The AFL is boring now

[vesra]

There's no interest in it atm. We all expected it to happen, just funny to see.


We'll have to wait for the World Cup to be over

 

[NatheM]

Only boring people get bored.

 

[BWST]

There's no interest in it atm. We all expected it to happen, just funny to see.


We'll have to wait for the World Cup to be over

Speak for yourself. This season has more twists and turns than a craggy old tree.

I'm loving it.

 

[vesra]

Low standards. Its very boring!

 

[Kaan]

World Cup games start at 9.30pm, 12am and 4.30am.

No reason why you can't be interested in both, I am.

 

[le dominateur]

Don't watch it then ****wit. I find the Soccer World Cup boring as batshit and avoid it like the plague.

 

[Barkly St End]

Low standards. Its very boring!

Absolutely nothing could be as boring as Uruguay vs France!

To be honest, when you strip away the hype, the WC is one boring game after the other, interrupted by pens.

 

[tonk]

Low standards. Its very boring!

sounds like one of your posts

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

I find the Soccer World Cup boring as batshit and avoid it like the plague.

Yes, I have to admit I'm struggling to understand what the fuss is all about. I can appreciate the individual skills of some of the players, but as a game it's so boring to watch. Mind you, AFL is in danger of heading in the same ditrection.

 

[mantis]

Don't feed the soccer trolls people. I wish the mods would ban these fools from OUR boards, like the soccer mods would do to us, if we posted shit on their boards.

 

[FIGJAM_1964]

There's no interest in it atm. We all expected it to happen, just funny to see.

We'll have to wait for the World Cup to be over

Yup, you are spot on.

Although, for many, who actually embrace Football during the WC, I'm afraid the irrelevance of AFL may last well beyond the WC.

It's a bit like the country kid, who goes to work and live the big city.

Some enjoy themselves and embrace the diversity of the new experience, but, when they return to their former home-base, everything seems smaller and less exciting.

Others, get intimidated and scared by the new diversity and get home-sick and can't wait to return to "the place where everybody knows your name".

If you're regularly watching games - involving countries, to which you have no personal allegiance - at midnight and 4:30 a.m., you're well on your way to joining the True Believers and, once you've "seen the light", other sports become pretty pedestrian.

 

[Ruob]

Yup, you are spot on.

Although, for many, who actually embrace Football during the WC, I'm afraid the irrelevance of AFL may last well beyond the WC.

It's a bit like the country kid, who goes to work and live the big city.

Some enjoy themselves and embrace the diversity of the new experience, but, when they return to their former home-base, everything seems smaller and less exciting.

Others, get intimidated and scared by the new diversity and get home-sick and can't wait to return to "the place where everybody knows your name".

If you're regularly watching games - involving countries, to which you have no personal allegiance - at midnight and 4:30 a.m., you're well on your way to joining the True Believers and, once you've "seen the light", other sports become pretty pedestrian.

"True Believers"? You actually sound like you're recruiting people to a religious cult. Or to some sort of jihad against AFL. It's just sport, take it easy.

You're losing it old fella, time to get back on the medication.

 

[wikipediaAFLproject]

Yup, you are spot on.

Although, for many, who actually embrace Football during the WC, I'm afraid the irrelevance of AFL may last well beyond the WC.

It's a bit like the country kid, who goes to work and live the big city.

Some enjoy themselves and embrace the diversity of the new experience, but, when they return to their former home-base, everything seems smaller and less exciting.

Others, get intimidated and scared by the new diversity and get home-sick and can't wait to return to "the place where everybody knows your name".

If you're regularly watching games - involving countries, to which you have no personal allegiance - at midnight and 4:30 a.m., you're well on your way to joining the True Believers and, once you've "seen the light", other sports become pretty pedestrian.

You can't follow more than one sport at a time??
Do you have a brain similar to Homer Simpson?

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[FIGJAM_1964]

... time to get back on the medication.

I can assure you, to try to quickly acclimatise to Sth African Standard Time, I've had to turn my body into a mini-pharmacy, which would make "the Cuz" proud.

 

[Beaussie]

There's no interest in it atm. We all expected it to happen, just funny to see.


We'll have to wait for the World Cup to be over

Speak for yourself. Like all Swans supporters I enjoyed watching my team win their second game in Adelaide this season last night. World Cup... pfft who was playing on SBS after midnight?

 

[Dasher39]

"True Believers"? You actually sound like you're recruiting people to a religious cult. Or to some sort of jihad against AFL. It's just sport, take it easy.

Which ironically is what the AFL is here in Melbourne.

I'm an AFL nut, well more a Geelong nut, but even I get sickened by the way people live for the AFL like a cult. It is scary.

 

[Ruob]

Which ironically is what the AFL is here in Melbourne.

I'm an AFL nut, well more a Geelong nut, but even I get sickened by the way people live for the AFL like a cult. It is scary.

How so?

From what I've experienced, AFL is just a passion of the general public in the same way that the dominant football league in any part of the world is.

 

[Barkly St End]

How so?

From what I've experienced, AFL is just a passion of the general public in the same way that the dominant football league in any part of the world is.

It works this way: if you do what every other uneducated, impoverished person in the rest of the world does, that's called being cosmopolitan.

But if you follow only your very own game, born and raised in this very land, that's called narrow minded and insular.

 

[vesra]

Don't feed the soccer trolls people. I wish the mods would ban these fools from OUR boards, like the soccer mods would do to us, if we posted shit on their boards.

You mean the mods who need an entire sub forum on their main board dedicated to soccer? Yeah, they're gonna ban me.


Face it guys, AFL is in the shadows. Its why this forum exists!

 

[vesra]

It works this way: if you do what every other uneducated, impoverished person in the rest of the world does, that's called being cosmopolitan.
.

Look what you've been resorted to... LOL

 

[Barkly St End]

Look what you've been resorted to... LOL

Look what I've been resorted to?

I'm not even sure that makes the least bit of sense.

 

[J Selwood14]

i take it you didnt watch the saints tonight then? 100 times better of a game than any world cup match could offer. i watched 20 minutes of south africa v mexico and i cant see how any bloke could get excited by that

 

[FIGJAM_1964]

i take it you didnt watch the saints tonight then? 100 times better of a game than any world cup match could offer. i watched 20 minutes of south africa v mexico and i cant see how any bloke could get excited by that

Every sport cannot appeal to everyone. I don't like cricket, golf, tennis ... actually, apart from Football the only other sport I'll watch nowadays is World-Champs in Athletics (track events only).

It doesn't mean the other sports have no value; just that I don't enjoy watching them.

So your comments are really interesting ..

... Sth Africa v Mexico kicked off at midnight, which means you stayed to watch a sport, in which you have zero interest.

There were a couple of AFL games on in the middle of the day today. My only interest was in my Dream Team and I never turned on the tv!

St Kilda v Fremantle ... I can't stop laughing!

 

[J Selwood14]

whats so funny? i guess watching soccer 24/7 would mean there isnt a lot of excitement in your life, so things like that might be funny...

 

[Ruob]

Every sport cannot appeal to everyone. I don't like cricket, golf, tennis ... actually, apart from Football the only other sport I'll watch nowadays is World-Champs in Athletics (track events only).

It doesn't mean the other sports have no value; just that I don't enjoy watching them.

Exactly. Maybe you should accept that other people are also like this and have their own preferences for sport, instead of trying to force soccer down our throats and criticising footy.