One of the best reactions to this video. I think the BT channels in the UK show afl. The season usually starts late March. A lot of countries have their own local AFL leagues. I don't think it's played professionally anywhere else though
Thank you! I'm trying to improve it every video! That's annoying as a stubborn brit I only pay one subscription for sport and that is sky as it has most soccer.... may have to look at getting BT now. When does the new season start?
@@TheBeesleys99 season usually kicks off in March. If you haven't picked a team yet I follow port Adelaide power. They are the only suburban club outside Victoria to enter the AFL
Thank for letting me know. I havnt picked a team and have no connection to any certain places in Australia. Any suggestions on how I could pick one? I was thinking maybe a quiz online for a video.... let me know if that's a good idea or not! Awesome great to know your team I will look out for them in videos are they any good in the league?
as mentioned about the bounce every 16 yards, you generally just adapt and know when to bounce. but alot will take there bounce every 8-12 yards doesnt have to be spot on 16 yards
The player must bounce or touch the ball to the ground. Each step when running is approx a metre. The umpire counts 15 steps or metres, any extra steps then a free kick is paid to the opposition. It is not easy to count if the play is congested. Like all things in this game it is up to the umpires' interpretation of the rules. The fast paced nature of the game doesn't allow you to dwell too long on good or bad decisions. It is this uncertainy which adds to the game. Like the uncertainy of the bounce of the ball, which cost St.Kilda a grand final victory against Collingwood.This uncertainy adds to to excitement especially in a close game. Carlton's down field free kick against Fremantle in 2020 which resulted in its after the siren kick to win the game. That decision created so much discussion as to the umpire's interpretation of the rules. Many commentators said it was correct and just as many said it wasn't. Umpires have a very difficult job, but most people only remember the last minute decisions and not the earlier ones paid in the game.
@@TheBeesleys99 We don't count yards... EVER. That would be 15 meters. And yes, you get a feel for how many steps that is based on your individual stride length.
Minimum kick distance for a Mark to be paid is also 15. Used to be 10 but people just kicked it around playing keep off and soaking up time going nowhere
Everything said above is spot on. This video was mostly made for the US market. 16 yards ~ 15 metres. Basically, as described above, most players and umpires have a 'feel' for it. Usually counting strides. In my observation, most dispose (kick, hand ball) well inside the 15. I haven't seen a lot of penalties for 'traveling' since I've been following AFL.
The public holiday is for the AFL Parade, the day before the Grand Final which is on a Saturday. It is only Victoria. What a lot of people don’t mention is that it used to be the VFL. Most of the teams are all from Melbourne and it has only been in recent years that the other teams have been added.
That's just factually incorrect. If no other games were able to compete with it, it'd be played by everyone. It's a decent game but how good it is is subjective and the people who have played only Aussie Rules and no other sport their entire life is going to think it's the greatest sport on earth. Aussie Rules hasn't seemed to have taken off anywhere other than Australia so it can't be that good imo
@Galaxy Gaming Ease up bud, I'm just stating my opinion as was he. I live in Australia and have played it myself. Like I said, it's a decent game, but the ones who say it's the best thing ever are ones who have never played any other winter sport. I play prem grade rugby and I must admit, as a working man, aussie rules is attractive from the standpoint that it is less likely to cause injury to players. In fact, that was one of the reasons for its inception. Aussie Rules came from a nascent form of rugby with modified rules to attract working me who didn't want to get injured. But then on the same token, it lacks the physicality which I enjoy very much. I found that Aussie Rules was so endurance based that putting on muscle was to much of a detriment. I also enjoyed the tactical aspect of rugby was more fun than the tactical aspect of Aussie Rules. But hey, everyone has their opinions and preferences.
Most other athletes in the world would be lucky to play 1 qtr in the afl It's very physical and you need to be like long distance runners to even have a chance of keeping up with that intensity
@@fallguystester6029 yes it is a very endurance based sport and the endurance of the athletes is impressive. Whether that is a good quality is up to the individual. If you look up Joshua Tuisova highlights you will see one aspect of rugby, which I value, which AFL simply doesn’t accomodate for. There are many players in rugby that would have suitable endurance for rugby however (perhaps 5% to 10%). There are also many players in AFL that would have the physical traits to play rugby.
USAFL has 46 teams across the US and has been around about 20 years. Played for fun. Quite a few expats but many locals Check it out. Also played in a number of European countries.
