Singin' the song of sorrow.

[Fork 'em 6,983]

A rugby supporters perspective.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/they-suck-a-fan-vents-his-fury-on-a-pathetic-band-of-no-hopers-otherwise-known-as-a-football-team/story-fndv39ms-1227455137547

Edited July 24, 2015 by Fork 'em

[daisycutter 29,600]

A rugby supporters perspective.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/they-suck-a-fan-vents-his-fury-on-a-pathetic-band-of-no-hopers-otherwise-known-as-a-football-team/story-fndv39ms-1227455137547

think you mean league, f'em

[Fork 'em 6,983]

Meh, whatever.
Still a [censored] game

Edited July 24, 2015 by Fork 'em

[old dee 23,704]

Meh, whatever.

Still a [censored] game

I actually think it is better to watch than 90% of AFL games these days.

I almost never watch a game that does not include the dees.

I watch because I am hopelessly addicted to the MFC not because I enjoy the spectacle.

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,675]

Pretend its 24 July 2012 and read it as if it's written about the MFC. Eerily similar.

[old dee 23,704]

Pretend its 24 July 2012 and read it as if it's written about the MFC. Eerily similar.

Thanks for that LDC I have been trying valiantly to forget.

Edited July 24, 2015 by old dee

[Adam The God 30,089]

I could relate to a lot of that. Certainly sounded like us between 2007 and 2013. In board fighting, administrative instability, a crap first and second team. It becomes all encompassing. Success really does trickle down from a well run administration and make its way through the entire club.

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,675]

Thanks for that LDc I have been trying valiantly to forget.

I'm pretty sure Sigmund Freud claimed that people remember the good times but forget the bad. In a cliche, that would be "time heals all wounds". The question is, though, how much time do we have to wait before we can forget 50 accumulated years of disappointment?

[old dee 23,704]

I'm pretty sure Sigmund Freud claimed that people remember the good times but forget the bad. In a cliche, that would be "time heals all wounds". The question is, though, how much time do we have to wait before we can forget 50 accumulated years of disappointment?

Probably longer than the years I have left I have every confidence that it will not happen to me.

However I have hope for the younger MFC supporters without them we might as well quit now.

[Little Goffy 14,413]

Ugh. Can you imagine being consistently bad at league?

'Equalisation' should be easy in that game.

Limited skills, limited fitness or athleticism, limited tactics or teamwork.

The idea that a team cold be 'non-competitive' is just weird - the margin between best and worst should not be so great.

[old dee 23,704]

Ugh. Can you imagine being consistently bad at league?

'Equalisation' should be easy in that game.

Limited skills, limited fitness or athleticism, limited tactics or teamwork.

The idea that a team cold be 'non-competitive' is just weird - the margin between best and worst should not be so great.

You comment proves there are skills involved.

Obviously some teams are more skilled than others hence the difference in results.

Just because you can see the skills does not mean they don't exist it means you have spent enough time on the game.

[Dinosaur Rover 197]

Nice vent!

[poita 3,889]

Wests Tigers have won a premiership in the past ten years, so it is hard to feel too sorry for them. I've said it before - the NRL do equalisation far better than the AFL, even without a draft.

[Ethan Tremblay 30,812]

Don't you just get a ball and run into someone who's standing in front of you?

And occasionally stick a finger in someone's bottom?

[Bitter but optimistic 22,218]

Don't you just get a ball and run into someone who's standing in front of you?

And occasionally stick a finger in someone's bottom?

Is that what they mean by a "try" do you think?

[Ethan Tremblay 30,812]

Is that what they mean by a "try" do you think?

I think so. And when it makes it all the way in it's called a "touch down" I believe.

Edited July 24, 2015 by Ethan Tremblay

[Devil is in the Detail 883]

I think so. And when it makes it all the way in it's called a "touch down" I believe.

Or a conversion

[Ethan Tremblay 30,812]

Or a conversion

Still laughing.

[Bitter but optimistic 22,218]

Or a conversion

That was the Christian Brothers method.

[Devil is in the Detail 883]

That was the Christian Brothers method.

Was 'Two fingers or three fingers?' a common question BBO

[daisycutter 29,600]

Don't you just get a ball and run into someone who's standing in front of you?

And occasionally stick a finger in someone's bottom?

rugby is better. they just dive head first at the opposition's ankles then play doggo.

then if they are lucky they all get to throw their arms around each other in a circle for a big group hug while someone chucks the ball into the middle

they score by tripping over the boundary line at either end monty python style and losing the ball

[Bitter but optimistic 22,218]

Was 'Two fingers or three fingers?' a common question BBO

More statements than questions.

"Stop ya squeelin, I'm tryin to make a man of ya"!

[Little Goffy 14,413]

You comment proves there are skills involved.

Obviously some teams are more skilled than others hence the difference in results.

Just because you can see the skills does not mean they don't exist it means you have spent enough time on the game.

Bertrand Russel's Teapot comes to sports analysis! "If you can't see it, that's because you haven't looked hard enough."

For what its worth, I grew up in league-land and never saw AFL goalposts until my late teens.

The most basic problem with League is that it has the entry prerequisite of having a stocky, fat-necked enough body shape to cope with the repetitive frontal collisions. That excludes a large proportion of potential players.

It would be like having an AFL league with only people over 195cm able to compete. Suddenly Jake Spencer is one of your most skilful players.

Also, the nauseating macho posturing culture on and off the field does a fair job of cutting the potential talent pool.

[Moonshadow 17,673]

More statements than questions.

"Stop ya squeelin, I'm tryin to make a man of ya"!

Bring back memories of your youth Uncle Bitter?

[Clintosaurus 7,822]

Wests Tigers have won a premiership in the past ten years, so it is hard to feel too sorry for them. I've said it before - the NRL do equalisation far better than the AFL, even without a draft.

Exactly. Try being a Parramatta supporter.