@@andygreves4502 He forgot many others, like handball, kick backwards, kick sideways, block space, shepherd, tackle etc .etc. More like listen to coach and do your role even if it means not get ball much....
Just why did that guy get stopped by an umpire from tackling the guy with ball 🤔 haha that's what I like about discovering new sports, the people who love it, really love it
Just got home from the Hawthorn v Western Bulldogs elimination final. It was a pretty good game (more so because Hawthorn won) in front of 97,828 fans. Quite an atmosphere.
It's called a 'ladder' because each team occupies step on the ladder from top to bottom depending on the number of their wins. I guess they find it better than teams spread out over a 'table'.
Various members of my family follow five different teams. I have been to games where supporters of interstate teams that are not even playing in Melbourne, still turn up in their kit to watch a live game.
@@stephenmcqually2983 yeah/nah tradition still counts, but everyone is free to stay with their team when they marry into the family. Three generations of Geelong supporters, three generations of Kangaroos, two generations of Hawthorn, and the outliers who married into the family make up the rest with one side of the family five generation Bulldogs. Our oldest friends are in their 90’s and are third generation Richmond with their children, grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren all Tigers.
Richmond won the premiership in 2017, 2019, 2020. A lot of our good players from that time have retired and this year had many injuries and had to play a lot of young inexperienced players. Will take time to build up to being a strong side again. You should have a look at the premiership games on the internet. Go Tigers 🐅🐅🐅💛🖤💛🖤
@@AnthInOz the team that finsihes top prior to finals is named the "Minor Premier". The Premiership team is the team who wins the Grand Final. A minor premiership is almost irrelevant except that it shows you were the best team prior to the finals.
And that's the thing we love about our game. 100,000 people at a grand final with no segregation all happily screaming at the umpire. One big happy family with kids enjoying a fantastic atmosphere. 🦢🦢🦢
I do rate that all the family can come to the same game and mix and mingle with the opposition supporters, making a game more accessable. It's just a very very foreign concept to what I've experienced elsewhere around the world 👍
@@AnthInOz You may have noticed that even in one family, Mum and dad and three or four kids are even following different teams. Glad you appreciate our sport my friend. Cheers. 🦢🦢🦢
Nah I’d rather have the English element of segregation players are to nice with each other they are all mates which is abit odd u wanna be abit rough and died an rivals on the field an off not be messaging each other on Instagram
As per your title, no it's Australian Rules being played in the top tier Australian Football League(AFL) but don't worry even a lot of Aussies say AFL when referring to the game
To be fair to Richmond they won the flag in 2017, 2019 and 2020 . As AFL has a strict salary cap and a draft for young players it is very hard to be at the top of the ladder for a long time. Their premiership players are mostly either retired or close to retirement . Their coach Adem Yze ( pronounced - ooze-a ) only just got the job and was an assistant coach for the 2021 premiership team the Melbourne Demons so he'll be a good coach .
Soccer is the most basic of games, understandable that our game with over 150 years is to complicated for ya...plus the ability to sit with opposition and talk rather then violence and attacking each other is beautiful.
Basic, and boring! An hour for a goal? Why pay anything to watch that, then fight violently over it?! AFL is the epitome of good sportmanship, players and fans alike.
@@AnthInOzYeah that's fine. Just boys being aggressive. They are allowed to be like that on the football field, but not on the streets and in the stands at the football. 😅 Rugby people get it, and they punch on sometimes and they will have a few beers together afterwards. With the AFL they might do that in 10 or 20 years. Swans and Giants. They won't be holding grudges. It's part of the game.
Glad you enjoyed the game. Something you may have missed is the ridiculous level of skill, strength and endurance required to play the game. They make it look easy.
@@loneRider3910 Rugby is not football NFL is not football and soccer has a ridiculous offside rule that makes no sense at all, from what gather it is there to save feeble defenders and now soccer is an actors activity i see
@@peterflynn2111 Offside means players have to earn a goal, not get one simply because they were hanging around the attacking zone waiting for the ball. AFL (footy, not football) has no goalkeeper, no crossbar in the goal and no hope of defending any mark in front of goal.
