Australian Rules Football was first played in 1859 and was invented to keep cricket players fit during the off season which is why it's played on a cricket pitch.
Yes, there is. Go to the Ararat area and see the memorial to the genesis of the game. I was in contact with a descendant of the Wills family who owned the property where Tom Wills saw the local aboriginal mob playing marn grook, their game, with a stuffed kangaroo hide. Wills got the idea for Aussie rules footy from that game. I told the Wills descendant that it would be a great topic for a book.
@barnowl. 15 kilometres west of Ararat, Victoria. The property was/is called Lexington Station (ranch) Moyston(Campbell'sReef). Tom's (Wills) childhood home. The State Library of Victoria has on record that Marngrook was played at Ledcourt Station 50 kilometres to the north of Lexington Station near Halls Gap (Lake Lonsdale).
Most people first watching Aussie Rules, think it is made of aspects from different sports; but Aussie Rules was invented back in the late 1850's. Rugby Union started in 1871, Rugby League started in 1895, Soccer(or Football) started in 1872, American Football started in 1869, and Gaelic Football started in 1885.
In the winter of 1858 students from three Melbourne schools played against each other in several football games. These matches are believed to be the first organised games of Australian Rules football. In 1859 a set of rules was created and regular games began around Melbourne.
Tom Wills was one of the founder's of Australian Rules Football. Tom spent his early childhood (1840's) on a sheep station (ranch) called Lexington Moyston (earlier called Campbell's Reef). 250Km west of Melbourne. Tom went to the Rugby School in England 🇬🇧 The State library of Victoria has on record Marngrook ( the Aboriginals ball game) was played at in the same areas Tom's love of cricket. With these influences, Australian Rules was born.
The four players in the bench are not substitutes, they are interchange players (although the rules about this have varied in recent years; sometimes they have one substitute), so all 22 players play and rotate through the bench to rest for a few minutes. The number of interchanges allowed during a game have also varied over different seasons. It used to be unlimited but I think it is now limited to about 80 interchanges. Although the quarters are 20 mins of play, time on (for time between a goal and the bounce etc) is usually about 10 mins, so the quarters end up being about 30 mins long and a whole game takes around 2.5 h. "If they do tackle you, they are awarded a free kick from the spot of the tackle" - this is not really correct. If you are tackled and correctly dispose of the ball (kick it or handball it) or if the ball is jostled loose in the tackle or if you are tackled as soon as you take possession of the ball and have had no opportunity to dispose of the ball (as long as you make a genuine attempt to dispose of the ball), it is not a free kick. Correct: no throwing. The game was invented in 1858 in Melbourne and the laws were codified in 1859, making Aussie rules one of the oldest football codes in the world. One of the founding fathers of the game was Tom Wills. His reason for inventing this form of football was as follows: "Now that cricket has been put aside for some few months to come, and cricketers have assumed somewhat of the chrysalis nature (for a time only 'tis true), but at length will again burst forth in all their varied hues, rather than allow this state of torpor to creep over them, and stifle their new supple limbs, why can they not, I say, form a foot-ball club, and form a committee of three or more to draw up a code of laws?", so basically, to have a past-time that cricketers could take up in the off season (winter). Although born in Australia, he was educated at the Rugby School and played an early version of rugby there, so this would certainly have influenced him in aspects of the new code. He also spent time in the company of Aborigines as a child and there is an ancient game played by Aborigines called Marn Grook. A contemporary description of Marn Grook played near Melbourne bears some striking resemblance to Aussie rule: "The men and boys joyfully assemble when this game is to be played. One makes a ball of possum skin, somewhat elastic, but firm and strong. ...The players of this game do not throw the ball as a white man might do, but drop it and at the same time kicks it with his foot, using the instep for that purpose. ...The tallest men have the best chances in this game. ...Some of them will leap as high as five feet from the ground to catch the ball. The person who secures the ball kicks it. ...This continues for hours and the natives never seem to tire of the exercise." However, there is no evidence that I am aware of that directly links Marn Grook to the origin of Aussie rules. Wills' relationship with the Aboriginal people is rather interesting. As mentioned, he socialised with Aborigines when he was a child. Later, his factor and 18 farm hands on his father's property were massacred by Aborigines. Despite this, he later coached an Aboriginal cricket team. Sadly, he was beset by PTSD, likely related to the trauma of the massacre in which his father died, and he took his own life by stabbing himself in the heart. The 10 and 30 seconds awarded following a mark is ti reward the player who takes the mark. Without this advantage, there would be little point in launching yourself in the air to catch the ball and fall to the ground, where you would otherwise be easily tracked. The high mark is the most spectacular aspect of the game and therefore the awarding of an unimpeded kick makes sense. There needs to be a time limit, because otherwise the player could waste time and the game would drag on slowly. Aussie rules is a fast paced, flowing game and therefore time wasting is counter to the style of the game (and is penalised). A player taking a mark can choose to play on or take his 10 or 30 seconds. If they are in the backline or the middle of the ground and there is no opponent nearby, they will usually play on to keep the ball moving and catch the opposition off guard. If there is an opponent close checking them, they will usually stop and take there kick from behind the mark (the place where they marked the ball and where an opponent is allowed to be (to "stand the mark"). If they are within scoring distance of goal, it is usually better to stop and take a deliberate kick rather than play on and rush the kick. A record for the highest specky? No, not really. But there are marks that are awarded mark of the year. Here is a video with the 50 best of all timeL: th-cam.com/video/7AjcFfBvIcs/w-d-xo.html Yes, if you are 50 m from the goal line and receive a 50 m penalty, you will kick from (actually a bit behind, since an opponent is allowed to stand on the goal line) the goal line. If you are 60 m out, the new mark will be 10 m out etc. Here is another video that gives you a bit more of an idea of the spirit of the game: th-cam.com/video/ZXFP5Bjq7TA/w-d-xo.html
That's the max size field, (MCG). Like baseball, different stadiums vary quite a bit in field size, but they're all a good 2-3 times the size of an NFL or soccer field.
Yeah, as others have said, it was invented to keep the cricketers fit during the winter months. Which is also why the field is pretty much the same size as a cricket oval.
10:36 in American football, if time runs out while a play is still ongoing, the players are allowed to finish the play - hence some teams going to extraordinary lengths to keep a play live right at the end of a game.once the ball is downed, it’s game over
The 'shot clock' thing after Taking a Mark was only brought in a few years ago, its one of the very few things borrowed from other sports. Used to be you could take as long as you needed, within reason, to dispose of the ball, if you did take too long the Umpire would call Play On. Now its 10 seconds normally, 30 seconds inside The 50 if trying to score.
AFL was invented in 1859 taking some of it ideas from an indigenous game called Marngrook. A cricket coach was watching kids playing Marngrook and thought it would be a good way of keeping the players fit during the off season so introduced rules and a scoring system to Marngrook and created AFL.
I think in Rugby (and American Football too) play can continue to run so long as the ball is live when the time expires. In Australian Rules the ball can only be played after the time expires if a player is awarded a free kick or takes a mark and and hasn't yet made their play.
Many players play the whole gamer, and its usually 30 minutes per quartier because you can get 10 minutes of added time when play stops because the ball goes out of bounds or is stopped by a tackle. The bench players can sub in for tired players, max 75 changes per game.
