The Australian national surf team unveils its new name
While it doesn't roll of the tongue as nimbly as 'Kangaroos' or even 'Socceroos', the national surf team has today unveiled its new name - the Irukandjis.
If you're scratching your head right now, the Irukandji is an extremely venomous species of box jellyfish. In fact, it's both the smallest and most deadly species of jellyfish in the world.
The latter quality is what made it so appealing to Surfing Australia.
"They pack a serious punch, just like our Australian surfers in the water”, said Surfing Australia CEO, Chris Mater, of the name Australia’s surf team will take to the Tokyo Olympics this July.
Irukandji are only found on the coast of far northern Queensland, inside the placid waters of the Great Barrier Reef. When exposed to waves, Irukandji jellyfish fall to pieces.
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Seriously?
Why not something even more appealing like:
The Howling Onshores
The One Foot Slops
The Close Outs
hahahaha. Gold!
The Irukandjis name was generously gifted to Surfing Australia by the local Yirrganydji people of North Queensland, driven by the efforts of Indigenous athlete and former World Tour surfer, Soli Bailey.
'Too Deadly' I reckon.
Where's Owen?
I've been cringing since the socceroos, the best are at the wheel for sure.
This has got more than a hint of Ding Alley about it
Is it April 1 already?!
Oh dear, what were they thinking?
Twaddle...Irukandji are not even restricted to Australian waters. So our national surf team is named after something not particularly Australian, that "falls apart in waves"??? Why not call 'em the feral cats...a freaking ecological nightmare that hates water.
hahahaaaaaa
A tiny killer jellyfish that lives in waters devoid of surf. (Scratches head)
How about,
Surfaroos? Waveroos? Ripparoos? or the public favourite, Team Surfie Mcsurf face?
How about the 'Green and Golden Trevally's'?
or the 'Blurters'
The Sharks.
So how do you pronounce it?
I got sucked in with ding alleys last master piece - I’m. Not getting sucked in twice. It has to be satire.
The seagulls.. the old chips floggers from oz
Go the mighty Wobbegongs!
Plenty of land based teams called the sharks..
May I go left field here and scoot through to say that I kinda really like the Irukandjis.
(I am lazy on researching)
Hope I'm wrong but I suspect they'll be the Irucan'tdiis
To be fair, there's not much fauna left to choose from:
Australian national sports team nicknames
Can you imagine the accolades and back slaps you would get from your mates at the pub when you told them you made the Wombats Fistball team..........
At least the Fed Cup tennis team name is relevant when Tomic and Kyrgios are in it.
For any WA teams disappointed all the names have been taken, might I suggest the Honey Possums?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_possum
"The testes are very large in size, noted as proportionally the greatest for a mammal at 4.6 percent of the body weight."
Perfect for the underdog team with no shortage of courage.
Agree!
Not sure why we are so prejudiced towards fauna... or even flora. The only team mineral I can think of is the opals. It’s time we started naming more teams after minerals. It’s bound to highlight the nations rich and varied resources and help with exports.
Im thinking chrysotile (the mineral which asbestos comes from) or uraninite for starters
I only recognise 3 of that crew?
Australian ‘Salties’
- Alright guys, we need a team name for the most successful surfing nation of all time.
- How about something small, weak and toxic?
- Excellent. Get me a shortlist by lunchtime. Oh, and make sure it's flimsy - maybe even see-through. I want these things to be like a poisonous used tissue or something.
- You got it!
Uluroos. Surely I win?
Uluroos has got to be the winning name for an international big wave aussie contingent.
Hahaha. You're kidding me. I just checked the date....and it's only late March. Kidding right!?
Has sally thrown the most shaka’s in the history of shaka throwing? Every single freaken photo she’s just chucking it out there!
Ha ha I love it!
Why not the e.colis?
Also small and potentially deadly, survives in surf zones and cold water such as Japan, and makes for an explosive performance with plenty of squirt.
The hooded plovers? Or perhaps that’s more for the endangered surfers of wozzleland.
The Stone(d) Fish?
The Blind Mullets
When exposed to waves, Irukandji jellyfish fall to pieces.
The Covids. May as well. Can't be any worse.
When I read the title of this article I thought it was about surfing while on the unemployment benefit.
SpitTheWinkles??
Haha.
Bondi Cigars ..... ;)
The Bronzed Bogans?
I reckon that t-shirt needs a name. Yikes! Continuing a proud history of elegant Aussie sporting and Olympic uniforms anyhow. I suppose there's not much you can do with green and gold, but less is more would be a good starting point.
https://www.jerseys.com.au/products/socceroos-spew-jersey?variant=28386…
(Huey's Drug Mules) have yet to push their stash onto Oz Gromz or Golden shower Gromz in stickerz.
Newcastle is Team Oz first public meet'n'greet since unsportsmanlike Olympic Pipe Bombing Tragedy.
IOC Coates expects his Irukandjis to harness their fully vaxed superpowers ..."by June at the latest".
https://www.espn.com.au/olympics/story/_/id/30961365/tokyo-2020-not-mak…
TGA: AstraZeneca rollout is a 12 week double dose regime in order to be vaccinated against covid.
