Nice video, enjoyed it a lot. You touched on Fitzroy in the 1916 season winning the flag in a league of just four teams. Fitzroy have the unique honour of winning the wooden spoon and premiership in the same year. At the end of the home and away rounds they finished bottom of the ladder, but due to just four teams being in the league they made the finals and then suddenly found form. So they finished both last and first in the same year!
Wills actually did not actually take much inspiration from the the indigenous game Marn Grook however he may have known of its existence. He actually took the inspiration from an early version of Rugby which was a popular football code in England for which he had attended a Rugby school in England for part of his early life. Tom Wills actually wanted to bring this sport to the new colony of Australia but with his own version of the code. You can see by the early code of the sport written in 1858 how it drew a lot of similarities and had a chance to become pretty much another code of Rugby had it not been for the intervention of other members of the MCC at the time. For example, the members discussed the addition of having to kick the ball up into your hands as opposed to picking it from the floor with your hands, this was a big rule in the old Rugby code at the time and Tom Wills was for its addition, however it was never passed. But, in some ways Australian football may taken some inspiration from Marn Grook but it's not really known how much as there aren't a lot of records about Tom Wills playing or seeing the Sport. If anyone cares I know all this from an excellent historical book Australia's game.
Aboriginals were nomadic hunter gatherers. If they didn’t find food they died. I just don’t see how they would have had the time to spend on chasing a rolled up possum skin around a paddock.
Nice video dude 👍the only thing I would say is I would have liked a better explanation of the VFA/VFL as it is something alot of people (mainly non-Victorians) struggle to understand. The VFA is a completely different league to the VFL/now AFL. The AFL took the VFA over and rebranded it.
Mate, this is good stuff! You are a footy UA-camr, not a Historian. Your sources and script are all perfect for a short video, don’t worry about all the people nit picking at slight errors.
He’s back with another amazing one! I already had this idea but now I can’t do it :( I’m late to the video D: It’s been so long since the last video (but it was hella worth it) that I’ve even changed my username lol
There is so much conjecture ,but early Aussie rules were played on Rugby pitches ,Wills went to English Schools played rugby ,yet you fail to mention Harrison , arguably the most important person in football who helped codify the game before any football code , Harrison House was League Headquarters for over 100 years , there are so many factual errors I don't where to start , especially early years
In his exhaustive research of the first four decades of Australian rules football, historian Mark Pennings "could not find evidence that those who wrote the first rules were influenced by the Indigenous game of Marngrook".[31] Melbourne Cricket Club researcher Trevor Ruddell wrote in 2013 that Marn Grook "has no causal link with, nor any documented influence upon, the early development of Australian football."[ from wiki
Some nitpicking, minor errors at the beginning: 0:07 - not the 'national sport.' 0:24 - Wills AND OTHERS invented Australian football to play football, not in order to keep cricketers fit. This is one of a few origin myths running around. 0:27 - Wills played rugby and soccer in their formative years in England, and brought aspects of those games AS WELL AS Marn Grook. There was NO tackling in Marn Grook so it couldn't be the sole source.
Soccer as we know it broke away from rugby in 1863. The two factions couldn’t agree on how the game was to be played. So, rugby and soccer started in 1863.
@@petertrezise4545 This isn't quite right. This date is when the seperate administrations set up. Prior to that, football clubs would agree on what rules they'd be playing, but it was basically do you feel like playing soccer or rugby today, with the home side having most of the say, and the weather the rest. Muddy pitch, rugby. Best player struggling with shoulder injury? Best play the association rules. It's not like the two sports were born when they were officially separated. Australian football played with separate rules for running without a bounce for years before it was made part of the rules in 1866.
The VFL wasn't created a week later than the SANFL as stated in this video... it was created 20 years later. The entire history of the VFA, including the split that formed the VFL, was completely glossed over. Twelve out of thirteen Victorian clubs (incl Fitzroy and South Melbourne; excl University) were formerly part of the VFA. It's such a shame that the VFA, as one of the top leagues in the country for many decades and with 120 years of independent history from the VFL/AFL, gets completely written out of history by so many, as if its crucial role in the formation of Australian rules football in the 19th century and its enduring strength and popularity throughout the 20th century never happened.