There are 3 players on the bench who can interchange with any player on their team for any amount of time. But you can only use those interchange players 120 times throughout the game. And the 4th player is use as a substitute for a player injured that won’t come back on.
50m penalty is similar to a 15 yard penalty in American Football. American: A flag is thrown, the umpires confer, one walks to the middle of the field, explains the infraction, everybody walks down the field 15 yards, automatic first down, game starts again. If the penalty takes you to the goal line, then that's where the down starts = ~4 minutes Aussie: Umpire blows whistle, screams the infraction, runs 50 m along with everyone else on the field, umpire marks the spot, the 'spot' is where a defender can stand. If the penalty takes you to the goal line, then the defender will stand on the goal line and you can take your kick from as far away from the defender you want. - 20 seconds max
The game usually runs 100 minutes as up to 10 minutes "time on" can be added for stoppages ( × 4 quarters ) Players often run more than 10 miles per game.
He actually got fair bit wrong. 4 qrts of 20 minutes plus extra time for injuries, out of bounds etc stops the clock. quarters are usually 30 minutes long or more. If kicked further that 15 metres a teammate or opponent can 'mark' the ball and get what he called a free kick. if in scoring range , a player has 30 seconds to composes himself and go through his routine to kick for goal. If out of range it is about 5 to 7 seconds to move the ball on. This avoids time wasting. A player does not get a free kick for just tackling. the tackled player must have had sufficient opportunity to dispose of the ball in the umpires opinion. So if the player gets the ball and is immediately tackled he wont be penalised, but if he has taken a couple of steps or has it for a second or two and is tackled its a free kick against. There are 4 interchange players and only one substitute. Players rotate off the bench, now a maximum 80 times a game. the substitute is used if a player is injured and out of the game. the substitute takes his place as an interchange player to maintain the 4 interchange that can be rotated and not give the opposition too much of an advantage. 50 metre penalties, yeah confusing and a big penalty, but it is used mainly to avoid time wasting. Aussie rules was formed with a standard set of rules before any other football code, be it soccer, rugby, or NFL. Its first official game was in 1858. Hope that helps.
There are interchange players and substitute players. A substitute player cannot play until he replaces another player, and the replaced player cannot play after being replaced. By contrast, an interchange player replaces another player more temporarily, such that the replaced player can come back in. Current rules allow one substitute player and four interchange players. Up to 75 interchanges can be made per game. Exceeding the interchange limit results in a free kick for the opposing team. Interchange players can replace anybody on the field, meaning that you may not necessarily see any player play every minute of the game. Interchange players are generally used to rest replaced players, whereas substitute players are more commonly used to replace injured players or implement a change in strategy.
You need to watch "A Beginners Guide to Australian Rules Football", it gives more information about the game and it's progress in relation to the Women's Competition.
If it wasn't clear about what happens after a mark, the player who marked the ball gets 10 seconds to stand on, or anywhere up to about 6 yards behinds where they marked the ball, and take a kick. They can not be tackled in that ten seconds. If the player moves too far to the side of where they marked it, uses up the 10 seconds without kicking the ball, or runs too far back from the mark ( in a way the the umpire could reasonably assume they were not goingto go forwards with their movement, the umpire will call "play on". When the player that marked to ball kicks it, or the umpire calls play on, the game resumes as normal, meaning all players can be tackled like normal. If a player is tackled late after a mark (more than 2-3 seconds) or is tackled when they do not have the ball in their hands, the umpire will call "holding the man" or "holding" and the player who was being tackled will be awarded a free kick. Free kicks are essencially super marks, in which the player with get slightly longer to decide what to do, and get given a bit more free space around them. On a mark or free kick, players also have a "saftey area" of about a 2 meter circle in which opposition players can't enter. If they do, the player with the ball will be rewarded a free kick, or a 50m penalty depending on the circumstances
Hey Connor, You’re curious about the inception but everybody answered your question last time you reacted 😂 this sport existed long before American football and is the oldest codified football in the world.
@michaelrogers2080 Does Connor even read the comments? I am getting fed up with some American TH-camrs. Not reading the comments is like a scam. It is nice when the maker of the video writes you back. Even the old TV shows would answer fan mail. Not interactive that sux!
The game originates from the mid 1800s, and really, the factors involved in its origins make sense. During that time, there was a lot of movement internationally (usually in search of gold), and Melbourne residents had a wide variety of backgrounds. Naturally the English upper class wanted to play cricket, and established places to play. But there wasn't awfully much to do in the winter. "Football" was an option, but at that time, what you called football depended on your background. Also, most "football" games started with the players agreeing to rules on an ad-hoc basis. So, to get enough people interested in football during the cricket off season, rules has to be devised to appeal to the local population. This meant there was rugby, association, gaelic and most likely indigenous influences in the rules. These were written down and agreed to (probably over a few too many beers) rather than the adhoc approach. The rough outline of the rules is still the basis for todays game, but the game they decided to play back then is probably not awfully much like todays game. For example, there was no behind posts, no boundary line, a "kick off" line and place kicks were a common affair.
Sounds plausible, but actually this is quite wrong. As others have said, Australian football predates all other codes, so the influence would have flowed in the opposite direction to what you are suggesting.
22 players per side. 1 replacement who can only play if a player is pulled out due to injury (replacement), 18 starters plus 3 interchange players. The 21 players can be swapped up to a total of 120 times during a game
I'm pretty sure that 120 is now only 80 and has been for a number of years. Haven't heard anything about only having 3 interchange players. When did that happen?
We extra time added for stoppages of play, a quarter can be as long as 30 minutes plus; this means on average a game can take over two hours of playing time.
That kind of 'Cracks me up' that an Englishman is commentating Aussie Rules Football rules 😅!. C'mon Aussie C'mon 😂! And yeah mate we have 4 in reserve! Also AFL or VFL as it was known back in it's hayday was in the 1850's!
The players on the field and the interchange bench are allowed 75 changes per game; with no limit to the number of changes an individual player can have.
You should watch 'What is AFL? Aussie Rules Explained' by the AFL it's made for Americans. The only thing it explains poorly is the scoring, which is the first number is the goals so times it by 6 and the second number is the behinds times by 1 and the third number is the first two added together for the total
Watch a full game or quarter and you’ll understand. A few rules come under umpire discretion and half the crowd cheer, other half boo. You’ll see. Go Carlton ( blues ) haven’t won premiership since 1995, but back in the hunt.
If a 50m penalty is given within the teams forward 50m arc, yes the player gets to kick from the goal line straight out in front but! He will have an opponent standing on the “mark” (where the mark or penalty is taken) to try and put him off the kick (a psyche out).
Aussie Rules Footy was the first codified football game in about 1855-6? somewhere around that time. It also includes some aspects of Mangrook a game played by Australia's First Nation people so parts of it go back 50,000 years. If the ball touches the ground or is touched by another player you cannot be given a Mark and must play on. If a player touches the ball before it goes through the goal it is called touched and only one point is awarded.
Tom Wills, one of the founders of what became AFL was the only white child in Victoria's Western District (modern day Moyston). He was fluent in Djab Warrung (the native language of the local Aboriginal mob) Wills played the local version of Marngrook (my typo [Mangrook] in the first reply, sorry), this a part of his family history as told by them through the generations. This has been accepted by the AFL and is acknowledged on an official AFL memorial to Tom Wills in Moyston, erected in 1998. While playing as a child with Aboriginal children in this area [Moyston] he [Tom Wills] developed a game which he later utilised in the formation of Australian Football. So I guess the AFL disagree with you.
