[ROCKTOBER 4] darraghmac Appreciation Day

AEdit

AFL
Australian Football League. This acronym is used colloquially as an alternative name for the sport when distinguishing it from other football codes, particularly in Queensland and New South Wales.
All-Australian
a player who has been chosen in the best team of the AFL competition each year, the All-Australian Team; or, prior to the nationalisation of the competition or in lower age groups where the game is not nationalised, the best composite team from all states based on performances at an interstate carnival.[2]
Angle
the geometric angle formed by an imaginary line between a player taking a set shot and the centre of the goals (on the goal line), and another imaginary line perpendicular to the goal line. So, a player with "no angle" is taking a kick from directly in front; a player on a "wide angle" is taking a shot from near a boundary line.
Arena
the playing surface.[3]
Assist
to kick or handpass to a player who then scores either a goal (for a goal assist) or a behind (for a score assist). The term is common across many world sports.
Australian Football
name officially used by the AFL for the sport.
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Bag
colloquialism for a large number of goals scored by one player.[4]
Ball!
usually yelled by spectators when an opposition player is tackled in possession of the ball. Short for "holding the ball".[3]
Ball burster
colloquialism for a massive kick, usually a torpedo punt which travels over 70 metres.[5]
Ball-up
the act of a field umpire putting the ball back into play, either by throwing it vertically upwards into the air, or by bouncing the ball in such a way that it mimics the throwing action. See bounce-down. A ball-up is required at the start of each quarter, after a goal is scored or to restart the game from neutral situations in the field of play.[3][6]
Banana
a kick which causes the ball to swing in the air in the opposite direction to the usual. See checkside.[7]
Barrel
a "torpedo punt" kick. See also screwie.[8]
Baulk
a manoeuvre where a player holds the ball out to the side in one hand, then runs in the other direction to evade a defender.[9]
Behind
a score worth one point, earned by putting the ball between a goal post and a behind post, or by the ball hitting a goal post, or by the ball being touched prior to passing between the goalposts.[3]
Behind posts
two shorter vertical posts 19.2m apart on the goal line at each end of the ground, centred about the taller goal posts.
Bench
the interchange area. The "bench" refers to the seat used by the players in this area.[10]
Best on ground
player judged the best player taking part in any game. Sometimes also referred to as BOG, pronounced "bee-oh-gee".[11]
Bounce-down
(or simply bounce) the act of a field umpire putting the ball back into play by bouncing the ball in such a way that it mimics a vertical throw. See ball-up.[12]
Boundary line
the line drawn on the ground to delimit the field of play.[3]
Boundary throw-in
(or simply Throw-in) the act of throwing the ball back into play by the boundary umpire. The boundary umpire stands with his back to the arena and throws the ball backwards over his head. This is used to restart play from neutral situations whenever the ball goes out of bounds.
Boundary umpire
an official who patrols the boundary line, indicating when it has fully crossed the line, and who then executes a boundary throw-in to return the ball to play. There are typically two of these umpires per game, one on each side of the oval, but there will be four in top grade games.[3]
Break
short for "break in play"; e.g. quarter-time, half-time, or three-quarter-time.[13]
Brownlow
the Brownlow Medal is awarded the week of the Grand Final to the player judged to be the best and fairest player in the league for the season, based on accumulated votes awarded by the field umpires at the conclusion of each match during the season.
Bump
a contact between players using the hip and/or shoulder. See hip-and-shoulder.
CEdit

