Learning the lingo: AFL decoded
New to the great game of AFL footy? Don’t know a behind from a banana kick? Well here’s how to spot a specky and a screamer from a spoiler so you can barrack with the best at the AFL European Challenge at the Oval in London.
AFL language: Spot a specky and a screamer from a spoiler so you can barrack with the best at the AFL European Challenge at the Oval in London even if you are new to the great game.
Barrack: to cheer for a team. Originates from world wars when games played close to army barracks were heavily attended by personnel.
Blinder: excellent performance
Coathanger: dangerous high tackle around the neck or head.
Daisy-cutter: fast-moving low to the ground kick, also called a wormburner.
Drop punt: common method of kicking the ball where foot contacts ball before it reaches ground. Ball spins end under end.
Handball: passing the ball by hand. Player must hold the ball stationary with one hand, and punch the ball with the clenched fist of the other hand.
Mark: player takes a mark when they cleanly catch a kicked ball which has travelled more than 15 meters.
Pill, or prune: terms to describe the ball.
Specky: when a player leaps high in the air to take a mark. Also called a screamer.
Spoiler: when a player affects another player’s mark.
What have we missed? Let us know your favourite AFL lingo below
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RE DAISY CUTTER, WORMBURNER STAB KICK STABPUNT
Stab kick to Stab Punt in 1949, by15 yeas old School kid.
. THE STAB PUNT. The authors have “COINED” the term “stab punt”._Page 64 & 65 THE SCIENCE OF KICKING 2007 Geoffrey Hosford. & Don Meikle. B.I.P.E._Publications. Forward by DAVID PARKIN.
. The term STAB PUNT was”COINED” 58 years after Jim invented it.
. Part of Face to Face: “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives”_Muddy Conditions Countered. Johnson was outstanding in the mud with clever turning and accurate disposal. Ringwood Mail, 1951._In 1949 Mt Evelyn football ground’s surface was uneven and often very muddy. Studying Jack Dyer’s drop-punt, 14-year-old Mt Evelyn player Jim Johnson adapted it into a field pass in 1948. Then, at 15, Jim invented and used a low, fast punt kick known as a ‘stab-punt pass’ or Daisy Cutter. Journalists didn’t know what to call Jim’s techniques. Frank Casey wrote in The Post on 8 Sept 1960, ‘Johnson sent his delightful little drop punt pass direct to Mansfield’. The same day Davey Crocket reported in the Ringwood Mail, ‘Johnson should write a book on stab kicking. He has found the lost art.’_This story was researched by The Mt Evelyn History Group for The Yarra Ranges Regional Museum exhibition of October 13, to November 13, 2011
. Jim Johnson’s Drop Kick to a Drop Punt field pass, at full pace, in 1948, and_Stab Kick to Stab Punt, at full pace, in 1949, An Australian Rules football Development.
. In 1948 aged 14 Jim tried the Jack Dyer, “gets goals with the sillies looking kick in football history” page 49 and pictured page 50 in The Sporting Globe FOOTBALL Book 1948, and found it unsatisfactory. Jim revamped it into his format by kicking the ball close to the ground and definitely not dropping the ball vertically.
. The Stab kick discovered in Tasmania in 1902. So from 1902 no one did anything extra with the stab kick till Jim, a school kid, converted it into a stab punt in May.1949._1949: the stab punt invented._Jim Aged 15 years, 5ft 2in(157.48 cm.), weighing 8 and 1/4 stone (52.5 kg). and playing for the Mount Evelyn First Eighteen in the Yarra Valley Football League, where Jack Dyer commenced his football with Yarra Junction._Jim declared to himself. As I can kick a drop punt as a field pass at full pace, why not convert the stab kick into a stab punt. It took Jim around two weeks to adjust the split second timing to kick the ball just before, instead of just after, it hit the ground._See “Jim Johnson stab punt” on Google.