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wtf is a "clanger" ??

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They're the AFL term for mistakes, under no pressure from the opposition. For instance, a Clanger comes when a player kicks the ball to the opposition under no pressure at all.
 

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Corrosion said:
They're the AFL term for mistakes, under no pressure from the opposition. For instance, a Clanger comes when a player kicks the ball to the opposition under no pressure at all.
Thanks Andrew.
 
littleduck said:
seriously...

i'm sick of reading the 1Q HT 3Q time stats on the tv and seeing the # of "clangers"... somebody please tell me/us what the hell it is?

It's a football mistake, for example:

A turnover, where you kick it or handball it the opposition or it could be a dropped mark with the same effect.
 

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My favourite use of the term was from earlier in the year when Zeke was getting orgasmic about a 30+ touches game from Licuria, only to find out later that about 12 of them were clangers.
 

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Definitions of clanger on the Web:

'a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate; "he dropped a clanger"'

I just hate it when they "drop a clanger"
 
A Clanger is a part of the resume of a battalian of statisticians recently graduated and employed by the Army of consultants who subcontract to all and sundry media outlets,encouraged by the AFL in the interests of full employment for all and expansion of the empire regardless of how trivial.
They give those in the superboxes something to talk about between lunch and half time after which they are too pi$$ed to care.

Our battalian has also given us: hard ball gets [not many aren't],inside 50[who cares,what about inside 60,40,30 any number],turnover[a good tackle tends to do that],statistical probability of kicking a goal from various angles[TV],can the bloke kick at all?Assists or goal assists.Well if you won't do that in a team sport you've had it.Blocking,see Shepherd.TOG.Wonder if our battalian has thought to devide the TOG into the salary to really find out who earns what.

And you have the statistical MVP according to Champion Data.Very few of whom seem ever to appear regularly in the top sides for the year.

But in fairness our battalian aren't customers of Centrelink.
 

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