Question, If Queenie Carks it before next year is the day still valid??

I mean you wouldn't really continue it as a public holiday if she wasn't around would you?

Which means King Charlie takes over. When's his Birthday??

The royalists, historians and constitutional "Guru's" of Demonland might like to shed some light on this question.?

It is not her birthday anyway (which is in April). I think it is when it is as an Antipodean nod to the annual Trooping of the Colour, which takes places near Liz's house in London around . Hence, apart from making it the King's Birthday, not much would necessarily change. If you want a descriptive name, try "Bizarre Australian Holiday #4"

If they did take it off us we cant really complain

We have disgraced the fixture for the years

If they did take it off us we cant really complain

We have disgraced the fixture for the years

I can see your point, but it's our only big game for the year. I can't remember the last time we played a Friday night game and we seem to get all the terrible Sunday twilight games.

Being a republican, I'd much prefer it become the President's Birthday match.

Who takes any notice of Slammin' Sam.

5th largest H&A Attendance this year. We are represented twice in top 11 this year. None in top 20 last year.

Last year our average H&A attendance was 24929. After 11 games this year its 31964.

its a positive sign.

60k against the Tigers, 37k against Carlton, 36k against the Bullies, 68k against the Pies, 45k against the Crows, not too shabby 31k against the Saints and even 22k against the Weagles. Poor attendance in Alice but we didn't expect much there anyway and the same against GWS, no one goes there.

Edited June 11, 201411 yr by RobbieF

Sam is more of a joke than a football personality these days. Those lamb ads are awful.

The AFL has invested time building the qb rivalry, seems silly to pull the pin as the dees start to heat up. When the dees and pies are both looking like finals contenders it won't matter how many goals are scored because the match will draw 85k patrons.

If they did take it off us we cant really complain

We have disgraced the fixture for the years

We've played Collingwood on the QB for many years, longer than you've been alive.

It's probably the longest standing annual match of any in the competition, there are still plenty of Collingwood supporters that hate Melbourne and vice versa.

Sam is more of a joke than a football personality these days. Those lamb ads are awful.

The AFL has invested time building the qb rivalry, seems silly to pull the pin as the dees start to heat up. When the dees and pies are both looking like finals contenders it won't matter how many goals are scored because the match will draw 85k patrons.

Sam probably dreams of the days when a player takes a mark bows to the crowd then walks back to take his kick, then that's repeated all over the ground.

I've seen plenty of football over the years and someone like Sam would struggle these days, he wasn't the greatest trainer and was a tad overweight, I doubt he'd have the fitness to play a game out.

I saw him almost kill about 6 Dandenong players when he was playing for Prahran at Prahran once. He looked like he was having fun.

I was scared and I was 30 metres away

are you reading the same article DL?

Now are you sure...

I didn't read it WYL.

I don't have to. you can only wrap fish so many ways; & these issues have been well trodden. I know what Sammy, he's a media Junky, & he's got a heart of gold. There is no way he would wish harm on us.

He's running a different agenda for sure.