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Going for multiple teams is fine, and it's fine to be more of a casual observer of the game as opposed to a hardcore diehard for a certain team. My dad is a really good example of this. He's nominally a Crows supporter but is really more of a follower of the game than a club supporter.

It gives you a genuine advantage in tipping and fantasy comps.

But you'll never experience the elation of your club winning the flag. Not like a die hard.
 
Bacon Warrior said:
I thought the maximum age for changing teams was 10? I was six or seven when I changed to WC.
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I had a brief flirt with being a Port supporter when I was 11. Purely because my best mate switched from WC to Port, and I'd just gone on holiday to Adelaide.

It lasted the last two months of the 07 season. WC bundling out of the finals hurt, Ports GF loss didn't. Realized then that I was bluffing it.

Never again.
 

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Dad forced Hawthorn onto me. Me/my Sister didn't have a choice.

No one, not even Dipper is more diehard about Hawthorn than my old man. He was going to Glenferrie at the age of 5, has been to 31 Grand Finals (10 of them which Hawthorn were playing in), was a rowdy voice at the 1996 Merger meeting in Camberwell, has '48 years' stitched on his Members scarf, and was adamant that I'd be disinherited if I followed anyone else. Hell, he still is.

Soccer has always been my favourite sport by far, but my love for Hawthorn exceeds that of Arsenal. It's essentially a part of my DNA. I've never known anything else.
 
I've never switched teams ( UNLESS you count liking Subiaco as a 5 year old because they had the colours of Harry Potter's house Gryffindoor. Yuck!). My Dad brainwashed me well and good at a young age. Been a diehard Eagles and West Perth fan ever since.
 
Arm2Leg said:
Dad forced Hawthorn onto me. Me/my Sister didn't have a choice.

No one, not even Dipper is more diehard about Hawthorn than my old man. He was going to Glenferrie at the age of 5, has been to 31 Grand Finals (10 of them which Hawthorn were playing in), was a rowdy voice at the 1996 Merger meeting in Camberwell, has '48 years' stitched on his Members scarf, and was adamant that I'd be disinherited if I followed anyone else. Hell, he still is.

Soccer has always been my favourite sport by far, but my love for Hawthorn exceeds that of Arsenal. It's essentially a part of my DNA. I've never known anything else.
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This is pretty much me with Port. My Dad (the black sheep) was a North Adelaide supporter, but other than that it's 100% Port on both sides of my family for generations.

I was at Alberton singing Cheer cheer the black and the white before I could talk properly. I never stood a chance.
 

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Actually driving side they're in the majority.

Right hand drive in the red, left hand drive in the blue.

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The effort to flip the driving side would be prohibitive to the point of being impossible.

Imagine that every freeway on ramp, every turning lane, every piece of road furniture would have to be changed. Every car has the steering wheel on the wrong side.

It's impossible to change it now. It's ridiculous that it wasn't standardised across the globe when these decisions were being made.
 
Fizzler said:
I'll give them
1. I already followed Port magpies in the SANFL
2. Teal is unique and I like it
3. If my dad didn't make me go for Collingwood when I was younger I probably would have gone for Port or Freo
4. Solid history of past players (Tredrea, Pickett, Cassisi etc.)
5. Pretty good current list
6. Chad Wingard
Probably more but that's all for now.
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1. You already followed Collingwood in the AFL
2. Black and white are more synonymous with Collingwood than any other colour combination with any other team in Australia. You can't get more iconic or "unique" than that.
3. That's tradition. That's what footy clubs are made of. That's the culture of the game.
4. Buckley, Coventry, Daicos, Pendlebury. You're only naming players from the AFL, so I'm assuming you're only considering players from the VFL/AFL. In that case, Collingwood has an exponentially greater history.
5. I hate to say it, but Collingwood are building a damn good group of youngsters. De Goey, Scharenberg, Moore et al. are going to turn Collingwood around in the not too distant future.
6. Paul Seedsman
 
St Mark said:
1. You already followed Collingwood in the AFL
2. Black and white are more synonymous with Collingwood than any other colour combination with any other team in Australia. You can't get more iconic or "unique" than that.
3. That's tradition. That's what footy clubs are made of. That's the culture of the game.
4. Buckley, Coventry, Daicos, Pendlebury. You're only naming players from the AFL, so I'm assuming you're only considering players from the VFL/AFL. In that case, Collingwood has an exponentially greater history.
5. I hate to say it, but Collingwood are building a damn good group of youngsters. De Goey, Scharenberg, Moore et al. are going to turn Collingwood around in the not too distant future.
6. Paul Seedsman
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St Mark said:
1. You already followed Collingwood in the AFL
2. Black and white are more synonymous with Collingwood than any other colour combination with any other team in Australia. You can't get more iconic or "unique" than that.
3. That's tradition. That's what footy clubs are made of. That's the culture of the game.
4. Buckley, Coventry, Daicos, Pendlebury. You're only naming players from the AFL, so I'm assuming you're only considering players from the VFL/AFL. In that case, Collingwood has an exponentially greater history.
5. I hate to say it, but Collingwood are building a damn good group of youngsters. De Goey, Scharenberg, Moore et al. are going to turn Collingwood around in the not too distant future.
6. Paul Seedsman
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1. He's 11 and he's actually making this decision on his own for the first time instead of having it made for him
2. Totally irrelevant to his point
3. Plenty of people don't follow their families in terms of footy support.
4. Collingwood doesn't have a greater relevant AFL history. Fizzler is 11. He would just barely remember Buckley. The only history that really matters is the last decade or so. Before that nobody cares apart from the supporters of that particular team.
5. If this is a best youngsters race, Collingwood don't win it. It's not though.
6. Tom Jonas

People should follow the club they feel the belong to. That might not always be Port for Fizzler, but it's not Collingwood. He shouldn't be stuck with a team he doesn't care about because his dad supported them.

I'd be saying the same thing if he were a Port supporter defecting to Collingwood, by the way. I might also be calling him a treacherous campaigner, but you can change clubs as a kid. It's fine. As long as he isn't still deciding when he's 25, he can find his way.
 
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