Discussion 2019 General AFL Discussion

[St Muir]

I'm interested to see Port and just how good they really are, but we won't find out when they take on what I consider to be the shit of the competition.

North Melbourne. There are few teams I hate more. But I don't hate North with a passion, I just despise their shitness.

The suburb of North Melbourne, at least in my day, was shit. Just an empty industrial wasteland and nothing happening there at all.
The colours couldn't be blander, that budget bright blue and white colour scheme that screams discount shopping, vertical stripes, a ******* kangaroo for gods sake. North Melbourne. The club are even trying to drop the name and just have them known as the Kangaroos. The lack of imagination is palpable. They might as well have called themselves the Australian Dogs or the Enter Location Somethings and used grey and white as the default colours.

Their Golden Era Dynasty was a meagre two flags, not even consecutive. They had the champion of the league and he was possibly the least unremarkable thing about the club, and even he was an abusive disloyal sorry excuse for a human. The coach of that period was a miserable dour old prune with an 80s haircut.

Since then their level in the league has ranged from "surprisingly OK" to "irredeemably shit" and their natural habitat is just under the top 8. Predictably, just when we thought they were going to continue being shit, going into 2018, they scrubbed up and got themselves up enough to sideswipe us and derail us for the season, before predictably returning to their natural course of shittiness for this season.

Think of their stars: Ben Brown, an inflated gronk that kids would naturally run away from, not idolise. Ziebell, Cunningham, all the rest; I can't even remember the names of the campaigners they are that irrelevant. Their big trades were from the second most unfashionable club after them, Port. Polec and Shittard, one a star of the comp in the same way that Alan Arkin is a Hollywood star. Who's Alan Arkin? Exactly. LDU and Jy Simpkin will no doubt end up being extremely bland and/or average.

There is nothing about them that excites. Nothing that is even bad enough to be interesting, they are just nothing; the default setting on your phone, the chicken salad on your menu, the Ford Fiesta in your showroom, the City of Adelaide on your Map of Australia, they are a muted blue and grey office with 80s school furniture. They should have been boxed up and sent to the Gold Coast at the dawn of the expansion era, but they wouldn't have suited the sunshine and happiness. They are Anti-Toursim. They are an industrial park, not a theme park. They are an irrelevance, no matter if they are performing strongly or heading for a spoon; they are not even a Black Hole, that's too exciting and exotic, they are a grey hallway, an Inertia Zone.

Get Stuffed North Melbourne Kangaroos.

Absolutely nailed it Austinn, the ultimate rant. I had a shit of a day yesterday and was working up to posting something along those lines to vent the spleen a tad. Glad I didn’t, this dwarfs anything I could have cobbled together. Well done!

 

[triggering bro]

I'm interested to see Port and just how good they really are, but we won't find out when they take on what I consider to be the shit of the competition.

North Melbourne. There are few teams I hate more. But I don't hate North with a passion, I just despise their shitness.

The suburb of North Melbourne, at least in my day, was shit. Just an empty industrial wasteland and nothing happening there at all.
The colours couldn't be blander, that budget bright blue and white colour scheme that screams discount shopping, vertical stripes, a ******* kangaroo for gods sake. North Melbourne. The club are even trying to drop the name and just have them known as the Kangaroos. The lack of imagination is palpable. They might as well have called themselves the Australian Dogs or the Enter Location Somethings and used grey and white as the default colours.

Their Golden Era Dynasty was a meagre two flags, not even consecutive. They had the champion of the league and he was possibly the least unremarkable thing about the club, and even he was an abusive disloyal sorry excuse for a human. The coach of that period was a miserable dour old prune with an 80s haircut.

Since then their level in the league has ranged from "surprisingly OK" to "irredeemably shit" and their natural habitat is just under the top 8. Predictably, just when we thought they were going to continue being shit, going into 2018, they scrubbed up and got themselves up enough to sideswipe us and derail us for the season, before predictably returning to their natural course of shittiness for this season.

Think of their stars: Ben Brown, an inflated gronk that kids would naturally run away from, not idolise. Ziebell, Cunningham, all the rest; I can't even remember the names of the campaigners they are that irrelevant. Their big trades were from the second most unfashionable club after them, Port. Polec and Shittard, one a star of the comp in the same way that Alan Arkin is a Hollywood star. Who's Alan Arkin? Exactly. LDU and Jy Simpkin will no doubt end up being extremely bland and/or average.

