Learning The Game Of Aussie Rules! Commentary Sensation Oliver Walker Peel Joins Us To Discuss

[@rickybryan1759]

Aussie Rules and Tennis are the two sports that you can watch as a spectator regardless of level

[@PommyinOZ]

Agree

[@stephennew140]

This! This, how much I loved this! You're the man when it comes to all things Carlton and the Australian game. For you to share the story of likeminded others who have not grown up with the game but who share the same passion for the greatest game on the planet, brings me so much joy. (What a fantastic interview and how good is Oliver even if he's not a Blues fan). I'm a big sports fan but I long for the day when the rest of the world discovers the greatest game on the planet. (No better than you and Oliver to help do so). A hundred likes if I could. Thank you!

[@PommyinOZ]

Glad you enjoyed it mate. We've got to spread the word!

[@Michael-r1x5h]

Carlton is the only club to have participated in the highest of level of competition very season from 1877 to 2025.

[@PommyinOZ]

@Michael-r1x5h that's cool man

[@mintoxace5571]

Good on you lads. Welcome to Oz and welcome to Aussie Rules footy. ❤

[@PommyinOZ]

We love it mate

[@godsend2297]

Oliver is the best commentor of AFL going around.Keep up the good work, all the best for future endeavours.👍

[@PommyinOZ]

He's a gem mate couldn't agree more

[@rodneymcgiveron7494]

@@PommyinOZ You are pretty darn good too...I love your love of our game ..even if you follow Carlton ...I'm a rabid Tigers fan but how you have embraced Aussie Rules is wonderful .. In 2028 my own State finally enters the big game ... Still barracking for the Tiggies but a close second will be the Devils , can't wait..

[@PommyinOZ]

@rodneymcgiveron7494 thanks mate really appreciate this. I'm looking forward to seeing your tigers grow this next 5 years gonna be exciting to watch

[@TraceyBurton-gs6jm]

I was there in 1966 (as an eight year old). Come on Sainters, win us that bloody flag 😇

[@PommyinOZ]

Love that! It's a far too long wait! Wish ya the best 2025 and onwards

[@Power_Prawnstar]

@@TraceyBurton-gs6jm Your post almost makes me want tobsee St Kilda win. Legit, poor bastards

[@lexsaunders1742]

Prisoner Of Her Majesty POHM. A term used to describe newly arrived convicts because they stood out as they were bright red from sun burn.

[@PommyinOZ]

Always a bizarre one this. Uk history we go in-depth on the commonwealth and the south Africans love the phrase too, as it was heavy an army base the cockney rhyming slang took off and it's coz they were immigrants and stuck. Weird how it's changed to Australians as the British empire never used acronyms on prisoners unless they were in isolation hence our derogatory term for sex offenders nonce in uk. Like the term at his or hers majesty's pleasure for the acronym to work wasn't used in any form of literature till 1910 so it's a funny folklore here. Kiwis and South Africans seem to have nailed the colonial history

[@lexsaunders1742]

@ I also read POHM was printed on their prison clothes, and another POHM was an abbreviation of pomegranate which having never seen one I’m told is red like their sunburn.

[@PommyinOZ]

Weird lol yeah we were always taught that it was pomegranates. Worked with a couple of south Africans and Americans, always found it amusing yanks called us limeys (our scurvy cure) and they called us poms 🤣🤣🤣 was like a lot of fruit references here gents

[@MakeCakeNotWar]

Wow dude... this is the interview I didn't know I needed. Love Oliver's work. Love the out the of he box interview. great thinking

[@PommyinOZ]

Cheers mate glad you enjoyed it.

[@MakeCakeNotWar]

@@PommyinOZ I really loved that idea of bringing concepts from other sport into AFL coverage and commentary . that's the only way the game grows. I'm not surprised at all that two people from a british background are bringing something different to the game.

[@PommyinOZ]

@MakeCakeNotWar yeah mate I agree. I also watch some stateside stuff and I wish that was in the British game and here too. First take in the states I find fascinating to watch and I'm not a huge nfl nba fan

[@lukestubbs.]

