New AFL Vernacular

[SBYM]

Journo - I thought this was short for 'journalist' but then I heard them using it to describe Damian Barrett, so I figure it is some kind of derogatory slur...

 

[Sttew]

"star" - term used to describe any AFL footballer in the news for the wrong reason

 

[Kram]

I won't be happy until someone on Trade Radio calls someone else a campaigner.

An 'experienced' campaigner.

 

[Micksy]

Unprovoked - Any encounter in which you come off second-best.

"The loss of Dangerfield was unprovoked"

 

[Topkent]

If I hear 'destination club' one more ****ing time
It is used by every single commentator now , any club that isn't shit is one of those

No offence to StKilda but they were calling them a destination club after getting Carlisle to agree to move
They have won 1 flag, finished in the bottom 5 and have a small supporter base
Or do you just mean they aren't conplete shit like Carlton this year

 

[Suma Magic]

Transacted = formally traded

Leg speed = speed

Web = slightly zoney loose man in defence system

 

[Borderline]

"Does that make sense?" - A rhetorical question often added to the end of each sentence in a Ross Lyon presser.

Presser - Press conference

 

[Scotsguy]

Going forward. This is an utterly meaningless piece of managerese which is simply babble. It serves no use, other than to be a vocal comma.
Going forward? as opposed to what? Today I though that i might do everything in reverse or sideways. Today I thought that I may fail to advance, end up in yesterday and defy physics. Utter ****ing nonsense.

And don't even get me started on "of".
I would of had a pound have apples.
If you can't see what's wrong with that, track down your english teacher and set fire to them. Then yourself, and see if you can put the flames out, moving forward.

Usually I'm fairly calm...LOL

 

[ExTasDeeMan]

Marquee Matchup - A game that will involve the 2 teams in a trade, mostly with one club being bent over harder than they were on the trade table

A Trade out of Respect - a trade involving an older player who was bound for delistment, however still has pictures of the coach with a mexican donkey.

Manjula - some sort of spaceship.

 

[Vicky Park]

Project player - any guy of 200 cms or more, who has never seen much less played footy, preferably from the US, and gets added to your list as a Category B rookie. In practice, this is really an all expenses paid gap year (2 years) holiday for an American in his mid-20s who struggles to make it in basketball.

 

[DERIBERATE]

Going forward. This is an utterly meaningless piece of managerese which is simply babble. It serves no use, other than to be a vocal comma.
Going forward? as opposed to what? Today I though that i might do everything in reverse or sideways. Today I thought that I may fail to advance and also defy physics. Utter ******* nonsense.

Definitely managerese. It roughly translates in to "forget anything you'e done right, let's focus on what you'll probably do wrong in future."

 

[crazywildhorse]

Ridicolous - Ridiculous.

#ridicolous

 

[Moggy]

This AFL Trade Period a word has crept into the vernacular to describe a footballer wanting out of his club, and that is 'wantaway'. On AFL Trade Talk readers have been asked what they think of this term. When I first saw it last week I laughed, thinking it was a one-off, but it looks like wantaway is here to stay, replacing 'disillusioned'.

"Wantaway" has been used in English soccer media forever.

Here it is in the Oxford Dictionary
Here it is in an article from 1999

So, you can't blame the nuffies on afl.com.au for this one

 

[craffles]

Project player - any guy of 200 cms or more, who has never seen much less played footy, preferably from the US, and gets added to your list as a Category B rookie. In practice, this is really an all expenses paid gap year (2 years) holiday for an American in his mid-20s who struggles to make it in basketball.

Maybe for Mason Cox and Eric Wallace but Jason Holmes looks ready to dominate next year

 

[Vicky Park]

Maybe for Mason Cox and Eric Wallace but Jason Holmes looks ready to dominate next year

I also have faith in Coxy!

 

[craffles]

I also have faith in Coxy!

Time will tell. Will be huge for our game if we can get a couple of US guys playing regularly in the senior sides. Will hopefully draw more viewers and $$ from the US.

 

[demondavey]

"wantaway" really pisses me off, and I hate whichever needanenglishclass journalist thought of it.

It's just not a word. It's a bogan word made for bogans to use (AFL commentators on AFL program's) And probably made up by a Herald Sun journalist.

 

[hench]

"Competitive beast" - any slow, plodding inside mid

 

[Hawthorn United]

Sacrosanct. The head is sacrosanct.

Has anyone else used this word in everyday life?

Also panacea. The priority picks are not the panacea for success. I'd like to revisit that statement from Vlad.

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[hoianbulldog]

Slightly off topic, but when I was a kid a short pass was a short pass. Now it is lowering your eyes.

 

[Morris Major]

It's just not a word. It's a bogan word made for bogans to use (AFL commentators on AFL program's) And probably made up by a Herald Sun journalist.

Notwithstanding the delicious irony of an incorrectly placed apostrophe in a sentence criticising language, here's your answer:

"Wantaway" has been used in English soccer media forever.

Here it is in the Oxford Dictionary
Here it is in an article from 1999

So, you can't blame the nuffies on afl.com.au for this one

 

[demondavey]

Notwithstanding the delicious irony of an incorrectly placed apostrophe in a sentence criticising language, here's your answer:

There you go!

 

[kranky al]

VFL - as in should be a national sport but some ridiculous decisions are constantly being made as the afl is too vic centric

 

[kranky al]

Fourthorn - When Hawthorn win four flags in a row

isnt that borethorn

 

[chiwigi]

'Currency' is the one that gives me the s#its come trade week

But that's one of the few that make sense, both linguistically and practically.