What unpopular AFL opinions do you have? (Part 1 - cont in Part 2)

[Major Colvin]

bulldogs are not my 2nd team and i cant stand this over the top cr@p and media/fan darlings they have become.

i appreciate how good they have been and the injuries they have had but if fans/media could talk about the dogs without their hands down their pants that would be great

Agreed. If anything my second favourite team would be GWS because I don't know any of their supporters.

 

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

I don't think it's just opposition supporters sick of the love in to be honest. I'm certainly sick of the "so brave" crap, and of the patronising "second team" rubbish.

 

[Dory_77]

If I was a bulldogs fan I'd find a lot of it patronizing in a 'the little club that could' kind of way.

Agreed. It was like that at times this year/last as a Melbourne fan after we beat Hawthorn/Geelong. Nice to get some plaudits for a good performance, but it does feel very contrived.

 

[Butane]

Well if we keep winning games when we're the underdogs than I'm ok with it.

 

[Lemma]

Agree with the patronizing comment. People used to be patronizing to North (some still are) in the same vein and I hate it

 

[Catfish Alley]

I don't really remember opposition supporters getting behind the Cats when it had been over 40 years without a flag.

 

[Dennis Trumpet]

I always liked Aker and i hated the way he was kicked out by the Bulldogs.

I hope it takes them 62 more years before they win another flag.

 

[Major Colvin]

I don't really remember opposition supporters getting behind the Cats when it had been over 40 years without a flag.

I think most people were. Far fewer were behind St Kilda trying to break their drought.

 

[Major Colvin]

Eddie Betts is one of my most disliked players in the comp - it was lovely to see a good accountable opponent in Nick Smith towel him up on the weekend.

The Advertiser hysteria over the likes of Betts, Walker and Jenkins is hilarious.

 

[Butane]

I don't really remember opposition supporters getting behind the Cats when it had been over 40 years without a flag.

They did big time. There was an incredible amount of love in the air for the Cat's in 2007.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Dogs were my most hated team for a long time. Don't mind them now. Hope they make the Grand Final - and lose

 

[Major Colvin]

They did big time. There was an incredible amount of love in the air for the Cat's in 2007.

Plus there was the romanticism of both Ablett's playing for Geelong - media had a field day with that. Added to that the arrogance of that Port team - Tredrea/Cornes/Mark Williams - most people savoured that result.

 

[Major Colvin]

Dogs were my most hated team for a long time. Don't mind them now. Hope they make the Grand Final - and lose

I hated them in the late 90's when Wallace coached them and they were the dirtiest team going around. The current team though I have no problems with.

 

[Jade]

Plus there was the romanticism of both Ablett's playing for Geelong - media had a field day with that. Added to that the arrogance of that Port team - Tredrea/Cornes/Mark Williams - most people savoured that result.

Yeah that one was fun.

Port richly deserved the stone cold ****ing beating the Cats dished out that day.

 

[Butane]

Plus there was the romanticism of both Ablett's playing for Geelong - media had a field day with that. Added to that the arrogance of that Port team - Tredrea/Cornes/Mark Williams - most people savoured that result.

Lots of stories about the Cat's of the late 80's and 90's who couldn't get over the line despite having champions of the game in their team.

 

[yodellinhank]

I found Cat fans to be pretty intolerable by the time the grand final rolled around in '07. '08 knocked some of the smug out of them and they've been far more gracious since.

 

[Major Colvin]

I always liked Aker and i hated the way he was kicked out by the Bulldogs.

I hope it takes them 62 more years before they win another flag.

Don't know how you can hold a grudge against Footscray for that. Akermanis was a great player but its unanimous that he was a flog. And once teams were no longer in the vicinity of premiership ambitions they quickly decided he wasn't worth it

 

[DangerSloane]

Eddie Betts is one of my most disliked players in the comp - it was lovely to see a good accountable opponent in Nick Smith towel him up on the weekend.

The Advertiser hysteria over the likes of Betts, Walker and Jenkins is hilarious.

Why do you hate him though? Because he's good? Seems like a really likeable guy.

Never plays well on the SCG and Smith always gives him trouble.
Still kicked 3 mind you...

 

[DangerSloane]

I found Cat fans to be pretty intolerable by the time the grand final rolled around in '07. '08 knocked some of the smug out of them and they've been far more gracious since.

Until 2016.

 

[Iron]

I don't really remember opposition supporters getting behind the Cats when it had been over 40 years without a flag.

That's not true - you had most of South Australia on your side in 2007.

 

[PenAndPaper]

I don't really remember opposition supporters getting behind the Cats when it had been over 40 years without a flag.

There is a difference between a team who has just the 1 in their history to one that had 6 up until that point though

 

[PhatBoy]

Eddie Betts is one of my most disliked players in the comp - it was lovely to see a good accountable opponent in Nick Smith towel him up on the weekend.

The Advertiser hysteria over the likes of Betts, Walker and Jenkins is hilarious.

Yes, the hysteria over the best small forward in the code is hard to understand isn't it

 

[Major Colvin]

Yes, the hysteria over the best small forward in the code is hard to understand isn't it

Struggles against good opponents - goes to ground on a whim.

 

[Malifice]

Eddie Betts is one of my most disliked players in the comp

The small forward syndrome. See also: Milne, Ballantyne.

They're just so... punchable.

 

[PhatBoy]

Struggles against good opponents - goes to ground on a whim.

Highlighted by his average of 3 goals a game against top 8 opponents......