There is nothing about them that excites. Nothing that is even bad enough to be interesting, they are just nothing; the default setting on your phone, the chicken salad on your menu, the Ford Fiesta in your showroom, the City of Adelaide on your Map of Australia, they are a muted blue and grey office with 80s school furniture. They should have been boxed up and sent to the Gold Coast at the dawn of the expansion era, but they wouldn't have suited the sunshine and happiness. They are Anti-Toursim. They are an industrial park, not a theme park. They are an irrelevance, no matter if they are performing strongly or heading for a spoon; they are not even a Black Hole, that's too exciting and exotic, they are a grey hallway, an Inertia Zone.

Get Stuffed North Melbourne Kangaroos.

Absolutely brilliant the way you contextualised the bland & shittiness of the Roos.

This needs to be the default response to any Roos supporters who enter our board.

 

[Quixote]

I'm interested to see Port and just how good they really are, but we won't find out when they take on what I consider to be the shit of the competition.

North Melbourne. There are few teams I hate more. But I don't hate North with a passion, I just despise their shitness.

The suburb of North Melbourne, at least in my day, was shit. Just an empty industrial wasteland and nothing happening there at all.
The colours couldn't be blander, that budget bright blue and white colour scheme that screams discount shopping, vertical stripes, a ******* kangaroo for gods sake. North Melbourne. The club are even trying to drop the name and just have them known as the Kangaroos. The lack of imagination is palpable. They might as well have called themselves the Australian Dogs or the Enter Location Somethings and used grey and white as the default colours.

Their Golden Era Dynasty was a meagre two flags, not even consecutive. They had the champion of the league and he was possibly the least unremarkable thing about the club, and even he was an abusive disloyal sorry excuse for a human. The coach of that period was a miserable dour old prune with an 80s haircut.

Since then their level in the league has ranged from "surprisingly OK" to "irredeemably shit" and their natural habitat is just under the top 8. Predictably, just when we thought they were going to continue being shit, going into 2018, they scrubbed up and got themselves up enough to sideswipe us and derail us for the season, before predictably returning to their natural course of shittiness for this season.

Think of their stars: Ben Brown, an inflated gronk that kids would naturally run away from, not idolise. Ziebell, Cunningham, all the rest; I can't even remember the names of the campaigners they are that irrelevant. Their big trades were from the second most unfashionable club after them, Port. Polec and Shittard, one a star of the comp in the same way that Alan Arkin is a Hollywood star. Who's Alan Arkin? Exactly. LDU and Jy Simpkin will no doubt end up being extremely bland and/or average.

There is nothing about them that excites. Nothing that is even bad enough to be interesting, they are just nothing; the default setting on your phone, the chicken salad on your menu, the Ford Fiesta in your showroom, the City of Adelaide on your Map of Australia, they are a muted blue and grey office with 80s school furniture. They should have been boxed up and sent to the Gold Coast at the dawn of the expansion era, but they wouldn't have suited the sunshine and happiness. They are Anti-Toursim. They are an industrial park, not a theme park. They are an irrelevance, no matter if they are performing strongly or heading for a spoon; they are not even a Black Hole, that's too exciting and exotic, they are a grey hallway, an Inertia Zone.

Get Stuffed North Melbourne Kangaroos.

Fair old whack!

 

[bergholt]

Is Scott up there with the least successful coaches to coach as many games as he has?

Not great but not terrible. Similar numbers to Neil Craig, Terry Wallace, Dean Laidley.

Richo will have to go something like 65-35 over the next 100 games to get to the same position.

 

[gringo2011]

Absolutely brilliant the way you contextualised the bland & shittiness of the Roos.

This needs to be the default response to any Roos supports who enter our board.

Don't be mean, he probably gets bored arguing with himself. Has to make a statement then respond to himself in Plugger66 mode. It would get tedious.

 

[triggering bro]

Don't be mean, he probably gets bored arguing with himself. Has to make a statement then respond to himself in Plugger66 mode. It would get tedious.

Needs more snake baker

 

[Quixote]

LOL at all this booing controversy. Talk about over analysing things. People boo. Always have, always will!

Just watched last Q of Anzac Game and glad we got the Bombers when we did, they've improved since then and the Pies were lucky enough to hold onto that match I reckon!

