Bring back footy

[Hellenic Tiger]

I still love the Y&B but my overall opinion of footy is that
it completely sucks.

No soul left in the game.

Arsholes like Gary Ablett junior,cussing @ the brownlow because a team mate was awarded the votes,
the media and it's saturation of anything....it's a effen sham and I for one don't miss it at all.

Totally agree

This continued corporatisation of the sport at the expense of supporters who have supported it for 100 years sickens me. As long as football remained just a mere spectator sport it had a soul and a character. Now look at it. Die hard fans like us are being sacrificed for the yuppie corporate types who maybe 10 years ago considered the sport bogan ball and who had probably never ever gone to the footy to sit in the outer or if they went it was merely to network with either like minded individuals in a corporate box to share business ideas with the footy and the result of the match a secondary issue.

Furthermore it is these sort of new supporters who have added to the sterility of the atmosphere inside the stadiums. 40000 people go and you can hear a pin drop on occassions and these people have no valid opinions on the sport and would not know who coached their footy club 15 years ago let alone when their teams last flag was. For these types of people the footy is just an avenue in their lives where they can say to co workers on a Monday at work that they went to over the weekend.

This corporatisation has left a sour taste in alot of fans mouths. Just look at the tix allocation to the competing teams on the GF. Why should they pay 2K to go to centre square when all they want to do is watch their team play in the big one. Or why should these new fans have the right to clap off their team even after a humiliating loss and tell a fan they are not a real supporter merely b/c they are not happy at the teams performance.

The demographic of the footy supporter has changed unfortunantely and changed dramtically.
Do I miss the footy which was the original question in this post. Yes I do I have missed it for years now to be exact possibly the mid to late 90's just before corporatisation really began to take over the sport which although professionalism is great fr the players it has cost the sport its soul and true value of the real die hard supporter.

I miss the footy on a week to week basis as the footy has been the common interest for me and my mates for the last 15 years especially as our lives has taken separate directions due to the demands of our lives, but I am disgruntled in the way the footy has gone and that I don't miss. The sport is being rendered soulless spineless and characterless just look at the players, very few characters in any team as opposed to when I was growing up in the 70's and 80's.

The future will only bring further disenchantment from the average fan to the point where we will be watching one day from our armchairs in our lounge room while nobodies won't know how to react to a close game and thus add further sterility to a sport whose passion for its real fans is waning fast.

Moi it is people like you who have made our footy clubs what they are and give people like me the opportunity to continue to passionately support my club through your diligence patience hard work and passion and dedication. Enjoy your retirement you have earnt it. Hopefully the Tiggers can give you a few more years of pure unadulterated joy before many of us will be phased out for the corporate types. 
 

[Moi]

This continued corporatisation of the sport at the expense of supporters who have supported it for 100 years sickens me.

You been listening to Sam Kekovich, hey Hellenic lol

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=498964&highlight=Sam+Kekovich

My fellow Australians,

I’ve been invited here to talk to Centre Square, in these big marquees on Punt Road Oval. And speaking of Punt Road Oval, let me tell you something for nothing - Jack Dyer would be spinning in his grave if he could see the place right now. Full of a bunch of Collins Street corporate criminals, Chapel Street designer cats and Toorak poodle rooters who have about as much interest in football as Paris Hilton has an interest in astrophysics.

Captain Blood didn’t break every bone in his body and commit multiple acts of on-field heroism and homicide so he could see his beloved home ground turned into an over-priced pre-match party for chardonnay-swilling spivs and their assorted hangers-on attending their one footy match of the year, whilst tens of thousands of hard-working honest battlers who love the game and love their team are denied the chance to attend the greatest game in the world.

I’ve had a gutful. Whilst this bunch of Armani-wearing, Audi-driving, Prada-carrying try-hards monopolise priceless vantage points in the MCG, millions of genuine footy fans who have followed their team through thick and thin have to make do by watching the game at home or down at the local pub, whilst the Melbourne spivocracy get to sit on their fat posteriors in a marquee and wouldn’t even know the way to the MCG without a tour guide.

Since most of you haven’t attended a single match this year and know nothing about football, let me give you a few tips – Geelong wears blue, Hawthorn wears brown, and in case you were wondering, there’ll be no fashions on the field at half-time, and no, the Lexus Centre across the road is not a prestige car dealership.

Centre Square is not only unfair. Centre Square is not only inequitable. Centre Square is downright un-Australian! And so are all of you! In fact, I bet you’re all so un-Australian that you all hate the Anzacs, you booed Cathy Freeman, and you want to cull cute cuddly koalas because one of them once jumped out in front of your Range Rover on the way to Mount Hotham.

But it’s not just you who are at fault. I also blame the AFL – those out-of-touch, opera-loving elitists at AFL headquarters who are responsible for this unconscionable abomination need to take a good hard look in the mirror. That is if they can handle the sight of moral and spiritual bankruptcy staring back at them.

I also blame the government. Our new Prime Minister has clearly failed his first test of leadership if he thinks it’s acceptable to allow an event like this to go ahead without a pre-emptive strike by the SAS. The PM is doing nothing to ease the squeeze on working families on the bottom rung of the ladder of opportunity who just want to see their team in the Granny. But he’d better get his act together and do something about it, or millions of angry footy fans will do it for him. Revolutions have been started and governments have been overthrown for lesser outrages than this. And people ask why we need capital punishment.

So cut off your silver tails, tear up your fur coats and get fair dinkum. Our great Australian game is the greatest game in the world – the game of the people. Not some once-a-year marquee pee-up for an overpaid, over-dressed pack of passionless corporate cretins who only turn up for the free chardonnay and then spend the actual game looking about as interested and excited as a line of Easter Island statues.