As a child, I lived on a farm 10 kilometres (6 miles) south of Moyston. My father was also the president of Moystons Australian Rules Football club. Tom Wills was brought up on a very large ranch called Lexington Station. The Station (ranch) to the north called Ledcourt. The State library of Victoria has it on record Marngrook was played there. The four people that codified the game. TOM WILLS half first cousin and latter brother in law Henry Harrison wrote a lot of the earlier rules . Who would often visited the Will's family at Lexington Moyston. Moyston(town) was originally called Campbell's Reef.
Our game not a bastardisation of any other game. Aussie Rules first codified and played in 1858 and as such pre-dates soccer, both rugby codes, American football, baseball and basketball. We have 18 players for each team on the ground at one time and 4 on the bench. Official game time is 80 minutes, however in reality it is a rarity for a game to be less than 100 minutes after time on is played each quarter. Don't need to be tall to play footy. I'm 5 feet 5 and I started at age 8 and retired at 34.
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A player has roughly 5 seconds to 'dispose' of the ball (e.g. kick or handball) after they are awarded a mark or free kick by the umpire. This small pause allows for more skillful play and pinpointing a teammate, but without slowing the game down too much. If the player does nothing in that time, the umpire will call 'play on' and action resumes as normal (i.e the player with the ball can then be tackled). However, if the player is within range of kicking a goal, then the umpire will instead allow 30 seconds because accurate goal kicking takes a bit more than 5 seconds. The white arcs painted at both ends of the ground measure 50 metres from the goals, which is roughly the distance that the best players can kick accurately. Therefore, the umpire will usually only allow the 30 second option if the player is near or within the 50 metre arc of the goals they are attacking. Also, any player from either team can mark the ball after a kick, not just a teammate as stated in the video.
I observe that the Marn Grook origins of Australian Rules Football is peddled. Tom Wills was the only child and son of Horatio Wills, Pastoralist (read squatter), Newspaper Owner and Politician s in the Colony of Victoria in those times, Horatio and Tom have been named as mass murderers of Aborigines in Rockhampton in Qld in 1861, Horatio killed in a battle between local farmers and a local tribe. Tom was hardly the sensitive admirer of indigenous culture he is now painted, especially given his background. Tom was sent "home" to England, to Rugby School in Warwickshire, for his education. Australians calling England "home" is outmoded today but was prevalent pre post WW11 mass immigration, read pre war literature, particularly the novels of Neville Shute, it gets a mention in "A Town like Alice". Rugby, as we know it today, derived from a game played at Rugby School. In the history of Rugby, you'll read about the legendry William Webb Ellis, a Rugby student who reputedly picked up the ball during a football match and ran with it, thus creating the 'rugby' style of play, that was in 1823 ! The game played pre 1823 was akin to soccer i e the feet only. Read Thomas Hughes, "Tom Brown's Schooldays" published in 1857. The story is set in the 1830s at Rugby School. There's references to and descriptions of football at Rugby School in it. Football of various descriptions was played in 19th century Public Schools of England, inspired by and derived from games played on Saint's Feastdays between villages where the object of the game was to deposit some object, a small bale of hay for example, at the church door of one village and resisted by the other village. Common rules had to be agreed upon so inter school games could be played. Vestiges of these primitive sports still exist, read up on the Eton Wall Game, played at Eton School to this day. One description I read ran "...where scoring occurs with monotonous regularity every 4 or 5 years..." In 1986, I wrote an article on the history of football for an educational institution in which I was then involved. My research was extremely limited but narry a mention of Marn Grook. I believe that it's a Bruce Pascoe-esque invention consistent with the current revision of the history of the indigenous in Australia, crudely put, it's bullsh.t.
So if you get tackled, and didn't have the ball long enough to get rid of it, the umpire will bounce the ball up from that spot. Where two players will try and tap to advantage for their team.
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The ten second and thirty second rules are to prevent unnecessary or excessive time wasting. Even though the rules of the mark are in force and the opposing team players cannot impede the kick, within limits, the time clock for that quarter has not stopped, it is still counting down. The time clock only really stops for injuries, some penalties, ball out of bounds, and the time from a goal to a restart in mid-field. As for AFL resemblance to other sports, the basic rules were well established before those of American football and basketball. Only soccer or football rules and basic rugby rules were established and in play before Aussie Rules. From the similar shape of the ball one could correctly deduce that AFL was initially a derivative of some form of Rugby but now is virtually unrecognisable as such. There is no discernable link between the initial development of AFL and American football except that both were originally a derivative of a form of Rugby but both have now fully matured into completely different games that are practically unrecognisable from their Rugby origins.
There is an amateur AMERICAN Australian football league. Look up 25yr US AFL. I didn’t realise till I seen the TH-cam clip a few months ago. Who knows, u mite have a local team
American football evolved from rugby and to a lesser degree so did aussie rules. The difference being that aussie rules was more a mix of rugby and an aboriginal game called mangrook. Rugby 1845, Aussie Rules, 1859 and American football 1869, English soccer 1863, and basketball 1893. So, my question is, with the exception of Rugby, why did all these sports copy our Aussie Rules game?
The video is a bit misleading. A mark can be taken by a player of either side not just by a team mate. Either an opposing player or a player on the same team can mark a kicked ball provided it hasn't been touched by another player, it hasn't touched the ground, it's still in the field of play and time hasn't expired before it was caught.
The trouble with these AFL explaination videos, are the rules get subtley changed every few years. I havent seen a video yet where they've been 100% clear for the first timer. - With this video, he mentions a player gets a free kick when tackled, as if its automatic, which isnt true. The player must have had an opportunity to dispose (kick/handball) of the ball prior to be tackled & if they dont dispose of it properly (throw/drop the ball) then the tackler is awarded a free kick, but even that is a grey area with varying interpretations. If the umpire believes theres no freekick, then you'll hear "play on" being called out & the ball is still available to be won by either team. If the ball gets stuck in congestion (player tackled & cant get the ball out) & doesnt look like it will come out then the umpire will throw the ball up (like a centre bounce, but anywhere on the oval) - With tackling, you cant tackle a player who doesnt have the ball, (holding the man is paid & that player is given a freekick) and you cant tackle a player above the shoulders (too high freekick) or below the knees (tripping freekick) and you cant trip a player (tripping free kick) or dive into a players legs (tunneling free kick) - The term "Mark" has two meanings in aussie rules 1) To catch the ball as this video explains & it also indicates the spot that the opposition player stands (when a mark or free kick has been awarded) As you'll notice in matches, if a player takes a mark or gets a free kick, they have to move back from where that mark or free kick occured & the opposition player stands on that spot (the mark). The opposition player is "standing the mark" - With a mark you have to catch & control the ball for a 'reasonable" amount of time for it to be paid. Opposition players out of position may try to punch the ball to prevent a mark being taken. The opposition can punch the ball,, but cannot punch the players arms going for the mark otherwise a free kick should be paid (another grey area for interpretations) - The 50m arc/line is a distance of 50m from the middle of the two middle goalposts. A 50m penalty will move the player 50m towards their goals in a directl line with that middle point from where the current "mark" is. (If the current mark is less that 50m from their goals, then yes the mark is moved all the way to the middle point between the goals & you''ll see the oppositon player stands there) - A goal only occurs when the ball comes from an attacking player below the knee. It has to be the attacking player though, if it comes off a opposition player it is 1 point. So usually a goal is from the foot, but it could also be a goal if deflected off attacking players shin. If off a thigh or any other part of player on either team then it is 1 point. - Interchange. (This concept has changed many times over the years) Currently 4 interchange positions where any player can be moved exchanged with another player (to rest) & on the ground as required. There used to be an unlimited amount of times, but now its limited to 70 or whatever this video said. - What happens after a score With a goal the ball is taken back to the centre of the ground for a centre bounce (as happens at start of game & quarters) Usually takes a minute to move it back and on TV there is usually a commercial break With a behind (or point) the opposition team kicks the ball back out from the goalsquare. (like being a goalkeeper, after a missed shot) - Any player can play any position and they can move as the game is flowing. They do this to try and get a size mismatch etc. or to "rest" up forward, although this is now less common as vritually every player needs to cover ground defensively. - hope that clears up the less obvious items for first timers to this great game.