@@loneRider3910Just like a stupid Penalty kick in Soccer. If the player is half decent, that round soccer ball is going past the goalkeeper everyday of the week.💯%
Great vid mate. You and I are opposites. As an aussie I've always disliked the magpies but somehow when I got into the premier league I fell in love with Newcastle. Couldn't imagine Sunderland and Newcastle fans sitting together and mingling 😅
Hahahah 😅 that's wild. May I suggest you switch from NUFC to SAFC before it's too late 😅 there's already documentaries on how badly that goes. I am very biased but the amount of deliousnal grandure Geordies have for being the best is unmatched. Sunderland fans know and acknowledge our faults.
@@AnthInOz Least you went in person. You learn so much more going in person at ground than trying to watch via youtube only or tv. The average youtuber that watches highlights of the sport on youtube remain clueless. Least when you say you were confused, you at least have an idea of how much you do not know. Some youtubers think they can learn the game from videos and truly are clueless forever even though they think they have learned about the sport.
@@AnthInOz You not alone, the umpires are confused too. You're right about too many umpires. Before the mid 70's there were 1 field umpire, 2 boundary umpires and 2 goal umpires. Also, each quarter was 25 minutes and player were on the field for the entire 100 minutes unless injured. There were two reserve players for injuries.
Slight mistakes here and there but points for spirit. Hope you keep enjoying it. Almost time for grand final. Next time see if there are any interstate teams playing and you may be able to get a seat at a much more competitive/interesting game. Also there will pre season games early next year
When I went to the UK is found it crazy that you have to sit separately depending on which teams you go for. I go to the footy with my Carlton mates, my essendon mates, my Richmond mates and we have a good time. What if one mate goes for Man City and the other Chelsea? You just can't sit together?
You can mingle, but mainly only in the posh boxes (corporate hospitality) are where that happens. Otherwise not recommended during games. Afterwards is generally is civil and bantering. The cultural differences are astounding. There's merits and drawbacks to both. My feelings on the day of this game were not many there actually cared about the game as it was all very happy clappy. Not that this is the nessessarly case, back in the UK the segregation of fans leads to a more enjoyable experience when it comes to feeling a part of something, the chants, the buzz.
I went to a friendly in York against Middlesborough. There were more people behind one goal fenced off than there were in the rest of the ground. Felt weird from an aussie perspective but realise the violence that could occur if it wasn't the case.
@@AnthInOz I agree that the chanting in the EPL is spectacular, I sat in the Chelsea fan section at etihad in Manchester at a Man City Caribao cup cap and the atmosphere was amazing!!
10 umpires but not really. 2 goal umps (they only adjudicate scoring), 4 boundary umps (they only adjudicate the boundary line), and 4 field umps - usually only 1 is in control and they hand control across to their mate as the ball travels faster than they can run. Occasionally a non-controlling field ump might pay a free but only in limited circumstances. BTW it's the oldest form of codified football in the world, having been codified in 1858. The original rules are on display in the foyer of Gate 3 at the MCG, and the first match was played in what today is the MCG carpark. It has its roots in Marn Grook, a game played by aboriginals in Western Victoria. The ball is smaller than a rugby ball. It was first played to keep cricketers fit in winter, and the inventer who had schooled at Rugby, wanted something different, an Australian game, something that both English and Irish could play together in the Colony.
10 umps then with one being a captain/main ump? 2+4+4 =10. The longevity of the game is unreal. Irish and British colonies having a hand in the pie, makes so much sense.
I remember growing up (where I am from) it was like people from melbourne were mutants and if you liked afl you got picked on so you wouldn't tell anyone.
