Montgomery

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Not the best start to the AFL season for our anti-hero.
Captain of Central Coast Mariners, who lost 1-2 to Green Gully.

The equivalent of SUFC losing to ... (name a semi-professional club) in the FA Cup.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-stun-central-coast-mariners-in-ffa-cup-upset

Winning goal wasn't bad...

http://www.ccmariners.com.au/matchcentre/Green-Gully-v-Central-Coast-Mariners/862163

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[Bartleby]

Not the best start to the AFL season for our anti-hero.
Captain of Central Coast Mariners, who lost 1-2 to Green Gully.

The equivalent of SUFC losing to ... (name a semi-professional club) in the FA Cup.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-stun-central-coast-mariners-in-ffa-cup-upset

Winning goal wasn't bad...

http://www.ccmariners.com.au/matchcentre/Green-Gully-v-Central-Coast-Mariners/862163

Tune In again next time for more news on ex-Blades still playing around the world.

good stuff, this is even better than Tommy Boyd's Nightline on LBC wot I used to listen to when I lived darn in London and I couldn't sleep

 

[Pinchy]

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Seemed to catch the wind towards the end - I think I could see the ball rise a little in flight

 

[Grappler]

I thought this thread would be highlighting the latest big screen (or small screen ) role for the nations favourite, "Mr. TV himself", Nick "Monty" Montgomery <cue wild applause>

 

[Slayed]

Not the best start to the AFL season for our anti-hero.
Captain of Central Coast Mariners, who lost 1-2 to Green Gully.

The equivalent of SUFC losing to ... (name a semi-professional club) in the FA Cup.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-stun-central-coast-mariners-in-ffa-cup-upset

Winning goal wasn't bad...

http://www.ccmariners.com.au/matchcentre/Green-Gully-v-Central-Coast-Mariners/862163

Tune In again next time for more news on ex-Blades still playing around the world.

AFL..?..

 

[Blade56]

When did we sell them Long in goal?

 

[pommpey]

Not the best start to the AFL season for our anti-hero.
Captain of Central Coast Mariners, who lost 1-2 to Green Gully.

The equivalent of SUFC losing to ... (name a semi-professional club) in the FA Cup.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-stun-central-coast-mariners-in-ffa-cup-upset

Winning goal wasn't bad...

http://www.ccmariners.com.au/matchcentre/Green-Gully-v-Central-Coast-Mariners/862163

Tune In again next time for more news on ex-Blades still playing around the world.

As much as I repeatedly berated our midfield liability back in the day, I'd have him back in an instant.

pommpey

 

[mattbianco1]

AFL..?..

Short for Australian Football League, an obscure suburban sport played in southern areas of Australia. Previously called the Victorian Football League, or Victorian Rules Football.

Before each game, teams must run through banners constructed entirely of toilet paper and clag glue and containing messages such as 'Go the Roo Boys' or other such crap.

Playing uniform is similarly macabre. Each player must wear a singlet, shoes, socks and shorts so tight, if they were any tighter they'd need bowel surgery to remove them.

AFL is the only sport in the world which rewards people for failure, with one point given for missing a shot at goal, or hitting one of the large goal posts, or if an opposing player runs the ball between the goals.

Despite what any AFL follower will tell you, it is slightly above watching grass grow in terms of an entertainment spectacle. It does not have any significant following outside of the Australian states of Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, with the more open-minded Australians (i.e. New South Wales and Queensland) preferring Rugby League and Rugby Union. Even dwarf-tossing is more popular in these states.

The first International AFL World Cup was held in 2003 in Melbourne. There were more players on the field than spectators in the stands. Nobody remembers who won. Nauru are a powerhouse in World AFL, as well as Denmark, who hold the non-Australian attendance record for a game of AFL - 62. (That's sixty-two, not sixty-two thousand).

In order to play AFL, it is compulsory to do or have done one of these:

* Bonk your best mate's wife
* Urinate on a lady's leg at a pub
* Own a copy of 'Up There Cazaly'
* Have a name such as Wayde, Rhett, Jarred or Digby
* Steal from your team-mates
* Be an accessory to the death of a young lady by drug over-dose
* Be totally ignorant
* Keep a closed mind
AFL - rhymes with Gay FL. Coincidence? I think not.

"Great mark there by Digby...."

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Short for Australian Football League, an obscure suburban sport played in southern areas of Australia. Previously called the Victorian Football League, or Victorian Rules Football.

Before each game, teams must run through banners constructed entirely of toilet paper and clag glue and containing messages such as 'Go the Roo Boys' or other such crap.

Playing uniform is similarly macabre. Each player must wear a singlet, shoes, socks and shorts so tight, if they were any tighter they'd need bowel surgery to remove them.

AFL is the only sport in the world which rewards people for failure, with one point given for missing a shot at goal, or hitting one of the large goal posts, or if an opposing player runs the ball between the goals.

Despite what any AFL follower will tell you, it is slightly above watching grass grow in terms of an entertainment spectacle. It does not have any significant following outside of the Australian states of Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, with the more open-minded Australians (i.e. New South Wales and Queensland) preferring Rugby League and Rugby Union. Even dwarf-tossing is more popular in these states.

The first International AFL World Cup was held in 2003 in Melbourne. There were more players on the field than spectators in the stands. Nobody remembers who won. Nauru are a powerhouse in World AFL, as well as Denmark, who hold the non-Australian attendance record for a game of AFL - 62. (That's sixty-two, not sixty-two thousand).

In order to play AFL, it is compulsory to do or have done one of these:

* Bonk your best mate's wife
* Urinate on a lady's leg at a pub
* Own a copy of 'Up There Cazaly'
* Have a name such as Wayde, Rhett, Jarred or Digby
* Steal from your team-mates
* Be an accessory to the death of a young lady by drug over-dose
* Be totally ignorant
* Keep a closed mind
AFL - rhymes with Gay FL. Coincidence? I think not.

"Great mark there by Digby...."

I think it's a great sport to be honest

 

[Lane Ender]

As much as I repeatedly berated our midfield liability back in the day, I'd have him back in an instant.

pommpey

Nay lad Nay

 

[The Crab]

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AFL is the only sport in the world which rewards people for failure, with one point given for missing a shot at goal, or hitting one of the large goal posts, or if an opposing player runs the ball between the goals.








"Great mark there by Digby...."

We should enter a few English teams then, we'd be shit at being shit

 

[JJ Sefton]

My great uncle saw Montgomery in North Africa in 1942.

 

[Revolution]

As much as I repeatedly berated our midfield liability back in the day, I'd have him back in an instant.

pommpey

Not if you'd seen an A League game recently, you wouldn't.

League 2 standard at best, which makes the Guardian's coverage of it all the more peculiar.

 

[Revolution]

I think it's a great sport to be honest

So do I: it's the second best football code after real football.

With Rugby Union the worst of course.

 

[dublin 10 blade]

My great uncle saw Montgomery in North Africa in 1942.

Who Rommell , sort of explains , your right wing view on things .

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

So do I: it's the second best football code after real football.

With Rugby Union the worst of course.

Played RU for School, College and Camberley down south - so I don't agree with you.

Had you said Rugby League (tin hat on!)

 

[Digger]

My great uncle saw Montgomery in North Africa in 1942.

He was probably looking for the ball from Simonsons pen.

 

[Silent Blade]

Who Rommell , sort of explains , your right wing view on things .

Ha ha!