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ELI5: AFL/Australian Rules Football

My Australian friend introduced this too me but I find it too confusing, a little help?
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There are two teams with 18 players on the field. The goal of the game is to kick the ball between the goal posts at your designated end of the field, this is worth 6 points. 

On either side of the goal posts are 2 smaller posts. If you get it inside the smaller posts you score a point which, as its name implies, is worth a point. You also only score a point if it goes between the two goal posts but the last touch of the ball by a player was not a kick. For example if an opposition player touches it on the way through.

You may not throw the ball at any point. To transfer from player to player you must either kick the ball or do a 'handpass'. A handpass is holding the ball in one hand and punching it with the other so it flies in the direction you want. Because you punched it you get around the rule of no throwing the ball.

If the ball is kicked and then caught without touching the ground it is called a 'mark' and the player that marked the ball has the option to stop and kick the ball without the opposition trying to stop him.

If a goal is scored the ball is taken back to the middle of the ground by the umpire and thrown in the air. The teams then try to get control of the ball to kick it through their goals.

If a point is scored the team who is in opposition of the team that controls that goal gets to kick it out from that goal to (hopefully) their own players.

This is the basics of the game, everything else is just little nuances that you will pick up as you watch.

Go Blues (even though we seem to be losing right now)