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30-09-11, 18:40
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Ah, yes: Australian Rules Football. Should only be encouraged. Just think of all those thousands, ney, tens of thousands of people it keeps hemmed into stadiums or glued to TVs on a weekend, and out of the countryside where us other folk chose to play.... (well, before they banned having fun with firearms, anyway....)
Ahh, the memories. No, I have NOT attempted to learn the rules of that US Grid Iron thingie since I got here, anymore than I could tell you the seemingly perverse rules that appear to regulate Aussie Rules. I do miss a good hot meat pie and sauce, and a coldie on a Saturday, but can't say I ever enjoyed that repaste at a football game of any code. Keefy and I seem to have similar regard to such games, so I'm content that I'm not alone.  That should stir the pot! Mike C 
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01-10-11, 05:41
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 I can't believe this tread is up to 2 pages already after all it's only about footy of some sort   still nothing good on telly today either
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Cheers Cliff Hutchings aka MrRoo S.I.R. "and on the 8th day he made trucks so that man, made on the 7th day, had shelter when woman threw him out for the night" MrRoo says "TRUCKS ROOLE" 
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01-10-11, 05:59
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Isn't it about time you gave up Cliff and TURNED TO THE DARKSIDE! Join us and together we can cheer on the cats as they rule the MCG today! 
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01-10-11, 06:30
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 I am fixed up for the night as I have found a book that is gauranted to put me to sleep Oh what's it called?.....Ah here 'tis - "Official rules for footy games in Australia"  On another note may the best team of the night win regardless of who you are!
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Cheers Cliff Hutchings aka MrRoo S.I.R. "and on the 8th day he made trucks so that man, made on the 7th day, had shelter when woman threw him out for the night" MrRoo says "TRUCKS ROOLE"
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01-10-11, 09:20
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Poor Eddie McGuire.
Great to see the Cats as the Champians again! A 38 point win!
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Jan Thompson Sydney, NSW, Australia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Research & Development THE COROWA YEAR 30 PROJECT
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18-10-11, 13:26
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Aussie rules
If Aussie Rules footy was invented first, no-one would play any other code of football. Soccer? Up one end, get excited, no score. Down the other end, get excited, no score. back the other end, get excited, no score. Up, down, up, down, GOAL!!!! Stay excited all day, start a fight, maybe all survive. Game ends. Start another fight. Gird Iron? Run out start game stop. Restart after changing sides, stop. Start, stop, start, stop. All that padding? More than they wear riding motor cycles. Ice hockey (yes not football but what the heck), Skate out start game start fight. Rugby? Ice hockey without skates.
By the way I barrack for the Cats. Wondering where the hooopla was for 2009 Ryan? Bring on 2012. Could go again............ Oh, forgot with soccer. Slightest contact? Fall down like you have been shot!! Mike, maybe when they stopped people playing with guns on the weekend they took up soccer and pretended they were still playing with guns.
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18-10-11, 18:04
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Good analysis, Jack: gave me quite a chuckle.
Grid Iron (sorry, just plain 'Football' here, like there are no others forms of it!) Yes, have to agree: for a three hour 'game' they really only 'play' for about 20 minutes. Yet it has millions of fanatical fans -alomost as fanatical as Aussie Rules fans. There are shops dedicated to just football 'stuff' for fans, sometimes only the local team and nothing else. Quite bizarre, really, but what the heck, they're havin' farn' (emphasis on the 'r'). And they haven't stopped people playing with guns here. Huntin' shootin' fishin' are national pastimes - there's even a TV channel dedicated to it. We have a good friend who is a contractor who weaves his jobs and locations around the various hunting and fishing seasons in each state. We, of course, share the benefit: he's also a great cook! Mike C
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19-10-11, 11:51
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Must have forgotten about the thread back then. Either that or too 
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