A spoonerism is when you swap the first sounds of two words. Which AFL player's names do you think are the best when this is applied to them?
Personally, I have always been partial to Marcy Doore, Lane Kambert, Mack Jacrae, Cane Zordy and Fat Nyfe.
(unless I'm very much mistaken) I don't know why this got me so excited, I just thought it was a cool piece of trivia.
As it is the offseason I feel this is worthy of posting. For example 'Gawn with the wind' if Max Gawn were to miss a shot and lose due to strong wind.
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For any reason--good play, scandals, whatever; which players would be known even by people who don't even care about the AFL?
Couple of Essendon players come to mind...Ron Andrews, 157 games (6 Collingwood). Tough and uncompromising CHB. Had played his best football before Essendon's glory in 84 & 85. Derek Kickett, 152 games for NM, Essendon & Sydney. Well known for being dropped from Essendon GF side in 93, but on his day was one of the most exciting players of his era.
What's up footy fans. I picked Steve Johnson. He's been the best half forward flanker from 2007-2011. He was a magician on the footy field with the snap kick goals, tight angled goals, other ridiculous goals he's kicked and was great at setting up his team mates for a shot at goal.
In 2013, he had a fantastic season playing in the midfield and was in the discussion of being in that group of elite midfielders that season (Ablett, Swan, Pendlebury, Selwood). I looked up his stats in the home and away season and he averaged 29.3 possessions per game, 4.9 tackles per game, 5.2 inside 50s, 5.4 clearances and kicked 17 goals. He played only 16 games that season and polled 25 votes in the brownlow. He was in fine form and would've won the brownlow if he wasn't suspended and was influential for Geelong that season. He followed up with another great season, not as great as 2013 and averaged 26.3 possessions per game, 5.4 tackles, 4.8 inside 50s, 4 clearances, kicked 16 goals and polled 19 votes in 17 games.
Example: You nominate Gary Ablett to join your [clubs] midfield. Someone responds that he has to play in sandals
Cant go past giannis I reckon he would make a great ruckmen
e.g. Broomhead has a broom for a head, and is now even more useless than before.
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Tom Lynch
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Josh Kennedy
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Scott Thompson
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Mitch Brown
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Sam Reid
In the sport we refer to as football, you only hear referees identify players by their numbers (at least when the mics are turned on to announce penalties...who knows what is said when the mics are off). It just sounds so weird to me when players are refered to by name by the umpires.
If you want a link try google; I think it's disgraceful.
The Vienna Vikings have announced the new Headcoach for theire AFL Team. Its Ivan Zivko. According to the Article they will take 25 players from the AFL Team to play in the ELF Team.
I was watching Fox Footy the other night and Nathan Brown's betting segment came on (shudders). He had a list of the top 5 players in the AFL and were as follows:
- Dustin Martin
- Marcus Bontempelli
- Christian Petracca
- Max Gawn
- Toby Greene
What do you think? Do you agree? Does anyone else feel like AFL is harder to rank due to how diverse the positions are?
Example: You nominate Gary Ablett to join your clubs midfield. Someone responds that he has to play in sandals
What puns can you think of using AFL player names?
