Comments on: Take it!

By: Eagle

Eagle — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:00:17 +0000

Rugby is just a msh up of thickheads, who will bop eachother one easily instead of learning to kick….however i am totally biased towards AFL XDDD

By: Red

Red — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:34:23 +0000

There is always the Eagles, Crows, Magpies, Bulldogs, Swans, Tigers, Lions… you have lots of animals to choose from.

By: Red

Red — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:20:00 +0000

Canada, Japan, SAfrica, America, and more. There is an actual International comnpetition, but Australia does not compete. Our under 18s could probably slaughter those teams.

By: Emily.

Emily. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:52:45 +0000

Carn the saints? Btw, the scared-looking guy is Leigh Montagna.

By: dani

dani — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:04:57 +0000

i agree on the ‘YAY! afl pic’ side of things, but have to disagree with u about the ‘carn the cats’ side of it. fkn nail-bighter if ever i’ve seen one. i was at the bar FKN SCREAMING MY LUNGS OUT!!! tho, well done kittehs, they did play good

By: jack crosby

jack crosby — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:47:52 +0000

http://www.afl.com.au/ thats the website with all the info you need about australian rules football the best game on the planet to play and watch you americans have your own team but theyre really slow and theres an international competition but australia is not allowed to compete cause we would just dominate until you guys got better http://www.afl.com.au/international%20cup/tabid/10241/default.aspx thats the international site

By: BAW

BAW — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:28:31 +0000

Well, it was certainly deliberate. And as for the form of the game, as a dumb Yank I can’t say, but they were wearing the sleeveless jerseys of Australian Rules (!?) Football. Unless Rugby players in Australia wear them too?

By: austin

austin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:17:02 +0000

Soccer is a game for eunuchs.

By: Real-luv-guru

Real-luv-guru — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:35:42 +0000

Rugby is a game for hooligans, played by gentlemen. Don’t know about Soccer. *shrug*

By: emilie from sydney

emilie from sydney — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:22:15 +0000

NRL is so repetitive! Rugby Union is way better.

By: emilie from sydney

emilie from sydney — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:18:55 +0000

*gasp!*

By: emilie from sydney

emilie from sydney — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:18:18 +0000

it`s AFL just to tell you. and we`re not crazy.

By: gle0004

gle0004 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:44:25 +0000

supporting essendon from leeds wo

By: mew2

mew2 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:16:02 +0000

But doesn’t a pitbull eventually let go?

By: mew2

mew2 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:13:49 +0000

Didn’t know there was more than one rugby so didn’t know they could dribble the ball, too. First time I saw a player dribble in an AFL game I thought for a second that he’d dropped the ball.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:54:57 +0000

I like Geelong.. and thank God Fevola is off to Bisbane!

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:53:44 +0000

Yep, that was him, and not just once but he has done it several times.

By: mew2

mew2 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:33:37 +0000

That may have been the guy I saw punch the player from the other team when all the other guy was doing was trying to get out from under him after they both hit the ground…

By: mew2

mew2 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:30:39 +0000

Thanks–am new to veiwing the sport, and none of these guys really stands still long enough to let me distinguish between black or navy stripes The main reason Geelong stuck in my mind is because (please don’t laugh too hard) I tend to gravitate toward teams whose mascots/logos are animals.

Okay, I take it back–you can laugh if you want.

Knew the black-white-red looked familiar, but couldn’t think of the name. Like I said, the teams with animals stick with me. Now, if they’d been named the St. Kilda Cougars I probably would have been able to remember them…

By: mew2

mew2 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:23:30 +0000

Sorry…was abbreviating Australian Rules Football rather than League. Don’t know too much about either AFL or Rugby except that I LOVE to watch the games (when I can find them on the barren wasteland of sports channels that our cable providers offer). And I stand by my original statement that both are preferable to anything we’ve got here–the little bit I’ve learned about either game came from Wikipedia and You Tube videos, and the rules make far more sense than anything I’ve been able to put together from watching US football through high school. (I was in the marching band so attended the games solely to perform in halftime shows.) Plus our wimpy guys over here have this silly notion of rectangular fields instead of oval ones, and this absurd use of helmets to shelter their fragile skulls. In my opinion if you’ve gotta know all the rules of a game for it to be fun to watch, then there’s no sense in watching.
If anyone wants to point me towards some sites where I can learn more about the teams, players, etc., or where I can find some US sports channel that actually caries the games on a regular basis, I’m listening…

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:29:19 +0000

Places they play League. Australia, Lancashire and Yorkshire, so nowhere in the civilised World!

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:27:25 +0000

It wasn’t deliberate if it was Rugby Union, because deliberate foul play will have both sets of fans yelling for you to be sent off.

By: Elise

Elise — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:41:33 +0000

Best sport ever.

Coming from someone who hates most sports.

Geelong for life.

