Not true. While there's no rule mandating players to wear particular shirt numbers, and some players go for idiosyncratic numbers, there's a well-established association between certain numbers and roles on the pitch. Anyone familiar with football (soccer) will understand a question like 'is he a #9 or #10?'
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Not true. While there's no rule mandating players to wear particular shirt numbers, and some players go for idiosyncratic numbers, there's a well-established association between certain numbers and roles on the pitch. Anyone familiar with football (soccer) will understand a question like 'is he a #9 or #10?'
My two. For years. Neither ever scored a goal. For the record, I was at every game and recital (ballet, ballroom dancing, soccer, football, baseball, softball, water polo), and their biggest supporter. All I know about soccer is it makes more sense than Rugby, but Rugby is more violent. So more fun. Not that I've ever seen a RL Rugby game.Only ever seen kids playing, I take it?
I confess I did not know that. Next, you will tell me hockey player's have positions and numbers.
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Standing and KO'd? their positions right?
Wait one? American Rugby is actually a sport!? I get confused by all the needless safety gear, standing around, timeouts and oxygen masks….
Next you will be telling me Rounders is a World Series
Next you will be telling me Rounders is a World Series
He’s not wrong about Rugby, though.Only ever seen kids playing, I take it?
Mob mob mob
Ball squirts out
Player grabs ball
PIG PILE!!!!
Mob mob mob
Repeat
Don’t worry @Punktaku i don’t quite get the leek or onion thing either. It must either be a British thing or a Rugby Union thing.
At a guess it’s what your body shape looks like so you can pick a position (leeks are long and thin and go in the backs and onions are short and round and go in the forwards).
As an Aussie rugby league player it’s also worth pointing out that we number our players in the opposite direction to rugby Union players (and English rugby league players I believe).
1 Fullback
2 right wing
3 right centre (poms call this a three quarter)
4 left centre (poms call this a three quarter)
5 left wing
6 five eighth (poms calm this a stand off half)
7 half back (poms call this a fly half)
8 left prop
9 hooker
10 right prop
11 left second row
12 right second row
13 lock
14 reserve
15 reserve
16 reserve
17 reserve
18 emergency reserve
I would try to tell you about rugby Union positions but they speak their own language.
At a guess it’s what your body shape looks like so you can pick a position (leeks are long and thin and go in the backs and onions are short and round and go in the forwards).
As an Aussie rugby league player it’s also worth pointing out that we number our players in the opposite direction to rugby Union players (and English rugby league players I believe).
1 Fullback
2 right wing
3 right centre (poms call this a three quarter)
4 left centre (poms call this a three quarter)
5 left wing
6 five eighth (poms calm this a stand off half)
7 half back (poms call this a fly half)
8 left prop
9 hooker
10 right prop
11 left second row
12 right second row
13 lock
14 reserve
15 reserve
16 reserve
17 reserve
18 emergency reserve
I would try to tell you about rugby Union positions but they speak their own language.
I didn’t even see that…
Us Aussies have too many types of footy for it to make sense and what they get called changes from state to state depending on what is the predominant sport.
In NSW and Queensland footy would be rugby league, rugby Union would be called rugby, Aussie Rules is called AFL (after the competition name Australian Football League) and soccer is called soccer (unless you play it or are on TV then it gets called football).
If you are in Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, or Western Australia then footy is AFL, rugby league is called NRL (after the competition name National Rugby League), rugby Union is called rugby and soccer is called soccer (again unless you play it then it’s called football).
It’s pretty universal over here that when someone talks about “rugby” they are specifically talking about rugby union and rarely about rugby league.
As for grid iron it usually gets called NFL but occasionally gets called grid iron and less so American football. I know that the grid iron is actually the field rather than the sport itself but there is almost no way an Aussie would join a competition called the Australian American Football League.
It's all just "sports ball" to me. As a Welshman who doesn't like watching rugby, I am a constant disappointment to my entire family.
My son and daughter both played soccer for five years in grammar school. Neither ever got within 3 feet of the ball during a game. Meanwhile, in one game, I'm standing on the sidelines and get hit in the face by a kicked ball. Not a soccer fan.Only ever seen kids playing, I take it?
Rugby is more fun to watch. Even if it's mob rules.
Yeah, I started football when i was.. 11? And all other kids had played since they were 6 We played in school though but most were not playing in their sparetime so I managed.
I had no chance so switched back to more "manly"
sports - like orientering (you have to use your brain too there) and martial arts. Getting more fit that the footballers and not fucked up knees when school was over - and even today. So..
(Basically I´m bitter I started too late to be good but it made me find more "meaningful" sports, but they did help me in real life much more than football did)
Blood Bowl is fun though.. As is rugby.
I had no chance so switched back to more "manly"
sports - like orientering (you have to use your brain too there) and martial arts. Getting more fit that the footballers and not fucked up knees when school was over - and even today. So.. (Basically I´m bitter I started too late to be good but it made me find more "meaningful" sports, but they did help me in real life much more than football did)
Blood Bowl is fun though.. As is rugby.
@Grimfang I grew up in a small village, school was just the kids from the surrounding villages... I think we had around 50 kids in our school, spread across 7 years, after 7th grade you had to go further away to a bigger village with a bigger school. So football or handball were the choice for sports, or indeed any after school activity. So I did both, interchanged. No orienteering for me, sadly. My knees survived fairly well, luckily!
So football or handball were the choice for sports, or indeed any after school activity. So I did both, interchanged. No orienteering for me, sadly. My knees survived fairly well, luckily!
Trolls knees need the help of a mighty tech priest they are soundly f**ked! 30 odd years of football (soccer), rugby, running, cycling, squash and being too heavy have done for them. Currently struggling to unlock the left knee after deciding it would be a good idea to cycle 4 miles to squash this morning, bloody painful! Mid 40’s are great