Yeah, It's a cricket ground. The boundary line is basically the rope in cricket. So some grounds are different shapes. All the AFL grounds have cricket on them during the summer.
They don't explain the mark very well. A mark is just a kick longer than 15 metres to a team mate who catches it. Not ecessarily when they jump on their back. If a player takes a mark, they can either stop and have about 5 seconds where noone can touch them or they can continue playing. If a mark is taken within 50 metres from goal the player has 30 seconds to line up and shoot.
The little guys are often crumbers. They have faster acceleration than taller heavier players. They play close to the contested ball, have excellent ability to change directions quickly to get the crumbs (get the ball when it is dropped on the ground) and they have excellent awareness of teammates and opponents to avoid tackles and quickly pass off to an unmarked team mate further from the pack of players. They also are good at getting separation from a player who is marking them to be a target for a pass. Some of the best players ever aren’t especially tall. Check out a best of video for Cyril Rioli who was also an exceptional kicker as you suggested. Almost all of his team mates were taller than him.
They don't make it clear about the length of a game of AFL. When they say each quarter is 20 minutes plus an additional 10 minutes for stoppages, that is 10 minutes per quarter give or take.
The best atmosphere I think is the ANZAC Day (25April) game. You get 90,000 people having a minutes silence and then the roar of them when the game starts.
For the points to count the footy must be kicked thought the goalposts. It the footy is touched before it goes through the goalposts, off the foot, by another teammate or the opposing team it becomes a point.
A mark is a post of possession so you can only go back from that point you have 15 seconds to kick the ball or decide to play on were the opponent can tackle you.
The only sport remotely like AFL would be gaelic football. Sometimes you see some special games between Ireland and Aus (the international Rules series) but apart from that its a very unique thing.
There are no specialist players, such as a striker, except for tall ruck men, as they all have to be capable of playing forward or defence and taking shots at goal. There is no specialist goal kicker who takes the free kick or penalty. Of course they will try to kick the ball to their best forwards. A defender may be moved forward as the team requires. The AFL full back of the century Steven Silvagni kicked more than 200 goals in his 300 plus game career.
The grand final is always at the MCG every year. It is Australia's biggest cricket ground and holds around 110 thousand people at capacity, it was also used for the 2015 cricket word cup final with Aus vs new Zealand
I went to the Richmond tigers gws prelim final and when Richmond won it was recorded as the same decibels as an acdc concert purely from the fans screaming Also every team has a song they sing if they win should check it out great vid!!
best way to learn this sport is yo not over think it, imagine its a big game of keepings off but u can only pass with kicks and handballs, then u need to kick it through the goals without being touched. the rest ul pick up as u go along
Keep an eye out for an exhibition match in London!! They generally do one or two exhibition matches around the world at the end of each season, and tend to head to London every three or four years. I think the last ine was played at Lord's, but I could be wrong about that!!
The explanation on the length of the game is a little misleading, yes they are 20min qtrs but the additional time of 10mins mentioned is per qtr, not over the entire game so most games are around 2hrs playing time.
And people start streaming out of The G 20 mins before the end when their team is doing sht, especially Pies and Bombers supporters. They clog up the trains when we're trying to get home after (yet another) Storm WIN...bloody aerial ping ping supporters...😉😆 ah Melbs, who'd bloody live anywhere else ay.
It's been around since late 1800s. Older than most modern games. It's our natural way of life always has been. In most cases we have and still do play on dirt and rocks in most rural communities. Where most afl players decent from
A few points not mentioned in the video - to get a goal (6 points) the ball must pass through the big posts directly from a kick. If it's touched by a hand before it goes through the posts it counts as a behind (1 point). The scoreboard shown on the video shows Collingwood has scored 20 goals (120 points) and 10 behinds (10 points) = 130 points total. The positions are shown at www.tutorialspoint.com/australian_football/australian_football_players_positions.htm. At the beginning of a game and after a goal, the ball is bounced at the centre of the field and the two rucks go up after it to get possession. If a ball goes out of bounds, there's a bounce at the position it went out, and again, the rucks go up after it. Rucks are generally very tall; rovers are small and nippy. And there's an umpire in each goalmouth to determine whether a goal or behind was scored, which he indicates with hand-signals. Tackling - you’re not allowed to tackle unless the guy you’re tackling has the ball, and you’re not allowed to push your opponent in the back. You don’t see it very often nowadays, but when I was young a player would “shepherd” for his team mate who had the ball - basically stand between him and his opponents, with his back to them and his arms spread wide, so they couldn’t get past him and tackle.
