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Carlton and Essendon aside (and since they're in the dumps, the games are losing their traditional spice), who are our key rivals for 2016/the teams you absolutely want to beat?

1. Richmond (these guys are the number 1 rival for me next year - hatred for them fully restored)
2. Brisbane (STFU Leigh Matthews)
3. Hawthorn (FFS, break the drought!)
 
If Richmond assemble a gun team and start winning stuff, I have no doubt I'll hate their guts. But that hasn't happened in my time following footy, so I kinda like 'em. (I reckon they're the club most like Collingwood. Sorta like our meth-addled, banjo-playing, Current Affair-watching cousins.)

Don't care about Brisbane.

Hawthorn - Absolutely. Dunno what the stats are, but in my time following footy we seldom seem to have the upper hand against them, and when we do, it doesn't seem to last very long. Would get great satisfaction from repeatedly smashing them.

Carlton still the one for me. Even though they've been Comedy Central for most of the last 15 years, I still watch them stinking it up with glee. Don't think that'll ever get old.

Essendon - Meh. Ever since Sheedy left I haven't really felt strongly about them one way or the other.

Don't like Sydney much.
 
Richmond are only a flag away from being up there with us as the most hated club in the land IMO. They resemble us in so many ways and if their huge mass of feral supporters gets fully up and running it will be painful to witness.
 

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Carlton and Brisbane Lions are the only two teams with a positive win ration against us, so they need to be crushed until that is rectified.

Outside of that, yeah, Richmond will have some extra spice.
 
Dependlebury said:
Richmond are only a flag away from being up there with us as the most hated club in the land IMO. They resemble us in so many ways and if their huge mass of feral supporters gets fully up and running it will be painful to witness.
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Yep, they'd be absolutely ****ing unbearable. Emigration probably the only sensible response.
 
Jelly Bean said:
Carlton and Brisbane Lions are the only two teams with a positive win ration against us, so they need to be crushed until that is rectified.

Outside of that, yeah, Richmond will have some extra spice.
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Against Brisbane teams, ie Bears & Lions together, we'd still be in the positive.

We're -1 against West Coast too.
 
Jelly Bean said:
Carlton and Brisbane Lions are the only two teams with a positive win ration against us, so they need to be crushed until that is rectified.

Outside of that, yeah, Richmond will have some extra spice.
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We've been getting closer to Carlton over the last ten years or so. Only -3 now. Should finally overtake them in W/L by 2017.

Edit: Am counting down the days already ;)
 
Only ever thought if Coll only won 2 games a year it had to be against Carl now its 8
2 against Carl
2 against Rich
2 against Bris
2 against Haw

edit ** I'm from the old school when you used to play teams twice a year :D **
 

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1. Hawthorn
2. Geelong

All the other Vic teams have been so shit for so long they can't be considered rivals anymore.

As for people saying Brisbane, I reckon on My ranking they're 20th. Right below university and south Melbourne
 
Ant85 said:
Carlton and Essendon aside (and since they're in the dumps, the games are losing their traditional spice), who are our key rivals for 2016/the teams you absolutely want to beat?

1. Richmond (these guys are the number 1 rival for me next year - hatred for them fully restored)
2. Brisbane (STFU Leigh Matthews)
3. Hawthorn (FFS, break the drought!)
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Only hawthorn!
 
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Dependlebury said:
Richmond are only a flag away from being up there with us as the most hated club in the land IMO. They resemble us in so many ways and if their huge mass of feral supporters gets fully up and running it will be painful to witness.
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Ya kidding. It'd be great to witness. Then we can both return to most hated status and everything is right with the world.

The game needs Collingwood AND richmond
 
Palmer Stoat said:
Yep, they'd be absolutely ******* unbearable. Emigration probably the only sensible response.
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They're unbearable already and they can't even win a final. Never seen a supporter base so mouthy after 3 successive years of failure in elimination finals.
 
Dependlebury said:
You've seen this hysteria generated by elimination final status, imagine a flag...
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And they getting treloar arent they?
KB told me they are
 
Apex36 said:
They're unbearable already and they can't even win a final. Never seen a supporter base so mouthy after 3 successive years of failure in elimination finals.
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Its great isnt it
 

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lyfsux said:
Only ever thought if Coll only won 2 games a year it had to be against Carl now its 8
2 against Carl
2 against Rich
2 against Bris
2 against Haw

edit ** I'm from the old school when you used to play teams twice a year :D **
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This list is exact! Carlton because they're carlton and don't want to give them anything to hang their hat on next season. Richmond so the tigger deluded can't shower us with their collective tears from the Treloar recruitment. Brisbane for the same reason re Aish, Crisp, Beams and because they're insignificantly brisbane. Hawthorn because it will show that we're getting somewhere and I have a few hawthorn mates whose arrogance is unbearable.
 
I don't think I'll ever hate or despise another team the way I do Carlton. Even when they're no competition I love seeing us grind them.
Brisbane are next on the list. The way their supporters bagged out Buckley after his Norm Smith still sh#ts me. He obviously didn't care for it so why go and act like he didn't earn it. F#ckers.
Then for some reason I hate the way Geelong carry themselves. It's like they think their sh#t doesn't stink when theyve got some really dirty players or have had recently.
They can all ggf.
The only other team I have never hated or despised are the dogs. Even in 08/09 when they were keeping us out of the game I had a grudging respect for them.
As for Richmond, its worth putting up with their supporters getting outta hand simply for joy I get when they're eventually victims hubris.
 
I don't mind Essendon so much these days ...

... my feelings towards Essendon are kinda like my feelings towards Guanzhou Evergrande or Dynamo Kyiv ...

... Essendon is a team that's on the periphery of consciousness, but otherwise irrelevant.
 
North Melbourne is a weird one - always really hate them when we're playing them, then completely forget about them for the rest of the year. Still, it's always worth beating them for the bottom-lip-fuelled Brad Scott pout-a-thon tantrum which invariably follows a Kangaroos loss. I'm gonna miss him when he gets the boot next year.
 

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