@@AnthInOz It has expanded beyond one league FFS. ha ha ha 1859 means it still a colony of the British Empire and Australia is not even a nation at that point so it really was a local ball sport still working out rules for different cricket clubs to play each other at a ball sport each winter weekend in the town of Melbourne of 1859, in the British Empire. It would have been known as Melbourne rules first, then later Victoria rules as it expanded across the colony of Victoria in the 1860's. Other British colonies such as Tasmania and South Australia and West Australia started playing "Victorian rules" and created their own leagues in the 1870's and 1880's. The first real leagues such as SAFA in South Australia and VFA in Victoria started in the 1870's. So the first decade and a half of the sport was still organizing agreements between clubs just to even decide rules they would agree on and some type of schedule and then some type of ladder... There are many leagues that have existed in every state and every regional area as the population and Federation took place the next century for Australia to become a nation itself. Eight VFA clubs left the VFA in 1897 to form a new league called VFL and left the clubs they did not want with them in the VFA. VFA and VFL then continued as different leagues in Victoria for next nine decades. in 1987 the VFL added teams from West Australia and Brisbane up in Queensland. So the league was no longer truly just the Victorian Football League so the premiership title being for best team in Victoria was no longer what it was. So 1990 they eventually started calling it the Australian Football League and more clubs from other states were added as the 1990's progressed. So AFL is not actually the sport even though many people make the mistake of saying the sport is AFL. The sport is Australian football or Aussie rules footy, and the highest standard league is the Australian Football League. Anyway, rant over :)
@shaundgb7367 It's a one league membership only franchise. There's no promotion or relegation. There's no reward for winning a season beyond having that accolade, there's no repercussions for losing. I get it's longevity, it's appeal and the routes of teams joining and creating leagues, etc. in previous itterations. However, the fact still remains: it's one league. There's nothing wrong with that either, BTW.
There's no basketball or volleyball rules in AFL. Those games didn't exist when the rules of footy were worked out. The general principle was to slow you down if you didn't kick the ball as the priority. You can't hog the ball. You're on a massive field. Kicking solves the tyranny of distance. That's the fastest mode of travel. Then there's the little zone of peace called the mark in an otherwise very fast paced chaotic game which encouraged smooth, rapid passages of play. That puts the game into the NOT weird zone.
basketball did exist when they made up the laws of Aussie Rules. And they continue to make the rules up week by week. Just have a look at holding the ball for instance.
Two things. Basketball was invented in the 1890's. Footy started in the 1850's. Secondly. Name me a single sport that doesn't constantly review and refine its rules.
@@bumble-g2j the dates you state are correct. I would like to watch a game with you so you can explain every stupid interpretation that take place every few minutes. Also, surely if you have followed the league for years you would know that in recent times they dramatically change interpretations from week to week without warning fans. As per the deliberate rulings and holding the ball in 2024 season.
Already a chaos game, more umpires creates more inconsistencies and problems, only 4 of those umpires can make a call on field, 4 run the boundaries and 2 the goals.
Thanks for trying, best not to comment on a sport that you don't really know anything about. Please come back with 'the balmy army' so you can watch your team be humiliated by the Aussies yet again. Don't feel bad we just love bashing the poms, you did have some interesting viewpoints on the game culture, but showed little or no understanding of the game itself. Thanks for the video.
That's my point, or you must have missed it? I wanted to understand the game, if you are saying to all future potential fans and viewers of the game, that they he need to read the rules to before going... then the game might as well already be dead. Rocking up and having fun should be the first thing about making a game engaging and entertaining should be what it's about. The AFL and it's fans should be wanting more people who aren't in the loop talking about your sport, and not detracting when they try. So on that, trust me when I say this, cricket is the dullest of dull sports in the world. Australia can beat the England Cricket team all they like. Fair income effort on the baggie greens. Thanks for the comment, but try to add to the fun not sap it away.
@@AnthInOz My comments were meant in fun, but comparing Aussie rules to basket ball or net ball is a bit silly. I didn't miss your points in the video, i.e. the culture surrounding the game, in fact I pointed out that you raised some interesting angles on the games/fans culture, it was well thought out. My comments were clearly meant to take the piss and I though I was adding to the fun. Finally, yes I do think it would be a good idea to learn the rules before you went to a game, at least then you wouldn't confuse it with net ball, this is taking the piss again, with just hint of sarcasm. If you didn't see it, the derby yesterday between Sydney Swans and GWS was a good game, Thanks for your channel.
I need emojis 😅 The comparison to the other sports are based solely on some game mechanics. Tip offs,(basketball) having defenders stand still after fouls (netbell) ☺️ I will read up more cause grand finals soon coning up 😁 Melbournes got a footy buzz in the air.
