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James Gatz · Post #981 » by **James Gatz** » Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:29 pm

Sachmo wrote:I still believe that is one of the most demanding sports you can play. Run around for 2 hours, jumping, sprinting, getting beat up and jumped on.

Its great fun when you're fit. I haven't played for about 5 years, always think about it and then remember the pain.

I played for the club team at UNC for a while. I was a loose head prop and my most prevalent memory was just being sore all the time.

Post #982 » by **BigSlam** » Tue Jun 18, 2013 3:54 pm

James Gatz wrote:
Sachmo wrote:I still believe that is one of the most demanding sports you can play. Run around for 2 hours, jumping, sprinting, getting beat up and jumped on.

Its great fun when you're fit. I haven't played for about 5 years, always think about it and then remember the pain.

I played for the club team at UNC for a while. I was a loose head prop and my most prevalent memory was just being sore all the time.

Aussie Rules JG, not Rugby.

James Gatz · Post #983 » by **James Gatz** » Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:38 pm

BigSlam wrote:
James Gatz wrote:
Sachmo wrote:I still believe that is one of the most demanding sports you can play. Run around for 2 hours, jumping, sprinting, getting beat up and jumped on.

Its great fun when you're fit. I haven't played for about 5 years, always think about it and then remember the pain.

I played for the club team at UNC for a while. I was a loose head prop and my most prevalent memory was just being sore all the time.

Aussie Rules JG, not Rugby.

Post #984 » by **fatlever** » Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:39 am

BigSlam wrote:
James Gatz wrote:
Sachmo wrote:I still believe that is one of the most demanding sports you can play. Run around for 2 hours, jumping, sprinting, getting beat up and jumped on.

Its great fun when you're fit. I haven't played for about 5 years, always think about it and then remember the pain.

I played for the club team at UNC for a while. I was a loose head prop and my most prevalent memory was just being sore all the time.

Aussie Rules JG, not Rugby.

same difference [runs and hides from the aussies]

Elden Payton · Post #985 » by **Elden Payton** » Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:29 am

Hard to differentiate for foreigners but I'll attempt to explain the origins of Aussie sport a little bit.

This is a map of Australia and New Zealand.

Looking at the map either Rugby League or Union dominates the North-East Coast of Australia and New Zealand and Aussie Rules dominates the West, the Central North and the whole South of Australia.

West Australia, South Australia, the Northern Territory, Tasmania and Victoria are all aussie rules heartland and the ACT, New South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand are rugby heartland, in a lot of areas either Aussie Rules, Rugby League and Rugby Union are played exclusively as in it is unaccepted socially to play a different code :lol:

As an example of this I grew up playing Aussie Rules, Basketball, Cricket, Soccer and Squash but absolutely no rugby at all, in Queensland a person might grow up playing Ruby League or Union, Basketball, Cricket, Soccer and Surf but play no Aussie Rules at all.

Right now where I am sitting I can think of at least 20 Aussie Rules Clubs within a 20 kilometre radius and 1 rugby club, it would be the opposite in Queensland or New South Wales.

Rugby and Aussie Rules are our main winter sports and cricket is our national summer sport so all over Australia people will play rugby or football and then EVERYONE switches to cricket in summer.

The reason Aussie Rules was invented was so that cricketers could keep fit during winter and the rest is history.

Australia is a sports mad country and so is New Zealand, the rivalry between New Zealand and Australia exists mainly in sport over cricket and rugby and despite these sports the rivalry is overblown, there is a definite rivalry between the AFL and the NRL and ARU over territory but there is probably a bigger rivalry in rugby between the NRL and ARU which is ancient.

Queensland and New South Wales hate each other more over Rugby than any beef Australia and New Zealand could ever have.

Elden Payton · Post #986 » by **Elden Payton** » Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:42 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hqREX3L11s[/youtube]

This is a Rugby League All-Star game/series called state of Origin.

NSW versus QLD.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cx5l5Lwp2w[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucBHI8_xh3A[/youtube]

AFL big hits parts 1 and 2.

Aussie'ss and Kiwi's aren't much for the padding.

countryboi · Post #987 » by **countryboi** » Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:10 pm

today is a great day to be a gamer....microsoft blinked and dropped all of their DRM. im still getting a PS4 because its 100 bucks cheaper and i already pre ordered it.

thesneakysneak · Post #988 » by **thesneakysneak** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:03 am

BigSlam wrote:Played my first game of Aussies Rules on the weekend in two years.

