digby wolf

Yeah right. The bloke is an absolute peanut and as Garry Lyon said a bully.

My family came over to Melbourne after the planned strangulation of Fitzroy and the above comment really sums up the difference in culture between Fitzroy and Melbourne. When Fitzroy went to the wall we went there fighting, scratching and eye gouging against an AFL that wanted mergers and clubs out of Melbourne. We just didn't pack up and take off like south melbourne. This club does stand for something and it carries the name of the great city of Melbourne with all it's history and culture. To hear some of us agreeing with a silly old woman like patrick smith beggars belief.

We're going but we live here. We're going to the social club with a mate, should be interesting. I suppose the protocol is to shut up like we expect opposition supporters to do in the Redlegs.

We'll be defeated by the Darwin effect. It's stupid unfair fixturing to expect a team like ours at this stage of it's development to go up there in those conditions and come back and play a fully developed side like Hawthorn.

No count me in, I cringe every time I hear it at the footy or see it in print. My explanation for it is that some over americanised peanut supporter started it. But the americanisation of our game looks irreversable especially now that they went straight to the american name book to get nick names for the two new teams.

We'll do better than the 8, we'll win the Grand Final !

I think when he started commenting on politics he went a bit far.

We have no feelings at all for Brisbane. None. We came over to Melbourne a year after the so called merger. We reasoned that Melbourne represented the name of the city we lived in and we didn't want to barrack for any other suburban teams. In the first year of the merger my partner and I were up at the Gold Coast so we took in a game at the Gabba. Funnily enough Brisbane were playing the Dees and the Dees beat them. After the game we were on the South Brisbane station waiting to return to the Robina. We were wearing our Fitzroy scarfs and I spotted some people near us in Brisbane gear with name tags saying fundraisers or something. I said to my partner i'll go up and say hello. So I walked up and said 'hi we're old Fitzroy people and we came up to take in a game ". The woman rounded on me and nearly spat as she said " we didn't want you, you went broke ' !!! Then she wheeled around and turned her back on me. So that was it we weren't going to follow a club that didn't want us. It turns out the old bag did us a huge favour because we'd probably be like all those other poor old Fitzroy people that think Brisbane represents them. Also we found and became members of the mighty Melbourne Fc the oldest club in the competition. How good is that !

As ex Fitzroy people we know how deep the cut is. Even though we love our new home ( the Melbourne Footy Club ) we still feel the death of our dear old club as if it was yesterday. And the hatred for Oakley, Mike Sheahan et al still burns brightly. I think what really burns me the most was the injustice of the decision to kill off a foundation club that was older than Collingwood and had eight flags to it's name. Clubs like St Kilda with one premiership and years of abject failure still exist. Oh I forgot Oakley played there didn't he. But there you go that's how corporations operate. The end of history.

Nah the umps were shocking and biased.

Especially the saints they've only won one premiership by ' one ' point. And didn't they declare themselves bankrupt at some point in their not so distant history.

Yes they are definitely pink and I believe we should get back to the fire engine red we used to have. Either that or be the only side that goes back to that synthetic wool look jumper we used to have. I just had a thought did the AFL unconsciously start wearing these soccer type tops because of global warming.

I agree with the above. It's been estimated by Johan Galtung director of Transcend the International Peace Institute based in Oslo that the US has directly or indirectly killed 12 to 14 million people world wide since the second world war. Their carpet bombing of the North Vietnamese brings the word terror into sharp focus. Their support of criminal dictators like pinochet of Chile is legendary. What they experienced on 9/11 is minute compared with what they've done to other sovereign countries over the years.

Yes something more yankee that's what we need. We've got the giants and the suns, halls of fame etc. You're right lets try to be even more like them. Why don't we beg the yankees to become a state of the union or whatever they call it. We could claim to be nearly just like them with a few minor adjustments.

I agree with all the above, especially about the ' old school ' trumpeter.

I agree with all the above only having met the man twice ( once in Dublin ) i'd throw in arrogance as well. He can be a very unpleasant man. And another thing ; I know that Kevin is a great patriot and is a rap for us ex national circus men but I haven't heard it mentioned whether he went to Vietnam or not. And if he didn't how come he didn't. I know some footballers didn't go and I always wondered why.

I think instead of hoops we should just wear white socks if there is an away clash. After all we were ' the invincible whites ' in days gone by.

Ross Oakley was just another corporate w#%nker with a cash register for a heart and a TV for a brain.

You don't know what you're talking about disco. Our family were Fitzroy and are now proudly Melbourne because of that so called merger. It was a corporate AFL takeover and most real Fitzroy people I know never followed the Brisbane bears. My pride at the time wouldn't allow an individual ( w*nker ) like ross oakley to dictate to us which team we followed in the football. So we looked at the other clubs to follow because we love top level football and decided on Melbourne because this club carries the name of the city we actually lived in. Also the club needed help so i'm a Gold member now and very proud of it. Fitzroy unlike South Melbourne, North Melbourne, Footscray and St Kilda had a great and proud history which is about as far frome Roma st and the city of Brisbane that you can possibly get. But eight premierships ( two more than Geelong ) and nine Brownlow medals didn't protect Fitzroy from the corporates. But the one point, one premiership club St Kilda WAS protected by one of it's ex players, none other than dear old ross oakley. No matter that St Kilda had also been bankrupt and never paid it's debts. Makes you wonder why clubs put so much store in winning premierships and having success when the people that run the league value them somewhere near zero. So please don't talk to people like us about successful mergers because you haven't been there. And hopefully we never will.

I agree they do look pink but only on TV. In trying to achieve blood red they've achieved pink on TV which means they should go back to the bright red next year. Another thing i'd like to know about the jumper is, which genius made the red cuffs disappear ?

Your sense of humour AND your excellent spelling precede you hill. Private school education ? Lighten up 'old chap', you obviously live in the area and are slightly defensive about it. We can't all live in the inner suburbs so good luck to you.

I agree lets get rid of them. Melbourne means ALL of Melbourne not just some bogan back water on the cities eastern fringe. Anyhow it's to close to Moe.

With apologies to Dean Martin I presume.

I agree completely. I've always said Essendon supporters are just Collingwood supporters, minus a sense of humour.

Looks like he's... wait for it... " GAWN ".