New Zealand wins AUSTRALIAN Rules World Championships

[timothius]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3378389a1823,00.html

New Zealand are now the World Champions of Australian Rules football. Yes, that right - a game desinged, contrived and names after Australians has been ruled over by.... New Zealand.

Such are these times.

Australia didn't even make the final.

 

[*BOOMCHAA!*]

I'll celebrate with you bc I have a thing for kiwis.

 

[GibsonGirl]

That's too much!

I can't understand Aussie Rules football to save my life (my father and I have tried to watch it numerous times, but it just doesn't click with us). But I salute any game in which the Aussies get humiliated. Especially if the game is named after them!

 

[Axver]

I saw this and just burst out laughing.

Take THAT, Australia!

 

[bono_man2002]

Ok...this is not so funny....
Australia was not even in the tornament.

This is a tornament for all International teams.

 

[timothius]

Australia couldn't even qualify for the tournement... it makes it all the more funny.

 

[Axver]

Geez, Australia's doing poorly at the moment. Not only can't they win the rugby or the cricket, but they can't even qualify for a tournament of a sport they invented!

I'd hate to be Australian right now. Or at any other time.

 

[blueeyedgirl]

Someone's protesting a little too loudly, me doth think.

 

[Angela Harlem]

You Kiwis have Little Man Syndrome. About the only thing you CAN do is rugby and sheep herding, so you gloat. Because you need to.

We play a tiny violin in your honour. It's tiny. Like your country and talent pool.

 

[timothius]

It's tiny. Like your country and talent pool.

If you didn't stop taking credit for every fucking thing we did or produce it would be a lot bigger.

 

[Angela Harlem]

We didn't make your cricket team shit, make you sell your army, or use you as a guinea pig for the GST, so calm down mate.

How old are you, out of interest?

 

[blueeyedgirl]

sheep herding,

That's not what I heard it called.

 

[Angela Harlem]

Now, now BEG!
Actually, I just read that petrol thread in lem stand and now want to shoot myself for what we pay over here. I reckon NZ is going to be the same. But we aren't (techniclly) poms, and that is all that matters!

 

[timothius]

We didn't make your cricket team shit, make you sell your army, or use you as a guinea pig for the GST, so calm down mate.

How old are you, out of interest?

In the last 5 days of test cricket played by New Zealand they have won 2 tests... Australia has....uh a draw. ... so I'm not quite sure where we got shit.

Our army may be weak... but then you have to think the only remote possibility of attack comes from your coastguard... I kinda like those odds.

GST does not apply on non-grazing animals, thus discussion on the application of a Goods And Services Tax on Guinea Pigs (or any member of the rodetia order for that matter) is irrelevant.

I'm 18. I have lived roughly half my life in each country, so I'm fairly objective about the whole thing.

 

[Tania]

New Zealand played test cricket against whom?

If they hadn't won those two tests it would have been a disgrace.

 

[U2@NYC]

Sorry to sneak in, but who cares about cricket?

 

[Axver]

Sorry to sneak in, but who cares about cricket?

It's one of the most popular sports in the world.

1 billion Indians can't be wrong!

 

[timothius]

Sorry to sneak in, but who cares about cricket?

I care, I care a lot.

And as Axver said... it certinally is more popular globally than baseball, american "football", ice hockey or basketball... so

 

[Axver]

Cricketing nations: Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, West Indies, Zimbabwe.

Who outside America really gives a shit about baseball or American piss-poor 'football' anyway?

 

[Angela Harlem]

 

[Vorsprung]

Football is a game that should be played almost entirely with your feet...if it isn't....it isn't football....

 

[Tania]

In that case there is no such thing as "football". Each and every "football" allows another part of the body to touch the ball during the course of the game.

 

[Tania]

Sorry to sneak in, but who cares about cricket?

We do!

 

[Irishteen]

Aussie Rules football iis one of the most unorginal sports ever, its a mix between Gaelic Football and Rugby, well thats my opinion, i also think Hockey is a slower and more boring version of Hurling, American Football is Rugbys pansy half-brother.

 

[timothius]

Irishteen

(Although I quite like hockey )

 

[Angela Harlem]

AFL is nothing like rugby. At all. It is very similar in many ways, to Gaelic, but nothing like league or union. I saw this hybrid match once, of our best AFL and your best Gaelic players in this mixed game comp, and it was utterly stupid.

 

[bono_man2002]

AFL is nothing like rugby. At all.

You dont spend 80 minutes sniffing the opositon teams butt.

 

[Axver]

In rugby, the men control the ball. In AFL, the ball controls the men.

And let me just say this very loudly and clearly: American football is the biggest fucking joke in the entire world of sport. I'm tempted to make a thread about how much it sucks. It's worse than rugby's pansy half-brother; it's rugby's mentally deficient, pansy, bastard cousin who was dropped on its head as a baby, suffered from a lack of oxygen at birth, and is as predictable as reciting the alphabet in order from A to Z (that's 'zed', people, not bloody 'zee').

 

[timothius]

I loved the 1st line and didn't think it could be beaten... then I read the 2nd paragraph.

 

[Axver]

I knew you'd enjoy that.