Genghis Khan's pants Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 The missus asked me what this meant after she heard it mentioned in one of the World Cup games yesterday - I explained that it was kind of a "base" challenge just taking a player out really but she then asked where the term came from and I have no idea!! Can anyone enlighten me as to its origins?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BcFcOneLove Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 2 minutes ago, Genghis Khan's pants said: The missus asked me what this meant after she heard it mentioned in one of the World Cup games yesterday - I explained that it was kind of a "base" challenge just taking a player out really but she then asked where the term came from and I have no idea!! Can anyone enlighten me as to its origins?? I heard that too, I think the commentator was just describing it how he saw it to be. An interesting term, first time I've heard a tackle described like that, different but it kind of sounded quite fitting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppyDAZE Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 You hear it more in cricket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genghis Khan's pants Posted December 3, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 I've definitely heard the term before (although not often) but have no idea to it's origins as such! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudski Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 The term has been used many times before over the years. In various sports. In OZ... aggro- cultural means aggressive and was used in commentary over there. Heard it in cricket and golf mostly. As in stroke/ swing or action was ' aggricultural. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lrrr Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 11 minutes ago, AppyDAZE said: You hear it more in cricket. Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiverRed Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 Uncultured, crude, coarse, rudimentary, lacking finesse. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 In cricket, it’s often used to describe a shot played with a scything motion. I guess it was applied in the WC commentary to describe a scything tackle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 Here's a few from the Farmers League 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveF Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 48 minutes ago, RiverRed said: Uncultured, crude, coarse, rudimentary, lacking finesse. This. Basically a rough, heavy or mistimed tackle with poor technique! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 I might (probably), but I always thought it came from the early days of sport when Gentleman V Amateurs type matches were common? The idea being that some farm hand would be less refined and hit rough shots in cricket and hand out even rougher tackles in football or rugby maybe? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 9 hours ago, downendcity said: Here's a few from the Farmers League I must admit, I wondered whether any of mine might have made it onto that compilation. Never sparked on an on-pitch brawl though. They did wait for us in the carpark once however.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 20 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said: I must admit, I wondered whether any of mine might have made it onto that compilation. Never sparked on an on-pitch brawl though. They did wait for us in the carpark once however.... It always seems worse to me at those levels when players have to go to work the following day, they could cost people a lot of money. Amazing how many of those challenges only got a yellow card or even no card at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 6 minutes ago, Port Said Red said: It always seems worse to me at those levels when players have to go to work the following day, they could cost people a lot of money. Amazing how many of those challenges only got a yellow card or even no card at all. Some on that compilation are just clumsiness and TBH that was my main excuse as well. I was never a particularly talented ball-player, but I was fast and big. Usually seeing me bear down on them, encouraged opponents to pass the ball before I reached and collided with them. In a professional game, I'd probably be sent off every match. The nastiest tackles in that video are the two-footed leaping in, which can seriously **** an opponent up. It seems amazing now it wasn't illegal back in the 70s. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elhombrecito Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 So it's not a dating app for farmers then? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midred Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 Gerry Gow would have be proud if some of his tackles had been described like that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinapig Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 10 hours ago, Rudolf Hucker said: In cricket, it’s often used to describe a shot played with a scything motion. I guess it was applied in the WC commentary to describe a scything tackle? To be a proper agricultural shot in cricket it surely has to go to cow corner? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elhombrecito Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 8 minutes ago, Midred said: Gerry Cow would have be proud if some of his tackles had been described like that! Missed a trick there... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 6 minutes ago, elhombrecito said: Missed a trick there... Very amoosing elhombro. You've got to milk these opportunities all you can, as you don't know when you will get anudder chance! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 (edited) ‘Agricultural’ used in a sporting context is disparaging to those that work on the land. Farmers are generally hard workers and rarely, if ever get a day off. It’s a 24/7 job. As a teenage schoolboy I worked on my local farm and it’s bloody hard work. Edited December 4, 2022 by Robbored 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocking Red Cyril Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 11 hours ago, downendcity said: Here's a few from the Farmers League Yes Remeber many such tackles in my village football playing days. And even fights in changing rooms after game even over post match drinks in the local bar. It was definitely agricultural in Sunday league football Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlastonburyRed Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 3 hours ago, Port Said Red said: I might (probably), but I always thought it came from the early days of sport when Gentleman V Amateurs type matches were common? The idea being that some farm hand would be less refined and hit rough shots in cricket and hand out even rougher tackles in football or rugby maybe? Maybe similar etymology for 'industrial' language?! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 12 hours ago, RiverRed said: Uncultured, crude, coarse, rudimentary, lacking finesse. But enough about you , have you an answer to the question ? 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Geoff Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 Taken from Football365 Agricultural challenge We all loved an agricultural challenge. Like all the best expressions, it has a poetic element which says so much in just two words. It was, of course, a term reserved for one of those tackles that took the ball, the man and often ploughed a long furrow in the pitch whilst doing so, evoking images of tilling the earth with large items of iron machinery. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 12 hours ago, RiverRed said: Uncultured, crude, coarse, rudimentary, lacking finesse. Oi! We are discussing tackling, not gas heads. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Joe Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 Agricultural tackle = any farmworker's meat and two veg. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiverRed Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 3 hours ago, Major Isewater said: But enough about you , have you an answer to the question ? Oooh Major, you are a one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 I expect if you look up `agricultural tackle` in a dictionary it shows a picture of Ian Alexander......................................... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyderInACan Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 2 hours ago, Lanterne Rouge said: I expect if you look up `agricultural tackle` in a dictionary it shows a picture of Ian Alexander......................................... See also: assault 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 17 hours ago, downendcity said: Here's a few from the Farmers League "Let them know you're there' tackles. Used to be how most games started IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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