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Both. Would still be interested in AFL, watch games on TV, go to the footy etc. even if WC ceased to exist, but probably wouldn't be able to support another club, at least for a fair while.
 
Although, I have made an effort to crush your deluded little worlds, and instill a sense of reality into your thought process, I will get back to my main point. For a lot of you supporters to say that you will give up on the game of Aussie Rules if your team ceased to exist in it's present state is a joke. You are not true supporters. You need to ask yourself whether you love the game or not. If you are not a true supporter of this great game of Aussie Rules Football, you need to get a grip on reality and ask yourself some serious quesitions.

That is all.

It has me stuffed why anyone would seriously be trying to answer your questions when they are asked in such an arrogant and abusive way. Try to deal with your own deluded little world before asking us about ours!:rolleyes:
 

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I couldn't care less about the AFL as it is now. The only thing keeping me interested is Collingwood. I rarely ever sit down to watch other teams play or pay much attention to the papers.

Having said that, I play local footy when work allows and absolutely love it. But that's because it's real football and not the sanitised, over-commericalised crap that AFL has become over the last decade.
 
Well if Essendon folded tommorow, I'd start following my local club passionately.

I'd still go to a lot of AFL games, only because the atmosphere at AFL games is amazing.
 
Lol where to start on this absurd post?

True, footy isn't the only thing in the world, but if my club folded or merged, which I don't believe it will, then I wouldn't have an interest in the merged team or another team.

I'm a dyed in the wool Demons man. I wonder how much hypocrisy you would demonstrate if Geelong was go bottom up. Follow another team would you?
 
In the current state of possible club mergers, relocations and the possibility of some folding all together, it has interested me to read from many bigfooty users that if their club ceased to exist in its current state, that they would not support another club, but simply abandon their passion for the game of AFL. This seems to be rather ludicrous and narrow minded in my opinion.

As mentioned in another thread, I have strong ties to my club of choice, and believe them to be stronger than the average joe on the street. Many people, however, support the club that they support merely because they decided as a kid that they liked the team for whatever reason, or more often, their parent told them what team they should support. Needless to say, many people have very little real connection with their club, apart from their own version of reality that they have created in their mind, and their own inflated sense of self worth. Just to get things straight, even though you yell and carry on like a clown until you're blue in the face, your club probably doesn't give a stuff about you. To them, you are nothing more than a membership number, if that. It's funny, that people can get on their high horse and denounce fanatical religous zealots, but are more fanatical in their support of a team that they might have only decided to go for because they thought that team had a cool jumper.

Back in the day, the old VFL clubs used to be suburban sides, which obviously drew very parochial support from different members of Melbourne's society. Teams had different supporter bases - some teams were supported more by the elite members of society, and some attracted throngs of underclasses to their games. These days, however, clubs have very few ties with their foundation locations, and represent nobody. They are little more than multi million dollar businesses.

For those of you who support them and make claims such as 'I bleed blue and white,' you are fooling yourself. You may as well wear RioTinto shirts around and follow its price on the sharemarket. By buying some shares, you'd probably make more of a difference to its performance than you do by yelling, swearing and jumping around like an animal in the stands at a football game or by going on the offensive every time your club's poor performance is mentioned at an office get together.

Although, I have made an effort to crush your deluded little worlds, and instill a sense of reality into your thought process, I will get back to my main point. For a lot of you supporters to say that you will give up on the game of Aussie Rules if your team ceased to exist in it's present state is a joke. You are not true supporters. You need to ask yourself whether you love the game or not. If you are not a true supporter of this great game of Aussie Rules Football, you need to get a grip on reality and ask yourself some serious quesitions.

That is all.

Who the hell are you to put forward the most arrogant and generalistic statement i have ever read on big footy.

What exactly is your name, "mr geelong" or perhaps "mr afl" or even "mr vfl" (heaven forbid).

Who the hell cares what ties you have to your club, every screaming fanatical fan on saturday afternoon has every right to claim to be the biggest supporter of that club and there is nothing you can do or say to take away that right.

On a personal point if there was no fremantle i couldn't give too hoots about the afl, its a joke of an organisation set up to to satisfy the wants of a few whilst lining the pockers of the same and in general rip off general punter .

I still enjoy going down to claremont oval having a burger, a couple of real beers and standing on the fence watching my team go around win lose or draw. having said that i take my six year old to subi every 2nd week to watch the dockers go round and after our first win in a long time i know why we both love freo and nothing else.

so if the news papers truely do copy your posts i hope the grab this one from you and let you know what a git you are.

PS if geelong didn't win the flag last year would you feel the same

JERK!
 
This is bigfooty, people here don't love the sport, they're just bitching and whinging bogan morons that love their club and don't care for all the other clubs or the game as a whole.

Example #1 - "Anzac day shouldnt just be for Collingwood and Essendon"
Example #2 - "What a Victorian wankfest that hall of fame match was."

etc etc........
 