It predates most codified sports rather than being a combination of them, it’s the oldest codified sport in the world I believe. Soccer, Rugby and Gaelic Football were around though American Football as it exists, now distinct from Rugby it evolved from, is one of the newest sports
Why allow 30 seconds in the first place… because that’s usually enough time, it’s an advantage for playing well but taking too long and delaying the game is punished. It’s well balanced It’s like asking in American football why have downs in the first place, it’s how the game works.
You can watch this sport your whole life and still be confused, even if you think your'e not. The opposition supportes will tell you exactly how you don't understand the rules, and you will tell them how they are wrong. Aussie rules are written so eloquently ambigious that even the umpires have no Idea, they even have a comitee of umpires that discuss the rules every year to come up with a new interpratation that overturns a century of tradition on a whin. It's sort of like the legal system.
Yeah been around for 150 years and the 20 minute quarters end up being 30 minutes or so every game there is 10 minutes in every quarter time added for stoppages in play and games go around 120 minutes there is no yellow or red cards, no sin bins
TH-cam keeps feeding me variations of "British man, teaches American man, about Australian sport!", or various reactions to the Aussie "What is AFL" video, voiced by an American!.. It's like, no one understands if Aussies explain it. lol
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Yes it has aspects of other sports ,even the art of pugilism, but , the old adage, a hitter in each line , are gone now , Concussion is a worry , after retirement so had to redress this ,but Aussie Rules , being the first Codified , it must have been the first code to do it all , if the final sirens blows , that's it ,game over , unless, a mark was taken or a free kick given before the siren , they get ,if within distance , a set shot , no deviating the mark on ground where the other player stands , if you play on ,the game will be deemed over the instant you deviate , if you mark or kick within range you have 30 sec to take Kick , time wasting is frowned on ,and no swapping punches any more , it was a thuggish game early doors , but it's still the best sport on the planet RARARA
9:43 Just about, the man on the mark that’s trying to block you will be stand just in front of the goal line, the kicker will be however far back from that man he needs to be to kick it over his head.
Highest mark? Supposedly: Joe Daniher (201cm) over Luke Delaney (194cm), 2016 Estimated height: 3.7m or 12 feet 1 inch Narrowly beating: Gary Moorcroft (173cm) over Brad Johnson (182cm), 2001 Estimated height: 3.6m or 11feet 8 inches
Danihers mark he was strattling the other guys shoulder, Moorcroft was at full stretch opponent falling foward and Moorcroft was falling backwards , the best high mark , has to be the one that was most inspiring , so that can only be the mark the lifted a team to even higher esteem ,by fuelling the greatest come back in football history, in a Grand Final , The biggest half time deficit overcome , in front of the largest crowd ever 121,646 saw Jezza , jump on Jerker Jenkins Back and it lifted the roof off the grandstand , and that's precisely when Carlton got back into that match , that mark set it all off , camera angles don't do it Justice ,Jezza was high , I was there 12 yo , saw it , but I did see the late Trevor Barker take the best mark in a game v Sth Melb ,now Sydney , over South skipper Ricky Quade , I'll never forget it he literally defied gravity and hung in the air and touched down on Quades shoulders, he was phenomenal VALE TREVOR BARKER a true champion of our great game , taken too young , a gift to have had the pleasure of witnessing his extraordinary ability GO BLUES RARARA
A game goes for closer to 120 minutes , it was codified before any other ball sport in history being codified in 1858 , so even the FA CUP in England 1871 , Carlton my side was incepted in 1864 , older than the FA Cup, Rugby was played early in the colonies , and footy was played on rugger pitches , but these were just impromptu games rugby is codified many years later , predates Basketball everything , Gaelic footy although a round ball is similar ,but no tackling contact , not like Aussie Rules, it's the greatest game on earth GO BLUES RARARA
Connor bro, I like you, but you pause too bloody much mate. By pausing a video that is explaining something you are confusing yourself. Stop the pausing bro. If I was explaining something to you and you paused me during my explanation, you will get confused. Instead of pausing watch a video twice. It is annoying for the viewer as well because you do kit SOOOO much man.
To the guy doing the video do you remember doing a video 11 days ago at 6:27 when it explained the scores how did you get it then and then you had to listen to this video at 4:07 for them to explain it and to get it again and you asked people in th3 last video when it was did bother to read the comments in last video
You’ve made more than one of these videos and you still don’t get it google it and educate yourself at 4:07 it explain the scoring the other video explained the scoring move on to the next technical thing like teams best 50 marks or goals or top players google the scoring if you still don’t get it then your beyond help not being a prick it’s just the truth
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Australian Rules Football was first played in 1859 and was invented to keep cricket players fit during the off season which is why it's played on a cricket pitch.
It’s the oldest codified sport in the world
It was actually based of and aboriginal game that is thousands of years old
@@brownie69420Nah.......there is no proof of that claim or even a letter or memo from the 1850' s to suggest it might be true .
Yes, there is. Go to the Ararat area and see the memorial to the genesis of the game. I was in contact with a descendant of the Wills family who owned the property where Tom Wills saw the local aboriginal mob playing marn grook, their game, with a stuffed kangaroo hide. Wills got the idea for Aussie rules footy from that game. I told the Wills descendant that it would be a great topic for a book.
@barnowl. 15 kilometres west of Ararat, Victoria.
The property was/is called Lexington Station (ranch) Moyston(Campbell'sReef). Tom's (Wills) childhood home.
The State Library of Victoria has on record that Marngrook was played at Ledcourt Station 50 kilometres to the north of Lexington Station near Halls Gap (Lake Lonsdale).
Most people first watching Aussie Rules, think it is made of aspects from different sports; but Aussie Rules was invented back in the late 1850's. Rugby Union started in 1871, Rugby League started in 1895, Soccer(or Football) started in 1872, American Football started in 1869, and Gaelic Football started in 1885.
Rugby was first played in the Rugby school in England, in 1845.
@@HeatherE-rf43 Australian football was first played by Australian indiginous people who called it marngrook 10,000 years ago.
In the winter of 1858 students from three Melbourne schools played against each other in several football games. These matches are believed to be the first organised games of Australian Rules football. In 1859 a set of rules was created and regular games began around Melbourne.
Tom Wills was one of the founder's of Australian Rules Football. Tom spent his early childhood (1840's) on a sheep station (ranch) called Lexington Moyston (earlier called Campbell's Reef). 250Km west of Melbourne.
