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Oh I get it. You're a club supporter. We all are. Same goes for all clubs and supporters. But let's not amplify our support to meaning more than it does. I hate to tell you, but you personally had nothing to do with your clubs premiership this year. If you dropped off the face of the earth last year the result would have been exactly the same, barring some butterfly flaps it's wings phenomenon.
You didn't personally achieve anything, your aspirations didn't influence the result, you didn't personally gain any insight into what it takes more than any other football observer - and I would suggest that if you believe otherwise, it would only be due to a lack of real achievement in your own life. The only thing you get from a premiership over other supporters is the joy and satisfaction that comes with your club winning a flag. I say enjoy it while you've got and stop acting like your clubs achievement somehow reflects on you.
Show me in a post I've made where I suggested or acted like my clubs achievement reflected on me.
And they weren't my aspirations, they were the aspirations of our club and our supporters.
You don't think that makes any difference to results of a club, no problem, your experiences are you own.
Mine are different. As a club we have planned over successive generations to achieve certain things, off field and on, and managed to a fair degree to achieve them. Our club regularly announces those goals, 5-10 years out, and is willing to wear the public and supporter perceptions of whether we've managed to attain them or not.
You obviously did not understand or chose not to understand the very meaning of our club being a vote and night away from disappearing as it's own entity, as was experienced by the entire supporter base of the HFC.
And in 1996 at the Camberwell Civic Center, despite a push and the support of many Hawthorn past greats and board members of the time to merge with the Melbourne Footy club, the club members voted overwhelmingly against it.
So again, no, there would have been no premiership for the Hawthorn footy club last year, or Hodge as captain of this footy club, had I and many other members that night not voted.
If you think that's nothing, no problem.
I think it was the most important night in the history of the club, and I'm proud to have played just the smallest part in it.
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