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  Have you ever heard of "Aussie Rules" football (AFL)?

We play a lot of cricket in Australia so the field is an oval and the same size as a cricket field ..roughly 170 yards long and 150 yards wide so you can see it's a lot larger than most football fields...because of the large field size the easiest way to move the ball is by kicking it; all players have highly developed kicking skills and can kick the ball accurately 50 plus yards to a running team mate.

The other way to pass the ball is by handballing it which involves placing the ball flat on your palm and punching it in the direction you want it to go...Greg Williams, one of the best exponents of the handpass, regularly hits teammates from 30 plus yards ..

The Game: The game is played with 18 players on each team plus 3 interchange players that freely swap while play is in progress (a bit like the ice hockey system) . There are four quarters of 25 minutes each with time added on for clock stoppages, so the average game is around 120 minutes. As you can see with such a large field and continuous play for 2 hours the players must be extremely fit. In fact, one of the preseason running tests is 100, 100 metre sprints !!!!)

The Rules: People think there are no rules to this game but there are and they're pretty basic...

To tackle someone they must have the ball and you can't tackle around the legs or above the shoulders or push them forward in the back; you must pull them back to you (this is to prevent injuries occuring)

If you have the ball and someone tackles you ..you must get rid of the ball either by kicking or handpassing it the moment they grab you.

When any of these rules are infringed upon, the umpire ( I'll get to them in a minute) stops the game and awards a free kick. The game starts again the moment you either kick or handpass to a teammate or if you run around the man who is marking the spot, the umpire will call play on and you're free to be tackled again.

If someone kicks the ball and you catch it, then that is called a "mark" and the same rules apply as a free kick.

Scoring: Australian Rules is a high scoring game and there are a numbers of ways to score....there are a set of four posts (or goals) at each end of the field.... There are two tall posts in the middle and a shorter post either side ...if the ball is kicked between the two tall posts, then it is a goal which counts for six points. If the ball crosses the line any other way or it goes between the tall and short posts, it counts for one point. So the way to read a score is goals first, then points and a total at the end.

Here's an example: 10 - 7 - 67 which is 10 goals, plus 7 points for a total of 67 .

Which brings me to the Umpires: When a team scores a point or a goal, a guy in a white lab coat with a tie and a hat signals to the field umpire and then writes the score on a card...This is a goal umpire. He then waves a flag to the goal umpire at the other end and at the end of the game they get together and make sure the scores they have are the same.

There are also three field umpires that make all the decisions around the ground regarding free kicks and then there are two boundary umpires who signal when the ball goes out of play and then throw it back in to restart the game.





VotesAnswer
13I've never heard of it. I wasn't aware that Australia had it's own type of football.
9I've seen it played on TV.
6I've heard of the game but never seen it.
6I know nothing about most sports, not just Australian sports.
5I think the rules are easy to learn.
4I think it sounds like a good game to watch.
4I think it looks violent.
4I think the game is silly.
3I have something else to say.
2It looks like a good game to play.
1I have played Aussie Rules.
0I've been to a live game.
0I think the rules are complicated.

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Maarten Survey Central Subscriber
posted 7-Aug-2004 12:00pm  
I have seen it on tv. It's a rough kind of rugby. I don't really care for it.
Enheduanna Survey Central Subscriber
posted 7-Aug-2004 1:41pm  
I've heard the name, but I know almost nothing about it, except that it's a type of rugby. I don't feel like reading your long explanation of it, because I'm not really all that interested.
bill Survey Central Gold SubscriberSilver Star Survey Creator
posted 8-Aug-2004 8:31am  
I'm generally intersted to see how any game plays out...
bill Survey Central Gold SubscriberSilver Star Survey Creator
(reply to kaleb777) posted 8-Aug-2004 8:33am  
Is Aussie Rules based on Rugby in some way?
Dino
posted 8-Aug-2004 11:36am  
I have seen a bit of a game on TV. They don't show it much in the UK. And I never check out the digital channels for Sport.