By: crystal

crystal — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:53:46 +0000

You might want to see your doctor about that. Apparently loving Collingwood is a risk factor for a myriad of terrible diseases.

By: Eddie the Floydist

Eddie the Floydist — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:24:19 +0000

Didn’t make the cut on your local team, eh?

By: Eddie the Floydist

Eddie the Floydist — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:20:44 +0000

And at least a two game suspension for the guy doing the hitting.

By: Kit

Kit — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:24:37 +0000

Mew2, lol mate i like your review =) btw its AFL not ARF. There will always be at least 2 injuries during a game (grand final a saints player had his nose broken after a rough tackle)

By: caz

caz — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:20:00 +0000

no!

By: aussie

aussie — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:40:52 +0000

gayest sport EVER.

By: T1G3R

T1G3R — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:39:26 +0000

AFL SUX ASS… GO NRL!!

By: dr handle

dr handle — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:09:16 +0000

Eddie Everywhere has been a large part of that success in recent years. BTW Ohai paws!

By: RP

RP — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:02:16 +0000

Sounds unusual to me as an avid fan of the sport. I’d have to guess that it was either a game from 20 or so years ago, some form of rugby, or you’re exaggerating the incident, because that would most definitely be a free kick.

By: Lol

Lol — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:27:27 +0000

Which rugby are you talking about? League or union? Because if you’re talking about league then attempting to dribble the ball would result in a knock-on and a change-over of possession. If you’re talking about union… well I haven’t bothered to learn all of the rules so that’s new to me.

By: mammoth calves

mammoth calves — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:57:47 +0000

Yay Footie!

By: Eddie the Floydist

Eddie the Floydist — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:34:21 +0000

Unless you’re Barry Hall. Good luck to the ‘dogs with keeping that pitbull in check!

By: Eddie the Floydist

Eddie the Floydist — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:31:23 +0000

Wrong..

By: BAW

BAW — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:25:49 +0000

I once saw a bit of an Australian Rules game on TV; I saw a player running down the field with the ball, a player from the other side came up to tackle him, and ball carrier slammed his elbow back in the face of the would-be tackler. The refs did nothing and the commentators didn’t say anything, so I presume that this is both legal and not unusual.

By: ill-d

ill-d — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:39:32 +0000

its funny, on a football(soccer) forum i frequent i was given a bunch of sh!t from some English dudes for calling their it soccer (im a yank lol)…which is understandable since a sport using pretty much just your feet should be called football….but its always easy to get them to shut up when you let them know the term “soccer” originated in England (its an abbreviation of sorts for association….as in association football)

and that’s my tidbit of the day! lol

By: ill-d

ill-d — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:34:48 +0000

how does it go? football is a gentleman’s sport for hooligans, rugby is a hooligan sport for gentlemen?

of course that’s referring to soccer-football…but i think its still applicable.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:37:40 +0000

There’s usually one team in the top division of any professional sports league that gets this on a national level. My point about Collingwood is that they’ve managed to take being that unpopular to a whole World scale!

By: myteamsucks

myteamsucks — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:03:13 +0000

they go on about having the biggest supporter base in the league, and yet they choose to forget that the rest of the country only watches their games to watch them lose

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:50:36 +0000

To be fair, they are very good at being unpopular. I know people who dislike them and have never seen as Aussie Rules game.

By: myteamsucks

myteamsucks — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:43:50 +0000

collingwood do many things, but rule isnt one of them

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:43:15 +0000

Garry Noel Price (born December 9, 1935, in Brockville, Ontario, Canada) is a retired Canadian ice hockey defenceman.

Price started his National Hockey League career with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1958. He would also play for the New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, Los Angeles Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins and Atlanta Flames. He would retire after the 1976 season. He would win one Stanley Cup with Montreal in 1966.

Awards & achievements
WHL Prairie Division Second All-Star Team (1957)
AHL Second All-Star Team (1966)
AHL First All-Star Team (1970, 1972, & 1976)
Eddie Shore Award (AHL) Outstanding Defenceman (1970, 1972, & 1976)
Played in NHL All-Star Game (1967)

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:41:17 +0000

You can (but generally don’t) dribble the ball in rugby too. Also rugby is one of the few sports I can think of where deliberate foul play has the fouler’s team support calling for him to be sin-binned or even sent off.

By: kdedauw

kdedauw — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:57:45 +0000

Collingwood rules!!!!

By: myteamsucks

myteamsucks — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:25:53 +0000

so im the only one who laughed when they lost?
i agree with you about collingwood though

By: εpsilon v

εpsilon v — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:50:36 +0000

such amazing faces XD

By: genii

genii — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:12:42 +0000

that was an epic match
im surprised the saints lost like that tho

By: torak

torak — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:54:50 +0000

CARN THE CATS!!! Poor Sainters, they tried… But YAY! An AFL picture got up here!