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its a fantastic game and league and Australias number 1 sport!!!

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there are 16 teams and i barrack for the team wearing black and white stripes called the Collingwood Magpies.

I'm a fairly huge fan myself. Essendon high mark member. I pay $650 a year for a reserved seat in class seating at all our home games.

Good to see the bombers picked up a quality young ruckman and some also young midfeilders to better our midfeild.

Who do you support? Well, in aussie terms (considering this is an AFL thread). Who do you "barrack" for?

Never did get this game, looks like fun though! is it similar to the gaelic games?

I support Richmond. I'm a member too. God knows why.

It's a rougher gaelic with an oval shaped ball and pitch basically. You need to be stronger, its much more physical than Gaelic Football. Theres actually a series at the end of the AFL season that is called "International Rules". It's gaelic and AFL combined and Australia play Ireland in a 2 game series. The series that was about 2months ago was won by Australia. We are the current champions.

its like gaelic but with tackling, and our players get payed, they are professionals, the players dont get paid as much as soccer players but decent amounts.

any one have questions... on history, teams, membership, wateva, i am an expert.

forza brisbane lions!

SWANNIES biatches

big bad barry hall all the way

I dont really like AFL that mch though when youve had a few its good to get into it like any sport

I am a massive fan of the bulldogs. Were coming to the finals next season

GO THE BOMBERS!!!! 2006 PREMIERS!!!

Adelaide Crows
Me Boundary Line member 06

go bombers!
by your sdescription of your membership, i probably see you quite often and not notice you

Good to see so many aussies in the forrum. However, i do not follow the AFL, so best of luck to your teams this coming season, in the meantime enjoy the cricket

Go the Bommers for premiers... That's almost as hopeful as a Dockers fan booking a trip to Melbourne in September.
Anyway, we all know the Eagles will go one better this year, if they can find someone to kick goals.

Absolutely hate watching this shit, can't actually believe people watch this crap. Rugby is the same, great if u wanna fall asleep. League shits all over these 2 sports. It's tough, not like afl, way more entertaining and the state of origin is like the ashes in cricket.

p.s. get rid of those shorts for Gods sake......the players look awful.

At least AFL shorts don't look they have been borrowed from a troupe of male strippers...

league.........go back to sydney........

Don't talk about league shorts. The AFL players look gay which is right cause the whole organisation is shit. You have morons running around, using every part of their fricken body and the worst thing is they call it a contact sport which is bullcrap cause they arent even allowed to hit a man.

Even in rugby, i remember that Lote Tuqiri got suspended last year for a shoulder charge. Absolutely ridicuolus.

By the way, league is in sydney so i have no idea what you're on about. The state of origin will be played in melbourne this season so i advise you to go and have a look at a real contact sport which has a point to it.

yeah, ill go off to wherever they are playing the "state of origin" match with the 50 or so people in victoria that actually follow the sport
just because the players dont run at each other and hit each other at 100 miles an hour doesnt make it a non-contact sport.
oh, and from your logic, why is AFL australia's most popular sport if they have a "shit organisation"

Most popular in terms of what. Audience or participation?

audience, yes, participation: not TOO sure, but i know its above rugby league.

It would be stupid if it didnt have the biggest audience since it's played in 5 states. If you look at WA or SA for example, it's the only sport they have apart from cricket which only comes around in summer.

Same thing goes for participation. I know that soccer is first and cricket is second but we are talking about 2 states (i don't count vic) against 5 states so it's obviously unfair.

Put it this way, if you took these 2 games out of the country, i'm sure that people would adapt to NRL ahead of AFL since it's more entertaining and the speed og the game is much quicker.

You make a passing comment about league shorts, and then bam league fans left right and centre.
Anyway, I'll never get anywhere arguing with league people. I'll just reside to the fact that here in the west we shall not fear an invasion from league after the western reds.

Well this is called the Afl thread so some news I guess. Brad Smith did his knee again, thats two preseasons in a row how unlucky. Seems like Gardiner, Lynch or McDougal will have to step up this year.
Let us know how your clubs preseasons are going as we only hear about the eagles and the shockers over hear.

Okay well, not exactly my favourite sport but eh....
IMO its boring to watch, on the same page as watching golf or cricket.