I love my club more than I love the game. If Geelong went, I couldn't support another club. I probably don't have these "strong ties" that you claim to possess, but who does? Would you have people support clubs on the basis of the suburb they live in? Or perhaps by social class?

Who are you to tell me that my love for my club is somehow less valid, less real than yours because you have these purported "strong ties"? Football is an emotive game, without an emotional link such as a club, how can I relate to it? It's extremely enjoyable to play, but to watch, I need to barrack. Perhaps some appreciate it more for its aesthetic; if that's the case, why do they bother even supporting a team?

:thumbsdown: BigBadCam :thumbsdown:
 
I definitely love AFL. One of the reasons I follow AFL is simply because I have a club in which I am passionate about. It's the most simple and easiest way in which to follow AFL.

If my club folded and did not still exist in any way, I'm sure I'd still follow the AFL but probably not as whole-heartedly. With your club going completely, so does most of the passion, as you can't openly support your club at matches. And I would never change clubs.

If my club merged, there is no doubt I'd follow that team. While I may only get 8 games in Melbourne compared to 16, of course I'll be at least 98% as passionate about that team.
 
I support my city / state. I follow Adelaide in the AFL, Adelaide United, attend a few Redbacks games (oh the pain of it all) and have even been to a Thunderbirds netball game this year.

If Adelaide Crows ever folded I would have to swallow my pride and barrack for Port Adelaide, lest I be like all the other Adelaide dwelling cop outs who pretend they support Melbourne based teams because they haven't got the stomach for the intense Crows-Power rivalry.
 

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Hey
I come from a town were the local team is the sole importance of the town evry week the ppl in the town go down to the footy ground and enjoy and watch passionatly while the players slug it out on the field just hoping that we come away with the points and if we dont we come back the next week with the same hope.
if this town lost its footy club there would be no sole connection between all of us it would be pointless nd useless to try and barrak 4 sum1 else..
im not sayin i dont love the game of Aussie rules football but the connection between supporters nd players and the club alike is what make this great game sooo gud...
so therfore you can not end this thed on a possitive beacause it is the stong bond betwwen supporters of clubs and the clubs and the league that is sooooo great so if the team folded it would be as if the league had just folded! for some ppl there is just no club but there own.

Cheers:rolleyes:
 
If Freo were to fold I'd definitely keep watching the AFL. I love the sport too much to quit watching it played at it's highest level.

I wouldn't be able to support another team though. Not for a while anyway. And when I did it would probably have to be a brand new club. I couldn't see myself passionately supporting one of Freo's old adversaries - I would feel like a traitor to my old club.

Even so, I couldn't see myself ever being as passionate about another team that wasn't tied to the wonderful little bohemian port town that I love so much. The old town with it's wonderful atmosphere and all it's rich football history. All the little things that make me love Freo the club and Freo the town.

But who knows what would happen over time. Whenever you break up with a girl you love you think you'll never find another one you care about that much... but you nearly always do.

Luckily I'll never have to worry about losing this girl because I can't see Freo ever folding. We might go 100 years without a premiership but we'll never fold.
 
I love the sport far more than my club.

I'd fight my nuts off to keep the Dogs going (and i worry that i'll need to) but if the Dogs relocated i'd follow them.

And if they folded i'd still passionately follow the sport. As it is, i have a few teams that i have a soft spot for already anyway. (Obviously none are close to how i feel about the Dogs though).

Maybe it's because i'm from Sydney, so i wasn't born and bred into a club identity like Melbourne people are. But i love this game more than anything, regardless of who's playing.
 
Essendon very important.

AFL/local football whatever do not care about at all

Hate the AFL and what it stands for, and if i never watched another game on TV it would not bother me.
 
When I developed my love of my club I loved the sport. Now if Essendon disappeared I would watch the grand final if I was at a BBQ but that would be it.
 
Good thread :thumbsu:

People think it makes them sound more passionate about their club if they say that they wouldn't follow AFL if they folded. IMO it says the opposite about them. I am as proud and passionate about my team as anyone possibly could be and if they folded I would be absolutely gutted but loving the swans is loving the game and if we ceased to exist then I'm sure I would still take a keen interest in the game and possibly one day learn to love another club. Hard to say if I could love them as much as I do the swans but I'd simply have to attempt to fill the void somehow.
 
I am interested in watching AFL, however my interest lies in my club. I could not ever show the same passion in following another club. You can't deny almost 30 years of following one club. So if they died, I can say I would never be able to follow another club with the same passion. Maybe when I am 60 years old I may have a different opinion?

My interest in the AFL competion will slip to 1 out of ten. currently it is ten out of ten.

This is different to my interest in Aussie Rules as a sport, I still play it every week and love it, I am in my 30's.

As an AFL fan you can go FCKU your self if you think I'd follow Geelong or Collingwood or any other club if my club died:thumbsdown:
 

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