How is Australian football, is it any good? You call it soccer as well don't you? I find that a little odd considering you're part of the Commonwealth.
Nah we call it football now. Bit confusing with AFL and NRL, but AFL to me is Footy, NRL is League, and RU is Rugby. So not too bad. AFL is a great sport, definitely my second favourite. My team are top of the table 11 games undefeated which is crazy. If we win this week and next week it's our best ever winning streak in about 130 year history.
Attempts to get people to call soccer as football here are slowly improving but the general populous still prefer soccer to avoid confusion with other football codes. I refer in Aus to the AFL as footie, NRL as league, Rugby Union as Union and Association Football as soccer. Calling the national team the "Socceroos" does not help. Also kids in our street who have both a round ball and an oval ball call the round one a soccer ball and the other a rugby ball.
one day people will realise that SOCCER is an ENGLISH word first coined in England by the English to describe Association Football it has **** all to do with yanks or aussies lack of understanding the difference between their version of egg chasing and football **** a giant duck , i must see read or heard people whining about the word Soccer more than anything else
Instead of bursting your boiler with foul language and shouting you could have just referred to this. How rude you are! www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/the-origin-of-the-word-soccer/
Sorry Syd, I thought you was referring to soccer and not Aerial Ping-Pong. Yes they do refer to Best on Ground but it's Man of the Match in soccer. P.S. I have been a Hawthorn supporter for the last 47 years - can we please have Buddy back!
Ah ok that makes a bit more sense then! Haha tough luck mate, he's ours now, will enjoy watching him lead us to a few flags.
A light machine gun could shoot 300 bullets and not hit a single target. That's no good is it? Guns are only made for killing...
I think we are talking about the wrong gun Hat. You must be talking about a 'belt-fed' gun for that amount of bullets. The worst 'gun' in the army (when I was in) was the Sten Gun which fired 28 rounds I believe. This is the only gun in history where the gun was made to fit the bullets - I believe we captured millions and millions of rounds of this calibre (.28 I think) so they made a gun to fit the ammo. The trouble was with it's 'barrel-action' which, if you jumped from the back of a truck for instance, would cock itself and start firing. You might be interested to know that America's most decorated soldier (at the time) in WW2 was Audie Murphy who, if you look at his autobiography "To Hell and Back", jumps out of a tank carrying the American version of this gun (28 rounds) to find himself surrounded by 28 Germans. Yes, you're ahead of me here aren't you, Audie spun round in a circle firing away and shot every one of them! Only in America folks!
It was only called soccer by public school boys in England, commoners have always called it football. Always.
would still like to see city bring in a ball winning mid-fielder, feel we are a little on the light side in this dept.
I think we may well be on a different wave length here. I am indeed talking about a belt mag gun, I may be wrong but I thought infantry carried machine guns were LMG's, or SAW's they're sometimes known as, whilst medium and heavy machine guns are the fixed ones on jeeps/tanks etc like .50 cal's and such. Anyway, the point is, an infantry machine gun isn't really there to kill. Infantry tactics are, for the most part, built upon the suppression a machine gun offers, but the machine gun isn't really there to neutralise the enemy, that's the riflemans job. A bit of an analogy to strikers like Sagbo, who although they don't score many goals, they aren't useless. They play in such a way that they're not really supposed to be the finishing product, but rather they support and assist the rest of the team and make it easier for others to score, amongst other benedits players like him provide, like a solid outlet to relieve pressure when you're pegged back etc.
squad automatic weapons are carried by infantry and gunners but in a patrol, there'll only be about 2 holders of those guns, you're right for suppression purposes the rifleman in the british army carry the standard issued sa80 assault rifle and the yanks typically use the m16a2 rifle
clearly not true because of what i said earlier , people jump all over others that call it soccer , and TBH ive not considered any of those to be Public school boys , Soccer was used a lot in the 70s by many people TV , Print and in person . Its not some working class flag you have to wave .
Absofuckinexactly. It seems to be some sort of snobbery cos of SoccerAm or soccer Saturday that "real" fans dont use the word. Growing up in the 70's we called it soccer or footy or football or just larking out.
It doesn't sound so bad when a Brit says it, compare that with an American saying it. Imagine a Yank saying "soccer" over and over and over again.
Wiki probably doesnt have this in its list of alternative names for Association Football and it bloody well should !!
