The term "salute"...

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Salute away Clarko, Salute away. Personally I love it because it has generally meant something good for us. The term I never want him to say again is "We were not hard enough, for long enough". That one can GAGF.
Since Clarko first said that about us I have used in constantly when beating my mates at anything, whether its FIFA on the Xbox or table tennis. I just tell them that they're just not hard enough for long enough.
 

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Salute - a gesture of respect or polite recognition, especially one made to or by a person when arriving or departing

Has Sweet FA to do with the military. Salute away Clarko.
 

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View attachment 105813 Brian Lake.....We salute You!

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Off topic but that has to be the most nonchalant flag celebration in football history

Compared too...

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and...

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But that's probably why we've 12 of the things while the Pies have only won 2 since the JFK assassination :)
 
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Interestingly, the Bombers have saluted a few Judges recently.

And Essendon fans aren't happy about it either!


;)
Essendon's position can be likened to appearing before the stewards rather than saluting the judge.
In fact the club may be more at home in the racing world where the use of performance enhancing substances is not entirely unknown.
 

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Can't stand it.

I don't remember it being used in footy parlances pre Clarko using it after we won the flag in 2008.

For mine it should be kept for armed forces conversations.

What wrong with "victorious".. "premiers"... etc ???

What do others think?

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I should pre-curse this by saying that I love Clarkson and think he is the best thing that has happened to club since, well perhaps ever but .... truthfully I find a lot of his terminology a bit grating. Perhaps its a city/country thing but phrases like "take the chocolates", "the little fella", "red hot go" (feel free to add more) are colloquial to the point of being self-parodying. He sounds, to me, like a guy who just wandered out of a pub in rural Queensland in the 1940's. I have noticed the players (especially senior guys like Hodge and Roughead) borrowing the same vocabulary also. Another guy who has the country drawl and vernacular down pat is Isaac Smith. I actually find I get pangs of cultural cringe when he is being interviewed.

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Can't stand it.

I don't remember it being used in footy parlances pre Clarko using it after we won the flag in 2008.

For mine it should be kept for armed forces conversations.

What wrong with "victorious".. "premiers"... etc ???

What do others think?

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Well that pic has me standing at attention. If you know what I mean.:drunk::confused:
 

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The phrase is old school, heard plenty of coaches & players using it in the 70's and 80's, so Clarko is just reprising it.
I personally love older world sports phraseology and iconography, bring back the wood chop segment I say! :D
 

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I think it's really pleasing people are sticking up for how Clarko talks.

(I personally despise the overuse of "no doubt" in sport. There's some cricket commentator on ABC radio who starts EVERY sentence with it!!!)
 

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I think it's really pleasing people are sticking up for how Clarko talks.

(I personally despise the overuse of "no doubt" in sport. There's some cricket commentator on ABC radio who starts EVERY sentence with it!!!)
Yeah, I mean there's no doubt that 'no doubt' is overused by sportsmen and women.
 

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I should pre-curse this by saying that I love Clarkson and think he is the best thing that has happened to club since, well perhaps ever but .... truthfully I find a lot of his terminology a bit grating. Perhaps its a city/country thing but phrases like "take the chocolates", "the little fella", "red hot go" (feel free to add more) are colloquial to the point of being self-parodying. He sounds, to me, like a guy who just wandered out of a pub in rural Queensland in the 1940's. I have noticed the players (especially senior guys like Hodge and Roughead) borrowing the same vocabulary also. Another guy who has the country drawl and vernacular down pat is Isaac Smith. I actually find I get pangs of cultural cringe when he is being interviewed.

(calmly awaiting verbal retribution for expressing judgemental opinion of our own).
 

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I should pre-curse this by saying that I love Clarkson and think he is the best thing that has happened to club since, well perhaps ever but .... truthfully I find a lot of his terminology a bit grating. Perhaps its a city/country thing but phrases like "take the chocolates", "the little fella", "red hot go" (feel free to add more) are colloquial to the point of being self-parodying. He sounds, to me, like a guy who just wandered out of a pub in rural Queensland in the 1940's. I have noticed the players (especially senior guys like Hodge and Roughead) borrowing the same vocabulary also. Another guy who has the country drawl and vernacular down pat is Isaac Smith. I actually find I get pangs of cultural cringe when he is being interviewed.

(calmly awaiting verbal retribution for expressing judgemental opinion of our own).
Yeah nah no doubt you'll have a red hot go at our little fellas even if we salute and get the chocolates
 

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Can't stand it.

I don't remember it being used in footy parlances pre Clarko using it after we won the flag in 2008.

For mine it should be kept for armed forces conversations.

What wrong with "victorious".. "premiers"... etc ???

What do others think?

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That pic is this scum Dan Cooper avatar
I like it less now :(
 
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I should pre-curse this by saying that I love Clarkson and think he is the best thing that has happened to club since, well perhaps ever but .... truthfully I find a lot of his terminology a bit grating. Perhaps its a city/country thing but phrases like "take the chocolates", "the little fella", "red hot go" (feel free to add more) are colloquial to the point of being self-parodying. He sounds, to me, like a guy who just wandered out of a pub in rural Queensland in the 1940's. I have noticed the players (especially senior guys like Hodge and Roughead) borrowing the same vocabulary also. Another guy who has the country drawl and vernacular down pat is Isaac Smith. I actually find I get pangs of cultural cringe when he is being interviewed.

(calmly awaiting verbal retribution for expressing judgemental opinion of our own).
ballsy analysis but regrettably true!

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