Centimetre perfect
a phrase commonly used by commentator Dennis Cometti to refer to a kick that could not have been placed any better.
Central umpire
an official who patrols the field of play, awarding free kicks, indicating time-on and time-off, and restarting the game after stoppages, goals etc.
Centre
the middle of the ground, also the name given to a player who starts the game in that position.
Centre bounce
the bounce of the ball in the centre of the ground to start a quarter, or after a goal.[6]
Centre square
a fifty metre square drawn around the centre of the ground. Only four players from each team may stand inside the centre square prior to a centre bounce, but the square otherwise has no significance.[3]
Charlie
colloquialism for the Brownlow Medal.
Checkside
a kick which causes the ball to swing in the air in the opposite direction to the usual. See banana.
Chicken wing tackle
a tackle that locks in an opponent's arm so that he cannot legally dispose of the ball. This term originated in Rugby League.
Clanger
a blatant, unforced error. Most typically, this will be either conceding a free kick, or kicking or handpassing the ball directly to an opponent.
Clearance
the clearing of the ball out of a stoppage situation, to the advantage of one team or the other.
Cluster
a type of zone defense consisting of a grid-like arrangement of fifteen or more players, particularly used to oppose a kick-in.[14]
Coach
the manager of the team who controls the team's tactics during a match.[6]
Contest
an in-game scenario where two or more players have an opportunity to win the ball.
Contested possession
a possession achieved as a result of winning a contest.
Corkie
colloquialism for a corked muscle, which is a deep bruise, usually in the leg.[15]
Corridor
the imaginary strip of the ground that runs through the centre from goal to goal; a team who moves the ball in this area is said to "play through the corridor".[14]
Crow Throw
a handball technique which involves using a significantly shorter arm swing from the punching hand. The style was somewhat unique to South Australia in the SANFL, in interstate and State of Origin matches and ultimately the to the Adelaide Crows. As a result, interstate the technique was given the pejorative name crow throw (derived from croweater, a common name for South Australians).
Crumber
a player who waits at the base of a marking pack in order to gather the loose ball if no mark is taken and the ball spills to ground. Similarly, gathering the ball in this manner is described as "getting the crumbs".[16]
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Daisy cutter
a kick that runs along the ground rather than through the air. See grubber. Also may to refer to a drop punt in which the ball travels through the air, but low to the ground.
Designated kicker
a player who is given the ball by another player who has a set shot for goal, so that the receiving player may have a shot on the run for a long-distance goal or a supergoal. Typically done when the designated kicker is known to have a better likelihood of scoring the goal than the player taking the set shot.
Disposal
indicates that a player disposed of the ball legally by either hand or foot. Synonymous with possession or touch.[6]
Don't argue
colloquial term for a stiff-arm fend.
Dribble goal
a goal kicked using the grubber technique. It is often utilised from the boundary line at a tight angle with players manipulating the bounce of the ball to bend it through the goals.
Drop kick
a kick that is executed in such a way that the foot contacts the ball at the same time as, or immediately after, it has been dropped to the ground on its end. No longer in common use in AFL due to its perceived inaccuracy. See stab pass.
Drop punt
a kick that is executed by contacting the ball on its end, so that it rotates around its mid-point end over end. Usually considered the most accurate of kicks, and is by far the most commonly used kicking style in Australian rules football.
Dropping the ball
see holding the ball.
EEdit

Emergency umpire
a qualified field umpire who sits on the interchange bench during a game. He can pay free kicks only for interchange infringements and may report players, and can replace an injured or fatigued umpire.
FEdit

Fat side
an imaginary area of the ground that indicates the greatest space occupied by the least number of players. See thin side.
Field umpire
see central umpire.
Fifty
short for "fifty-metre penalty".
Fifty metre line
an arc drawn at each end of the ground indicating that the distance from the goal line is fifty metres.
Fifty metre penalty
extra 50m of field position awarded to a player following a mark or free kick when an opposition player infringes after the mark/free kick is paid.
Final siren
the siren that sounds to signal the end of the game.
Finals
the post-season series of games that decide the premiership.
Flag, the
common expression for the Premiership, based upon the practice of awarding a flag for winning the premiership (analogous to the pennant in American sports).
Flags
white flag waved by a goal umpire to signal a goal or behind.[3]
Flank
an indicative area of the ground that lies between the wing and pocket on both sides of the centre. Also referred to as "half-forward flank" and "half-back flank".
Flick pass
the variant of a handball in which the ball is propelled with a flick of an open hand, rather than a clenched fist. Flick passes were formerly legal, but are now considered a type of throw.[17]
Flight
the way a ball travels through the air.
Flood
the act of getting as many players as possible between the ball carrier and the goal a team is defending.[14]
Followers
an old term referring to on-the-ball players, so named because they were the only players who followed the ball wherever it went. Specifically, the ruck, ruck rover and rover were considered followers. The term is less applicable in the modern game, where many more players will tend to move around the ground.
Four points, to get the
common parlance for winning a game. The "four points" refers to the number of premiership points awarded for a win in an AFL game and in many other leagues. "To get the two points" would be the South Australian equivalent.
Free kick
a possession of the ball given to a player as a result of an infringement by an opposition player. These are only awarded by the central umpire.
Full-back
the area of the ground directly in front of the opposition's goals. Also the name given to the player placed in that position. Usually opposed by the full-forward.
Full-forward
the area of the ground directly in front of a team's goals. Also the name given to the player placed in that position. Usually opposed by the full-back.
Full-time
the end of the game. See final siren.
GEdit

