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I fought it for a while and realised it was futile, and actually disrespectful as it is their game, they love it, kids grow up with it and the media squeezes every last drop of every game and stat and it can overwhelm a newbie, expecially as it appears such a crap game on the surface.







100% spot on.

I hate the game, I call it "kick and catch it" but the fact of the matter is you will be bombarded by it. I can't remember the last time I brought a newspaper when the AFL season is on.

A good bit of advice is not to try to compare it to football as it lost on the average aussie and you get the usual comment. How can a 1-0 match be exciting, how can a 140-120 match be exciting then.

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[QUOTE=Ronan & LJ;7396768]Well,
Which neatly brings me onto – Scottish folk, be prepared to repeat yourself constantly, get given the wrong thing in shops and looked at if you are an alien. For such a multi-cultural society, there is a real lack of tolerance for any difference in accent. The majority of English people will be okay ( unless you have a strong scouse or Yorkshire or brummie accent etc), and unless you have a soft Welsh accent, you can join my gang too. Most folk seem to be able to understand the Irish, but I think that may be because they are exposed to it more. Not sure.







Aint that the truth , the tails i could tell you , when we first arrived and looking for rental the agent thought i was looking for a three bedroom house coz i had a husband and two cats:confused:, i finally got it through to her it was two kids:curse:
After two years i am totally intolerant of it, its unbeeeeeelievable!!!

Great update am sure it will help many peeps on here:D

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[QUOTE=Margaret3;7487282]Huh, didn't quite catch that?

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Interesting. Almost certainly down to people just not getting what you are saying and having no warning of it either. That accent would be hard to understand in the south of England! I do know of a girl from Edinburgh but she has a well spoken Scots accent so is not so hard to understand. Think you are right that the majority of English people would be OK.:)

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Respectfully disagree but er, respect your, er respect. I think soccer is a very basic game on the surface. Look at the Essendon game yesterday. You can lose by a point, or win by 5 on a single kick...that's the difference...whether the score is high, low, or the lead changes...it's also possible despite the pace and the sometime basketball nature of it for a team to not score much at all in a quarter. But then soccer is end to end like basketball too - with the noise getting louder as the ball gets to one end only for an immense groan when the bloke invariably misses...

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Agree with this. I know lots of Australians who watch the Euro games on Fox avidly in the morning at work preferring it to any other. They also like AFL.