what is the most annoying phrase in the AFL?

[hutchy31]

That is/isn’t our DNA

Or its close cousin “That’s not us”. Been brought out by numerous coaches this year.

I beg to differ, it absolutely was you who just got your asses handed to you for a couple of hours.

 

[Supercoach Bargain]

The AFL has "ticked off" the umpires decision.

 

[WillHayward]

I don't know, I found it funny when Fages said "we aren't the Harris Andrews Football Club" and then freodokers called us that for the rest of the season.

I like that but he was being funny.

Annoys me when they try and give it gravitas by saying "it's a big game for the North Melbourne football club."

Give it a spell

 

[PerthBoy86]

Cliches like 'one week at a time', 'trust in the process.'

Pronouncing players names wrong, if that counts. I remember Wirra-poonda (its Wirrapanda, pronounced Wirra-punda). Maybe they thought it was spelt punda so it became poonda.

Nick Vlastuin

1

Nick Vlastuin

Age

31

Ht

187cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.2

4star

K

9.6

4star

HB

6.6

4star

M

5.4

5star

T

2.7

4star

MG

269.3

4star

D

13.3

3star

K

9.0

4star

HB

4.3

3star

M

4.9

5star

T

1.8

3star

MG

257.6

4star

D

20.2

5star

K

11.4

4star

HB

8.8

5star

M

7.4

5star

T

2.8

5star

being called Nick Vloss-STONE.

Dunno if this counts, but players being too diplomatic. They thrash a team easily by 100 but then talk about how played well, were a tough challenge etc.

Saying 'unselfish' a lot...when selfless would do. They just say it too much regardless.

 

[PerthBoy86]

World record pace…
I love our game. But we’re the only ones in the world that play it.

The Americans have the baseball world series, NBA 'world champions' (dunno if that's still the case) etc. If they can claim that, we technically can too .

 

[situationz]

"Mac Andrews to Jed Walters"

 

[PerthBoy86]

Essedon
Deee-fence
D50 (is it really that hard to say defensive?)

Aussies saying route as 'Rowt.' I really don't remember hearing it 20+ years ago. Yet another Americanisation.

 

[PerthBoy86]

Oh another one I've noticed, 'yards.' 'He was 10 yards away, gaining a yard.' Often used by players like Nathan Buckley who aren't even born when we changed to metric. No one under 70 thinks in yards. Do they just hang out with old cobbers?

 

[Billy ray]

"Mac Andrews to Jed Walters"

And onto bailey humphries

 

[situationz]

And onto bailey humphries

who is tackled by Caleb Daniels

 

[Johnny Bananas]

,
‘Star’ means they have just done something good.

No, star just means they've made an AFL list. Damn near every player is called an "AFL star" if mentioned in some news story. For example, I once heard Cam Ellis-Yolmen called a "star" when he should never be described as such unless being compared to park footballers.

 

[Purplrrr]

The Americans have the baseball world series, NBA 'world champions' (dunno if that's still the case) etc. If they can claim that, we technically can too .

Nooooo!!!! The baseball World Series is ridiculous and annoys me too…. buuuuuuut, and it’s a very small but…at least the Canadians are in that too. And baseball is at least a global sport played at a high level in other countries. Aussie rules is just us. It’s small quirky and I love it, but there’s no global reach at all. Just say he’s on record pace… no need to bring the rest of the world into it. Yes, Dwayne, I truly am confident that Lachie Neale can get more disposals than some pleb in Papuan New Guinea

 

[PerthBoy86]

Nooooo!!!! The baseball World Series is ridiculous and annoys me too…. buuuuuuut, and it’s a very small but…at least the Canadians are in that too. And baseball is at least a global sport played at a high level in other countries. Aussie rules is just us. It’s small quirky and I love it, but there’s no global reach at all. Just say he’s on record pace… no need to bring the rest of the world into it. Yes, Dwayne, I truly am confident that Lachie Neale can get more disposals than some pleb in Papuan New Guinea

Most of the world doesnt pay enough attention to baseball to even care. Though baseball is big in Korea and Japan, I'd hardly call North America and a few Asian and Latin American countries the globe. Cricket or rugby is likewise not a global sport, it's played by a few Commonwealth nations. Soccer/football, basketball, tennis etc are pretty global.