Tom went to the Rugby School in England 🇬🇧
The State library of Victoria has on record Marngrook ( the Aboriginals ball game) was played at in the same areas Tom's love of cricket. With these influences, Australian Rules was born.
The four players in the bench are not substitutes, they are interchange players (although the rules about this have varied in recent years; sometimes they have one substitute), so all 22 players play and rotate through the bench to rest for a few minutes. The number of interchanges allowed during a game have also varied over different seasons. It used to be unlimited but I think it is now limited to about 80 interchanges.
Although the quarters are 20 mins of play, time on (for time between a goal and the bounce etc) is usually about 10 mins, so the quarters end up being about 30 mins long and a whole game takes around 2.5 h.
"If they do tackle you, they are awarded a free kick from the spot of the tackle" - this is not really correct. If you are tackled and correctly dispose of the ball (kick it or handball it) or if the ball is jostled loose in the tackle or if you are tackled as soon as you take possession of the ball and have had no opportunity to dispose of the ball (as long as you make a genuine attempt to dispose of the ball), it is not a free kick.
Correct: no throwing.
The game was invented in 1858 in Melbourne and the laws were codified in 1859, making Aussie rules one of the oldest football codes in the world. One of the founding fathers of the game was Tom Wills. His reason for inventing this form of football was as follows: "Now that cricket has been put aside for some few months to come, and cricketers have assumed somewhat of the chrysalis nature (for a time only 'tis true), but at length will again burst forth in all their varied hues, rather than allow this state of torpor to creep over them, and stifle their new supple limbs, why can they not, I say, form a foot-ball club, and form a committee of three or more to draw up a code of laws?", so basically, to have a past-time that cricketers could take up in the off season (winter). Although born in Australia, he was educated at the Rugby School and played an early version of rugby there, so this would certainly have influenced him in aspects of the new code. He also spent time in the company of Aborigines as a child and there is an ancient game played by Aborigines called Marn Grook. A contemporary description of Marn Grook played near Melbourne bears some striking resemblance to Aussie rule: "The men and boys joyfully assemble when this game is to be played. One makes a ball of possum skin, somewhat elastic, but firm and strong. ...The players of this game do not throw the ball as a white man might do, but drop it and at the same time kicks it with his foot, using the instep for that purpose. ...The tallest men have the best chances in this game. ...Some of them will leap as high as five feet from the ground to catch the ball. The person who secures the ball kicks it. ...This continues for hours and the natives never seem to tire of the exercise." However, there is no evidence that I am aware of that directly links Marn Grook to the origin of Aussie rules. Wills' relationship with the Aboriginal people is rather interesting. As mentioned, he socialised with Aborigines when he was a child. Later, his factor and 18 farm hands on his father's property were massacred by Aborigines. Despite this, he later coached an Aboriginal cricket team. Sadly, he was beset by PTSD, likely related to the trauma of the massacre in which his father died, and he took his own life by stabbing himself in the heart.
The 10 and 30 seconds awarded following a mark is ti reward the player who takes the mark. Without this advantage, there would be little point in launching yourself in the air to catch the ball and fall to the ground, where you would otherwise be easily tracked. The high mark is the most spectacular aspect of the game and therefore the awarding of an unimpeded kick makes sense. There needs to be a time limit, because otherwise the player could waste time and the game would drag on slowly. Aussie rules is a fast paced, flowing game and therefore time wasting is counter to the style of the game (and is penalised). A player taking a mark can choose to play on or take his 10 or 30 seconds. If they are in the backline or the middle of the ground and there is no opponent nearby, they will usually play on to keep the ball moving and catch the opposition off guard. If there is an opponent close checking them, they will usually stop and take there kick from behind the mark (the place where they marked the ball and where an opponent is allowed to be (to "stand the mark"). If they are within scoring distance of goal, it is usually better to stop and take a deliberate kick rather than play on and rush the kick.
A record for the highest specky? No, not really. But there are marks that are awarded mark of the year. Here is a video with the 50 best of all timeL: th-cam.com/video/7AjcFfBvIcs/w-d-xo.html
Yes, if you are 50 m from the goal line and receive a 50 m penalty, you will kick from (actually a bit behind, since an opponent is allowed to stand on the goal line) the goal line. If you are 60 m out, the new mark will be 10 m out etc.
Here is another video that gives you a bit more of an idea of the spirit of the game: th-cam.com/video/ZXFP5Bjq7TA/w-d-xo.html
That's the max size field, (MCG). Like baseball, different stadiums vary quite a bit in field size, but they're all a good 2-3 times the size of an NFL or soccer field.
Yeah, as others have said, it was invented to keep the cricketers fit during the winter months. Which is also why the field is pretty much the same size as a cricket oval.
Time ON is added for stoppages. Generally quarters last for 30 minutes.
10:36 in American football, if time runs out while a play is still ongoing, the players are allowed to finish the play - hence some teams going to extraordinary lengths to keep a play live right at the end of a game.once the ball is downed, it’s game over
1858 was created well before basketball gridiron or volleyball
The 'shot clock' thing after Taking a Mark was only brought in a few years ago, its one of the very few things borrowed from other sports.
Used to be you could take as long as you needed, within reason, to dispose of the ball, if you did take too long the Umpire would call Play On. Now its 10 seconds normally, 30 seconds inside The 50 if trying to score.
AFL was invented in 1859 taking some of it ideas from an indigenous game called Marngrook.
A cricket coach was watching kids playing Marngrook and thought it would be a good way of keeping the players fit during the off season so introduced rules and a scoring system to Marngrook and created AFL.
20 MIN QUARTERS PLUS ADDED TIME AVERAGE LENGTH OF QUARTER IS 30 MINUTES ; TOTAL MATCH TIME IS 120 MINUTES
I think in Rugby (and American Football too) play can continue to run so long as the ball is live when the time expires.
In Australian Rules the ball can only be played after the time expires if a player is awarded a free kick or takes a mark and and hasn't yet made their play.
Many players play the whole gamer, and its usually 30 minutes per quartier because you can get 10 minutes of added time when play stops because the ball goes out of bounds or is stopped by a tackle.
The bench players can sub in for tired players, max 75 changes per game.
There are 3 players on the bench who can interchange with any player on their team for any amount of time. But you can only use those interchange players 120 times throughout the game. And the 4th player is use as a substitute for a player injured that won’t come back on.
FOUR interchange players, not three
AFL was first invented in 1858 by Tom Wills and it featured 2 teams of 40 players per side. Codified in 1859.
50m penalty is similar to a 15 yard penalty in American Football.
American: A flag is thrown, the umpires confer, one walks to the middle of the field, explains the infraction, everybody walks down the field 15 yards, automatic first down, game starts again. If the penalty takes you to the goal line, then that's where the down starts
= ~4 minutes
Aussie: Umpire blows whistle, screams the infraction, runs 50 m along with everyone else on the field, umpire marks the spot, the 'spot' is where a defender can stand. If the penalty takes you to the goal line, then the defender will stand on the goal line and you can take your kick from as far away from the defender you want.
- 20 seconds max
The game usually runs 100 minutes as up to 10 minutes "time on" can be added for stoppages ( × 4 quarters ) Players often run more than 10 miles per game.
