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I thought it would be fun to talk about nicknames everyone has for players. Nicknames have to organic and for all those that stick there are those that don't. IMHO the best footy nickname of all time was given to Nathan Buckley, who arrived at his first day at the Bears to find the name FIGJAM on his locker - he was gone at the end of the season. For those that remember Roy and HG's famous calls of the Festival of the Boot Part 2 - AFL Grand Final, they were so good at nicknames you forgot the player's real name, like Dickhead Brogan, or purposely mispronouncing Colbert in French "Coll-bear". That's what I'm looking for here!
There have been some good ones over the years such as Microphone-head/Spindle Shanks AKA Jarrad Grant, "Spitta" Swallow, Jaeger O'Cockface and the Little Weirdo. Then there's the Aussie way of making long names short and short names long, like Rischa and Maysie, or just adding a 'y' to the end, like Lynchy and Hally, while others have rhyming slang like 2 Metre Peter. Some guys don't need a nickname, like Touk Miller (Touk, Touk, Touk!!!) and others really do, like the newer players and all the Jacks.
Here's a few suggestions to get started:
Sean Lemmens - the Flying Fox, after his totem
Steven May - Kinga, for his croc totem
Lachie Weller - Pick 2 (of course)
Kade Kolojashnij - Kale Coleslaw Sandwich
Connor Nutting - Gumboots (in the bush, you desex a male cat yourself, a process called "nutting", by shoving the front half of the cat into a large gumboot and carrying out the operation with a sharp knife)
Jesse Joyce - Rolls Royce
There have been some good ones over the years such as Microphone-head/Spindle Shanks AKA Jarrad Grant, "Spitta" Swallow, Jaeger O'Cockface and the Little Weirdo. Then there's the Aussie way of making long names short and short names long, like Rischa and Maysie, or just adding a 'y' to the end, like Lynchy and Hally, while others have rhyming slang like 2 Metre Peter. Some guys don't need a nickname, like Touk Miller (Touk, Touk, Touk!!!) and others really do, like the newer players and all the Jacks.
Here's a few suggestions to get started:
Sean Lemmens - the Flying Fox, after his totem
Steven May - Kinga, for his croc totem
Lachie Weller - Pick 2 (of course)
Kade Kolojashnij - Kale Coleslaw Sandwich
Connor Nutting - Gumboots (in the bush, you desex a male cat yourself, a process called "nutting", by shoving the front half of the cat into a large gumboot and carrying out the operation with a sharp knife)
Jesse Joyce - Rolls Royce
