2 in the goo 1 in the....

[OnSong]

It's funny, because I know it as 'the Barracuda', but I see amateur wrestlers from Adelaide making that gesture all the time thinking it makes them look tough. Lol

I've only ever heard of it as the Barracuda as well. Never heard of it called the Shocker!

I've heard both names but I've always kept with the Barracuda.
"Two in the pink, one in the st...."

[Dirko]

I'm with WCP & CP. Damn if I knew what it meant......

[Johno6]

i am in more shock the amount of people not knowing what it meant....
mmaybe u guys should try some in the field training... the old hands on approach??

[OnSong]

i am in more shock the amount of people not knowing what it meant....
mmaybe u guys should try some in the field training... the old hands on approach??

Barracudas could be on the bite tonight!

[Johno6]

apparently they love finger nails... real good bait!


maybe chuck a bit of burley out first just incase

[mighty_tiger_79]

Lol, ok, can someone explain what the gesture is supposed to signify? (feel free to PM if it's too lewd for here)

How ******* old do I feel!!

i had no idea about that myself

[Ian]

I had no idea looking at the photo either, till I came back to this thread and read the title....

I'm also horrified at how out of touch I am, damn I'm gettting old (36)

wait 'till you hit 46, I thought with teen age kids I was keeping a little bit up to date, I had NFI

[Rik E Boy]

2 in the good one in the poo? Sounds like Collingwood's post Grand Final activities.......

regards,

REB

[Dogwatcher]

If I were a Collingwood supporter, I'd be more disappointed that winning the NAB Cup apparently meant enough to some players that it would provoke such displays. I would be hoping for "Well, that's one in the bank, now onto the real stuff". I can understand some players going over the top after a Grand Final, but not after a pre-season trial match.

A hand signal is over the top? Wow.
It wasn't a fist pump or any such thing, it was blokes skylarking in a photo.
However, I'm sure the boys using the signal knew what it was

[Johno6]

whys nothing been said about cameron wood or whoever it is doing the sock puppet gesture...

how could he!!

[OnSong]

whys nothing been said about cameron wood or whoever it is doing the sock puppet gesture...

how could he!!

That's not a sock puppet!

[Adelaide Hawk]

A hand signal is over the top? Wow.
It wasn't a fist pump or any such thing, it was blokes skylarking in a photo.

Maybe if not over the top, perhaps we can agree on unnecessary? I guess I'm just too old fashioned for sport these days, a time where people consider obscene gestures and behaviour in public as acceptable. I recall when I started with the Norwood Under 17s back in the 1970s. We had a function over at the clubrooms after practice, and the team manager was pacing around the change room reading the riot act to us about behaviour.

He made it clear that we were representing a great football club, that we were expected to behave, otherwise we would be disciplined by the club. It left an indelible impression on me about what was expected of us as footballers, and as young men who were custodians of the game.

When I see the neanderthal behaviour of some of today's "senior" players, I just shake my head.

[Dogwatcher]

I totally agree it was unacceptable as I find it hard to believe he wasn't aware of what it meant.

I too had a rep coach that was like that - made us clean our boots, tuck our guernseys in and pull up our socks before we could play. Was a bit of a shock for some of us northern suburbs boys.

[whufc]

I totally agree it was unacceptable as I find it hard to believe he wasn't aware of what it meant.

I too had a rep coach that was like that - made us clean our boots, tuck our guernseys in and pull up our socks before we could play. Was a bit of a shock for some of us northern suburbs boys.

tell me about it, the coach i had was just 10 years out of the defence force, was a shock to the system to say the least.

[Pag]

I totally agree it was unacceptable as I find it hard to believe he wasn't aware of what it meant.

I too had a rep coach that was like that - made us clean our boots, tuck our guernseys in and pull up our socks before we could play. Was a bit of a shock for some of us northern suburbs boys.

I've got no doubt he knew exactly what it meant mate, it was clearly to get a laugh out of his mates when they read the paper the next day.

Some people just take things way too seriously. Did he hurt or kill anyone? Like I said, slow news week for footy journos with Fev out of the country.

[Dogwatcher]

Totally silly on his behalf and equally poor behaviour on behalf of the newspaper that made a deal out of it.

It is to the public's benefit, after all, to know what exactly what that signal might mean....

[Q.]

[Pag]

I should say DW, slow news week for AFL journos, not all journos. I'm sure your work this week was top-shelf as usual...

[OnSong]

I should say DW, slow news week for AFL journos, not all journos. I'm sure your work this week was top-shelf as usual...

Didn't it come out because of some bloke ringing 3AW and then it ended up on the AFL site?

[Dogwatcher]

You could be right.

and Pag, I dunno about top shelf, but we'd never run stories about footballers pulling the finger, or some such! We would be doing those stories every week!