Football - Australian Rules

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you need to be fit and alert. you must have ball skills and knowledge for the game.

Wayne Carey, one of the greatest AFL players of all-time, kicked 738 goals during his 272 match-career with North Melbourne and Adelaide.

Richmond have won 10 Premierships. The years that they have won was in: 1920 1921 1932 1934 1943 1967 1969 1973 1974 1980

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well, as an Australian who loves her AFL, i feel obliged to answer...but i don't think i can list ALL the rules. I can, however, give you the basics.

there are umpires who run the length of the field and referee the game, awarding free kicks and throwing the ball in from the boundary back into play if the ball is kicked out of bounds. There are also goal umpires who stand between the posts to determine whether or not an attempt at goal was successfull.

the aim of the game (assuming you don't know, sorry if you do) is to kick an oval-like shaped ball through the posts to score goals. The goals are the rwo middle posts out of four posts in a line at each end of the ground facing the field. As if from one end of the line of posts, there are a small one, then 2 tall ones in the middle (the main target), then another small one. a ball kicked between a small and a tall post is only worth a behind, or 1 point. a ball kicked between the 2 middle taller posts is called "a goal" and is worth 6 points. the ball must be kicked through the posts without touching anyone after foot cantact is made with the ball. If it is thrown, punched or touched on its way through any of the posts, it is worth only 1 point. The ball can only be carried for a maximum of about fifteen steps before it must then be bounced on the ground or given off to another player either by a kick or a handball (basically the ball is punched out of a players hand and into anothers). if a player fails to give off the ball in the maximum time, that player is 'pinned' or caught holding the ball and the opposing team is awarded a free kick. if a player drops the ball or throws the ball, a free kick is also awarded to the opposing team. if the ball is kicked anything over 15 metres and is caught by another player, that is called a mark. if a mark is taken the player that caught the ball cannot be tackled or have the ball taken from him. however is he has the ball in his possession for over 30 seconds, the umpire calls play on and that player can be tackled by an opposing player and must release the ball or run with the ball before that can occur. when a player is taking a mark, an opposing player can stop him by punching the ball away from the marking players fists or attempt to mark the ball himself. a player moving to take a mark CANNOT be pushed in the back by an opposing player. if he is, he is awarded a free kick. a player may leap onto another players back or shoulders in order to take a hanger or a 'specky' which is a mark in mid air, well off the ground. if a player tackles another player and hits him above the shoulder, a free kick is awarded to the player that was 'hit high'. There is also no tripping allowed or holding another player back by the arms. if a player is running with the ball and is legitimately tackled and taken to ground, the player is 'pinned' with the ball and the player who did the tackeling is awarded the ball. The only protective gear to be worn by an AFL player apart from a football boot which goes without saying is a mouth guard. there are no helmets or padding involved despite the fast pace and pretty hard tackles.

these are the basic rules. but if you are after technical rules and all that, i would suggest going down to your local library or read on the internet a book called 100 Years of AFL which will have ALL the information you need. it came out in 2005.

hope this LONG message/answer helped! :)

The first verse, "Hearts to hearts" and so on, originates from a piece called "Australia, heart to heart and hand to hand". Most of the lyrics are the same.

For the second verse, "out we come, out we come, out we come to play" and so on, the origins are, unfortuanately, unknown. It is believed that it was added by a member of the NMFC at some point.

The third verse, and the best known, "Join in the chorus", stems from a Scottish folk song, "Just a wee doech an' Doris", about drinking.

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main muscle groups used for AFL

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The Adelaide Crows first played in the AFL in 1991.

Number 13 for the Adelaide Crows is one of the most popular players on the team, Taylor Walker :)

Lance Franklin is 30 years old (birthdate January 30, 1987).

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Yes. He is currently dating Catherine Heard. The meet in Las Vegas last year.

The first AFL game was played in Boston at Nickerson Field (on the campus of Boston University and formerly Braves Field) on a Saturday night. Bob Dee, a Defensive End for the Patriots out of Holy Cross, scored the first AFL points when he recovered a fumble or forced a safety. The game was in early September 1960

The Victorian Football League commenced as a formal entity in 1896 with the following 8 clubs:

Geelong, Essendon, Collingwood, Carlton, St. Kilda, Fitzroy (now the Brisbane Lions), Melbourne and South Melbourne (now the Sydney Swans).

In 1897, the competition began in earnest with Essendon being the Champions.

In 1990, the competition was nationalized to form the AFL, with the following line up of teams at the time:

Geelong, Essendon, Collingwood, Carlton, St. Kilda, Brisbane Bears, Melbourne, North Melbourne, Sydney Swans, Footscray, Hawthorn, Richmond and West Coast Eagles.

There have now been many more interstate teams added since that time.

4 goals scored in a football match is quite a special achievement. It is therefore called a "Super-Hattrick".

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Mark Williams.

when AFL first began, it was only played in the one Australian state of Victoria, so it used to simply be called the VFL or Victorian football league. then they expanded the game into a nationwide competition and it became the AFL or austrlain football league. there's still a VFL which is a smaller Victorian based league that the coaches of AFL teams go to and watch to pick up new recruits for the major AFL teams.

hope this answers your question :)

P.S. I'm an Aussie, so I'm not making it up lol.

How do you do a specky in AFL premiership 2006?