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Setanta Sports 2, AFL: Lions V Carlton Live 10am Sat June 6. I will have my Half Latics Lions top on.....I will wave to you !!!!

Go ParetoLatic!!

You obviously watched Collingwood V Sydney. Hardly surprising it was naff. I used to watch it on Channel 5 and thought it the most stupid game ever invented. I watched my first game live at the Gabba against Adelaide a few years ago and still wasn't overly convinced (Still having BP withdrawal symptoms at that stage. Still have them, but the commentary makes up for it). Then after being here a year and desperately seeking salvation (they have the A-League here you know, jeeze that is shocking), I went to a preliminary final at the Gabba with a couple of mates. What I witnessed was the most ferociously contested game of anything I have ever seen, from beginning to end. There are broken bones, concussions and fist fights every game.....Being English, I am not ashamed to say that Aussie rules is probably edging football as the most exciting game on the planet for me. What I couldnt get my head around was the fact that you can king hit a guy, break his jaw and carry on playing. What follows is legal retribution....it is awesome. There are no sendings off and no off sides. Its like Ice hockey sans ice, and hockey sticks....and pucks.....and perspex.....and nets...OK its like AFL. There is no other game like it. It is unique in its absurdity. That is what makes it so good.

Fortunately for me, Aussie Rules is played largely in the Off - Season.....and the Lions are going remarkably well. GO LIONS !!! But I am anticipating next season much more than last.....laptop wired up to the Stereo. I am thinking about leaving a couple of half empty cans in every room of the house and employing 20 guys to come in and fart, just to replicate the atmosphere!!!

I beg to differ.............. Never lost

I also never thought I would see a revolving Victory V with Robin's nest on it....but I have now

OK, I have lived in Australia for the last 9 years. I put $15 away every week and every year I renew my season ticket. I get just as frustrated as everyone else but after 43 years of supporting them, I bleed blue. I have seen everything. Good, bad, pathetic and fantastic. I will never, ever change or even consider walking away from them. I cannot support another football club here because it is simply not done. The only way I could do it was to change codes. AFL and the Brisbane Lions are also now in my blood. I have been a part of the Glory years too with the Lions and have also witnessed the downright awful, although, now, like Latics they are slowly on their way back. Embrace every defeat, no matter how bad it is as it makes every successful moment taste all that much more sweeter. The glory days will return, you just have to be part of every abomination... of which there will be many, otherwise you are not worthy of the blue, or for that matter, the maroon blue and gold. One team ......Every Blade of Grass...... for life.

Athletic 4 V 1 Trannies Hughes 9004

Hope mine is also more appropriate

Saving for flights for Wembley !!! However, If someone can pick me up.......drive out of Brisbane Airport and onto the Gateway Arterial......Take the Wynnum exit, turn right and head for the coast....I will be the one in the Blue Bovis shirt sitting on the Harbour wall

Signed. I have fond memories of GMR's match reports. County were a part of that institution. Long may they continue to be.

That just brought tears to my eyes and makes me want to emigrate again. I can almost smell Saturday afternoon from the other side of the world !!!!

I have lived in Australia for the last 9 years and continue to buy my season ticket (38 years and counting)....does that count?

Alan Groves without a shadow of a doubt. More love beads than any man I have ever seen !!! If we had him today, where would we play Taylor?....probably on Leeds's left wing

Has to be a tour of Australia....it would get me off my backside and finally see the place. Most of the teams here are pants, except maybe Adelaide United. The A league is like watching paint dry and painfully obviously no better than our league. Get the mighty Blues over here and we cut Queensland Roar, Idiot Tiatto and Craig Moore included to ribbons

Can you post that link?

Athletic 6 v 0 Hereford Hughes 5143

stockport 2 v 5 Athletic Hughes 7028

oldham 4 v 0 huddersfield Hughes 6022

ATHLETIC 5 v 2 MKD 5889 LIDDS

Tranmere 1 v 3 Athletic Whittaker 7023

My Australian wife cannot understand how I live in Australia and support Oldham Athletic. From my first game at Plainmoor in 1966 (The only time dad organised the holidays), to my last game at Boundary Park in 2001, 10 days before I emigrated. It will always be with me. Every post on this thread has consumated that very belief. I watch the AFL and support the Brisbane lions. I wear a Latics shirt to every game. My Lions shirt has the latics Crest on my chest in the centre. On the back, the Lions have the letters BBFFC to commemorate the merger between Fitzroy Lions and the Brisbane Bears. It now reads OABBFFC. It says Cooksey (never saw him play), has the number 4 and Keep the Faith at the Bottom. My Qld Number Plate has 0AFC on it. I am in the middle of having a car sticker with: I LIVE IN AUSTRALIA. I SUPPORT OLDHAM ATHLETIC. LATICS TILL I DIE I had a tear in my eye as I typed. Nope, I cant understand it either, but I remain....Latics till I die CARN YOU BLUES

Brisbane Lions 90 V 79 Western Bulldogs Still pushing for the finals....GO LIONS

Colchester 1 V 2 Latics Whittaker 5126

Latics 5 v 0 Cheltenham Hughes 5088