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I'd go back to the VFL. Wouldn't follow an AFL club. You make that sound like a bad thing.
I enjoy seeing the game played at its highest level.
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I'd go back to the VFL. Wouldn't follow an AFL club. You make that sound like a bad thing.
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.
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.
I enjoy seeing the game played at its highest level.
I might, might one day be able to follow another club, in the same sense that you might eventually remarry after your wife dies.