Not-So-Grand Final...

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

So, after a hard day's yakka I'm on the long drive home.

We pull into a servo, I wander in to grab some munchies and am greeted by an Asian behind the counter with:

"Watching the game?" :rolleyes:

"No... I'm working," I replied. And got a look as though I'm crazy.

Almost home, I drop into the local Milk Bar (which is also ran by Asians) to grab some milk... just to be sure I can have that cuppa I'm fanging for when I walk in the door. First question I'm asked?

"Watching the game?"

"No. I'd forgotten about it. I've been to busy earning a crust." Again I'm treated to a look of "EEeew! What's wrong with you?"

Finally pulled up at home, made myself a cuppa and then... did I turn on the Telly? Not on yer life. I wandered across to the local oval, leaned on the fence and watched some of the boys from our regional footy club have a bit of a kick.

How do I explain that as far as I'm concerned, the Grand Final just isn't so grand anymore? That it's not worth watching? Ever since a certain rich doctor came down and gave the red & whites a glam make-over, ever since it was all sanitised & regulated and prettied up for the interstate market...

Nor more "Blood & Guts" Dyers. No more Jezzas or Dietterichs. It has become, IMHO, very much what it was taunted to be: aerial ping-pong.

So thank-you-very-much but I'm not interested in the Not-so-Grand Final. I'll watch the country clubs instead, no matter how un-Australian that may seem.

After all, the boys on the oval aren't watching the game either... :p

[tea lady]

Grand final? Who's playing?:dunce::D

[Groggy]

I'm with you Skew. I reckon all the clubs still using suburb names should be forced to relinquish them. It has nothing to do with suburbs anymore.

[DJ’s Timber]

+2 as well, didn't even know who Hawthorn was playing till someone told me yesterday and have no idea on who won or if it's still going at this stage

[ubeaut]

Been a Richmond supporter all my life. Never been to a game but for the first time ever I watched it today maybe 20 minutes in snippets. Now I know what I've been missing all these years. Nothing much really.

Living and working in Geelong it's pretty hard not to notice the football. Every 2nd car has been flying Geelong Football Club flags since about August last year.

Best thing I can say is I see the Hawks won. Since I a kid they were always my second team.

Not fussed if I never see another game again. Although it did get me away from working for a litle while so that's a plus I guess.

Cheers - Neil
Carn the Tiges

[Lignum]

This is a thread I wont comment on otherwise I will be banned for life

Carn the Mighty Tiges (2010 Premiers)

[fenderbelly]

Sorry to put a dampener on this thread but i quite enjoyed the game.:)


Cheers Fred

[Geoff Dean]

Been a Richmond supporter all my life.

Best thing I can say is I see the Hawks won. Since I a kid they were always my second team.
Cheers - Neil
Carn the Tiges

I'm a Collingwood supporter. :doh:

My second team is the Collingwood reserves. :roll:

My third team, if they still had them, would be the Collingwood U18's. :D

[tea lady]

Been a Richmond supporter all my life.

Cheers - Neil
Carn the Tiges

I see!!!! That's why the symbol is black and yellow. (I'm not calling it gold.:p)

[AUSSIE]

Turn Footy Ovals Into Sprintcar Tracks

[BobL]

I find the continuous handball really detracts from the modern game so I only like it when the winning team has more kicks than handballs. There should be a new rule, no second handball after the first one - Must kick the ball - after all it's called football!

[NCArcher]

Unfortunately i gotta agree Skew. Lost interest in AFL many years ago. I was disappointed when the game went interstate and commercialised. I realise it had to do this to survive but it just isn't the same. To put this into perspective I have to tell you that i am closely related to one of the players you mentioned in your post. I went to the game in Melbourne (1.5hr drive) almost every week. It was a family thing. Aunts, Uncles, cousins and anybody else who wanted to tag along. We would watch the game and then because of connections we would have access to change rooms/after match wrap up and then down to the local watering hole, with most of the players.(those were the days) I grew up on stories of senior players being paid a couple of quid per game and being unable to afford boots. Boots were often purchased by the local butcher or grocer if the lad showed promise. My dad was often paid sixpence to polish a room full of trophies. Most of my heros were footy players. I played AFL for many years until injuries and family commitments meant i had to quit. I have some great memories of those days but the game just doesn't hold the same fascination for me.
I also moved to Newcastle a few years ago and the AFL barely rates a mention in this NRL Knights crazy town :doh:

[Calm]

Coming back from Adelaide -via Kingston - Mt gambier i listened to it on the radio and HG & nelson were the comentary team. The amount of verbal Cr*P was enough that the third quarter was all i could stand.

