Round 9; the other games. Boo and hiss.

[dejavoodoo44]

They are truly strange, even among the big Melbourne clubs.

Collingwood fans were always bogan and feral, but love their team. Richmond fans went strange from finishing 9th for, like, 30 years straight it seemed - but they were strange in a funny, understandable way. The Bombers fans I always found quite polite.The Hawks fans were insufferable (but honestly who could blame them given their success in the AFL era).

But Carlton fans were something special. They are the most entitled, ignorant, deluded group imaginable who cheer on every act of Hari Kari the club commits, always forgetting the disappointment that followed the last false promise and then getting bitter and resentful that the new dawn never arrives.

Could David Teague coach? I don’t know but he did two years with a pained and inferior Cripps, no Curnow, and targeted Hewett and Cerra as he knew he had an average midfield. But he had to go. Can Voss coach? I don’t know but according to them, he’s the problem and has to go.

That might be a basis for an interesting psychological research project. Are certain personality types attracted to different clubs, or does involvement in a particular club mould a person's personality? To investigate the proposition, we cadged season tickets to Marvel and the MCG, while also spending long nights at a range of pubs around Melbourne.

[Mel_C]

It's been a strange round for reportable incidents.

1. Cripps was fined $1000 for pulling Bailey Smith's mullet. (A shame he didn't cut it off!)

2. Collingwood player Nathan Murphy was fined $1500 for pulling down the shorts of Cadman. (Surprise surprise when Cadman retaliated a free was awarded to Collingwood.)

3. Lachie Hunter was fined $1500 for yelling abuse to a Hawthorn player from the interchange. He ran outside the interchange gates to the edge of the boundary line to yell the abuse.

[dejavoodoo44]

It's been a strange round for reportable incidents.

1. Cripps was fined $1000 for pulling Bailey Smith's mullet. (A shame he didn't cut it off!)

2. Collingwood player Nathan Murphy was fined $1500 for pulling down the shorts of Cadman. (Surprise surprise when Cadman retaliated a free was awarded to Collingwood.)

3. Lachie Hunter was fined $1500 for yelling abuse to a Hawthorn player from the interchange. He ran outside the interchange gates to the edge of the boundary line to yell the abuse.

I wonder if Smith has his mullet insured?