The thumbnail photoshop of the photo is almost misleading.
Doesn't make it look like they want to do "battle"
I am heaps into it & will be going for the Big V
I'm heaps into it & want to Kick & Vic
I'll go but will be unbiased & will clap good play
I'll watch on TV as I like footy
I couldn't give a stuff. It is a week off from footy.
The thumbnail photoshop of the photo is almost misleading.
Doesn't make it look like they want to do "battle"
He ate more cheese, than time allowed
Just heard on the radio that Tadhg was missing from training with the rest of the team on the G today.
CHER - Who has two types of blood cells "RED ones and WHITE ones"
Tadhg Kennelly will play, so will Jonathon Brown, but Gary Ablett is out with a calf injury. Will be interesting to see if he plays in Round 8.
I love the International Rules games but deplore the State of Origin games.
I must be the only person in the world who went to the SOO game where Ted Whitten was dragged out and paraded around who thought it was a disgrace. I only went because we were in Melbourne and couldn't believe there wasn't a proper game on. I was horrified and couldn't bear to watch.
I know every man and his dog goes on about how great it would have been to see and people say they wish they were there but I can't help how I felt. To me it was undignified and I cringed.I couldn't believe they would get someone who was dying and parade them around in front of all those people. I have never recovered from it and abhor SOO because of it.
Plugger played really well that day as did Mark Bayes and I can remember being impressed with the quick hands of the Geelong players for Victoria.Paul Roos didn't play. Ben Hart and Nigel Smart were swamped in the SA backline and it was very onesided.
"The Dog days are over, The Dog days are gone" Florence and the Machine
AFL must be the only professional sport with no representative competition.
A lot of fans want Origin, though there's no sign of the commission ever asking them (what's new).
Even the players want it:
'We want State of Origin': elite players | Herald Sun
What we have instead is an exhibition match to glorify 150 years of football in Victoria.
It'll be good to watch the best run around on Sat night, but the game is meaningless. Just another marketing exercise.
State-of-Origin matches are one area where rugby league has a clearly superior product to AFL. It's because league has two clearly branded rivals with strong identities in NSW & QLD - there is no parallel to this in AFL. And AFL has much stronger club rivalries than rugby league, which is why an entire round is devoted to it.
Last edited by Cheer Squad; 9th May 2008 at 09:17 AM.
I remember a story after a SOO (it may be true, it may not be true lol) That the SA fans were so pissed off after Victoria had beaten them, that the ripped off number plates of a car after the game, and did damage to the car. But the funny thing was, it was Tony Hall's car. A South Australian who was playing in Victoria at the time.
I heard that story on the radio one time.
They have Kick a Vic, we have Stone the Crows.
Wouldn't miss it - you just don't see two teams as good as that otherwise.
He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)
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