Good to hear "Crawford" managed to win a flag in his carrer

[Waldo]

Wasn't interested in it all myself Skew, I drowned out the roudy footy mad mob behind me with a thicknesser and Domino all arvo. :U

Didn't even watch the news as it would've been useless, if aliens were wathing the news tonight to see what happens in Vicortia they might rightly think that nothing else happened in the world today except for some blokes kicking a bit of pig skin around.

[Lignum]

Skew and Archer, at what point has the game changed apart from pure skill and the inevitable professionalism?

Should we go back to 1927-1930 when John Wren paid 10 times the amount for the better players on the Collingwood list that resulted in them buying four flags? Or players fixing their own dislocated bones, playing when so badly injured because they needed the few quid for their families survival. Not to mention the brutal thuggery that was rife in 95% of games

Footy has never been better, and the players never better looked after. It annoys me when people go on about how bad the game is compared to the “good old days” AFL is at its peak. Look at the superstars - Cotchin, Buddy, Judd, the list goes on, its brilliant.

The skills and games are superb, not to mention a business that employs over 120, 17-18 years olds on a minimum 40k base every year, year in year out. No others do that.

Bagging footy and the AFL is pathetic.

[LGS]

I see the Hawks won.
Carn the Tiges
:):D:):D:):):D:):D:2tsup::2tsup::2tsup:

[Calm]

Nothing like a provacative thread and then a provocative/opposite opinion/post to get a healthy debate on its way.

:mods: my money is on this thread being removed by lunch time today:D:D:D:D

Go for it

Cheers

[AUSSIE]

Calm From Hell .Mate. Footy should be banned.Not this thread.Besides it was the boss who put the" quote "you had
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Carn the Tiges
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[Cliff Rogers]

I missed it who won? :?


Only joking, even 2816kms away, it is on the TV, radio, & in the news papers but I didn't watch it, I was in the shed turning a new handle for the Ci1 that I broke.

[Waldo]

AFL used to be less about passing and more about kicking and great arial moments, it's now become a fall-over-the-ball desperately fiasco. It was good... back in the 80's.

My time was much better spent in the shed. :2tsup:

[AlexS]

I went for a walk.

[ss_11000]

i didnt even know it was on...not that i would have watched it anyway. although it is better than NRL.

[NCArcher]

Skew and Archer, at what point has the game changed apart from pure skill and the inevitable professionalism?

Should we go back to 1927-1930 when John Wren paid 10 times the amount for the better players on the Collingwood list that resulted in them buying four flags? Or players fixing their own dislocated bones, playing when so badly injured because they needed the few quid for their families survival. Not to mention the brutal thuggery that was rife in 95% of games

Footy has never been better, and the players never better looked after. It annoys me when people go on about how bad the game is compared to the “good old days” AFL is at its peak. Look at the superstars - Cotchin, Buddy, Judd, the list goes on, its brilliant.

The skills and games are superb, not to mention a business that employs over 120, 17-18 years olds on a minimum 40k base every year, year in year out. No others do that.

Bagging footy and the AFL is pathetic.

Totally your opinion Lignum. I really don't give a rats ring if you think i'm pathetic. Your 'inevitable professionalism' is nothing more than commercialism. It used to be about the game and the love of it. Now it's more about the money and chasing it. Also MY opinion only. Get over yourself.

[Calm]

Totally your opinion Lignum. I really don't give a rats ring if you think i'm pathetic. Your 'inevitable professionalism' is nothing more than commercialism. It used to be about the game and the love of it. Now it's more about the money and chasing it. Also MY opinion only. Get over yourself.

Now thats more like it - my time line was out but my moneys sill on the MODS.:D:D:D

Go you blokes get into it.:2tsup::2tsup::B:q

[DavidG]

Ok guys. Lets play the ball and NOT the person. :~

DavidG
Moderator
Woodworking Australia's
WOODWORK FORUMS

[Lignum]

Carn the Tiges, and Trent Cotchin for PM:)

[powderpost]

I thought the final was next weekend.... with Melbourne playing with out it's captain?????? Now that will be worth watching...
Jim

[AUSSIE]

All football should be in Canberra
Well out of the way from most of us.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

I've been biting my tongue on this one. But...

1. I said that I like watching country league. How does that count as bagging football?

2. I said that that I don't enjoy watching AFL and haven't since it was VFL. I gave some reasons why, although not in depth as my post wasn't about "AFL is crap" but about "the Grand Final isn't anything special to me." If that's bagging the AFL then someone rewrote the definition of bagging since I last looked. (Apparently it now means disagreeing with a supporter's opinion.)