He actually got fair bit wrong. 4 qrts of 20 minutes plus extra time for injuries, out of bounds etc stops the clock. quarters are usually 30 minutes long or more.
If kicked further that 15 metres a teammate or opponent can 'mark' the ball and get what he called a free kick. if in scoring range , a player has 30 seconds to composes himself and go through his routine to kick for goal. If out of range it is about 5 to 7 seconds to move the ball on. This avoids time wasting.
A player does not get a free kick for just tackling. the tackled player must have had sufficient opportunity to dispose of the ball in the umpires opinion. So if the player gets the ball and is immediately tackled he wont be penalised, but if he has taken a couple of steps or has it for a second or two and is tackled its a free kick against.
There are 4 interchange players and only one substitute. Players rotate off the bench, now a maximum 80 times a game. the substitute is used if a player is injured and out of the game. the substitute takes his place as an interchange player to maintain the 4 interchange that can be rotated and not give the opposition too much of an advantage.
50 metre penalties, yeah confusing and a big penalty, but it is used mainly to avoid time wasting.
Aussie rules was formed with a standard set of rules before any other football code, be it soccer, rugby, or NFL. Its first official game was in 1858.
Hope that helps.
There are interchange players and substitute players. A substitute player cannot play until he replaces another player, and the replaced player cannot play after being replaced. By contrast, an interchange player replaces another player more temporarily, such that the replaced player can come back in. Current rules allow one substitute player and four interchange players. Up to 75 interchanges can be made per game. Exceeding the interchange limit results in a free kick for the opposing team. Interchange players can replace anybody on the field, meaning that you may not necessarily see any player play every minute of the game. Interchange players are generally used to rest replaced players, whereas substitute players are more commonly used to replace injured players or implement a change in strategy.
You need to watch "A Beginners Guide to Australian Rules Football", it gives more information about the game and it's progress in relation to the Women's Competition.
No it doesn’t… this one gives way more info about the game… there’s also one by and English guy who goes into far more detail than anyone else
If it wasn't clear about what happens after a mark, the player who marked the ball gets 10 seconds to stand on, or anywhere up to about 6 yards behinds where they marked the ball, and take a kick. They can not be tackled in that ten seconds.
If the player moves too far to the side of where they marked it, uses up the 10 seconds without kicking the ball, or runs too far back from the mark ( in a way the the umpire could reasonably assume they were not goingto go forwards with their movement, the umpire will call "play on".
When the player that marked to ball kicks it, or the umpire calls play on, the game resumes as normal, meaning all players can be tackled like normal.
If a player is tackled late after a mark (more than 2-3 seconds) or is tackled when they do not have the ball in their hands, the umpire will call "holding the man" or "holding" and the player who was being tackled will be awarded a free kick.
Free kicks are essencially super marks, in which the player with get slightly longer to decide what to do, and get given a bit more free space around them.
On a mark or free kick, players also have a "saftey area" of about a 2 meter circle in which opposition players can't enter. If they do, the player with the ball will be rewarded a free kick, or a 50m penalty depending on the circumstances
Hey Connor, You’re curious about the inception but everybody answered your question last time you reacted 😂 this sport existed long before American football and is the oldest codified football in the world.
@michaelrogers2080 🤣 yeh it’s the oldest code of football in the world !!
@michaelrogers2080 Does Connor even read the comments?
I am getting fed up with some American TH-camrs. Not reading the comments is like a scam.
It is nice when the maker of the video writes you back. Even the old TV shows would answer fan mail.
Not interactive that sux!
@@berranari1exactly then he goes making another video explaining the same thing then still wanders how things work
I don't think this kid reads our comments
@@lealand423 he’s replied to none of them
The game originates from the mid 1800s, and really, the factors involved in its origins make sense. During that time, there was a lot of movement internationally (usually in search of gold), and Melbourne residents had a wide variety of backgrounds. Naturally the English upper class wanted to play cricket, and established places to play. But there wasn't awfully much to do in the winter. "Football" was an option, but at that time, what you called football depended on your background. Also, most "football" games started with the players agreeing to rules on an ad-hoc basis. So, to get enough people interested in football during the cricket off season, rules has to be devised to appeal to the local population. This meant there was rugby, association, gaelic and most likely indigenous influences in the rules. These were written down and agreed to (probably over a few too many beers) rather than the adhoc approach. The rough outline of the rules is still the basis for todays game, but the game they decided to play back then is probably not awfully much like todays game. For example, there was no behind posts, no boundary line, a "kick off" line and place kicks were a common affair.
Sounds plausible, but actually this is quite wrong. As others have said, Australian football predates all other codes, so the influence would have flowed in the opposite direction to what you are suggesting.
22 players per side. 1 replacement who can only play if a player is pulled out due to injury (replacement), 18 starters plus 3 interchange players. The 21 players can be swapped up to a total of 120 times during a game
I'm pretty sure that 120 is now only 80 and has been for a number of years. Haven't heard anything about only having 3 interchange players. When did that happen?
G'day mate. You raise some interesting questions.
We extra time added for stoppages of play, a quarter can be as long as 30 minutes plus; this means on average a game can take over two hours of playing time.
The Melbourne Cricket Ground dimentions are bigger than maximum length
You have to see the comedian Jimmy Rees and his +the guy who decides the Superbowl " and"The guy who decides Australian rules football "
That kind of 'Cracks me up' that an Englishman is commentating Aussie Rules Football rules 😅!. C'mon Aussie C'mon 😂! And yeah mate we have 4 in reserve! Also AFL or VFL as it was known back in it's hayday was in the 1850's!
They allow the 30 seconds so you can have a shot at the goal.
The players on the field and the interchange bench are allowed 75 changes per game; with no limit to the number of changes an individual player can have.
You should watch 'What is AFL? Aussie Rules Explained' by the AFL it's made for Americans. The only thing it explains poorly is the scoring, which is the first number is the goals so times it by 6 and the second number is the behinds times by 1 and the third number is the first two added together for the total
He has.
Watch a full game or quarter and you’ll understand. A few rules come under umpire discretion and half the crowd cheer, other half boo. You’ll see. Go Carlton ( blues ) haven’t won premiership since 1995, but back in the hunt.
If a 50m penalty is given within the teams forward 50m arc, yes the player gets to kick from the goal line straight out in front but! He will have an opponent standing on the “mark” (where the mark or penalty is taken) to try and put him off the kick (a psyche out).
Aussie Rules Footy was the first codified football game in about 1855-6? somewhere around that time. It also includes some aspects of Mangrook a game played by Australia's First Nation people so parts of it go back 50,000 years. If the ball touches the ground or is touched by another player you cannot be given a Mark and must play on. If a player touches the ball before it goes through the goal it is called touched and only one point is awarded.
Tom Wills, one of the founders of what became AFL was the only white child in Victoria's Western District (modern day Moyston). He was fluent in Djab Warrung (the native language of the local Aboriginal mob) Wills played the local version of Marngrook (my typo [Mangrook] in the first reply, sorry), this a part of his family history as told by them through the generations. This has been accepted by the AFL and is acknowledged on an official AFL memorial to Tom Wills in Moyston, erected in 1998.
While playing as a child with Aboriginal children in this area [Moyston] he [Tom Wills] developed a game which he later utilised in the formation of Australian Football.
So I guess the AFL disagree with you.
As a child, I lived on a farm 10 kilometres (6 miles) south of Moyston.
