AFL recognises Catalonia as a country in Euro AFL competition.


AFL recognises Catalonia as a country in Euro AFL competition.

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robbos wrote:
I suppose on the bigFooty site has never taken the piss out of the A-League!!!! It's just piss taking, there is no harm.


I post on BigFooty fairly regularly and I'm yet to see it, they actually have a very good community of football supporters that is largely immune to the dickhead infestation (your paulc and batfink types) that we get here. I'm sure the HAL has been slagged off before when brought up but you don't get people who don't follow or hate the game going out of their way to trash talk or take the piss. The only trash talking of the A League that I've seen since posting on BF is from Eurosnobs tbh.

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Do you think people in England or Spain worry about how AFL is bigger then football in Australia, it's the world game.


I honestly don't get the point of this bit? I mean I didn't say anything about O/S stature or perception of AFL, nor did I say anything about the domestic status of either code, it just seems a bit bizarre to me.
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If wonder if the AFL will ever class Norfolk Island as a separate nation, much like they do at the Commonwealth Games.

Good publicity stunt by the AFL anyway RE: Catalonia, they should get a double header on the cards when Catalonia play their guest FIFA games every now and then…

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Eldar wrote:
If you get 9 mates together and declare yourself an independent country that wants to play in the AFL World Cup, I suspect the AFL will recognise you.


not if you were called arnhem land

 




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Mosquitoes? Dafuq?

Awesome- Solna Axemen. I'd fail the drugs test in Amsterdam.
Malmö Redeyes is an appropriate name.




Edited by scott21: 23/3/2015 07:13:33 PM


Cute:lol:


Look at the names of the two groups. Even the AFL have conceded that the World is RED AND BLACK

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Fredsta wrote:
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The elitism in here is cringe worthy.

This 'competition' is just a bit of fun and is not pretending to be anything else FFS. I love that 99% of AFL fans wouldn't even know (or care) that this was running but a bunch of smug football fans are sitting around using this to take the piss out of the sport, the AFL hate here is pathetic.


We're not the ones who compiled a newspaper article in a mainstream newspaper making out that this is a huge moment in international diplomacy.

Piss-take is warranted IMHO.


I just think it's hilarious that on BigFooty, a site with 20 times the traffic of this place and populated entirely by AFL fans, there is literally zero discussion about this thing, no one gives a shit. The only people discussing it are a bunch of football fans sniggering about how pathetic the AFL is, surely you can see how petty and ridiculous that is?


I suppose on the bigFooty site has never taken the piss out of the A-League!!!! It's just piss taking, there is no harm.
Do you think people in England or Spain worry about how AFL is bigger then football in Australia, it's the world game.
You enjoy both games that is fine, there are others who only like football & there are those who only like AFL or RL.
I live in Sydney, AFL is not very big here, just a bit bigger the RL in Melbourne, but still way behind RL & football, it's not an issue.
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scott21 wrote:
Draupnir wrote:
Mosquitoes? Dafuq?

Awesome- Solna Axemen. I'd fail the drugs test in Amsterdam.
Malmö Redeyes is an appropriate name.




Edited by scott21: 23/3/2015 07:13:33 PM


Cute:lol:
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this story is boring

[size=9]QUIT BORING EVERYONE![/size]
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scott21 wrote:
Draupnir wrote:
Mosquitoes? Dafuq?

Awesome- Solna Axemen. I'd fail the drugs test in Amsterdam.
Malmö Redeyes is an appropriate name.




Edited by scott21: 23/3/2015 07:13:33 PM

Lol.
I thought there would be an Irish team called green leaves and I'm not referring to the four leaf clover
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Draupnir wrote:
Mosquitoes? Dafuq?

Awesome- Solna Axemen. I'd fail the drugs test in Amsterdam.
Malmö Redeyes is an appropriate name.




Edited by scott21: 23/3/2015 07:13:33 PM
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Mosquitoes? Dafuq?
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In all honesty they weren't recognising Catalonia as a separate country, just a separate league and AFL Europe invited the champions of the Catalonia League. Similarly the West London Wildcats represented the London League and Manchester Mosquitos represented the England - Midlands/North-East League
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I have always stayed away from expat pubs but occasionally expats crossed my path. A guy tried to recruit me to play twice, I had meet him before years earlier but he started exactly the same like a salesman. Maybe I should have played and taken Swedish citizenship. It's not every day you get to go to the footylympics.

Edited by scott21: 23/3/2015 04:32:24 PM
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Agree with Freddy and co here. I can't stand AFL, but the victim mentally and inferiority complex that football fans out on around AFL is just cringeworthy.
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A16Man wrote:
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petty and ridiculous

That describes most football fans.


:lol: Not wrong.
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Fredsta wrote:
petty and ridiculous

That describes most football fans.

