Football Jargon, Phrases You Can’t Stand

[Philth]

“And they’re right back in this”

When a team finally kicks a goal in the last when they are 40 points down with 10 minutes remaining.

No they’re not in it.

Beat me to it.

They are desperate for as much excitement as possible.

 

[Corn Cobbers]

EPL and NFL commentators are in a different universe, why are our guys so bad? Who directs the nuffiness?

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[ChristianBoy]

Bloods Culture. Biggest crock of all time.

 

[Millsie69]

How TF has 'Chaos Ball' not been said yet???

 

[Cyclops]

Yeah hate deee-fence and by extension offense, (it's attack).

It's fading out now but dukes for hands, it's Yank boxing slang for fists not hands. No one marks the ball with their clench fists. Idiots trying to sound old-timey.

Also "you just sense", nah I don't, and usually it's after something has become obvious.

 

[MadMac]

“Mop up his own mess” by Derwayne

 

[elbarton]

The use of singular “stoppage” and “clearance” when it should be plural

The lack of the word “if” when proposing any sort of hypothetical, e.g. “We get a key forward, we make the finals”. Not the best example that I could come with, but you get the idea. It’s rampant on this forum.

 

[elbarton]

When an ex-AFL player goes on a reality TV show and the promos call said player an "AFL superstar" no matter how bog average they were.

Your life which will be much better when you come to terms with the fact that all media does this, about any one who has had any sort of public profile, no matter how marginal

“Neighbours STAR dies in horrific accident” (the person had three lines of dialogue in one episode)

Doesn’t make it right, just easy to ignore

 

[Rustin Cohle]

How has "one wood" not been mentioned yet?

 

[Meteoric Rise]

How has "one wood" not been mentioned yet?

One wood is pretty ****ed up. Used to describe what someone is best at. Nobody on planet earth is best at hitting a one wood.

 

[Demon in Hell]

"Under the lid at Marvel"

Its a f***en roof you idiots.

 

[Young Redleg]

I've heard commentators say "play with freeness" rather than "play with freedom." That's literally a grammatical mistake that an 8 year old would make.

 

[NeutralFan]

"Reads it so well in the air"

 

[Danw0w]

Anything thats been americanised. For example calling the home and away season the "regular season".

 

[CharacterFirst]

"Footy Jargon" is a pretty annoying term.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Anything thats been americanised. For example calling the home and away season the "regular season".

Yeah wtf ever happened to the old reliable "home & home" games?

******* liabilities these campaigners.

 

[flamethrower]

Verse - It is versus, unless the 2 teams are going to read poems to each other.

 

[Shane Heard]

Squeezes it

And Every single sentence that comes out of that moron of all
Morons ..Dwayne

 

[mr bagcroft]

"still in it"...
After kicking a goal to bring the margin down to 87 points at the 20 minute mark of the third quarter.

 

[Rabish Binney]

'Long levers'

 

[Rabish Binney]

Coming into a crucial game, player A says ' we'll treat this like a grand final'

Player A's team makes the grand final and he says 'we'll treat this just like any other game'

 

[Obzerva]

The grannie for the grand final

 

[Back One Out]

Off Broadway..... AKA screwed over by the AFL and Channel 7 with a shitty fixture while they pander to the likes of Collingwood, Carlton

 

[Woolly Mammoth]

"boonana". Classic demonstration that clearly no one is telling the insular little clique of football broadcasters that if you repeat an in-joke each and every single game, several times a game, for over a decade, that tends to deaden it's humorous effect.
I haven't heard it actually referred to as a 'banana kick' in about 15 years.

 

[Swanssince91]

Play your role
Stick to the process