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It's actually interesting how supporters of teams without much recent success seem to have developed different characteristics to deal with that fact on BigFooty.
- Melbourne supporters seem to have developed a thick hide of pessimism so that even when things are going quite well we're expecting something horrible to happen to bring us back to Earth.
- Freo fans are quite similar, but seem to have less of a sense of humour about it.
- Saints fans are completely bipolar, switching from being impossibly enthusiastic about their team to catastrophic rage or depression, often from week to week. I think their problem is that lack of success hasn't dulled their optimism yet, so they're constantly setting themselves up to be disappointed.
- Dogs have the most Panglossian (look it up) and earnest fans of all the small clubs, but that might be a consequence of 2016.
- Carlton fans cause themselves to suffer because of their delusion that they are a big club that is only being temporarily embarrassed. Every year they overrate their prospects and seem to take it as a personal insult whenever their team lets them down.
- Essendon fans used to be arrogant tossers, but the ASADA business and 2 decades without a finals win have relegated them all to Eeyore-like sad sacks, or irony poisoned trolls who have to pretend like they don't care that their team is trash. They are going to be insufferable when their team is strong again.
- Richmond fans used to be the most performatively despairing of the all of the unsuccessful clubs' fan bases - metaphorically wailing, and renting their clothes and gnashing their teeth every time their team shat the bed - but like I said earlier in this thread, they've become the nouveau riche of the AFL, acting like graceless dickheads because they don't know how to deal with success. They are going to be insufferable until the end of time.
- Melbourne supporters seem to have developed a thick hide of pessimism so that even when things are going quite well we're expecting something horrible to happen to bring us back to Earth.
- Freo fans are quite similar, but seem to have less of a sense of humour about it.
- Saints fans are completely bipolar, switching from being impossibly enthusiastic about their team to catastrophic rage or depression, often from week to week. I think their problem is that lack of success hasn't dulled their optimism yet, so they're constantly setting themselves up to be disappointed.
- Dogs have the most Panglossian (look it up) and earnest fans of all the small clubs, but that might be a consequence of 2016.
- Carlton fans cause themselves to suffer because of their delusion that they are a big club that is only being temporarily embarrassed. Every year they overrate their prospects and seem to take it as a personal insult whenever their team lets them down.
- Essendon fans used to be arrogant tossers, but the ASADA business and 2 decades without a finals win have relegated them all to Eeyore-like sad sacks, or irony poisoned trolls who have to pretend like they don't care that their team is trash. They are going to be insufferable when their team is strong again.
- Richmond fans used to be the most performatively despairing of the all of the unsuccessful clubs' fan bases - metaphorically wailing, and renting their clothes and gnashing their teeth every time their team shat the bed - but like I said earlier in this thread, they've become the nouveau riche of the AFL, acting like graceless dickheads because they don't know how to deal with success. They are going to be insufferable until the end of time.
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Hardly surprisingly, they are the main target for folding or moving... hence the very real existential paranoia
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I dont believe its as bad as some people make it out to be. Caro still flogging that dead horse. Has been for the past 20 years.
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Well, I said most likely, not that it will happen.
I wouldn't have any idea what CW says about anything.
After the GC debacle, I think the AFL are trying the frog in the boiling pot method. Just keep moving games to Tassie until they are basically a Tassie team
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GC should be the team shipped to Tassie with a whole new football department and administration. They're are easily the biggest joke in the AFL still given how much money resources has been pumped into them.
It's a job for the AFLs "Mr Wolf" Peter Jackson... He solves problems.
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Old mate who's a Port supporter got suspended for this post on page 40 of the Saints and Crows gameday thread on the Saints board
Did lol and give it a like.
Did lol and give it a like.
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This one is debatable I'll admit, but this is from the Saints board. I'd take Carltons list every day of the week over St Kildas, Carlton have three elite players under 25 you can build around whereas the Saints have one in Steele.
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If King can improve his set shots he'd be another. He's a fantastic mark.
But agree, Carlton have a good spine at least, with Weitering and McKay at either end. Need a lot of other pieces but have the key posts sorted for a while. Walsh is coming on very well, a few other ok role players for them.
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King 'should' be but he isn't near it yet - Weitering/Walsh/McKay are already there.
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King is more the kind of forward you want to build your forward structure around. McKay obviously kicks bags but that has a lot to do with why Carlton’s forward line is so dysfunctional because they just exclusively kick to him playing deep and being a huge target who isn’t mobile and doesn’t contribute anything else. Everyone here loves to complain about Ben Brown but McKay isn’t very different at this stage in his career.
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He's only in his second year of (playing) AFL. Has plenty of time to get there and probably a victim of his own hype, in that he's expected to carry their forward line as a 20y.o.
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Again I think he probably will but he isn't there yet, whereas the Carlton guys I linked are likely all in the AA team this year. Hogan looked an absolute lock for a superstar CHF a couple years in and looked what happened there.
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Agree, 20 year old with a knee reco to boot.
McKay is 3 years longer in the system than King, so it isn't really a fair comparison - especially given talls develop a bit more slowly.
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lurking on Oppo board. lol. Bit rich a saint kilda member calling us shite.
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Weirdly unempathetic comments considering she just took extended leave to be with her pregnant daughter through her birthing Caro's grandaughter.
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I mean if its got Caro genes, the horns must be a bugger
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You can't be serious, she really said that?
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tbf her comments in isolation weren't that bad imo
But considering the issues she takes issue with I am very surprised that she said what she did, especially her strong women empowerment thoughts. Doubling down on it was pretty bad, she should have copped her whack and let it go
But tbf some of the ones in the media who took aim at her are no better
Mate I have a young kid and my missus had her battles. I took work off because if I could give a chop out, the whole house runs better.
If Membrey or Ross needed to be there for family, who the **** is anyone to say go play footy in Cairns because it's more important. I'm not going to speculate, but who knows how much family support or whatever they are or aren't getting.
If anyone, especially Caroline Wilson, ( who just flew overseas to give care to her new mother daughter weeks ago) wants to suggest work is more important than family, they are not all there in the head.
Found it very bizarre, but would have been hard not to remind her in the media that she did it for her daughter only weeks ago too.
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