According to the epitaph near Clunes, Vic., the aboriginals and the Irish station hands and gold propspectors combined to create the game based on what the aboriginals did and what the Irish did, before 1858
I'd love to know what your reference was that Wills took inspiration from marngrook? The Wills biography that I read said there was no evidence as such. But I'd be curious to read otherwise.
@@Kaleen_YT the story has no author name or info. just an article written by someone at the swans. not exactly a good reference for writing a factual article. just curious as i have been around for a while and as a youngster growing up and learning about our great game indigenous australians were never even partly credited with the founding of australian football.
@@Skatted yes indeed credit where it is due, i just have never heard this theory and was wondering of its origins rather than someone who writes for the sydney site. everyone is big on shouting fact check nowdays, i was curious of the source of information. you failed to provide information.
@@Kaleen_YT There was an overseas exhibition match in London during World War II, but I think what you meant was the NZ game was the first overseas match to be played for Premiership points, which is correct, so you were on the right track there.
Amazing video! I see a lot of people in the comments are arguing over whether or not Marn Grook, or any other Indigenous games, influenced AFL. The truth is we most likely will never know for certain, but as of 2019 the AFL has taken the stance that there was influences on the game originating from Indigenous games, specifically Marn Grook. The reasons many historians disagree is mainly due to a lack of records to prove this, but it's important to note that just because there are no verifiable records of something doesn't mean it didn't occur. If you look up the rules of Marn Grook there are some striking similarities to Aussie Rules, particularly it's emphasis on jumping including using other players to jump higher, punt kicking, and that supposedly when someone caught a ball they would yell out "mark" or a word similar to it. Given that Indigenous Australians have an oral tradition it's understandable that there may have been influence that was never recorded by them because they did not write records for their histories, and not written by any Europeans who may have either wanted to take full credit, or who may have worried that open acknowledgement of these influences could have negatively impacted to popularity of the sport. When the AFL stated it's position on the matter in 2019 they said that it was the sharing of oral history by Aboriginal Elders that confirmed the influence, which is in line with Indigenous traditions/culture. Unless someone unearths a diary where Tom Wills, or another significant figure in the creation of the game, admits in plain language that Aussie Rules is influenced by Marn Grook most non-indigenous historians will not accept it as evidenced as their bias is towards written record as opposed to oral tradition. We may never know the extent to which AFL was or wasn't influenced by Marn Grook or any other Indigneous Australian game, but ultimately if the AFL states this as their position, and it hurts nobody, does it really matter? We all love this game regardless, and within the game itself the contribution from Indigneous players themselves speaks volumes. AFL is becoming increasingly more inclusive for anyone of any walk of life to play in one way or another, we should all just appreciate the game as it is and as we know it them climbing over each other to try and tear down or discredit others.
Melbourne Football Club isn't the oldest - it's the oldest still operating. Nor was Geelong "just the 2nd" Aussie Rules club. 1858 April - St Kilda FC (folded in the 1870's) NOT related to the current Saints. July - Melbourne FC (still going) August - Church of England Grammar school football club (still going) August - Scotch College football club (still going) September - Sth Yarra FC (merged 1873 with St Kilda cricketers forming the present day St Kilda football club) 1859 May - Melbourne University FC (still going) June - Castlemaine FC (still going with dormant periods) June - Brighton FC (folded unknown) June - Coast FC (folded 1877) July - Geelong football club (still going) Making Melbourne FC 2nd & Geelong 10th
Well the reason Scotch and Melbourne chose their umpires is because they turned up thinking they were playing different games: 1 thought they playing Rugby and the other the Eaton field game (seriously search this game on you tube it’ll look strangely familiar) Wills may have been involved in the organisation of the game e but the fact he wrote the rules AFTER the game should be flashing red light that the Mangrook theory is utter bollocks. Say the VFL formed and was originally the VFA also just wrong. The VFL was a breakaway competition the VFA existed in name until the end of the 20th century and is essentially the VFL competition that we know and loathe today.
