The two soccer teams that have been around less time than the Storm or Hellas & Croatia? Don't follow the average league so can't say what the new teams do.
So you made a statement of fact but have no idea if it is?
It's an AFL thing...
Standard Victorian stiff.
The Union side have been around for two years and no, they didn't pinch the "run through" concept, they did however go with the club song idea.
Union teams have been singing club songs for quite a while. That anyone would think it came from AFL is laughable.
Past crimes & the geniusation of their supporters aside, they are important to the game long term and you know that.
The game comes first to me but if they died tomorrow, I'd be a little bit happier than I am right now.
What they need to do is give up the AFL rubbish and start playing the game in the manner it was intended to be played in. Sacking the merkin that coaches them and started the wresting shit would be a good start. Getting the arsehole that has perfected it on-field to change sports to AFL would be a good second move.
They're not an AFL team and they shouldn't copy AFL "traditions" in the hope that they might persuade a few to come across.
If AFL fans want to see AFL tradition, they'll go to an AFL game. If there are AFL fans who got all excited because they went to a Storm game and they ran through a banner, I pity them.
Rugby League should be offering itself as an alternative, not offering itself as an alternative but with a few AFL trimmings...
Do the Pink Poofs, Fitzgray, Thuns or Breakfast Point have cheerleaders?
lol. A Wests man wanting Manly to win? Shame.
Only when they play the Storm, otherwise I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire. And they wouldn't have it any other way.
We aren't going to agree but I think you are letting your hatred of the Victorian game override your senses here. Yes, if anyone from the JV hoisted one up at Campbelltown then there would cause to say WTF but are Melbourne hurting anyone by doing something that Victorians recognize as part of the match day experience?
They recognise it as part of an AFL match-day experience. It has nothing at all to do with Rugby League tradition and had better not ever be a Rugby League tradition or I'll go follow f**king Bocce.
Melbourne have shown a definite propensity for believing that they are above the game. It's time they were brought into line, period. And if that doesn't work, there are plenty of teams waiting in line...
ha. Can honestly say I wouldn't even know if GWS do it. Haven't seen a single game the fails have played.
I have no idea either, but it's an AFL tradition so we can assume it happens.