 

[austinnn]

Imagine being a North fan though.
Imagine the shitness I wrote about being something that your family raised you to actually revere.
Imagine supporting the same club as Damien bloody Barrett.
Imagine Wayne Carey or Glen Archer being your hero as a kid.
Imagine listening to Penis Dagan or the Junkyard ****ing Dog whatever his name was or Notchris Scott talk about your team. Who were their other coaches? Who cares?
Imagine waiting 20 ****ing years for a marquee game and having to change your opponent each year because "it's their fault the attendance was so low"!
Imagine knowing that even if you win a premiership no one will give a fat rat's nutsack and you'll still be as unfashionable as genital herpes but linger like a pensioner's fart in a semi vegetative state forever, the AFL too gutless to do the decent thing and end your pain and merge them or delete them, but instead just ignore them and let them go on coexisting without anyone else really giving two shits and your own dad eventually obliges your sons and daughters to carry on the same miserable family tradition to validate the total and complete waste of a life his own support has been, and you see your kids' joyful youth give way to bland acceptance of the average as they walk with you, adorned in the drab forgettable colours of your unworthy team.

Imagine being a North fan. You'd need to hook yourself up to an IV drip of liquid Viagra just to be able to get through the day without the brutal ordinariness of your life crushing your spirit permanently. Did I mention that you'd be supporting the same club as Purple? Gaaaaaahhhh.

 

[Cornish]

Imagine being a North fan though.
Imagine the shitness I wrote about being something that your family raised you to actually revere.
Imagine supporting the same club as Damien bloody Barrett.
Imagine Wayne Carey or Glen Archer being your hero as a kid.
Imagine listening to Penis Dagan or the Junkyard ******* Dog whatever his name was or Notchris Scott talk about your team. Who were their other coaches? Who cares?
Imagine waiting 20 ******* years for a marquee game and having to change your opponent each year because "it's their fault the attendance was so low"!
Imagine knowing that even if you win a premiership no one will a rat's nutsack and you'll still be as unfashionable as genital herpes but linger like a pensioner's fart in a semi vegetative state forever, and your dad obliges your sons and daughters to carry on the same miserable family tradition to validate the total and complete waste of a life their own support has been, and you see your kids' joyful youth give way to bland acceptance of the average as they walk with you, adorned in the drab forgettable colours of your unworthy team.

Imagine being a North fan. You'd need to hook yourself up to an IV drip of liquid Viagra just to be able to get through the day without the brutal ordinariness of your life crushing your spirit permanently. Did I mention that you'd be supporting the same club as Purple? Gaaaaaahhhh.

C'mon man, spit it out say what you really mean, instead of glossing over the subject

 

[triggering bro]

LOL at all this booing controversy. Talk about over analysing things. People boo. Always have, always will!

Just watched last Q of Anzac Game and glad we got the Bombers when we did, they've improved since then and the Pies were lucky enough to hold onto that match I reckon!

The generation of wanting to be offended about something. Poor me. Hands out, gimme gimme. Also gimme pity because I’m so helpless & I’m sad because words & other people upset me.

Investigative journalism & the art of providing detailed, thoughtful & considered analysis is dead! It’s easier to feed off the whinging masses on social media & fan the flames by highlighting nothing issues such as booing.

Booing has been occurring since the sport of person against person, team against team started!

 

[Mikka84]

Great to see Rooey out at Auskick this morning with his eldest son. Has such an aura about him in public. Grown men blushing and shy around him.. and great to see he’s committed for some future father sons!!

 

[Mowman]

Imagine being a North fan though.
Imagine the shitness I wrote about being something that your family raised you to actually revere.
Imagine supporting the same club as Damien bloody Barrett.
Imagine Wayne Carey or Glen Archer being your hero as a kid.
Imagine listening to Penis Dagan or the Junkyard ******* Dog whatever his name was or Notchris Scott talk about your team. Who were their other coaches? Who cares?
Imagine waiting 20 ******* years for a marquee game and having to change your opponent each year because "it's their fault the attendance was so low"!
Imagine knowing that even if you win a premiership no one will give a fat rat's nutsack and you'll still be as unfashionable as genital herpes but linger like a pensioner's fart in a semi vegetative state forever, the AFL too gutless to do the decent thing and end your pain and merge them or delete them, but instead just ignore them and let them go on coexisting without anyone else really giving two shits and your own dad eventually obliges your sons and daughters to carry on the same miserable family tradition to validate the total and complete waste of a life his own support has been, and you see your kids' joyful youth give way to bland acceptance of the average as they walk with you, adorned in the drab forgettable colours of your unworthy team.

Imagine being a North fan. You'd need to hook yourself up to an IV drip of liquid Viagra just to be able to get through the day without the brutal ordinariness of your life crushing your spirit permanently. Did I mention that you'd be supporting the same club as Purple? Gaaaaaahhhh.

