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What They Are Saying at Arden Street

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13 hours ago, rpfc said:

I agree with the psychopath. We need to crush them, bury them, salt the earth, plant a tree where they lie, let it grow and then cut it down in its prime.

Rinse and repeat.

What? It’s perfectly healthy.

Some classic comments in this thread  😂

i wonder if the north forum has a ‘What they’re saying at Casey’ thread?!

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    18 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

    Some rather ghoulish antipathy on this thread.  Its a far cry from their tone on bf re the game, excluding a few BB haters.

    I'm happy to play nice with North fans; definitely not the worst, as long as we win by a big margin.  Dees by 8-10 goals.

    I don't have an issue with their fans, I just don't feel the need to protect them by going easy and not smashing them by 12 goals.

    This competition will chew you up and spit you out. It is every club for themselves. Now is our time and [censored] the rest. 

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    13 hours ago, Mazer Rackham said:

     

     

    I don't recall any sympathy when we were at our lowest. Only scorn, contempt, slight regard, a desire for us to fold & go away, and anticipation of a percentage builder.

    It's our time at the top and we should exploit it to the fullest. If North are in the road, they get flattened.

    The two feelings don't have to be mutually exclusive. We can smash the team while at the same time sympathising with their supporters. Or not.

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    I have longed for the days where we don't have to be the laughing stock of the footy world.  I have suffered the insufferable - particularly Hawthorn and Essendon supporters.  I hope that I have learned my lessons.

    Always support they boys and hope they smash opposition.  Don’t be a smarty pants or goad opposition supporters.  Commiserate and have some empathy.  

    I hope we play really strongly and smash them, but my focus will be on what we do, rather than ‘how bad’ the other mob are.

    At the hawks game, one of their numpties was carrying on like a peanut, goading the dees supporters around him, being derogatory towards our players.  He soon shut up, but lord please never let me be that [censored] ever.

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    We the MFC represent Melbourne 

    North can take their name somewhere else. 
    Have always hated these imposters

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    14 hours ago, deegirl said:

    I get what you’re saying, I’ve got no sympathy for Essendon or WCE, and enjoyed Carlton being trash but for North, who are a small club with a small supporter base, I’ve got more empathy. 

    I know it is wrong but I can't find any empathy in me for North. It is completely irrational but I worked with a North supporter who used to grind on me every chance he got. His main point was that the Dees were completely irrelevant and even playing them was a forgone conclusion and a waste of his team's time. It used to drive me crazy and he'd dish it out twice over after they smashed us.

    Unfortunately I no longer work with him. I'd love to rub his face in the current, disastrous state of his club and suggest to him that they be disbanded so as to stop wasting my premiership team's valuable time. I promise I am not normally a vindictive b@st@rd, but I am struggling to let this one go.

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    2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    The two feelings don't have to be mutually exclusive. We can smash the team while at the same time sympathising with their supporters. Or not.

    I remember in the final against Adelaide in '02 we came storming back and took the lead, I felt really sorry for some Adelaide supporters sitting in front of me... then the Crows came storming back to win it.


    I vowed that dark night to never feel any sympathy or pity for anyone until the siren had sounded!

     

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    The frustrating thing when we lost to them 17 times in a row was that the teams that beat us weren't even their premiership teams from the 90's. That I could begrudgingly accept. The ones that beat us were mostly mid table sides that occasionally lucked their way in to preliminary finals. 😠

    As a result, we are only 4 wins ahead of them in all time head to head match ups.

    That said, I have been through what the Kangas fan are experiencing now and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. That feeling of going to the footy on the off chance you might witness a miracle is a shocking state of mind to be in as a supporter.

     

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    1 hour ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

    That said, I have been through what the Kangas fan are experiencing now and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. That feeling of going to the footy on the off chance you might witness a miracle is a shocking state of mind to be in as a supporter.

     

    I'm wondering whether I actually had greater feelings of joy when those miracles occurred than I'm getting right now when we win week after week. Does anyone else have a similar emotional response? It's quite disconcerting.

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    2 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    I'm wondering whether I actually had greater feelings of joy when those miracles occurred than I'm getting right now when we win week after week. Does anyone else have a similar emotional response? It's quite disconcerting.

    Some of the wins these days tend to merge into each other, don't they? I'll always remember the excitement and elation of those wins back in 2014 (Crows at Adelaide Oval, Carlton in Rd 4, Essendon midseason and Richmond on Tommy Hafey day). I watched the match highlights multiple times as I was so starved of success. 

    These days, I'll watch the highlights once. Not that I'm complaining about this situation though!

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    21 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    I'm wondering whether I actually had greater feelings of joy when those miracles occurred than I'm getting right now when we win week after week. Does anyone else have a similar emotional response? It's quite disconcerting.