@@AnthInOzG'day mate. 😀 Yeah emojis are good with the words together. But seriously I would not go to the soccer and take a kid but not tell them anything about the handball rules or the goalie. But think it's better for them to figure it out. It's a waste of time. You don't need to be an expert, just understand that it's not Rugby or Soccer. If you weren't from that background you would have understood the game that you were seeing. After all that's how we all saw it as children. Basketball is the one which has complex rules really.
What an absolute load of rubbish. Did you no one can tell the difference between holding the ball and holding the man. Also, no offside. They are not teams, they are franchises. No relegation, either. Tediously boring.
You like offside. Maybe you should try a sport called Rugby League. Also Rugby Union, Soccer, Rugby Sevens, Ice Hockey and field hockey. But you find the only thing that doesn't have offside and complain about it not having any offside. 😂 And you probably don't like that American Football stops all the time and they wear armor. 😮😅 If you don't like Australian Football it's OK.
Everyone knows the difference between holding the ball and holding the man. In holding the man, the man who you are holding doesn't have the ball. But I concede that in the past some games were not umpired well and players were intentionally dropping the ball when they were tackled so they were not in possession of the ball. But there was always a rule against the dropping of the ball. It is called an incorrect disposal and the result is a free kick to the other team. Now that the umpires and players are aware of the incorrect disposal you won't be confused about this one anymore. The only decision that the umpire has to be making is whether the tackled player had any time to get rid of the ball before they were tackled. But if they dropped the ball it's an automatic free kick to the tackling team. But if the ball is dropped and then it touched the boot before it hit the ground, technically it was a kick and it was a legal disposal.
The worst team has also been champions in 2017 , 2019 and 2020...Horrific run of injuries , lots of retirements in the past 12 months and a new coach...My Tigers will b e back in a few years as a powerhouse again..Every club goes through this eventually... Go Tigers..
Anth: At least you didn't forget the all important ABC rule - Anyone But Collingwood!
Best sport in the world mate. No confusing nonsense like offside or knock on or any such rubbish - see ball, get ball, kick goals.
I love that: three key things to do!
@@andygreves4502 it’s how they did it in biblical times.
@@andygreves4502 He forgot many others, like handball, kick backwards, kick sideways, block space, shepherd, tackle etc .etc. More like listen to coach and do your role even if it means not get ball much....
Just why did that guy get stopped by an umpire from tackling the guy with ball 🤔 haha that's what I like about discovering new sports, the people who love it, really love it
The club songs at the end crack me up 😊.
Don't feel bad about picking the Tigers. We should come good again in about 40 years and you'll feel much better about it.
Got to route for the underdogs right 🔥
@@AnthInOz
Careful who you " root " in Australia mate... might be a " route " you'll regret !!! 😉🤣🤣🤣
Just got home from the Hawthorn v Western Bulldogs elimination final. It was a pretty good game (more so because Hawthorn won) in front of 97,828 fans. Quite an atmosphere.
Spectacular event, caught bits of it on the TV of local pubs. Hope you enjoyed yourself!
@@AnthInOz Certainly did, thanks.
*AFL has the highest attendance per capita in the world.💯%*
What a stupid stat to track 🙄
@@AnthInOz Track ? It's common knowledge and fact.💯%🙄
@@AnthInOz thank you. It is the sport I have grown up with, I 100% agree with you, a stupid stat to track.
It's called a 'ladder' because each team occupies step on the ladder from top to bottom depending on the number of their wins. I guess they find it better than teams spread out over a 'table'.
Various members of my family follow five different teams. I have been to games where supporters of interstate teams that are not even playing in Melbourne, still turn up in their kit to watch a live game.
@judileeming1589 that's pretty cool 😎
That's poor parenting right there 😅
@@stephenmcqually2983 yeah/nah tradition still counts, but everyone is free to stay with their team when they marry into the family. Three generations of Geelong supporters, three generations of Kangaroos, two generations of Hawthorn, and the outliers who married into the family make up the rest with one side of the family five generation Bulldogs. Our oldest friends are in their 90’s and are third generation Richmond with their children, grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren all Tigers.
