When AFL rivarly is replaced with Sympathy...

Question

it is kind of nice don't you think ?

I am a melbourne supporter and I have to admit so many of the comments I have read from other team's supporters have been really kind....

it's nice to read and while not making up for my team losing .is better than reading cruel and nasty comments... that would be like kicking a team when they're down...

there's always next season hopefully.

Answer 1

Tsk Tsk Tsk

Poor little Jenny. Do you want a shoulder to cry on? Well, you can't have mine!!!

Ha ha ha ha......I hope they get beat by more next week!

Answer 2

Being a Carlton supporter, I know EXACTLY how you must be feeling. Like anyone needed to tell us we were playing like c**p!

I love footy and I love watching good teams in action. But thrashings like that, while they maybe part of the game, are not good for the game as a whole.

You have my sympathies anyway.

Answer 3

I have only recently started to "tease" other teams, it may be a coincidence that eagles have just started being picked on by other teams too, but what goes around comes around!! (Carlton in particular)

Thanks for keeping us of the bottom, i believe a wooden spoon cancels out a premiership... eagles 3 flags not a single wooden spoon. i would prefer to get 2nd best draft picks and never get wooden spoon although i hope you don't take rich and natinui great W.A young guns!!

Answer 4

I am always sympathetic to the underdog especially after the year we have had but I still hope you beat us to the wooden spoon.

Answer 5

I don't like to stir other supporters (unless they are carlton!) for losing, because I know it's not a very nice feeling! I've learnt to be humble in victory, because I know that because I support the Pies, people will stir me back as soon as we lose! I really hope that the Dees can win another game before season's end, I think their supporters deserve it!

Answer 6

Well I think some of the scorelines we have been seeing this season are disgraceful and I bet the powers that be in the AFL are finding it all a bit embarrassing.  I realize this will never happen but I think a relegation system would be the go - Like a Division 1 and a Div. 2 and maybe the last 2 teams go down and the top 2 teams in the lower Div. come up and that might have stopped ideas re tanking etc. for draft picks.  I love watching footy but I just cannot get interested when there is a complete blow out happening before my eyes and of course Geelong is the benchmark team lately and most of the teams just cannot get near them and even trying their best still doesn't help so in my book all round expectations should be that a team should always be in with a chance and have the ammunition to be a threat in any game and that is not happening right now.  Now my team, the Swans, for instance have you noticed that they always give of their best and are very rarely busted wide open in blow-out matches?  Even the one against Geelong earlier this year well we were in there alright but the brilliant player Gary Ablett just took that game in the end but the scoreline wasn't an absolute disgrace in the end (the last quarter did it).   For anyone to be playing in the AFL well they must have good sporting abilities to even be there and real gutsy efforts and never give up intent would surely pay even in a situation like last night where Melbourne should have maybe put a bit more in and if they had in fact tried their hearts out from beginning to end and still ended up with that scoreline then back to my relegation idea but yes I do have sympathy for your team for not being up to standard but more sympathy for the supporters.  Like Freo through this year have had some close matches but not won but the indication is that they have put in at least not to have massive blowouts usually.

Answer 7

Donkey d**k - I think that says it all.

Answer 8

I fully sympathise with any supporter whos team look really flat.... I have been a Geelong supporter for 30 years and over that time have seen them at their lowest and finally now we are witnessing greatness.... All teams go around in cycles.... continue to support your team throughout good and bad and you will one day be rewarded as I definatly have been in last season and this season.......

Hang in there Demon Fans!

Answer 9

There's always the Melbourne Storm.

Answer 10

hahaha gotta love the honesty from the first answer

Answer 11

being a doggie's supporter, i know what its like to be at the bottom, and nearly be out. and yer the sympathy is good, cos you know your team is goen crappy, u don't need to be told about it as well. and you don't really want to see any club struggling either. like melbourne this year.

Answer 12

Yep, I have lots of sympathy for Melbourne even though they are a tradition Collingwood rival.  Watching a Victorian team get thrashed is never a good thing.

I cant relate to the Carlton hatred..hehe I do enjoy seeing them lose but do try to be as nice as i possibly can towards the supporters (very very hard!!!)

Answer 13

even though im not a supporter of Melbourne (im actually i collingwood supporter so im not supposed to barrack for any team cept the pies) i really feel for them coz they are getting better as the season goes on and every team has had a bad loss this season even geelong. melbourne is a very young side and they are still learning, there is always next year and just think wce and port adelaide arnt doing all that well either. hopefully the dees can scrape another win this year.

Answer 14

Yeah, I feel sorry for teams when they're down....unless that team is Collingwood!

Yeah Rogue, i see wunda still hasnt got a life.....3 answers by the same bloke, now that is sad.

Loser!!

Answer 15

**I think it is nice.  I don't mind Melbourne, one of my best friends barracks for them so I haven't liked seeing them losing this year.  

I think if you give the club a few years then they'll come good.  They've got a lot of young players out there and these players need time to develop so it can be a frustrating time waiting for them.

It's not going to be Melbourne's year this year but I hope they play better next season.  

Keep your chin up mate, as you said, you'll get the good draft picks so there is at least one positive to take out of the season.**

Answer 16

Yeah its good how within all the supporters of the afl they still come out and pay respects to a club that may not be doing so well as others, im with you all the way mate, because im a big supporter of the west coast eagles who arent doing too well this year but to hear nice things, words of sympathy and words of encouragement, really boosts my personal belief in my side and it really does drive the rebuilding of a failing side.

I really do hope that melbourne come back within the next couple of years, they are a good side that deserves a taste of glory.

Answer 17

Your team is playing below standard because 90 per cent of them are barely able to vote yet - my team(Essendon)is in a low point because two-fifths of our list is off injured. Collingwood is in grim danger of dropping to eleventh or twelfth,because of the morale-bursting events of last weekend.

Geelong are a mighty combo because they are a real team, few egos showing, all at the right age and the right stage, and few lasting injuries.

Their luck will change at some time.Meanwhile it is a pleasure watching their expertise even when they belt your own team, because they DON'T crow - at least not in the media.

My dad, who played top level cricket and VFL as it was then, said "Modest in victory, gracious in defeat" - those people who are bagging Melbourne now will have their turn under the pump!

Heart up and wait for next year.

Answer 18

You wont gent any sympathy from me.

I loved watching them get flogged - just as I love watching any Melbourne based team getting a walloping.

Melbourne FC are an embarrassment & should be given the flick. They are a drain on the competition.