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who is our biggest rival? do we even have one? I know Collingwood is an old arch rival but to them (today's pie fans) they don't give a toss about us nor think we have a rivalry.. 

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32 minutes ago, Bobby Clark said:

who is our biggest rival? do we even have one? I know Collingwood is an old arch rival but to them (today's pie fans) they don't give a toss about us nor think we have a rivalry.. 

The few Collingwood supporters who still think we are rivals all live in nursing homes with advanced dementia and colostomy bags.

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24 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I'm sure they'll give a toss when they manage to beat us. Unfortunately I don't think we have a big rival. 

Hopefully we can build a great rivalry with the saints!

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1 minute ago, america de cali said:

The few Collingwood supporters who still think we are rivals all live in nursing homes with advanced dementia and colostomy bags.

Ahaha gold mate. One day the rivalry might come alive again.

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17 minutes ago, Bobby Clark said:

Hopefully we can build a great rivalry with the saints!

I think this is the most likely one we will have. Especially if both teams reach/surpass expectations this season and both put on a good display this weekend. We just have to beat them a few times first.

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I still have my eyes on the Giants, even if they are a few steps ahead of us. They took all the best young players when we needed them most. I'd love to reach our peak and start to push their AFL gifted talent vs our hard earned talent.
But right now it will have to be the saints, they are the comparison so the rivalry is kinda being forced upon us.

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5 minutes ago, ArtificialWisdom said:

I still have my eyes on the Giants, even if they are a few steps ahead of us. They took all the best young players when we needed them most. I'd love to reach our peak and start to push their AFL gifted talent vs our hard earned talent.
But right now it will have to be the saints, they are the comparison so the rivalry is kinda being forced upon us.

Oldest team v newest team. Has a kind of symmetry to it.

I like it.

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I have a couple of Collingwood supporting mates (yeah, I know... shoot me now) and for the last decade they'd rag me about living in the past, QB is your GF... blah blah blah... but when we started beating them... well, the tone has changed. Now they are talking up the importance of QB, and how they will get revenge this year. It's their GF at the moment. Or at least SF with Anzac as the GF.

As an aside I'd always love when they say it's our GF. I reply that our GF's against them brought us six flags and them one. Real GF's. They go quiet at that point.

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1 hour ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I'm sure they'll give a toss when they manage to beat us. Unfortunately I don't think we have a big rival. 

Which hasn't happened in the last three games !!!  After the latest of those three, I said to my Collingwood supporting students " Welcome to the era of Collingwood never beating Melbourne ever again. "  Have I gone too early on that prediction ??   Hope not !

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hard to think of a modern day rival but for the past 20 years Id go with the Bombers.  Maybe its just coz I hate them so much but I find there is a bit extra bite to the clashes usually.

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As a kid of the 80's I hate Hawthorn, always have and always will. They are my main rival, with the drug cheats not far behind. I am just hoping they drop off the face of the planet and we smash them for the next decade. 

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A moot point.

Given Melbourne's record over a 50 year period, I don't think there is a "biggest rivalry."  

At least from the other side, as our club has such low credibility with opposition supporters.

Over the past 10 years, I reckon the Tigers go close. There are good crowds, the result is always uncertain and the Tigers also have a record of failure over many years. Supporters of both sides are always desperate to win this one and there have been some close games. 

For older supporters, I suspect the Collingwood rivalry is probably still the big one, however, I don't think this is shared on the Collingwood side with Carlton and Essendon seen as the big games. 

Strong rivalries can only develop over time if both sides have a sustained record of success. 

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I agree with those saying there is no real traditional rivalry existing any more... with the possible exception of the one game each year against the Pies on Queen's Birthday.  I can however see a three way rivalry building between us, the 'Aints and the Bulldogs to be the dominant Victorian based team.  All three have strong young lists now that are likely to be competing against each other for the next decade.

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The way media commentators talk it up nowadays it that almost every team is one-another's biggest rival.

There's 18 teams in the competition and the whole concept is diluted for me because of that and until we get to the pointy end of the competition and have a rivalry with another club, similar to the Hawks/Cats/Swans level, I just can't see anything of note.

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3 hours ago, ArtificialWisdom said:

I still have my eyes on the Giants, even if they are a few steps ahead of us. They took all the best young players when we needed them most. I'd love to reach our peak and start to push their AFL gifted talent vs our hard earned talent.
But right now it will have to be the saints, they are the comparison so the rivalry is kinda being forced upon us.

Personally, I despise the Giants over all others.

We will build rivalries when we are once again seen as a threat... hopefully soon.

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They are all rivals.

I once had pity for The Bulldogs but that's done.

Personally I hate Hawthorn so I'd like us to demolish them regularly.

We owe everyone payback for our long period in the wilderness.

Would be nice to beat Saints,Norf and the Eagles just for something different.

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1 hour ago, Biffen said:

They are all rivals.

I once had pity for The Bulldogs but that's done.

Personally I hate Hawthorn so I'd like us to demolish them regularly.

We owe everyone payback for our long period in the wilderness.

Would be nice to beat Saints,Norf and the Eagles just for something different.

This.. :rolleyes: I hate them all.

Want them to suffer and be afraid of playing us.

And for us to humiliate them repeatedly.

If I had to narrow it down equal first would be Dons - GWS - Hawks - Cats this year.

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