I'm officially done, join me on the other side

[HugeJohnson]

So, I've decided as of now I am officially no longer concerned with the 'Australian Football League'. I hate this competition with a passion, there are so many inequities it defies all logic. I hate this club, happy to swim in mediocrity for so long, I pump money in for what reason? So these wannabes can continue their idealic lifestyle of just existing?

The big deal for me though is the competition as a whole. It just doesn't make sense for me to support a club that is not playing on a level playing field. Tell me why Port should be able to succeed against someone like Collingwood who play 17 games at the MCG. It's totally nonsensical and I only realise now what an idiot I have been all these years. So I'm officially done. The AFL is ****ing shit. Enjoy it if you can because I feel I won't be alone with this sentiment in the next few years. This will be my first year since I can remember that I don't watch a single game. It's not even the same sport I grew up watching.

 

[HugeJohnson]

Chief please delete my account

 

[backtozero]

Can't you at least stick around and give updates on the biscuit factory?

 

[240volt]

It's not even the same sport I grew up watching.

That is the biggest problem, it’s gone from a sport to a money making business.
Supporters want our club to go back to how it used to be but that’s only a dream.
Being financially successful is the benchmark,winning flags is a nice bonus but less important.
I can understand your feelings, it’s extremely frustrating especially if you have been involved with footy before we went into the AFL.

 

[tribey]

That is the biggest problem, it’s gone from a sport to a money making business.

Supporters want our club to go back to how it used to be but that’s only a dream.
Being financially successful is the benchmark,winning flags is a nice bonus but less important.

The Geelongs, West Coasts and Collingwoods don’t seem to have a problem with doing both, though.

There’s a deeper psychological issue with a mob of guys who have all been there too long:

Koch, Osborn, Restas, Cardone, Richardson, Hinkley, Cripps, with Davies being the ‘youngest’ having come aboard at the end of 2014.

 

[RangaInTeal]

That is the biggest problem, it’s gone from a sport to a money making business.
Supporters want our club to go back to how it used to be but that’s only a dream.
Being financially successful is the benchmark,winning flags is a nice bonus but less important.
I can understand your feelings, it’s extremely frustrating especially if you have been involved with footy before we went into the AFL.

How financially stable did Big Bob have the club? The core business is football and if you can successfully deliver on your core business objectives, you will be financially sound. Everyone loves a winner, sponsorships flow in because every Tom, Dick and Harry want to be associated with winners.

Sure you want to engage the community and foster great relationships with them, however that should be a sub category away from the Football focused, successful club.

We ventured to far left when we were struggling and invested to much time and resources into alternative revenue streams when getting football right was to hard.

These ‘wealthy’ clubs have delivered on their core business for 20 years, why are North and St Kilda struggling? Because their culture since the turn of the century hasn’t been ‘Football’ first and foremost. Why do Gold Coast struggle, why did the Bears fail? Cause all the other BS that isn’t footy, what turned Sydney and the Lions fortunes around? Getting football, on and off the field the primary focus, now both stronger and viable clubs in the AFL Monopoly!

 

[manureid]

The AFL is basically the WWE but tries to still pretend it is not manufactured.

 

[Grave Danger]

So, I've decided as of now I am officially no longer concerned with the 'Australian Football League'. I hate this competition with a passion, there are so many inequities it defies all logic. I hate this club, happy to swim in mediocrity for so long, I pump money in for what reason? So these wannabes can continue their idealic lifestyle of just existing?

The big deal for me though is the competition as a whole. It just doesn't make sense for me to support a club that is not playing on a level playing field. Tell me why Port should be able to succeed against someone like Collingwood who play 17 games at the MCG. It's totally nonsensical and I only realise now what an idiot I have been all these years. So I'm officially done. The AFL is ****ing shit. Enjoy it if you can because I feel I won't be alone with this sentiment in the next few years. This will be my first year since I can remember that I don't watch a single game. It's not even the same sport I grew up watching.

Perhaps you could set up a self help group for people who feel the same way as you, and call it Beyond Teal.

 

[Papa G]

The AFL is basically the WWE but tries to still pretend it is not manufactured.

Drifted further and further away. Gave up my membership 2 years ago after decades of going religiously on the belief that when this fool is sacked I'd come back. But you know what? I don't actually miss it and truly doubt if I'll come back. If a Port game is on and I'm home, sure I'll watch it. But in past there'd have to be a wedding or funeral on for me to not watch the game. Now if there's something else going on, I'm not fussed.

As you said the AFL is a crooked shit show based around the Melbourne Citadel of Corruption for Victorian interests. The soap opera media reporting is sickening, the virtual signalling is off the charts, the hypocrisy breath taking. **** them for ruining it.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

So, I've decided as of now I am officially no longer concerned with the 'Australian Football League'. I hate this competition with a passion, there are so many inequities it defies all logic. I hate this club, happy to swim in mediocrity for so long, I pump money in for what reason? So these wannabes can continue their idealic lifestyle of just existing?