What about how the nature of the game has changed? For a new fan like me, you think the product that you see is the same game played for over 100 years. Your football has the same arc as American football, it used to be an organized street fight where hitting someone in the head or face was ok. Some of the older marches I watch, it looked like the players want to Inflict pain on the other team rather than win the game. Older players have head trama and CTE. I have to admit though the new game is exciting, the old street fight was sometimes hard to watch as the players bloodied themselves on a what appeared to be a grade school footy ground.
The distance between goals is NOT a carry over from the 1st 10 rules - in the original 10 - 1. The distance between the Goals and the Goal Posts shall be decided upon by the Captains of the sides playing. It wasn't until 1866 that the distance between goal posts was standardized. There is NO mention of handballing in the original 10 1860 "Old Adelaide" FC was established - HOWEVER - the didn't adopt the Victorian Rules until 1877 (they played under their own rules for 16 years.....is THAT Aussie rules?) You've really skipped over a lot of teams being formed - between Geelong & Brisbane there were 28 other teams formed (10 of which are still going today) INCLUDING Carlton (a founding member of both the VFA & VFL.)
The "national sport"? How do you work that out? The national sport in Australia is cricket. The premier football code for half the Australian population is Rugby League.
"National Sport"? I dearly love Aussie Rules, and I'm a fountain member of the GWS Giants, but Aussie Rules is not our national sport. Also nothing about the VFA?
@@Headknocks Cricket is the closest thing to a national sport, but pretty obvious which football code would qualify if you had to chose one, and it aint League or Soccer
@@Zaiden. Footy has been traced back to 1858, thanks to a chap named Tom Wills he was a cricket and a rugby player he didn't think soccer was manly enough so it was a mixture between soccer and rugby. The first footy match which was held at Richmond Paddock these initial matches were a bit shambolic, so the following year the rules were clarified shin kicking was verboten, as was tripping or pushing your opponent. The ball could not be thrown under any circumstances.
Much thanks from an American fan of this great sport. 👏🏻
HOLY MOLY WE MUST PROTECT THIS AMERICAN AT ALL COSTS
look up the USAFL. i play in it
Protect him
@@snowrider1991 is that actually a thing!?
🇦🇺🍻🇺🇸
Best game in the world. I watch it since 2020 and love watching it more than all other sports by far. Greetings from Austria.
glad you're enjoying the game, and thankyou for sharing your experience
Much love from OZ mate.
I started watching afl dis year
@@mgpich I’ve been watching it since 2020 too
Nice video, enjoyed it a lot. You touched on Fitzroy in the 1916 season winning the flag in a league of just four teams. Fitzroy have the unique honour of winning the wooden spoon and premiership in the same year. At the end of the home and away rounds they finished bottom of the ladder, but due to just four teams being in the league they made the finals and then suddenly found form. So they finished both last and first in the same year!
Glad you enjoyed it! Some interesting information you've provided.
😊
Wills actually did not actually take much inspiration from the the indigenous game Marn Grook however he may have known of its existence. He actually took the inspiration from an early version of Rugby which was a popular football code in England for which he had attended a Rugby school in England for part of his early life. Tom Wills actually wanted to bring this sport to the new colony of Australia but with his own version of the code. You can see by the early code of the sport written in 1858 how it drew a lot of similarities and had a chance to become pretty much another code of Rugby had it not been for the intervention of other members of the MCC at the time. For example, the members discussed the addition of having to kick the ball up into your hands as opposed to picking it from the floor with your hands, this was a big rule in the old Rugby code at the time and Tom Wills was for its addition, however it was never passed. But, in some ways Australian football may taken some inspiration from Marn Grook but it's not really known how much as there aren't a lot of records about Tom Wills playing or seeing the Sport.
If anyone cares I know all this from an excellent historical book Australia's game.
