I think I have just committed sacrilege
Apr 19th 2005, 2:05 pm
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I think I have just committed sacrilege
Has any parent especially males not got the faintest interest in "footy" ?
My eldest (9) was not enjoying soccer so I withdrew him from the soccer club. I felt like I was breaking one of the ten commandments ..."Well if you are REALLY sure this is what you want and if you are REALLY convinced this is the best thing" .. I kept thinking "there is a message here but I am too English and too dense to get it. I am left wondering how men who are not into the game survive in Australia or do they just accept social suicide
My eldest (9) was not enjoying soccer so I withdrew him from the soccer club. I felt like I was breaking one of the ten commandments ..."Well if you are REALLY sure this is what you want and if you are REALLY convinced this is the best thing" .. I kept thinking "there is a message here but I am too English and too dense to get it. I am left wondering how men who are not into the game survive in Australia or do they just accept social suicide
Apr 19th 2005, 2:26 pm
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Re: I think I have just committed sacrilege
Originally Posted by Ian12
Has any parent especially males not got the faintest interest in "footy" ?
My eldest (9) was not enjoying soccer so I withdrew him from the soccer club. I felt like I was breaking one of the ten commandments ..."Well if you are REALLY sure this is what you want and if you are REALLY convinced this is the best thing" .. I kept thinking "there is a message here but I am too English and too dense to get it. I am left wondering how men who are not into the game survive in Australia or do they just accept social suicide
My eldest (9) was not enjoying soccer so I withdrew him from the soccer club. I felt like I was breaking one of the ten commandments ..."Well if you are REALLY sure this is what you want and if you are REALLY convinced this is the best thing" .. I kept thinking "there is a message here but I am too English and too dense to get it. I am left wondering how men who are not into the game survive in Australia or do they just accept social suicide
If your son doesn't like it, why push him into it, especially just for the sake of peer pressure?
Instead, why not enrol him into something he wants to do and would enjoy, and let him make a new group of friends with a different interest base?
Sport, particularly 'footy', isn't the be all to end all!
Apr 19th 2005, 2:41 pm
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Re: I think I have just committed sacrilege
By Footy I presume you mean AFL?
Surely in Sydney League is the biggest game.
But remember the biggest participation team sport in Aus. is Football (soccer)
Surely in Sydney League is the biggest game.
But remember the biggest participation team sport in Aus. is Football (soccer)
Apr 19th 2005, 2:45 pm
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Re: I think I have just committed sacrilege
Originally Posted by Quokka
By Footy I presume you mean AFL?
Surely in Sydney League is the biggest game.
But remember the biggest participation team sport in Aus. is Football (soccer)
Surely in Sydney League is the biggest game.
But remember the biggest participation team sport in Aus. is Football (soccer)
Just like the biggest participation sport in UK is fishing.
Apr 19th 2005, 2:46 pm
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Re: I think I have just committed sacrilege
Originally Posted by Quokka
By Footy I presume you mean AFL?
Surely in Sydney League is the biggest game.
But remember the biggest participation team sport in Aus. is Football (soccer)
Surely in Sydney League is the biggest game.
But remember the biggest participation team sport in Aus. is Football (soccer)
More than all the other sports put together.
Apr 19th 2005, 2:49 pm
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Re: I think I have just committed sacrilege
Originally Posted by Bordy
Just like the biggest participation sport in UK is fishing.
Quokka - the OP refers to soccer.
Oooooh, that rhymed!
Apr 20th 2005, 2:38 pm
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Re: I think I have just committed sacrilege
Originally Posted by ProofReader
If your son doesn't like it, why push him into it, especially just for the sake of peer pressure?
Instead, why not enrol him into something he wants to do and would enjoy, and let him make a new group of friends with a different interest base?
Sport, particularly 'footy', isn't the be all to end all!
Proof Reader - I couldn't agree more but it is interesting that it is not a bloke writing this. Everyone seems footy crazy around us. Personally I would prefer to discuss the merits and demerits of top loading washing machines. :scared:
Apr 20th 2005, 2:45 pm
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Re: I think I have just committed sacrilege
This is actually something i'm a bit worried about. I have absolutely no interest in Football, yet i've decided to move to a country where football is a main topic of conversation in every workplace.
Is that just daft or do you think my fears are rational. I'd hate to be branded a wierdo just because i don't like soccer. Lets be honest here, a lot of people i've spoke to in Scotland think it's strange that i'm not a football fan.
I just don't like it, is that so bad?
Is that just daft or do you think my fears are rational. I'd hate to be branded a wierdo just because i don't like soccer. Lets be honest here, a lot of people i've spoke to in Scotland think it's strange that i'm not a football fan.
I just don't like it, is that so bad?
Apr 20th 2005, 2:52 pm
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Re: I think I have just committed sacrilege
Not everyone in Australia is football obsessed! Just seems it when you read about it on this forum .
Don't worry, Dagboy isnt the slightest bit interested in football either (with regards to watching soccer, hes mentioned the preference for sticking hot needles in his eyes if thats any indicator
), he just about got interested enough to watch the RWC last year & no one gives him a hard time about it. Plenty of people follow league & union & AFL & soccer, but there are just as many that dont.