Goal
a maximum score (equivalent to 6 points) achieved by kicking the ball between the two goal-posts without it touching either post or any other player.[3]
Goal line
a section of the boundary line that runs from one behind post to the other, at each end. All four posts (two goal posts and two behind posts) are set directly on this line.[3]
Goal posts
two tall posts at each end of the ground indicating the major scoring zone, positioned 6.4m apart.[3]
Goal square
the 6.4×9m rectangle drawn on the ground directly in front of each goal.[3]
Goal umpire
an official who adjudicates the score, signals the score (out-of-bounds, point, or goal), waves flags to indicate the score to the crowd, and serves as official scorekeeper. There are two of these umpires per game, one at each end.[3]
Gorilla
colloquially, a large, strong defender who plays body-on-body defence against the strongest forwards.
Grubber
a kick that runs along the ground rather than though the air. See daisy cutter.
Guernsey
the jersey worn by players.
Guts, the
colloquial term for the corridor.
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Half-back
the area of the ground lying halfway between the centre and full-back. Also the name given to the player placed in that position. Usually opposed by the half-forward.
Half-forward
the area of the ground lying halfway between the centre and full-forward. Also the name given to the player placed in that position. Usually opposed by the half-back.
Half-time
the long break between the second and third quarters.[13]
Hammy
a severe hamstring injury (as in "pulled a hammy"). Also hammie.
Handball
(or handpass) a legal disposal of the ball, executed by holding the ball on the flat palm of one hand and hitting it with the other clenched fist.[3]
Handy point
colloquial term for a behind scored near the end of a close game which extends to one more than a multiple of six (i.e. from six points to seven points, from twelve points to thirteen points, or from eighteen points to nineteen points); so called because it means the opposition needs an extra scoring shot to tie or win the game.
Hanger
see specky.
Hard ball get
see contested possession.
High tackle
a tackle that results in contact to the opposition play over the top of his shoulders or to the neck or head. This will result in a free kick.
Hip-and-shoulder
See bump
Hitout
(or tapout, tap or knock-out) a tap by a ruckman to a team's advantage.
Holding the ball
a free kick awarded to a defensive player who tackles an opponent and prevents him from legally disposing of the football.
Hospital Kick
a very high kick to a teammate, allowing opposition players to run in and crash into the person attempting to mark the kick. Can also be a hospital pass.
Hot Spot
the point at the top of the goal square where the contest for the ball is fierce.
Huddle
the grouping of players on the ground at quarter-time and three-quarter-time breaks,[18] and a tactic used at kick-ins after a behind where players group together at center-half-back before breaking to the flanks.[19]
IEdit

In-and-under player
(or inside midfielder) a player who tries to win hard ball gets by forcing the ball out of packs.
Inside-50
the act of running or passing the ball inside the 50m arc. A statistic that is used to evaluate the effectiveness of midfield players who may not score many goals themselves, but set them up for teammates.[20]
Interchange
the designated area of the ground where players wait to be allowed onto the field after another player has left, i.e. one player is interchanged for another.[3]
Interchange gate
a 20m zone marked on the boundary line through which players being interchanged must run.
JEdit

Jumper punch
where a player takes hold of an opponent's jersey and then pushes in a punching motion.[21]
KEdit

Key position
the centre half-forward and the centre half-back are collectively known as the key positions, and are considered the most difficult roles to play.
Kick
a legal disposal of the ball by foot.[3]
Kick-in
(or sometimes kick-out) the return of the ball back into play after a behind has been scored.[14]
Kick-off line
the line on the goal square which is parallel to the goal line.
King hit
an illegal physical attack on a player behind play, generally to the head which leaves the victim in a dazed or unconscious state.

LEdit

Ladder
the position of teams on the Premiership list, determined by their win-loss ratio and percentage.
Lead
for a forward to run into space and away from his direct opponent, hoping to attract a pass from his teammate.
Legging
see low tackle.
Loose ball get
see uncontested possession
Loose man in defence
a player who typically spends an entire game without a direct opponent, who assists other defenders in the team when necessary, and is often heavily involved in rebounding.
Low tackle
a tackle resulting in contact made to a player below his knees. Results in a free kick against the tackling player. This is more commonly referred to by the colloquial term of legging the opponent.
MEdit

