Australian soccer receives massive boost

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Timoz said:
Also over the last 20 to 30 years female teachers have almost exterminated male teaches from schools. From a woman's perspective it is much easier to demonstrate the comparative effeminateness and simplicity of soccer. But any male with even average levels of testosterone.....and ability to make a
choice....are you kidding?
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You make an interesting point. When i was in high school, our (female) PT teacher had been avoiding playing footy all year, but caved after we kept demanding it. She announced that goals would only be worth 2 points to make it 'easier'. The horror of it. She got a bit ********ed off when I told my team to only kick behinds so we could keep the ball down our end (it was muddy).
I even scored a 'try' hehehehe.....

All the more reason the AFL needs to appeal to women I suppose.
 
Timoz said:
Why even bother about soccer? You can't do anything about it anyway! Why not be positive and positively promote australian football. For those who want to die of boredom watching 'pussyfoot' rules soccer - for god sake let them! The only reason the soccer fraternity have progressed in this country is because of the large immigrant intake where that game [the world's shame with the rioting it promotes], is the only choice!
Biggest load of crap ever written.

Soccer is football for a start. Don't even get me started on that. Ans where do you get it's the only choice? Why is it the most participated sport here in OZ -at ALL levels?

The positive thing to do is, and is now happening on a large scale anyway, is the promotion of football (soccer for you footballphobic people) in this country. Nobody, not even some of you insular victorians can stop globalisation, and the power of football.

And where do you get the boredom thing from? Obviously from your chummy insular mates who have no idea of the enormity and excitement the global game produces. Saying crap like that is laughing material for the majority of the worlds population.
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Goat said:
Look what you've started Timoz and northpole! I can't stand another 3000 post long soccer vs football thread! Somebody stop this thread before it starts again!
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It almost has a monty python feel to it! Stop this record STOP THIS RECORD!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
 
i dont mind soccer.but when i see those italians dive and roll around on the ground, it looks really pooncey and bad for the game
 
aimar21 said:
i dont mind soccer.but when i see those italians dive and roll around on the ground, it looks really pooncey and bad for the game
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It's not just the Italians. But this will be a problem footy will also have to face once a fully professional Aussie footy league starts in Italy or Argentina.

I think most soccer fans would also agree it is a blight on the game.
 
Not that I want this thread to keep going - but it's already a bit of a blight on Aussie Rules in Australia. Not players staying down, but the playing for frees. Makes the umpires' jobs hard, annoys fans and looks weak. If it kept growing at the rate it was a few years back, they would've had to start making it reportable.
 
aha. yeah i guess so, i do like it equally with footy, but some parts of it are crap. like anything
 
Is this aimar21 coming out of the closet? There's no need to get hung up about your sporting orientations aimar, you will find many of us are proud to be bisportual.
 

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aimar21 said:
i was never in it. um and im not hung about it, this is a non-issue
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Aah, I was just giving you a hard time. Valencia is actually my favorite La Liga team (and I like Villareal, as well), so I recognized what your username stood for immediately. I have a Valencia jersey, myself -- of guess who? #21, Aimar... :D
 
Grunty said:
It's not just the Italians. But this will be a problem footy will also have to face once a fully professional Aussie footy league starts in Italy or Argentina.

I think most soccer fans would also agree it is a blight on the game.
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It certainly is a blight on the game. Diving, feigning injury etc. Mind you, it wasn't always like this. It used to be a much more physical game. However, now that so much money is involved in winning, and severe penalties for doing the 'wrong thing', it's turned the whole thing into a bit of a farce at times. Hence the diving etc.

Given ever increasing money in other sports, feigning injury and diving is coming to a sport NEAR YOU!
 
realfootball said:
you're a idiot.
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:lol: I love it when someone tries to insult, but only ends up making themselves look silly.

realfootball said:
Soccer is football for a start.
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Australian football was the first codified. So there. (No I am not going to argue over the merits of either sport, just stating fact.)

realfootball said:
Don't even get me started on that. Ans where do you get it's the only choice?
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In most countries, soccer IS the only form of football played. They do indeed have no choice.
 
realfootball said:
Given ever increasing money in other sports, feigning injury and diving is coming to a sport NEAR YOU!
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Diving needs to have many 50m penalties handed out to punish it.
 
Belicose said:
:lol: I love it when someone tries to insult, but only ends up making themselves look silly.



Australian football was the first codified. So there. (No I am not going to argue over the merits of either sport, just stating fact.)



In most countries, soccer IS the only form of football played. They do indeed have no choice.
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Choice is the operative word here. If kids in places like South Africa, Ethiopia or even Brazil were given a real choice of footballing codes, obviously not all, but many would opt for Aussie Rules Footy. At the moment they are given NO choice, that is a fact.


The same goes for Australia, once Aussie kids are given a choice of sports, they choose what they like, and no amount of parental pressure will keep them in a sport they do not like. If you disagree with that, it's obvious you don't have kids. In Victoria most kids choose Aussie Rules, but some have chosen soccer, over 50,000 in Melbourne according to the Herald Sun.

That's the beauty of choice.
 

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