Talking Footy

Beaussie wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2017 6:26 am

LOL

SOO was played at the Sydney Football Stadium, a sporting venue that has been rebadged more times than anyone can count. Imagine "rebadging" the MCG. Imagine a Victorian using a word like "rebadge". Melbourne has institutions. Sydney has developer's potential. It has been that way since the Rum Corps ran the show in Sydney.

SOO is a Rum Corps sort of game. It's not the sort of game free settlers would embrace. That's why 90 per cent of Melbourne Storm's supporters are blow-ins from north of the border.

SOO is violent. There's no getting away from it. Players can do things to each other in SOO games they would never be allowed to do in club games, or anywhere else for that matter. My Melbourne friends find this confusing. Especially the ones I run around a park kicking an AFL ball with. They think SOO is barbaric. That's if they think about it at all, which most of them don't.

While the ubiquity of the AFL in Victoria is astonishing to migrants from across the border like me, the relative anonymity of rugby league results in it being seen as a kind of Neanderthal oddity practiced by descendents of ne're-do-wells.

To put it simply, most of the people I know in Melbourne regard rugby league with undisguised contempt.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-17/m ... in/6552620

NRL&NFLweLaughATafl wrote: Sat Feb 18, 2017 8:10 am

Beaussie wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2017 6:26 am

LOL

SOO was played at the Sydney Football Stadium, a sporting venue that has been rebadged more times than anyone can count. Imagine "rebadging" the MCG. Imagine a Victorian using a word like "rebadge". Melbourne has institutions. Sydney has developer's potential. It has been that way since the Rum Corps ran the show in Sydney.

SOO is a Rum Corps sort of game. It's not the sort of game free settlers would embrace. That's why 90 per cent of Melbourne Storm's supporters are blow-ins from north of the border.

SOO is violent. There's no getting away from it. Players can do things to each other in SOO games they would never be allowed to do in club games, or anywhere else for that matter. My Melbourne friends find this confusing. Especially the ones I run around a park kicking an AFL ball with. They think SOO is barbaric. That's if they think about it at all, which most of them don't.

While the ubiquity of the AFL in Victoria is astonishing to migrants from across the border like me, the relative anonymity of rugby league results in it being seen as a kind of Neanderthal oddity practiced by descendents of ne're-do-wells.

To put it simply, most of the people I know in Melbourne regard rugby league with undisguised contempt.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-17/m ... in/6552620

This is clearly written by a die hard AFL fan with a biased view again rugby league to start with.
It does prove one point though, he is pretty much admitting what we all already know. That Rugby League is a much tougher sport than AFL.
Using words like Brutal and Barbaric. Well pretty much any full contact sport looks Brutal and Barbaric compared to AFL. I am sure he would think the same when watching Union, Grid Iron and Ice Hockey too.

Southern Softies lol..

Ned Manning was born in 1950[1] and grew up on a property in Coonabarabran, New South Wales.[2] He married Bronwyn Bancroft, an Indigenous Australian artist, with whom he had two children, including New South Wales Young Australian of the Year for 2010, Jack Manning Bancroft.[3][4][5] Manning remarried to theatre director Marion Potts, with whom he had two children. In 2010, they relocated from Sydney to Melbourne when she was appointed director of the Malthouse Theatre

Fred wrote: Sun Feb 26, 2017 8:23 am

I note the courier mail has advertised on its banner "all the codes fixtures". You would never get the herald sun doing this in years gone by and wonder if they do so now?

AFLcrap1 wrote: Wed Mar 01, 2017 7:10 pm

Bhaaaaa
Jesus h Christ you talk shit

Go read BF
Go READ the roar
Read some of the insane rants on here by AFL posters .

The funny thing is RL folk ain't that insecure that we have to continually post lies .
That would be most of the insecure fumble folk on here.

There's just as many AFL fans that hate R, as there are RL fans that hate AFL .
But not in whatever bizarro world you live in .

Beaussie wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2017 6:26 am

LOL

SOO was played at the Sydney Football Stadium, a sporting venue that has been rebadged more times than anyone can count. Imagine "rebadging" the MCG. Imagine a Victorian using a word like "rebadge". Melbourne has institutions. Sydney has developer's potential. It has been that way since the Rum Corps ran the show in Sydney.

SOO is a Rum Corps sort of game. It's not the sort of game free settlers would embrace. That's why 90 per cent of Melbourne Storm's supporters are blow-ins from north of the border.

SOO is violent. There's no getting away from it. Players can do things to each other in SOO games they would never be allowed to do in club games, or anywhere else for that matter. My Melbourne friends find this confusing. Especially the ones I run around a park kicking an AFL ball with. They think SOO is barbaric. That's if they think about it at all, which most of them don't.

While the ubiquity of the AFL in Victoria is astonishing to migrants from across the border like me, the relative anonymity of rugby league results in it being seen as a kind of Neanderthal oddity practiced by descendents of ne're-do-wells.

To put it simply, most of the people I know in Melbourne regard rugby league with undisguised contempt.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-17/m ... in/6552620

pussycat wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2017 9:41 am

Beaussie wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2017 6:26 am

LOL

SOO was played at the Sydney Football Stadium, a sporting venue that has been rebadged more times than anyone can count. Imagine "rebadging" the MCG. Imagine a Victorian using a word like "rebadge". Melbourne has institutions. Sydney has developer's potential. It has been that way since the Rum Corps ran the show in Sydney.

SOO is a Rum Corps sort of game. It's not the sort of game free settlers would embrace. That's why 90 per cent of Melbourne Storm's supporters are blow-ins from north of the border.

SOO is violent. There's no getting away from it. Players can do things to each other in SOO games they would never be allowed to do in club games, or anywhere else for that matter. My Melbourne friends find this confusing. Especially the ones I run around a park kicking an AFL ball with. They think SOO is barbaric. That's if they think about it at all, which most of them don't.

While the ubiquity of the AFL in Victoria is astonishing to migrants from across the border like me, the relative anonymity of rugby league results in it being seen as a kind of Neanderthal oddity practiced by descendents of ne're-do-wells.

To put it simply, most of the people I know in Melbourne regard rugby league with undisguised contempt.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-17/m ... in/6552620

Rugby League rates better in Melbourne than AFL in Sydney.

SOO got one of Melbourne biggest crowd . Matter of fact it was larger than any other AFL crowd bar that years grand final.

But Hey, don't let facts get in the way of a good story.