ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

Sooks in sport.
© Ross Magnay
Where’s the bloody handshake gone, now it’s hug and cuddle up,
And Bathurst might as well have been the bloody Kleenex cup!
Football! Well they pat the bums of teammates if they score,
And if they lose they start to sook or even cry; what’s more!

They push and shove and make out fight, the mob of bloody girls,
They should be wearing dresses with their hair put up in curls.
And tattoos on their arms and legs they think it makes them tough,
I tell you mate I’m over it, I’ve nearly had enough!

It's the sensitive new age blokes Ross ( SNABS )

I have it on good authority that the fittest and toughest athletes are male ballet dancers.

They don't make girls like they used to either Ross?

When I was young

Only girls had their ears pierced

and

Girls only had their ears pierced.

Yeah some truth to that - used to be an era when the only time you'd see a bloke with tatts cuddle another bloke was if you were doing time - and ballet dancers may be the fittest blokes, but toughest? I mean for a start they don't even have tattoos, and haven't even got the good grace to high five and pat each others arses after each act.

Marty

The practice of lining up facing that other team for a handshake before a game is still IN for the younger players of Rugby League but for some reason it is deemed un cool for the so called professionals.


I have during games had a running battle with opposition players but still shake their hand after win loose or draw that's if they don't as said ( walk away and sook ).

Yes Ross I agree all the bum patting, high fives and cuddling is over the top.

Bob.

Now I don't know how often you packed into a scrum, Bob - probably more a will-o-the-wisp winger, but I'm sure at some stage you've been part of one those strange man-sandwiches that the rugby codes indulge in. So I see a certain irony that you say the cuddling and bum-slapping is OTT where the scrum is one big heads-down bum-cuddle

There was more graciousness in victory in the old days, all that bum-tapping and cuddling was saved for the right time and place - the showers

There's bum patting? Where do I sign up?

Heather

Been in many a scrum Marty and they are not a pretty place I can tell you. Had a bloke I played league with out west Mucker Blanch who was slow to fire up in a game so as soon as the first scrum packed one of our guys used to give him a swift uppercut. He never knew where it came form so took it out on the opposition.


Bob

Heather I do bum slapping for free but only in house calls.


Bob

Mucker Blanch . . . now there's the name of a character you could wrap a poem around!