In terms of when to bounce, after playing the game for a while you just get a feel for when you're at around 10ish steps and bounce the ball. A lot of guys have a habit of bouncing it early, sometimes you'll see players bounce it 3 or 4 times in 25 meters.
It's not every sixteen yards, its within sixteen yards. The rule is stop the faster players from just grabbing the ball and running all the way to the goal with it, because you can handball a goal as well as kick it. AFL is mostly played on cricket grounds because the game was invented in 1858 to keep cricket players in shape in the winter (cricket being a summer sport, as I'm sure you know.)
Sorry you can't handball a goal. To get the 6 points for a goal, it must be kicked between the 2 big posts, not hitting those posts or have been touched on its journey by anyone on either side. If you handball the ball through the goals, anywhere inside the space between the 2 smaller outside posts, the score is a behind, which is worth 1 point only.
Are you wearing a Saint Kilda jersey in your pic now?🤣 Way to commit my friend if that is the case! Even though I am a Geelong fan I love how you stated in another thread that once you chose, you were a Saint for life! Onya champ🍻
The one thing they don't explain very clearly is what a mark actually is. Here's my attempt: If one player (the kicker) kicks a ball and it travels more than a certain distance (I think 10 metres) and another player (the marker) catches it "on the full" (i.e. before it hits the ground), then the marker has the option to either "play on" or stop, back up and have a free kick from the "mark" or spot where he caught it. Taking a mark close to goal is, of course, a really excellent way to maximise your chance of kicking a goal and thus there is huge competition for marks in front of each goal. The "full forward" is usually one of the best markers in a team, because it's his job to hang out in front of the opposition goal waiting to mark a kick from one of his teammates. Of course he's shadowed (sometimes called being "marked" confusingly enough) by the opposition "full back", who's is usually one of the best "spoilers" (i.e. preventing an opponent from taking a mark) on the opposing team. Full backs spend a lot of time harassing and trash talking the full forward, to put him off his game.
The smaller players are usually in the centre. They run an average of 20 Kilometre’s a game. All are super athletes. My team is the Collingwood Magpies, or the Pies as they are called. About 4 years ago we recruited an American player who had never seen a game played. We call him American Pie but we liked him. A terrible player but ours start learning as kids. He finally made it to great and his parents flew over to watch him in a semi final. It was funny when he had the ball, the crowd would chant USA. This code of football is one of the oldest registered anywhere. We had football 10 years before America did. This game was made up to keep Cricket players fit in the off season. I think it is the best game of football anywhere and I follow teams in other Countries.
Regarding kicking a goal, it has to be kicked (not run across or handballed), without being touched, between the goalposts (the two taller posts). There is no cross bar. It doesn't matter how high it goes or whether or not it bounces. It is played overseas as a minor sport. There is a competition in the UK. Every two years, Australia hosts the International Cup, which is a competition played by international (non-Australian) teams. Teams come from the Pacific, Asia, North America, Europe and South America. Papua New Guinea often does well. In terms of bouncing the ball every 16 yards (actually 15 m), players, the umpires and spectators get a feel for the distance and you can just tell when a player has run too far. I think you got the idea of the mark. If a player catches the ball from a kick of at least 15 m, on the full and without another player touching it on the way, the player can choose to stop and take a kick from behind the point where he marked it or play on. Often in general play, they will play on to keep the ball moving to their team's advantage but, when within range of goal, they will stop and have a deliberate shot on goal. Yes, the ground where the Grand Final (not the called the "Championship Game", by the way) is the MCG. The attendance is actually 100,000, by the way. Not sure why they refer to it as "90,000+" in the video.
@@TheBeesleys99 The G is the largest cricket stadium in the world, holds just over 100,000 spectators. Pretty awesome when its full, you can hear the crowd roar at The G all the way over at the NRL stadium across the train tracks. You can even tell who's winning by it! When the matches are staggered it's very common for NRL and AFL supporters to attend both games. Melbourne has a great sporting precinct right next to the city centre.
Stamina greater than a soccer player. They play on a oval field that can be at maximum, 185x135m (LxW) which is almost 3 football pitches in area. and there are 80min of play with overtime for stoppages, so some quarters can be 30+ minutes long, and although there are positions, no player is limited to where they can go on the field. They track players on field (since 2017) and on average some players, rovers, and half forwards (and other forwards) run on average between 12-15km per game, with the farthest a player has run in a game being, 18.9km by Tom Scully for GWS as a midfielder, that's almost half a marathon. Average running 10-12km of most players.