The poms are the soccer mad ones, just avoid them & you'll be right
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(One of our boys is really keen on football - any kind! - not likely that hes ever gonna get his dad out there playing a game with him though )
.Don't worry, Dagboy isnt the slightest bit interested in football either (with regards to watching soccer, hes mentioned the preference for sticking hot needles in his eyes if thats any indicator
), he just about got interested enough to watch the RWC last year & no one gives him a hard time about it. Plenty of people follow league & union & AFL & soccer, but there are just as many that dont.The poms are the soccer mad ones, just avoid them & you'll be right
.(One of our boys is really keen on football - any kind! - not likely that hes ever gonna get his dad out there playing a game with him though
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Apr 20th 2005, 3:13 pm
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Re: I think I have just committed sacrilege
Well I would not worry about it that much. I happily lived in UK where colleagues constantly talked about football - but never to me - well never more than once, because once they realised I neither knew nor cared what they were on about they stopped wasting their breath and my time.
Same here - people I work with or socialise with will talk about footy or soccer or AFL or cricket or tennis or golf or whatever sport hapens to be on and I just look at them blankly. They do not even bother trying to tease me when England lose to Aus at something. I did show an interest during the rugby world cup and for a week or so around the final I was an instant expert in the office (I even learnt the name of that bloke that kicks the field goals) - but mainly to wind up my Aussie colleages (and it worked - even though they knew that was what I was doing). I will sit and watch the state of origin matches - usually with my two boys and I will exchange rude SMS messages with one of my Kiwi colleagues down in Sydney as we barrack for our adopted states, but that is about my limit. When it comes to soccer - sorry, I simply cannot work up any kind of pride (national or otherwise) for a team of over paid, under educated idiots kicking an inflated pigs bladder around for 90 minutes and then acting like it was important.
Cheers,
DagBoy
Same here - people I work with or socialise with will talk about footy or soccer or AFL or cricket or tennis or golf or whatever sport hapens to be on and I just look at them blankly. They do not even bother trying to tease me when England lose to Aus at something. I did show an interest during the rugby world cup and for a week or so around the final I was an instant expert in the office (I even learnt the name of that bloke that kicks the field goals) - but mainly to wind up my Aussie colleages (and it worked - even though they knew that was what I was doing). I will sit and watch the state of origin matches - usually with my two boys and I will exchange rude SMS messages with one of my Kiwi colleagues down in Sydney as we barrack for our adopted states, but that is about my limit. When it comes to soccer - sorry, I simply cannot work up any kind of pride (national or otherwise) for a team of over paid, under educated idiots kicking an inflated pigs bladder around for 90 minutes and then acting like it was important.
Cheers,
DagBoy
Apr 20th 2005, 3:37 pm
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Re: I think I have just committed sacrilege
I think I'd rather dangle my bollocks in hot chip fat than watch a football match (of any persuasion). Can't stand anything about it, but particularly the moronic cod-knowledgeable crap that 'blokes' talk in pubs. Hope to god my son (currently 3 1/2) doesn't get into it, because I'd have support him all the way if he did.
Apr 20th 2005, 3:47 pm
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Re: I think I have just committed sacrilege
Originally Posted by Hutch
I think I'd rather dangle my bollocks in hot chip fat than watch a football match (of any persuasion).
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Apr 26th 2005, 1:38 pm
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Re: I think I have just committed sacrilege
Originally Posted by Australia Bound
This is actually something i'm a bit worried about. I have absolutely no interest in Football, yet i've decided to move to a country where football is a main topic of conversation in every workplace.
Is that just daft or do you think my fears are rational. I'd hate to be branded a wierdo just because i don't like soccer. Lets be honest here, a lot of people i've spoke to in Scotland think it's strange that i'm not a football fan.
I just don't like it, is that so bad?
Is that just daft or do you think my fears are rational. I'd hate to be branded a wierdo just because i don't like soccer. Lets be honest here, a lot of people i've spoke to in Scotland think it's strange that i'm not a football fan.
I just don't like it, is that so bad?
Australia Bound ----- Don't worry. Just come over and join the disinterested weirdos and if their is enough of us we can start a club! We could even offer a new service to dissafected native Aussie Guys who are afraid to come out of the closet and admit that they have no interest in footy - or sport for that matter. (Heave forbid!!! I've done it again)
Apr 26th 2005, 1:53 pm
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Re: I think I have just committed sacrilege
Originally Posted by Ian12
Has any parent especially males not got the faintest interest in "footy" ?
My eldest (9) was not enjoying soccer so I withdrew him from the soccer club. I felt like I was breaking one of the ten commandments ..."Well if you are REALLY sure this is what you want and if you are REALLY convinced this is the best thing" .. I kept thinking "there is a message here but I am too English and too dense to get it. I am left wondering how men who are not into the game survive in Australia or do they just accept social suicide
My eldest (9) was not enjoying soccer so I withdrew him from the soccer club. I felt like I was breaking one of the ten commandments ..."Well if you are REALLY sure this is what you want and if you are REALLY convinced this is the best thing" .. I kept thinking "there is a message here but I am too English and too dense to get it. I am left wondering how men who are not into the game survive in Australia or do they just accept social suicide
A really good sport, which is also a socially responsible thing to get into, and very popular in Oz.
Swimming.
I mean, kicking a ball of any shape or hitting a ball with any kind of bat won't save your life. (unless someone lobs a grenade at you when your holding a tennis racquet).
Swimming will. And its fun, and its great exercise, and its sociable. I understand why its such a big sport here. And it gives confidence to do all other watersports.
Cheers,
JTL
Apr 26th 2005, 2:03 pm
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Originally Posted by JackTheLad
And it gives confidence to do all other watersports.
Lowering the tone yet again eh!
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