Declining/extinct footy terms

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"He's had a Barry Crocker today"

 

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"Pack mark"

 

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"Kick behind the play" (now loose man in defence)

 

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"Resting in the forward pocket"

 

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"He bust open the pack"

 

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"Magoos"

 

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"He'll be umpiring in the country next week"

 

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"He's had a case of leather poisoning today"

 

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"This is a ring-a-ding contest today"

 

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"They were knocked off on their own dung hill today."

 

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"He's got some mongrel in him"

 

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"They're going hell for leather"

 

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"Yer mother wears army boots"

 

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"The fat lady is singing"

 

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"Nail in the coffin"

 

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"Bleeds for the jumper"

 

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"State of Origin" and "playing for his state"

 

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Recruiting zones

 

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"From pillar to post"

 

[BlueWaterHawk]

The Utility's malfunctioning. Someone pull the plug!

.... also, "heads goalwood". or goalward or whatever the hell they kept saying back in the early 90's

 

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"Good wet weather side"

 

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"Mongrel punt"

 

[Reckoner Tiger]

I'd go one further than this and suggest all left footers are automatically classed as either raking or booming kicks. I think booming is further and higher than raking. It is also highly unlikely for someone to 'wheel around' onto anything other than their left foot.

Forwards are the only players on the ground who are described as 'up and about' when they are playing well, and backmen are usually the only people who get described as 'solid' as a glowing compliment (also why can you call a back a backman and a ruck a ruckman, but you can't call a forward a forwardman?')

Kicks are rarely speared anywhere other than onto a forward's chest.

It's also impossible to 'mop up well' anywhere other than the back half of the ground.

Not the most explicitly relevant, but best post of the thread!!

 

[newcs]

"Yibidy-yibida, that's all folks"

 

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"He's a good ordinary footballer" (thank you for that Jack Dyer)