There's this Japanese fellow playing there that some are calling the goat, or better than Babe Ruth. I don't even follow baseball but a friend who does introduced me, and I found that interesting. When I was in Boston I planned to see the Red Sox play but something came up and I couldn't. American football even less so, only really US and Canada.

I didn't even interpret that phrase to mean that. I figured it just meant something really fast. I agree it's a silly phrase though.

 

[FFB1]

May have been mentioned already - “under ground handball”. Unless the ball finds its way beneath the surface of the ground it’s an above ground handball; or just a ****ing handball.

 

[PiCkLeJuiCe]

Aussies saying route as 'Rowt.' I really don't remember hearing it 20+ years ago. Yet another Americanisation.

Interested to know if you pronounce router as row-ter or roo-ter?

 

[UltraEgo]

I like that but he was being funny.

Annoys me when they try and give it gravitas by saying "it's a big game for the North Melbourne football club."

Give it a spell

Gary Lyon and James Brayshaw, I cant stand them

 

[Carn The Berries]

How can a player take the ball at its highest point when (for example) it was kicked to him from 40 metres away?

Its highest point would have been when it was at its apex after being kicked, not when it is marked.

I get what the commentators mean but the phrase is clearly incorrect and therefore shouldn’t be used in the context that it is.

BTW, in 22 years of playing footy, I never heard the phrase mentioned from either a team mate or a coach.

Oh FFS... This isn't a physics or geometry class. Whether you agree with the definition of it in this sense or not, it has been used widely for as long as I've been playing footy (30+ years). It's one of the first things I was taught as a junior, and it can be the difference between a player who can take an ok mark and one that consistently outmarks their opponent.

 

[PerthBoy86]

Interested to know if you pronounce router as row-ter or roo-ter?

Router is a different word from route.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Gary Lyon and James Brayshaw, I cant stand them

Brayshaw is everything that's wrong with football commentary

 

[JackFlash]

Footy spin was one of the things that went against Goodwin, who is a master at it. Most of the time he was talking gobbledygook and supporters just wanted to know what is happening. The use of the phrases "the Group" and " the Program" should really say "The Team" and "Plan of Action" so fans can semi- understand them. They continually over complicate matters with buzz words and spin doctoring, then you have the commentators and it's the "last roll of the dice" for most of them!

 

[Rabish Binney]

Oh FFS... This isn't a physics or geometry class. Whether you agree with the definition of it in this sense or not, it has been used widely for as long as I've been playing footy (30+ years). It's one of the first things I was taught as a junior, and it can be the difference between a player who can take an ok mark and one that consistently outmarks their opponent.

FFS calm down.

You didn't read what I wrote. I said I understand why the commentators say it.

The thread is about annoying phrases. To me, this is an annoying phrase.

No need to get your knickers in a knot about it.

 

[joe444]

"dropping the ball"

No such rule.

 

[Altum Volantes]

Brayshaw is everything that's wrong with football commentary

Mr Shouty?

Brayshaw is such a strange case - he is actually an intelligent guy who pre-Footy Show was quite a measured commentator.

He morphed into this shouty 'one of the boys' during his Footy Show days, I've always assumed as a way of compensating that he was a state level cricketer, not a footballer of note, therefore felt the need to over compensate to 'fit in'.

I can't stand his commentary these days.

 

[DavyRed]

Pretty much everything that spews out of Dwayne Russell’s mouth, to be honest. ‘Chaos ball’ being one example.

 

[Number37]

"Umpires call"

After looking at a slo-mo replay from every imaginable angle we can't make a decision, so let's revert to what someone guessed.