Football - 2017/18 season

It's up there with field hockey in the public eye. Nice if we jag a win, but not life and death like a Test match, or watching your AFL side in a pressure match.

That is pretty much it.

lardbucket wrote:It's up there with field hockey in the public eye. Nice if we jag a win, but not life and death like a Test match, or watching your AFL side in a pressure match.

Not sure about the first sentence. There's always a sell out when Aus play soccer in this country.

But the rest is sage.

cant say I've been to a field hockey game

embee wrote:cant say I've been to a field hockey game

Where else is hockey played if not on a field?

I played a couple of scratch matches and watched a gf play quite a few games (same one played netball, in an equally violent manner).

I really liked watching it when I was a teenager - the game is highly skilled and quick and totally watchable. Like a lot of games it is better appreciated being there than watching it on the telly. 

Nowadays I prefer hurling. Embee if you ever go to Ireland I strongly recommend you and Lady A go to a game. Who knows if I finally get to emigrate there and you visit I'd gladly take you guys to both gaelic football and hurling matches.

ice hockey does not count!

Ask a Canadian about that.

skully wrote:Ask a Canadian about that.

I try to avoid Canadians. btw what was the name of the Kanuck who used to post.

I'd consider ice hockey a sport if they did not wear helmets and were not swathed in mattresses.

horace wrote:

embee wrote:cant say I've been to a field hockey game

Where else is hockey played if not on a field?

I played a couple of scratch matches and watched a gf play quite a few games (same one played netball, in an equally violent manner).

I really liked watching it when I was a teenager - the game is highly skilled and quick and totally watchable. Like a lot of games it is better appreciated being there than watching it on the telly. 

Nowadays I prefer hurling. Embee if you ever go to Ireland I strongly recommend you and Lady A go to a game. Who knows if I finally get to emigrate there and you visit I'd gladly take you guys to both gaelic football and hurling matches.

The region I went to school in, for reasons lost to time, had a big gaelic sports tradition. Aussie rules background helped me get into it and hurling followed. More fun than soccer.

horace wrote:

skully wrote:Ask a Canadian about that.

I try to avoid Canadians. btw what was the name of the Kanuck who used to post.

I'd consider ice hockey a sport if they did not wear helmets and were not swathed in mattresses.

Yorkie Jill lives in Canada. Was it Sarah that was the Canuck?

I'm sure lardy or MB can remember.

skully wrote:

horace wrote:

skully wrote:Ask a Canadian about that.

I try to avoid Canadians. btw what was the name of the Kanuck who used to post.

I'd consider ice hockey a sport if they did not wear helmets and were not swathed in mattresses.

Yorkie Jill lives in Canada. Was it Sarah that was the Canuck?

I'm sure lardy or MB can remember.

It was Sarah. Eventually became JB or something.

horace wrote:

skully wrote:Ask a Canadian about that.

I try to avoid Canadians. btw what was the name of the Kanuck who used to post.

I'd consider ice hockey a sport if they did not wear helmets and were not swathed in mattresses.

Unlike cricket where you only have pads, thigh pad, inner thigh pad, box, gloves, chest protector, arm guard and helmet.

horace wrote:ice hockey does not count!

skully wrote:Ask a Canadian about that.

In Canada it "coonts", not counts.

The brouhaha over MAne's send off last night is hilarious. Every pundit who was a striker says "no red", every one who was a GK or defender says red every day of the week.

I'm in the latter camp.

Hi Fromage,

It would be helpful if this thread could be retitled 'soccer'.

thank you

horace wrote:Hi Fromage,

It would be helpful if this thread could be retitled 'soccer'.

thank you

This isn't officially an Australian forum... around 198 of the 200 countries primarily call this game "football"...

beamer wrote:

horace wrote:Hi Fromage,

It would be helpful if this thread could be retitled 'soccer'.

thank you

This isn't officially an Australian forum... around 198 of the 200 countries primarily call this game "football"...

Yeah... I thought Horries call was a bit presumptuous.

beamer wrote:

horace wrote:Hi Fromage,

It would be helpful if this thread could be retitled 'soccer'.

thank you

This isn't officially an Australian forum... around 198 of the 200 countries primarily call this game "football"...

Sometimes the minority is proven right ... albeit in the long term! 

beamer wrote:

horace wrote:Hi Fromage,

It would be helpful if this thread could be retitled 'soccer'.

thank you

This isn't officially an Australian forum... around 198 of the 200 countries primarily call this game "football"...

I did a bit of investigation into this a couple of years back. Soccer is actually a Pom term.

taipan wrote:

beamer wrote:

horace wrote:Hi Fromage,

It would be helpful if this thread could be retitled 'soccer'.

thank you

This isn't officially an Australian forum... around 198 of the 200 countries primarily call this game "football"...

I did a bit of investigation into this a couple of years back. Soccer is actually a Pom term.

Yeah, it does originate here - started out as a posh counterpart to "rugger" I believe. Only caught on as the standard term in countries where a different form of "football" predominates though. Here these days it's only really used in things like TV show titles where it sounds catchier than "football", and in ironic references to Americanisms...

So who are the two countries that use soccer?

taipan wrote:

beamer wrote:

horace wrote:Hi Fromage,

It would be helpful if this thread could be retitled 'soccer'.

thank you

This isn't officially an Australian forum... around 198 of the 200 countries primarily call this game "football"...

I did a bit of investigation into this a couple of years back. Soccer is actually a Pom term.

Taips - stop scaring me

taipan wrote:So who are the two countries that use soccer?

Well, I was referring to US and Australia, though there's probably others.

Primarily Soccer in SA.

Here we go

http://www.businessinsider.com/football-vs-soccer-map-2013-12