The big deal for me though is the competition as a whole. It just doesn't make sense for me to support a club that is not playing on a level playing field. Tell me why Port should be able to succeed against someone like Collingwood who play 17 games at the MCG. It's totally nonsensical and I only realise now what an idiot I have been all these years. So I'm officially done. The AFL is ****ing shit. Enjoy it if you can because I feel I won't be alone with this sentiment in the next few years. This will be my first year since I can remember that I don't watch a single game. It's not even the same sport I grew up watching.

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[dirty2]

Sick of port + AFL but I have to many other interests on bigfooty to delete account.

 

[Duck Farmer]

Sick of port + AFL but I have to many other interests on bigfooty to delete account.

Didn't realise there was an Easter forum.

 

[Interstater]

Does anyone remember what happened to my football club, the one I caught an overnight bus to watch at a wet ansett cup grand final at waverley, the one that made me cry in my seat at the mcg when they ran out in round 1 1997, the one that let me sit inside the fence at the 1976 gf, the one at which I used to crush soft drink cans to stand on to see over people's heads on the mound at Alberton.

I'd really like to know where they went.
I miss them.

 

[JimmyBC]

The problem always harks back to allowing the VFL to become the AFL it's a disaster that can't be fixed when all the power, influence & most of the financial draw comes from one locality.
It hampers the appeal non victorian clubs have outside of their regions because the bulk of prime real estate broadcasting is all focused on Melbourne clubs. Absolute Shitshow and forever will be.

 

[ibd77]

Just embrace the Brain Slug and watch footy like a b-grade TV series minus the politics and personal investment.

 

[Interstater]

in case it helps, I mean this club...

 

[Us against the rest]

Life is now much better in my household because the weekends are not controlled by when Port are playing, most times if I'm asked when are Port playing I have to check the AFL site, years ago I could have told you a month in advance but that was when the club officials and players gave a shit about winning and the fans.

 

[PeacefulWarrior]

I agree with the OP
The game is a joke, the club is a joke, but it’s the AFL as an organisation that I detest the most.

The capacity of the afl to exceed their own ridiculous level of virtue signalling year on year is truly something to behold.

Being woke is one thing but to destroy what was once an amazing game is quite another level again.

The afl can gagf I detest every single person associated with afl house and I hope they get hit by a bus

 

[240volt]

The Geelongs, West Coasts and Collingwoods don’t seem to have a problem with doing both, though.

There’s a deeper psychological issue with a mob of guys who have all been there too long:


Koch, Osborn, Restas, Cardone, Richardson, Hinkley, Cripps, with Davies being the ‘youngest’ having come aboard at the end of 2014.

You use Collingwood because they recently won a flag but forget to mention they have won 3 flags in over 60 years.


They are not a successful flag winning team.
Hawthorn are a flag winning team.
Today’s game is as the Carlton CEO puts it, is all about the game day experience and not what happens on the field.

That’s a team that’s done absolutely nothing in 25 years and has over 106k members.
Winning flags is not as important as being financially successful.
For us mug supporters we want flags but all that matters to the powers is making money and keeping there cushy jobs.
They will cook the books to make it look like membership is going up and it’s only a couple of flogs on BF that’s not happy with the way the clubs going.
We’ve won one flag since we entered the competition and membership is at its highest ever……..what’s to complain about?

 

[240volt]

Does anyone remember what happened to my football club, the one I caught a bus to watch a wet ansett cup grand final at waverley, the one that made me cry at the mcg when they ran out in round 1 1997, the one that let me sit inside the fence at the 1976 gf, the one at which I used to crush soft drink cans to stand on to see over people's heads on the mound at Alberton.

I'd really like to know where they went.
I miss them.
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Those days are forever in your memories.
That’s it pal,memories only.

 

[240volt]

How financially stable did Big Bob have the club?

I’m guessing you’re not as old as some.
In those days there was no money in footy, most had normal jobs outside footy and played for basically nothing.
Most people around the club volunteered there services.
The only way to make some money in those days was to win premiership’s.
Winning a flag was everything as it meant money for the club.
That’s why Big Bob would not accept anything less than winning a flag even if it meant dumping Ebert as coach.
The big incentive for being BOG was getting your glass full up with Beer all night at the club room after the game.
Your going back to when football was just a sport, now it’s a business first and a sport secondly.

 

[Scodges]

I vote for a super league


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[Portmagpies36]

Perhaps you could set up a self help group for people who feel the same way as you, and call it Beyond Teal.

That would have more members than the PAFC.

 

[240volt]

Sick of port + AFL but I have to many other interests on bigfooty to delete account.

You couldn’t leave Easter wouldn’t be the same

 

[tribey]

You use Collingwood because they recently won a flag but forget to mention they have won 3 flags in over 60 years.

Collingwood wouldn’t lose a home final by a record margin and spend the subsequent Copeland Trophy presentation beating each other off about what an awesome season they had, while broadsiding fans who were critical of the coach.

You can make money and genuinely strive to be the best at the same time, but that would involve key figures falling on their own swords in the name of renewal (as Eddie McGuire, Nathan Buckley and Ned Guy all did in 2021), rather than continue to insist they’re the smartest in the room and everyone who suggests different is an idiot/saboteur/has a hidden agenda.