My father was also the president of Moystons Australian Rules Football club.
Tom Wills was brought up on a very large ranch called Lexington Station.
The Station (ranch) to the north called Ledcourt. The State library of Victoria has it on record Marngrook was played there.
The four people that codified the game. TOM WILLS half first cousin and latter brother in law Henry Harrison wrote a lot of the earlier rules . Who would often visited the Will's family at Lexington Moyston.
Moyston(town) was originally called Campbell's Reef.
Our game not a bastardisation of any other game. Aussie Rules first codified and played in 1858 and as such pre-dates soccer, both rugby codes, American football, baseball and basketball. We have 18 players for each team on the ground at one time and 4 on the bench. Official game time is 80 minutes, however in reality it is a rarity for a game to be less than 100 minutes after time on is played each quarter. Don't need to be tall to play footy. I'm 5 feet 5 and I started at age 8 and retired at 34.
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A player has roughly 5 seconds to 'dispose' of the ball (e.g. kick or handball) after they are awarded a mark or free kick by the umpire. This small pause allows for more skillful play and pinpointing a teammate, but without slowing the game down too much. If the player does nothing in that time, the umpire will call 'play on' and action resumes as normal (i.e the player with the ball can then be tackled).
However, if the player is within range of kicking a goal, then the umpire will instead allow 30 seconds because accurate goal kicking takes a bit more than 5 seconds. The white arcs painted at both ends of the ground measure 50 metres from the goals, which is roughly the distance that the best players can kick accurately. Therefore, the umpire will usually only allow the 30 second option if the player is near or within the 50 metre arc of the goals they are attacking.
Also, any player from either team can mark the ball after a kick, not just a teammate as stated in the video.
I observe that the Marn Grook origins of Australian Rules Football is peddled. Tom Wills was the only child and son of Horatio Wills, Pastoralist (read squatter), Newspaper Owner and Politician s in the Colony of Victoria in those times, Horatio and Tom have been named as mass murderers of Aborigines in Rockhampton in Qld in 1861, Horatio killed in a battle between local farmers and a local tribe. Tom was hardly the sensitive admirer of indigenous culture he is now painted, especially given his background. Tom was sent "home" to England, to Rugby School in Warwickshire, for his education. Australians calling England "home" is outmoded today but was prevalent pre post WW11 mass immigration, read pre war literature, particularly the novels of Neville Shute, it gets a mention in "A Town like Alice". Rugby, as we know it today, derived from a game played at Rugby School. In the history of Rugby, you'll read about the legendry William Webb Ellis, a Rugby student who reputedly picked up the ball during a football match and ran with it, thus creating the 'rugby' style of play, that was in 1823 ! The game played pre 1823 was akin to soccer i e the feet only. Read Thomas Hughes, "Tom Brown's Schooldays" published in 1857. The story is set in the 1830s at Rugby School. There's references to and descriptions of football at Rugby School in it. Football of various descriptions was played in 19th century Public Schools of England, inspired by and derived from games played on Saint's Feastdays between villages where the object of the game was to deposit some object, a small bale of hay for example, at the church door of one village and resisted by the other village. Common rules had to be agreed upon so inter school games could be played. Vestiges of these primitive sports still exist, read up on the Eton Wall Game, played at Eton School to this day. One description I read ran "...where scoring occurs with monotonous regularity every 4 or 5 years..." In 1986, I wrote an article on the history of football for an educational institution in which I was then involved. My research was extremely limited but narry a mention of Marn Grook. I believe that it's a Bruce Pascoe-esque invention consistent with the current revision of the history of the indigenous in Australia, crudely put, it's bullsh.t.
So if you get tackled, and didn't have the ball long enough to get rid of it, the umpire will bounce the ball up from that spot. Where two players will try and tap to advantage for their team.
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The ten second and thirty second rules are to prevent unnecessary or excessive time wasting. Even though the rules of the mark are in force and the opposing team players cannot impede the kick, within limits, the time clock for that quarter has not stopped, it is still counting down. The time clock only really stops for injuries, some penalties, ball out of bounds, and the time from a goal to a restart in mid-field.
As for AFL resemblance to other sports, the basic rules were well established before those of American football and basketball. Only soccer or football rules and basic rugby rules were established and in play before Aussie Rules. From the similar shape of the ball one could correctly deduce that AFL was initially a derivative of some form of Rugby but now is virtually unrecognisable as such. There is no discernable link between the initial development of AFL and American football except that both were originally a derivative of a form of Rugby but both have now fully matured into completely different games that are practically unrecognisable from their Rugby origins.
"It's two football fields in length"
No, Connor, it's a football field. It's two handegg fields in length.
There is an amateur AMERICAN Australian football league. Look up 25yr US AFL. I didn’t realise till I seen the TH-cam clip a few months ago. Who knows, u mite have a local team
American football evolved from rugby and to a lesser degree so did aussie rules. The difference being that aussie rules was more a mix of rugby and an aboriginal game called mangrook. Rugby 1845, Aussie Rules, 1859 and American football 1869, English soccer 1863, and basketball 1893. So, my question is, with the exception of Rugby, why did all these sports copy our Aussie Rules game?
30 seconds is like a shot clock for players to kick a goal
The video is a bit misleading. A mark can be taken by a player of either side not just by a team mate. Either an opposing player or a player on the same team can mark a kicked ball provided it hasn't been touched by another player, it hasn't touched the ground, it's still in the field of play and time hasn't expired before it was caught.
The trouble with these AFL explaination videos, are the rules get subtley changed every few years. I havent seen a video yet where they've been 100% clear for the first timer.
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With this video, he mentions a player gets a free kick when tackled, as if its automatic, which isnt true.
The player must have had an opportunity to dispose (kick/handball) of the ball prior to be tackled & if they dont dispose of it properly (throw/drop the ball) then the tackler is awarded a free kick, but even that is a grey area with varying interpretations.
If the umpire believes theres no freekick, then you'll hear "play on" being called out & the ball is still available to be won by either team.
If the ball gets stuck in congestion (player tackled & cant get the ball out) & doesnt look like it will come out then the umpire will throw the ball up (like a centre bounce, but anywhere on the oval)
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With tackling, you cant tackle a player who doesnt have the ball, (holding the man is paid & that player is given a freekick) and you cant tackle a player above the shoulders (too high freekick) or below the knees (tripping freekick) and you cant trip a player (tripping free kick) or dive into a players legs (tunneling free kick)
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The term "Mark" has two meanings in aussie rules 1) To catch the ball as this video explains & it also indicates the spot that the opposition player stands (when a mark or free kick has been awarded) As you'll notice in matches, if a player takes a mark or gets a free kick, they have to move back from where that mark or free kick occured & the opposition player stands on that spot (the mark). The opposition player is "standing the mark"
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With a mark you have to catch & control the ball for a 'reasonable" amount of time for it to be paid. Opposition players out of position may try to punch the ball to prevent a mark being taken.
The opposition can punch the ball,, but cannot punch the players arms going for the mark otherwise a free kick should be paid (another grey area for interpretations)
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The 50m arc/line is a distance of 50m from the middle of the two middle goalposts. A 50m penalty will move the player 50m towards their goals in a directl line with that middle point from where the current "mark" is. (If the current mark is less that 50m from their goals, then yes the mark is moved all the way to the middle point between the goals & you''ll see the oppositon player stands there)
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A goal only occurs when the ball comes from an attacking player below the knee. It has to be the attacking player though, if it comes off a opposition player it is 1 point.
