Stop feeding the click bait guys.

Its season 10 ffs :oops:

The HAL logo this season even has "10 years" in bold on it :lol:

Edited by Erebus: 31/7/2014 09:34:56 AM

He makes some fair points but i think the big thing he is forgetting is that AFL's professional league is over 150years old, the HAL is head towards (what?) our 8th season?

AFL & NRL have generations of fans that have supported clubs across there league, the HAL is not even a generation old. in 50 years from now if and when i have kids and they have kids we will all be still watching 'soccer.'

I dont know if the HAL will ever be on top of AFL but i dont think the Socceroos are/or will be the top supported team in the nation.

People say football is board and some games are! but so are some AFL and NRL games the thing that makes football far superior to any other sport. Is that is it interesting to follow, there are leagues in most nations players moving off and around all the time and there is always something to play for weather it be a cup spot, the title, safety from relegation.

clarke left out 'in australia' bit at the tail end of the title of the article?

And also the title should refer to Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide

zzz.

This aint AFL section +1...

I disagree that Andrew Bolt writes to antagonize

I like to ask rugby and League fans what the difference is, just to try to get a rise out of them. Or ask if the state of origin is the selection process for the Wallabies;)union...yawn, just kick another penalty goal. Next.


Edited by vanbasten88: 31/7/2014 12:57:24 AM

Why do people feed the troll? Just like Andrew bolt these kind of journo's will make these sort of articles to get the negative feedback .Then use the feedback to antagonize again

Edited by mvfcarsenal16.8: 30/7/2014 09:13:36 PM

You don't seem to get these sort of articles in Sydney anymore, Rebecca Wilson has been very quiet in the last couple of years. These articles mainly comes out of the AFL states, so either there are more elitist morons following football in the AFL states or AFL media are a bit more down on football then RL media.
So glad I live in Sydney, while RL is the king, football, RU & AFL has it's place.

Her husband might be in for a suprised :lol:

Maybe they should adopt corners like they do in football from the sidelines, where they can't hold the ball. :lol:

And they still give points for missing ](*,)

+1. Its called taking the piss. :lol:

Its only still open purely for the lulz

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Yeah...lol. Classic Eddie McGuire right there. Ive heard him use that line many a time in commentary.

Its a case of foot in mouth every time he speaks about Football.

He should just stick to Millionaire Hotseat.

Edited by SocaWho: 30/7/2014 08:33:44 PM

Threads like this still exist? ](*,) ](*,)

Youse can trash her on Twitter if you wish: @ali__clarke

FWIW she seems to have backpedalled considerably, judging by her tweets & her own online replies to her article.

I don't mind it either, I watch every Lions game.

I've heard on a number of times when a player has "soccered" the ball and the commentator follows it up with " he could play for the Socceroos" that's after the player has shined the ball through the posts from 3 meters out :lol:

This skank can go squat on broken glass. How on earth does shit like this get published in major newspapers? The journos in the UK are utter trash but even then you don't see Football fans in the media writing whole articles putting down Rugby Union or League for the sake of it.

Yeah it is kinda hilarious. I don't mind AFL actually. I think its not a bad game to watch. I just don't like the AFL dickwads that trash other sports.

He's just giving football fans further incentive to give his article more hits, even if he did post it in the AFL section this is clearly a come and get me to football fans, and thus will be read by far more football fans than it will AFL supporters. If football fans grew up and stopped taking a bait we wouldn't be seeing this shit anywhere near as frequently as we do, it's guaranteed to generate hits when we have so many volatile and elitist morons taking the bait every time.

Hahaha the funniest thing about this article is the fact that the journalist added a poll, hoping that the reaction would lean in his favour, yet there are more than 5x votes saying that soccer is their favourite sport, compared to afl. Hilarious.

May i also add that the article was posted under the AFL thread on news.com.au so you would imagine the majority of readers would have been afl fans.

ps Not sure if anyone noticed this. Haven't read all the comments yet.

Edited by Davo1985: 30/7/2014 02:06:29 PM

It's called hyperbole FFS.

That last sentence is absolute gold, the elitism and hypocrisy in this thread is just tragic but this one actually made me laugh.

Always got to laugh when some calls Aussie Rules a skill less game.

But I agree with you, its the sheer nature of sport, there will always be a boring game, or a boring race etc, not everything can be a thriller. As someone who watches a lot of both codes I can well and truly say it's just as common to sit through a dull AFL game or a boring whitewash as it is to sit through a bore draw in football.

Hence you probably should have removed the link also. To help the football fans who can't seem to beat their urges to click (and comment) on this type of article.

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Gaelic football is hardly afl, that's like saying league and union are the same thing. [/quote]

to the disinterested majority of the planet, they are the same thing.

a propos of not much, after the spectacle that was the world cup, seeing articles on the other codes seems evermore irrelevant and provincial...

That isn't an AFL team.

SHE is an idiot woman who married an AFL foodyball player. Which of course makes her over qualified to write anything about football for News Limited. Don't feed the troll. Theyve been doing this for years and look at how our sport continues to grow! Strong stable league, FFA Cup a success already, Asian participation for our NTs. So much win for football. Her opinion is irrelevant.

Edited by vanbasten88: 30/7/2014 11:27:50 AM

OP should be banned.