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Geelong's been rorting the system for years, especially matchday 'gifts'.....
Geelong rorting the system
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After Hocking slipped some money into the AFL's banking account "all is good"
CALLED IT! LOL
Didn't even take a day!
STPer18 check this out!
INB4 Tuggers cookers get word of this and start foaming at the mouth as they can barely etch out the words:
"CFL"
"sHocking"
#GeelongMediaMafia
STPer18
Basically a term of endearment at this point.
Your team got whooped by a bunch of handbags. How embarrassing
Thankfully all changed when the GOAT arrived and began ending players careers.
Basically a term of endearment at this point.
Your team got whooped by a bunch of handbags. How embarrassing
It was never a term of endearment.
Partly why I always enjoyed the physicality of Ablett (and others).
Non-Geelong fans using it are indirectly insulting themselves when Geelong has had a positive record against just about every club in the league in the past 20 years. Like calling a bully a sissy that beats you up frequently for fun, it's nonsensical and stupid. That's how I took that post anyway.
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Well yes Geelong probably does have a positive record against most clubs in the last twenty years but football didn’t just start this century.
Does that term still get used nowadays? It was used a bit in the 70s/80s. Not sure how it started. The Geelong area used to get called Sleepy Hollow too I think iirc.
Does that term still get used nowadays? It was used a bit in the 70s/80s. Not sure how it started. The Geelong area used to get called Sleepy Hollow too I think iirc.
Fair enough. I take it more literally that opposition fans were happy to mock and patronise us during the premiership drought, but strangely enough didn't like it when we started doing better - or much worse - actually started winning things. Could apply it to plenty more clubs as well.
It's all desperate bitter non-Geelong fans have had to try bring down Geelong a peg or two in the past two decades or so.
In that case than all clubs have been, at one point or another, handbags. Especially the Tiggers for about 4 decades prior to 2017, a team that seldom played in September and when they did they were merely making up the numbers and never a serious flag threat.
In a typical year the Tiggers were mostly welcomed percentage boosters for other clubs in that period as Geelong can attest. That 200+ point ahse rimming in 2007 surely elicited plenty of tears to many Tigger hearts. That sort of 4 decade history is worhty of the term handbagger if ever saw one. Whereas compared to Geelong's similar drought, Geelong still consistently played in finals and were genuine flag threats in many of those years, falling short for various reasons.
Yep, exactly and proves the same basic footy truth. No one had a problem with Richmond at all during that period - we certainly didn't, and plenty took great delight in sticking the boots in. Mysteriously enough it wasn't so enjoyable once they turned it around and starting giving it back.
If Carlton turn it around properly and actually win anything, the cycle will repeat with them.
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