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Spot on. I was genuinely happy for the Tiges in 2017 and 2020. Was too pissed by the end of the game in 2019 to give a s**t
Collingwood-Richmond, is it a one way or two way rivalry?
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Rare time I agree with you. Even for their third premiership I somehow got involved in the celebrations and got to touch the cup. If that was Collingwood you couldn't pay me enough to still be there.
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Let me guess. You were born in the 1990's.
2010s
One thing's for sure, try as I might, I can't bring myself to despise the non-Vic clubs as much as our traditional Vic rivals. My dad was a lifelong Tiger and used to always barrack for any of the Vic clubs whenever they played a non-Vic, which I just could never understand. I can't remember the last (non-Richmond) grand final where I cheered for the Vic team over the non-Vic ... maybe the Saints over the Crows in 1998? Every other year I'm totally in "kick a Vic" mode.
I reckon five of my best ten mates in the world are Pies supporters, and while I love the lot of them like brothers, we heckle and pester each other about footy relentlessly, and I could never hope Collingwood win a flag, even for the sake of my mates. Hardly anybody I know in my friendship or acquaintance circles follows a non-Vic club, so I just don't have the deep-set rivalries for such clubs. BigFooty is seriously the only place I've ever really encountered a Freo supporter, and I'm yet to ever get the response "Dockers", "Giants" or "Suns" when I ask someone I've just met who they support.
But when your workplace and social circles are full of Maggies, Blues and Bombers, such rivalries are constantly maintained. Hawks, Dees, Cats etc are the next level down.
I reckon five of my best ten mates in the world are Pies supporters, and while I love the lot of them like brothers, we heckle and pester each other about footy relentlessly, and I could never hope Collingwood win a flag, even for the sake of my mates. Hardly anybody I know in my friendship or acquaintance circles follows a non-Vic club, so I just don't have the deep-set rivalries for such clubs. BigFooty is seriously the only place I've ever really encountered a Freo supporter, and I'm yet to ever get the response "Dockers", "Giants" or "Suns" when I ask someone I've just met who they support.
But when your workplace and social circles are full of Maggies, Blues and Bombers, such rivalries are constantly maintained. Hawks, Dees, Cats etc are the next level down.
How much was that due to Richmond playing the Power Rangers & The Big Big Sound ?
say it was Richmond v Hawks/Saints/North/Melbourne would you have still wanted Richmond to win ?
Everybody is a Tiger at heart
For all the success the Hawks have had, i think it would be fair to say that they still don't have the same support numbers that the traditional big four have.
Obviously as a Carlton fan i don't want any of Collingwood, Essendon and Richmond winning flags, but still though there would be a great buzz and excitement if all four of the Blues, Pies, Bombers and Tigers ever become premiership contenders all at once. Oh and yeah the non Vic clubs don't bother me either.
Oh god a Collingwood and Richmond grand final shudder.
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Was looking a sure thing in 2019 until we s**t the bed a week earlier than normal
Maybe the pies and the blues do us a favour and make it happen either this or next year. Which just might be the case.
Haha, like you guys watching Al Qaeda face up against Boko Haram and having to pick someone to barrack for
Yeah, for all the success the Hawks have enjoyed in my lifetime - what is it, like 12 flags in fifty-ish years or something? - they just haven’t reached the rampant representativeness or in-your-face arrogance, obnoxiousness and plain mean-spiritness that us Pie, Blue, Tiger and Bomber ferals are capable of. I’ve found most of their supporters even relatively humble, at least in comparison to the Big 4 maniacs after sustained success.
The Hawks were a club with no winning tradition whatsoever. They were the laughing stock of the league for years.
In my opinion it wasn't until the mid to late 80's that they started to establish a reputation as a big club. What's really telling though is that the Hawks nearly went under five years after their 1991 flag win.
All that success still wasn't enough to bring in the paying members, but since the Melbourne Hawks debacle their membership started to grow substantially. Yeah the Hawks have had all this success, but they just don't bother me in the slightest for some reason.
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Slightly off topic but the Hawks are a club with an inferiority complex despite five decades of on-field success.
Desperately want to be one of the big boys but never will be. Their bottom line has been inflated by selling 4 home games to Tasmania for years and a membership number that doesn't match bums on seats.
Once the Tassie government withdraw their funds and given a few more years in the bottom reaches of the ladder and they'll be looking for a new suitor.
Wannabe club.
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This year Preliminary finals weekend will be:
Coll vs Rich 7:50PM Friday 22nd Sept MCG
Carl vs Ess 4:35PM Sat 23rd Sept MCG
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Trust you guys to get the easy one. No chance of Essendon winning multiple finals
Beating both the Bombers and the Pies, to win that long awaited flag sure would be sweet.
We all know the fact is it is a huge two-way rivalry - one of the four or five biggest rivalries in the game. Any fan of either club trying to sell you a "we don't care about them" story is trying to sell a pup.
Let's face it, the entire thing was initiated by a poster with a propensity to regularly start Geelong wank-a-thon threads on the main board, trying to undermine either or both Richmond or Collingwood (most likely the former).
Started by a Geelong fan from his tin can stadium. Talk about inferiority complex that club has it. Collingwood and Richmond look down on you mere minion.
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