AFL & NRL Asked to take mid season break during World Cup

[Coxy]

BTW, the sport is actually called Association Football. Soccer is a shortening of "association".

So, you have:
Association Football
Australian Rules Football
American Football
Rugby Union Football
Rugby League Football

Therefore, soccer has no particular claims to the name "Football" it's just yet another display of their arrogance that they have decided they do.

 

[Scumbag]

I'm now dead. Before I go 6ft under, I have two words which I must repeat semi-unnecessarily.

Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football Association Football

 

[ningnangnong]

Nice bait, i'll nibble.

Perhaps the fact that the game is essentially based around using your feet and a ball has something to do with the whole FOOT-BALL thing.

 

[Nashy]

The only reason I'm not calling it Football in here, is because I'm referring to League and AFL, which both get called football / footy.

I don't think the football idiots should be allowed to tell the football idiots, and the football ididot where and when they can play their football while the football is being played in a country where football is a much smaller sport than football and football.

 

[Coxy]

No, has nothing to do with it. Rugby football and Association football were both formed around the same time in England, and they called it Association football to distinguish it. Then they started calling it "soccer" for short...in England.

So given that's where the sport originated, and that's what they originally called it, that's what it should be called globally.

 

[ningnangnong]

No, has nothing to do with it. Rugby football and Association football were both formed around the same time in England, and they called it Association football to distinguish it. Then they started calling it "soccer" for short...in England.

So given that's where the sport originated, and that's what they originally called it, that's what it should be called globally.

So it's cool if i call league just plain old 'rugby'? icon_smile

 

[Coxy]

No more so than you're ever going to call soccer "Association Football" whenever you refer to it :P

 

[Scumbag]

BTW, the sport is actually called Association Football. Soccer is a shortening of "association".

So, you have:
Association Football
Australian Rules Football
American Football
Rugby Union Football
Rugby League Football

Therefore, soccer has no particular claims to the name "Football" it's just yet another display of their arrogance that they have decided they do.

Wrong. Association Football , Australian Rules Football and American Football yes as the word "football" is included in their official title.

Rugby Union and Rugby League do not have the word football in their official title. Even though they are forms of football, the word football isn't included. Rugby League is Rugby League and Rugby Union is Rugby Union.

I think if the extreme majority of countries in the world refer to the sport as Football, then it would be more than reasonable to respect the code's world-wide title and it shouldn't be too much of a big deal for this country to to fathom following suit.

Personally, I was a Rugby League follower first. Whenever someone asked me what I followed exclusively in my early years, I would proudly say I followed Rugby League. I respected the sport so much that I used its official title. I didn't want my code to be confused with any other Football code.

I'm more than happy to call "soccer" Association Football. At least that's technically correct and isn't some trashy English coined term to distinguish AF from Rugby Union originally.

 

[Coxy]

Brisbane Broncos Rugby League FOOTBALL club :P

 

[Scumbag]

Furthermore compounding my point is that even the administrators on this forum refer to Rugby League as Rugby League. You don't see this very sub-forum being called "Football Talk" do you?

While we're at it, change the "Football/Soccer" forum to "Association Football" exclusively.

That should keep all parties happy.

Edit: "Rugby League Football" is correct according to Wikipedia. "Rugby League" is listed as a shortened version of RLF. I'm a douche according to Wikipedia.

 

[Coxy]

First class bit of baiting there Coxy, well done :-) LOLZ

 

[Scumbag]

You were fighting against a ranga. It's kind of hard to lose. :P

Paying yourself out is the new cool thing I hear Coxy.

 

[Fozz]

Isn't the whole locking the AFL and NRL out of the stadiums anticompetitive and therefore illegal?

 

[dukey]

No, has nothing to do with it. Rugby football and Association football were both formed around the same time in England, and they called it Association football to distinguish it. Then they started calling it "soccer" for short...in England.

So given that's where the sport originated, and that's what they originally called it, that's what it should be called globally.

The term 'football' was originally used to describe any ball sports played on foot, as opposed to horseback games the upper classes played.

 

[Flutterby]

Isn't the whole locking the AFL and NRL out of the stadiums anticompetitive and therefore illegal?

Totally agree Fozz - as I said in an earlier post, I think it could constitute a "restraint of trade" or something similar. Need a lawyer to confirm this however. Maybe the ACCC should investigate icon_smile

 

[Flutterby]

I didn't say it was FFA trying to dictate terms, I said it was Australia's # 3 code. Imagine how the English Premier League would respone if the International Rugby League wanted to play the next RL World Cup in England but insisted no soccer matches could be played in England in the lead up to and duration of the RL World Cup. It would be completely unreasonable to even suggest it and there is no way it would fly, mainly because RL is the minor sport there. FIFA should recognise the same thing about playing in Australia - theirs is the minor sport, therefore they need to reign in their demands to be more reasonable.

How am I meant to answer this? How can you even ask that question? It's a silly comparison considering the EPL would generate 100x more income over the course of a League World Cup (and would have higher crowd attendances too) The league world cup is a non-event, really. Which is a shame, but thats the truth. We are talking about one of, if not the biggest sporting event in the world here. I think you are missing the point, this is an International Event.. not a National event.

If the shoe was on the other foot, and league was #3 but was as internationally supported as football and had a World Cup coming as big as Fifa's.. you'd be sitting on the other side of the fence I assure you.

How can I respond hmmm - oh yeah:

Hypothetical: a proposed argument , often taken to extreme and in some cases inprobable, to demonstrate a point.

My point was not about the money involved but that if the situation was reversed it just wouldn't fly - the European Football (ie soccer) clubs would not stand for it.

And I can assure you if the shoe was on the other foot and the sport I supported was trying to bullying and dictate unreasonably without any flexibility I'd be pretty disappointed and pissed off with the administration of my sport.

 

[ningnangnong]

I see League Talk and Football/Soccer have had their descriptions/names changed.

Get rid of the word soccer please. :mrgreen:

 

[Scumbag]

I see League Talk and Football/Soccer have had their descriptions/names changed.

Get rid of the word soccer please. :mrgreen:

[icon_lol1. That is so amazingly awesome!

I can't believe they actually did it. What an awesome step and laugh. icon_thumbs_u