The result is a slipped disk and pinched nerve in my back and two separate doses of codeine based medications for the next two weeks, back x-rays, the start of intense physio and appointments with a massage therapist every other day.

Stupid game.

I played in a 9 a side AFL tournament in Sweden on the weekend. Only started playing AFL last year as I grew up playing union.
I ended up with a dislocated shoulder and a strained hammy. I popped my shoulder in the semi and strained the hammy in the second of 6 games played on the day. It was a bit much to play that many games, although each one was only 2x10mins. The shorter games just meant we had to run our arses off. good times.

Post #989 » by **Diop** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:06 am

9 aside? I guess it was on a smaller ground.

Post #990 » by **fatlever** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:16 pm

vorbis wrote:good morning from Hong Kong. i've always heard the saying "if you don't like the weather in New England, wait 5 minutes," but HK takes that to a whole other level. rain/wind/muggy/glaring hot sun all within 5 minutes. awesome city, though. absolutely mindboggling density and usage of space.

i cant even begin to imagine the congestion and overwhelming population density there.

Post #991 » by **fatlever** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:24 pm

i had another random NBA related dream last night. here goes:

so i was a guest on the bill simmons/jalen rose show. i thought it would be fun to make up a scavenger hunt draft to play with those guys. so before hand i made some easy category and made list of players in my notebook (in think the category was something like - players who played at least 40 games, but didnt start more than 20 - and we were to make a team of basically the best bench players) i brought it up in my interview and they liked the idea. BUT, simmons wanted to change things around and he changed my category, then called in another person so we had 4 people doing a draft. they had an intern recording picks on a white board. all of them had computers so they could look up players on bball-ref.com. meanwhile my notes were useless. when it was my pick i would be scrambling through my notes, which were impossible to decipher and pointless and they were getting mad at me for taking too long because it was dead air. i was trying to pick players based on memory. and i kept picking players who were already drafted because i couldnt read the handwriting on the whiteboard. so they would making fun of me for basically being an idiot.

Post #992 » by **Diop** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 2:58 am

I enjoyed Honkers, loved the food.

thesneakysneak · Post #993 » by **thesneakysneak** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 7:28 am

Sachmo wrote:9 aside? I guess it was on a smaller ground.

yeah there arent too many ovals to run multiple games so we played on soccer grounds for these things. Win the middle, win the game.

vorbis · Post #994 » by **vorbis** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 11:06 am

fatlever wrote:
vorbis wrote:good morning from Hong Kong. i've always heard the saying "if you don't like the weather in New England, wait 5 minutes," but HK takes that to a whole other level. rain/wind/muggy/glaring hot sun all within 5 minutes. awesome city, though. absolutely mindboggling density and usage of space.

i cant even begin to imagine the congestion and overwhelming population density there.

to put it into context, kowloon, an area of HK about twice the size of uptown charlotte, has about 2.5 million people alone.

Post #995 » by **BigSlam** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 12:36 pm

thesneakysneak wrote:
Sachmo wrote:9 aside? I guess it was on a smaller ground.

yeah there arent too many ovals to run multiple games so we played on soccer grounds for these things. Win the middle, win the game.

Funny you say that sneaky.

One of the biggest challenges we had when starting the club here in Ottawa was finding a ground big enough to play Aussie Rules. There are oodles of baseball fields and soccer fields but nothing big enough. There are area's that have 6 or 8 soccer grounds that are all together - but they are dissected by gutters or paths so they are no good.

We actually play on the infield of the horse racing track here (that's it with the small dam at the end).

http://maps.google.ca/maps?bav=on.2,or. ... IwBEPwSMAA

And even that is a little small (it's about 150m long - wings are pretty good though.

Post #996 » by **fatlever** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 4:30 pm

is ottawa as flat as it looks on that google street view?

Post #997 » by **BigSlam** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 4:48 pm

Ya, it's pretty flat - although there are obviously great mountains all over the place (snowboarding/skiing in the winter).

TheKingofSting · Post #998 » by **TheKingofSting** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 7:05 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg[/youtube]

NSFW

TheKingofSting · Post #999 » by **TheKingofSting** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 2:56 am

[tweet]https://twitter.com/MYsportsPhotog/status/347398057207427072[/tweet]

Post #1000 » by **fatlever** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 3:14 am

Kemba2Hendo wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg[/youtube]

NSFW

this is fantastic. our pcs at work have mcafee. its the most annoying POS ever invented.