Declining/extinct footy terms

[FootyJunkie]

"2.10pm saturday at the MCG"

Vlad: "But we'll lose $$$"

 

[Moo]

"You dirty bludger!"

Turn it up.

 

[Geddy Lee]

"You're not a patch on your old man" (to Gary Ablett Junior)

Wormburner.
Wayne Carey.

 

[parano1a]

"If you don't want to know the scores look away NOW."

("Well I heard it on the grapevine...")

 

[DarwinRoo]

I know. Another one that came up when I was involved with junior footy. I was coaching an Auskick clinic and a mother said to me "So you'll teach my little boy to play AFL". I hesitated for a second, wanting to say "About one in a thousand who do Auskick play AFL". But my anti-dickhead filter cut in and I gave a straight answer. It happened a few more times after that but I was ready for it by then.

The irony is that no one from North of the Murray says they play NRL when they play rugby league.

 

[randyzany]

Next time, do it.

Then why do you get sore in your derriere when people (who BTW couldn't give a flyig *&% about the rugbies, to them it is the same excrement) call the NRL 'rugby'? Oh the insult. And then dare insist that these people should learn to tell the difference and call it 'League'?

Same deal if a parent comes up to a junior coach and asks if them if they'll teach their precious little one to play 'League'? No they won't, they'd be teaching to play an amateur version of the game but only 1 in 1000 actually get to make it in the pros that is 'League' (Rugby League).

The upset that this causes the rugbies people has always amused me and the arrogance that just because we live in Australia (pretty much an irrelevance outside of NSW and QLD) people should the know difference between games they couldn't care less about is astounding.

 

[Wallaby]

I know. Another one that came up when I was involved with junior footy. I was coaching an Auskick clinic and a mother said to me "So you'll teach my little boy to play AFL". I hesitated for a second, wanting to say "About one in a thousand who do Auskick play AFL". But my anti-dickhead filter cut in and I gave a straight answer. It happened a few more times after that but I was ready for it by then.

Closer to 1/10,000.

Number of Auskick Kids - over 800,000.
New players drafted/rookie listed per year who actually go on to play a game of senior AFL - about 100-ish.

I used to have the same issues. I did the Auskick Coaching course, and the official said - 'Of the 100 or so kids who will be at your Auskick clinics - chances of any of them playing AFL - less than 1/100. So run your clinic for the other 99'.

 

[newcs]

Who's on him.

Who's on ______________.

Example

 

[Scotland]

"If you don't want to know the scores look away NOW."

("Well I heard it on the grapevine...")

"Right on the tip of my tongue..."

 

[Scotland]

'contested mark'
'good use of the body'
'run down from behind'
'dragged' (any player sent to the bench by the coach will be back on after their precise 7.34 second rest period anyway)

Forward pocket, full forward, half forward, centre half forward, wingman, centreman, ruck rover, rover, half back, centre half back, back pocket, full back. Replaced by small/key forward, midfielder and small/key defender with the occasional 'quarter back' (ugh) thrown in. Thankfully the ruckman has yet to be re-classified as a tall midfielder or key centre...

 

[Oscarman]

"In the Van"

Actually heard this used in one of the weekend's games on Fox Footy. Dan Lonergan on ABC Radio uses it a bit too.

 

[The Falcon Strike]

It may have been mentioned earlier in the thread, but the death of the word "Rover" is a sad one.

Its now just the generic midfielder

 

[Tex Support]

Thankfully the ruckman has yet to be re-classified as a tall midfielder or key centre...

Haha, nice one.

I can see Dermie using these...

 

[Randy Campbell]

Fair
Equal
Even

 

[Powerstufff]

It may have been mentioned earlier in the thread, but the death of the word "Rover" is a sad one.

Its now just the generic midfielder

Yeah it did get a few mentions. What you say about the generic midfielder term makes me think that perhaps 'on-baller' or 'on the ball' may be facing a well-deserved decline itself. I'll have to pay special attention for a week or so and see how much I hear it now.

 

[scythe]

Who's on him.

whoever thinks this one is dead wasn't sitting next to me during the loss to the pies.

 

[Total_Juddshanks]

Ball burster, worm burner and a raking left footer(there is no such thing as a raking right footer, hes' just a big kick!).

I'd go one further than this and suggest all left footers are automatically classed as either raking or booming kicks. I think booming is further and higher than raking. It is also highly unlikely for someone to 'wheel around' onto anything other than their left foot.

Forwards are the only players on the ground who are described as 'up and about' when they are playing well, and backmen are usually the only people who get described as 'solid' as a glowing compliment (also why can you call a back a backman and a ruck a ruckman, but you can't call a forward a forwardman?')

Kicks are rarely speared anywhere other than onto a forward's chest.

It's also impossible to 'mop up well' anywhere other than the back half of the ground.

 

[treefingers]

"a blight on the game". no we're just left with "bringing the game into disrepute".

 

[StonesThrow]

Probably been said but, soccer in danger

 

[utility]

Utility

Yeah, what?

"You could throw a blanket over 20 players"

 

[utility]

"The wind is worth three goals to the Ponsford Stand end.

 

[utility]

"They've had a red hot go today."

 

[utility]

"Cellar dwellers"

 

[utility]

"There's a blue on the half-forward flank"

 

[utility]

"King hit"