Round 14 - Collingwood

[Sauce]

I gotta say I'm lucky I don't live in Melbourne. I've been down for the GF and also a few other games and it's so different watching a game when opposition supporters out number you. I'm too used to kicking back in the O'Reilly stand, enjoying the afternoon with red&white all around. Anytime i encounter stupidity from opposition supporters my blood boils and I begin to morph into someone i'm not. Can anyone from Melbourne here tell me if things get really heated at AFL matches down there?? I almost got into trouble at the Carlton SCG match for trying to shut up a few Blues supporters and wasn't far off it with some Geelong and Richmond ones too. Always makes it easier when we win of course because you let the scoreboard do the talking but geez - i could be in trouble this Saturday night. There are going to be 10/20 thousand of them.

Melbourne based supporters are pretty bad. In between stuffing their face with a cold pie, soggy chips and 12 dim sims they scream ball at the ball itself, become experts about your team in no time, trot out the clich?s about swans supporters and have this smug attitude about them.

The sad thing is, most of them don't really understand the code they go feral about and are just dumb.

But then again there are a few good ones among them!

[Sauce]

My pet hate when watching a Swans match is the arrogant Melbourne-based supporter "go back to following the rugby (sic) - you Sydney people don't know anything about AFL" attitude. Makes my blood boil sometimes....

Oh the whole rugby irks me. They know it's League and Rugby byt they love being arrogant about it in a "Pfft i dont give a stuff it's not rules" kind of a way. So i just retort by calling the game AFL instead of rules at every op and they hate it!

"AFL is the comp the code is called Aussie Rules..ok!!"

[Nich]

When I say 'i'm lucky I don't live in Melbourne' I mean....if I was supporting a Melbourne based team I think I would just be getting into arguments all the time with supporters of other Melbourne teams. Sydney games seem pretty tame compared to what i've seen in Melbourne. Maybe it's just because those were finals games and everyone was heated. I'm pretty much saying if i get fired up with opposition supporters around me at a Sydney game I would hate to see the Melbourne version of me where certain games don't really have too much of a one sided crowd.

I enjoy it, don't get me wrong. It's nice to have some verbal sparring partners, but it's hard work sitting there sometimes when someone is crapping on about your own team right behind you at your home ground. This Saturday night is going to be tough if we lose. Last year after the game at the Brewery outside the ground, hundreds of Pies supporters sang their song at the bar while raising their schooners and it just killed me. It was like they owned our town. I hated it. My blood was beyond boiling. I like to think I'm a fair sport but I take that to heart.

I remember a family friend telling me a story one night after I brought him along to a Sydney Essendon game. It was a Saturday Night and the Bombers prevailed in a close one. 2007 I think. It was the game where Hird kicked the ball back into play and he was clearly OOB's? Something like that anyway. I have a terrible memory.

My friend is Italian, passionate soccer/football supporter and it was his first live game of AFL. As we were walking out all the Bombers fans were singing their song and it echoed as we walked through the O'Reilly and my mate was so incensed that we were letting the opposition fans sing their song at our home ground. I found it pretty funny. I knew what he meant but I also knew it doesn't happen like that here. He said 'back home, if the opposition fans started singing their song someone would die'. He said 'Even if your team loses, don't ever let someone else sing their song louder than you. You sing united even when you lose'. What he said had merit, I guess, knowing full well our fans weren't about to burst into a rendition of Cheer, cheer! He yelled out in a thick accent, 'I'm gonna take home this red and black and wipe my @@@@ with it and flush it'. I was a little worried that we were about to get into a fight and then I though, 'stuff it, they can get screwed, I hate the Bombers'. Ever since that night I realised how important it was to stand up for my Team when someone else wanted to have a shot at them (much to my wife's dismay). If you see someone get escorted out no Saturday Night in Red&White you can take a guess that it might be me. I hope it isn't though.