Aboriginals were nomadic hunter gatherers. If they didn’t find food they died. I just don’t see how they would have had the time to spend on chasing a rolled up possum skin around a paddock.
you are wrong
@@youtubeguest1962No he isn't.
@@youtubeguest1962explain
Again, great video, never gets me bored. Like I always say YOU DESERVE WAY MORE SUBSCRIBERS! GET THIS MAN TO 1 MILLION
Maybe one day!
@@Kaleen_YTyou will get there
The King is back - Long live his great videos
Great video one of the afl videos I watch till the end!
Thankyou, that means alot!
Finally! The king is back with another ripper!
oi king kaleen I love ya vids appreciate how much effort you put into these :D
Glad you're enjoying them!
@@Kaleen_YT who do u go for? and can u plz do an essendon vid next if uu can? keep up the good work mate
I go for Sydney. Not sure about an Essendon video, I'll take note of it but highly unlikely to be completely transparent with you.
@@Kaleen_YT no worries mate
Must not have good feelings about Geelong then...@@Kaleen_YT
Nice video dude 👍the only thing I would say is I would have liked a better explanation of the VFA/VFL as it is something alot of people (mainly non-Victorians) struggle to understand. The VFA is a completely different league to the VFL/now AFL. The AFL took the VFA over and rebranded it.
Great put together video
This needs serious revision.
Great video, thank you!!
Mate, this is good stuff! You are a footy UA-camr, not a Historian. Your sources and script are all perfect for a short video, don’t worry about all the people nit picking at slight errors.
Legend
Great Video Mate! 🎉
Glad you enjoyed it.
@@Kaleen_YT Glad You Made It!
Best Video Yet!
Thankyou!
I dont have a fav they’re all 🔥
He’s back with another amazing one! I already had this idea but now I can’t do it :(
I’m late to the video D:
It’s been so long since the last video (but it was hella worth it) that I’ve even changed my username lol
Appreciate the kind words. It’s alright, there’s infinite ideas for AFL videos out there. Also, you can still make it if you’d like to.
@@Kaleen_YT nah I’ve decided I’m making a Gold Coast suns doco :D
@@Kaleen_YT I edited the comment to have another line but you didn’t see it lol
You know who I am yeah?
yes i do.
AFL has a strong correlation to Gaelic Football
honestly great video
Thanks 😄
Historians mainly agree that Marngrook did not influence Tom Wills in his invention of aussie rules.
Correct.
Yeah its based off rugby football like nfl
@@Yoshimitsu420afl was before nfl
Another attempt to re-write Aus history
@@Yoshimitsu420literally nowhere near Rugby
As a crows supporter, that umpiring joke cut deep 😂
There is so much conjecture ,but early Aussie rules were played on Rugby pitches ,Wills went to English Schools played rugby ,yet you fail to mention Harrison , arguably the most important person in football who helped codify the game before any football code , Harrison House was League Headquarters for over 100 years , there are so many factual errors I don't where to start , especially early years
You should still do videos like this
Just the video I need for 6am billies
In his exhaustive research of the first four decades of Australian rules football, historian Mark Pennings "could not find evidence that those who wrote the first rules were influenced by the Indigenous game of Marngrook".[31] Melbourne Cricket Club researcher Trevor Ruddell wrote in 2013 that Marn Grook "has no causal link with, nor any documented influence upon, the early development of Australian football."[ from wiki
good video man
Appreciate it
Good job 👏
Great video
Thanks for the visit
Some nitpicking, minor errors at the beginning:
0:07 - not the 'national sport.'
0:24 - Wills AND OTHERS invented Australian football to play football, not in order to keep cricketers fit. This is one of a few origin myths running around.
0:27 - Wills played rugby and soccer in their formative years in England, and brought aspects of those games AS WELL AS Marn Grook. There was NO tackling in Marn Grook so it couldn't be the sole source.
appreciate you telling me. will try my best to prevent errors in future videos.
Soccer as we know it broke away from rugby in 1863. The two factions couldn’t agree on how the game was to be played. So, rugby and soccer started in 1863.