Major
a goal.[13]
Man-on-man
the "traditional" defensive style of a defender playing close to an opposition forward. See zone-off.
Man on the mark
the defensive player who stands where his opponent took a mark or received a free kick. The man on the mark holds his arms in the air, in an attempt to block his opponent's kick, or at least force him to take the kick from several metres further back to prevent it from being blocked.
Mark
a clean catch of the ball after it has been kicked by another player (either by a teammate or by the opposition), before it has touched the ground, or been touched by any other player, and after it has travelled a minimum of 15 metres. The term also refers to the spot on the ground where the mark or free kick took place.[3]
Melee
an unacceptable gathering of players involved in deliberate physical contact. Can lead to suspensions and fines.
Midfield
an indicative area of the ground that covers half-forward to half-back down the centre, and out to the wings and flanks.[16]
Midfielder
a player who roams and plays within the midfield.
"Mine!"
a call by the field umpire when the football is caught in a contest and in the opinion of the umpire the ball can not escape the contest. The umpire will then perform a ball-up to recommence play.
NEdit

"Not 15!"
a call by the field umpire when the football has been kicked less than 15 metres, indicating that a mark will not be awarded from that kick.
OEdit

Off the ball
an incident that occurred away from the main contest. Note that off the ball is not the direct opposite of on the ball.
On the ball
a player who is not in any set position but who follows the ball all over the ground; also known as a follower or onballer, and not the direct opposite of off the ball.
One-percenter
a defensive act such as a block, bump, shepherd, smother or chase; "one-percenters" very rarely show up in any typical statistical analysis of a game, but are generally highly-valued by coaches, supporters and spectators alike.
Out on the full
a kick that travels across the boundary line without first being touched by a player or hitting the ground. This will result in a free kick to the opposition team, taken by the player closest to the point at which the ball crossed the boundary line.[3]
Outside midfielder
a midfielder who receives most of his possessions in an uncontested manner, and often gets to position to receive handpasses from inside midfielders.
Oval
the ground on which an Australian Rules Football game is played. Derived from the common shape of the ground.
Over the mark
a player from either team who crosses from his side of the mark when there is a free kick being taken is said to have gone over the mark. If the attacking player does this, he is called to play on; if the defending player does this, he is penalised with a fifty metre penalty.
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Pack
a mass of players from both sides all attempting to get the ball at the same time. Can be used for players flying for a mark or scrambling for the ball at ground level.
Pagan's Paddock
a tactic which involves clearing all attacking players from the attacking 50 metres and kicking the ball into the resulting open space. This gives key forwards room to run into, often running with the flight of the ball toward goal. Was employed by Dennis Pagan in order to fully utilise key forward Wayne Carey in the 1990s.
Pass
a kick that ends with the ball in the possession of a teammate.[13]
Percentage
an indication of the ratio of points scored for versus points scored against. The AFL uses the formula (points for / points against) × 100, meaning that percentages may exceed 100%; the SANFL uses the formula (points for / points for and against) × 100. It is used as a tiebreaker for ladder positions if teams are on equal premiership points.
Pill
colloquialism for the ball.[22][23]
Playmaker
a player who directs a team play by action or deed during a game.
"Play on!"
the call made by an umpire whenever a player who is taking a mark or a free kick runs or handpasses rather than kicking over the mark; or, the call made by an umpire to alert players that a mark or free kick will not be paid, when they may be expecting that one would be paid.[24]
Possession
the act of obtaining the ball. Also used synonymously with disposal and touch. Often quoted as a total for a player or team, it is the sum of the number of handballs and kicks that the player or team had during the game.[25]
Pocket
an indicative part of the ground, equivalent to the area proscribed by an imaginary arc running from the goal post to a point on the boundary line halfway to the fifty-metre arc. There are two pockets at each end of the ground, referred to as the left and right, forward and back pockets, e.g. left-forward pocket.
Point
the basic scoring unit. Used for both the total score (10 goals, 8 behinds, 68 points) and can be used interchangeably with behind ("His shot for goal missed and was only a point").[3]
Poster
common expression for a kicked ball which hits a goal post, resulting in a behind being scored rather than a goal.
Premiership
awarded to the winner of the Grand Final. See the flag.
Premiership quarter
A colloquialism for the third quarter of a match.
Premiership Window
The range of years that a team has a likely and realistic chance of winning the premiership.
Prior opportunity
(sometimes shortened to prior) a player who has had the ball for long enough to make a reasonable attempt to dispose of it before being tackled is said to have had prior opportunity. This is important for holding the ball decisions, where a player who has had prior opportunity must dispose of the ball immediately, while a player who has had "no prior" has a few extra seconds to dispose of the ball.
Protected zone
an imaginary corridor 5 metres to either side of a player who is taking a free kick, into which no players from either team are permitted to be.
QEdit

Quarter
a period of play. Each game is divided into four quarters of equal length. Quarters in the AFL and other senior last 20 minutes plus time-on.
Quarter-time
the gap between the first and second quarters.
REdit

