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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
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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.
I won’t lie and say that I was happy about Richmond’s recent success but I wasn’t all that bothered by it to be honest. Geelong’s ability to hang around the 8 and contend for flags with virtually no access to the best young players in the land for 20+ years, with a team that would get absolutely trounced by the 2007-11 Geelong premiership sides, speaks volumes of quality of the Premiership teams in the last decade or so.
It would have started to bother me if the Tiggers hung around like Geelong has but since normal transmission has resumed (Tiggers getting their ahse wooped on the regular once again), their blip on the radar success just gets a shoulder shrug from me.
I kinda cringe and feel second hand embarrassment whenever I see Geelong posters incessantly engaging fans of cellar dweller teams, I honestly don’t get the appeal.
Everyone has a team that upsets them.
The reality is to me at least, sport is cyclical. Enjoy the up times, because at a certain point it will turn. For most of recent history Richmond might have struggled, but they've won 13 premierships. They're anything but a minnow. Same as Melbourne. Footy has been around a long time.
The flags they won prior to 2017 I wasn’t even alive so those flags don’t register in my psyche.
From saving up enough pocket money to buy toys and video games at the local second-hand shop, all I remember in the 90s about the Tiggers were discarded, forlorn (often old and tattered) Richmond guernseys at the back of the shop.
It would take a lot more than a couple of gifted flags from shameless tanking for years to ever change that perception of the Tiggers for me. They were on their way but they fumbled it and have reverted to how I have always perceived them as.
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Did I say anything nasty in my post to cause you to not be able to help yourself and hang shit on Richmond? I didn’t say Geelong were handbaggers, just that it was a term used back years ago. I don’t even know what it means exactly and I certainly didn’t think it still got used nowadays.
It’s obvious you must be fairly young, otherwise you would know that Geelong in fact didn’t make the finals consistently during their drought. In the 70s it was only twice and the 80s three times. That’s five times in a 20 year period. Wouldn’t call that consistently.
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My bad, the reference to the past it sounded like some justification for it being used today when it has been irrelevant since around the late 70s and early 80s. From the late 80s onwards, Geelong has been a consistent finals side and that's around the time I became aware of sports in general and picked clubs to support.
You do realise that there’s a couple of Richmond fans on the main board that spend hours and hours hanging crap on Geelong on a number of different threads. I wish Geelong supporters wouldn’t entertain their tired and boring trollish foolishness but it’s their prerogative how they choose to spend their time posting on BF.
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You missed the point of what i said.
It's a term of endearment for Geelong fans because its embarrassing to lose to a bunch of "handbaggers"
It's like a self own when someone starts saying it.
People don't use handbaggers anymore because Geelong have beaten teams over and over and got the job done.
It worked back in the 90's when the Cats couldn't get the job done.
But now they are a massive club with an awesome record, it's not really effective like it used to be.
Same as "Sleepy Hollow"
Used to be a place careers went to die and players couldn't wait to get out of there ASAP.
Now its probably close to the best free agent destination in the comp, its not really applicable anymore.
Like calling Richmond Ninthmond.
It worked when it was happening at the time, not anymore.
If Geelong of the past 20 years are handbaggers how would someone refer to those these so-called handbaggers have made bitches of in that period? Gimps I suppose.You missed the point of what i said.
It's a term of endearment for Geelong fans because its embarrassing to lose to a bunch of "handbaggers"
It's like a self own when someone starts saying it.
That's why it doesn't work anymore, it's an easy layup for Cats fans to watch the oppo fans melt.
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