Good vid. Many Brit friends and many Brit immigrants here in Oz are blown away by afl. It’s an electric game. If you see a match in great arenas like the MCG in Melbourne or the Optus Stadium in Perth the atmosphere and fans in those cities spur the teams on to have incredible competition.
I love that you’re like the small Balentine must be a specialist and not there for the tackles. He was like the biggest bully out there. Everyone hated that guy he was always causing hard hits.
There's competitions in the US and Europe. The US ones are quite structures (but a very amateur level). Don't know too much about European leagues. One of the challenges in non-cricket countries is finding grounds big enough - so often they play modified 15-per side rules on rectangular ground (e.g. Soccer pitches).
@@TheBeesleys99 Well, that’s half of it. First off, many Americans just assume (wrongly) that AFL is Rugby, so they never payed that much attention, as they believe that NFL is better than Rugby. So when all their sports got cancelled and AFL was the only thing on, Americans soon discovered how great of a sport it was (and when you think about it, AFL is a sport that fits very well with Americans). So it isnt so much as ‘people were forced to watch it due to it being the only thing on’ but more so ‘Americans fell in love with it’
As an AFL fan in Australia there is no significant competition outside of Australia and we want it like that, the only reason we want the sport to be popular outside of Australia is to grow the talent pool and gain some monetisation from US interest.
I don’t think any another countries have AFL but we introduced it to I think it was China or Japan a couple years ago (i think). America does play it but it’s very small there and it’s not on tv, I think they just have little clubs
AFL is also actually a pretty big sport in Vanuatu now.. I was there a few years back and heaps of places around the Islands had AFL fields and club houses.
@@siennagordon37 thank you. I was about to say that it is played in a couple of Pacific Islander countries. I’m just not sure that it’s their national sport. But I do know that AFL is present in some of those countries.
Volunteering to have a 7ft guy plant his hobnail boots in the back and wearing his knees around the eyes while his full weight crushes you to the ground? Not for me. It takes a special breed to play AFL. AFL trivia - AFL started in the 1850’s as a work-out game to keep cricket players fit during the winter which is both why it is so dynamic, and why it is played on cricket ovals.
It's rare that the very tall players leap onto opponents shoulders , but their bulk certainly gets used to position themselves to mark or tap the ball to smaller team mates . The smart smaller player usually position themselves within close proximity of the "talls" so tend not to get crunched by the big lads a lot . When it it does happen it hurts . Often a player will try to protect a team mate with a shepherd or block so they aren't steamrolled when contesting the ball . It's a game where injuries are expected , but most injuries are bruises and scrapes that are usually healed in time for the next game a week later . Broken bones occur and if you play the game for years as some do , they'll have had a few breaks and perhaps a wonky knee or two and can experience issues with having had too many head knocks that have resulted in concussion .
Hayden Ballentine actually made his mark as a small forward. So one of his key roles was to tackle those larger players and he turned it into an artform.
You ask about other countries playing the game. There is an international tournament in Australia every three years and Australia is the only country not allowed to take part. (Let's face it, the Wagga Wagga Under 15s would beat any team from anywhere else in the world). Twenty six countries have signed up to play. You can read about it here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Football_International_Cup This has been converted for Americans. Distances in AFL are in metres so it is every 15m you have to bounce the ball. The big curved line at each end is 50m from the goal. AFL began as a sport for cricketers in the winter and is played on cricket ovals. The Melbourne Cricket Ground gets the Boxing Day test match and the AFL Grand Final every year. It is also the home ground of some of the Melbourne teams. Other cricket grounds used for AFL are the SCG, the Adelaide Oval, the Gabba and the WACA.
There are a number of things they didn't explain in this video. When kicking a goal it does not matter weather it's dribbled through on the ground or through the air up high or in between. As long as it is not touched by any other player and goes through the middle posts then it is a goal. If it goes through the middle posts but is touched it is called a behind, like the ones that go between the tall middle and outer posts or one that touches a post. In addition they don't explain how the socre line works, the final score of 20 10 130 is broken down as such, 20 is the amount of goals kicked which are worth 6 points each. So 20x6 = 120, The 10 indicated is the amount of behinds kicked which are worth one point each. So 10x1 =10. Final score 20 goals (120) + 10 behinds (10) = 130. You also need to react to AFL's biggest Hits. This will make your eyes water... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s1aU0hz5Tf8.html
@@TheBeesleys99 you'll be impressed, also I doubt anybody plays AFL outside of Australia its too much like rugby, and that is already popular everywhere. Also, the size is not something that is not a good selling point, it means it will be very hard to fit into cites that are already pushed for space and it also means that even if you pay for a good seat you are still very far from the game, in hockey or basketball you can pay for good seats and you're there right in the middle of the action.
