Do You Enjoy Other Sports?

[Red_Till_I_Die]

Other than football, do you play or watch any other sport?

I like to have a few frames of snooker, and play the odd round of golf here and there. But struggle to watch Cricket.

I have been known to watch Bowls

[LFCman]

I usually watch whatever Australia is involved in. But obviously Football is far and away my most beloved sport (religion).

I follow the Adelaide Crows locally in AFL (Aussie Rules). It is a decent sport but then at times I hate it as the more traditional AFL fan does tend to not like Football or "Soccer" as they call it. (They call AFL "Football" down here which is ironic as the hands play a major role)

But I follow the Crows 1) because they are similar to Liverpool in terms of there standing in the game and 2) our rivals Port Power are scum and poor like Neverton and their fans are all bitter sore losers.

We have a good team ethic and our coach actually reminds me a bit of Rafa. (Also helps that he used to go to school with my dad).

In terms of local Football. I support Adelaide United in our new A-league competition. We have a stupid finals series here like in America which pisses me off. Especially as we finished top after the league season but lost in the finals which didn't show that we were the most consistent side in the league. It rewards flash in the pans rather then consistency. Still our game needs interest here and if the league title had been wrapped by us with nothing to play for then the interest would of been lost. Bloody Sydney, arrogant ****s

[MrMichael]

Used to play Gaelic football (which is basically Aussie rules for lunatics) and a lot of tennis, but these days a bit of snooker is about as active as I get unfortunately. Although footy will always come first I'll watch almost any sport.. I just wish they'd bring Kabaddi back onto tv, what a sport that is

[Red_Till_I_Die]

I usually watch whatever Australia is involved in. But obviously Football is far and away my most beloved sport (religion).

I follow the Adelaide Crows locally in AFL (Aussie Rules). It is a decent sport but then at times I hate it as the more traditional AFL fan does tend to not like Football or "Soccer" as they call it. (They call AFL "Football" down here which is ironic as the hands play a major role)

But I follow the Crows 1) because they are similar to Liverpool in terms of there standing in the game and 2) our rivals Port Power are scum and poor like Neverton and their fans are all bitter sore losers.

We have a good team ethic and our coach actually reminds me a bit of Rafa. (Also helps that he used to go to school with my dad).

In terms of local Football. I support Adelaide United in our new A-league competition. We have a stupid finals series here like in America which pisses me off. Especially as we finished top after the league season but lost in the finals which didn't show that we were the most consistent side in the league. It rewards flash in the pans rather then consistency. Still our game needs interest here and if the league title had been wrapped by us with nothing to play for then the interest would of been lost. Bloody Sydney, arrogant ****s

Hey Speedy

I have never been able to understand Aussie Rules, I used to watch highlights on Transworld Sport, but I couldn't get my head round how they score, the shape of the pitch etc.

You know any good links which can talk me through it.

Has football taken off a bit more in Australia after the World Cup? From what I heard, was football the 5th most played sport in Australia.

[Red_Till_I_Die]

Used to play Gaelic football (which is basically Aussie rules for lunatics) and a lot of tennis, but these days a bit of snooker is about as active as I get unfortunately. Although footy will always come first I'll watch almost any sport.. I just wish they'd bring Kabaddi back onto tv, what a sport that is

I usually watch Tennis if Wimbeldon is on, but not an avid fan.

As for snooker, its a nice escape to have a leisurely game with a few pints. Not that I am claiming to be any good, after 3 or 4 frames, I get annoyed that I can't hit a ball straight, or judge the pace of the ball!

[LFCman]

Hey Speedy

I have never been able to understand Aussie Rules, I used to watch highlights on Transworld Sport, but I couldn't get my head round how they score, the shape of the pitch etc.

You know any good links which can talk me through it.

Has football taken off a bit more in Australia after the World Cup? From what I heard, was football the 5th most played sport in Australia.

www.afl.com is the official site of the league. But Wiki usually knows best: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_rules_football

Basically the field is oval shaped. You get 6 points for scoring a goal (putting it through the middle) and 1 point for getting it on either side of the goal.

It isn't a patch on Football. Can be quite entertaining but most ardent AFL fans live in a dream world where AFL rules all. Their belief is that AFL is better because "Soccer" is boring as there might only be 1 or 2 goals a game.

Basically most are meatheads.

However there are those like me who appreciate each sport for what it is and have time for both. Very little for AFL in comparison to Football. I watch the Crows games and that is about it.

[LFCman]

Bah, I forgot to mention about the real Football down here. Football has always been popular. It is infact the number 1 participant sport in Australia and there has always been mass following of European leagues here due to a lot of television coverage of it and a lot of immigrants.

Problem is, our local league was a sham and a lot of the clubs were based on ethnicity. eg. Adelaide City (Italian), Melbourne Knights (Croatian). So if you weren't either then who did you support? Not to mention the standard of the league was rubbish and a history of crowd violence flamed by ethnic groups clashing.