So usually a goal is from the foot, but it could also be a goal if deflected off attacking players shin. If off a thigh or any other part of player on either team then it is 1 point.
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Interchange. (This concept has changed many times over the years) Currently 4 interchange positions where any player can be moved exchanged with another player (to rest) & on the ground as required.
There used to be an unlimited amount of times, but now its limited to 70 or whatever this video said.
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What happens after a score
With a goal the ball is taken back to the centre of the ground for a centre bounce (as happens at start of game & quarters)
Usually takes a minute to move it back and on TV there is usually a commercial break
With a behind (or point) the opposition team kicks the ball back out from the goalsquare. (like being a goalkeeper, after a missed shot)
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Any player can play any position and they can move as the game is flowing. They do this to try and get a size mismatch etc. or to "rest" up forward, although this is now less common as vritually every player needs to cover ground defensively.
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hope that clears up the less obvious items for first timers to this great game.
It predates most codified sports rather than being a combination of them, it’s the oldest codified sport in the world I believe. Soccer, Rugby and Gaelic Football were around though
American Football as it exists, now distinct from Rugby it evolved from, is one of the newest sports
Random fact: Aussie football pre dates the us civil war by 1 decade. So much older than most think
I run so much in general but one quarter of gut running is absolutely soul destroying
Why allow 30 seconds in the first place… because that’s usually enough time, it’s an advantage for playing well but taking too long and delaying the game is punished. It’s well balanced
It’s like asking in American football why have downs in the first place, it’s how the game works.
You can watch this sport your whole life and still be confused, even if you think your'e not. The opposition supportes will tell you exactly how you don't understand the rules, and you will tell them how they are wrong. Aussie rules are written so eloquently ambigious that even the umpires have no Idea, they even have a comitee of umpires that discuss the rules every year to come up with a new interpratation that overturns a century of tradition on a whin. It's sort of like the legal system.
10 seconds rule to rid the ball is to stop players from wasting time
Yeah been around for 150 years and the 20 minute quarters end up being 30 minutes or so every game there is 10 minutes in every quarter time added for stoppages in play and games go around 120 minutes there is no yellow or red cards, no sin bins
TH-cam keeps feeding me variations of "British man, teaches American man, about Australian sport!", or various reactions to the Aussie "What is AFL" video, voiced by an American!.. It's like, no one understands if Aussies explain it. lol
Victorian football association was founded in 2859 but victorian football league known as today Australian rules, football was established 1986 yee
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he forgot to mention 20min plus time on so you looking at 120min a game
Yes it has aspects of other sports ,even the art of pugilism, but , the old adage, a hitter in each line , are gone now , Concussion is a worry , after retirement so had to redress this ,but Aussie Rules , being the first Codified , it must have been the first code to do it all , if the final sirens blows , that's it ,game over , unless, a mark was taken or a free kick given before the siren , they get ,if within distance , a set shot , no deviating the mark on ground where the other player stands , if you play on ,the game will be deemed over the instant you deviate , if you mark or kick within range you have 30 sec to take Kick , time wasting is frowned on ,and no swapping punches any more , it was a thuggish game early doors , but it's still the best sport on the planet RARARA
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Just about, the man on the mark that’s trying to block you will be stand just in front of the goal line, the kicker will be however far back from that man he needs to be to kick it over his head.
While it may remind you of American Football it was invented before it.
imagine explaining american football to an australian
Yes most play the whole time unless they get hurt
If you had read your comments into the last video you would know when the sport began...again 1859
There are only 4 subs. They run about 13 miles a game depending on player.
Other sports have similarities to Aussie Rules, not the other way around. 🙂
Read your comments man. You ask us questions so read the answers given by these people.
you have to be an australian to know about this game
We played this way before you played American football…
Plus time on 100min
It's older than American Football.
Connor it was created in 1858
Wait!...what!... hang on!...afl has rules?...😲...😁
And one medical substance
Could they not find an Aussie to do this explanation as opposed to an Englishman.
Highest mark?
Supposedly:
Joe Daniher (201cm) over Luke Delaney (194cm), 2016
Estimated height: 3.7m or 12 feet 1 inch
Narrowly beating:
Gary Moorcroft (173cm) over Brad Johnson (182cm), 2001
Estimated height: 3.6m or 11feet 8 inches
Danihers mark he was strattling the other guys shoulder, Moorcroft was at full stretch opponent falling foward and Moorcroft was falling backwards , the best high mark , has to be the one that was most inspiring , so that can only be the mark the lifted a team to even higher esteem ,by fuelling the greatest come back in football history, in a Grand Final , The biggest half time deficit overcome , in front of the largest crowd ever 121,646 saw Jezza , jump on Jerker Jenkins Back and it lifted the roof off the grandstand , and that's precisely when Carlton got back into that match , that mark set it all off , camera angles don't do it Justice ,Jezza was high , I was there 12 yo , saw it , but I did see the late Trevor Barker take the best mark in a game v Sth Melb ,now Sydney , over South skipper Ricky Quade , I'll never forget it he literally defied gravity and hung in the air and touched down on Quades shoulders, he was phenomenal VALE TREVOR BARKER a true champion of our great game , taken too young , a gift to have had the pleasure of witnessing his extraordinary ability GO BLUES RARARA
A game goes for closer to 120 minutes , it was codified before any other ball sport in history being codified in 1858 , so even the FA CUP in England 1871 , Carlton my side was incepted in 1864 , older than the FA Cup, Rugby was played early in the colonies , and footy was played on rugger pitches , but these were just impromptu games rugby is codified many years later , predates Basketball everything , Gaelic footy although a round ball is similar ,but no tackling contact , not like Aussie Rules, it's the greatest game on earth GO BLUES RARARA
You gotta stop trying to compare AFL with other 'football' games that came later. By now you should have determined AFL has no resemblance to NFL.
NFL should be known as Throwball, not too much kicking.
@@stuarthancock571 before making stupid comments first learn where the term FOOTBALL comes from then you will understand why it's not called throwball
It was created in the Cricket off season Winter , because Rugby was to violent and injuries from Rugby to high
You better check your dates
you need to stop comparing american football to australian rules they are two different games
I am going to stop watching this channel if he won't read any of the comments. 🛑
Connor bro, I like you, but you pause too bloody much mate. By pausing a video that is explaining something you are confusing yourself.
Stop the pausing bro. If I was explaining something to you and you paused me during my explanation, you will get confused.
Instead of pausing watch a video twice. It is annoying for the viewer as well because you do kit SOOOO much man.
This is a poorly explained video. Your confusion over the interchange is not surprising.
To the guy doing the video do you remember doing a video 11 days ago at 6:27 when it explained the scores how did you get it then and then you had to listen to this video at 4:07 for them to explain it and to get it again and you asked people in th3 last video when it was did bother to read the comments in last video
I'm surprised that a Pom was trying to explain Aussie Rules. Australian Rules football was created in 1859, long before NFL.
That channel explains rules in whole variety of games, including cricket. But he makes some errors
You’ve made more than one of these videos and you still don’t get it google it and educate yourself at 4:07 it explain the scoring the other video explained the scoring move on to the next technical thing like teams best 50 marks or goals or top players google the scoring if you still don’t get it then your beyond help not being a prick it’s just the truth
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