Rainmaker
a ball that is kicked very high up but not very far
Raking
a kicking style that results in long kicks.[26]
Rebound
the act of moving the ball forward after winning it as the result of a turnover in the defensive end of the ground.
Red time
the final few minutes of playing time in any quarter.
Reported
the state of a player after an umpire has written their name into a notebook, during play, for an act that may result in the player being suspended.
Rocket Handball
a handball technique which causes the ball spins backwards in the air in the same fashion as a drop punt. It was pioneered by Kevin Sheedy and is now the most common handball technique in modern football. It is considered the most effective style of handball in terms of distance and accuracy, although it can take longer to execute than other styles.
Rookie
a player who is on an AFL club's playing list, but who cannot play senior games unless replacing a long-term injured or retired player.
Roost
a long kick.[27]
Rotation
a planned interchange designed to minimise fatigue of midfielders.
Rover
a small inside midfielder. Historically one of three distinct followers, but the term is now rarely used.[28]
Rubbed out
colloquialism for being suspended.
Ruck
(or ruckman) a tall player who contests the ball-up or throw-in.
Ruck rover
a midfielder halfway between a ruck and a rover. Historically one of the three distinct followers, but now rarely used.
Run through the mark
(or run across the mark), when a player runs between the man on the mark and the player who is taking a free kick. If a defending player does this, and he is not immediately following his direct opponent, a fifty-metre penalty will be awarded.
Runner
a club official whose job is to run onto the ground to give the players messages from the coach during play.
Running bounce
(or simply bounce) the act of a player bouncing the football on the ground and back to himself while running, which must be done once every fifteen metres.
Rushed behind
the concession of a behind for the opposition team. A behind which is deemed to have been deliberately rushed by a player under no pressure is penalised by a free kick, but in all other circumstances it concedes one point.
SEdit

Sausage roll
rhyming slang for "goal" (also called a snag, from the Australian slang term for a sausage).
Screamer
a spectacular high mark, usually in a contested situation. See specky.
Season
a year of a competition.[6]
Selling Candy
a colloquial expression for a baulk.
Set Shot
an attempt to kick a goal from a mark or a free kick. See shot.[13]
Shark
obtaining possession of the ball, often in a difficult position, particularly from the hitout of the opposing ruck.[29]
Shepherd
a block placed on an opposing player. This can be to stop him tackling a teammate in possession of the ball, or attempting to gather it; to stop him intercepting a ball heading for goal; or just to stop him possessing the ball himself.
Shirtfront
an aggressive front-on bump.
Shot
an attempt to kick a goal.
Showdown
a game between Port Adelaide and Adelaide
Siren
a loud sound used to signal the start and end of the game, and the start and end of each quarter.[3]
Sit
the best position from which to take a mark.
Slingshot
also, end to end, a goal where the ball is moved from one end of the field to the other in a short amount of time.
Smother
the act of stopping a kick immediately after it leaves the boot. Generally undertaken with the hands or body.
Snap
a shot at goal, usually executed under pressure from an unlikely scoring position. It is almost invariably a kick across the body (i.e., for a right footer, a kick aimed to far left) and typically exaggerates the natural tendency of the ball to drift slightly right to left from a right footer, and left to right from the left footer. It is in this way the reverse of a "checkside" or "banana".[13]
Soccer
(verb) to kick the ball off the ground, i.e. without first taking the ball in the hands, as is the primary means of disposal in the sport of soccer.
Specky
(or screamer, hanger; also spelt speccie, speckie, etc.) short for "spectacular mark". Generally refers to the act of leaping onto another player's back or shoulders to take a high mark, usually in a contested situation.[30]
Spell, to have a
to be interchanged off the ground.
Spillage
occurs when a ball comes off the top of a pack of players attempting to mark a ball.
Spoil
a punch or slap of the ball which hinders an opposition player from taking a mark.
Stab pass
a kick that travels very low to the ground to a teammate. Until the 1970s this was usually a drop kick.
Stacks on the mill
a stand-alone statement made by commentators to indicate that the ball is covered by a large pack of players on the ground and is unable to move.
Stepladder
colloquially, the player upon whose shoulders another player jumps to take a specky.
Substitute
an interchange player who cannot be freely interchanged, but may be brought onto the ground to replace a player for the rest of a game.
Supergoal
a goal which scores nine points instead of six, earned by kicking a goal from beyond a set distance, usually 50m in AFL pre-season competitions. Seen only in practice and exhibition games.
Suspended
the state of a player who has been refused permission to play by a legislated tribunal. See reported.`[3]
Sweeper
a player who plays loose across the half-back line in order to act as a link between the backline and midfield.[16]
Switch
to move the ball laterally across the ground, hoping to find an easier path to the forward-line.
TEdit