The guys certainly look hotter than regular footballers.
romkey Survey Central Gold Subscriber
posted 8-Aug-2004 12:29pm  
no, but it looks kinda hot...
romkey Survey Central Gold Subscriber
(reply to Dino) posted 8-Aug-2004 12:30pm  
*wink*
kaleb777
(reply to bill) posted 9-Aug-2004 7:03pm  
Yeah. It was played back in 1840 and is thought to be a hybrid of soccer and rugby played by cricketers in winter to keep fit. Cricket is played in summer on an oval playing field so Aussie Rules was played on an oval. Now the two games have their own stadiums but the oval remains the shape for Aussie Rules. Sometimes it looks like it basketball! There is a rule where after running with the ball for a certain distance, the player must bounce the ball while running. Needless to say this is difficlult with the rugby ball.

We also play both codes of rugby - Union and League. Each of these have different rules and are played on a rectangle.

The players look different too. Aussie rules players are usually tall and able to jump high. League and Union players are a lot more heavy set and slower.
kaleb777
(reply to romkey) posted 9-Aug-2004 7:14pm  
You might be interested in the calendar that is advertised on telly here.
romkey Survey Central Gold Subscriber
(reply to kaleb777) posted 9-Aug-2004 10:26pm  
thanks! *wink*
Kristal_Rose Survey Central Gold SubscriberBronze Star Survey CreatorSurvey Qualifier
posted 10-Aug-2004 4:37am  
I like it. It looks much more interesting than american football which I find quite boring.
You might like my idea for x-country football: Same safety tackling rules, but play continues (everyone tries to pry the ball from the tackled). Pass it anyway you can, and play continues.
The two critical things are:
1) The field is a mile long, and full of sand pits, mud, rivers, fox-holes, swamp, trees, etc.
2) Each team must maintain live video feed (60mm lens) on the ball carrier or ball, or they lose it to a fresh grab where all players (interspersed teams) form a 20m circle to grab the ball.

Players are free to dress in any sort of soft armor they want: kneepads, gloves, etc, but shoes, boots, & helmets must pass damage limits.
No kicking, punching, or weapons (except the ball itself)
A goal is one point.
Play ends after two hours, and extends into overtime until a tie is broken.

I like the new SC profile feature. It gives you a chance to see where people otherwise hang out, explore less likely things (like sports for instance).
Kristal_Rose Survey Central Gold SubscriberBronze Star Survey CreatorSurvey Qualifier
posted 10-Aug-2004 4:41am  
Oops, I thought that was a link to a tv schedule. When's the season? Perhaps I can talk my father-in-law into watching that instead next Thanksgiving (late November) when I visit.
bill Survey Central Gold SubscriberSilver Star Survey Creator
(reply to kaleb777) posted 10-Aug-2004 6:19am  
Have you heard of Arena Football? I think it's a new thing, at least here in the US. It's close to US football, but it has more continuous play. Seems like an attempt to make US football more like rugby or Aussie.
Zang Survey Central Subscriber
posted 10-Aug-2004 10:33am  
Heard of it? Yes. Willing to read your long-assed explanation? Nope, sorry...
Kristal_Rose Survey Central Gold SubscriberBronze Star Survey CreatorSurvey Qualifier
(reply to Zang) posted 11-Aug-2004 2:56am  
Hey, be nice.
kaleb777
(reply to bill) posted 11-Aug-2004 3:49pm  
No I haven't. I did try to get into gridiron once but found it stopped and started too often. Rugby League has a rule where you have to pass the ball backwards with your foot after the 5th tackle and that's about the only rule that slows play in the 3 types of rugby played here. Aussie Rules is the fastest.
kaleb777
(reply to Zang) posted 11-Aug-2004 3:52pm  
Just pretend you're reading the Manifesto.
kaleb777
(reply to Kristal_Rose) posted 11-Aug-2004 3:54pm  
Good grief! Extreme rugby!
bill Survey Central Gold SubscriberSilver Star Survey Creator
(reply to kaleb777) posted 11-Aug-2004 6:40pm  
I'm not much of a sports fan, but US football is an interesting game. There's a lot of thinking in between plays, strategy and tactics. Tension builds up nicely at times and the usually score a fair amount. More continuous play games like basketball, hockey and soccer can be kind of boring despite the action, since very little seems to happen in a way. Baseball also has a lot of long pauses in between plays... I guess Americans like that. Cricket is like that too, right?
Kristal_Rose Survey Central Gold SubscriberBronze Star Survey CreatorSurvey Qualifier
(reply to kaleb777) posted 11-Aug-2004 8:59pm  
So should I sell the idea to reality show producers?
swoops
posted 12-Aug-2004 2:56pm  
never heard of it but i did see a half time game a the july 29 lions game
Zang Survey Central Subscriber
(reply to Kristal_Rose) posted 12-Aug-2004 5:22pm  
I said that with a smile, I just forgot to add it! *smile*
Zang Survey Central Subscriber
(reply to kaleb777) posted 12-Aug-2004 5:22pm  
Okay! *smile*
kaleb777
(reply to bill) posted 12-Aug-2004 8:45pm  
I find cricket really boring. Any game that has to break for lunch needs to be overhauled.