@@petertrezise4545 This isn't quite right. This date is when the seperate administrations set up. Prior to that, football clubs would agree on what rules they'd be playing, but it was basically do you feel like playing soccer or rugby today, with the home side having most of the say, and the weather the rest. Muddy pitch, rugby. Best player struggling with shoulder injury? Best play the association rules. It's not like the two sports were born when they were officially separated. Australian football played with separate rules for running without a bounce for years before it was made part of the rules in 1866.
The VFL wasn't created a week later than the SANFL as stated in this video... it was created 20 years later. The entire history of the VFA, including the split that formed the VFL, was completely glossed over. Twelve out of thirteen Victorian clubs (incl Fitzroy and South Melbourne; excl University) were formerly part of the VFA. It's such a shame that the VFA, as one of the top leagues in the country for many decades and with 120 years of independent history from the VFL/AFL, gets completely written out of history by so many, as if its crucial role in the formation of Australian rules football in the 19th century and its enduring strength and popularity throughout the 20th century never happened.
According to the epitaph near Clunes, Vic., the aboriginals and the Irish station hands and gold propspectors combined to create the game based on what the aboriginals did and what the Irish did, before 1858
The documentary failed to mention that my wife became a fan of Footscray in 1986.
Thanks I really enjoyed that video and I have a great idea how to bring back the State of Origin
Glad to hear that. What's the idea?
@@Kaleen_YT I can post it to you in an email
I recently discovered the sport, just in time for this year's finals! Go Swans!
I'd love to know what your reference was that Wills took inspiration from marngrook? The Wills biography that I read said there was no evidence as such. But I'd be curious to read otherwise.
here: www.sydneyswans.com.au/news/693202/history-of-marn-grook-at-the-scg
obviously there's differing opinions, I don't believe there's 100% certain evidence though.
@@Kaleen_YT the story has no author name or info. just an article written by someone at the swans. not exactly a good reference for writing a factual article. just curious as i have been around for a while and as a youngster growing up and learning about our great game indigenous australians were never even partly credited with the founding of australian football.
@@aussieintexas61because white Australia would never give credit where it is due.
@@Skatted yes indeed credit where it is due, i just have never heard this theory and was wondering of its origins rather than someone who writes for the sydney site. everyone is big on shouting fact check nowdays, i was curious of the source of information. you failed to provide information.
1:23 bro just roasted the entire crows fan base
Where did you get your info from?
🇦🇺 Anzac Day
3:16
In the 90s there was a match in london so NZ not quite the first
oh my bad then.
@@Kaleen_YT There was an overseas exhibition match in London during World War II, but I think what you meant was the NZ game was the first overseas match to be played for Premiership points, which is correct, so you were on the right track there.
I’m Australian and I didn’t know some of this stuff
Adelaide defeated St Kilda in the 1997 Grand Final, they defeated North Melbourne in 1998.
Nice video SPECKIE
Speckie! Thanks mate
Goood I love it 🥰
11:54 Adelaide beat St. Kilda in 1997 NOT North Melbourne.
Amazing video! I see a lot of people in the comments are arguing over whether or not Marn Grook, or any other Indigenous games, influenced AFL. The truth is we most likely will never know for certain, but as of 2019 the AFL has taken the stance that there was influences on the game originating from Indigenous games, specifically Marn Grook. The reasons many historians disagree is mainly due to a lack of records to prove this, but it's important to note that just because there are no verifiable records of something doesn't mean it didn't occur. If you look up the rules of Marn Grook there are some striking similarities to Aussie Rules, particularly it's emphasis on jumping including using other players to jump higher, punt kicking, and that supposedly when someone caught a ball they would yell out "mark" or a word similar to it.
Given that Indigenous Australians have an oral tradition it's understandable that there may have been influence that was never recorded by them because they did not write records for their histories, and not written by any Europeans who may have either wanted to take full credit, or who may have worried that open acknowledgement of these influences could have negatively impacted to popularity of the sport. When the AFL stated it's position on the matter in 2019 they said that it was the sharing of oral history by Aboriginal Elders that confirmed the influence, which is in line with Indigenous traditions/culture.
