Mega Thread VICBias - Genuine Discussion Part 2

[Pistol Night]

Wonder what the Collingwood sooks in this thread think of going to play against GC, who've played once at their home ground in the last 7 games and are coming off a 6 day break from the longest road trip in footy to play a Collingwood, of the bye, who haven't traveled since April.

Thoughts Collingwood wowsers?

Pissed off its not at the G to be honest

 

[Pistol Night]

Some of our blokes flew to Bali and stayed in hotels last week. We're at an increcible disadvantage.

But seriously, the media have found a new advantage to whip up the whingers about: the advantage of coming off the bye . Here's the results before this year:

Beware the bye: How your club fares after its mid-season break

Michael Whiting takes a look at how your club fares after its mid-season bye

www.afl.com.au

Somehow were now in trouble when we DO travel interstate

 

[cartwright]

on the flip side, Port is about to play Saints for the 9th time @ marvel in 27 years

we played 7 venues in the 1st 9 rounds
3 states in 11 days ( SA/ACT/Vic)
played Brisbane off 2 byes before we had 1(like a few other teams)
round 16 and we are about to play our 6th home game and only 5 of those at our home venue( and 3 of those vs co-tenents)

the fixation on Collingwood.......

This will be ignored because it doesn’t fit with their story that it’s a “Vicbias” thing.

 

[doppleganger]

Your Olympic example is a little strange as it’s nit like they swim one heat in the pool, fly back to Australia, then fly back to Paris for next heat etc etc. bad example mate.

I didn't mention anything about travel, so not sure why you have brought that in?

What I find strange is how athletes can perform personal bests and create new world records when sleeping in a hotel.

Surely if sleeping in a hotel had a negative impact on performance you wouldn't see athletes creating new PBs.

So if the Pies are top of the ladder and are playing the Saints at the MCG who are last where you will get about an 80/20 crowd split to this game would you believe you have HGA in that game

Keep up, when doing 2024 Pies fixture split, I already listed Saints at the MCG as a game where we enjoy a distinct ground advantage.

 

[doppleganger]

Yea well Olympians set personal bests and world records sleeping in hotels so why can't the suns.....

Suns have created a really good arrangement in Darwin.

Unbeaten in their last 6 and play their best footy in Darwin, despite the real impost of having to sleeping in hotels.

 

[doppleganger]

This will be ignored because it doesn’t fit with their story that it’s a “Vicbias” thing.

Melbourne based clubs that aren't Collingwood are the clubs who are shafted.

The WA wowsers and SA sooks, only look at Collingwood and then complain.

 

[bzparkes]

Imagine being a Collingwood supporter and sooking and wowsering when others mention about advantages so blatant that even your own coach said it's unfair.

Quite hilarious really.

 

[doppleganger]

That you're making stuff up?

Pretty standard for the WA wowsers to conveniently omit things to make their sook.

Almost as if Pies being dudded by the umpire in Perth for not handing the ball back to him against Freo didn't happen.

 

[doppleganger]

Grand moves: AFL ponders concessions for non-Victorian clubs on footy’s biggest day

Chris Fagan has explained to the league the vast differences experiencing a grand final as Brisbane Lions coach and as a senior football executive with Hawthorn.

www.theage.com.au

They should absolutely do this. Anything to reduce the burden on the clubs that are travelling to Melbourne. In an ideal world the Grand Final would be rotated to reduce this, but there is no where else with a 100k stadium. My one grand final in Melbourne also was an awesome experience, but incredibly expensive. I think I would have paid out $3500-$4000 in 2013 and I didn't pay for accommodation.

Agree with the AFL looking after accom for full club footy department and families for GF week.

These are practical solutions that can and should be addressed.

Onky downside being sleeping in a hotel for a week, we all know that the WA wowsers think that is a huge disadvantage.

 

[Pistol Night]

Imagine being a Collingwood supporter and sooking and wowsering when others mention about advantages so blatant that even your own coach said it's unfair.

Quite hilarious really.

Not really. It’s awesome.

 

[VolgaBoatman]

So, let's make it even

Agree with the AFL looking after accom for full club footy department and families for GF week.

These are practical solutions that can and should be addressed.

Onky downside being sleeping in a hotel for a week, we all know that the WA wowsers think that is a huge disadvantage.

Yep - not a huge disadvantage - but it is one.

I've got some things to add:

Let's go even further and make the Victorian club stay in a hotel as well and train away from their normal training facilities.

