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5 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Essendon

Yeah true but ah well, they can spend their time thinking about about how to deal with friends giving them stick about the finals win drought for another year. 

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    1 hour ago, chookrat said:

    I reckon a condition of entry to an AFL match should be to undertake a quiz re holding the ball rule. The Richmond supporters would literally call "Ball!" every time one of our players were tackled.

    At one point in the last, after yet another huge cry for ball after one of our players, rivers I think, actually KICKED the ball, I yelled out at the top of my voice (and that is pretty loud - particularly in the perfect acoustics at the top of the Ponsford!):

    'WOULD YOU ALL STOP YELLING BALL!!!!!!!!!!! - LEARN THE BLOODY RULE!!!!'

    Not witty. Not clever. 

    But very cathartic.

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    40 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    I forgot about them. They’re that irrelevant. Been crying for 20 years about how they were hard done by when they took illegal drugs and got busted. So sad. 

    I've got a couple of colleagues that go for Essendon and Collingwood, they keep repeating how our 21 flag was a fluke and doesn't count because it was a "COVID" flag. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

    I bet they, specially Essendon, would kill to have won the 21 premiership. 🤭🤭

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    Just now, ElDiablo14 said:

    I've got a couple of colleagues that go for Essendon and Collingwood, they keep repeating how our 21 flag was a fluke and doesn't count because it was a "COVID" flag. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

    I bet they, specially Essendon, would kill to have won the 21 premiership. 🤭🤭

    This notion that it was a Covid flag is SO flawed.

    2021 was a full season, not a shortened season. We won the flag without a single home ground final.

    How many teams have done that before? 

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    Very early in the first quarter a Demon fan near me ridiculously yelled "ball" when the Tiger's player clearly had no prior opportunity. A Tiger's supporter near him took umbrage (despite the fact that he would not know the meaning of the word) with the call and turned around and yelled that there was no prior opportunity and he was right.

    He must have forgotten the rules after that because this Einstein yelled ball every single time a Tiger's player laid a finger on a Demon player.

    I've not seen a redder face out of anger than this numpty in the last quarter. It was beautiful. Credit to him he stayed to the bitter end unlike a few other ferals near me.

    I don't know why the filth get such a bad name in the deplorables department. Tiger's fans per capita are much worse.

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    7 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    This notion that it was a Covid flag is SO flawed.

    2021 was a full season, not a shortened season. We won the flag without a single home ground final.

    How many teams have done that before? 

    That's what I keep telling them but they blatantly ignore the facts.

    Oh well, we shall see come September who is smiling.

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    3 hours ago, BDA said:

    I was surrounded by tiges fans at the game. Most were ok but there was a group right behind me that mouthed off the whole game. Complete numpties. 

    There was a row of Tigers bogans next to the Demon Army that was ejected for just being general lowlives.  Yelling insults to Ryan (the head of the cheersquad with the white hair and overall legend), offensive behaviour to a woman in the row in front of them, swearing, general obnoxious behaviour.  Quite a few of them refused to go when security asked them to, and one of them was swearing profusely at a guard.  One had a smeer on his face that would rival Billy Idol.  The supporters are fun to watch when they lose......

    Last year in the same bay, at the ANZAC Eve match, I had one rabid support yell in my face that we were all cheats, as she left the game 10 minutes early.  They're seriously worse than Collingwood with the saltiness.

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    3 hours ago, chookrat said:

    I reckon a condition of entry to an AFL match should be to undertake a quiz re holding the ball rule. The Richmond supporters would literally call "Ball!" every time one of our players were tackled.

    Does my head in...pies worse...spoils a day at the footy.

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    Tigers fans still crying.
    Gawn destroyed them. Viney destroyed them. Petty destroyed them.
    But they reckon the umps were the difference. What the??? Ridiculous cry baby mentality!!

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    35 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    Tigers fans still crying.
    Gawn destroyed them. Viney destroyed them. Petty destroyed them.
    But they reckon the umps were the difference. What the??? Ridiculous cry baby mentality!!

    71-45 inside 50s is what killed them. 

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    2 hours ago, ElDiablo14 said:

    That's what I keep telling them but they blatantly ignore the facts.

    Oh well, we shall see come September who is smiling.

    Don't feed the troll would be my advice.

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    54 minutes ago, Katrina Dee Fan said:

    There was a row of Tigers bogans next to the Demon Army that was ejected for just being general lowlives.  Yelling insults to Ryan (the head of the cheersquad with the white hair and overall legend), offensive behaviour to a woman in the row in front of them, swearing, general obnoxious behaviour.  Quite a few of them refused to go when security asked them to, and one of them was swearing profusely at a guard.  One had a smeer on his face that would rival Billy Idol.  The supporters are fun to watch when they lose......

    Last year in the same bay, at the ANZAC Eve match, I had one rabid support yell in my face that we were all cheats, as she left the game 10 minutes early.  They're seriously worse than Collingwood with the saltiness.

    It's weird - you'd think with their recent success they'd be more chilled out about losing.