Edited by A16Man: 22/3/2015 11:01:06 PM
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Fredsta wrote:
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The elitism in here is cringe worthy.

This 'competition' is just a bit of fun and is not pretending to be anything else FFS. I love that 99% of AFL fans wouldn't even know (or care) that this was running but a bunch of smug football fans are sitting around using this to take the piss out of the sport, the AFL hate here is pathetic.


We're not the ones who compiled a newspaper article in a mainstream newspaper making out that this is a huge moment in international diplomacy.

Piss-take is warranted IMHO.


I just think it's hilarious that on BigFooty, a site with 20 times the traffic of this place and populated entirely by AFL fans, there is literally zero discussion about this thing, no one gives a shit. The only people discussing it are a bunch of football fans sniggering about how pathetic the AFL is, surely you can see how petty and ridiculous that is?


I follow a bit of AFL, and my team is the Swans and it's just a bit of satire .
It's only for bit of a laugh mate...go easy.

Edited by Socawho: 22/3/2015 04:39:12 PM

Edited by Socawho: 22/3/2015 04:40:26 PM
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Eldar wrote:
If you get 9 mates together and declare yourself an independent country that wants to play in the AFL World Cup, I suspect the AFL will recognise you.


Thats how the Macedonian team got started.
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Fredsta wrote:
Eldar wrote:
Fredsta wrote:
The elitism in here is cringe worthy.

This 'competition' is just a bit of fun and is not pretending to be anything else FFS. I love that 99% of AFL fans wouldn't even know (or care) that this was running but a bunch of smug football fans are sitting around using this to take the piss out of the sport, the AFL hate here is pathetic.


We're not the ones who compiled a newspaper article in a mainstream newspaper making out that this is a huge moment in international diplomacy.

Piss-take is warranted IMHO.


I just think it's hilarious that on BigFooty, a site with 20 times the traffic of this place and populated entirely by AFL fans, there is literally zero discussion about this thing, no one gives a shit. The only people discussing it are a bunch of football fans sniggering about how pathetic the AFL is, surely you can see how petty and ridiculous that is?


Better give the Herald Sun a ring and tell them to stop wasting time on articles that no-one is interested in then.

Edited by Eldar: 22/3/2015 03:10:56 PM

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Eldar wrote:
Fredsta wrote:
The elitism in here is cringe worthy.

This 'competition' is just a bit of fun and is not pretending to be anything else FFS. I love that 99% of AFL fans wouldn't even know (or care) that this was running but a bunch of smug football fans are sitting around using this to take the piss out of the sport, the AFL hate here is pathetic.


We're not the ones who compiled a newspaper article in a mainstream newspaper making out that this is a huge moment in international diplomacy.

Piss-take is warranted IMHO.


I just think it's hilarious that on BigFooty, a site with 20 times the traffic of this place and populated entirely by AFL fans, there is literally zero discussion about this thing, no one gives a shit. The only people discussing it are a bunch of football fans sniggering about how pathetic the AFL is, surely you can see how petty and ridiculous that is?
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Fredsta wrote:
The elitism in here is cringe worthy.

This 'competition' is just a bit of fun and is not pretending to be anything else FFS. I love that 99% of AFL fans wouldn't even know (or care) that this was running but a bunch of smug football fans are sitting around using this to take the piss out of the sport, the AFL hate here is pathetic.


We're not the ones who compiled a newspaper article in a mainstream newspaper making out that this is a huge moment in international diplomacy.

Piss-take is warranted IMHO.

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Such a cool story

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The elitism in here is cringe worthy.

This 'competition' is just a bit of fun and is not pretending to be anything else FFS. I love that 99% of AFL fans wouldn't even know (or care) that this was running but a bunch of smug football fans are sitting around using this to take the piss out of the sport, the AFL hate here is pathetic.
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Eldar wrote:
If you get 9 mates together and declare yourself an independent country that wants to play in the AFL World Cup, I suspect the AFL will recognise you.

Nek Minnut....Gilbratar to form an AFL team and then the AFL can start calling their game "The World Game". :lol:

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This is just cringe


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If you get 9 mates together and declare yourself an independent country that wants to play in the AFL World Cup, I suspect the AFL will recognise you.

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Probably need as many competing teams as they could get
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Umm why?? :lol: also SocaWho dont let wamakie see this thread :lol:
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“There was a lot of feeling absolutely, regardless of their skill level in football it was very emotional for both groups to play against each other,” he said. “The fact they are running out there in their jumper and one doesn’t recognise the other as a real group but the fact they are there playing each other makes them real is quite a unique watching experience. They all socialise afterwards with some discussion on politics but luckily I don’t speak Spanish very well.”

So in other words the AFL is willing to encourage wars if it meant taking the game forward.....:-k
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Such a cool story
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