Make sure that if they're a home tenant at the MCG they don't get their normal change rooms and lockers - this would apply also if playing a Victorian team who is not a tenant.

 

[doppleganger]

So, let's make it even

Yep - not a huge disadvantage - but it is one.

I've got some things to add:

Let's go even further and make the Victorian club stay in a hotel as well and train away from their normal training facilities.

No drama's with staying in hotel.

And yes, instead of training at normal facilities should get access to the G, to make it fair.

Make sure that if they're a home tenant at the MCG they don't get their normal change rooms and lockers - this would apply also if playing a Victorian team who is not a tenant.

Let the non-vic team pick rooms, leave it up to them.

 

[docks]

Wonder what the Collingwood sooks in this thread think of going to play against GC, who've played once at their home ground in the last 7 games and are coming off a 6 day break from the longest road trip in footy to play a Collingwood, of the bye, who haven't traveled since April.

Thoughts Collingwood wowsers?

Collingwood played interstate against Freo late May.

 

[bzparkes]

Collingwood played interstate against Freo late May.

 

[Pistol Night]

Should we play you guys and Freo 4 times a year over there to help out?

 

[Carringbush2010]

Wonder what the Collingwood sooks in this thread think of going to play against GC, who've played once at their home ground in the last 7 games and are coming off a 6 day break from the longest road trip in footy to play a Collingwood, of the bye, who haven't traveled since April.

Thoughts Collingwood wowsers?

Thoughts?

There are no Collingswood wowsers / sooks, they're not doing the sooking.

 

[bzparkes]

Thoughts?

There are no Collingswood wowsers / sooks, they're not doing the sooking.

All you do is sook and whine about how you don't have a 'true' home ground advantage.

It's levels of wowsering that are beginning to become incomprehensible.

The fact that your own coach went on AFL 360 early in in the season and explicitly stated that Collingwood have an unfair advantage over other teams in the comp makes anything you've said(and will continue to say) in this thread null and void.

Watching you scream into the abyss after trying to connect dots to justify your team's advantage over everyone else is quite funny though.

Keep it up

 

[sr36]

Thoughts?

There are no Collingswood wowsers / sooks, they're not doing the sooking.

Speak for yourself. Our blokes have been off in Bali staying in hotels. Disgusting that the AFL has forced them into a travel double up by scheduling a game against Gold Coast straight after the obligatory Bali trip.

 

[Pistol Night]

Speak for yourself. Our blokes have been off in Bali staying in hotels. Disgusting that the AFL has forced them into a travel double up by scheduling a game against Gold Coast straight after the obligatory Bali trip.

I assume we’ll be requesting a bye after our bye next year to avoid this strenuous travel load?

 

[LoungeLizard]

Travel is so bad, when they get a bye during the year, players decide to travel overseas.

These experts on here should be working for footy clubs.

 

[Carringbush2010]

All you do is sook and whine about how you don't have a 'true' home ground advantage.

No I haven't, only one pie fan itt has mentioned it, that's not sooking

The fact that your own coach went on AFL 360 early in in the season and explicitly stated that Collingwood have an unfair advantage over other teams in the comp makes anything you've said(and will continue to say) in this thread null and void.

Think you'll find 99.9% of pie fans agree with fly

Watching you scream into the abyss after trying to connect dots to justify your team's advantage over everyone else is quite funny though.

Looks like it's you and the other nv fans doing the screaming and sooking, not pie fans.

 

[Pistol Night]

Travel is so bad, when they get a bye during the year, players decide to travel overseas.

These experts on here should be working for footy clubs.

Our boys are that accustomed to flights during the year they handle a coupe more with ease. Courage

 

[LoungeLizard]

No I haven't, only one pie fan itt has mentioned it, that's not sooking

Think you'll find 99.9% of pie fans agree with fly

Looks like it's you and the other nv fans doing the screaming and sooking, not pie fans.

Mate, he just parrots what we say, same as anything non_Vic, they wait for the Vics to doing something, then follow what we do, then cry about it.
Too lazy to get off their arses and do
something for themselves.

 

[sr36]

Our boys are that accustomed to flights during the year they handle a coupe more with ease. Courage

This is the thing. These guys whinge about return flights to Perth and staying in hotels.

Jordy does return flights to New York and stays in prisons.

 

[Pistol Night]

Mate, he just parrots what we say, same as anything non_Vic, they wait for the Vics to doing something, then follow what we do, then cry about it.
Too lazy to get off their arses and do
something for themselves.

They could move to Victoria?