Richmond won the premiership in 2017, 2019, 2020. A lot of our good players from that time have retired and this year had many injuries and had to play a lot of young inexperienced players. Will take time to build up to being a strong side again. You should have a look at the premiership games on the internet. Go Tigers 🐅🐅🐅💛🖤💛🖤
Is the premiership the same as the grand final winner? or is that the team that finished top of the league?
Both its one and the same@@AnthInOz
@@AnthInOz the team that finsihes top prior to finals is named the "Minor Premier". The Premiership team is the team who wins the Grand Final.
A minor premiership is almost irrelevant except that it shows you were the best team prior to the finals.
Watch Dustin Martin highlights and Richmond highlights from 2017-20. Go the tigers!
And that's the thing we love about our game. 100,000 people at a grand final with no segregation all happily screaming at the umpire. One big happy family with kids enjoying a fantastic atmosphere. 🦢🦢🦢
I do rate that all the family can come to the same game and mix and mingle with the opposition supporters, making a game more accessable. It's just a very very foreign concept to what I've experienced elsewhere around the world 👍
@@AnthInOz You may have noticed that even in one family, Mum and dad and three or four kids are even following different teams. Glad you appreciate our sport my friend. Cheers. 🦢🦢🦢
@@AnthInOz I would dare to say that Australians are more "sportsmanship minded,"as opposed to the crazies that think of it as war.
Also means it’s much quieter than many other codes around the world….. but it’s better than always being separated I guess
Nah I’d rather have the English element of segregation players are to nice with each other they are all mates which is abit odd u wanna be abit rough and died an rivals on the field an off not be messaging each other on Instagram
As per your title, no it's Australian Rules being played in the top tier Australian Football League(AFL) but don't worry even a lot of Aussies say AFL when referring to the game
To be fair to Richmond they won the flag in 2017, 2019 and 2020 . As AFL has a strict salary cap and a draft for young players it is very hard to be at the top of the ladder for a long time. Their premiership players are mostly either retired or close to retirement . Their coach Adem Yze ( pronounced - ooze-a ) only just got the job and was an assistant coach for the 2021 premiership team the Melbourne Demons so he'll be a good coach .
Should go to a showdown game two teams one town. Always good atmosphere
Great idea. Will have to wait til next season now 😪
Soccer is the most basic of games, understandable that our game with over 150 years is to complicated for ya...plus the ability to sit with opposition and talk rather then violence and attacking each other is beautiful.
Basic, and boring! An hour for a goal? Why pay anything to watch that, then fight violently over it?!
AFL is the epitome of good sportmanship, players and fans alike.
Swans vs GWS two days ago... 😅
@@AnthInOzYeah that's fine. Just boys being aggressive. They are allowed to be like that on the football field, but not on the streets and in the stands at the football. 😅
Rugby people get it, and they punch on sometimes and they will have a few beers together afterwards.
With the AFL they might do that in 10 or 20 years.
Swans and Giants. They won't be holding grudges. It's part of the game.
Stupid rule changes over the past 40 odd years has ruined the game.
@@kenchristie9214 Ruined? Really? Don't worry about it, you don't like it.
Glad you enjoyed the game. Something you may have missed is the ridiculous level of skill, strength and endurance required to play the game. They make it look easy.
Cheers, that's true. Most of the players looked in peak fitness. Makes you want to go the gym, or more likely just grab a beer 😅
Good job mate
Thanks mate 👍🏻 appreciate it
It’s rough, tough and skilful, that’s all you need to know.
fair 😅 keep things simple
GOT FOOT BALL wrong its not a rugby ball its afl football mate
semantics really, it's an egg shaped ball.
It’s a load of rubbish. Aerial ping pong or handball. Not football.
@@loneRider3910 Rugby is not football NFL is not football and soccer has a ridiculous offside rule that makes no sense at all, from what gather it is there to save feeble defenders and now soccer is an actors activity i see
@@peterflynn2111 Offside means players have to earn a goal, not get one simply because they were hanging around the attacking zone waiting for the ball. AFL (footy, not football) has no goalkeeper, no crossbar in the goal and no hope of defending any mark in front of goal.
