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Always a real mixed bag when it comes to discussing football in a workplace.
Most of the better sorts don't hyperanalyse too much or act like they're more knowledgeable than the coach and CEO's wives combined and generally keep it light, have a laugh, talk about a good game, give the odd insight into a club you don't support.
But some campaigners truly cannot ****ing help themselves and drive you into never discussing the topic because you know it'll denigrate into some childish slinging match or stat-driven horseshit diatribe.
So, who are the people you've worked with who make you rue Monday morning regardless of if you won or lost by 60 points.
- Collingwood supporter who had an obsession with the Daicos, probably because he was Italian, and would say things like 'the loss that needed to happen' and would just flip flop on opinions week to week, would repeat the most bland opinions ever ('Harley Reid is a serious talent') but then had this weird hate for Scott Pendlebury and how he was 'overrated' and 'holding the team back' (this is after they'd won the flag). I think most people would be happy with Scott Pendlebury being at their club for 20 years. used to eat like four meals a day and leave bowls all around his desk but then went on tirades about people leaving empty chip boxes under the seats at the G? when Freo were inevitably about to crumble, last year it was clear we were going to miss finals, and he'd tell you how he knows heaps more about the club and how wrong I am and it could the the Dockers year and and then when the Dockers did miss finals, told me he'd have them pencilled in to miss the eight in his pre-season prediction.
- Bloke who supported Adelaide. really odd dude. would look straight through you and discuss a topic you have no prior knowledge in like you two had discussed it 20 times before, would constantly take weird jabs at Fremantle and I was like 'yeah they are pretty shit.' said Patrick Dangerfield had 'dirty secrets all over the state.' had this story about Josh Carr apparently always wanting to play for the Crows and that's why he kept going between Freo and Port. I was working in a bottle shop at the time and whether it was a beer or wine or someone's ID or the football scores, everything would come back to how Perth people are jealous of Adelaide people. said he was 'always welcome in the rooms with the boys' but could never tell me if he knew some staff or a player or whatever.
- Good guy to be honest this dude, but was obsessed with bringing Monday night football back and bringing in a team that exclusively played bad time slots. honestly not a dickhead and a great and truly unpopular personal obsession he harboured and was a decent guy but man, 'how good would it be if we had footy last night?' is not something I think about on a Tuesday morning while on 700 bucks a week.
- Same job, dude worked there and had absolute zero interest in sport but said he was the best player on his high school team (we were a similar age who grew up in a similar region) because he'd 'flog the other team 'til there was no one standing.' had a penchant for discussing his weekend sex plans over Friday beers with all the bosses (this was a job where most of us were young guys who'd come in regaling weekend achievements, but yknow, not like that). said he knew for a fact one player had his own son also playing in the competition. of course never explained and it was 'told in complete confidence.'
- Guy in Perth when I worked retail for a summer during uni who was certain that the Western Bulldogs were once based in Perth and it was a Berenstein Bears Mandela effect. did tell me some cool stuff about tunnels though so it all evened out.
- Dude who come over to our office for a few weeks and said that Essendon were so well supported in WA because they had the same jumper as Perth in the WAFL and the Perth Demons were a massive club (they're definitely not).
- Obviously most West Coast supporters who attach their personal status to that of the football team and have never kicked a ball in their life but reckon they know everything, how everything's a grand conspiracy, constant obsession with Freo even though no one cares about them or something...
Most of the better sorts don't hyperanalyse too much or act like they're more knowledgeable than the coach and CEO's wives combined and generally keep it light, have a laugh, talk about a good game, give the odd insight into a club you don't support.
But some campaigners truly cannot ****ing help themselves and drive you into never discussing the topic because you know it'll denigrate into some childish slinging match or stat-driven horseshit diatribe.
So, who are the people you've worked with who make you rue Monday morning regardless of if you won or lost by 60 points.
- Collingwood supporter who had an obsession with the Daicos, probably because he was Italian, and would say things like 'the loss that needed to happen' and would just flip flop on opinions week to week, would repeat the most bland opinions ever ('Harley Reid is a serious talent') but then had this weird hate for Scott Pendlebury and how he was 'overrated' and 'holding the team back' (this is after they'd won the flag). I think most people would be happy with Scott Pendlebury being at their club for 20 years. used to eat like four meals a day and leave bowls all around his desk but then went on tirades about people leaving empty chip boxes under the seats at the G? when Freo were inevitably about to crumble, last year it was clear we were going to miss finals, and he'd tell you how he knows heaps more about the club and how wrong I am and it could the the Dockers year and and then when the Dockers did miss finals, told me he'd have them pencilled in to miss the eight in his pre-season prediction.
- Bloke who supported Adelaide. really odd dude. would look straight through you and discuss a topic you have no prior knowledge in like you two had discussed it 20 times before, would constantly take weird jabs at Fremantle and I was like 'yeah they are pretty shit.' said Patrick Dangerfield had 'dirty secrets all over the state.' had this story about Josh Carr apparently always wanting to play for the Crows and that's why he kept going between Freo and Port. I was working in a bottle shop at the time and whether it was a beer or wine or someone's ID or the football scores, everything would come back to how Perth people are jealous of Adelaide people. said he was 'always welcome in the rooms with the boys' but could never tell me if he knew some staff or a player or whatever.
- Good guy to be honest this dude, but was obsessed with bringing Monday night football back and bringing in a team that exclusively played bad time slots. honestly not a dickhead and a great and truly unpopular personal obsession he harboured and was a decent guy but man, 'how good would it be if we had footy last night?' is not something I think about on a Tuesday morning while on 700 bucks a week.
- Same job, dude worked there and had absolute zero interest in sport but said he was the best player on his high school team (we were a similar age who grew up in a similar region) because he'd 'flog the other team 'til there was no one standing.' had a penchant for discussing his weekend sex plans over Friday beers with all the bosses (this was a job where most of us were young guys who'd come in regaling weekend achievements, but yknow, not like that). said he knew for a fact one player had his own son also playing in the competition. of course never explained and it was 'told in complete confidence.'
- Guy in Perth when I worked retail for a summer during uni who was certain that the Western Bulldogs were once based in Perth and it was a Berenstein Bears Mandela effect. did tell me some cool stuff about tunnels though so it all evened out.
- Dude who come over to our office for a few weeks and said that Essendon were so well supported in WA because they had the same jumper as Perth in the WAFL and the Perth Demons were a massive club (they're definitely not).
- Obviously most West Coast supporters who attach their personal status to that of the football team and have never kicked a ball in their life but reckon they know everything, how everything's a grand conspiracy, constant obsession with Freo even though no one cares about them or something...
