11 Reasons You Will Fall In Love This Game In Australia

[@Simrooo]

I’ve been in Oz 3 years. Was a MUFC season ticket holder before I left the UK. Now a Dolphins member, watch religiously and go a few games a season. Hardly watch any live Premier League games now. It has surprised me how quickly I have given up on the football. The greed, wages and lack of shock results there are these days has done it. Up the NRL!

[@gulleyjimson]

With the current state of MUFC, I don't blame you for abandoning ship.

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

I still watch them on OPTUS catch up

[@Liam25025]

Being from Ireland I loved AFL over there because it’s similar to our football. Still watch the highlights today more than 15 years after leaving Oz

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

Awesome

[@RolandjHearn]

Mate, as a fan from your first weeks in covid quarantine I have watched your journey with a lot of joy. I would have to say you are now so Aussie it might never again be possible for anyone to refer to you as a whinging pomme. I reckon you are right on the money with your thoughts about the similarities between RL and American football. I have said to many that in terms of sports philosophies both codes have attempted to do a similar thing in adapting the sport of Rugby to make it an interesting game. Cheers Ross, you often make me laugh, but this just made me smile.

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

I'm sure someone will still call me a whinging Pom Roland. Cheers mate

[@jvvoid]

The NRL is just as, if not even more popular than AFL. It's a much better spectacle than Union. More precision to their skills than Aussie Rules. And yes, there are some similarities to Gridiron. Great to have you on-board. Go the mighty Bulldogs!!

[@callofduty3807]

And Cricket is more popular than either of them 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jvvoid]

@@callofduty3807 Yeah, well, cricket's our national sport and a summer one. Cricket and NRL is the killer combination.

[@callofduty3807]

@@jvvoid Yeah. There's even plans of cricket being played during footy season don't know if it will happen though.

[@RyderSontaig]

Someone's been hit in the head a few too many times throwing a ball backwards. More precision to their skills than Aussie Rules....bugger me.

[@rajivmurkejee7498]

@@jvvoid Australia doesn't have a national sport. Until maybe the 1970s young men who had a couple of sporting options chose cricket Not nowadays.

[@finlaydavies7760]

So true I came out of retirement playing in the UK because in Oz the facilities were so top notch it was screaming at me to play again made great mates from playing Football and Rugby Union for a couple of seasons loved it

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

Nice

[@debkendall]

You need to see the Barrassi line Rugby is only some of queensland and new South Wales - the rest of the country is AFL

[@gloryglory5688]

The what?

[@djt6012]

Rugby doesn't even exist in NSW and QLD. League is a much bigger sport.

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

I'll Google that line thingy

[@Davo-i1s]

Nice one Ross I am a die hard Knights supporter we have our ups and downs unfortunately in recent times there seems to be more downs than ups. Their faithful supporters still fill the stands for every home game regardless of where thay are sitting on the ladder. Newcastle was actually a foundation club when the game started in 1908 here its all about tradition and the community getting behind their local boys and girls especially when they are up against the big spending city clubs. It amazes me how certain big name clubs are able to buy every top player that comes on the market and still be able to stay under the salary cap. . Lucky the Knights girls have won a couple of NRLW premierships in the last 3 years maybe the men should be looking at recruiting some of them.

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

Always good to support local Davo

[@JoshAnderson-fn5yp]

Mate, never seen a game, but this makes me want to watch it

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

You won't be disappointed

[@libatalklieb5793]

Don't bother, you will fall asleep.

[@DeepThought9999]

@@libatalklieb5793Well that will happen if you plug your ears and close your eyes, instead of actually watching the game that you have come to see.

[@bigoz1977]

Nice video mate 👍🏻 go the panthers 🐾🐾

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

Might as well have a fourth

[@batsimarufu6312]

I'm pleasantly surprised you're a gooner😃. My eyes were constantly drawn to the portraits in the background

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

It's my wall of pride

[@lutontown5923]

great watch mate. take my kids all the time. giddy up broncs🐎🇦🇺🧡.

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

Thanks 👍

[@charlesemerson6763]

Amazing to think Aurora is 5yrs old. Just seems like yesterday you were trying to drink a beer on an empty plane wearing a face shield. Nice to see you've found an alternative to the round ball game. If you are thinking of another sport, you can enjoy and drink at the same time, then try lawn bowls. You'll be surprised how exhilarating it is.

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

Cheers mate. Might have to give lawn bowls a go

[@edithwarria4794]

Hello The Johnston family, how are you and family. Good to see you ❤️watching your videos. Please say hello to your lovely family for me ⭐️👍😎🙏🏻from Edith in Cairns Top North.

