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Has anyone ever noticed a correlation between the behaviour of magpies of the winged variety and the success of the team on the field?

When we set out for the first night game of the 2007 season, we noticed about 6 magpies in the garden, then two swooped down over the car when we reached the nearby main road. We took it as a good omen, and it was. After that we noticed that whenever the magpies were out in force, so was Collingwood. Ominously, there wasn't a magpie to be seen the day of that last, fated game against Geelong - very odd for the area. And it proved fatal.:( Has anyone else observed any connection?
 
I have, but only for some games.
Sometimes during the last season there might be a few magpies on the front lawn, other times there wouldn't be. I usually took it as a good omen. Unfortunately I can't remember many of the times that it happened during the season... But I think we won!

But... in the week leading up to the Geelong prelim, there were often a few magpies on the front lawn & I was just hoping that it was going to be a good omen. Turns out it wasn't...:(
 
I've always had a few magpies hang around my front garden (This has nothing to do with the team) and when I come home in my car (which has a loud exhaust) and walk in, the do not budge, they keep going about their business, but when there are others coming or going or people walking by farther away, they fly off. They must sense me as a big Collingwood supporter :p
 

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I have never been swooped by a magpie.:D Just lucky i guess, i don't see magpies very often actually, on the way to the station in the morning there are a group of 4 or 5 of them on a corner but they never do anything, they just wonder around like they own the suburb. As some may know or not i'm supersticeous(spelling?), i have issues with what i can and can't wear during the week. I can't where my favourite pair of jeans (they wern't cheap either) because the first time i wore them we lost to Brisbane this year......:eek:

It's sad and stupid but yeah.. oh and i can't where my Collingwood hat or wave my flag...:eek: lol.
 
PieLebo87 said:
I've always had a few magpies hang around my front garden (This has nothing to do with the team) and when I come home in my car (which has a loud exhaust) and walk in, the do not budge, they keep going about their business, but when there are others coming or going or people walking by farther away, they fly off. They must sense me as a big Collingwood supporter :p
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magpies near my place are similar they do not budge for anything car or person im almost certain the mother of the nest would take on most small adults and win lol.

Thinking of the correlation between magpies and winning, when i was in italy this year i saw a group of magpies in rome (dirtest looking things ever), while i was listeiningg to the st.kilda game over the net (the family wanted to kill me seeing as it was 6am) but as i noticed them it occured with the magpie fight back in the last qtr so maybe there is something in that..............or not
 
At half time during the 2002 prelim against the crows, i saw a magpie and a crow fighting in the air over a bit of food, the crow seemed to surge up but the magpie prevailed in the end, which mirrored the game.

on the other side of the coin though,

driving on the highway to the the footy before the brisbane magpies game at the mcg this year, the car in front of me hit two magpies on the way.

I was hoping it wasn't an omen, but we got smashed that night.
 
Jabso said:
September is swooping season.
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True, but I wasn't referring to that kind of targeted attack, but to a kind of rhapsodic flight that Yeats described as;

"Wheeling in great broken rings
Upon their clamorous wings...'

It was almost as if they were escorting the car. Now this is not superstition, it's a thorough, scientific observation of avian behaviour.

We have about a dozen magpies living in or around or garden, and we've never been swooped yet. They know which side their crusts are buttered on.

The good news is, the magpies are out in force this summer - undoubtedly a good omen. I suspect these are premiership magpies.;)
 
Snag Breac said:
The good news is, the magpies are out in force this summer - undoubtedly a good omen. I suspect these are premiership magpies.;)
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Here is hoping snag:thumbsu:
 
On the day of the final against Sydney this year, I walked into a shopping centre that was having some construction work done out the front. This seemed to have upset the local magpie population and so the centre had put up a sign out the front warning customers

BEWARE: SWOOPING MAGPIES IN AREA

Made me feel warm all over.
 
pb61 said:
Aren't those magpies great, I heard they have learnt to kill cane toads and eat them without getting poisoned :thumbsu:
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Seriously? They're certainly clever birds. When they're hungry in winter they come and stare pathetically in at the family room window. If I ignore them they come to the side window and tap on it. I'd put nothing past them.:)
 

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I'm not a huge fan of the Magpie (bird) I was attacked by one when I was about 8 while riding my bike. It cut my ear...:(
But I have grown out of that fear since then, although one tried to swoop me the other day:thumbsdown:
 

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scottyD said:
Every game i took my radio too we won and vice versa we lost.

Also... out of the 6 games i went to in 05 i think.
We won 1.
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Give that mans radio a membership and someone drop it off each week.
You can stay home.

Oh! And what does your radio have to do with the behaviour of Magpies.

ps. my missus thinks if she watchs a game on tv the boys lose.....so she sits on the verandah and I relay info via grunts, swearing ,cheers and air punching (when we get a goal)....lol...we must look like a couple of idiots...good thing we are on a farm with no neighbors within cooee)
 
Pie eyed said:
ps. my missus thinks if she watchs a game on tv the boys lose.....so she sits on the verandah and I relay info via grunts, swearing ,cheers and air punching (when we get a goal)....lol...we must look like a couple of idiots...good thing we are on a farm with no neighbors within cooee)
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This si how scores are relayed at my place to whoever isnt in the room
 
I can only imagine what an alien species would think if they beamed into my lounge room during a tight last quarter....even sitting down for more than few minutes is a problem.
 
Pie eyed said:
I can only imagine what an alien species would think if they beamed into my lounge room during a tight last quarter....even sitting down for more than few minutes is a problem.
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every second word a curse and every little thing brings on a heart attack?

This si why when the football is on the only poepel in the room are me dad and bro mum and sister cant handle it, we are so dramatic apparntly
 
Optimax said:
every second word a curse and every little thing brings on a heart attack?

This si why when the football is on the only poepel in the room are me dad and bro mum and sister cant handle it, we are so dramatic apparntly
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lol, i have to watch it on my own.:(

I tend to yell and hit things, The game against Richmond in Rd 19 i lost my voice broke my cricket stumps and broke a window. Wasn't a happy chappy.:thumbsu: I couldn't get to that game, am pretty happy i didn't go actually....

:D:D:D
 

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