Kim Hagdorn
Club Legend
Carlton love overrating their mediocre and dud players.
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I think anyone who has their head screwed on knows that you have nuffies in all supporter bases, and labeling an entire group based on your interactions with a select few might be fun but doesn’t actually have any merit.I’m surprised this has gotten to 3 pages without any fights
Yep, my mate used to go to Geelong games with his missus, separated from each other by one seat by an old duck who refused to move because it was HER SEAT.From my close observations at games I only really have a few that stand out
Richmond and Collingwood supporters are there to get absolutely rolling drunk. The footy is incidental.
Melbourne supporters are ambivalent about their team.
Carlton has the most knobs. You know, the types that try to directly bait others in the crowd instead of directing their ire at the game. They’re not all knobs, of course, they just have plenty of them.
Geelong has the most genuine nuffies. Like NQR people. Cheer squad types.
The rest haven’t really left an impression on me.
Yep, seems that way. It might be generational, though some of the older supportere seem to have foegotten their manhood / womanhood and started throwing toys out the cot. It's unbecoming and shameful to lose badly clutching at excuses.Richmond: biggest cry babies out there when things aren't going their way. Never humble in defeat
I like that old duck already.Yep, my mate used to go to Geelong games with his missus, separated from each other by one seat by an old duck who refused to move because it was HER SEAT.
I'd say it's pretty hard to generalise everyone who supports a club, but there are tendencies you can identify, based on many factors like history, identity, success or lack thereof. West Coast has in general been a very successful club, so I think we expect to at least compete. I think if we miss finals it's considered a huge failure. Maybe it borders on arrogance, but we've also had some tough times (which club hasn't?). The early 00s and then the hangover from our mid 00s glory years (where we still won only one premiership by 1 point) come to mind.
Before the Dockers we were the only club in town, so I think supporting the Eagles was something you simply did as a West Australian. Same with the Wildcats or Glory or whatever other team. In the early days it was always about state pride. Eagles were WA, as State of Origin sadly declined. There is still some of that. As an Eagles fan who's moved to Melbourne I still think of my Eagles gear kind of marking me out as a West Australian too. Melbourne clubs no longer have those local associations, except the Bulldogs perhaps.
So Adelaide fans are non footballing fans that didn’t switch to port and port fans are former Adelaide fansAdelaide: non-football fans that became interested once the AFL established a team, who also didn't switch over to Port in 1997
Port: ex-Adelaide supporters
Freo: masochists
Melbourne: come from fairweather football families, almost always recruited by sad childless uncles
Richmond: grew up in and still live in the Richmond flats
St Kilda: masochists
Geelong: gigachads
This.Every fan base is pretty much the same.
We’re all campaigners.
Where I sit at AFL games is a mix of North, Centrals and West fans with most not giving a crap about SANFL.You do realise that majority of crows fans are Norwood supporters, and vice versa
I’ve been on your board, Jack must set a low bar“ An Essendon supporter is a Collingwood supporter who can read and write."
Jack Dyer
You have way too high an opinion of Adelaide fans.We all know the stereotypes: keep your eye on the the red and the blue as they head off to Mt Buller; Black and white are the colours of escaped convicts and missing teeth; Adelaide/Sydney are all about the Chardonnay; yellow and black are the colours of bruises earned after the game. But what have you personally noticed while attending different teams' home games?
From my experiences, Geelong home fans seem quite stubborn and hard to reason with, maybe with something of a small-town mentality.
Adelaide fans love to applaud, particularly when the ball goes out of bounds.
Melbourne fans are very cultured, and easy to get along with.
Hawthorn fans love an excuse to get drunk.
Richmond fans do seem to show a level of malevolence.
Essendon supporters can come across conceited.
Carlton fans don't mind having a joke at their own team's expense.
St Kilda fans feel like the world is against them.
Sydney fans have ADHD: they can't focus on the game for long periods of time, and love to be entertained by other things, like the grunting of a boundary umpire as he throws the ball (admittedly this might have changed since I was there as a kid).
If I've just insulted your club, please don't take it personally, in many cases these are things I've noticed from small subsections of fans.
it's understandable that you supported Adelaide before Port came into existence, and you ditifully switched over in '97. No harm doneSo Adelaide fans are non footballing fans that didn’t switch to port and port fans are former Adelaide fans
You really don’t know the history of SA do you, if you think port fans would support Adelaide 1991-1996 that’s a laugh