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Well I've been reading this forum for weeks without joining. Your post Sums up my feelings to a tea barring the bit about the FFC being part of the problem and has forced my hand in signing up so I can contribute and share our feelings. This hurts so bad because of all you have outlined. We invest so much time, energy and emotion into following and supporting our team only for it to go unrewarded as a result of extremely poor umpiring and some bad skill errors. Channel 7 should be ashamed and of course hawthorn are just such a special team, great effort travelling twice in 3 weeks. Pretty sure we do it 11-12 times a year but no one wants to hear about that. it's hard to say we won't support the same way next year - we know when it comes around again it'll be no different to this year. It's drug. And it's not available for another 7 months.I've had my cry, but I don't feel better. In fact, I feel angry that I care so much about a fricking football team - or, as my hubby put it, a bunch of men kicking around a bag of wind over a patch of grass. I feel even angrier that the team I cried for is part of a corrupt league that I would like to spit upon and never give any more of my time and energy to ever again. How am I supposed to reconcile these two things?
I will go on to say that at this moment, while I know 14 other teams would have loved to be in our position, I have absolutely hated this year because we came so close only to fall short. I think I would've handled being out of the 8 better, knowing we were rebuilding for another tilt than being told all year we were just lucky to be where we were on the ladder. And what sort of league has media sycophants that does shit like that? Last week, Sydney should have won because they were gallant - this week, the Hawks eon because they were awesome and brave? **** that to hell and back, that makes me want to spit on AFL even more.
Yes, the Hawks were the better finishing team. Yes, my team shot itself in the foot. But **** it, despite the fact that the umps were giving my team NOTHING (after the AFL placed a known Hawk fanboy to adjudicate a prelim, talk about integrity) and paying Hawthorn everything (8 meter marks, for ****s sake, and so many gifted goals) and Fyfe playing on one ******* leg, we were still in it to win it. This tells me that if there was any semblance of fairness in the umpiring, we could've won that ******* game. More spitting. I spit on you, AFL.
As a supporter, as a minimum, I expect two things every time I watch a game:
1) that my team plays to the best of its ability.
2) that the ******* league that my team plays in gives both teams that take the field a ******* fair go.
First is my team's responsibility - and despite the appalling skill errors, I cannot fault the effort and the heart that went into that game. The second? ******* AFL screwed it up, as it always does. How am I supposed to reconcile wanting to support a team and therefore supporting a competition in a league that I have zero respect for and do not trust to give my team a ******* fair go? I spit on you some more, AFL. Spit until I'm out of spit, and then spit again once I've replenished it.
While I'm at it, I am infuriated by the fact that this screwing over from AFL house has been going on all ******* year, and our administration are toeing the party line and copping it as part of the game. If supporters can see it, they sure as hell can see it themselves. Why the **** are they just letting our players hang out to dry? Cop the ******* fine and ask the hard questions, protect your players, for ****s sake. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem - the FFC is part of the problem. Spit some more.
Okay, rant over. But I still don't feel better. And frankly I don't know if I can be as emotionally invested next year. I feel cheated. I wonder how the players feel. I don't know how they can get up for this shit each week knowing what they'll cop. So much heart... But unfortunately heart doesn't get it done versus the best teams who are also being dragged by the bootstraps by a corrupt league with an agenda.
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I whole heartedly agree about the terrible umpiring and the use of a known Hawks supporter to officiate the game. Would it be worth putting together a petition and sending it to both afl house and the media to highlight the disgust of our fans?I've had my cry, but I don't feel better. In fact, I feel angry that I care so much about a fricking football team - or, as my hubby put it, a bunch of men kicking around a bag of wind over a patch of grass. I feel even angrier that the team I cried for is part of a corrupt league that I would like to spit upon and never give any more of my time and energy to ever again. How am I supposed to reconcile these two things?
I will go on to say that at this moment, while I know 14 other teams would have loved to be in our position, I have absolutely hated this year because we came so close only to fall short. I think I would've handled being out of the 8 better, knowing we were rebuilding for another tilt than being told all year we were just lucky to be where we were on the ladder. And what sort of league has media sycophants that does shit like that? Last week, Sydney should have won because they were gallant - this week, the Hawks eon because they were awesome and brave? **** that to hell and back, that makes me want to spit on AFL even more.
Yes, the Hawks were the better finishing team. Yes, my team shot itself in the foot. But **** it, despite the fact that the umps were giving my team NOTHING (after the AFL placed a known Hawk fanboy to adjudicate a prelim, talk about integrity) and paying Hawthorn everything (8 meter marks, for ****s sake, and so many gifted goals) and Fyfe playing on one ******* leg, we were still in it to win it. This tells me that if there was any semblance of fairness in the umpiring, we could've won that ******* game. More spitting. I spit on you, AFL.