@@loneRider3910Just like a stupid Penalty kick in Soccer. If the player is half decent, that round soccer ball is going past the goalkeeper everyday of the week.💯%
Great vid mate. You and I are opposites. As an aussie I've always disliked the magpies but somehow when I got into the premier league I fell in love with Newcastle. Couldn't imagine Sunderland and Newcastle fans sitting together and mingling 😅
Hahahah 😅 that's wild. May I suggest you switch from NUFC to SAFC before it's too late 😅 there's already documentaries on how badly that goes.
I am very biased but the amount of deliousnal grandure Geordies have for being the best is unmatched. Sunderland fans know and acknowledge our faults.
You should also check out some of the rules videos because you are a bit confused with how the scoring process works.
I was confused, watching the game for 2 hours didn't make it clear either though.
@@AnthInOz Least you went in person. You learn so much more going in person at ground than trying to watch via youtube only or tv. The average youtuber that watches highlights of the sport on youtube remain clueless. Least when you say you were confused, you at least have an idea of how much you do not know. Some youtubers think they can learn the game from videos and truly are clueless forever even though they think they have learned about the sport.
@@AnthInOz try this video for some of the basics - A beginner’s guide to Australian Football | AFL Explained
@Notric will do mate, after I'm back from my night on the town 🍻 cheers
@@AnthInOz You not alone, the umpires are confused too. You're right about too many umpires.
Before the mid 70's there were 1 field umpire, 2 boundary umpires and 2 goal umpires.
Also, each quarter was 25 minutes and player were on the field for the entire 100 minutes unless injured. There were two reserve players for injuries.
Slight mistakes here and there but points for spirit. Hope you keep enjoying it. Almost time for grand final. Next time see if there are any interstate teams playing and you may be able to get a seat at a much more competitive/interesting game. Also there will pre season games early next year
When I went to the UK is found it crazy that you have to sit separately depending on which teams you go for. I go to the footy with my Carlton mates, my essendon mates, my Richmond mates and we have a good time. What if one mate goes for Man City and the other Chelsea? You just can't sit together?
You can mingle, but mainly only in the posh boxes (corporate hospitality) are where that happens. Otherwise not recommended during games.
Afterwards is generally is civil and bantering.
The cultural differences are astounding.
There's merits and drawbacks to both.
My feelings on the day of this game were not many there actually cared about the game as it was all very happy clappy. Not that this is the nessessarly case, back in the UK the segregation of fans leads to a more enjoyable experience when it comes to feeling a part of something, the chants, the buzz.
I went to a friendly in York against Middlesborough. There were more people behind one goal fenced off than there were in the rest of the ground. Felt weird from an aussie perspective but realise the violence that could occur if it wasn't the case.
@@AnthInOz I agree that the chanting in the EPL is spectacular, I sat in the Chelsea fan section at etihad in Manchester at a Man City Caribao cup cap and the atmosphere was amazing!!
10 umpires but not really. 2 goal umps (they only adjudicate scoring), 4 boundary umps (they only adjudicate the boundary line), and 4 field umps - usually only 1 is in control and they hand control across to their mate as the ball travels faster than they can run. Occasionally a non-controlling field ump might pay a free but only in limited circumstances.
BTW it's the oldest form of codified football in the world, having been codified in 1858. The original rules are on display in the foyer of Gate 3 at the MCG, and the first match was played in what today is the MCG carpark. It has its roots in Marn Grook, a game played by aboriginals in Western Victoria. The ball is smaller than a rugby ball. It was first played to keep cricketers fit in winter, and the inventer who had schooled at Rugby, wanted something different, an Australian game, something that both English and Irish could play together in the Colony.
10 umps then with one being a captain/main ump?
2+4+4 =10.
The longevity of the game is unreal. Irish and British colonies having a hand in the pie, makes so much sense.
The food in the stadium is ridiculously expensive
@darrenbethell7451 it's captive audience, no different from airports etc. It's decent enough quality though.
@@AnthInOz what do you think of this awesome game ?
