What are the main reasons many Victorians resent the forming of the AFL from the old VFL?

Question

Is it because you don't like seeing the cup going across interstate borders so often; your team has a lesser chance; you are jealous of other states; you can't poach the best players from other states, like in the old VFL days; the draft; the salary cap;......there must be a reason as many Vic footy fans absolutely hate all interstate teams.

The rugby codes & soccer fans don't carry on in this manner.

Answer 1

The main reason is......they are Victorians!

Answer 2

I personally like the competition as a national competition, even though I am Victorian. I think the reason people dislike interstate teams is because they have dominated for a long period of time, since 2001. It was only last year that a Victorian team won the flag for the first time in about 6 years.

Answer 3

Sour grapes mate.

Answer 4

I think the main reason is the one you have listed first - the sight of the cup going out of Victoria,

Many Victorians still hate the Eagles for being the first to win the flag - as a team outside Victoria. I was at that game, with friends, & the abuse & obsceneties directed at our women folk by Geelong supporters was unbelieveable. After that day, nothing that Victorian fans come up with, suprises me.

Answer 5

Because most of the new teams - perhaps with the exception of West Coast and Adelaide who would always be competitive have been given a golden ride by the AFL.  Premier draft picks, amazing umpiring leniency and guys like Goodes getting off at the Tribunal every freakin time.  Sydney needs a hero so let the dude off no matter how bad it is.

Some of the Victorian teams had to give up half their teams to form some of these interstaters at bargain prices.  Bleating left, right and centre about how South/West/North Australians should return home.  Yeah fine but those clubs had paid good money for them.

And by the way - I'm not a Victorian before you get into me.  I played in Sydney in the hope of an AFL team coming there.

Answer 6

it's a loss of tradition and passion ...

and the demise of the grassroots supporter base.. and the rise of the Corporate world of money grubbing sponsorship ..

Answer 7

the main reason i believe and im sure youll agree is that its to much for them seeing the interstate teams lift the cup as often as they have in the last 10 years. sour grapes. The big clubs (pies, bombers, richmond, carlton), who once had a considerably easier path to a premiership have been forced to contend with the dominant lions, port, sydney, adelaide and eagles of late. Its too hard for them.  jealousy comes into it but i think they are sik of seeing the interstate teams dominate the competition. tough luck deal with it, and focus on winning a flag (pies, bombers,richmond, carlton.)!!!!!!!

in the last 10 years

1997- adelaide

1998- adelaide

1999- north

2000 - bombers

2001- lions

2002 - lions

2003- lions

2004- port

2005- sydney

2006 west coast

2007 - need i remond you 'the cats'

say no more.

Answer 8

just the feral fans buddy like yourself

but i would have your baby though

Answer 9

I miss the real rivalry that the vic clubs had, part of the tradition has been lost. There are other reasons why people don't like it especially with the new club in the next 2 seasons.

Premier draft picks, and financial aid just because a new club is starting up while cash stricken clubs are left to suffer. That doesn't seem fair to the clubs that actually need the $$$

Just think in 2 years time it all happens again even 16th place wont get the number 1 pick I think they have to wait to pick 5 not only that but if you have uncontracted players they get first dibs at them too. Sounds like an armchair ride to quickly becoming a powerhouse.

Hopefully the young guys on the Hawthorn list will be signed up for a long time and no 1 or 2 year deals.

Answer 10

At the time the game was reaching out to the teams in SA WA and points north, the old tradition of a football game played by mates and watched by their families and girlfriends developed into the brouhaha of the Sydney Swans and Edelsten.

As well, the (now)AFL have given certain non-Victorian sides a real boost, money handouts, and allowing people to get off easily at the tribunal for things Victorian players would be banned for the year.Do we need to name a name this week?

Port Adelaide was a real footy team before it went AFL, but other teams were synthesised for marketing purposes, and people in Vic who love the game would like a bit of a purge taken to the marketing frills, let's go back to playing footy please.

Having said that, there is only one team I don't like(the supporters)and it's a Vic team with navy blue sweaters, when they wear their real ones I mean.Which is another thing the AFL have to answer for!

Answer 11

Coming from interstate myself (ie not Victoria), it would appear that it is a simple case of losing tradition. It was the VFL for soooo  long and for some reason, the change just has not been accepted! But for goodness sakes, there has been interstate teams involved for how long now?? Concessions given should have well and truly been forgotten and everyone should just harden up and deal with it. The sport was always going to head down the corporate dollar path as everything else has these days. We can't live in the 70's for ever!! (NB Soccer fans just beat each other up in the stands....Apologies for genaralisation....)

Raoriswar: you only have to read the comments made in this forum to know how popular the non victorian teams are.

Answer 12

So you surveyed many Victorians before you asked this question right?

Thought not

Answer 13

About 10 years ago they surveyed people in Melbourne about the national league and over 80% wanted to back to the AFL.

They loved it when they thrashed the interstate teams but don't like it now the boots on the other foot.

They have to accept that the competition needs to lose a few Melbourne teams like North Melbourne, Melbourne and Richmond and replace them with teams from Gold Coast, Sydney and Tassy.

Answer 14

They are still taking their insular pills.

Silly Mexicans

Answer 15

Nah mate i rekon its because us Victorians are sick and tired of the Cocky *** interstate Players(I said players NOT supporters)....

I dont hate the Interstate teams anyway..

Sydney maybe an interstate team but it's heart and history is still with Melbourne...

Answer 16

I don't hate it, I realise that the only way for the game to survive is to go national. But the reason many people do is that VFL footy is a Victorian game, and that's the way they like it. I wasn't happy when South Melbourne and Fitzroy went interstate, but now I can see the spirit of those teams in Sydney and Brisbane. And as far as hating interstate teams goes - I don't particularly like the interstaters, but there's only one team I hate (and I AM Victorian), and that's Carlton. So, no, I have accepted the AFL, you gotta move with the times.