So don’t bother coming across to the MCG this afternoon, because you’re not welcome. The next train out of Melbourne leaves Richmond station in 10 minutes – so make sure you’re on it. Or, better still, under it.

So don’t be un-Australian - everyone here in Centre Square can get stuffed! You know it makes sense. I’m Sam Kekovich.

 

[Moi]

Moi it is people like you who have made our footy clubs what they are and give people like me the opportunity to continue to passionately support my club through your diligence patience hard work and passion and dedication. Enjoy your retirement you have earnt it. Hopefully the Tiggers can give you a few more years of pure unadulterated joy before many of us will be phased out for the corporate types. 

Thanks dude!  There are some really passionate people who just live for the club.  I luv the club to death but some people know no bounds and I dips my lid to them.
Some other people on this board who do an awful lot as well - no names no packdrill, because they're not as arrogant as me and wouldn't dare dream of putting the crap I just put on here lol.  Dermott is my middle name sometimes lol

I got involved way back during Save our Skins.  I just figured that if the club was gonna die, it wouldn't be because I didn't try and do my bit.

So I rang up the club, left a message if they needed any help to just call me.  Never expecting a return phone call.  But lo and behold Neville Crowe rang me back and he said come on board.

I knew Alice Wills from my cheer squad days, and she was down there asking for volunteers, so I got involved there.

Nineteen years later, I reckon it was the best thing I ever did.  I have met some fantastic people ever since like WP and others.  Not just the people you know around the club but those you don't.  I've been on committees of coterie groups, to getting spat on at Waverley during the SOS campaign by Collingwood supporters in the finals there, while we grovelled for money to save ourselves.

I've also been to lots and lots of parties and celebrations, and lots of nights of commisserations as well, that seemed like funerals.

So I never died wondrin' whether my club would survive or not.  If they got to be in the same position again, I'd do it again, because it's well worth the effort to get involved and I hope others don't think that those up themselves corporates will do it for us.  Without them as well, I guess, we wouldn't be here, so I guess they have their place as well, but not in preference to the ordinary supporter.

I still luv footy, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten involved for 10 years on message boards lol, but going to games is not like it used to be.  If I do go next year, I'll just get a normal membership, reserve seat and go and sit with the hordes, and see if that reignites the passion I used to have.

I luv footy, but it's a very sterile environment at the moment.

[Bene Boy]

Moi it is people like you who have made our footy clubs what they are and give people like me the opportunity to continue to passionately support my club through your diligence patience hard work and passion and dedication. Enjoy your retirement you have earnt it. Hopefully the Tiggers can give you a few more years of pure unadulterated joy before many of us will be phased out for the corporate types. 

Thanks dude!  There are some really passionate people who just live for the club.  I luv the club to death but some people know no bounds and I dips my lid to them.
Some other people on this board who do an awful lot as well - no names no packdrill, because they're not as arrogant as me and wouldn't dare dream of putting the crap I just put on here lol.  Dermott is my middle name sometimes lol

I got involved way back during Save our Skins.  I just figured that if the club was gonna die, it wouldn't be because I didn't try and do my bit.

So I rang up the club, left a message if they needed any help to just call me.  Never expecting a return phone call.  But lo and behold Neville Crowe rang me back and he said come on board.

I knew Alice Wills from my cheer squad days, and she was down there asking for volunteers, so I got involved there.

Nineteen years later, I reckon it was the best thing I ever did.  I have met some fantastic people ever since like WP and others.  Not just the people you know around the club but those you don't.  I've been on committees of coterie groups, to getting spat on at Waverley during the SOS campaign by Collingwood supporters in the finals there, while we grovelled for money to save ourselves.

I've also been to lots and lots of parties and celebrations, and lots of nights of commisserations as well, that seemed like funerals.

So I never died wondrin' whether my club would survive or not.  If they got to be in the same position again, I'd do it again, because it's well worth the effort to get involved and I hope others don't think that those up themselves corporates will do it for us.  Without them as well, I guess, we wouldn't be here, so I guess they have their place as well, but not in preference to the ordinary supporter.

I still luv footy, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten involved for 10 years on message boards lol, but going to games is not like it used to be.  If I do go next year, I'll just get a normal membership, reserve seat and go and sit with the hordes, and see if that reignites the passion I used to have.

I luv footy, but it's a very sterile environment at the moment.

  POST OF THE YEAR

[mightytiges]

I still luv footy, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten involved for 10 years on message boards lol, but going to games is not like it used to be.  If I do go next year, I'll just get a normal membership, reserve seat and go and sit with the hordes, and see if that reignites the passion I used to have.

If you're going to sit with us plebs I will just have to come by and annoy you lol.

[Moi]

I still luv footy, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten involved for 10 years on message boards lol, but going to games is not like it used to be.  If I do go next year, I'll just get a normal membership, reserve seat and go and sit with the hordes, and see if that reignites the passion I used to have.

If you're going to sit with us plebs I will just have to come by and annoy you lol.

Don't make statements you'll more than likely regret lol 

[WilliamPowell]

Terrific post Moi 

If you're going to sit with us plebs I will just have to come by and annoy you lol.

Better Moi than me in the Snob room

[Infamy]

You been listening to Sam Kekovich, hey Hellenic lol

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=498964&highlight=Sam+Kekovich

My fellow Australians,

......

So don’t be un-Australian - everyone here in Centre Square can get stuffed! You know it makes sense. I’m Sam Kekovich.

 

Sam Kekovic never actually said that, its a parody, but a good one and very true