I lived in Melbourne for 28 years and went to many Essendon V Fark Carlton games…and I was there for the infamous 1999 PF loss.
I arrived in Perth during the 1988 finals series and so have had to put up with Eagles sh*t for 34 seasons.
Until you live in one of the smaller markets (ie outside Melbourne/Victoria), you really have no concept of how bad it can be.
Once, when asked to describe how much I hate the eagles, my answer was along the lines of:
“Imagine a team made up of the likes of Hitler, Mussolini, Idi Amin and other such wonderful people from the halls of history. Now imagine that team playing the eagles…I would be barracking for that team”
“Three interlopers who in their existence have contributed nothing to our Club and the Game” ?
What a load of shyte !
Sydney is the good old South Melbourne Swans relocated. You’re probably old enough to have seen the great Bobby Skilton pull on the red and pink woollen guernsey at the Lake Oval.
Port Adelaide is a very old Aussie Rules club — the original Magpies, a much older club than fugging Collingwood.
Fremantle is a relatively new club, certainly, only having been founded in 1994, and is yet to win a premiership. But Fremantle was the ONLY club to give support to Essendon during the Saga. Thus I have respect for Freo. Yo-o Heave Ho !
Well, since this thread has been skewed in a different direction l will add to the distraction. Hate is too strong a word for a football team, any team. I reserve hate for things like cancer, Nazism, Fascism, Putin etc. No football team comes close to those things. While I respect all other teams, l never fear them.
Instead l prefer to look at football from a slightly different angle, that being the amount of enjoyment l get from seeing us beat our opposition. The wins that give me the most enjoyment are over:
Carlton
Collingwood
The Dawks.
You are a bit of a special situation in that, but that kinda reinforces my point though, it’s about the amount of ■■■■ you cop.
I was actually sticking up for you, who ranked some interstate sides higher when they lived there. Likely the majority of supporters have not experienced the other side, if I ever get to see a WA Eagles game I think I would appreciate it more. But it still wouldn’t replace it for me, as I get to go home and forget about it.
Dont know why this thread is still going went back to ireland with elite fitness, struggled now comes back probably in worse condition than Walla ever was and is interviewing clubs like he is Gary Ablett jnr.
Whilst Port are older than Collingwood I must pull you up on the Magpie bit. Collingwood were the Magpies about 10 years before Port become the Magpies. Port were known as the Cockledivers before that time and for their first 30 years they played in firstly blue and white, then all Pink (nicknamed the Galahs) and then Magenta and Blue before finally adopting Black & White about 10 years after Collingwood had been wearing it.
Black and White was actually the SA state colours in football before Port came along.
Port actually ditched the Prison Bars and wore an identical kit to Collingwood in the mid 50’s for a year or so but then again Port fans are very good at trying to rewrite history.
This is some of their guernseys on display at Alberton
I’m led to believe that although they sometimes had the unofficial nickname of Galahs when they had the all pink outfit they were still mostly called the Cockledivers, Portonians and Mudholians to name a few but were mostly known as the Magentas up until the time they adopted B&W