Really good chat lads! St Kilda and Blackpool fan here.

[@PommyinOZ]

The tangerines. My fave holiday destination as a kid blackpool

[@katewall6023]

Sounds like a really nice bloke. I hope he gets the job of his dreams .

[@PommyinOZ]

Me too top class gent

[@TraceyBurton-gs6jm]

Carn the Might Saints 😇

[@Michael-r1x5h]

If you are a 'Pommy' in Australia you are just one of a million.

[@PommyinOZ]

I'm a pommy magnet too I find them all the time out and about 🤣🤣🤣

[@edwardbakadingo4261]

i grew up in Melbourne, While technoically I lived in Nunawading my neighbours were in Blackburn North, so my Favorite EPL teams are Arsenal, Blackburn and Coventry (as a Collingwood fan Gordon Coventry and his brother were both legendary players wen Collingwood won 4 Premierships from 1927-1930

[@PommyinOZ]

@edwardbakadingo4261 no way! Went to uni in Birmingham and my two mates were manic sky blues Coventry lads. So while I was there we'd go most weeks! Love that bro

[@benjaminstephens5489]

💙 love it pommy

[@PommyinOZ]

@@benjaminstephens5489 💙💙💙

[@adriansal80]

What a great chat

[@PommyinOZ]

Thanks man

[@nickhanlon9331]

There's a suburb in Melbourne called Blackburn. Ronnie Biggs lived there when he was on the run,

[@PommyinOZ]

The more you know. Used to get picked up In Blackburn when I moved here

[@ramiromaia592]

Unfortunately St Kilda hold the record of "Wooden Spoon" finishes 27 wooden spoons to be exact and it's daylight ahead of North Melbourne with 15

[@PommyinOZ]

@@ramiromaia592 decent banter this

[@BradWebsterNOXQZ]

Great interview. There’s no shortage of Pommy cricket commentators in Australia, (particularly females), so why not one doing AFL?? Good luck Oliver.

[@PommyinOZ]

Would be grouse to hear a familiar accent doing the big afl

[@ramiromaia592]

I'm glad my boys Nottingham Forest are back in the Premier League I haven't seen them since they were sadly relegated in 1993

[@PommyinOZ]

@@ramiromaia592 classic top flight side the forest

[@rationalroman3705]

Pommy, you do a great job promoting our game. Keep up the great work. Oh yes, do you think Leeds United can gain promotion?

[@PommyinOZ]

Absolutely love how they are going, prem ain't right in my mind without leeds. Cheers mate

[@ramiromaia592]

I actually love watching State leagues I watch the NTFL in the Northern Territory because I live in Darwin and our season has only just started last month and its the only wet season/summer league along with the A league soccer season

[@PommyinOZ]

@ramiromaia592 love that mate. Love me some state league too the grass roots vibe feels like home

[@benjaminstephens5489]

My Nan was born in Blackburn 💙

[@PommyinOZ]

@benjaminstephens5489 beautiful part of the world

[@julesmarwell8023]

;you should take it as a great compliment i.e. Pommy. When our Charlie came over to be educated at Timbertop. he was affectionately Nicknamed The Pommy Basterd

[@PommyinOZ]

I wear it with pride. Lived all over world and everyone has a moniker for certain countries etc my good mate is a yank calls me limey dan so honestly even my kids friends call me pommy wear it with pride

[@Michael-r1x5h]

In round 14 2020 Collingwood defeated Carlton by 24 pts. which meant that after 258 matches against each other 1897-2020, each had won 127 matches against the other, with 4 matches having been drawn. Since then Collingwood has won 6 of 8 matches against 'Blues'. From 1897 to 2024, Collingwood has scored 3,061 goals and 3,213 behinds for a total of 2,1579 points vs Carlton 3,000 goals and 3,088 behinds for a total of 21,088 pts. The two have played 22 Finals against each other with Carlton winning 14 of them. They have faced each other in 6 'Grand Finals' with Collingwood winning in 1910 and Carlton winning in 1915, 1938, 1970, 1979, and 1981.

