Official Match Thread SEASON 33 GRAND FINAL: ROYS FFC V EAST SIDE PHOENIX at SFA PARK

[por_please_ya]

I love tomato AND chicken soup

 

[Mobbs]

Mobbs you mustn't have seen my interview during Mobbs Medal last night.

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And what a ruse... damicky interviewing me when I had no bloody chance and he won it all! THE NERVE!!!!

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[Braklet]

Didn't know you were from the US what got you into footy?! Did you ever play USAFL?

ESPN aired condensed 90 minute VFL games in the 1980s. I caught this approximately 1984 and was transfixed. Used to tape all the games I could find. Even tried to attend some international touring Aussie Rules in the L.A. Coliseum around 1987, but drove down there only to find out it was cancelled (pre-Internet days, remember).

COVID hit and Fox Sports was hungry to show something, so they started airing AFL games live. Don't ask me how I figured it out, but at some point in 2020 I programmed my DVR to slurp every AFL game aired in the US. Hooked again!

This time I decided to pick a side and for a number of reasons, chose Geelong, much to the chagrin of my Hawthorne-supporting Dragons brethren and sistren.

Never played footy, although my locale has a USAFL team (north carolina tigers | Australian Football Club). Maybe I'll check it out, although my exertion is more suited to SFA these days.

 

[Braklet]

Do you have to dodge bullets where you are?

Silly Ozzies!

 

[royboy2]

Do you have to dodge bullets where you are?

Only when he goes past a school

 

[Strigoi]

I can't stop vomiting.

That’s not good. See a doctor.

 

[Strigoi]

Silly Ozzies!

Isn’t it funny - the perception everyone from other countries has of the USA?

When I moved here, some woman waiting on me in a store asked if I came here because I didn’t feel safe in the United States.

 

[eth-dog]

I love tomato AND chicken soup

Never tried tomato and chicken soup, would have thought the flavours wouldn't mix that well.

 

[por_please_ya]

ESPN aired condensed 90 minute VFL games in the 1980s. I caught this approximately 1984 and was transfixed. Used to tape all the games I could find. Even tried to attend some international touring Aussie Rules in the L.A. Coliseum around 1987, but drove down there only to find out it was cancelled (pre-Internet days, remember).

COVID hit and Fox Sports was hungry to show something, so they started airing AFL games live. Don't ask me how I figured it out, but at some point in 2020 I programmed my DVR to slurp every AFL game aired in the US. Hooked again!

This time I decided to pick a side and for a number of reasons, chose Geelong, much to the chagrin of my Hawthorne-supporting Dragons brethren and sistren.

Never played footy, although my locale has a USAFL team (north carolina tigers | Australian Football Club). Maybe I'll check it out, although my exertion is more suited to SFA these days.

That's pretty cool! I always think our game must look either pretty funny or awesome to Americans used to NRL etc

I know a guy named Brian Barrish (met him via Livejournal years ago) who used to play for the Philly Hawks, and since retired from footy commentates games and writes articles about USAFL. He's also a huge supporter of AFLW as well.

 

[Mobbs]

That's pretty cool! I always think our game must look either pretty funny or awesome to Americans used to NRL etc

I know a guy named Brian Barrish (met him via Livejournal years ago) who used to play for the Philly Hawks, and since retired from footy commentates games and writes articles about USAFL. He's also a huge supporter of AFLW as well.

That's USAFL royalty!

 

[royboy2]

Itsmyshow Did you know Mick Conlan was the first player suspended on Trial by video? Not much in it if you ask me.

 

[por_please_ya]

That's USAFL royalty!

He's a really nice dude.
In Livejournal days I blessed him with an Aussie name - Bazza.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

I love tomato AND chicken soup

Combined?

 

[Mobbs]

Combined?

****ing READ :

Never tried tomato and chicken soup, would have thought the flavours wouldn't mix that well.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

******* READ :

Crikey! You are a demanding young fella.

 

[por_please_ya]

Lol I meant separate of course you people ....

 

[por_please_ya]

In saying that chicken in a tomato sugo sounds bloody delicious.

 

[Agent93]

Tomato soup is just trash. The only good use of tomatoes en masse is as a tool for the oppression of bad comedians.

Somebody is grumpy!

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

In saying that chicken in a tomato sugo sounds bloody delicious.

Catcha that Tora

 

[Braklet]

That's pretty cool! I always think our game must look either pretty funny or awesome to Americans used to NRL etc

I know a guy named Brian Barrish (met him via Livejournal years ago) who used to play for the Philly Hawks, and since retired from footy commentates games and writes articles about USAFL. He's also a huge supporter of AFLW as well.

Arguably, there's more US support for rugby. But I don't know anything about rugby, other than watching a couple of major league rugby games (mostly Southern California where I grew up).

All the players look huge, muscular, but not athletic. That's another reason I prefer footy, it's fast and high scoring.

 

[Braklet]

That's pretty cool! I always think our game must look either pretty funny or awesome to Americans used to NRL etc

Ass-u-ming you meant "NFL," yeah Aussie Rules does not seem to have a huge amount of traction in the competitive US TV sports market. I would be lying if I said that AFL did not have an exotic appeal to me, simply because it's NOT gridiron football, rugby, or soccer. But footy stands alone in fast pace and high scoring.

I honestly think that the large field required for footy is one of the reasons it hasn't taken off in the States. Gridiron takes a much smaller space.

 

[Cadsky]

East Side Phoenix Official Team Sheet
Grand Final vs Roys FFC

B: Krazy Kris - Shermy - raskolnikov
HB: akkaps - eth-dog - daddy_4_eyes
C: Zoops - Agent93 - MannumPower
HF: Jack The Godfather - thewizardmelon - Le Grille
F: MC Bad Genius - Itsmyshow - Drunkgoliath
FOLL: larrikin - Chipmunk - por_please_ya
INT: Milera2Betts - jackenny

CHANGES:
raskolnikov INT > BP
Red mist BP > OUT
jackenny OUT > INT

#RISEUP​

Commiserations on your loss this week. It surprises me you'd run with akkaps in your line-up.

 

[fitzroybowiedog]

Who are you anyway?

I am a distant memory of wasted talent.

 

[thewizardmelon]

ESPN aired condensed 90 minute VFL games in the 1980s. I caught this approximately 1984 and was transfixed. Used to tape all the games I could find. Even tried to attend some international touring Aussie Rules in the L.A. Coliseum around 1987, but drove down there only to find out it was cancelled (pre-Internet days, remember).

COVID hit and Fox Sports was hungry to show something, so they started airing AFL games live. Don't ask me how I figured it out, but at some point in 2020 I programmed my DVR to slurp every AFL game aired in the US. Hooked again!

This time I decided to pick a side and for a number of reasons, chose Geelong, much to the chagrin of my Hawthorne-supporting Dragons brethren and sistren.

Never played footy, although my locale has a USAFL team (north carolina tigers | Australian Football Club). Maybe I'll check it out, although my exertion is more suited to SFA these days.

A good friend of mine is still playing for Boston Demons in the USAFL actually. The standard there has improved dramatically the last decade

 

[thewizardmelon]

Where the * is Zevon?

I had at least 3 more Fat Controller* GIFs to use.

*Sorry, it’s now Sir Topham Hatt