Yeah I know what you mean about being a league supporter up in Victoria, it aint great. If they want to grow the game, as they say, Channel 9 has to come to the party and put footy on before midnight. Or the NRL will continue to be the little inbred brother of AFL in this state.
Yep, as you said, the salary cap business has demolished the club and the interest of many 'new fans'. I have a mate up here who follows the Storm. Last season he was right up with all that was going on in Purple and the NRL, now he wouldn't have a clue what's going on, he has fallen off the bandwagon and may never return. And this has nothing to do with the amount of sh!t I've thrown at him for the last couple of years!!
If someone at St. George ever did anything like what that proper arsewipe, full of his own self importance, small length of sh!t, criminal that is Brian Waldon, and a few of his pissweak cronies, did. I'd want them in jail, and I'd expect every other football fan to shove it right up our club.
What sh!ts me the most is that Melbourne haven't made a single appology, they've just played the 'we've been hard done by' card. Perfect example was the new boss coming in and saying 'we want a fair go, we want to play for points'. Sorry mate, you forfeited the right by cheating for the last decade. Do your time, make an appology and get on with it....and you never know, you might just get a bit of respect and sympathy from the rest of us livid fans.
Melbourne could have easily been my '2nd team', but after seeing that fat oaf Lazarus doing 'cartwheels' in '99 after playing the worst game of his career, then all the grappling garbage, then the Cap business, the spoon feeding by all and sundry, then the 'we've been hard done by' crap, it aint hard to see why myself and so many others hate everything about the franchise.
At the end of the day I come in here to troll and vent, aza. And I love doing it. But also, at the end of the day the posters in here who I bait are probably decent people who'd, if we got together, without knowing who was who, we'd all probably get on bloody well and enjoy a few frothys. A few pr!cks have ruined it, scammed a few premierships, ripped off other clubs and tainted Melbourne forever. As a bitter and twisted Saints fan, who has seen some horrific train crashed whilst watching my club over the last few decades (and also some stupifying highs), it galls me to the pit when a francise comes in and steals something a sacred as a Premiership.
Anyway mate, when we play in Melbourne next season I should swerve a little detour thru Bendigo and pick you up. I'll then let you drive the rest of the way, whilst I sit in the back sinking p!ss and chewing ya ear.
And yeah, the rain has been magic!!
Big Norm
