Posted on 06/14/2025 10:04:16 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
If you want to see the best football code in the world, you have to visit Australia in April-September.
Port Melbourne footballer Maddy “Maddawg” Patterson was a tree planter but now she’s a sparky. (Electrician.)
Her focus and concentration on the game and on her team is cool, calm, poised and beautiful.
And what is it on the field that drives Maddawg’s commitment to her club and her nation’s native game?
It’s wonderful goals like this sublimely skilled evasion of opponents by teammate Kaitlyn O’Keefe.
(Excerpt) Read more at footy4freedom.com ...
Sorry, not interested in wimmins sports.
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(This thread is totally useless without pictures-—and while the article doesn’t have enough, there is sufficient video to make clear that we aren’t talking about soccer. My eldest, also a Madeleine, was known as Maddawg in her early life, so I clicked on the article)
Combinations of relative strength with beauty and grace can be good.
Women’s figure skating, pairs figure skating, and women’s hockey are all capable of that.
I’m open to adding Australian Rules Football to the above.
That said, in my opinion spectator sports should have a much more limited role in life than the presently have. Man has a need for magnanimity that they presently attempt to fill in many lives.
No one cares about women’s sports.
What is a football code? Might the writer have meant ‘coed?’
What evidence is there that soccer was invented in Australia?
“What evidence is there that soccer was invented in Australia?”
It wasn’t...
Australian Rules Football is not soccer and was invented (as the name suggests) in Australia. Read the actual article.
“What evidence is there that soccer was invented in Australia?”
the game in question is Australian Rules Football which was created in Australia
“What is a football code? Might the writer have meant ‘coed?’”
the football codes that I know of are Aussie Rules, Soccer, gridiron, rugby (league and Union) and Gaelic footy
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