Greening Magic
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Carlton. Try being a young teenager during '79 - '81. Nothing gives me greater joy than seeing them trying to steal everything not nailed down at the Westpac Centre and failing.
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You could really say that Essendon have been almost as irrelevant since 2000, they have made only a few finals and have been obliterated in most of them, like the Adelaide game they lost by 90+ points.I am almost 22, so for me Carlton are a nothing club, the first game of footy I can remember watching was the 1999 GF between North and Carlton and the next game is round 19 2001 when we got smashed to them, which also happened to be the first time I went to the footy. Still remember crying the whole car ride back home after that game haha. Apart form those two games all I can remember is Carlton being crap. History really doesn't mean much because I have never seen a winning Carlton side or a threatening side. To me all the Carlton teams I watched since 2001 have been garbage, so they hold no relevance to me.
I know there is bitter blood between the two clubs and for that I don't like them in fact I hate them because they are cheaters but then again to me they are a side that is as successful as StKilda, Dees, Fremanlte and Bulldogs. Even then I can remember all those sides playing in more finals in the last decade or so except the Dees. Therefore I can't really hate them as much as I hate Essendon.
Essendon to me is the scum on the earth along with international sporting teams like Barcelona and Byern Munich. I think god decided that every league needed a club full of imbecilic players, officials and supporters so he put those three teams in.
Essendon are your ultimate bandwagon team, if you don't follow the game you will say you go for Essendon or when they are winning they are all loud and happy giving it to everyone but when they losing 80% of their fans don't want to be known as Essendon fans. I can't wait for the suspensions to be handed out.
Nobrainer, the blues. Essendon are horrible enough in recent times to gain a decent amount of our hatred but nothing and no club comes close to the animosity the blues deserve. To the poster who suggested they be shifted to Tasmania, no definitely not. Some uninhabited island, not here thanks.
Richmond - lets be frank here - have been a great disappointment. For a time they had reached the lofty status of being worthy enemies but since then have made an artform out of being irrelevant on the field. Pretty much what Carlton has been doing lately. The difference is whilst I might on the odd occassion of weakness feel sorry for Richmond, I celebrate every second of Carlton's abject uselessness.
I am not disappointed in Richmond at all! I really like what they bring to the table year after year. In fact over the last 30 years I've actually grown quite fond of them. Richmond is like my cat.. don't generally pay it much attention, doesn't do much, but can really make me laugh and provide good entertainment at times. They're both nice to have around ... kind of comforting...
The Essendon rivalry is very manufactured if you ask me.
That said, I have a lot of Essendon mates and they're hard to deal with when they're up and about. Then when they disappeared in 2010-11-12 none of them were seen or heard anywhere.
Regardless, the answer is definitely Carlton.
Carlton are the Coca-Cola of feculent puss-encrusted sphincters.
Essendon are the Pepsi of feculent puss-encrusted sphincters.
Haha. Good post. They probaly fill the top 10 to be honestA silly question really, Carlton by a very long way. I don't actually mind the Bombers that much, they are not even number 2 on the hate list. Number 2 is Carlton again.
If you asked Carlton supporters this question the consensus would be Essendon.