[@PommyinOZ]

The history of this game is insane

[@rickybryan1759]

Good chat lads

[@PommyinOZ]

Glad you enjoyed

[@Power_Prawnstar]

Two Poms talking about the original football, the real football, the oldest football. ❤ Carn da 🍐

[@PommyinOZ]

Always a pleasure to talk the great game

[@Michael-r1x5h]

"the oldest football." You mean the football that developed from the 'Cambridge Rules' of 1848?

[@PommyinOZ]

@Michael-r1x5h the historical information of sport is always fascinating I find. Like crazy wh3n you think about it, how we came up with different things purely to pass the time and then they boom 100 years later

[@Power_Prawnstar]

@@Michael-r1x5h Lol, just put it outside off and through it goes lol 😆

[@wow_Jones_ikon]

G'day mate, Oliver, what a champion , makes you want to listen, two intelligent blokes having a chat, just happen to be two Australians with pommy roots commenting on AFL, diverse option alive and well I think. When the rivalry gets out of hand it detracts from the codes enjoyment, nothing wrong with giving each other shit up to a point, but then it's what you are born into I suppose. The idea of you two doing a show anywhere, sign me up mate. As a bullants member who goes to 90% of games I agreee with both Oliver and you Pom. I tell you the Coburg, Bullants rivalry when we are at each others grounds is a very real thing while the shared struggle of being a stand alone club gives a commonality. Still, Coburg supporters mate, a cheaper version of the Collingwood inbreeding program. Agree with Olivier, a afternoon spent at the bullants home paddack with kids all over the place running around off the leash or for the younger ones rolling down the outers grassed hill and the dogs on the leash everywhere, a great way to spend time watching footy. Unfortunately for us Bullants fans missing a bit of winning success, good job I'm a blues fan, well praticed at being patient. Thoroughly enjoyed listening to the two of you mate, so many wonderful voices to hear locked out of the mainstream, great you and Tez can introduce us. Merry xmas, Go Pom, Go Blues.

[@PommyinOZ]

Love that mate about the bullants. I want to go to more grass root games in 2025, when I went back home went to a few epl games but visiting my local side whitby town was the highlight of the trip great to be at the base level where passion and community keeps the club afloat

[@mikeythehat6693]

"Pommy" isn't necessarily a derogatory term. If the person using it meant to be insulting, he would use "Pommy B***ard" instead. I'm English born myself and I don't even register it anymore when people use that word. Also..........Go LIONS!

[@PommyinOZ]

Deffo mate never bothered me, it's funny Facebook and Fifa the game ban the word as it's a derogatory slur under their guidelines which i do laugh at

[@john8443]

Well the Colony was British

[@rickybryan1759]

The Saturday Sport you discuss is a bit like the old radio AFL coverage doing around the grounds. Also the old World of Sport on Sundays. We have lost something.

[@PommyinOZ]

Yeah we had a show similar to that trans world sport which was sick on a Sunday with every country's sport was a 3 hour epic marathon

[@adamparker9765]

The umpires have more flags than StKilda. 🤣😂

[@PommyinOZ]

Always good to wind Mrs Pom up with this

[@rickybryan1759]

I’d love to see a lower level English footy game with a pint and some scran

[@PommyinOZ]

Road trip

[@TheLaughingMagpie]

Can you do Rob Reacts next?

[@PommyinOZ]

I'll see what I can do

[@rickybryan1759]

My late mates daughter calls it a cult. Literally ‘you barrack for my team so we are mates’

[@PommyinOZ]

Too true

[@TheLaughingMagpie]

I never found the word Pom degrading

[@PommyinOZ]

Many people who share English have hated it I've worked with. One even had it banned at my old place 🤣🤣🤣

[@ross4970]

If you're from pomgolia , what else would you be called?

[@PommyinOZ]

🤣🤣🤣

[@ramiromaia592]

The Carlton/Collingwood rivalry used to be much more fierce than today's PC world a lot of Collingwood fans couldn't set foot on Lygon St if Carlton lost back in the good old days and vice versa

[@PommyinOZ]

@@ramiromaia592 defiantly has changed like all sports unfortunately