Premiership Droughts

[BrizzyBlue]

If you look at the table below, you will notice a number of things:

1. Due to the AFL System, there has been 9 different Premiers since our last victory in 1995 (The Brions with their 01, 02, 03 flags, the Cows with their 97 & 98 wins and Norf with 2 in 96 & 99)

2. All the AFL special projects, bar the Shockers have won at least 1 flag since admission (Weagles, Cows, Brions, Port, Swines).

3. Basketcases of only a few years ago (The Pussies were in massive debt and had lost a bunch of grand finals since their previous flag in 63 & the Dawks were a shadow of their 80's and 90's form and almost merged with Melbum) had also got the chocolates in 07 & 08.

4. Our story is very well documented. Whether it is poor recruitment, failure to embrace the system, the draconian draft penalties we were handed or simply a combination of all, we have only started to emerge as a real finals threat now.

5. With one of our greatest rivals the Scum, winning in 00 and drawing level with our 16, one wonders how the others that haven't tasted success for yonks; have been so ordinary.

6. Although the ones below us are not to scale, the time gaps to their last flag must alarm those clubs and their supporters. Next season, it will be 20 years since the Filth broke their hoodoo, 30 years since the Ferals got one, 44 for the Aints, 46 for the Dees and an incredible 56 years for the Bullfrogs. IMHO, we will stand on that dias before any of these perrenial losers.

7. As this is an exercise to show how long ago all the clubs last won the silverware, Freo are missing. I reckon they will be for a few years yet.

8. Look at the clubs above us since 95. Who are the most likely to succeed in September before us? Possibly the Pussies and Dorks? The rest are either on the bottom of the heap or are in decline.

9. I think we are well placed for a golden era. I reckon our kids won't just pinch one. We very well could do a 79, 81, 82!

10. Happy New Year to all posters and let's all hope 2009 is the dawning of a Navy Blue resurgence.

 

[true blue19]

this would have been a better read if you showed more respect to the opposition clubs by call them there real name. i think you need to grow up.

 

[thylacine60]

That's the sexiest graph ever.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

this would have been a better read if you showed more respect to the opposition clubs by call them there real name. i think you need to grow up.

BB has grown up .... he's just on the way down again!

 

[serenityNow]

If you look at the table below, you will notice a number of things:

1. Due to the AFL System, there has been 9 different Premiers since our last victory in 1995 (The Brions with their 01, 02, 03 flags, the Cows with their 97 & 98 wins and Norf with 2 in 96 & 99)

2. All the AFL special projects, bar the Shockers have won at least 1 flag since admission (Weagles, Cows, Brions, Port, Swines).

3. Basketcases of only a few years ago (The Pussies were in massive debt and had lost a bunch of grand finals since their previous flag in 63 & the Dawks were a shadow of their 80's and 90's form and almost merged with Melbum) had also got the chocolates in 07 & 08.

4. Our story is very well documented. Whether it is poor recruitment, failure to embrace the system, the draconian draft penalties we were handed or simply a combination of all, we have only started to emerge as a real finals threat now.

5. With one of our greatest rivals the Scum, winning in 00 and drawing level with our 16, one wonders how the others that haven't tasted success for yonks; have been so ordinary.

6. Although the ones below us are not to scale, the time gaps to their last flag must alarm those clubs and their supporters. Next season, it will be 20 years since the Filth broke their hoodoo, 30 years since the Ferals got one, 44 for the Aints, 46 for the Dees and an incredible 56 years for the Bullfrogs. IMHO, we will stand on that dias before any of these perrenial losers.

7. As this is an exercise to show how long ago all the clubs last won the silverware, Freo are missing. I reckon they will be for a few years yet.

8. Look at the clubs above us since 95. Who are the most likely to succeed in September before us? Possibly the Pussies and Dorks? The rest are either on the bottom of the heap or are in decline.

9. I think we are well placed for a golden era. I reckon our kids won't just pinch one. We very well could do a 79, 81, 82!

10. Happy New Year to all posters and let's all hope 2009 is the dawning of a Navy Blue resurgence.

The names you are using for other sides isnt even funny.

Cows?
Brions?
Swines?

 

[thylacine60]

I quite like "Brions".

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

All pre-used names I might add. Sure it's cocky, but I'd imagine opposition fans getting up in arms at it and Carlton fans brushing it off as a bit of poetic license.

It's been a long year ... can we exorcise all of the narkiness and anxiety for the rest of the day and start again all shiny and happy tomorrow?

 

[BrizzyBlue]

FFS, aren't some people precious? I didn't invent these terms. They have been used for yonks and are all over footy forums. So you mature holier than thou posters, don't refer to the Pies as the Filth or Essendon as the Scum? Go have a look on the main board or on other clubs boards and check out what they call us. I wasn't trying to be funny btw, I was just simply reflecting our despised opposition as AFL love children. As for the matter of respecting any other club. I have been a rabid supporter/ member of this glorious club for over 40 years! Pffffffftttt

 

[BlueYoss]

I have been a rabid supporter/ member of this glorious club for over 40 years! Pffffffftttt

That would explain the frothing at the mouth...

 

[THE AISSASSIN]

That's the sexiest graph ever.

Is that bcoz it is of similar shape to the side of the hill on which u live ?

 

[thylacine60]

Is that bcoz it is of similar shape to the side of the hill on which u live ?

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[The Old Dark Navy's]

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[thylacine60]

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Cheers, ODN. I'm closing my blinds now.............

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Cheers, ODN. I'm closing my blinds now.............

And not before time. Some things another human being is just not meant to see. So shocking yet compelling at the same time.

 

[BlueYoss]

They're still not closed properly...

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

They're still not closed properly...

It's nothing you won't see in public on a lazy Sunday afternoon, except he just dresses it up a bit, a litre of extra virgin olive oil, a pair of flocked lined rubber gloves, four helium balloons (different colours for maximum effect), two Lithuanian short people (again preferably different colours) and he's good to go.

 

[BlueYoss]

It's nothing you won't see in public on a lazy Sunday afternoon, except he just dresses it up a bit, a litre of extra virgin olive oil, a pair of flocked lined rubber gloves, four helium balloons (different colours for maximum effect), two Lithuanian short people (again preferably different colours) and he's good to go.

You make it sound so innocent, almost poetic or artisitc and expressive.

Hardly suits the atrocities our eyes are being bombarded with here.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

You make it sound so innocent, almost poetic or artisitc and expressive.

Hardly suits the atrocities our eyes are being bombarded with here.

You have to look at the big picture .... add spandex and a trapeze, subtract the donkey, put a classical backing track to it and it would look almost majestic.

 

[BlueYoss]

You have to look at the big picture .... add spandex and a trapeze, subtract the donkey, put a classical backing track to it and it would look almost majestic.

There's nothing big about the picture!

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

There's nothing big about the picture!

I see your point that thy's point would be like searching for Wally amidst all that going on, but all of that pomp and pagentry is pretty damn impressive nonetheless.

 

[BlueYoss]

I see your point that thy's point would be like searching for Wally amidst all that going on, but all of that pomp and pagentry is pretty damn impressive nonetheless.

Impressive in the company of the Lithuanian short people or the donkey?

 

[thylacine60]

Laugh all you like. Ever tried sourcing a Lithuanian midget this time of year? Two, ffs? Have some compassion. Also, I'm now in the cellar.

 

[BlueYoss]

Just don't get too desperate and settle for Libba.

 

[thylacine60]

Just don't get too desperate and settle for Libba.

standards.........