Tackle
the grabbing of an opposition player in possession of the ball, in order to impede his progress or to force him to dispose of the ball quickly.[6]
Tagger
a defensive player whose task is to prevent an opposition midfielder from having an impact on the game.
Tap
see hitout.
Tapout
see hitout.
Term
colloquialism for quarter.[13]
Thin side
an imaginary area of the ground that indicates the least space occupied by the greatest number of players. See fat side.
Third man up
(or simply third man) a player other than the nominal ruckman who unexpectedly enters a ruck contest to effect a hitout. Rules prevent third men at the centre bounce, but permit them at all other ball-ups.
Three-quarter-time
the break between the third and fourth quarters.
Throw
an illegal disposal of a ball by hand. Will result in a free kick to the opposition.
Throw-in
see boundary throw-in.
Time-on
time added onto the end of each quarter to compensate for time lost during general play by stoppages. The amount of time to be added on is determined by independent time-keepers who stop the game clock when indicated by the central umpires. Lower grade and lower age-group competitions will often be played without time-on.[3]
Torpedo
(colloq. screwie, torp or barrel) a punt kick that rotates the ball around its long axis, which is aligned with the direction the ball is travelling. Regarded as the type of kick with the longest distance, but the lowest chance of being accurate.[31]
Total Football
a tactic where less emphasis is placed on set positions and structures. Apart from 2 (or 3) key defenders and forwards, all players play 'through the middle'. It was perfected by Mick Malthouse during his later years at Collingwood and thought to have its origins in Association Football's Total Football, a style pioneered by the Dutch national team in the 1970s.[32]
Touch
colloquialism for possession or disposal.
Touched
indicates that a ball was touched by another player after being kicked; such a kick cannot result in a mark, a goal, or an out of bounds on the full free kick.
Trip
a low tackle which will result in a free kick to the opposition. Furthermore, tripping or attempting to trip an opponent with the foot or leg will lead to a player being reported.[3]
Turnover
the loss of possession of the ball to the opposition.
Tunnelling
bumping an airborne player attempting a mark with the intention of unbalancing them.
UEdit

Uncontested possession
a possession achieved without having to engage in a contest.
Utility
a player adept at playing several non-key position roles.
WEdit

Wing
an indicative area of the ground that lies between the forward and back flanks on both sides of the centre. There are only two on the ground.

Wooden spoon
the mock "award" said to be received by the team finished last on the ladder at the end of a season.
Worm Burner
See Daisy Cutter.
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ZEdit

Zone
a defensive arrangement of players on a section of the ground, designed to stifle the forward movement of the ball by the opposition.[19] Probably borrowed from basketball.
Zone off
the act of a defender leaving some space between himself and his opponent. This is contrary to the normal defensive style of man-on-man.[10]

genuine fp u were warned son

genuine shrug :-)

loses

ilafl is a library in a dmz

library of bablol

srsly guys back on track

nách tí bhean? almost translates to "is there a woman of the house?"

― local eire man (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 October 2014 01:08 (5 months ago)

lol

ya I thought that was slept on tbh

what does it exactly translate to

ilafl is a fun place

at a lazy guess I spose it translates to "is the house a woman" its not particularly complete as a fragment, I'm not sure "nach" can even be used without a verb to make negative etc etc I'm no scholar of irish

inactive maven

the only instance of that phrase is in the essay about the vlach people of macedonia

These ideal roles plus the physical roles of men and women control their relationship so completely that outside of these roles, "any possibility of a personal relationship... is completely excluded."[16] It is also central to the woman's role, for complex reasons which make sense within the framework of Greek culture, that she is obliged to remain in the house, in fact, "she is the house... a woman's absence from the house is contrary to her role."[17]

http://www.farsarotul.org/nl28_3.htm

vlach weavin'

copatients

took a ticket for a blood test, 96, ticker was at 32 I went off and got an xray, took 20 mins, came back, nice little sighter, ticker at 52, grand I says I'll grab breakfast and read Fahrenheit 451 which being done I went back and ticker was at 92, nice.

stood waiting for 96 with all eyes on me, a room (portakabin) full of aul wans staring me out of it. ive half an idea what's gone on, viz, these silly old cunts have been crammed into this room for two hours despite having numbered reservations, and not having seen me taking a ticket for my current presence they figure im on the make somehow.

