{"id":1029,"date":"2018-05-31T07:58:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T21:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/?page_id=1029"},"modified":"2018-07-16T14:33:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T04:33:55","slug":"football","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/football\/","title":{"rendered":"Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ next_background_color=”#000000″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.4.1″]<\/p>\n

\"AFL

AFL Grand Final at the MCG<\/p><\/div>\n

[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.9″]<\/p>\n

More than many of us want to know about football<\/h1>\n

(The other secular religions are coffee and food; minor anti-cults include weather and public transport.)<\/p>\n

The weekend immediately after the ACAL conference is the AFL Semi-finals*.<\/h3>\n

These matches can be played anywhere in the world provided it\u2019s Melbourne. If non-Victorian teams have managed to do better than \u2018OK\u2019 they may be allowed to have a final played in their state but Victorian teams are entitled to win.<\/p>\n

*There are preliminary finals, elimination finals, qualifying final and the Grand Final. If more adjectives can be located, more finals may be added (but they\u2019ll be played in Melbourne).<\/p>\n

Are we born this way? Poet Bruce Dawe saw this<\/p>\n

When children are born in Victoria<\/em>
\nthey are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots,<\/em>
\nhaving already begun a lifetime’s barracking.<\/em><\/p>\n

Carn, they cry, Carn \u2026 feebly at first<\/em>
\nwhile parents playfully tussle with them<\/em>
\nfor possession of a rusk: Ah, he’s a little Tiger! (And they are \u2026)<\/em><\/p>\n

Hoisted shoulder-high at their first League game \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

See the full poem ‘Life Cycle (for Big Jim Phelan)’ by Bruce Dawe<\/a><\/p>\n

Kick points not behinds<\/h4>\n

Pages of newspaper, and bytes of cyber are given over to pundits (i.e. retired players – sometimes better known now than when they played or because of their current hubris or rudeness) pontificate on percentages, points possession, priors and pockets. You can also see rotations, runners and rushed behinds. ‘Shepherds’, ‘smothers’, ‘specky’ (if you’re lucky), a ‘soccer’ and may be a ‘stacks on the mill’ might be on display. Once upon a time you would have heard ‘chewy on ya boot’ or ‘white maggot’ but times change.<\/p>\n

You won’t see Cazaly, Bobbie, Hassa, Barass, Dermi, Libba, Jezza or Richo but people will still talk about them (well, most of them) and people with grey hair will know who they where and what they did!<\/p>\n

Also Google ‘Shinboners’, ‘the Bloods’, ‘Jack Dyer’,’The Fuschias’ ‘Colliwobbles’.<\/p>\n

Best satirical footy (radio) show The Coodabeens<\/a><\/p>\n

Enjoy the footy.<\/p>\n

More footy terms<\/a><\/p>\n

The other ‘religion’<\/h4>\n

Six pages of coffee terms<\/a> or why I always go for a flat white (it’s simpler).<\/p>\n

The Keep Cup Story<\/a><\/p>\n

Combine coffee and footy<\/a> and make a major environmental difference.<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ prev_background_color=”#000000″ global_module=”1467″][et_pb_row global_parent=”1467″ background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_divider global_parent=”1467″ _builder_version=”3.7″ color=”#1989b5″ divider_weight=”2″ divider_position=”center” height=”10px” \/][et_pb_text global_parent=”1467″ _builder_version=”3.7″]<\/p>\n

Conference sponsors, supporters and exhibitors<\/h4>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row global_parent=”1467″ background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text ACFE” global_parent=”1467″ _builder_version=”3.7″]<\/p>\n

\"Adult.<\/a><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text Bankfirst” global_parent=”1467″ _builder_version=”3.7″]<\/p>\n

\"Bankfirst\"<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text VALBEC” global_parent=”1467″ _builder_version=”3.7″]<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row global_parent=”1467″ background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text Bookery” global_parent=”1467″ _builder_version=”3.7″]<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text multifangled” global_parent=”1467″ _builder_version=”3.7″]<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text Vet Dev Centre” global_parent=”1467″ _builder_version=”3.9″]<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text Parliament” global_parent=”1467″ _builder_version=”3.9″]<\/p>\n

\"Parliament<\/a><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row global_parent=”1467″ _builder_version=”3.7″ module_class=”five-columns “][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text NSWALNC” global_parent=”1467″ _builder_version=”3.7″]<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>NSW ALNC<\/a><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text TCAL” global_parent=”1467″ _builder_version=”3.7″]<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text WAALC” global_parent=”1467″ _builder_version=”3.7″]<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text SACAL” global_parent=”1467″ _builder_version=”3.7″]<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text QCAL” global_parent=”1467″ _builder_version=”3.7″]<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> More than many of us want to know about football (The other secular religions are coffee and food; minor anti-cults include weather and public transport.) The weekend immediately after the ACAL conference is the AFL Semi-finals*. These matches can be played anywhere in the world provided it\u2019s Melbourne. If non-Victorian teams have managed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1029","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1029\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}