
4. Upon returning to Australia spent 2 years on the goldfields.
Combine all these, and you have IMO a unique Australian game, what is all the fuss about.
As Kurt said we can conclude that critics of Australian Football consider it to be both not Australian and too Australian
AFL is not indigenous but uniquely Australian
Cpaaa said Keep the articles coming Jimbo, true or false we dont care
This would be funny, but i suspect that you are actually serious.
Stinger and Cafu come to A-League's rescue
Computer forum speak, this post = nail, hammer, head, this article is a classic case of do not feed the tr…….
AFL is not indigenous but uniquely Australian
What ever happened to Collingwood playing a game against the irish champs in Dublin, which Eddie was talking about a couple of seasons ago ??.
Australia win International Rules series 2-0