I know that a lot of people follow the footy and I don't hold that against them but you have to appreciate why others reckon there is one thing that exceeds a players IQ and that's  the outdoor temperature in winter .

To illustrate this the attached  pics are from  the local park where   the state championships for the NSW Touch Comp were played on the weekend  . 

Obviously their is a difference between Male and Gents and Ladies and Female  to some it means something different .

I blame the education system. At least they spelt it correctly. Are they inflexible or just plain single minded. That's the problem with English language. Too many options to say the same thing, so in this case they said them all. The only thing they missed is braille and japanese. Cheers Granny

well I am not a footy fan, cant see any reason why such outright violance is allowed on screen but berated so loudly if it happens on the street, the collingwood match on the weekend and that elbow and knee incident is a great case in point (which he got off of by the way) however given that millions of people follow it religiously then there is obviously something going on there that I am missing, but I will say that anybody that fronts up week after week to get an elbow or knee in his head can surely not be put in to the worlds 100 brainiest people, so I am surprised there is not a person standing out the front of the loos and saying "no dear, this one is the little boys" " and make sure you wash your hands and tuck your shirt in theres a good boy, now off you go and play nice with the other little kiddies and share the ball, play nice now wont you"

Hi Dave,. I'm with you on this one whateer happened to sportsmanship. Helena.

yep I used to play cricket and footy, now back then, when we had to chase the dinosaurs off the pitch to play a game, we had a coach, now this coach was usually a resident of our town or one close by, if we played "dirty" then this coach, as well as all the umpires, all knew ALL of the players, usually like us they grew up in the area of small surrounding towns and knew everyone if someone got injured through rough or "dirty" play my god you were sent to coventry very quickly and soon became ostrisised throughout the community, it was not tolerated how would you like it if it was you, dirty bastard would be ringing in your ears for weeks if you did something like that, work would become hard to find, freinds always had something else on that weekend and you wouldnt get picked for next weeks match how times have changed, take respect away from life and this is what it comes down to of course we didnt get paid great swags of dough for playing we fronted up for the love of the game, we paid our own way in all things as well as paid to get in to the match and our "subs", no money from nike for me the world is changing but not for the better

yep it certainly has changed I think money has ruined most sports today. Helena.

Ah ha, money is the root of all evil, What I would like to see is a society that rewards effort (meaning manual labour) in kind, more you contribute, more your return, pity it wont work in todays environment