Unless someone unearths a diary where Tom Wills, or another significant figure in the creation of the game, admits in plain language that Aussie Rules is influenced by Marn Grook most non-indigenous historians will not accept it as evidenced as their bias is towards written record as opposed to oral tradition. We may never know the extent to which AFL was or wasn't influenced by Marn Grook or any other Indigneous Australian game, but ultimately if the AFL states this as their position, and it hurts nobody, does it really matter? We all love this game regardless, and within the game itself the contribution from Indigneous players themselves speaks volumes. AFL is becoming increasingly more inclusive for anyone of any walk of life to play in one way or another, we should all just appreciate the game as it is and as we know it them climbing over each other to try and tear down or discredit others.
What a banger!
During the second world war the the SANFL reduced the number of clubs by half. Creating mergers of clubs whose suburban boundaries were adjacent.
Footy is better than all
agreed
The AFL is a league not the sport. Why can't people get this important fact correct?
This is one I'm fairly and squarely placing at the feet of the league.
Melbourne Football Club isn't the oldest - it's the oldest still operating.
Nor was Geelong "just the 2nd" Aussie Rules club.
1858
April - St Kilda FC (folded in the 1870's) NOT related to the current Saints.
July - Melbourne FC (still going)
August - Church of England Grammar school football club (still going)
August - Scotch College football club (still going)
September - Sth Yarra FC (merged 1873 with St Kilda cricketers forming the present day St Kilda football club)
1859
May - Melbourne University FC (still going)
June - Castlemaine FC (still going with dormant periods)
June - Brighton FC (folded unknown)
June - Coast FC (folded 1877)
July - Geelong football club (still going)
Making Melbourne FC 2nd & Geelong 10th
As an australian who's been watching footy since birth i still didnt know some of this shi
That's because a lot of it is just that. Shit.
And I'm sitting here thinking I know a lot about footy
dont take this as gospel. pick up a book .
@@aussieintexas61 no
@@aussieintexas61shut up not everybody believes in jesus
w vid bro
appreciate it
Adelaide did NOT beat North Melbourne in the 1997 grand final. Adelaide beat St Kilda in 1997 and then the Kangaroos in 1998
My bad.
Seeing this vid makes me proud about my club
Well the reason Scotch and Melbourne chose their umpires is because they turned up thinking they were playing different games: 1 thought they playing Rugby and the other the Eaton field game (seriously search this game on you tube it’ll look strangely familiar) Wills may have been involved in the organisation of the game e but the fact he wrote the rules AFTER the game should be flashing red light that the Mangrook theory is utter bollocks.
Say the VFL formed and was originally the VFA also just wrong. The VFL was a breakaway competition the VFA existed in name until the end of the 20th century and is essentially the VFL competition that we know and loathe today.
11:19 no Brisbane lions was created in 1996
That is true
What about how the nature of the game has changed? For a new fan like me, you think the product that you see is the same game played for over 100 years. Your football has the same arc as American football, it used to be an organized street fight where hitting someone in the head or face was ok. Some of the older marches I watch, it looked like the players want to Inflict pain on the other team rather than win the game. Older players have head trama and CTE. I have to admit though the new game is exciting, the old street fight was sometimes hard to watch as the players bloodied themselves on a what appeared to be a grade school footy ground.
Watch the 84 SANFL GF between Norwood and Port
The distance between goals is NOT a carry over from the 1st 10 rules - in the original 10 -
1. The distance between the Goals and the Goal Posts shall be decided upon by the Captains of the sides playing.
It wasn't until 1866 that the distance between goal posts was standardized.
There is NO mention of handballing in the original 10
1860 "Old Adelaide" FC was established - HOWEVER - the didn't adopt the Victorian Rules until 1877 (they played under their own rules for 16 years.....is THAT Aussie rules?)
