Roast Do our supporters actually *get* football?

[LondonCalling]

Must you use that word? You obviously have a lot of anger built up in you to be so hung up on what fellow supporters think and say. Who cares! We all go for the Blues, whether we know every detail of AFL or not, who cares so long as we put our feet and money behind the club we love

Thought I already told you I wasn't interested in debating semantics with you?

 

[AndyWalkersGirl]

Thought I already told you I wasn't interested in debating semantics with you?

Oooh, nasty. Settle pettle, no need for in house fighting, a la Carlton back a few years ago. Cheer up sweetheart, we both go for the Blues, just because im' not as egotistical and pretentious about supporting them like you are, doesn't make me any less of a supporter.

Never understood the whole "Im a better supporter than you because..." concept. Very grade 1. But what ever rocks your boat!

 

[LondonCalling]

Oooh, nasty. Settle pettle, no need for in house fighting, a la Carlton back a few years ago. Cheer up sweetheart, we both go for the Blues, just because im' not as egotistical and pretentious about supporting them like you are, doesn't make me any less of a supporter.

Never understood the whole "Im a better supporter than you because..." concept. Very grade 1. But what ever rocks your boat!

Get back in the kitchen.

 

[AndyWalkersGirl]

Get back in the kitchen.

I'm already there

 

[LondonCalling]

I'm already there

Now that's a good girl. All the best for season 2009.

 

[thylacine60]

Get a room................or an annulment.

 

[Quid]

I'm surprised how few of us actually look at it as a compliment that they double teamed Fev.

Like I said, best tune up a team in that circumstances could get, is that sort of inside 50 pressure, leading into a finals campaign, especially having played so many dead rubbers before hand.

Yes, we've got our ****** supporters, it's part and parcel with having such a large supporter base. Collingwood and Essendon have them too. However, it's modern football that seems to be lacking in knowledge from our supporter base. So many just don't get the draft system, don't get tempo footy, flooding in the backline, and it's not the best combination when so many of us think with our heart, not with our head.

In terms of "earnt goals", no matter how many before hand were earnt from unpaid freekicks, great snaps, bombs from outside 50, he'd always be remembered for the 100 that came from a bit of charity from the opposition or the man in white. No point having the asterix. There's always next year.

Quite wrong there my friend, all that will be remembered by next year let alone 5-10 yrs time is that he either did or didn't kick 100 goals... And had he kicked the 100 it would be remembered all that much longer for the history it creates in the "double Ton"....

And in reference to your earlier post re Carlton fans punching on in the stands at the swans game... Your fighting here with fellow supporters appears very hypocritical....

Being at the game i couldn't agree more with Blue Yoss, it was emotion, it was a purpose it was being robbed of achieving a goal and coming oh so close... had u been at the game you would have felt the fire in the air when he was on 7 2nd half goals

Nothing wrong with it...

 

[LondonCalling]

Quite wrong there my friend, all that will be remembered by next year let alone 5-10 yrs time is that he either did or didn't kick 100 goals... And had he kicked the 100 it would be remembered all that much longer for the history it creates in the "double Ton"....

No other ton would have been kicked that way, given he was allowed such an armchair ride. Would have been remembered as a farce, I think.

And in reference to your earlier post re Carlton fans punching on in the stands at the swans game... Your fighting here with fellow supporters appears very hypocritical....

1 - I didn't start it, 2 - From what I heard that day, I don't think that brawl had much to do with footy at all.

Being at the game i couldn't agree more with Blue Yoss, it was emotion, it was a purpose it was being robbed of achieving a goal and coming oh so close... had u been at the game you would have felt the fire in the air when he was on 7 2nd half goals

Because people get to run on the ground again?

 

[BlueYoss]

Because people get to run on the ground again?

Not at all, after you've already run onto the ground once in the game, there's not much more thrill to be had repeating it, it would have been novel at best. The energy and excitement around the ground was genuinely for Fev to reach his milestone and to represent a victory in some sense for the CFC for the night.

I'm guessing you're in London?

Was a great energy and genuine excitement around the ground, from about 99% of the 50,000 thousand strong crowd, all wanting Fev to kick the ton, and getting to run onto the ground a second time was not a driving motivator at all, guess you had to be there to *get* that

 

[LondonCalling]

I'm guessing you're in London?

guess you had to be there to *get* that

You're shooting at 0/2 from the free throw line there, mate.

Regardless of how many times in one night, it's not every day you get to do it. Bit of a difference too running out for the sake of running out, and running out to congratulate your team's full forward too.

 

[Quazza]

all Teams have their share of moronic suppoters. Some, like the Crows, have more than others

This morning I've 3 crows supporters tell me the Saints Bombers game was obviously fixed

"Come on of course it was. As if any team only scores 5 goals on the Telstra Dome"


yup

 

[BlueYoss]

You're shooting at 0/2 from the free throw line there, mate.

I suppose I should invest more time into practising free throw shots with my eyes closed if I plan on making more of them

Regardless of how many times in one night, it's not every day you get to do it. Bit of a difference too running out for the sake of running out, and running out to congratulate your team's full forward too.