(Drug cheats > 4 -12 week AZ -2nd dose) is strictly reserved for chemo > Severely ill cases (Only)
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6232525969001
IOC : "Athletes are not required to vax & Athletes must not queue jump to get a vaccinated!"
AZ - Rollout Day 1 was March 8
Oz AZ Drug Mules Olympic Ideal Drug run was Feb 28 at the latest to meet Coates' by June deadline.
Coates : Dreamed up 2 excuses for Olympic Ideal Drug Cheats to fool World Anti Doping Agency.
1) Irukandjis Board Bagz were stuffed with dirty pre batch AZ contraband at 28th Feb' Airport bust.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/28/australias-astrazeneca-va…
2) 2b VIP's Alley Oop'd > 2a > 1b ( For a 1a Cock Pit Pfizer fix to power up our Irukandjis by June! )
Essential Irukandjis are labelled #1 Olympic Ideal Drug Cheats even before unpacking their board bags.
WSL Starky hits fever pitch :
"Hey Gromz...A big cheer for Huey's Drug Mules...just grab a WSL sticker & yer your first hit is for free."
[News]
Huey's drug cheats the Irukandjis set off 4 anaphylactic shock Tsunamis that wipeout Tokyo Olympics
PS:
Official Team Australia Beach Wear Merch...(Note Surfers can't march in the opening ceremony!)
https://scontent.fbne5-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/69343683_25383162828572…
So Irukandjis proudly model Official Olympic Surfboard/s plastered with "Fake Olympic Sponsors"
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/e7b59065603aa3bb8f40ed541ea51480
Has Olympics just Sold Out...(Anyone?)
All now know the obvious reason why Surfing was welcomed into the Olympic family...
Day 1 Huey's Drug Mules droppin' in on vax queues with an unlicensed drug importation vessel.
Strike 3 is Super Sally's sleight of hand covering her Shorts Logo...(nice)
Are surfers plastering stickerz over the Olympic ideal or is this a cry for help Rebel Tour Wipeout Promo.
Either way our Irukandjis are likely to cop an Olympic sized Lay Daze until after Chopes Olympics.
Look away Gromz ...Goodvibes is in the line-Up...hurry & Paddle Battle to raise the [f] Alarm.
swellnet's exclusive Olympic Sized Timeline
https://www.swellnet.com/forums/wax/473911
Hall of Lame. Awesome band names you mind if I use em?
There is always Bastard Trumpeter, Butchers Prick, Mother-in-Law, Swallowtail & Happy Moments to choose from.
Ospreys works for me not sure if seaslug would agree.
Works for me RC but what about "The Euro's" just to add confusion
the contemporay marketing guru / PR obsessivenes has oficially reached peak useless parasite
Im calling a review and revoke to follow
...following a string of big dollar marketing proposal rejections that have been met with an appropriate response of... yeh nah...
this ain't even a 'yeh nah' ...its a mouthful of coffee spluttuering... pppffffffffff...
Are most of the suggestions here team names or band names?
Surely it had to be the (Bob) Hawkes
Hear, hear.
Hear, hear.
Heard you the first time, Bob. Hearing aid must have fallen out.
LOL
Who are the other 3?
The Drop Bears
(Thylacoleo Carnifex)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacoleo_carnifex
"The marsupial lion's limb proportions and muscle mass distribution indicate that, although it was a powerful animal, it was not a particularly fast runner. Paleontologists conjecture that it was an ambush predator, either sneaking up and then leaping upon its prey, or dropping down on it from overhanging tree branches (a behaviour that may have been preserved in tribal memory and been the original inspiration for the fictional drop bear animal)"
What about 'Chrome Dome and the Gilmore Girls'(and boys and LGBTQII and their supporters and their supporters.... and their supporters ad infinitum)
Sports names peaked with the New Zealand men’s badminton team...The Black Cocks
Who are the two guys on the outside of the team?
Think it's Harley Ingleby on the right?
As Gra said, Harley far right.
Matt Formston at left, paralympic surfer - blind, 5% vision.
Shakira Westdorp next to him, who's ISA SUP champ.
I reckon that's a reflex shaka Sal's throwing. Looks like they were instructed not to, here, but Sal's done so many she probably wasn't aware she was shaka-ing.
Serial Shaka-er-er-a for sure!
Sal can throw all the shaka's she likes, just as long as I don't have to listen to that grating voice of hers.
Thanks for the clean out laugh reading these comments legends! Hahaaa!!
From Otis Carey:
Pricks.
'exploitation' my arse...do indigenous people a favour and stop trying to find ways to portray them as 'victims' FFS.
Dust off the blue koala, A shape shifting occy maybe. But not a spineless drifter.
Kanga and PT must have wanted to much in royalties for for use of “The Bronzed Aussies”.
how about just calling them The Australian Surfing Team? Do they have to have a dumb name?
Agreed.
Hard to fear any sporting team called the Socceroos, Wallaroos or Jillaroos....just plain embarrassing....
This is a joke isn't it ?
Glad I'm not involved cringeworthy embarrassment.
Rooftops got it right , a name to strike fear into the opponents ahaha.
Vote 1 Billythekid
Why not The Blue Bottles? Honestly... Davo from marketing. This shit isn't that hard.
ScoMo wanted Waveseekers