I remember growing up (where I am from) it was like people from melbourne were mutants and if you liked afl you got picked on so you wouldn't tell anyone.
its not a bad sport tho lol
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I like the mingling ticketing for seats rather than segregation.
I think it's pretty cool. Makes it safer.
It just lacks something familiar. The passionate fans getting hushed and giggled at was a bit odd.
I'm a Richmond fan... This season was pretty painful. 😂😂
You poor soul.
AFL was codified in 1859 so before most of the other games you mentioned.
That's true, but also ask why it hasn't expanded beyond one league. Accessibility is an issue.
@@AnthInOz It has expanded beyond one league FFS. ha ha ha
1859 means it still a colony of the British Empire and Australia is not even a nation at that point so it really was a local ball sport still working out rules for different cricket clubs to play each other at a ball sport each winter weekend in the town of Melbourne of 1859, in the British Empire. It would have been known as Melbourne rules first, then later Victoria rules as it expanded across the colony of Victoria in the 1860's. Other British colonies such as Tasmania and South Australia and West Australia started playing "Victorian rules" and created their own leagues in the 1870's and 1880's. The first real leagues such as SAFA in South Australia and VFA in Victoria started in the 1870's. So the first decade and a half of the sport was still organizing agreements between clubs just to even decide rules they would agree on and some type of schedule and then some type of ladder... There are many leagues that have existed in every state and every regional area as the population and Federation took place the next century for Australia to become a nation itself.
Eight VFA clubs left the VFA in 1897 to form a new league called VFL and left the clubs they did not want with them in the VFA. VFA and VFL then continued as different leagues in Victoria for next nine decades. in 1987 the VFL added teams from West Australia and Brisbane up in Queensland. So the league was no longer truly just the Victorian Football League so the premiership title being for best team in Victoria was no longer what it was. So 1990 they eventually started calling it the Australian Football League and more clubs from other states were added as the 1990's progressed. So AFL is not actually the sport even though many people make the mistake of saying the sport is AFL. The sport is Australian football or Aussie rules footy, and the highest standard league is the Australian Football League. Anyway, rant over :)
@shaundgb7367
It's a one league membership only franchise. There's no promotion or relegation. There's no reward for winning a season beyond having that accolade, there's no repercussions for losing.
I get it's longevity, it's appeal and the routes of teams joining and creating leagues, etc. in previous itterations.
However, the fact still remains: it's one league.
There's nothing wrong with that either, BTW.
@@AnthInOz Thank F it not soccer and have relegation with no grand finals :)
@shaundgb7367 we have cup finals every year and league winners recognised. Teams compete with other leagues and not segregated.
Odd take there pal.
Go the pies!!! ❤
There's no basketball or volleyball rules in AFL.
Those games didn't exist when the rules of footy were worked out.
The general principle was to slow you down if you didn't kick the ball as the priority.
You can't hog the ball.
You're on a massive field.
Kicking solves the tyranny of distance.
That's the fastest mode of travel.
Then there's the little zone of peace called the mark in an otherwise very fast paced chaotic game which encouraged smooth, rapid passages of play.
That puts the game into the NOT weird zone.
basketball did exist when they made up the laws of Aussie Rules. And they continue to make the rules up week by week. Just have a look at holding the ball for instance.
Two things.
Basketball was invented in the 1890's.
Footy started in the 1850's.
Secondly. Name me a single sport that doesn't constantly review and refine its rules.
@@bumble-g2j the dates you state are correct.
I would like to watch a game with you so you can explain every stupid interpretation that take place every few minutes.
Also, surely if you have followed the league for years you would know that in recent times they dramatically change interpretations from week to week without warning fans. As per the deliberate rulings and holding the ball in 2024 season.
Please, your issues with the ruling body are not the subject here.
Raise them with the relevant authorities and I wish you good luck.
Already a chaos game, more umpires creates more inconsistencies and problems, only 4 of those umpires can make a call on field, 4 run the boundaries and 2 the goals.
Thanks for trying, best not to comment on a sport that you don't really know anything about. Please come back with 'the balmy army' so you can watch your team be humiliated by the Aussies yet again. Don't feel bad we just love bashing the poms, you did have some interesting viewpoints on the game culture, but showed little or no understanding of the game itself. Thanks for the video.
