what is the most annoying phrase in the AFL?

[cactuscall]

"For mine" (pretentious sounding wank)

"Nothing doing" (another eye rolling masterstroke of words)

"They've lowered their colours" (i find that one especially annoying/lame)

 

[Do_Beta_Rapport]

"All duck, no dinner", especially when said by gimps.

 

[Forever North]

‘learnings’ as in “plenty of learnings for North today after yet another heavy and uncompetitive loss”…..

 

[BigPond101]

I despise "shorts it" for a short pass. Is it even grammatically possible to use shorts as a verb? What I hate most is I only ever heard Dwayne Russel use it but now even good commentators like Anthony Hudson sometimes say it

 

[Clark G]

‘Behind the ball’ and ‘ahead of the ball’ seems to have taken off in recent years by both coaches and the media.

 

[LordLucifer]

The commentators have all picked up Brayshaw's phraseology now where a player kicks the ball instead of calling it a "long kick" or a "probing kick" etc, they are all just a "good ball".

What a load of lazy jargon that makes little or no sense.

 

[LordLucifer]

"Running on top of the ground"

As opposed to running underneath the ground?

"underground handpass"

"lowers his eyes"

 

[WillHayward]

"All duck, no dinner", especially when said by gimps.

Not used enough!

 

[worbod]

"Hello, I'm Craig Hutchinson."

 

[Robroy22]

"Off a step".... one of Kellie's go to's.

 

[vikingpimp]

"Off a step".... one of Kellie's go to's.

TBF, that was one of Commetti's as well

 

[vikingpimp]

Don't hear it too much these days, but "instinct" in reference to First Nations players was always cringeworthy

 

[Wojcinski]

"For mine" (pretentious sounding wank)

"Nothing doing" (another eye rolling masterstroke of words)

"They've lowered their colours" (i find that one especially annoying/lame)

The James Brayshaw guide to commentating for dummies

 

[Struggle]

"Takes a little something off the kick" every time someone doesn't mindlessly kick it as far as they can

 

[JHF1870]

Landed like a cat
There's 20 guys around the ball you could throw a blanket over them

 

[JHF1870]

David King. There's a lot to like about this kid

 

[terrybull]

The ball is bubbling.

VlauSTONE.

80% of the sentences that comes out of Kelli Underwood’s mouth.

The pressure gauge- how is this actually measured?

It is what it is.

 

[Daics35Marvel]

Unpack

Used almost universally by every single article or tv show when reviewing a game.

“We’ve got a lot to unpack from this one..”

 

[Hungdaddy]

Anything borrowed from modern corporate jargon be it "piece", "learnings", "unpack"etc. It sounds just as trite and lazy on TV as it does in the office.

 

[StillAtLarge]

Anything borrowed from modern corporate jargon be it "piece", "learnings", "unpack"etc. It sounds just as trite and lazy on TV as it does in the office.

We can blame Grant Thomas for introducing corporate gobbledygook to the afl vernacular

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Laconic. It doesn't mean what they think it means.

Just OOI, what do they think it means?

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

"Obviously"

Obviously it's so obviously frustrating when players obviously use the word obviously as obviously a filler word and obviously repeat it ten times obviously in their answers. Obviously.

And footballers always pronounce it “of-sea”.

 

[StillAtLarge]

A woman on abc radio constantly says "flares the ball out to the wing". I have no idea what this means.
Also Hutchison and fat Eddie are the only two people in Australia who use the word 'magnificent'. So annoying

 

[Cyclops]

Just OOI, what do they think it means?

I think it gets used to describe players who look lazy or unhurried. There is a "laconic cowboy" trope in Hollywood where the archetypical hero doesn't say much (which is somewhat laconic) and acts in a relaxed and unhurried way before shooting the baddie (which is what has become associated with laconism as a result of Hollywood).

Laconia was of course the district corresponding to the poleis of Sparta, and Spartan speech was famously abrupt.

FWIW the Spartans were late for the battle of Marathon (because of the Carneia, a sort of grape based chasey ritual: this excuse that was trotted out more than once) but mostly they were known for blunt brief speech and being the best hoplites man for man in Hellas.

 

[Hoops]

Probably because I am more used to footy jargon, I find basketball jargon more annoying. I guess that's where Dwayne get's most of his from.