Thread: AFL is back for 2008 !!!

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

God, spare me. My cook is a fanatical Melbourne kick and giggle ball watcher. Need NRL to watch in self-defence. A real tough game for men.

I take it u must be 1 of the tough men eh ?
Cheers Dean.

lol even judd cant help carlton

Originally Posted by dirtdawg

lol even judd cant help carlton

just you wait and see

Great another season of meat head experts that cant discuss anything else than what the real players should have done and what the coach has done wrong but have rarely if ever actually played the game them selves.

And then theres the actuall game of football, cant wait for the V8 series to start up again, nothing pieves off the footy dead heads more than motor racing.

My only wish is that if there is going to be constant discussion about it then you go and join your local footy club and put back into it instead of just sitting back and complaining that no one knows what they are doing.

Originally Posted by mcrover

Great another season of meat head experts that cant discuss anything else than what the real players should have done and what the coach has done wrong but have rarely if ever actually played the game them selves.

And then theres the actuall game of football, cant wait for the V8 series to start up again, nothing pieves off the footy dead heads more than motor racing.

My only wish is that if there is going to be constant discussion about it then you go and join your local footy club and put back into it instead of just sitting back and complaining that no one knows what they are doing.

And would the "experts" on The V8 Series be all ex-drivers themselves.

The sports of football, rugby union, rugby league, cricket, tennis, golf and the indeed V8 Series racing, rally racing and Formula 1 are not about whether one has competed or not, it is about participation.

A participatant can be active on the field, court or circuit, or in a support role or as a spectator.

That is the beauty of all sport. Each facet of participation requires all other facets to make the sport.

And sport - participation in sport - makes everyone equal.

As a sports competitor at a national level I valued the opinions of the support team and the spectators.

Spectators? Because without the spectators we had no sport - and most spectators had never competed in the ring - but they had an opinion and they are as important to the sport as the competitors.

Don't believe me? - well how long would the V8 Series last if no-one turned up and no-one really wanted to read about the results? Pretty simple question and a very obvious answer.......

I have never played a game of Australian Rules Football or Cricket and yet I am a very passionate advocate/supporter of both games but is my opinion/passion weakened because I have never played these games.

I study the strategies, I study and understand the rules and I endeavor to understand the pysch (Ron: that is NOT the spelling - help please) of the players. Most importantly I relish the passion I have for the contest and revel in the glory achieved by the team I support whether it be Carlton, Manly, The NSW Blues, Waratahs, Wallabies, Socceroos, FoMoCo or the much-recently-misaligned Australian Cricket Team.

Don't dismiss a sport because you happen not to be a fan. Many times I hear - "It is a silly game - I don't understand the rules" - well hello - are you listening to yourself - need I say more.

The real question is whether you understand the challenge of the contest - and that is sport - irrelevant of the code, field, court, circuit, ring - for this is the arena of the contest.

What a fantastic Saturday night


































THE PIES LOST

what a great nite Gav

Originally Posted by hiline

Barra i'm glad you quoted McRover's post so i can see it as he is on my ignore list and will be for ever more

Jeez....I only recently realised the repercussions of the Ignore List

I used to think - They are all out to get me

Now I think - I'm on everyone's Ignore List

Well not everyone's.... Hi Ray - even though I give you a hard time occasionally.

That's gotta be worth 43 beers - see you at the Show next weekend