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Likewise. Whether we lose or win or draw I couldn’t care. I’ve got use to us being predictably bad.More and more into it every year but don't take the losses as bad as I used to.
LOL!!!!!Not so seriously any more. Used to yell and scream my lungs out during games but just dont care so much. Nothing to do with the state of the game or any bs like that. More to do with feeling like ive seen the best Eagles teams ever during the 90's and 00's. Similar to cricket. After experiencing a golden era of Warne, Gilchrist, McGrath, Ponting, Waugh, Clarke, Hayden, Langer, Lee, etc its hard to get excited about the next batch coming through when you know you've probably seen the best Australian cricket team in your lifetime retire.
Im not sure if the Eagles will ever be able to beat the 90's of Matera, Kemp, Sumich, Heady, Worsfold, Jackovich or the 00's of Cousins, Judd, Kerr, Cox, Glass, Waters, Embley, Wirrpanda, Chick. I miss the old days
yeah were lucky as Eagles fans. Was good to snaffle a premiership last yearLOL!!!!!
Well a premiership wasn't bad now was it!
I do watch a lot more footy now, I think because we have so much easy access to it with things like FoxFooty and I'm home a lot more than I used to be.More and more into it every year but don't take the losses as bad as I used to.
It's WWE now. Should be AFE instead as they've demonstrated many times, they'll put money ahead of integrity.I used to, back in the days when it was an actual sport. Now I just treat it as the joke it has become.
That's a *en good post!!!!!!!!!!!I never played footy growing up. I've supported West Coast since '87 when I was in year one but s**t only started getting serious for me about 5 years ago. Before that, I had only ever been to two AFL games. Probably had something to do with being a climate refugee from Scotland with an English (bastards!) father...
My first game was one of the early jacket waving games against Essendon at Subiaco Oval in Round 9, 1997. This was back in the days before Subi was an all seater stadium and me and the old man were in standing room. He had to hold me up so I could see what was going on. Which probably looked a bit weird given I was 16 years old...
I remember seeing Glen Jacovich in the flesh for the first time and thinking "he's twice the size of everyone else." It was a great game. Chris Lewis got reported twice for "Gaffing" two Essendon players and the Eagles got up by 25 points. Lewie "Suarez" got 7 weeks at the tribunal. What a champ.
I went to one of the last games at the the WACA in Round 4, 2000 when Scotty Cummings kicked 14 goals against a woeful Crows side who were absolutely pumped by the tune of 114 points. My then girlfriend was bored by half time and suggested that we drive her old man's car up to Kings Park and have sex instead. Whilst I may have lacked Scotty Cummings' accuracy that night, I hold my head knowing my performance in the back of that green Berlina was not as sloppy as the Crows were that night.
I didn't go to another game for over 12 years because I was too busy going to raves and getting f’ed up. Every now then I'd watch a game at the end of a three day bender. If I wasn't getting higher than a giraffe in Jamaica I was working on cars.
I started taking footy more seriously when the kids started to arrive and my career meant I was spending more and more time at work. I was forced to give up partying and start acting like an adult. Had to sell my sports cars and buy something more 'practical'.
Around this time my younger sister moved to Melbourne and started going to games. Then my old house mate moved there and started doing the same thing.
I went to the 2015 and 2018 grand finals and go to 3 games a year on average.
I've come to realise that footy has slowly replaced all the other forms escapism that middle aged blokes are not supposed to indulge in anymore. It's a welcome distraction from the misery of modern life until the day finally comes when the kids can fu** right off out of my house and I can go to Glastonbury, take acid and dance around naked as the day I was born.
Until then, UP THE ******* COASTERS!