Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

[burge13]

It's a golf term, where you take too much club - hitting it further than needed. So overclubbing is overkicking the ball

Why do we need so many golf analogies in footy?!

1 wood - makes no ****ing sense whenever they use it

Overclubbing - just say over kicked, or even over cooked would be more acceptable

 

[SuperMal]

Why do we need so many golf analogies in footy?!

1 wood - makes no ******* sense whenever they use it

Overclubbing - just say over kicked, or even over cooked would be more acceptable

And then there’s the 9 iron…surely if you’re describing loft, a Sand Wedge is more appropriate?

 

[killtaker1993]

I hate golf and I hate even more the golf references in footy commentary

 

[TheEscapeClub]

It's a golf term, where you take too much club - hitting it further than needed. So overclubbing is overkicking the ball

I knew what it meant, I'd just never heard used in footy commentary before.

 

[peternorth]

What grinds my gears about Watson is his pseudo intellectual considered pretence, manufactured by his employers and played along with by his colleagues - because he reads the news and wears glasses.

When in reality he’s an under-educated country hayseed.

The same guy flogged the word ‘expediated’ around town for years - until SEN finally got the message the word is Ex-PE-DI-TED. Lyon had to actually ask people to stop calling in.

Self-Education is like practicing the same bad golf swing, over and over. You think it’s going great, till you meet a golfer.

oh dear god youre right! hahaaha

Why do we need so many golf analogies in footy?!

1 wood - makes no ******* sense whenever they use it

Overclubbing - just say over kicked, or even over cooked would be more acceptable

yep, 1 wood is a horrible analogy. the afl media think it means its the teams best weapon. zero understanding that in golf we all have different strengths across the clubs

And then there’s the 9 iron…surely if you’re describing loft, a Sand Wedge is more appropriate?

lob wedge.

 

[Registered User]

David King: “I’ve been misconstruded”

An SEN talkback was wondering if “Jack Givian” can get back into Collingwood’s team

 

[Registered User]

We can add Joel Selwood to the "interpretated" club

 

[SuperMal]

We can add Joel Selwood to the "interpretated" club

 

[SuperMal]

Dizzy Lynch - ‘Something they need to DO better at’

Now I like Lynchy…but

It’s either ‘…need to do better’

Or ‘ …need to BE better at’

 

[Back One Out]

I like Matthew Lloyd, even when he invents new words:

Essendon should be playing finals. They've played great footy all year and now it's just like, wittering away to nothing.

I think he was trying to say their finals hopes were withering away.
Or maybe he meant they were frittering away their season.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

I like Matthew Lloyd, even when he invents new words:

Essendon should be playing finals. They've played great footy all year and now it's just like, wittering away to nothing.

I think he was trying to say their finals hopes were withering away.
Or maybe he meant they were frittering away their season.

There is a word “wittering”, it means rambling or babbling on about something. But Lloyd meant either of your words.

 

[Back One Out]

There is a word “wittering”, it means rambling or babbling on about something. But Lloyd meant either of your words.

I think he had both words in mind, but instead of choosing one of them, he decided on a portmanteau for the extra nuance.

He's a gun in the media. So I'm gonna give him credit for that.

 

[peternorth]

Loose ball gets

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Loose ball gets

That only makes sense in the world of AFL.

 

[peternorth]

That only makes sense in the world of AFL.

and hard ball gets

 

[SuperMal]

MODS!! Can you let Chief know the display is ‘miniaturising again?

He’ll know what you mean.

 

[windyhill]

If (name any team hovering around the top 8) make it , you wouldn’t want to meet them in September.

 

[Wayne Dwop]

Loose ball gets

Speaking of loose ball, I have taken notice of all of the TV commentators over a short period of time in their calling about the passing to a team mate etc.

Driving ball....Lovely ball....Beautiful ball....Short ball....Clever ball....Centering ball....Lucky ball....Good looking ball....Loose ball....Hot ball....High ball....Neat ball....Long ball....Pretty good ball....Floating ball....Tipping all???....
Not a great ball....Good ball....Chaos ball....Tumbling ball....Searching ball....Up and under ball....Chipping ball
Low ball....Wobbling ball....Scrubbing ball....Left foot ball....Careful ball....Low dangerous ball....Brilliant ball....
Deep ball....Big ball....Bouncing ball


whale oil beef hooked Who would have guessed that a ball could bounce?

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Driving ball....Lovely ball....Beautiful ball....Short ball....Clever ball....Centering ball....Lucky ball....Good looking ball....Loose ball....Hot ball....High ball....Neat ball....Long ball....Pretty good ball....Floating ball....Tipping all???....
Not a great ball....Good ball....Chaos ball....Tumbling ball....Searching ball....Up and under ball....Chipping ball
Low ball....Wobbling ball....Scrubbing ball....Left foot ball....Careful ball....Low dangerous ball....Brilliant ball....
Deep ball....Big ball....Bouncing ball

THIS!

Someone please translate this and send and distribute to the footy media.

Thanks.

 

[FreddyTwoShoes]

Kane on classified tonight - “17 consecutive goals in a row”

 

[Partridge]

THIS!

Someone please translate this and send and distribute to the footy media.

Thanks.

Yep. There are a few words they seem to have decided are now outlawed:

Pass: is now universally replaced as "ball". No matter what context.
Distance: for some time has been replaced with "journey".
Time: also replaced with "journey" (as in 'over the ...'), instead of just 'in the last few years', 'over time', etc.
Mark: is on its way out. The appalling "clunk" is getting rammed down our throats relentlessly.

Another one that seems set now - apparently players never, ever kick with the instep (which 100% of footballers always kicked with). It's the outside of the boot now (even though it's the outside of the ball that is actually being kicked).

 

[SuperMal]

Kane on classified tonight - “17 consecutive goals in a row”

 

[peternorth]

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

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My eyes!

 

[Brad_Hardie]

Brad Hardie post game Bombers v Swans

"Essendon need at least 2 injections"