Glitz or the Game

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Simple question.

Do you prefer the hype of the Grand Final or the game itself?

Parades, celebrities, balloons, razzamatazz vs Knife edge footy with the ultimate prize riding on the result.

Cast your vote. Keep it brief. No more than a paragraph.

 

[JUBJUB]

Being a Geelong supporter I prefer the hype

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The game sucks [for obvious reasons]

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[Dan26]

The game itself. Hype does nothing for me. The glory of winning that Grand Final match is what we strive for....... even if we're not the best team. GLORY.

 

[Dan26]

You think I can't see what you're doing, ODN's? I'm not an idiot.

 

[Anton Grbac]

I payed for the privelige of watching my team play in the Grand Final last year. The 'entertainment' preceding the game seems to get cheaper and tackier every year. Last year was awful.

where's wally?

 

[ptw]

there is absolutely nothing better than winning the grand final...the hype means nothing.

Winning the GF means being premiers and crowned as "the best team of the year". That is what it is all about....and a curse on anyone who suggests things SHOULD be done differently.

ptw

 

[Darky]

There's only so much a bloke can handle, of kids running around in circles waving doonas above their heads EVERY PHUCKING YEAR!!!!!!!!!

Screw the entertainment, gimme the game.

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"Not by speech-making and the decisions of majorities will the questions of the day be settled... but by iron and blood" - Otto von Bismarck 1862

 

[Carey_is_King]

Entertainment ? There's entertainment ? I have never noticed.

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Trample the Weak,
Hurdle the Dead.

 

[Santos L Helper]

Originally posted by Carey_is_King:
Entertainment ? There's entertainment ? I have never noticed.

CIK, I agree!! What the AFL tries to pass off as entertainment is embarassing.

What ever happened to the 100 metre dash? I used to like watching that after lots of beer.
The actual games have been pretty boring too. Yes I probably think that because Port aren't in them.

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If ya smell what Santos is cooking!!

 

[Catman]

The so-called entertainment is the same every year. Watching the grass grow is more exciting. But the game is what it's all about, but being a Cats fan, there hasn't been much to be excited about in the past decade.
Glitz is more suited to the superbowl, which almost is more important than the game.

 

[The Dutchman!]

The entertainment at the 2000GF had to be seen up close to be believed - it was staggeringly awful - a shedload of overweight school kids taking time off from Burger King (sorry Hungry Jacks) to wave a lot of bollocks flags and sway mostly out of time and sing flatter than a 3 day old pint - it wasn't just awful it was GODAWFUL.

So... erm, sorry for the long response ODN, obviously the game which was worth the 12,000 mile flight to get to (particularly as I got to see the baggers get sweep aside the week before as well...)

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Originally posted by Dan24:
You think I can't see what you're doing, ODN's? I'm not an idiot.

No secrets here Dan. This is the crux of the grand final importance as an event or a game.

People...missing the point a little. I'm not comparing the lacklustre entertainment on the day to the game necessarily.

Do you look forward to the grand final build up, the whole package, grand final teams parades and breakfasts etc more than the play itself. If they stripped away the build up, would the game still rule. Why? Is it because it is the last game of the season? Just another match? Or because the premiership is riding on it, do or die?

DOES THE GRAND FINAL EVENT MEAN MORE THAN THE RESULT????????

 

[Smokey Dawson]

Originally posted by Santos L Helper:
What ever happened to the 100 metre dash? I used to like watching that after lots of beer.

I remember during the breaks in the one day internationals a couple of years ago they had footraces with women running of a handicap and the fellas off scratch.

The Pommy commentator Aggers thought that this was some sort of Aussie ritual called "Chase the Sheila"

 

[dees01]

I have been to Grand Finals for quite a few years and I have enjoyed the pre match entertainment. But last years Grand Final I hardly took any notice of it. When my own team is playing all you think about is the game, not about what is happening before hand.

 

[Shinboners]

Usually muttered by me as the clock heads towards 3pm on the last Saturday in September, "For f*cks sake, can we just get the game started?"

 

[Spidergirl~RiCkChiCk]

Obviously a bit of both but these days all the hype is what really draws us to it. basically our game is fukt to the way they used to play it anyway.

