Ironically the modern game is being destroyed by the vAFL administration partly as it also has the same ignorance about interstaters as the OP. Austraia is a big place and 99% of it exists outside the Melbourne CBD.
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Ironically the modern game is being destroyed by the vAFL administration partly as it also has the same ignorance about interstaters as the OP. Austraia is a big place and 99% of it exists outside the Melbourne CBD.
Go for it. Celebrate your VFL history as we'll celebrate the WAFL and SA the SANFL. The greats from all of those competitions have the respect of all football fans. But dont pretend the VFL is the AFL.Not once did I suggest I don’t respect interstate clubs and their histories or respective competitions. You are just making stuff up now.
lmao who really cares about non-Vic clubs
Well you should as North Melbourne would have gone belly up years ago without them.
The eagles don’t exist if it wasn’t for the VFL. Just a thank you will do the trick here
Haha. Many VFL clubs cease to exist if not for the Eagles and the royalties we paid. The fact we didn’t then just roll over and die seems to be a constant source of annoyance for many pining for the good old days.
Just a thank you would do the trick here.
There seems to be an absolute lack of respect for the history of our great game by some Interstate clubs supporters simply because their clubs were not present.
Should Carlton forget about champions such as Nicholls and Jesaulenko because they only played in 12 team competitions?
Should the legends of the Colliers and Coventry’s be wiped from the record books because they played iagaindt ‘suburban’ teams’ ?
Should the Coleman medal be renamed the ‘Kennedy Medal’ because the great man played in a time of ‘amateur’ footballers and should Reynolds exploits be ignored?
Perhaps Bunton and Murray should be thrown on the scrap heap.
Maybe the immortal that is EJ Whitten should be relegated to suburban footballer and forget about Charlie Sutton.
Farmer and Goggin should be removed because they were not part of the AFL. Even Ablett’s 9 goal GF heroics would be wiped.
Matthews the greatest of them all would not be considered with the modern greats because he played in pre AFL
Barrassi and the immortal Demons teams of the 50s and 60s should not be celebrated due to the the fact they didn’t play in the expansion. The Norm Smith medal should be renamed
Grieg and Dempsey only played part time and could not possibly rank with the greats of today
Forget the Jack Dyer medal, Tigers fans should ignore his legend and rename it the Dusty medal. As for Hart and Bartlett they would not rate.
Pratt’s 150 and Nash’s heroics do not count
Baldock and Stewart ??? Who ???
And well we are at let’s rename ‘Up there Cazaly’ - Up there Modra
and the Jock McHale medal the ‘Simpson Medal’. No matter what era, no matter how long ago, a champion of the game is a champion of the game. They were the best on a level playing field against their peers. A Premiership whether Essendon in 1897 or West Coasts in 2018 was just as important. The history of our great game has been carved and written and for those who don’t like it the answer is simple. Stop whinging about our past and go and make your own history.
The problem you elude to is best demonstrated by the way Vic fan tryhards want to ignore Port Adelaides history.
The history of Victorian footy is not the history of Aussie Rules, its a part, a big part, but just as the history of Vic is not the history of Australia.
I'm a Subi supporter first & foremost, was a member of the Blues in the 80s & I'm telling you the VFL is not the AFL. West Coasts premierships, Subis flags are different, different comps, no different to the Blues flags.
Happy to acknowledge ALL our greats, be it SA, Tas, wherever.
Isnt it amazing how non Victorian supporters forget that we wouldn’t have a national competition if it wasn’t for the VFL
There seems to be an absolute lack of respect for the history of our great game by some Interstate clubs supporters simply because their clubs were not present.
Should Carlton forget about champions such as Nicholls and Jesaulenko because they only played in 12 team competitions?
Should the legends of the Colliers and Coventry’s be wiped from the record books because they played iagaindt ‘suburban’ teams’ ?
Should the Coleman medal be renamed the ‘Kennedy Medal’ because the great man played in a time of ‘amateur’ footballers and should Reynolds exploits be ignored?
Perhaps Bunton and Murray should be thrown on the scrap heap.
Maybe the immortal that is EJ Whitten should be relegated to suburban footballer and forget about Charlie Sutton.
Farmer and Goggin should be removed because they were not part of the AFL. Even Ablett’s 9 goal GF heroics would be wiped.
Matthews the greatest of them all would not be considered with the modern greats because he played in pre AFL
Barrassi and the immortal Demons teams of the 50s and 60s should not be celebrated due to the the fact they didn’t play in the expansion. The Norm Smith medal should be renamed
Grieg and Dempsey only played part time and could not possibly rank with the greats of today
Forget the Jack Dyer medal, Tigers fans should ignore his legend and rename it the Dusty medal. As for Hart and Bartlett they would not rate.
Pratt’s 150 and Nash’s heroics do not count
Baldock and Stewart ??? Who ???
And well we are at let’s rename ‘Up there Cazaly’ - Up there Modra
and the Jock McHale medal the ‘Simpson Medal’. No matter what era, no matter how long ago, a champion of the game is a champion of the game. They were the best on a level playing field against their peers. A Premiership whether Essendon in 1897 or West Coasts in 2018 was just as important. The history of our great game has been carved and written and for those who don’t like it the answer is simple. Stop whinging about our past and go and make your own history.
Never once have I disrespected Ports great history.
Perhaps Bunton and Murray should be thrown on the scrap heap.
lmao who really cares about non-Vic clubs
Saving football: New documents reveal how close the VFL came to shutting down
You might want to read this and get back to me.
What a pathetic straw man post.
Saving football: New documents reveal how close the VFL came to shutting down
You might want to read this and get back to me.
So you reckon it was O.K for Collingwood, Richmond, Geelong, bulldogs, Melbourne, North Melbourne, Fitzroy to go down the gurgler? Did you even bother to read the Info/ ? Can you give me some documentation to substantiate your claims? Words are empty without some form.. of expertise. Please remember it was a Vic document not a W.A one. And lets not forget the Commissioner was also Victorian.The VFL was in a messy state at the time, true. Several clubs would have gone under. Outside those Clubs, nobody much cared. There is indeed a compelling argument that letting nature take its course would have led to a much cleaner AFL structure.
Respect my clubs history by acknowledging our premierships then I will acknowledge the State league premierships of the VFL
So you reckon it was O.K for Collingwood, Richmond, Geelong, bulldogs, Melbourne, North Melbourne, Fitzroy to go down the gurgler? Did you even bother to read the Info/ ? Can you give me some documentation to substantiate your claims? Words are empty without some form.. of expertise. Please remember it was a Vic document not a W.A one. And lets not forget the Commissioner was also Victorian.
How many of those premierships were won against teams currently in the AFL? Therein lies your answer.
It was brought to the table because of Sprockets claim that Clubs were not financially in trouble. Make an effort and read the thread.If you're trying to bring a gotcha to the table you've failed, you've only brought a captain obvious.