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Letting the kids pick their own team
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manureid
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I am still apologising to my kids for making them Port supporters with Ken Hinkley as coach for a large portion of their lives.
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Pistol Night , your thoughts on this?
Imagine having 2 or 3 kids aged 10 or younger. the only coach they knew is Ken Hinkley lol
My children were told from an early age, if they supported Port, they would need to sleep in the garden shed with the spiders. Seemed to work well.
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manureid
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When you think about it, they dont know anything until they are like 5 or 6 maybe, Hinkley 13 years in. My kids are 20 and 18 and they have only ever really known Port being coached by this twunt.
My family is all over the place. Dad is St.Kilda, mother was North, before switching to Crows, my sister Essendon and myself Hawthorn.
My sister and I picked our teams back in 84 during the grand final. It was reenforced the following year where both our teams also played in the grand final. Needless to say, why her team started out in a blaze of glory, I’ve more or less had the luxury of seeing my side with more success…
The 1997 grand final was an interesting affair. When the saints were up, my father kept boasting, when the Saints inevitably lost, he went on a 6 month sulk, which really delighted my mother.
Now if I see St.Kilda make finals, I just stay away from his place, because I know it ain’t going to end pretty!
Been to the footy to watch the Hawks play both Essendon and Adelaide, also been to watch Essendon and the crows with my sister and mother. Have seen the Hawks play St.Kilda, without my father. but I refuse to take my old man to a game, he would just be insufferable!
My sister and I picked our teams back in 84 during the grand final. It was reenforced the following year where both our teams also played in the grand final. Needless to say, why her team started out in a blaze of glory, I’ve more or less had the luxury of seeing my side with more success…
The 1997 grand final was an interesting affair. When the saints were up, my father kept boasting, when the Saints inevitably lost, he went on a 6 month sulk, which really delighted my mother.
Now if I see St.Kilda make finals, I just stay away from his place, because I know it ain’t going to end pretty!
Been to the footy to watch the Hawks play both Essendon and Adelaide, also been to watch Essendon and the crows with my sister and mother. Have seen the Hawks play St.Kilda, without my father. but I refuse to take my old man to a game, he would just be insufferable!
I moved to WA 20 years ago, before I had kids.
I have always encouraged my sons (who are teenage now) to support the Tigers, but because they are WA born I will let them choose WC or Dockers if they want, mainly because it's so much easier to go and see your team live over here than a Vic club.
They are not big footy followers but I think my passion for the Tigers has rubbed off on them. If asked who they support, I'm pretty sure the answer will be Richmond.
I have always encouraged my sons (who are teenage now) to support the Tigers, but because they are WA born I will let them choose WC or Dockers if they want, mainly because it's so much easier to go and see your team live over here than a Vic club.
They are not big footy followers but I think my passion for the Tigers has rubbed off on them. If asked who they support, I'm pretty sure the answer will be Richmond.
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Be like kids born in Poland during the Cold War the poor buggers
It could be worse. It could be kids being born in 2022 and only knowing Queen Camilla…
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I let them choose, but I made it very clear which team pays the bills in this house. They could’ve picked anyone, sure, but if they’d gone for Port, they’d be cooking their own dinners.
No choice in my family. Three generations at the footy together is magic. You cannot put a price on that shared experience. If my kids supported a different team, we would get to spend less time together, and neither of us would be able to get to as many of our team’s games.
My middle son one threatened to change to Collingwood once. I said sure, then let him know that his sister and I would be going to the Hawks games, then probably getting Macca’s and an ice cream on the way home. He could stay home with his mum. That didn’t phase him enough so I said that all Collingwood supporters had to sleep in the garage, took the mattress off his bed and told him not too worry too much about the spiders out there. He changed his mind pretty quickly.
My middle son one threatened to change to Collingwood once. I said sure, then let him know that his sister and I would be going to the Hawks games, then probably getting Macca’s and an ice cream on the way home. He could stay home with his mum. That didn’t phase him enough so I said that all Collingwood supporters had to sleep in the garage, took the mattress off his bed and told him not too worry too much about the spiders out there. He changed his mind pretty quickly.
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You have to support the team your parent(s) support.
Them’s the rules.
Should actually be a constitutional amendment.
Them’s the rules.
Should actually be a constitutional amendment.
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Saints fan here. I'm not forcing that on my kids.
My older two (18 & 14) don't care for the footy at all really.
My youngest daughter (10yo) has chosen the Cats, followed by the Tigers and Lions. Purely because we have cats for pets and she loves cats.
She doesn't know the players. She doesn't really follow the sport. Will just watch the Cats/Lions/Tigers if they are on and there's nothing else to do.
My older two (18 & 14) don't care for the footy at all really.
My youngest daughter (10yo) has chosen the Cats, followed by the Tigers and Lions. Purely because we have cats for pets and she loves cats.
She doesn't know the players. She doesn't really follow the sport. Will just watch the Cats/Lions/Tigers if they are on and there's nothing else to do.
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One of my family members is a Carlton supporter and seeing them miserable for the last 20 years, I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it, it's incredible. You cannot put a price on that experience.
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My older son is a massive Hawks fan but my younger son follows the Swans without being into AFL too much.
Failing with my second son does make me sad sometimes, however…
We’re all big EPL fans. I’ve been a West Ham fan since I was about 7. But I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy the forced acceptance of sustained mediocrity that comes with blowing bubbles. So I wasn’t phased at all, relieved in fact, when they chose their own teams, Fulham for the older and Chelsea for the younger one.
Failing with my second son does make me sad sometimes, however…
We’re all big EPL fans. I’ve been a West Ham fan since I was about 7. But I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy the forced acceptance of sustained mediocrity that comes with blowing bubbles. So I wasn’t phased at all, relieved in fact, when they chose their own teams, Fulham for the older and Chelsea for the younger one.
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When my wife was pregnant with our first, I told her that you can choose where we live, you can choose where they go to school, you can choose what they wear, you can even choose to discuss with them your political and religious views...
But I will choose their footy team.
10 years later and me and 3 little Hawk obsessed kids get to go to the footy with each other every other week and I wouldn't change it for the world.
But I will choose their footy team.
10 years later and me and 3 little Hawk obsessed kids get to go to the footy with each other every other week and I wouldn't change it for the world.
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It’s football. Who flipping cares…..
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32k+ posts would suggest that you might care a little...
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Of course you let them choose. If you can’t convert them than you failed as a parent 
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I mean about picking the team they want…
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