You've really skipped over a lot of teams being formed - between Geelong & Brisbane there were 28 other teams formed (10 of which are still going today) INCLUDING Carlton (a founding member of both the VFA & VFL.)
West Coast was the first non victorian team to win the flag in 1992
Bro, when he said “If only the crows had that choice” I freaking was like f*** you, you f***ing b****
crows are my 2nd favourite team, i wasn't hating
Oh ok
Sorry
wow didn't know brisbane had a team so early on.
You failed to mention University, who were in the VFL between 1908-1915 and was based at Melbourne University.
yes, i completely forget.
8:08 i swear in the front row i saw nick daicos
Yes, and Charlie Cameron of the Lions. It's a recent picture, but made you think it was 1953.
I LOVE THE AFL
Ummmmm don’t think the AFL has been actually going this long u could say Aussie rules football NOT Australian football league
I suppose, I think it just makes it simpler to follow along.
@@Kaleen_YT Yes, people these days tend to refer to Aussie Rules as "AFL". It's not technically correct, but you're right, it keeps it simple.
No, let’s not dumb people down. The sport is called Australian Rules Football, full stop
Why does it matter?
nrl has original state of origins tho
Guys, I think Kaleen doesn't like umpires
no i do
What the heck is 13:13
W vid
Very entertaining video
Too kind.
How can Geelong be second oldest team if Melbourne played South Yarra prior to their existence.
The "national sport"? How do you work that out? The national sport in Australia is cricket. The premier football code for half the Australian population is Rugby League.
Full of inaccuracies and a few typos for good measure. A rough watch.
1904 Port Adelaide won championships of Australia with out drop a game not Norwood do your research better
my bad
Adelaide beat St Kilda for their 1st premiership
"National Sport"?
I dearly love Aussie Rules, and I'm a fountain member of the GWS Giants, but Aussie Rules is not our national sport.
Also nothing about the VFA?
if Aussie Rules isn't the national sport than what is it? baseball? 💀🙏
❤❤
MIGHTY DONS!!!!!
What about the hawks? Threepeat🦅🦅🏉
I suggest you read Geoffrey Bailey’s History of Australian Football before publishing this rubbish
Let’s go port Adelaide
13:14 💀💀💀
Where was of game in English there fame for fun but did olay
AFL was derived only from Gaelic Football
Please don’t make up history
To many people try to rewrite history and you clearly chose the easy route
Hmm sure
The Marn Grook claim has as much credibility as Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu…rewriting of history, don’t believe it.
So many "facts" wrong
It’s Australian rules Football not AFL
What about Collingwood The magpies
Nothin b***h
And in 1880 Ned Kelly was hanged after he, his family and friends were antagonized by the military state that the had stolen the aboriginal land
👋😂☘️
"national sport" ask 95% of sydney or brisbane to name 3 players
ask the rest of the country to name 3 players, they'd be able to
half the population in nsw and qld mate. definitely not the national sport. @@Adam-XL
@@Headknocks Cricket is the closest thing to a national sport, but pretty obvious which football code would qualify if you had to chose one, and it aint League or Soccer
ill guarantee you more people play soccer and have an interest in that game than either league or afl @@Adam-XL
@@Headknocks abysmal A-league attendances suggest otherwise
Adelaide beat st kilda in 1997
Only if the crows had that choice lol
Does history have to keep being rewritten to make indigenous people feel special?
go PORT POWER
Nah Geelong cats is way better
That story was debunked many years ago unfortunately it's a fairy tale.
Really you tell the story then
@@Zaiden. Footy has been traced back to 1858, thanks to a chap named Tom Wills he was a cricket and a rugby player he didn't think soccer was manly enough so it was a mixture between soccer and rugby. The first footy match which was held at Richmond Paddock these initial matches were a bit shambolic, so the following year the rules were clarified shin kicking was verboten, as was tripping or pushing your opponent. The ball could not be thrown under any circumstances.
@@snOOziie oh yeh I already know that
Aflw 😂😂😂😂
It’s not afl it’s gayfl soccer and rugby is way better