    If you only win 3-4 for the season then you'll clearly have a bigger emotional high when that happens. But the biggest emotional high of all is winning a flag!

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    11 minutes ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

    Some of the wins these days tend to merge into each other, don't they? I'll always remember the excitement and elation of those wins back in 2014 (Crows at Adelaide Oval, Carlton in Rd 4, Essendon midseason and Richmond on Tommy Hafey day). I watched the match highlights multiple times as I was so starved of success. 

    These days, I'll watch the highlights once. Not that I'm complaining about this situation though!

    September is what gets remembered 

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    A lot of this thread is grappling with the question of what the appropriate level of flogginess for us to adopt is now that we're good. My approach is to pick certain teams and mates who were pr!cks when we were no good to really go after and act magnanimously with the rest. So that means I really carried on at the Essendon game, and really nail a few select mates 🤣

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    I am only thinking of specific animosity in regard to two clubs Brisbane and Carlton and as such I reckon that % and wins are how we drive them into exhaustion for the rest of the season.Build up our % to such an extent that for them to make up the ladder position further they have to win by more at the business end and they will be stuffed.Right where we want them.

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    2 hours ago, Kozzie4PM said:

    A lot of this thread is grappling with the question of what the appropriate level of flogginess for us to adopt is now that we're good. My approach is to pick certain teams and mates who were pr!cks when we were no good to really go after and act magnanimously with the rest. So that means I really carried on at the Essendon game, and really nail a few select mates 🤣

    I carried on at the Essendon game too... waved and yelled goodbye, see ya laaaaater to their supporters leaving during the last quarter from level 2 😂
     

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    9 hours ago, Fat Tony said:

    Apparently we are 0-8 against North at Docklands. We really need to give them a good hiding. 

    Are you serious ?

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    Considering North have approx 7 fans total, i doubt they're saying much. seriously why they don't pack up and move to Tassie is beyond me

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    v Hawthorn at the MCG 2016. Mate wants to go to see what Aussie Rules footy is about. V Hawthorn??? Gulp. Well, what the hell. Maybe we'll knock them off????

    AND WE DID

    v Collingwood QB 2017. Well who knows? It would be good to steal a win.Just maybe ...... ?

    AND WATTS KICKS THE SEALER

     

     

     

    That's what we lived for. The occasional bone tossed our way glorious victory to make life worth living.

     

     

     

    But we're in a different era now, and a different phase of our support.

    This is what we have been waiting for for decades. Not the hope of the occasional good season where we "might" challenge for the flag. Or even the occasional upset of one of the "good" sides (of which we had pretensions of being).

    No, we're now in an era were we have a stable club, an excellent list, very good coaching lineup, and the expectation of victory.

    This era of strength feels like it is payback for all the years of demoralisation and failure.

    It's not the shooting star of individual wins that gets us hopping now. It's the slow burning wick of success, the continuous gratification of win after win.

    This is what we have been waiting for, and even though it may feel unusual or even out of character, get used to it. Settle in and bask in the warmth.

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    4 minutes ago, Dwight Schrute said:

    Considering North have approx 7 fans total, i doubt they're saying much. seriously why they don't pack up and move to Tassie is beyond me

    The wallabies down there are pretty hardarse. These soft city kangas will go extinct trying to compete.

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    12 minutes ago, Dwight Schrute said:

    Considering North have approx 7 fans total, i doubt they're saying much. seriously why they don't pack up and move to Tassie is beyond me

    Tassie don't want them.

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    3 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    September is what gets remembered 

    Definitely.

    I've watched the full replay of the 2021 GF about 6 times. It easily outstrips any of the games I mentioned before as a memory.

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    4 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    I'm wondering whether I actually had greater feelings of joy when those miracles occurred than I'm getting right now when we win week after week. Does anyone else have a similar emotional response? It's quite disconcerting.

    The 50 odd point comeback against Freo at the G was one of my all time greatest days at the footy. 13,000 diehards sounded like 60,000. The game when Wonnawerri went nuts in the last quarter. 

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    26 minutes ago, dl4e said:

    Are you serious ?

    Yup, he is.

    That said, we had never beaten them in Tassie till last year either. These embarassing records are made to be broken.

    If only someone would start a thread about them! 😄😉

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    16 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

    It's not the shooting star of individual wins that gets us hopping now. It's the slow burning wick of success, the continuous gratification of win after win.

    This is what we have been waiting for, and even though it may feel unusual or even out of character, get used to it. Settle in and bask in the warmth.

    I detect a fair amount of nonchalance among dee fans. Not hubris and not taking this era for granted. 

    Well, maybe not even nonchalance; may impatience. LIke: can we hurry up and get to September!  🙄

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