That's my point, or you must have missed it? I wanted to understand the game, if you are saying to all future potential fans and viewers of the game, that they he need to read the rules to before going... then the game might as well already be dead. Rocking up and having fun should be the first thing about making a game engaging and entertaining should be what it's about.
The AFL and it's fans should be wanting more people who aren't in the loop talking about your sport, and not detracting when they try.
So on that, trust me when I say this, cricket is the dullest of dull sports in the world. Australia can beat the England Cricket team all they like. Fair income effort on the baggie greens.
Thanks for the comment, but try to add to the fun not sap it away.
@@AnthInOz My comments were meant in fun, but comparing Aussie rules to basket ball or net ball is a bit silly. I didn't miss your points in the video, i.e. the culture surrounding the game, in fact I pointed out that you raised some interesting angles on the games/fans culture, it was well thought out. My comments were clearly meant to take the piss and I though I was adding to the fun. Finally, yes I do think it would be a good idea to learn the rules before you went to a game, at least then you wouldn't confuse it with net ball, this is taking the piss again, with just hint of sarcasm. If you didn't see it, the derby yesterday between Sydney Swans and GWS was a good game, Thanks for your channel.
I need emojis 😅
The comparison to the other sports are based solely on some game mechanics. Tip offs,(basketball) having defenders stand still after fouls (netbell) ☺️
I will read up more cause grand finals soon coning up 😁 Melbournes got a footy buzz in the air.
@@AnthInOzG'day mate. 😀
Yeah emojis are good with the words together.
But seriously I would not go to the soccer and take a kid but not tell them anything about the handball rules or the goalie. But think it's better for them to figure it out. It's a waste of time.
You don't need to be an expert, just understand that it's not Rugby or Soccer.
If you weren't from that background you would have understood the game that you were seeing. After all that's how we all saw it as children. Basketball is the one which has complex rules really.
@@AnthInOz so you lack the wit to understand cricket as well. Why do you think you have the intellectual means to comment on anything?
It’s not a RUGBY BALL
Google : The football used in Australian football is similar to a rugby ball but generally slightly smaller and more rounded at the ends.
Lions.
AFL sucks. This is why it isn't more popular overseas.
🫣 do go to the AFL final this weekend
@@AnthInOz I would rather sh!t into my hands and clap, then cut my balls off with a rusted spork.
So close! Its actually the Australian Football League, Hope this helps!
What an absolute load of rubbish. Did you no one can tell the difference between holding the ball and holding the man. Also, no offside. They are not teams, they are franchises. No relegation, either. Tediously boring.
They are teams from Clubs, they are NOT franchises, that’s a Yank term
What?
You like offside. Maybe you should try a sport called Rugby League. Also Rugby Union, Soccer, Rugby Sevens, Ice Hockey and field hockey. But you find the only thing that doesn't have offside and complain about it not having any offside. 😂
And you probably don't like that American Football stops all the time and they wear armor. 😮😅
If you don't like Australian Football it's OK.
Everyone knows the difference between holding the ball and holding the man.
In holding the man, the man who you are holding doesn't have the ball.
But I concede that in the past some games were not umpired well and players were intentionally dropping the ball when they were tackled so they were not in possession of the ball. But there was always a rule against the dropping of the ball. It is called an incorrect disposal and the result is a free kick to the other team.
Now that the umpires and players are aware of the incorrect disposal you won't be confused about this one anymore.
The only decision that the umpire has to be making is whether the tackled player had any time to get rid of the ball before they were tackled. But if they dropped the ball it's an automatic free kick to the tackling team.
But if the ball is dropped and then it touched the boot before it hit the ground, technically it was a kick and it was a legal disposal.
So is that why they stopped the drop kick?
The worst team has also been champions in 2017 , 2019 and 2020...Horrific run of injuries , lots of retirements in the past 12 months and a new coach...My Tigers will b e back in a few years as a powerhouse again..Every club goes through this eventually... Go Tigers..
Only as good as your last game… or season.
Geelong doesn't ever bottom out. Made 13 prelims last 18 years and consistently making the top 8 year after year.💯%