Now with our new Federation things are moving on. Frank Lowey and John O'Neill (organized Rugby World Cup down here) have put things together. We now have got rid of all ethnic clubs and basically started from scratch. A new professional league (A-league), 6 new clubs, 2 old clubs (Adelaide United and Perth Glory because they weren't based on ethnicity and represent each city).

So now we have a vibrant 8 team competition with plans to expand to 12 as the years go by. We got record crowd numbers in season 1 and the quality of Football went up a lot with more professionalism brought in. (Yorke is also at Sydney FC and has helped in terms of marketing the league). Grand Final had 40,000 people and the atmosphere was incredible. A few Englishmen who were on holiday and went to it commented that they thought they were back in England.

The country got right behind the national side at the World Cup. I have never seen Football in the media like it was for the WC. Even non-Football people got right into it and a lot of meathead AFL fans were left with some warm humble pie.

The A-league hopes to exploit the success of the national side in the WC and already season 2 promises to be bigger and better then season 1. We've got some great new imports to the league and a lot of clubs have sold more season tickets for this season then they did for last season.

Our local league was also never shown on TV as no one wanted the rights. But Fox Sports had them last season and bought them for an extra 7 years this year and will broadcast every game live.

Our move into Asia was a big boost. Probably more important then our success at the WC. More competitive games for the national side and A-league clubs also in the Asian Champions League.

All in all, now that I have finished my rambling, I can say that Football is very much on the up in Australia.

[Rich]

Bah, I forgot to mention about the real Football down here. Football has always been popular. It is infact the number 1 participant sport in Australia and there has always been mass following of European leagues here due to a lot of television coverage of it and a lot of immigrants.

Problem is, our local league was a sham and a lot of the clubs were based on ethnicity. eg. Adelaide City (Italian), Melbourne Knights (Croatian). So if you weren't either then who did you support? Not to mention the standard of the league was rubbish and a history of crowd violence flamed by ethnic groups clashing.

Now with our new Federation things are moving on. Frank Lowey and John O'Neill (organized Rugby World Cup down here) have put things together. We now have got rid of all ethnic clubs and basically started from scratch. A new professional league (A-league), 6 new clubs, 2 old clubs (Adelaide United and Perth Glory because they weren't based on ethnicity and represent each city).

So now we have a vibrant 8 team competition with plans to expand to 12 as the years go by. We got record crowd numbers in season 1 and the quality of Football went up a lot with more professionalism brought in. (Yorke is also at Sydney FC and has helped in terms of marketing the league). Grand Final had 40,000 people and the atmosphere was incredible. A few Englishmen who were on holiday and went to it commented that they thought they were back in England.

The country got right behind the national side at the World Cup. I have never seen Football in the media like it was for the WC. Even non-Football people got right into it and a lot of meathead AFL fans were left with some warm humble pie.

The A-league hopes to exploit the success of the national side in the WC and already season 2 promises to be bigger and better then season 1. We've got some great new imports to the league and a lot of clubs have sold more season tickets for this season then they did for last season.

Our local league was also never shown on TV as no one wanted the rights. But Fox Sports had them last season and bought them for an extra 7 years this year and will broadcast every game live.

Our move into Asia was a big boost. Probably more important then our success at the WC. More competitive games for the national side and A-league clubs also in the Asian Champions League.

All in all, now that I have finished my rambling, I can say that Football is very much on the up in Australia.

Yeah, but Australia will never beat England at Football......

[LFCman]

Mwahahaha!

I see both countries though are planning to bid for the 2018 World Cup.

[Kiwi]

As my username gives a reasonable hint as to my nationality,I do enjoy watching top flight
Rugby ( Tri-nations & Super 14). Played Footie till my early 30s, but unfortunately my other
sport Water Polo doesn't get all that much media time. I'll watch a bit of Golf, but generally
only the majors.

[Rich]

Hey, I have an idea! Why don't England and Australia plan a joint World Cup bid?

I can just see it now, all the big teams have to continually travel between the two countries, while England play all their games at Wembley. That way we might have a chance of lifting the cup (again)

[LFCman]

Hey, I have an idea! Why don't England and Australia plan a joint World Cup bid?

I can just see it now, all the big teams have to continually travel between the two countries, while England play all their games at Wembley. That way we might have a chance of lifting the cup (again)

The logistics behind that would be an absolute joke.

[kurtangle01]

boxing and golf for me. can't stand snooker or cricket.

[kurtangle01]

P.S. i can't stand rugby either.

[howie_lfc]

will watch most sports apart from horse racing tedious in the extreme unless I have a winner of course....love to watch cricket in fact I am a passionate England Cricket supporter which is more than I can say for Eng-er-land football....but that's a whole different post...