As a supporter, as a minimum, I expect two things every time I watch a game:
1) that my team plays to the best of its ability.
2) that the ******* league that my team plays in gives both teams that take the field a ******* fair go.
First is my team's responsibility - and despite the appalling skill errors, I cannot fault the effort and the heart that went into that game. The second? ******* AFL screwed it up, as it always does. How am I supposed to reconcile wanting to support a team and therefore supporting a competition in a league that I have zero respect for and do not trust to give my team a ******* fair go? I spit on you some more, AFL. Spit until I'm out of spit, and then spit again once I've replenished it.
While I'm at it, I am infuriated by the fact that this screwing over from AFL house has been going on all ******* year, and our administration are toeing the party line and copping it as part of the game. If supporters can see it, they sure as hell can see it themselves. Why the **** are they just letting our players hang out to dry? Cop the ******* fine and ask the hard questions, protect your players, for ****s sake. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem - the FFC is part of the problem. Spit some more.
Okay, rant over. But I still don't feel better. And frankly I don't know if I can be as emotionally invested next year. I feel cheated. I wonder how the players feel. I don't know how they can get up for this shit each week knowing what they'll cop. So much heart... But unfortunately heart doesn't get it done versus the best teams who are also being dragged by the bootstraps by a corrupt league with an agenda.
I think you need to take into account that it was a prelim and tempers were white hot after the terrible umpiring and they were also in the MINORITY of the crowd.
The fans next to those jerks jumped in to stop the incidents!!!!
What are you talking about?
I completely agree with all this
I've had my cry, but I don't feel better. In fact, I feel angry that I care so much about a fricking football team - or, as my hubby put it, a bunch of men kicking around a bag of wind over a patch of grass. I feel even angrier that the team I cried for is part of a corrupt league that I would like to spit upon and never give any more of my time and energy to ever again. How am I supposed to reconcile these two things?
I will go on to say that at this moment, while I know 14 other teams would have loved to be in our position, I have absolutely hated this year because we came so close only to fall short. I think I would've handled being out of the 8 better, knowing we were rebuilding for another tilt than being told all year we were just lucky to be where we were on the ladder. And what sort of league has media sycophants that does shit like that? Last week, Sydney should have won because they were gallant - this week, the Hawks eon because they were awesome and brave? **** that to hell and back, that makes me want to spit on AFL even more.
Yes, the Hawks were the better finishing team. Yes, my team shot itself in the foot. But **** it, despite the fact that the umps were giving my team NOTHING (after the AFL placed a known Hawk fanboy to adjudicate a prelim, talk about integrity) and paying Hawthorn everything (8 meter marks, for ****s sake, and so many gifted goals) and Fyfe playing on one ******* leg, we were still in it to win it. This tells me that if there was any semblance of fairness in the umpiring, we could've won that ******* game. More spitting. I spit on you, AFL.
As a supporter, as a minimum, I expect two things every time I watch a game:
1) that my team plays to the best of its ability.
2) that the ******* league that my team plays in gives both teams that take the field a ******* fair go.
First is my team's responsibility - and despite the appalling skill errors, I cannot fault the effort and the heart that went into that game. The second? ******* AFL screwed it up, as it always does. How am I supposed to reconcile wanting to support a team and therefore supporting a competition in a league that I have zero respect for and do not trust to give my team a ******* fair go? I spit on you some more, AFL. Spit until I'm out of spit, and then spit again once I've replenished it.
While I'm at it, I am infuriated by the fact that this screwing over from AFL house has been going on all ******* year, and our administration are toeing the party line and copping it as part of the game. If supporters can see it, they sure as hell can see it themselves. Why the **** are they just letting our players hang out to dry? Cop the ******* fine and ask the hard questions, protect your players, for ****s sake. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem - the FFC is part of the problem. Spit some more.
Okay, rant over. But I still don't feel better. And frankly I don't know if I can be as emotionally invested next year. I feel cheated. I wonder how the players feel. I don't know how they can get up for this shit each week knowing what they'll cop. So much heart... But unfortunately heart doesn't get it done versus the best teams who are also being dragged by the bootstraps by a corrupt league with an agenda.
Not as bad as when the Richmond supporter spat on Frawley when he was your coach. Crowd around him did nothing either. All these incidents are bad but why turn it into a WA witch hunt. I hope they are pubically named and shamed as well.
