The Worst Football Jargon

[Black Diamond]

Which footy words and terms irritate you?

'A-grader', 'elite' and 'gut-running' all make me cringe.

The worst to me is 'oozes class' when describing a new draftee. Seriously, who comes up with this bull?

Stupid Americanised terms piss me off as well. There is no position called 'quarter-back' on a footy field.

 

[jefffff34]

"clunks it"

 

[Quivorir]

Closing speed. As far as I'm concerned it's the player in front slowing down to time getting to the ball right. Not the player behind magically getting faster the last 5 meters

 

[Adam Selwood]

'plus one' and 'structure up'

 

[getgaff]

The term "Quarter back" irks me the most

 

[saintsrfreak]

Crashes the packs

 

[Pera]

'sticking to our structures'.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[SpaceCoyote]

"spread" and "plan B" piss me off.

 

[Cozmo]

"clunks it"

This, i hate it too. makes me cringe.

The term "superstar" gets used way too much.

 

[Air_Chester]

Basically every term the media uses these days. But "take/taking the game on" absolutely infuriates me. It is LITERALLY saying "they need to play better".

 

[Chops_a_must]

Anything Eade says.

 

[Roadie]

ITT: Luke Darcy's entire vocabulary

 

[Maydok]

'By hand or by foot.'

No s**t - ya mean the way they've been disposing of the ball for the last 150 years?

And don't get me started on BT's ridiculous overuse of 'candy'.

In one game he used the phrase 'foot-candy' to describe a player feigning a kick, and then five minutes later he used it again to describe a player's pin-point pass.

 

[SpaceCow]

"The Pill"

**** off.

 

[themidlandmaster]

shorts it
chaos ball
crazy good
great call, dwayno

 

[Black Diamond]

"The Pill"

**** off.

This x 1000.

 

[Black Diamond]

In one game he used the phrase 'foot-candy' to describe a player feigning a kick, and then five minutes later he used it again to describe a player's pin-point pass.

They way he says it is far too sexual.

 

[Old M8]

"Tempo football"

 

[Burzum]

Anything Basil Zempilas says

 

[Barry_Badrinath]

Winning culture
Shorts it

 

[Commando]

X player has been "industrious"

I swear ive heard this every week on friday night footy
**** me!

 

[Old M8]

Oh, and "X-factor"

That one is the worst IMO.

 

[Bardo State]

"From the paint"

Dwayne...

Not really footy sayings but gee "Oh Boy!" and "As good as it gets" by BT and Dwayne irk me

 

[Only Forwards]

The use of the word 'Brand' to describe a footy club I hate that marketing bullshit.

 

[Rors]

Especially for Saints games, any commentator that refers to Ben McEvoy as 'Big Boy'... Fn embarassing!