As an old Woodville fan from way back, I love Malcolm and the Messiah is pretty much spot on. We should have won one more. Dunno what happened in 99.

Think we should pump the breaks about making the top 4 though. We should finish there but there is plenty of time to completely drop our bundle.

Oh this isn't the AFL forum, perhaps we should close this thread or move it as it seems to have run it's course as a "football thread"?

Was at a work event yesterday and had a new guy from Qld introduced and interviewed on stage in front of everyone. The obligatory question 'welcome to Melbourne, which football AFL team do you support?" It's always asked in the first conversation when a new person comes along.

One of the things which contributes to Melbourne being voted the World's most liveable city year after year.

A close friend of mine working his way up the ladder, both he and his wife who was also a lawyer but having some time off with their new borns... anyways mu mate accepted a move to Melbourne to become a junior partner in the firm he worked for.

 He and his wife did not like sport at all, never watched anything sorta forced to watch the Olympics etc.... they had no interest what so ever in any code be it cricket, any of the Football codes... they did not play sport ... did not watch sport .... did not want to talk about sport ...

When he arrived in Melbourne, both he and his wife were advised by the senior partner to choose a side, so they both had to pick a side to follow... actually the other partners did for them and a few times a year they had to attend games. 

In time he transferred back to Sydney and has never been or talked about sport since he has been back accept to say it beyond crazy in Melbourne if you don't have an AFL team you can't do business... time wise this was about 17 years ago for the move and he lasted 3 years in the Melbourne practice. 

Hawthorn

Piggy from Coorparoo FTW

He doesn't sound like partner material.

I agree, Melbourne gets better when there's more non AFL people.

We of course have Victory to thank for Melbourne's seven year run as most livable city, the timing is no coincidence.

You'd think ISIS would've realised an obvious PR opportunity by now

I'm sure when they hand out awards, their gaze is drawn to a tiny football club.

Last time I was in Melbourne, I jagged some tickets in the TAB corporate box for the boxing day test. To break the ice I was asked which football team I support, when I told them Sydney FC, there was just a brief mention of how Basketball failed because something something and then AFL wasn't mentioned again and we were able to get shitfaced on free booze like normal, civilized people.

Cool story.

Haha i just won tickets in a box at an afl game this weekend... when they called to say id won and i needed to get together 7 other people i asked "is alcohol included" they luckily said yes... there was no fucking way i was going to go if booze wasn't included. 

tiny football club

>Melbourne Victory
>"tiny"



lolz. 10/10 trolling.

Trust me, you wont even see the game and will have a great time. Just be prepared for "that" question, you don't need to offend them and you will all get on fine and most importantly not have to talk about AFL all night.

Unless you decide you want to rile them up and say "sorry i don't follow a vfl team". 

Tell them you're from a long line of GWS fans

I think that could just provoke endless AFL discussion because they will be riled, If you are from Sydney just say Swans(no one follows GWS and if you say you do they might take you for some sort of AFL diehard) and if you are from Brisbane just say Brisbane( whatever you do don't say Fitzroy)

Oh it'll definitely provoke a reaction but that is the point, you channel your inner Pippinu and watch carnage ensue. 

Well, lets never forget that Pippinu never leaves his bedroom and there are reasons for that.

Of course. The good people at The Economist wouldn't know what handegg is.

Because it unlocks from the outside and they can't hear his cries through the padding on the wall?

I would love to move to Melbourne- and get to tell the locals that I don't follow an ALF club, have no intention of ever following one, have never been to an ALF match, and have no intention of ever going to one. So there...!

Ah, the  most liveable city survey results! It makes me laugh when this is trotted out year after year and everyone here feels good about themselves. The interesting thing is which survey you use. The EIU survey is usually presented as the be all and end all here in Melbourne, as its that one that has had us on top for the past 7 years. It is the survey usually quoted by the papers here, but very rarely does anyone actually investigate what criteria are used and the weighting used. It actually has a little bit of relevance to the average joe, but was primarily devised for setting remuneration levels for high paid globally mobile executives. It measures the availability of things like private education, good quality housing, quality of telecommunications infrastructure etc. It does not measure the cost of these things. It does include some references to general health and education indicators. What it does not do, is measure the average quality of life of the average citizen, but that is exactly how most people in the general public understand it and think what it does.
The other often quoted survey (Mercer) was created for, and based on, the most liveable city for high paid executives (e.g. like $500k plus earners) so that you would know what salary and relocation expenses would need to be paid to attract those people to different locations. So the survey includes things like average rent for high end apartment in inner city location and cost of private school fees at a top private school. The survey doesn't actually measure the 'liveability' of the average citizens of each city, but which city is the best place for a highly paid executive to live in. Having said that, it also does have reasonable correlation with the 'average joe' with a good job and an average house with average type expenses. In all reality, the top 60 or so cities in any of these surveys are pretty much much of a muchness so to speak and of course you have good and bad parts of a city and if you live in a slum area of Melbourne you might actually dream of living in an average area of Adelaide or Munich or wherever. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

You have obviously given this a lot of thought.

LOL!

Touche, TSF!

Great post, Localstar!

Here the papers are filled with saturation  AFL.

You may have a big anticlimax waiting for you...  I've been here 17 years and I've never noticed any particular shock or dismay from the locals when I tell them I don't have any interest whatsoever in their local league.

Yep.. I know heaps of people in Melbourne that couldn't give a stuff about AFL.

It's the papers and tv networks who have invested billions into the league that shove it down your throat.

When I was last in Melbourne with an English friend (straight off the boat) for the OZ tennis open. My friend was told politely by a local that in England you call it football, but in Australia we call it Soccer, to which I replied, I'm Australian & I call it football & if looks could kill I wouldn't be posting this.

Well, it sounds like you told them!

Isn't the Anti-Football League based in Melbourne?