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    2 hours ago, ElDiablo14 said:

    I've got a couple of colleagues that go for Essendon and Collingwood, they keep repeating how our 21 flag was a fluke and doesn't count because it was a "COVID" flag. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

    I bet they, specially Essendon, would kill to have won the 21 premiership. 🤭🤭

    I’m betting Richmond supporters wouldn’t share the same views on ‘covid flag’ being fluke premierships

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    2 hours ago, binman said:

    LEARN THE BLOODY RULE!!!!'

    Absolutely this.

    But when even the commentators don’t fully understand the rules, what hope is there that a feral Tiger fan will?

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    59 minutes ago, Katrina Dee Fan said:

    There was a row of Tigers bogans next to the Demon Army that was ejected for just being general lowlives.  Yelling insults to Ryan (the head of the cheersquad with the white hair and overall legend), offensive behaviour to a woman in the row in front of them, swearing, general obnoxious behaviour.  Quite a few of them refused to go when security asked them to, and one of them was swearing profusely at a guard.  One had a smeer on his face that would rival Billy Idol.  The supporters are fun to watch when they lose......

    Would have loved to have watched them sulking somewhere watching the last quarter.

    As others have said they certainly rival Collingwood in the d****head department.

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    I, too, thought the umpiring was poor, but not in any way biased one way or the other.

    It's also worth mentioning that watching Dustin Martin (for the first three quarters) was a painful pleasure. His ability to dispose the ball to his team's advantage irrespective of the pressure he is under almost every time is quite incredible. 

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    3 hours ago, binman said:

    At one point in the last, after yet another huge cry for ball after one of our players, rivers I think, actually KICKED the ball, I yelled out at the top of my voice (and that is pretty loud - particularly in the perfect acoustics at the top of the Ponsford!):

    'WOULD YOU ALL STOP YELLING BALL!!!!!!!!!!! - LEARN THE BLOODY RULE!!!!'

    Not witty. Not clever. 

    But very cathartic.

    I similarly disgraced myself ... in MCC members. 

    At that incident I yelled out "shut up ... he kicked it". (Should that have been in capitals?)

    The only times I yelled out "ball", the umpire was clearly in agreement with me, and duly paid the free kick.

     

     

     

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    3 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

    We won the flag without a single home ground final.

    How many teams have done that before? 

    Good point. Not many in the modern era. Crows in 1998. Dogs in 2016.

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    I was sitting in the AFL members yesterday as it was an away game.  I was surrounded by Richmond fans and they were all pretty good.  They were supporting their team but their behaviour was fine.  I don't find them anywhere as nauseating as Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon fans.  I also noticed lots of 'mixed' families yesterday - plenty of kids supporting the opposite team to their parents, partners following either of the teams.  It was actually the first time I've really noticed that.  

     

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    There were numerous tiger fans around us.  There was little banter during the game, and all were well behaved.  That is until I started waving them goodbye when we got 4 goals up late in the last.  A bunch of tiger supporters took offence at this.  One said I was setting a bad example for my kids 11yo and 13yo.  My 13yo son stood up and said "What are you talking about, it was your lot that taught me all my sware words when I was 6yo.  We have put up with Tiger arrogance for years". 

    At that the man stood up, told me I was ad disgrace and left.  They took that loss hard.

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    It probably wasn't the Tigers who caused this, but did anyone else notice that after the game they only played the song on the loud speakers the once? Normally it gets played numerous times, no matter who wins. I said that to my brother in law who's a Tigs fan and he said after that they shouldn't have played our song at all! (at least he was joking, but the other supporters nearby agreed with him, then went on about the umpires!)

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    8 minutes ago, Red and Blue realist said:

    It probably wasn't the Tigers who caused this, but did anyone else notice that after the game they only played the song on the loud speakers the once? Normally it gets played numerous times, no matter who wins. I said that to my brother in law who's a Tigs fan and he said after that they shouldn't have played our song at all! (at least he was joking, but the other supporters nearby agreed with him, then went on about the umpires!)

    I think they usually only play it once if the away team wins.

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    1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    I, too, thought the umpiring was poor, but not in any way biased one way or the other.

    It's also worth mentioning that watching Dustin Martin (for the first three quarters) was a painful pleasure. His ability to dispose the ball to his team's advantage irrespective of the pressure he is under almost every time is quite incredible. 

    I love dusty. He's a gun. Definitely had the thought yesterday "I'd love to be watching this if it wasn't against us".

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    1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    I, too, thought the umpiring was poor, but not in any way biased one way or the other.

    It's also worth mentioning that watching Dustin Martin (for the first three quarters) was a painful pleasure. His ability to dispose the ball to his team's advantage irrespective of the pressure he is under almost every time is quite incredible. 

    The non-partisan in me was pretty chuffed to be able to watch Dusty and Bolton turn it on (the partisan in me was wrapped to see this and still get the win) with the kids watching alongside.

    Reckon It’ll be one of those games over time where the kids and I look back on and talk about the quality of (a couple of) the players from the other team as much as what we saw from ours. My daughter in particular was petrified whenever Bolton got his hands on the ball in any space!

     

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    I had to laugh at how the Punt Road End forum deals with posters swearing.

    Instead of (censored) or ******* the filter replaces the rude word with *smile*.

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