Australian Rules football classics

Runningbear · May 2, 2011

The 89 grand final was the toughest game ever played. 14 players were hospitalized after that game.

TRS · May 8, 2011

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Evidently, I suck at posting clips.
But how could you go from Aussie Rules, to Union? Or, god forbid......League, the dumbest, meatheadest sport ever.
The "game they play in heaven" is union, so they say.

I always liked watching the international tests, as long as the Aussies won, of course. Despite the brutal violence, the "raking", and the fact the "scrum" itself caused so many spinal injuries, still beats the shit out of rugby league.

Don't mind watching it-would never play it.

And I played Aussie rules as a junior, that was bad enough.

I agree with your opinion regarding Rugby League. Every time I see a decent passage of play in that code it threatens to become Union.
Players definitely have their fare share of off-field incidents. Very eloquent too

AFL is a great game. Will be very interesting to see how the game competes with Football (Soccer).
I'm happy, the Tiges took Freo apart

Sadly, Reds beat the rebels in Union

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TRS · May 8, 2011

Quote from Runningbear:

The 89 grand final was the toughest game ever played. 14 players were hospitalized after that game.

Toughest game I have ever seen. Was get him, before he got you . Hard as nails.

acronym · May 8, 2011

I had a coaching clinic, under this guy......only dude to have physically knocked down a point post.
Harder than nails.

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acronym · May 8, 2011

Quote from TRS:

I agree with your opinion regarding Rugby League. Every time I see a decent passage of play in that code it threatens to become Union.
Players definitely have their fare share of off-field incidents. Very eloquent too

AFL is a great game. Will be very interesting to see how the game competes with Football (Soccer).
I'm happy, the Tiges took Freo apart

Sadly, Reds beat the rebels in Union ..

Well, Australian Rules Football will never compete with soccer, despite being a much, much better game.
Won't compete with any other established sport either. It's only played in Australia.

The egalitarian nature of it, anyone, of any size or shape , CAN make it to the top level-if you got the sklills.

That, perhaps is what makes it unique, amongst all the sports in the world. Don't have to be 6'5' just to get in the door, just gotta have suicidal tendencies to play the game.
Preferably, some skills helps to.

TRS · May 8, 2011

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I had a coaching clinic, under this guy......only dude to have physically knocked down a point post.
Harder than nails.

Must be of similar vintage. Neville Brunns was my PE teacher at Primary School .... yeah, that was an incident.

I saw "Lethal" in the street one day... admittedly I was a boy, but that man was a rock. Low centre (piss off US spell check

) of gravity.

PS: Fare in previous post should have been fair

TRS · May 8, 2011

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Well, Australian Rules Football will never compete with soccer, despite being a much, much better game.
Won't compete with any other established sport either. It's only played in Australia.
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Fully aware, and agree.

acronym · May 9, 2011

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Must be of similar vintage. Neville Brunns was my PE teacher at Primary School .... yeah, that was an incident.

I saw "Lethal" in the street one day... admittedly I was a boy, but that man was a rock. Low centre (piss off US spell check ) of gravity.

PS: Fare in previous post should have been fair

Neville Brunns, Geelong? he was a schoolteacher? Shit.

Under 12's I think, could be wrong......I know I was shitscared of the guy. Even when Lethal smiled, even laughed, he still looked really , really angry somehow. Like he could smile and scowl at the same time.

Still, my skills mysteriously improved 50% during that one coaching clinic.
I guess we all figured he would just kill us if we didn't shape up.

TRS · May 9, 2011

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Even when Lethal smiled, even laughed, he still looked really , really angry somehow. Like he could smile and scowl at the same time.

Still, my skills mysteriously improved 50% during that one coaching clinic.
I guess we all figured he would just kill us if we didn't shape up.

Still has that look now when you see him on TV. Heavy brow. The look of an SAS operative. Even so, I don't think he would have garroted a 12 year old for failing a hand pass drill

acronym · May 10, 2011

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Still has that look now when you see him on TV. Heavy brow. The look of an SAS operative. Even so, I don't think he would have garroted a 12 year old for failing a hand pass drill

True, and his coaching skills have been proven at the Brissie Lions.

He didn't have to kill us-a flinty glance, a twitch of the mo, we would likely have whizzed our pants and garotted ourselves!!
There is no "fail" in the presence of a legend like that. Some of the kids who didn't know about the point post, were easily convinced he simply looked at it and asked it to get out of his way.....kinda like Chuck Norris.