The Official 2007 Footy Tipping Thread

[HappyHammer]

Australian Football League.

BTW, what does NRL stand for? Not Really Lucid?

There's only one football and for some reason Australia has blindly followed the Americans and called it soccer.

HH.

[Grunt]

The Brits made up the name Soccer. Australian Rules Football existed before Soccer.

[Cliff Rogers]

I still don't know why footballs have tips?

[Grunt]

So you can hold them.

[HappyHammer]

The Brits made up the name Soccer. Australian Rules Football existed before Soccer.

HH.

[Felder]

I still don't know why footballs have tips?

So you can stand in line at your local pool.

[HappyHammer]

That's as maybe Grunt but only formally by 4 years. The problem is you only occaisionally kick the ball mostly you use your hands, this is true in Aussie Rules also....

HH.

[Grunt]

No, we kick the ball more than we hand pass the ball. Sure we use our hands but soccer players use their chests, heads and knees. The goalie also uses their hands.

[Cliff Rogers]

So you can hold them.

Why don't cricket balls have tips?

[HappyHammer]

No, we kick the ball more than we hand pass the ball. Sure we use our hands but soccer players use their chests, heads and knees. The goalie also uses their hands.

Is it against the rules for the ball to touch a players chest head or knee in AFL?

What about the bouncing it on the floor bit?

HH.

[Cliff Rogers]

So you can stand in line at your local pool.

Don't start that again, that is how we got in strife on the Friday thread.

[HappyHammer]

No, we kick the ball more than we hand pass the ball. Sure we use our hands but soccer players use their chests, heads and knees. The goalie also uses their hands.

I bet you touch the ball more with your hands than your feet because every time you kick it you touch it with your hands as well as hand balling and bouncing sounds like more use of the hands than the feet to me....

EDIT: oh yeah I forgot rucking and tipping also...

HH.

[Grunt]

I don't know what that has to with it. Aussie rules has as much if not more right to call it self football than soccer does. Rugby and Gridiron that's another story.

It takes quite a bit of skill to bounce a ball that shape while running full pelt on wet slippery grass.

[Grunt]

I bet you touch the ball more with your hands than your feet because every time you kick it you touch it with your hands as well as hand balling and bouncing sounds like more use of the hands than the feet to me....

Except when we soccer it.

[Felder]

Don't start that again, that is how we got in strife on the Friday thread.

By "we", I assume you meant "I", meaning "you".

It takes quite a bit of skill to bounce a ball that shape while running full pelt on wet slippery grass.

Well why don't they just slow down a bit? Why are they always in such a rush? If they slowed down, then they wouldn't be so puffed all the time, either.