Fork 'em

Harsh but true.

Not being above Essendon on the ladder is a fail for me. But then beating Essendon in our games is a pass.

Which we are.

Can't have pesky stuff like playing in finals interfering with end of season holidays.

Thats ok. I'll go fishin' instead. Don't really like the snow anyhoo.

Just Eddie throwing up smoke screens hoping to hide his bigger problems.

And our other hope is that migrants decide to support the city they moved to. Melbourne.

Nah , the Dawks have a sheet load of support out there. All those kids who jumped onto the topside during their rein in the 80's are buying memberships and having kids of their own. And those kids have enjoyed watching their team kick arze over the last 10-12 years and more kids have jumped onto the top side bandwagon during that time. And Jurrah wasn't gonna be any magic bullet or is Daisy Pearce. Only sustained success can pull us out've this slump now. I agree with your sentiments on our irrelevancy over the last 50yrs and the home ground advantage of the MCG lost to the competition though.

Yep, but these other clowns aren't getting it.

With 3 flags as a player and 4 as coach under his belt, it gives him a little licence to fling abit of mud from the top of the hill. And his aim can be pretty good.

Shady as sheet. https://www.zerohanger.com/ricky-nixon-explains-rorted-salary-cap-9852/

And Petracca looks as happy a player at his club as I've ever seen. And I couldn't be happier.

Whereas I hate Essendon with a passion. Mostly because of their supporters.

Shonky bloke who made shonky deals on behalf of shonky players with your shonky club.

Pfft ... I'm done. We aint no sleeping giant DH.

My logic? You're the one trying to say that we're a bigger club than Collingwood on the strength of one game from one year. Turnouts for our games have been poor for decades. There's a reason we have a reputation for going to the snow. Collingwood supporters rep is that they turn out regardless. That's why every club in the league requests the AFL to give them home games against them.

Cause Thompson told Hird his players weren't big enough and he knew a couple blokes that he'd worked with at Geelong who could fix that .... Quickly. That's why.

Was at Windy Hill when Jacko got stuck into Ronnie Andrews and chucked a beer can into the crowd. Essendon fans were extra feral that day. Away games were like going to third world countries after being bought up at the MCG and VFL park.

It was also revealed by Ricky Nixon that Essendon cheated the salary cap during the 2000 season in order to keep both Hird and Lloyd on the list enabling them to win that years GF. Got away with it that time though.

Ok .... I'll try to spell it out for you If we got everyone that called themselves Collingwood supporters and everyone that that called themselves Melbourne supporters and lined them up side by side. Their line would be at least 2 times longer than ours. Probably 3.

They're a proper sleeping giant. Will take at least 10 years of sustained success to capitalise in another 15 when the kids are old enough to buy their own memberships.

Wouldn't surprise me if the AFL engineered a resurgence somehow like they have with Essendon. Can't have a prized cash cow loitering at the lower end of the ladder.

Like party time late in the last qr of the GF.

I'll never forget the 1st time my old man took me to Vic park as a young fella. Walked up to the turnstyles past a row of retarded folk in black and white wheel chairs and was told to "Fork off Melbourne." by them. Just jaw dropping stuff for a wide eyed kid but a fitting introduction to the locals.