3. After a careful re-read of all posts in this thread, I reckon that anyone who reads any of 'em as an attack on the AFL either didn't read 'em properly and has an axe to grind, or is being deliberately provocative in the hopes of an argument. Now who's pathetic? :innocent:

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

All football should be in Canberra
Well out of the way from most of us.

And a quick punt to Rudd... oh NO! Rudd fumbles the ball! :rolleyes:

[BobL]

AFL used to be less about passing and more about kicking and great arial moments, it's now become a fall-over-the-ball desperately fiasco. It was good... back in the 80's.

I'm with Waldo. One of the best features of aussie rules is the specky mark. The current rules/play mode favours handball over kicks. I reckon no double handballs should be allowed and the player accepting the handball should only be allowed to kick no matter what. That would increase the long bombs going forward and give us chance to see more marks.

[AUSSIE]

Don't take much notice of them SKEW
I took your story as a bit of light hearted entertainment.and thought it was GREAT.

Maybe I am wrong,but some take Football too seriously.
I know I live in GEELONG.
If you don't follow football here,they think you are very strange

Hey Skew-- what did you say RUDD fumbles with?I have a smudge on my screen and couldnt read it.

[Studley 2436]

I thought it was a really good Grand Final. Hawthorns courage was great. Lots of great highlights great tackles some really good goals. It was a match that had plenty of surprises. I liked it a lot.

I don't like the way tacklers are allowed to tie a player up and the way they drag a ball back under the guy that had the ball to try and sometimes get a free kick. I don't like the way a player isn't given much chance to take on a tackle, I don't like that a player might have his head over the ball and not really even have possession but someone will tackle him and he will be penalised. I do think the guy going for the ball should be looked after more than the guy that is late in or hanging off the contest.

BUT can you remember a time ever when we weren't fighting about the rules?

Studley

[SPIRIT]

on Friday night they played 7 hrs of high lights from other grand finals, football is only getting better and better the hawks played a tough game of footy with the cat playing a high skill brand
still the best grand final l have watched is the u/13 this year when my son in his first year of playing won a medal and played a good tough game

go tigers

[Lignum]

go tigers

2nd best performed club in GF week after the Hawks. We won - Before the Game quiz, Louies handball (both finalists) and the Grand final sprint (3 wins and a runner up in the last 5 years) things are looking good for the Mighty Tiges:wink::)

[SPIRIT]

2nd best performed club in GF week after the Hawks. We won - Before the Game quiz, Louies handball (both finalists) and the Grand final sprint (3 wins and a runner up in the last 5 years) things are looking good for the Mighty Tiges:wink::)yes indeed they are ,,,Cotchin is a gun ,we have a young team,back line is good and the forwards are getting better if jack can start jumping
just get rid of Kane and get cogs fit and we will be there 2012

[Studley 2436]

2nd best performed club in GF week after the Hawks. We won - Before the Game quiz, Louies handball (both finalists) and the Grand final sprint (3 wins and a runner up in the last 5 years) things are looking good for the Mighty Tiges:wink::)

Mate I would want to be putting it on the park before I got excited about it. I mean Maggies got Tool of the Year for their shampoo ad a year or two back but who cares honestly when you aren't winning flags.

Studley

[Lignum]

I mean Maggies got Tool of the Year for their shampoo

Yep i was spewing Kane Johnson didnt get tool of the year for his Police station squirt, that would have given us the quadie:)

[Studley 2436]

you pies have a problem with believing your own propaganda. Trouble is your players believe it too and get sucked into believing they are the best thing there is without backing it up with Premierships. That's why you have been premiers in the first week of June more times than I care to remember.

Studley

[Lignum]

Everyone wants to be a Tiger, even Cats full back Mathew Scarlett.
Taken earlier today:D:D

And as this thread is devoted to not watching the Granny, it reminds me of the most bizarre “not watching” the game story ever. Happened in `06 when the Swans v Eagles met up for the 2nd year in a row and Fox Sports naturally wernt allowed to broadcast the game, so instead it showed the replay of the game the year before in `05. Now the bizarre part was when the ratings came out, that game rated an average 40.000 viewers for its entirety. So how would 40.000 people get confused and watch the previous years game and not watch the current one live? Very strange.

[Christopha]

Turn Footy Ovals Into Sprintcar Tracks


What??? And entertain another buncha mokkie wearing bogans????:o:o:o:o:o

[STAR]

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[AUSSIE]

What??? And entertain another buncha mokkie wearing bogans????:o:o:o:o:o
Well howabout a big free woodwork shop where we can go any day or night and do our thing.As much noise as we like and plenty of free wood as well:D

[Studley 2436]

Well howabout a big free woodwork shop where we can go any day or night and do our thing.As much noise as we like and plenty of free wood as well:D

They make the goal posts out of Steel these days don't they?

Studley