96 ticks up, I'm off for the door of the test room with a full rolling pimp walk, milking it, its like a wrestling villain entrance, wails and protests and wherer you goin jung fella cries coming from all sides. ive the ticket held out like I found it in a wonka bar, theyre looking at it like david blaine produced it from the arse of an archbishop, what magics this kinda thing

how'd you do that?

uh I got it a few hours ago and left.

YOU CANT DO THAT SHURE IF WE ALL DID THAT WHERE WOULD WE BE

I dunno love. not in a cabin that smells of farts anyway?

I'm the bad guy here. copatients.

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, March 24, 2015

it is 77°F in my office
the window is already open

― mookieproof, Tuesday, March 10, 2015 10:14 AM

translate pls

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, March 10, 2015 10:30 AM

too effing hot

― mookieproof, Tuesday, March 10, 2015 10:40 AM

right down to the vernacular, impressive service

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, March 10, 2015 10:45 AM

was working fitting kitchens one summer a life ago and I walked into this apartment building we were working on that was getting a lot done on a few different units at once between electrics, kitchens, plastering and all that,so there were strange faces about the whole time. walked into a room getting painted by one of the first black guys I'd ever seen irl (I'm irish btw) and v likely the first I'd ever had spoken with, viz, at high volume from himself, HOWROOBI.

Well you can imagine, rly. I said ? in not as many words, being 16 and totally struck by the moment and wanting not to be unfriendly or awkward but at that stage of development socially where all I was projecting to the world was awkward unfriendliness. bastard had a gleam in his eye as he repeated happily HOWROOBI and at this stage I'm mugging like an early career Hugh Laurie, not wanting to say anything as obvious or stupid as "sorry I only speak english" (and being 16 still as apt to claim honours French, pass irish and three words of Dutch in any such sentence in any case).

dude advances, fuckin gleam in his eye now, slows it right down like I'm the idiot I'm clearly appearing to be, HOWR-OOBI, this is shit, I'm all but about to run out in agonised bewilderment or attempt a Chevy Chasesque bluff of massive proportions along the lines of generic multinational welcoming custom, when a fella walks in thats working with him:

HOWROOBI, GRAND HOWROOBI, GRAND. DOES THIS YUNG LAD NOT TAAAAWKATALL?

fuckin corkmen.

still didnt understand a word out of either of them the rest of the week, but yknow at least it felt better kinda thing.

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, March 4, 2015 10:50 PM

he done the same thing all week to everyone, the rest of em just muttered "sorry only english" I think I was his favourite tbh

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, March 4, 2015 10:55 PM

"corporation = sociopath allegory - which is a novel character device"

it is not rly

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Monday, March 23, 2015

did Kimmel ask kanye if Obama calls kanye and Kim kimye also could kanye, Kim (or kimye) tell kimmel if they think Barack was born in kenya

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Friday, March 13, 2015

hands up itt who self identifies as a good lefty, hands up now

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, March 11, 2015

deems is pretty great -- i appreciate him

survived this year by don't of behaving perfectly normally, phew

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, March 17, 2015

such shiny hair

you'll all be delighted to know ive spared the internet the options I had in February, viz:

triage room realness inc canulla detail for the squeamish

hot pale chubby hairy irish torso with ECG pads detail

WW1 pyjama and smoking jacket vibe recuperation shot with naked old man from ward detail

― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, February 24, 2015 5:36 AM

tho I'm happy to run a poll if demand demands

― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, February 24, 2015 5:36 AM

idk days I could go for a bit of locked in syndrome if ppl would promise to be quiet

― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, February 24, 2015

If people I know were able to use self-deprecating humor with a light touch like darraghmac is skilled at, my life would be even more full of laughter.

― mh, Friday, 14 December 2012 20:07 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^posts that read like they've been copied out of a greeting card

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 14 December 2012 20:10 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

never forget

"deems is pretty great -- i appreciate him"

I appreciate as well; these are just a few of recent vintage

this is disquieting but I suppose its the thread for it

not for me to say my appreciation thread overrunneth *pops collar*

not for me to say my appreciation thread overrunneth *pops collar*

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, March 24, 2015 7:51 PM (27 seconds ago)

Yo deems

Oh good I'm allowed post here again, ty duck man B-)

Darragh I was wanting to talk more about this book I've been reading

btw looking good on wdyll; is there pic of you sipping bushmills

not sipifically no

hi wins u can talk about anything here p much that is my essentially wished-for trait whether I attain the ideal or not (nb I do)

just make it a board imo

well tbf I hardly mind what I post on ile most of the time

I just meant that I was threadbanned for not being decorous and witty and good-natured and funny and socially conscious, and maybe not making enough jokes about the Ebola crisis; I promise to do better though & will post passages from the book later

[–]Happy-Time-Harry 5 points 3 years ago

Making a blanket statement such as "country X is racist" is itself racist. Every country has racist people (read: idiots). I can't think of any other particular country that could label Australia as a whole as racist without being hypocritical.