Soccer too is boring and low scoring. Soccer is not real big here as far as a spectator sport but paradoxically it has a lot of players. It has its biggest following here in Melbourne due to the Greeks there (Melbourne being the second biggest Greek city after Athens). The Serbs and Croats in Sydney also have many teams but you can imagine how a lot of those matches end up. Strangely the large numbers of English immigrants don't seem to bring their love of soccer.
kaleb777
(reply to Kristal_Rose) posted 12-Aug-2004 8:46pm  
You will have to include some potential for extra conflict. See Jerry Springer for sub-plot ideas.
bill Survey Central Gold SubscriberSilver Star Survey Creator
(reply to kaleb777) posted 13-Aug-2004 8:19am  
Interesting that you often end up talking about different ethnicities...

Basketball is an odd one. It's continuous and high-scoring, but most people admit that only the last 10 miuntes or so of the game matter. It's either over by then, or there's a lot of excitement over who will win it.
kaleb777
(reply to bill) posted 14-Aug-2004 7:39am  
Well I'm not a loony leftist. I don't feel bad if I talk about ethnicity and culture other than the evil of white men. They are aspects of humanity that are very important. The current world situation shows how it is unwise to ignore cultural differences or pretend they don't influence the behaviour of others even if they don't influence us. This is why the leftist ideology of multiculturalism - "tribes" of peoples who are traditional enemies living in the same country and not being required to abandon their cultural/ religious hatred and integrate for fear they might be overcome by the horror of western, Eurocentric Christian based cultures - is failing miserably. I saw an article about British politicians admitting the idea of different cultures existing in one country as dangerous and divisive. They had no problem with immigration, so long as the immigrants were becoming British and not fighting each other or actively trying to undermine the culture they moved to.

I like basketball. We have a national league here and do fairly well internationally but it seems the big games are the ones where huge numbers of people can attend like rugby, AFL and (yawn) cricket. Cricket is a game watched on a Saturday afternoon when it is too hot to do anything but get progressively blind drunk. This is probably why at the end of a day match you usually get streakers or women in the crowd taking off their tops.

bill Survey Central Gold SubscriberSilver Star Survey Creator
(reply to kaleb777) posted 14-Aug-2004 9:30am  
boobs? hm.. maybe I should take cricket more seriously. *raspberry*
kaleb777
(reply to bill) posted 15-Aug-2004 10:11pm  
*smile*
uible
posted 9-Sep-2004 11:56pm  
I ignore local sports to any extent that I can. I like foreign sports in that it takes less of an effort to ignore them.
LOSTMOSTOFTHEM
posted 1-Feb-2006 12:24am  
A truly great sport..The rules are pretty easy to learn! I would love to go to Australlia to see a game!

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