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  Re: New newsgroup lugnet.sports for Football/Soccer
 
In lugnet.football, David Low writes: <some really good descriptions of different Aust. football codes snipped> Nicely explained, thankyou! I was hoping someone would explain it in more detail, I am really out of my depth with anything other than (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: New newsgroup lugnet.sports for Football/Soccer
 
(...) Expanding on this point: In Australia "round ball football" is called Soccer universally. It is very popular with schoolkids and there is a national competition (see (URL) ). There are three other codes of football that have a major following (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: does anyone actually play this?...
 
(...) Yes, it's great fun. One field becomes a bit too easy once you are used to it, 2 fields offer lots of possibilities including a "proper" 11 players per team setup, there has been some discussion of this over in loc.au. My 11 a side setup based (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports)
 
  Re: New newsgroup lugnet.sports for Football/Soccer
 
(...) Yes. (...) Yup, it's soccer. Football possibly refers to Rugby in some parts of Aus, but generally football refers to AFL which is a different game altogether. (...) Yes, but I don't think Lego Australia think for themselves in matters such as (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: New newsgroup lugnet.sports for Football/Soccer
 
(...) Aha!! Interesting! OK, hmm, so, OK, can we back up a bit? So, what you're saying (taking both of your posts into account) is that: 1. The official name of the LEGO product line in Australia is "LEGO Football" and not "LEGO Soccer," and 2. (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)


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