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So its good.
i.e., I have no idea how to finish this sentence.
AAaahhh.....
i.e., I am not sure what to say now and I need to fill in the sound void while I'm thinking (this does not apply to Hanners, or Ted for that matter, and I suspect Mills)
I dunno
Specialty for one player who was taken aside and given some instruction. I was almost disappointed his next interview after the game was lucid. Mumms the word.
Nah he's good
i.e., its only a flesh wound, he'll be right (I hope)
I don't know yet
i.e., he's gone to hospital and I'm not sure if he's ever going to play again.If you've never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from lava then you didn't have a childhoodComment
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Blind Turn
The art of running towards a player, then turning your side then back to him in a spinning motion, then around to face away from him and then run down the ground. Peter Bedford was a star at this.
Turn it up.
A common non abusive, expletive deleted term, used to disagree with an umpires decision.
Squib
A player who doesn't like the hard stuff. Usually the outside runner who plays on the wing.
Speedy squib
A fleet of foot squib.
Will of the wisp
The player who darts in and out of the play. Usually a half forward flanker who bobs up for the sneaky or flukey goal. Kevin Bartlett was termed as such. Often the half forward flanker of this type was also termed the speedy squib because they could be hidden on HFF.
Pea hearted
See speedy squib.
You dirty bludger You dirty mongrel
Were commonly used in the 60's, 70's and 80's when referring to a Hawthorn player. Example being the greatest player ever (LOL) Leigh Matthews who was a pure sniper. Delicate Des Dickson who just went round belting players and Kevin Coverdale who I saw as probably the most unscrupulous player I saw as a youngster. Don Scott was an angel compared to him. Matthews had plenty of role models.
Like a Catholic outside the chemist shop
Got the pill but doesn't know what to do with it.
Bring out the Pentridge doctor
Used by opposition supporters when they played Carlton and John Nicholls hit the deck (see You Dirty Bludger). The famed John Nicholls spent some time in the can for embezzlement. Well that was what he got caught for. Carlton supporters particularly hated this saying. Nicholls met his match in Ken Boyd of South at Princes park one day. Centre bounce and Nicholls deliberately kicks Boyd in the unmentionables. Boyd chases him to the forward pocket and decks him with a well aimed punch and broke his jaw and knocked him out.
A kicker
A player who got rubbed out for deliberately kicking another player. McIntosh from St Kilda got 8 weeks and was labelled for the rest of his career. It was not a good tag for a player and kicking was seen as about the worst thing a player could do, and usually carried a severe suspension.
Useless as tits on a bull
Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn from 2 metres
Poor kick for goal
Can't kick over a jam tin
A weak or poor kick.
Butter fingers
Can't hold their marks. Usually referred to a ruckman
You have to be effing joking
Refers to a poor umpiring decision.Last edited by Nico; 13 October 2016, 06:00 PM.Comment
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Brilliant Nico! Redolent with the history of the game. How long have you been following? Particularly liked: the Catholic, the Pentridge doctor and over the jam tin - none of which I have heard before.All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others. -Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)
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Is there an origin to the 'screamer' besides the roar of the crowds as someone takes a spectacular mark?
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I reckon I have been watching footy for about 55 years. Many a great Saturday arvo spent at the Lake Oval. The banter was non stop. By the way I enjoyed going to Victoria Park. The Pies supporters were rough (yes missing teeth is not a myth) but always good for a laugh. Carlton supporters were the worst. Bertie Johnson from North was famous for a couple of kicking incidents. He was referred to as an Ankle Tapper.
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I think screamer goes back a long way. A high mark was always referred to as screamer. Teaser took them regularly.Comment
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Does anyone really know the meaning of Butters Up ???
Its trotted out by commentators regularly, and its stupid. It means nothing, except backup up. What has that got to do with butter?If you've never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from lava then you didn't have a childhoodComment
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I really hate the term "product" as in NSW product Callum MillsComment
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Oh yeah. Especially when Essendon players say it like that. I just don't know how to feel. Happy, sad, angry...
Some terms from school footy.....
Chewy on ya boot! - When someone is taking a shot at goal it was said to make them look at their foot for chewing gum and put them off.
Miss miss cocky's piss - was said to also put them off, presumably to detract their mind from the task at hand and to think of a cocky relieving itself
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