I just don't know what i'll do this Weekend if we lose. Straight into the car and home I think. I couldn't handle hanging at a Pub in my own town while smug Pies fans flash stupid grins through their tooth. Call me a bad sport but it's one of the worst things in Footy. Feeling inferior on home soil. Gee it would be nice to really outnumber these invertebrate's and walk out to the sounds of a banjo solo.

And can I add, I have taken this guy to every Sydney/Bombers game since. It's our yearly ritual. If you ever hear a guy with a thick Italian accent yell out 'Bomb the Bombers', you'll know who it is.

[Kirkari]

As one of the shoe brands claims (somewhat illiterately) "Impossible is nothing.".

I'm sticking with the Swans by 19. A goal-fest for the young 'uns - and everyone kicking straight. Another page written in history by the legendary Adam Goodes. Nick Smith shutting them out at every turn... Can't wait!

[mcs]

I won't be going on Saturday- I have other committments in Canberra and couldn't make it if I tried. I have gone for Pies 40+, but whatever the result, I will be watching and hoping for a good reaction. There are several players in our team that need to stand up and lead and say what has happened this year against the good teams is not good enough. I want to see us have a real crack at it. If you are honest about it, the Pies are far too classy at the moment and should easily account for us- but if we turn up really up for it and ready to rip Collingwood a new one,then we can give them a real scare. A win seems all very improbably indeed, but footy is a strange game and nothing is impossible.

[Triple B]

If we'd beaten Carlton, we would've gone in over confident.......

Please tell me you're taking the piss. I know your not, so seriously, what r u smokin'?

[Wardy]

I have a friend up from melbourne (North Supporter) and the two besties who live on a freakin island coming along - I have forwarned them that the Swans will either be torn a new one - or win by a point - the will be no in between. Still we are sitting up in the platinum members - so I'm more excited about having wine served in a real glass at a footy than watching the actual game.
In all seriousness - as long as the lads put in 110% I will be happy - because after yesterdays trash - they need to redeem themselves.

[Jeffers1984]

Over/under - the number of goals we'll have at 3 quarter time: 2?

i'll predict we'll have 3.8 going into the last quarter.
Collingwood of course would be about 12.7 or something.

Then we'll get our usual 4-5 goal burst in the last quarter and hold Collingwood to say 2 late goals in the last quarter to lessen the blow.

Same @@@@ every year.

[Wardy]

I have also heard that the Ash Cloud is coming back again - so I'm hopeful that hire cales sales will be the only way the Pies can get here there has been a sudden rush on family and medium sized cars, so this will mean that the Magpies can only hire Smart Cars - I suggest they squeeze 4 players in each and because they are so fuel efficient, then no stopping along the way - 9 hours cramped in one of those things should do the trick.

[Swansinger]

My pet hate when watching a Swans match is the arrogant Melbourne-based supporter "go back to following the rugby (sic) - you Sydney people don't know anything about AFL" attitude. Makes my blood boil sometimes....

Yeah , too right - as if we don't know a good catch when we see one , or how to boo the referees.:-).

[ScottH]

As one of the shoe brands claims (somewhat illiterately) "Impossible is nothing.".

I'm sticking with the Swans by 19. A goal-fest for the young 'uns - and everyone kicking straight. Another page written in history by the legendary Adam Goodes. Nick Smith shutting them out at every turn... Can't wait!

Go Smithy!!

[Big Al]

As one of the shoe brands claims (somewhat illiterately) "Impossible is nothing.".

Is it that true???

Anyone have the number of Jessica Alba.

[Cheer Squad]

Latest odds from Centrebet:

MATCH
Sydney - $5.30
Collingwood - $1.16

QUARTER-TIME LEAD
Sydney - $3.05
Collingwood - $1.38

HALF-TIME LEAD
Sydney - $4.05
Collingwood - $1.24

Interesting to see if they change much before Saturday.

[Kanga]

this will be a bloodbath on the wide open spaces of ANZ.

[ScottH]

this will be a bloodbath on the wide open spaces of ANZ.

Thanks for the vote of confidence Kanga!!

We do have the dreaded Bye Syndrome on our side!!