Valid points, however, from my point of view, sitting 10 rows behind the Carlton interchange bench and as ready as anyone for the second run onto the field, I maintain that biggest motivating factor for mine was Fev's milestone, not my opportunity to run onto the ground for a second time in one game.

 

[MacTruck]

my god...

good op and some very valid points from all.

98 (push in the back my **** ) is/was a heck of an effort, 14 other clubs out there would kill for a spearhead like Fev.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Posters there are a bit more sensible, this site brings people out from the lowest common denominator which londoncalling aludes to

I'm sorry, but why are you on BigFooty if you feel this way? I can promise you that there is often just as much angst and lowest common denominator type thinking on all Carlton sites, but when it spirals out of control, it is often deleted away from your sensitive eyes, whereas we let it run or close the thread after a time.

If your contribution is to come to one site to denigrate it and pump up another site, it really isn't needed.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

98 (push in the back my **** ) is/was a heck of an effort, 14 other clubs out there would kill for a spearhead like Fev.

99 wasn't a push in the back, it was for being held off the ball and it was legitimate.

Watch it again.

 

[Alpha1]

No I don't get it

 

[MacTruck]

99 wasn't a push in the back, it was for being held off the ball and it was legitimate.

Watch it again.

did, and you are completely correct. I must have forgot to put my eye back in while watching it.

continue on, nothing to see here.

 

[BlueYoss]

did, and you are completely correct. I must have forgot to put my eye back in while watching it.

continue on, nothing to see here.

 

[phantom 309]

I dont know if i would be categorised as the average blues supporter, or the over the top hate to lose and blame everyone and everything for it supporter, or one of the other many and varied types to give there heart to our club, hell for all i know i just maybe the obnoxious rude load and embarrassing foul mouthed one that pisses all the other supporters off, what I do know is that there are very few games that I have attended that I have not left feeling fairly good about, win lose or draw and i have seen hundreds, Saturday night I felt robbed, why, we all could have wittnessed history, in our lives this will only happen on a very few occasions.
In some ways i have been lucky and history has happened and i seen it and my memory of it will be for ever, I did not go to the game on Saturday night thinking Fevs 100, i was thinking Buddys, by halfe time Fevs hundred would not have been on anyones mind his chance was gone, 25 mins later history is in the making 2 full forwards acheiving the milstone in the same game, this i don't think will ever happen again.
I didn't want the Hawks to back off Fev and gift it to him, I didn't want the umpires to pluck a free and gift it to him, I did want his team mates to do everything to help him get there, and some of them did not, and in my opinion some of his team mates let him down, I did not expect to be robbed of this oppurtunity by a little weed in a coaches box, and i was, now i dont care how others view this because this is how i feel about what happened, i didnt call any radio stations and didnt smash any windows of shops in anger, nore am i embarresed by any of or supporters for the way they have reacted, but hell thats just me.

 

[Murph_The_Smurf]

Yeah 24 hours later people are still going on about it because they like their club and it's a conversation topic. Incase you haven't realised, this is a football forum where people talk about football. not everyone agrees, thank god, because debate is healthy.

And i'm not snipy at all, just because I didn't praise your post. you shared your view, I read a few sentences of it because that was all i could be bothered doing, and i wrote something in reply to one of your sentences.

Dont see anything wrong with that.

to much debate is unhealthy and leads to obsession like alot of people on these boards.

 

[XXX KINGS]

Whilst at first assesment of the last few years, I can think of several times where I've found myself slightly embarassed to be a Carlton supporter, at least only in light of other supporters behaviour.

The one thing worse than an idiotic supporter is someone who uses their intelligence to put down and belittle those who aren't so blessed.

The best thing about football and being a supporter in general is that you don't need to have a high IQ to gain any sense of enjoyment from it. It brings out passion in people and sometimes the emotion which is involved makes people say things without thinking them through. People will rant and rave and carry on like monkeys but at the end of the day it is their way of expressing love for their team. Being able to write a thesis on how stupid people are because they wanted their favourite player to do something rarely seen in the modern game isn't a pre-requisite for being a top-notch supporter. If anything, it can only be seen as a pre-requisite for being a pretentious w***er.

 

[LondonCalling]

The one thing worse than an idiotic supporter is someone who uses their intelligence to put down and belittle those who aren't so blessed.

The best thing about football and being a supporter in general is that you don't need to have a high IQ to gain any sense of enjoyment from it. It brings out passion in people and sometimes the emotion which is involved makes people say things without thinking them through. People will rant and rave and carry on like monkeys but at the end of the day it is their way of expressing love for their team. Being able to write a thesis on how stupid people are because they wanted their favourite player to do something rarely seen in the modern game isn't a pre-requisite for being a top-notch supporter. If anything, it can only be seen as a pre-requisite for being a pretentious w***er.

I couldn't care if they were cavemen or descendants of Sir Robert Menzies. Everyone one way or another is blessed with a decent set of common sense. So few seem to actually want to use it, and even less actually get close when they do try.

 

[CFC16]

A lot of Carlton supporters on big footy haven't got a clue about football.

 

[thylacine60]

A lot of Carlton supporters on big footy haven't got a clue about football.

You have no idea.

 

[The Cranium]

a deer with no balls or eyes has no ******* idea.