Peppermint Lounge wrote:Ambrose Burnside wrote:Went back to try and see where I last spoke about financials, and I got up to the 2018 Grand Final aftermath and gave up to watch some highlights of that game again.
The 'big four' and 'supporing a big fish in a little pond beating up on the likes of North Melbourne every year'. Given North's success in recent decades you could only be talking club size and/or wealth. As I said, I didn't know anything about club size or status when I was a kid. You want to keep stroking yourself over WCE's size vs our suburban clubs and their single postcodes? Be my guest. It would be consistent with the standard of football knowledge evident at every WCE home game.
More a comment on how when it was a VFL free-for-all the rich powerful clubs dominated year-in-year-out. It was like the Premier League. Nothing to do with the Eagles.
Footscray - 1954
St Kilda - 1966
North Melbourne - 1975, 1977 (and only managed that by exploiting the 10 year rule)
And I'm sure it's very similar for the other smaller clubs with no success for decades. Your Fitzroys and your South Melbournes etc. Why would you care about how big your club was when it was one of the biggest and won all the time?
I'm a massive fan of AFL equalisation despite supporting the richest club in the country. If we went back to VFL rules, the Eagles would be like Alex Ferguson's Manchester United.
If you got ~59k Essendon fans (or any other club) and ~1k opposition fans to every home game, the noise in the crowd would sound identical to Optus. Dumb comment.
But when it went national smaller clubs have proven just as successful as the big Vic clubs despite still getting screwed over by the AFL in terms of stadium deals, travel, fixturing etc. while your Essendons and your Carltons jack off to 16 VFL premierships each or whatever it was. You sound like Tories getting all misty eyed over the British Empire. So I'm not surprised it's these clubs that committed the biggest cheating scandals in the game's history, the sense of entitlement is staggering. And now Richmond is having a big sook over hubs when the Eagles, Dockers, Port and Adelaide have been in a hub for weeks on end even though WA and SA are, for all intents and purposes, covid-free. Richmond? Travel? PREPOSTEROUS!!!
I don't give a shit about postcodes or train stations or any of that. Not sure where that's come from Mr Strawman.
Peppermint Lounge wrote:Froggy wrote:Ports not a state side we are a club.
Correct. I let 'state side' slip when describing a second time. I wish Port could wear their traditional strip more often. One of the more irritating things in football is hearing Eddie go all anal over Collingwood's ownership of black and white stripes. That said I like Ports current home guernsey. One of the best in the league. Especially after the original guernsey.
Port should stick it up Eddie at every opportunity
Wearing the prison bars for Showdowns is pretty much the most reasonable request ever. Trust a Big 4 Vic club to oppose it.