I prefer to watch league than AFL anyday. Although i must say its kinda a fun sport to actually play

On a last note, i have to say, that Football(soccer whateva) is better than any one of these other sports

footballfan10, u say AFL is boring to watch...

far out! other than golf and motor sports, Rugby league is right up there as one of the most boring sports...all this stop start bullshit and the atmosphere at Rugby games are shithouse, they struggle to get half the fans of a AFL team

some american show did some study about contact sports and it showed afl is the toughest game in the world as nfl where all this padding. so i think that shows afl is alot tougher.

everyone says that but i think NFL is alot more dangerous...

u have these massive guys who can get heaps of speed and they absolutly crunch the other guy

umm yeah i dont really see what point you were trying to make with putting wat i said in there...

But after all it is all my opinion and i prefer League over AFL. And football over anything

never got the afl. seems fun doh. all i noe is tt delta goodrem's brother or something plays for an afl team. lol

anyone up for some AFL discussion?

Tigers lost again. God fucking damnit

Don't worry tiger, they'll get there. In ten years. And by there, I mean finals. In 8th position.
Carn Dons

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Go Bombers!

tigers played well in the first half but the gods wouldnt be kind enough to give us a win at subiaco!

How good is that Hawthorn full forward? Williams. He's awesome.

For a bloke standing just of 6ft, yeah, he is. Still won't win the Coleman Medal though, methinks it's Fevola's year. Especially seeing as Lloyd got injured yesterday

Does anyone here on SP go regularly like me? If so, who do you support etc?

How are you able to watch and follow this sport after watching football the beautiful game being played?

AFL was my first love, I like AFL and football equally now though.

It's more of a social thing for me though. Just to sit down with some mates and some beer and watch the game. I also like to laugh at Richardson.

Ahh, the hours I've spent criticsing when I've been dragged along to Richmond games with my mates.
Anyway, the biggest home and away game (in AFL, we have a season of home and away games, then finals, culminating in the Grand Final) is fast approaching - this Tuesday, between Essendon (go you good thing) and Collingwood, probably the second biggest rivalry in football played out to a packed out, newly redeveloped MCG on a national holiday (no, not because of the football - it's ANZAC Day). And I will be off, sitting in one of the new stands. Gonna be bloody brilliant.

Is anyone else an MCC member here? It's pretty sweet, although it takes ages to become a member. I was on the waiting list for the best part of 14 years. The members stand is worth it though. It'll be even sweeter when I'm 18 and I can go into the private bar and booths.

I will be a junior one in September (when they do the distribution of memberships to those who have turned 15 this year), but I've been going in there to the footy and cricket in the members stand all my life. Can't wait to check out how it is on Tuesday

My Bombers aren't going too well at all...

Just when they scrap the priority picks this year as well. ARGHH... Just our luck. We would've had a Bryce Gibbs AND Selwood...

West Coast are going really well at the moment. Just keep coming back from big margins. Against Geelong and now the Blues. Adelaide still my favourite to win the Cup though. Brilliantly coached they are.

Finally, someone interested in talking AFL with me

Yeah, I'm also a Bombers fan, went on Friday night too, might not go again this season. Just cannot bear to watch them play like this anymore. Still, injuries have hurt us a lot this season, and I knew we'd eventually go shit. Big, big changes have to be made in the off-season (again).

Still, if this Gibbs kid is as good they say he is, we could do a Collingwood and go well next season with our list fit.

My favourite to win it at the moment is West Coast, but all the money is for Adelaide apparently, with West Coast's escapes in the last two weeks.

that gibbs kid is from adelaide and his local club side play there home games about 300m from my house!! He looks ok. Oh and how did you feel when crows thrashed bombers by 138 and kicked 30 goals Not that i go for any afl team anymore but they're from my city

Pretty fucking horrible, trust me.

Tigers are looking good. Carlton are not. Good fucking times.

WE were looking alright until the last 3 weeks.

JUst VERY close losses until we met the Adelaide teams.

Hopefully we can avoid the spoon and give it to Carlton again.

Hopefully. IMO we can at least three more matches for the rest of the season, against Hawthorn, Kangaroos and Carlton. Hopefully.