@@hifijohn ' I doubt anybody plays AFL outside of Australia ' there are minor/ amateur league's in England Ireland Scotland and Wales USA New Zealand Canada Japan South Africa and many many others. ' its too much like rugby' are you serious!!! WTF do AFL and Rugby have in common? NFL and Rugby are very similar, but AFL no
@@hugh_mungus0184 AFL in America,I've never seen a game on tv nor have I ever heard of any sportscaster talk about it nor have I ever met anyone who has even ever seen a game, if it exists it has to be very very small.
@@hifijohn Scott van pelt loves AFL ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xVmH5rbnRZg.html Also we have had Americans come here to play it. Mason Cox is the biggest name American here. Any American that watches it loves it. Aussie rules has been played in the USA since 1996 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_rules_football_in_the_United_States
The way most players tell the 1w years is just feel from 0laying for most of their life but as a young guy your normally taught to bounce the ball every 12 running steps
Great video mate they would love the world to take this game on I know that, they keep trying cash costing ideas like getting port Adelaide to play in China lol😅😎
Up until the 90s the positions were fairly rigid with players staying in their part of the oval on the whole, but somewhere in the 90s it became the norm for pretty much the entire team to just chase the ball, leaving a scant few if any behind for defence. Which means even more stamina needed as its non stop running.
Some other countries play it Ireland plays once a year against us but it’s with a soccer ball and there are soccer and AFL goals. Soccers goals were worth more because there would be a goalie but I also do know some countries do play the exact sport
The rule is 15m (this video has been Americani'z'ed for American audiences) Most players will bounce every # of paces, maybe 8 for tall guys, up to 13 for smaller guys.
No height doesn't make a difference if it is kicked through the middle posts it's a goal and worth 6 points the kick can be high, low or even dribble along the ground
To score a goal (6 points), it must be kicked off the foot by the attacking team, and must cross completely over the goal line between the tall posts without being touched by any player on the field, or touching the goal posts (including the padding on the posts). Any time the ball crosses and is touched, or not kicked through scores a behind (1 point). And if you are the defending team and kick the wrong way, it is a behind for the opposing team. Embarrassing to be sure, but not as bad as an own goal, like in soccer.
The game only went national in the late 80s before that It was the VFL being only played in the state of Victoria as NRL isn't as big in the southern state
They just know the distance to bounce you even know when watching when someone has run too far can also just bend down and touch ball to ground which technically easier but slower than keep running and bounce.😎
For the bouncing rule we’re normally given the line of 15 steps not the actual 16 yards and yeah most of the time you have to get rid of the ball cause you’re about to get smashed
That 5" 8' player would run circles around that 7" er. Thats the beauty of this game there is a position on the for every shape and size . But if you are small you had better be fast and highly skillful .
It doesn’t matter about how high the ball goes through People kick it in the air because if someone touches it it’s only one point so we kick it up for the most chance to get six points
In America the USAFL has 40 different leagues, including a women’s league. There are also competitive leagues in the UK. Heaps of countries also play our game in an amateur sense and therefore the skill level is way way below our Australian game which is professional. There is even a world championship, which Australia does not participate in, obviously because professional paid athletes would easily outclass amateur players.
Aussie Rules Football is very similar to Gaelic Football so Australia and Ireland face eachother in test matches where both codes are combined similar to if Union and League had a unified code AFL is the national sport of Papua New Guinea and the sport is played in New Zealand, India, United States and the UK at a smile pro level
Usa has a league is Calla aafl I think, although it ain't big yet and you might have to really look for it on you tube. You gonna find a lot of Americans recanting like you pretty much, but there are videos of American paying footy if you look well
@@shanerooney7288 his marks are impressive too for a guy on the shorter end of the average player, he throws himself into it no hesitation. Amazing to watch.
Maybe they don't have this sport anywhere cos maybe they only breed these kinds of machines in Australia 🤣🤣 best line ever to seeing this video, also got it in one mate.. Only in Australia 😜 xx
