You might aswell call it soccer

[a _fan_to_talk_to]

You could start calling aussie rules soccer if you see a match of footy because all the players kick the ball of the ground. Matty Lloyd should change codes! I have nothing against but I don't want to turn the great game into a pommy soccer match.

 

[bomber0018]

Matty Lloyd actually did used to play soccer. I think that the game is ok with some soccer goals if that's the only way they can get them at the time. I'm sure if your team was 5 points down with 10 seconds to go you wouldn't mind a soccer goal from one of your players.

 

[Daniel]

Han can anyone be against that style of goal kicking? It's almost always the most exciting way to see a goal scored because you can't be certain how the ball will bounce and there's often a defender scrambling after it.

I didn't know that Lloyd used to play soccer, but it makes sense. Most of the time he doesn't kick what are often called "soccer" goals, though, because he starts with the ball in his hands. The "soccer" goal is when the ball is kicked off the ground, as Modra likes to do.

With so many goals scored from below head height, I wonder how long it will be before the traditional fullback position is adopted and one player is given the designated role of guarding the goal square?

 

[servo]

Another one to play soccer is Clive Waterhouse. He didn't play aussie rules until he was 16 years old. Played for Port adelaide at 17 and drafted by the Dockers at 18.

 

[sainter]

Jason Traianidis is another one in that category. Like Waterhouse, he didn't start playing Aussie Rules until he was 17. Trigger is now 25 and is playing the best footy of his career. However he has taken quite a while longer to develop than Clive has.

Anyone who saw his 40 metre soccer goal for the North Melbourne reserves in the their 1996 Grand Final or Lloyd's goal against North last year know how much more exciting these kind of goals can make the game.

 

[dons_r_tops]

You know What they say when something is stuffed here in the west, Thats Clive. You figure it out, Hey look at me im catching up to Chev (look at how many posts i have) 77