Not your 2nd team ? No soft spot for them ?

 

[gringo2011]

Great to see Rooey out at Auskick this morning with his eldest son. Has such an aura about him in public. Grown men blushing and shy around him.. and great to see he’s committed for some future father sons!!

He intimidates me, and I don't get shy easily. He has a slight edge that makes you feel like he's honouring you by tolerating your presence. He'd make a good coach, you'd be scared of stepping out of line without him doing anything.

 

[gringo2011]

Not your 2nd team ? No soft spot for them ?

I have a soft spot for all the other strugglers. I know a guy who's worked there for ages and was an ex player, he's a gun of a guy so it makes them hard to hate.

 

[Mowman]

He intimidates me, and I don't get shy easily. He has a slight edge that makes you feel like he's honouring you by tolerating your presence. He'd make a good coach, you'd be scared of stepping out of line without him doing anything.

Yes agree, I would prefer Roo to get involved at board level ahead of Warnie

 

[Mikka84]

He intimidates me, and I don't get shy easily. He has a slight edge that makes you feel like he's honouring you by tolerating your presence. He'd make a good coach, you'd be scared of stepping out of line without him doing anything.

Yep absolutely. I think he’ll coach one day. Hoping he comes back to the club next year in some form. Just depends on how big his media career gets.. and at this stage, that’s looking far to lucrative. He’s a bit of a darling in the industry this year..

 

[Mowman]

I have a soft spot for all the other strugglers. I know a guy who's worked there for ages and was an ex player, he's a gun of a guy so it makes them hard to hate.

I have no soft spot for any other colours I wish them nothing but the worst.
Can find many reasons to hate every other team

 

[gringo2011]

I have no soft spot for any other colours I wish them nothing but the worst.
Can find many reasons to hate every other team

When it's game day I hate them all too.

 

[gringo2011]

Yep absolutely. I think he’ll coach one day. Hoping he comes back to the club next year in some form. Just depends on how big his media career gets.. and at this stage, that’s looking far to lucrative. He’s a bit of a darling in the industry this year..

Yeah SEN love him, Whateley seems to sound like he reveres him when ever he says something. Whateley has this inferred credibility because he was stuck in public broadcasting for so long and has a bit of a snobbish flog factor about his credibility. I think he gets flustered that someone who's been in it for 5 minutes makes him look like an amateur.

 

[MOLTEN GANGLANDS]

Yeah SEN love him, Whateley seems to sound like he reveres him when ever he says something. Whateley has this inferred credibility because he was stuck in public broadcasting for so long and has a bit of a snobbish flog factor about his credibility. I think he gets flustered that someone who's been in it for 5 minutes makes him look like an amateur.

this a thousand times. well put gringo. whately is a turd

 

[VDS66]

I have a soft spot for all the other strugglers. I know a guy who's worked there for ages and was an ex player, he's a gun of a guy so it makes them hard to hate.

I'm extremely partisan.

Every year another club wins a flag is another year we don't.

It's us or nothing.

 

[SaintersUnite]

I like Gold Coast a lot, they’re my second favourite. Mainly because I don’t see them as a threat to winning a flag anytime soon. But I still like them and their players.


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[Cornish]

I dont like any other club, its only the depth that varies on how shit think they are.

 

[bergholt]

This GC vs Bris game is an absolute shocker. Neither side can hit a target, dumb free kicks, dumb decisions, poor umpiring, poor goal kicking.

 

[austinnn]

I like Gold Coast a lot, they’re my second favourite. Mainly because I don’t see them as a threat to winning a flag anytime soon. But I still like them and their players.


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Yep, I have no axe to grind against the last two expansion clubs, they're forging their own path and starting from scratch.

Since I was asked, I don't mind Geelong too much as I have a few mates who support them and we've been good rivals, plus I admire what they've done in the last few years.

Ditto Sydney, nephews are into them big time. Most of the expansion clubs are fine with me, being that I've never been to their home grounds: Don't mind Adelaide or Port, or even West Coast, but Freo annoy me a little.

Out of the big 4, the only club I am ok with these days are the Pies, though I used to despise them more than anyone, don't know what changed. Can't stand the Blues or the Dons, cheating scum the both. Tigers I have an up and down relationship with, used to be my second team, then I got sick of them being shot all the time, now I'm indifferent. Weirdly I can't bring myself to hate Hawthorn despite the jealousy, the zone theft, their dominance the smarm of their supporters. I don't want them to win but I can't get upset about them.

There you have it, hope it's been enlightening!