To me grand final week means more than a birthday or christmas i just love it especially the parade, then going to training then the tradition of going to the grand final footy show, plus lining up for tickets then going to the match if lucky enough to get em etc etc. I was very disappointed to read an article the other day about more sh!t from the AFL about scrapping our much loved parade farking pricks would too wouldnt they seeing each year they take more and more of what we love away from us!

sPiDeR eVeRiTt and RiCkY oLaReNsHaW
~kewlest players round!!!

 

[Not In It]

ODN

Good point, you need the bullshit and hype only if your team is not participating. The last thread to hold on to some footy before the vacuum. If you are not in it then you can eat and sleep, so may as well enjoy all the footy hype and thank god at the end of that special day that you are not the loser. Not making it might be painful, but making it and losing is unbearable. So we need all the crap to keep those of us who don't make it happy, that we are a part of it, but don't really give a rats clacker about the result other than for second, third and who cares teams for sentimental reasons. Our year will be next year if we are not in it, much better than making it and the loser, as we can still enjoy ourselves GF night.

 

[croode]

As an AFL member, this is the main reason I prefer the system of prebooking the seat rather than the first come, first serve method of the past. Now I get to the game just b4 the teams run out and miss the balony that is only put on for TV anyway.

[This message has been edited by croode (edited 07 February 2001).]

 

[elt]

The game for mine, always will be. Not just because the entertainment is so crappy

But because regardless of people's opinion on how it should be, winning the GF is what every team strives for now and to see two sides put it all on the line for one game is great to watch.

P.S. I don't care if I never see another marching band, kid waving a colored sheet or corporate spectator trying to do the Dipper with a Coke scarf

 

[Pessimistic]

The GF entertainment is much better when you are there. It loses a LOT on TV.

Now if Killing Heidi was on.....

 

[Dan26]

Originally posted by The Old Dark Navy's:

If they stripped away the build up, would the game still rule. Why? Is it because it is the last game of the season? Just another match? Or because the premiership is riding on it, do or die?

DOES THE GRAND FINAL EVENT MEAN MORE THAN THE RESULT????????

I've said it before. The fact that the premiership is riding on it, is not what makes it big. Look at the FA CUP (for the millionth time). It is VERY similar to our Grand Final for TWO reasons. Firstly, it is the LAST match of the season. Secondly, it is the final of a knockout cup, with a trophy dependent on the reslt of one-match.

Now we all know that the team that wins the FA CUP is NOT crowned "whole season premeirs". Yet the FA CUP final is still massive.

Our Grand Final is an event. The "glory" of winning is what teams play for. The "glory" of being victorious on the last day of the seaosn. The glory of doing a lap of honour on a packed MCG.

I get the feeling that you "think" that the only way our Grand Final can be big, is if it continues to override the preceding 6 months. How terrible of you to think that. You musn't have much respect for Grand Final day itself, if you think that the only way it can retain it's popoularity is to have it continue to deem irrelevant the preceding 6 months, double or nothign style.

I can ASSURE you, that the Grand Final doesn't need to override the previous 6 months for it to be big.

 

[Hawkforce.]

Originally posted by The Old Dark Navy's:

DOES THE GRAND FINAL EVENT MEAN MORE THAN THE RESULT????????

Yes.

Unless you are playing in it.

 

[BMD]

Love the build up in the sense that I love talking about what will happen in the GAME.

The season is on the line during this one GAME.

As for the parade, the so-called entertainment - not intereseted.

 

[kymhodgemansmo]

The chicken and the egg ODN.

If we didnt have the build up, the game wouldn't appear to mean as much.

If we didn't have the GF, the build up would mean bugger all.

Dan 24 I am sick of your ranting - one thing you forget about the GF is it is the pinnacle of our sport.

You use soccer, and the Premier League as an example but everyone is out to win the Champions League which is decided with a knockout after teams have qualified by winning or whatever in their respective country, as I am sure you understand.

But this is the most sought after prize in European Club Soccer, and it is decided on a sudden death basis - after preliminary rounds are played of course.

So therefore, in my opinion, the ultimate prize has to be do or die - it jus has to be.

Take that away and you have a glorified end of season Ansett Cup with the top eight.

Our culture demands we perform in finals - we idolise Dermie for what he did, the Dominator - they are finals players, and it is what our game is about.

If the goddamn thing aint broke dont fix it.

 

[The invisible mullet]

The game is the thing because it determines who is the numnber one team of the year - it's the game that every player from the beginning of preseason has been preparing to play a part in. It's the game where comparisons between great sides across eras begin. It's the footy climax of the year - and we still can't be sure who will come out on top until 3/4 time at least...