Dogs savage Swans at Manuka

Essendon supporter S4anta, done by Carlton, oh the shame. Get a Collingwood / Essendon match at Bruce and then you can make an assessment of who wants to see what code!!

The footy is back this weekend with the Western Bulldogs v Richmond Tigers, playing at Manuka Oval again.

I think it will get around 7000 or so this time round.

As for Bundybear…Collingwood? Eddie Maguire? Who are you trying to kid???

you are going to have to die for that comment bundybear.

I used to go to Cosmos games, where the crowd figure of 2-3000 was optimistic to say the least.

Stan – your use of the Olympic soccer as an example belies that fact that people attended as they wanted to feel part of the Olympics when they realised every good ticket to anything cost a small countried GDP, or were given to corporates. I went to a frigging hockey game between 11th and 12th and some other debacle (thanks ex-ho of the time) where 12000 people turned up to be part of the ‘experience’. Read nothing into them…

Lets face it – AFL dominates Victoria, SA, NT, Tas and WA. League dominates Sydney and Brisbane. Union is watched by ex-private school boys and corporate types with superiority complexes who see themselves better than the hoi polloi who follow league.

And soccer has developed into a serious contended with the A-League being the most popular summer football code in Australia through a good balance of limited product (keep the punters wanting more), good marketing esp in Melbourne, and the removal of ethnic based rivalries uniting cities in the case of the Victory and Syd FC…

Gay.F.L.

C’mon guys, let’s get real here, the whole of Australia knows and recognises the superiority of Collingwood over all other clubs in all other codes. And we have Eddie, how can you top that???

I’m probably wasting my breath (or whatever the online equivalent is) but…

“soccer is a great game, for kids, girls, less developed countries”

So according to you, basically every nation on earth other than Australia is “less developed”?

“Riots and racial conflict”

More people arrested at the cricket than the soccer and there were ‘riots’ at the tennis this year. Are those sports ‘woeful’? AFL players seem to have a nasty habit of drunken assualt, how woeful is that?

“afl world domination is only just beginning.”

In 150 years you’ve conquered the east coast of one Island nation, so world domination might take a bit longer. But good luck with that, I’ll look out for the next AFL world cup (my tip is Australia v um…Australia B in the final)

The founder of AFL, Tom Willis, commited suicide by stabbing himself with a pair of scissors.

I think I’ll stick with the foot shooters.

soccer is a great game, for kids, girls, less developed countries etc.

but the way the local soccer comp has managed itself over the years has been woeful.

riots, racial conflict, endless banging on about ‘the world game’… you name it.

every time the soccer people claim that soccer is about to become the most poular sport in aus (apparently they base this on the fact that few other countries have developed their own game, its a cultural cringe thing that those with inferiority complexes cling to) i just wait for the inevitable foot shooting to begin.

ie: the gracious handling of defeat by adelaide…

the sooner soccer fades away again the better.

you don’t need to be a fan of the game, bonfire, but why do you seem to resent football (fusbol, soccer, whatever)?

i was going to mention the olympic crowd before i saw stan bowles did… with few [none] other games of a real competitive nature to compare, i think you’d be suprised if a fair dunkum game was played here. don’t rekkun bruce would cope with the numbers, me…

reached its peak? watch that space!

yeah 7 years ago!

just wait for the soccer peopel to shoot themselves in the foot – again.

i note the gracious way adelaide handled losing their grand final.

i would say that soccer is the sport that has reached its peak.

afl world domination is only just beginning.