Recent content by Quolls19

Have posted this a while ago: How to expand the AFL, and increase revenue, and improve the game, and control transfers. Afl expansion 22 teams. Each play 22 games. 23 rounds with a bye for each side Each team plays each other once, alternating home and away, 21 games. An extra...

Although it (starting in positions) had been suggested many times it was not until November 1890 it was included in the amended rules for the 1891 season.

No. Quolls19 said: the history of the little mark, the fors and againsts, the change in rules re distance for a mark, the change in rules “kicked to another player” and the use of hand ball in the early days,.[/QUOTEI ”are not reflected in the rules until after the fact.” they are reported...

As i posted before, I can’t find any reference to the little kick or the big kick, do know about the goal sneak. Wills was probably the first to utilise a player away from the pack, Brownlow decades later nearly made it a science. far be it for me to be be presumptive but maybe you were...

“What's the difference to the big kick and the "little kick"?l sorry, never come across these terms in the Australian rules resources I have examined, where did they come from?

I would think he meant football, I hope this helps.

Yes the fields were whatever was available, English school games were generally on the normally, not always, rectangular yards between school buildings. Victorian/Australian rules only became a regular cricket oval game when the cricket clubs realised they could make money out of it. Before...

Others may not think so, and it was for interest only. If you’re not interested don’t read.

English, Gaelic, Koori and what about the Scottish influence? John Hope of the Edinburgh University is credited (by Scottish Authorities at least) of first non school based football club in 1824. As the actual (not copies) contemporary records still exist, there is no doubt that he did start...

I am indifferent to your answer .

“playing semantics”?

Please explain.

I’m a bit of a Bryant man myself, I think all the major players. Wills, Thompson, Hammersley, Smith and a little later Sewell were all incredibly important, but I think Bryant restarted the ball rolling when it had stalled. For commercial reasons or sporting reasons, I don’t know, but he did...

Yes, the pub owner was James Bryant, an accomplished cricketer, from the (English) surrey cricket club which also had a football club at the time he was there. Bryant was an MCC member and his pub was where the MCC cricketers met and drank. May have run afoul of the licensing authority, his pubs...

No splitting hairs, either football was played before 1858 in Victoria or the greater colony earlier, or not. and it certainly was. Not a regular weekly type of organised recreation, but certainly scratch matches and organised event games played for money. now I did say about his memory failing...