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

Thanks so much Edith

[@rajivmurkejee7498]

RL is a TV sport. Good on TV viewership. Very ordinary on actual players and crowds. It is an English game by origin.

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

Most things in Australia are English by origin

[@arokh72]

What NRL has over most other similar sports: a) players actually get injured, and then get up and keep playing, not fall on the ground in pain if a small leaf hits them, unlike 'football' or soccer, and b) the big burly blokes run into each other without benefit of dressing up like a medieval knight in armour, unlike gridiron.

[@shmick6079]

@@arokh72 same as footy

[@DeepThought9999]

@@shmick6079Oh, you must mean Rugby Union!

[@libatalklieb5793]

@@DeepThought9999 When i first looked at your name i thought is was DeepThroat.

[@DeepThought9999]

@@libatalklieb5793 See “Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” and interpret the “DeepThought” character’s primary attribute, as the character self-described. I think that the name was author Douglas Adams’ little joke, being an oblique reference to the pseudonym for a high-level anonymous source used by the Watergate investigators from the Washington Post, the source being known as “Deep Throat”. This was the name of an infamous Hollywood film released at around the same time as the Watergate scandal broke. I could have used “42” instead of “DeepThought” but I thought that would be too obscure and not convey properly my somewhat narcissistic thoughts at the time.

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

I'm sure that some rugby union guys would agree to this too

[@johnwilliams2711]

❤

[@noelleggett5368]

Phins up!

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

A close number 2

[@LynneSowerby-t3c]

🙋📢 💃🔊 A F L 🙌, A F L 🙌, A F L 🙌 with 36 players running around and 4 on ground umpires👍 😁 Yes, Congratulations Brisbane Lions🎉 👏👏👏 Well done 😊 GO STORM 💜💛💙 💪😠💪

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

Shame about the Storm eh?

[@TheMschipp]

Just one question, why snide resume vs curriculum vitae (French vs Latin you English git :) ) - jokes of course

[@mikael2807]

Great video mate im glad you have come to love tha NRL ive spoke to a few English lads who have came to Australia and they have instantly fell in love with tha game. AFL is so boring its only club footy at least in NRL we play state of orgin play test matches we even have the world club challenge best of NRL vs uk super league boring afl doesn't have any rep footy 😂

[@hudsonsled454]

Carrying on like a *Pork Chop* 😂

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

More lingo for the vocab

[@Franky2A3]

It is a stupid game. Is that the game where they kick the ball backwards with their heels - don't get it. I prefer AFL.

[@RUHappyATM]

Nah, I'm good.

[@shmick6079]

AFL is far bigger than NRL.

[@Davo-i1s]

Is it ? thats why in 2023 the Rubgy League had a total audience in Australia of 174 million and the AFL 142 million.

[@shmick6079]

@@Davo-i1s yes. NRL is dominant in Queensland and part of NSW. AFL everywhere else.

[@gozza7199]

@@shmick6079 Wrong

[@thrusta100]

In Mexico yes, but why y’all keep moving north if Victoria/ Melbourne so great? AFL a woke dictatorship

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

You're probably right

[@shazza160]

Why do you think it’s great to put the stupidest photos of you pulling dumb facial expressions.

[@shaneb4612]

Mate, what's with the passive aggressive slag off of the Mighty Spurs. I know you're a Gooner, but come on that was a little harsh. Atleast you're wearing a Qld jersey. So I'll let that one slide. Over the last couple of years of watching your channel. You now have me saying "If you're interested in moving to Australia. Please check out True Blue Migration services, for a free visa assessment." I've also been promoting you're channel, to future prospective migrant.

[@ThatJohnstonLife]

Tottenham fans never understand why we hate them so much

[@shaneb4612]

@@ThatJohnstonLife Honestly being an Aussie Spurs fan, I don't think I'll ever understand the hatred. So you got that right. So even as you are a Gooner, I'll still watch & promote your channel, as you're helping so many other, to become a part of this fantastic big brown land.

[@libatalklieb5793]

The most boring games on the planet.

[@Davo-i1s]

In the 2023 season they had 174 million bored Aussies watched the game ..... but I guess we were probably just easily amused whatever you watch must be really exciting.

[@libatalklieb5793]

@@Davo-i1s Thank you for enlightening me on how many bogans this country has.

[@peterlinsley4287]

​@libatalklieb5793 straight into insults, I think you just enlightened us.

[@shmick6079]

@@libatalklieb5793 you must never have watched golf

[@libatalklieb5793]

@@shmick6079 Golf is boring also, but the players don't degrade women, like the rugby players do. It is disgusting how these guys get away with what they do to women. They should be jailed.

[@lexsaunders1742]

Absolute nonsense.