#AFLGF Pies v Eagles

[Sandridge]

What a great last 15 minutes of game that was (that was all I watched).
So glad the wobbles wobbled.

That sequence beginning with McGovern's mark and ending with Sheed's goal was just wonderful stuff.
The fact that it happened against Collingwood made it all the more enjoyable!

[dejavoodoo44]

Why didn't we think of this after 2016?

Collingwood Magpies fan starts petition to reverse AFL grand final result

Actually, if I remember rightly, there may have been a change.org petition, after the 2016 GF. Though I think that it was a fair bit briefer than the Collingwood one.

[Old S.M.Blood]

Would you believe this.......On MSN Page....


No, but that isn’t going to stop Collingwood supporter Rod Craven from trying to alter the course of history.



Craven has started a petition on change.org attempting to have the result of the grand final reversed, with over 4,000 people adding their signatures by Tuesday morning..
Only A Collingwood idiot would do that.
Since 1945 I have hated the magpies along with thousands of true Bloods,I wish some of you newer Swans had attended matches at Victoria Park The magpies Home in those days.

[Blood Fever]

Would you believe this.......On MSN

No, but that isn’t going to stop Collingwood supporter Rod Craven from trying to alter the course of history.



Craven has started a petition on change.org attempting to have the result of the grand final reversed, with over 4,000 people adding their signatures by Tuesday morning..
Only A Collingwood idiot would do that.
Since 1945 I have hated the magpies along with thousands of true Bloods,I wish some of you newer Swans had attended matches at Victoria Park The magpies Home in those days.

Feral environment at Victoria Park. One of my fondest memories was watching South beat them there in 1977. Teasdale took over 20 marks the year he won the Brownlow. Many a magpie free kick paid in front of the social club. Beat them there one other time IIRC with Steve Taubert BOG.

[KTigers]

Feral environment at Victoria Park. One of my fondest memories was watching South beat them there in 1977. Teasdale took over 20 marks the year he won the Brownlow. Many a magpie free kick paid in front of the social club. Beat them there one other time IIRC with Steve Taubert BOG.

They weren't much better at the Western Oval. In 1996 we took our then one year old son out there to watch Plugger
and the Swans tear apart the soon to be defunct Lions. The little fella slipped over on the gravel at one of the ends and
grazed himself and was crying. All the Fitzroy supporters standing nearby burst out laughing. They were a classy bunch.

[Sandridge]

Feral environment at Victoria Park. One of my fondest memories was watching South beat them there in 1977. Teasdale took over 20 marks the year he won the Brownlow. Many a magpie free kick paid in front of the social club. Beat them there one other time IIRC with Steve Taubert BOG.

Aaah, I remember that day BF! Teaser was on fire! Don't think I've ever seen a player dominate a game like he did that day.

[royboy42]

They weren't much better at the Western Oval. In 1996 we took our then one year old son out there to watch Plugger
and the Swans tear apart the soon to be defunct Lions. The little fella slipped over on the gravel at one of the ends and
grazed himself and was crying. All the Fitzroy supporters standing nearby burst out laughing. They were a classy bunch.

Steady, now.

Even the meanest footy supporters are not into this.

I actually don't believe it happened as stated.

[Sandridge]

They weren't much better at the Western Oval. In 1996 we took our then one year old son out there to watch Plugger
and the Swans tear apart the soon to be defunct Lions. The little fella slipped over on the gravel at one of the ends and
grazed himself and was crying. All the Fitzroy supporters standing nearby burst out laughing. They were a classy bunch.

One year, Fitzroy played their home games at Collingwood's home ground, Victoria Park. I went to a Swans/Fitzroy game there with a Fitzroy suppporting friend who got us into the Member's area there. At one stage, another Fitzroy suppporter told me to get out of the Member' because I didn't belong there. I was able to point out that he didn't actually belong there, either - it was Collingwood's ground, not Fitzroy's. Unlike most people, I didn't have much sympathy for Fitzroy supporters. When South moved to Sydney, Fitzroy people and management became huge "Swans bashers" over what they perceived to be preferential treatment we were getting.

[KTigers]

Steady, now.

Even the meanest footy supporters are not into this.

I actually don't believe it happened as stated.

Unfortunately it did RB. Maybe they were drunk, but even if they were, it wasn't called for.

[barry]

One year, Fitzroy played their home games at Collingwood's home ground, Victoria Park. I went to a Swans/Fitzroy game there with a Fitzroy suppporting friend who got us into the Member's area there. At one stage, another Fitzroy suppporter told me to get out of the Member' because I didn't belong there. I was able to point out that he didn't actually belong there, either - it was Collingwood's ground, not Fitzroy's. Unlike most people, I didn't have much sympathy for Fitzroy supporters. When South moved to Sydney, Fitzroy people and management became huge "Swans bashers" over what they perceived to be preferential treatment we were getting.

Fitzroy supporters were very bitter by the end. They had been on deaths row for many years before the merger with Brisbane.
The rejected a relocation package and so their management were trying to justify it by demonising the swans.

Few people outside of victoria morn for Fitzroy. Should have been the start of much more VFL club rationalisation.

[royboy42]

Unfortunately it did RB. Maybe they were drunk, but even if they were, it wasn't called for.

I can always get a royboy bash on Bigfooty..I'll shut up here on this now.

Oh, and Barry, you better believe it about 'bitter',

[CureTheSane]

This petition is great.
Make Collingwood as a whole look like sooks.

I hated that the Swans didn't kick up a bigger stink with the trade ban, but even at the time knew that we were acting with dignity and that would reflect well on us long term.

The Collingwood thing is just a stupid fan, but media grabbed it and it got legs. Eventually it will be remembered as Collingwood sooking (hoefully)

[Nico]

I can always get a royboy bash on Bigfooty..I'll shut up here on this now.

Oh, and Barry, you better believe it about 'bitter',

Alan Aylett, VFL President, was the person behind trying to move both South and Fitzroy so his beloved North Melbourne survived. He started with Fitzroy and when Leon Wiegard resisted, moved over to South. Our mob were as weak as water and rolled over.

[barry]

Alan Aylett, VFL President, was the person behind trying to move both South and Fitzroy so his beloved North Melbourne survived. He started with Fitzroy and when Leon Wiegard resisted, moved over to South. Our mob were as weak as water and rolled over.

But history will judge the swans move as a very astute move.
Fitzroy had to merge, and North are still selling games all over the country to "survive" ( if living on your knees is surviving).
Meanwhile, swans are a powerhouse.

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I can always get a royboy bash on Bigfooty..I'll shut up here on this now.

Oh, and Barry, you better believe it about 'bitter',

You are entitled to feel bitter, but you should direct it at the old Fitzroy board who got the club into that predicament in the first place, and the boards before them.

[Bloods05]

But history will judge the swans move as a very astute move.


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You are entitled to feel bitter, but you should direct it at the old Fitzroy board who got the club into that predicament in the first place, and the boards before them.

Depends who writes the history. And RB, you should also direct your bitterness at Aylett. As I'm sure you do.