Part time Irish blokes that worked in pubs AND Australia still got flogged by them.

i remember him as a cricket persona..

although will say , SEN feed for Adelaide ( which is mostly out of Melbourne )  is mostly AFL , horse racing and cricket...
commercial radio contracts dictate the amount of air time certain codes get 

triple m ( in adelaide ) is a fan of AUFC, as they were not happy with their previous deal with 5aa/1395 Nova org

All australian , with the national team logo , playing against who ?

that may cover a small % who never travel possibly, I've been travelling to melbon for yonks/years and years for biz and pleasure.
Deal with people who have moved out of Melb and those who have moved down there from northern states.
The hate of the afl organisations etc have only been in recent years - sure wasn't there 20yrs ago let alone 15.

Anyway this code war goes in circles - more so from the melbonites side, you'd hardly find a NSW/Qldr argue or justify afl.

I think those from the northern states mostly  see what the AFL media and the AFL organization shows them and then generalize to the fan majority.  Many of these AFL fans hate the AFL organization for many reasons

I would've decked 'em cold TBH. Play sh1tty games, win even sh1ttier prizes💡

EDIT: Nah jk for the most part; most likely I would've asked them what their One Nation party-membership numbers are and done the Fawlty Towers mock-goosestep😆

Yeah I get it. Just after living up North NSW coast way for the last 7 years you just don't run into these idiots anywhere. 

I think they're examples of people at the extremes.

And we are to blame for the "Sokkah" name.  Never let others tell you what you call yourself, but we did.

Not the ones of 'bogan' background though, especially those from the bush where literally the only sports they grew up believing existed were AFL, cricket and netball💡

Thats a "no brainer" for me mate :)

They are not mutually exclusive round here trust me.

Having said that, I don't know many people <40 who aren't at least polite when I say I follow the A-League not AFL and ask questions even if ill informed etc

I haven't heard the term wogball (except from me aha) or pooftas etc for 15 years

The AFL.  They've been following their AFL clubs from when they about 3 years old and when they had suburban grounds that they walked to,

Sorry Muz, thats not even remotely true... Most AFL players have been spotted at one time or another "at the wogball" Some are even involved in local NPL clubs as presidents, boardmembers or just proud parents of players.... Every off season you see lots of content about them visiting EPL matches, UCL matches etc.... Most of the bogan fans that "Hate sokkah" generally don't like anything to do with what they consider as "Un-Australian" Its got nothing to do with the actual sport down here, just the fact that "if the rest of the world (nasty effniks and wogs) likes it they should go back to their own countries and watch it there then oi, oi oi"

You guys are lucky that rugby fans can at least understand that their sport is played in dozens of other countries and is not "tru-blue dinky di" like the AFL is so NRL fans and players probably see soccer as a smaller sport here in Australia and not a threat to the "Australian way of life"

The actual AFL organisation is a different matter all together I agree..... they are just protecting their "turf" though so really cant blame them when our own FA shits on 99% of soccer fans in this country anyway :)

Fuck mate. At the masters last week I met a bunch of netballers from South Australia and Victoria. 

What are you here for they asked.

I said football.

Soccer you mean?

No football.

Oh wogball. There's only one football mate and that's AFL.

And from a bunch of pig ignorant sheilas. Not even bogan AFL morons.

Fucking idiots.

A true melbonian will stand for the above agreed, they'd be mocked or frowned upon and on the outcast of their tribe.
Majority of the fans as Enzo quotes are afl first and foremost, tell us Enz, IF their afl fixture was on similar time to their MV or MC game ? which will they attend ?

At least COVID seems to have put the kibosh on any more AFL o/s matches, as well as that 'International Rules' dreck vs. Ireland😆

The issue at heart is that most of those fans' first-loyalty would still be to Aussie Rules/AFL, and as such seldom go in to bat for ⚽ in any dispute between the two. Trust me, I know firsthand all too well😔

Just to clarify, is anyone who follows AFL a dickhead who lives in a monoculture where nothing else matters? Because I know many  AFL fans who also are members of Victory (mostly) and City (some), or have an EPL club they follow (typically Liverpool).

There's actually a difference between the attitude of the AFL organization and the media who are connected to it and the actual fans. 

Ok. But he is still a fuckwit 

huge melbon cancer from way way back and influencing the other States West of Vic, real anglo vs effnics type of behaviour from the ol days and has carried on from gen to gen incl Aus born ethnics to fit in just as MCG quotes being in separated groups as example.
Gaelic football is a scorn in this country but it is what it is. 
Sydney never had that much of the divide that I recall during my school days but for the typical "poof" comments of the past.
Have watched 1 GF on tv and got conned to attend 1 swans game, takes too long and I don't get the appeal never again will it get any of my time.
 

I suppose the big difference is that the NRL has some sort of international league & they do visit other countries, for example the RL world cup is held in England & the final held in Old Trafford, the famous home ground of probably the most famous (not successful) team in the world, so the League media over there would understand how big football is.
Whereas the AFL media wants their people to think they invented women's sport & introduced sport to China, such a bubble they are in.

APL results are not included with Football Australia, and they did not produce an Annual Report last year that I can find.

the AFL revenue is for the league only, not the consolidated result. Some of the state leagues - especially the WAFL as a consolidated entity - earn more than Rugby Australia and Football Australia.


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O'Donnell played 24 games and kicked 18 goals between 1982 and 1983 in what was then the VFL - while also playing Cricket..

That's the difference between NRL and AFL blokes though. NRL blokes might give soccer a bit of (generally good natured) stick but they'll watch the EPL and other sports like Union and Hockey. AFL dickheads live in a monoculture where nothing else matters.

The old egg ball football haters in the media, and admin, particularly  AFL, don't need to denigrate football anymore.

By the current media failing to report almost anything about association football in Aus, there is no threat and barely any presence.

 Maybe Frank Lowy pulled strings to increase the profile of football that we don't know about?

He got into horse racing too after he quit cricket - a ‘sport’ that nobody - except for gamblers -  really gives a crap about 

You can understand if the clowns were from AFL, some of those commentators really think AFL is a huge game, not just a huge game in 4 states & that's it!!!!
But coming from a cricket commentator, who has traveled the world & knows how big football is worldwide is very surprising. However Simon O'Donnell only played a handful of games for Australia, so maybe he didn't travel that much.

Oh yeah! I did know that actually, good one

That's how I remember him for sure. Prancing down the wicket.

We need to catch up for a beer. Dean Jones was my favorite cricketer when he was playing. Swashbuckler way ahead of his time. 

AFL career here.
Simon O'Donnell - Wikipedia