Hey don't make this about race this is about how ilafl doesn't measure up to 1p3

So this 1p3 next gen guff is nothing more than IRE Redux.

Typical.

― Fade to Ugly Dave Gray (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 08:51 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i have you down for "penis pump"

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 27 April 2010 09:06 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nigga plz

― Fade to Ugly Dave Gray (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 09:06 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great dn wins

nakh u will appreciate:

tomorrow I go to the gate theatre to read for and instruct a dublin director & writer in mayo dialect, phrasing and vernacular

howd it go

just a bit of reading/recording but interesting to do

Cavan actor feels it was too posh. obv he wanted to play it farm boy. thats in my arsenal but you have to talk farm boy yourself or ask me nicely.

do irish farmboys say hyuck?

they make incredible sounds and statements hyuck isnt in the running

So we come to Lady Gregory. [...] it was she who contrived and imposed an "Anglo-Irish" anybody with half an ear could imitate. For decades it was the idiom of stock plays at the Abbey, where the irreverent gave marks for "PQ" (Peasant Quality). It is as formulaic as pseudo-Yiddish and any funny man can still drop into it.

[...]Open Cuchulain of Muirthemne at random: "'I swear by the oath of my people,' said Cuchulain, 'I will make my doings be spoken of among the great doings of heroes in their strength.'"

"My deeds will be remembered," that is, "with the great deeds heroes performed when they were in their prime"; but we have here an idiom which habitually prefers the verb-like form--doings for deeds, the immediate form--spoken of for remembered, and the concrete form--strength for prime.

We have also a syntactical mannerism which we may notice as early in the book as Lady Gregory's explanation of how she shaped her language. "I have told the whole story in plain and simple words, in the same way my old nurse Mary Sheridan used to be telling stories from the Irish long ago, and I a child at Roxborough."

Since Lady Gregory commenced learning Irish only when she was past forty, we are to understand that her old nurse Mary Sheridan used to be talking to her in English, an English moreover that has been strained and stressed by Irish habits of thought. "And I a child at Roxborough" is a symptom, and the way it differs from "When I was a child" merits pondering, with a valuable exposition by Maire Cruise O'Brien to guide us. We shall find that the English sense of things works from verb to verb like Latin, and arranges verbs in systems of subordination, chronological or causal. "She told me that when I was a child" is a normal English sentence, the "was" clause subordinated to the "told" clause. But Irish centers on states, represented by nouns and noun-like constructions. "She used to be telling me" recreates her telling as a stable, ongoing process, she telling and telling, in a vivid pocket of time, something to picture; "I a child" locates my condition as that telling proceeded; the "and" does no more than link these, the child put into the picture with the storyteller.

[...]Mrs O'Brien states the principle a little more technically:

Irish syntax concentrates on the expression of states rather than actions; its verbal system is highly aspective, with the subject of the sentence as the focus of the utterance and all occurrences relating back thereto. It shows a marked predilection for the substantival cast of sentence, ie, a sentence where the noun carries the main burden of content. It has a highly developed prepositional system widely employed; prepositions in Irish supply many of the functions of the verb in English.

When these Irish habits are strong, as in the speech of first-generation bilinguals, they produce such violations of idiom as "If it is a thing that he do come." This means "If he should come," and the word "thing" is trying to anchor it to the aspective. But under pressure from English idiom more accurately sensed that kind of pidgin tends to vanish, "and only Gaelicisms inherently amenable to the recipient structure are retained in the mono-lingual Anglo-Irish." So an English comes to be spoken that has nothing grammatically wrong with it but with still something strange about it, a strangeness frequently obtained by the Irish habit of concentrating on states but supplementing the feeble English verb "to be" with verbs like "put," "leave," "have," which are used to indicate how a state of things has been effected: "She has him crying" (She has made him cry); "I put the fear of God on him" (I frightened him severely); "Have it off him" (take it from him).

regarding this slab of irishsplaining:

i. does this seem correct to you or is it bs?
ii. if it is correct and not bs, to what extent do you think these apparent "irish" modes of speech have diffused into non-irish english in general?