4 hours ago, mauriesy said:

I think in the article he did. But an 8-year-old doesn't have a concept or a time frame from before he was born. He just sees the present day as the only reality.

I saw 6 Melbourne premierships up to the time I was 13. Do you think my kids gave a toss about that when they just saw us down the bottom of the ladder every week?

Dad then needs to resort to the old chestnut… “it builds character.”

Seriously though, my kids aren’t into footy, never were. But I liken this to when your kid breaks up with someone. It’s so tough to see them heartbroken but when they eventually meet “the one” -  like you’ve told them they eventually would - their happiness is worth the angst they’ve endured, again, like you told them it would.

Dad needs to change his whinge energy into cushioning the blows energy.

 

Edited March 22, 20232 yr by WalkingCivilWar

The Dad has no idea what to tell his son because he’s never had to deal with much suffering himself.

Hawks are going the full re-build (tank) because it worked so well for them in the mid 2000’s. I doubt they’ll draft as well as they did back then, as just about everything turned to gold for them. They need a few realistic extra years of draft misery like us, the Blues, GC, etc. before I’ll be happy.

The sense of entitlement that club has 🤬

Edited March 22, 20232 yr by Demon Disciple

17 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

The Dad has no idea what to tell his son because he’s never had to deal with much suffering himself.

Hawks are going the full re-build (tank) because it worked so well for them in the mid 2000’s. I doubt they’ll draft as well as they did back then, as just about everything turned to gold for them. They need a few realistic extra years of draft misery like us, the Blues, GC, etc. before I’ll be happy.

The sense of entitlement that club has 🤬

They need at least 30 years of abject Misery 

1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

lol, ernest, you must have turned over a new leaf! well done 👍

 

It’s the medication. 

5 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

They need at least 30 years of abject Misery 

SWYL , I can't figure it out whom you hate the most... Hawthorn or Collingwood 🤔

1 hour ago, TRIGON said:

@hemingway, that's very sexist.

That’s me. 

Would love to see their membership numbers fall dramatically.

2 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

SWYL , I can't figure it out whom you hate the most... Hawthorn or Collingwood 🤔

There are 17 Clubs i HATE Diablo

Some a little more than others. 
But i have NO 2nd Team

Put up with too much over the years from all other Clubs!

10 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

There are 17 Clubs i HATE Diablo

Some a little more than others. 
But i have NO 2nd Team

Put up with too much over the years from all other Clubs!

😆 Fair enough.

I am a new supporter but I am starting to dislike a lot of teams too.

Go Dees !

1 minute ago, ElDiablo14 said:

😆 Fair enough.

I am a new supporter but I am starting to dislike a lot of teams too.

Go Dees !

You will get there with time!! :)

14 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

😆 Fair enough.

I am a new supporter but I am starting to dislike a lot of teams too.

Go Dees !

That’s encouraging ElDiablo. 

Maybe we can pinch back all the bandwagon jumpers from the 80s that were Melbourne supporters?

1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

There are 17 Clubs i HATE Diablo

Some a little more than others. 
But i have NO 2nd Team

Put up with too much over the years from all other Clubs!

Thank you. 

Every year I want Melbourne to win the flag and everyone else to lose. There is varying degree of dislike eg I would barrack for Sydney against Collingwood in a Grand Final but no-one else has my heart or interest. 

24 minutes ago, layzie said:

Thank you. 

Every year I want Melbourne to win the flag and everyone else to lose. There is varying degree of dislike eg I would barrack for Sydney against Collingwood in a Grand Final but no-one else has my heart or interest. 

Sydney’s effort in last year’s GF was deplorable. I was so disappointed that Jeeelong got a free Flag

Edited March 22, 20232 yr by Sir Why You Little

24 minutes ago, A F said:

Maybe we can pinch back all the bandwagon jumpers from the 80s that were Melbourne supporters?

No Adam, no bandwagon jumpers. Let them suffer.  

7 hours ago, Winners at last said:

I hate them too. I was at the 87 Preliminary Final ... took a long while to get over. (We kinda lost it ourselves ... Campbell, Yeats, Eishold.) 

But I think it's overlooked that we would have been hammered the next week (in the GF) had we won the PF.

 

Interesting to reflect that under today's rules we would have won. Eishold would not have been put on that ridiculous angle and instead would have been marched out to the top of the goal square to nail down the coffin.

37 minutes ago, A F said:

Maybe we can pinch back all the bandwagon jumpers from the 80s that were Melbourne supporters?

Do we really want fans ready to jump ship when things aren’t great, while the rest of us stayed loyal?

16 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Do we really want fans ready to jump ship when things aren’t great, while the rest of us stayed loyal?

they would have to go through a re-education plan first, of course

32 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Do we really want fans ready to jump ship when things aren’t great, while the rest of us stayed loyal?

If they buy memberships and lots of merch while they’re on board then it’s fine with me 🤑 💰 

Would love to see them end up like Melbourne 2012-13.

Edited March 22, 20232 yr by Jibroni

Reading about that 8 year old hawks fan really made my day. Supporting a dud team will be character building for the little brat.

5 minutes ago, BDA said:

Reading about that 8 year old hawks fan really made my day. Supporting a dud team will be character building for the little brat.

What I want is the story of the kid born from around 2012 too young to remember the Hawks flags but their earliest and only memory of playing finals is against us in 2018 bundling them out and then them go 50 years of their life without coming close to winning another flag. Only that bitter memory to hang on to..

Edited March 22, 20232 yr by layzie

Personally, seeing Bombers and Blues struggling and failing for more than a decade is sweet, sweet bliss. Even if the Dees struggle, this gives me as much joy as my first coffee of the day, or sneaking a custard tart when no one is looking.

But the Hawks struggling is very close for satisfaction. Listening to Brereton, Hodge etc.. have to find ways to offer the "condemnation of faint praise" makes me feel warm and gooey inside. Long may it continue.

There are a range of teams I'm relatively neutral on... then there are the teams I hate.  Often these are similar to other's hated teams, but for me the Aints hold a special place of hate due to some crappy supporters endured all through my childhood.

Now I've moved to Sydney, I've adopted GWS as a soft spot team.  Mainly so whenever my colleagues tell me to follow a Sydney team, I can proclaim I'll never follow the Swans and that they should all really be supporting the underdogs, GWS.  Plus they now have Toby!

1 hour ago, Jibroni said:

Would love to see them end up like Melbourne 2012-13.

Yes and their only 2 wins for the year can be against Fremantle