Who are our most bitter rivals (or who do we hate the most)?

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  • snajik
    Senior Player
    • Jan 2003
    • 1115

    #16
    Originally posted by Primmy
    North belongs to another era - and I love beating them (get me! I love beating them, like I had any say in the matter) - but they have become so bland it just doesn't matter any more.
    I just couldn't hate North with the same degree of intensity once Carey and David King left, and then Shannon Grant left and they just couldn't seem to get a rise from me any more. I'll have to pay more attention to them next year. Surely they must have someone on their list that is capable of resurrecting my ire.
    It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who's learning to play violin. That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.
    The Scarlatti Tilt - Richard Brautigan

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    • goswannies
      Senior Player
      • Sep 2007
      • 3051

      #17
      Originally posted by Big Al
      Agree except that we have done pretty well out of some recent Collingwood recruits. (Schauble,Williams,Davis(the 05 version),Shaw).
      Agree with you except 4 v's a dozen or so, and many of their Swans recruits were opportunistic... picking off our players in their prime when we were in trouble. And remember Kent Bucher? No? Becuase they traded us rubbish at times too! He didn't play a game. Scotty Russell? Hefty price tag for 1 season. Michael Lockman... another one we got one season out of. And the players you mention were primarily past their prime at Collingwood (they may have improved with Sydney, but at Collingwood they were considered stale... some would even argue this of Davo as he wanted out).

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      • snajik
        Senior Player
        • Jan 2003
        • 1115

        #18
        [QUOTE=goswannies;471231]Collingwood.

        4) They have stollen too many players off us (Rocca, Teasdale, Greg Smith, Shane Morwood. David Young. Clinton King, Paul Hawke, Mark Orchard, Bill Picken (similar to Orchard - gave him then took him back - opposite of Hawke, took him then gave him back!), Richard Osborne (in a round about way via the Dogs) Paul Licuria, Barry Mitchell, Gerard Healy (sort of, but he never played after being drafted), Paul Morwood, Brereton. The list goes on!
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        Darren Jolly
        It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who's learning to play violin. That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.
        The Scarlatti Tilt - Richard Brautigan

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        • 707
          Veterans List
          • Aug 2009
          • 6204

          #19
          Difficult question, particularly given the sheer number of close results against West Coast over 3-4 years and the two epic GF.

          Over time, for me however it's Collingwood, the team everyone wants to beat just for their sheer arrogance from Ed down.

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          • CureTheSane
            Carpe Noctem
            • Jan 2003
            • 5032

            #20
            Easiest question ever.

            Wobbles.
            The difference between insanity and genius is measured only in success.

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            • hammo
              Veterans List
              • Jul 2003
              • 5554

              #21
              Collingwood may be hated but they are not "bitter rivals" of the Swans. For a rivalry to exist supporters of the other club would have to feel the same way.
              "As everyone knows our style of football is defensive and unattractive, and as such I have completely forgotten how to mark or kick over the years" - Brett Kirk

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              • portstephens tragic
                On the Rookie List
                • Jan 2010
                • 2

                #22
                Never get off the ground

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                • portstephens tragic
                  On the Rookie List
                  • Jan 2010
                  • 2

                  #23
                  Originally posted by ROK Lobster
                  West Sydney
                  Agreed. won't work

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                  • cruiser
                    What the frack!
                    • Jul 2004
                    • 6114

                    #24
                    Where's the St Kilda option?
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                    • liz
                      Veteran
                      Site Admin
                      • Jan 2003
                      • 16773

                      #25
                      Originally posted by goswannies
                      Scotty Russell? Hefty price tag for 1 season.
                      We didn't trade with Collingwood for Russell. We picked him up in the PSD after they'd delisted him (and after he had an in-principle agreement to join someone else - Carlton maybe?)

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                      • goswannies
                        Senior Player
                        • Sep 2007
                        • 3051

                        #26
                        Originally posted by liz
                        We didn't trade with Collingwood for Russell. We picked him up in the PSD after they'd delisted him (and after he had an in-principle agreement to join someone else - Carlton maybe?)
                        I stand corrected, but my point was we didn't actively recruit him from the Maggies, he was an unwanted discard... unlike the majority of ours who we still wanted (Clinton King and Gavin Rose being notable exceptions)

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                        • satchmopugdog
                          Bandicoots ears
                          • Apr 2004
                          • 3691

                          #27
                          Voted Carlton...based on me being the black sheep of my family and not barracking for Carlton. I love it when we win against them.

                          (Plus my ex husband barracks for them)
                          "The Dog days are over, The Dog days are gone" Florence and the Machine

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                          • Primmy
                            Proud Tragic Swan
                            • Apr 2008
                            • 5970

                            #28
                            Originally posted by satchmopugdog
                            Voted Carlton...based on me being the black sheep of my family and not barracking for Carlton. I love it when we win against them.

                            (Plus my ex husband barracks for them)
                            Oh well, then that's a given.


                            Try as I can, I cannot totally hate the wiggles. Despair yes, thrilled when hunter left yes, but overall kill kill kill, no. Again, I come back to Collingwood, and that is why I am shattered and shocked Jolls actually set foot in the door. Stupid stupid man......how could you!!!!
                            If you've never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from lava then you didn't have a childhood

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                            • CureTheSane
                              Carpe Noctem
                              • Jan 2003
                              • 5032

                              #29
                              As far as traditional rivals go, for me it is Carlton deep down.
                              More recently, West Coast is the easy choice
                              The difference between insanity and genius is measured only in success.

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                              • swans_premiers
                                On the Rookie List
                                • Feb 2003
                                • 1101

                                #30
                                Would have to be Crows, Pies, Eagles, Saints
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