I just love how the 'facts' change to suit their arguments.
One day AFL will be under threat due to big bad global soccer taking all the kiddies, the next day soccer is just a third-rate sport that doesn't matter in this country because all the real Aussies like fooooodddddy

Well said.

-PB

I came here knowing I could read the fully posted article and have my morning laugh without giving the idiot author what she wanted and is paid to get. Clicks on her article. Honestly just when I think football fans have wised up a bit more, the AFL trolls( notice how its hardly ever NRL?) dangle another piece in the water and off you all go to reinforce just how predictable you all are:(
I'm not sure who is stupider? The author or anybody that fed the troll?
She's writing to her insecure audience after a highly successful World Cup reassuring them that the gains made by football over the last decade are an illusion;) "there there little bogans, theres nothing to worry about.ignore the idiots let them be, let them have their fantasies;) football continues to grow. Do we really need the masses to crown us as "number 1" before we consider our game successful? I say no; a strong league, respectable national team, solid structure in Australia(FFA Cup, league, Asian participation etc) we are slowly but surely getting where we want to be...who really cares what the news limited trolls think?

Edited by vanbasten88: 30/7/2014 10:39:02 AM

Edited by vanbasten88: 30/7/2014 10:40:18 AM

Is there some sort of competition on with AFL that we don't know about ?
I neither know nor care about AFL . I follow Football. So why are AFL people so fixated on what we in football are doing ?
We don't need to convert AFL followers. It will never happen and we don't need them.
If we convert just a small percentage of the hundreds of thousands of kids and adults playing all over Australia we will have a massive support.
So for all you AFL trolls...worry about your own game...we don't care what your views are.

There has been a poll added and a Live chat box (returning 12:30 PM) added apparently to further bait people into calling her a mole.

These pieces are great for a daily luff, reactions too

OP should be banned.

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

That isn't an AFL team.

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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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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

: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

Its only still open purely for the lulz

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

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

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

Her husband might be in for a suprised :lol:

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.

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

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