Rules Football - how camp can you get?!?! snorfle

In Setanta's dying days, I happened to spot a Rules game (Collingwood Closeteers v Sydney Double-Teapots, I think).

Well, really!!

Those dinky retro supertight cutoffs, those fetching singlets showing the manly-man shoulders (oooo!), .. and all that feeling and fumbling around on the ground with the ball and pawing and ferocious patting each other, and posing and flouncing generally.

It's like a gang happy slapping session in a bathhouse.

Or a collective closet-liberation party version of rugby for absolute butches.

It's so outrageously campishly gay, Graham Norton and Julian Clary would almost be ashamed even to look - the sheer scandalousness of it all!

I am all for gay pride, and equal opportunities, but this is taking things a bit far, surely? Have they no shame?

No wonder, if they can't get a goal, they "go for a behind" .... it's worth one point.


I like the rule where you can take a kick wherever you like behind the point of the mark, though. Would be good in all ball (and no stick) sports, to speed thighs up and keep them honest.

I've had this argument back on C4 when 'gayball' gets mentioned.

Well, the point needs to be made on a regular basis.

There is only one contender for the crown of Festiveball sport.

PeterCS wrote:In Setanta's dying days, I happened to spot a Rules game (Collingwood Closeteers v Sydney Double-Teapots, I think).

Well, really!!

Those dinky retro supertight cutoffs, those fetching singlets showing the manly-man shoulders (oooo!), .. and all that feeling and fumbling around on the ground with the ball and pawing and ferocious patting each other, and posing and flouncing generally.

It's like a gang happy slapping session in a bathhouse.

Or a collective closet-liberation party version of rugby for absolute butches.

It's so outrageously campishly gay, Graham Norton and Julian Clary would almost be ashamed even to look - the sheer scandalousness of it all!

I am all for gay pride, and equal opportunities, but this is taking things a bit far, surely? Have they no shame?



No wonder, if they can't get a goal, they "go for a behind" .... it's worth one point.


I like the rule where you can take a kick wherever you like behind the point of the mark, though. Would be good in all ball (and no stick) sports, to speed thighs up and keep them honest.

hmmmm. Waiting for the reprisals from my southern > western countrymen

Doubt you'll get a response, MS, everyone who knows anything about gay culture (ie, the GayFL boys), will be able to spot Peter's above attempt to hook up a public toilet tryst as just that . . .

tac wrote:Doubt you'll get a response, MS, everyone who knows anything about gay culture (ie, the GayFL boys), will be able to spot Peter's above attempt to hook up a public toilet tryst as just that . . .

Snigger > chortle

Perhaps "reprisals" should have "rsvps".

Pete's observations were remarkably familiar.

rsvps . . . farkin lol, Mick!

So PCS's gay lover has flounced and he's trawling the web looking for a rent boy? The only surprise there is the person doing the looking.

And you say that ... with your 70s gay porn avatar?

As for tac .... well repressed, mate.

tac wrote:Doubt you'll get a response, MS, everyone who knows anything about gay culture (ie, the GayFL boys), will be able to spot Peter's above attempt to hook up a public toilet tryst as just that . . .

Well spotted, tacman ...

I think the game was actually invented to sap public school boys of their energy, so the gay theory may have some credence. They used to play it on fields a mile and a half long.

Don't do it, Pete.

What? Pay the Ferryman?

...start a shitfest with taccy. Please.

skully wrote:...start a shitfest with taccy. Please.

Why not? I've only been here sporadically recently so what's the post count?

Dinna fash yersel', skullsman.

tac and me are best buddies. ...

[sigh] at qmy

skully, the only shitfest Pete is after would be to satisfy his coprophilic yearnings . . .you can leave me out of this . . .

Goodo.

That's a load of crap and you know it, tac.

I'm from Sydney, so I found the opening post mildly amusing.

But I will stick up for our southern brothers when it comes to a standoff with soccer.

Aussie Rules players are tough. Probably not as tough as players from either Rugby code, but they finish a match with plenty of bruises.

Soccer players get a sore head occasionally and constantly writhe around on the ground after falling over themselves.

Both sports obviously have a lot going for them, but soccer loses out in the toughness stakes.

Hass wrote:

Aussie Rules players are tough. Probably not as tough as players from either Rugby code, but they finish a match with plenty of bruises.

Soccer players get a sore head occasionally and constantly writhe around on the ground after falling over themselves.

Both sports obviously have a lot going for them, but soccer loses out in the toughness stakes.

Perhaps.

But its like dressing up boxers in a dress. Uber-camp.

I've never thought it was gay, just shit.

First thought I had about Aussie Rules was how homoerotic it all looks.

Even the ref, when he signals a goal, looks like he's telling the assembled gay horde how long his dick is.