cadete Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 Geelong Kittens did well tonight - beat an ok Sydney side and did not do too bad against the Saints (Completely inexperienced forward line cost us with lot of wasted forward entries). Motlop looks ready to go the season and Guthrie did fairly some pretty good thing as well. Everyone is pumped for the return to the KP Terrace for our next two games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dRoy Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 could i interest u in playin for the hawks this season big fella Wouldn't want to take big Maxys spot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cammo Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Play up Hawthorn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadete Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 The Kittens (Only 7 Premiership players played) did well on the Gold Coast, looks like if we beat Richmond we could be in the running for the NAB Cup GF. Motlop kicked 2 and apparently looked good again - saw him last week and he seems to have started to find his feet. Also excited by Guthrie being in the best players again. Hopefully the Media - Continues to pump the Pies and in particular Hawthorn's chance this year, nothing fuels a Cats Premiership campaign more than this kind of stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myki Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Looking forward to seeing how cooney, lake and higgins go around on shitihad tomorrow against the bluebaggers... one thinks if we are going to be competitive at all this season we need all three fit and firing on the park. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHFCRC Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Cooney and Lake in particular. Showed last year mid season when Cooney returned to his best and tore Carlton a new one. And obviously Lake at his best (if he gets there) is quality. Those two for and firing and maybe just maybe sneak into the 8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salzy Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Geelong premiers 2012. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marteaux Posted March 7, 2012 Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 And just when I thought Salzy couldn't get any gayer, he comes up with this shit. What the fuck, man? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadete Posted March 7, 2012 Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 And just when I thought Salzy couldn't get any gayer, he comes up with this shit. What the fuck, man? Strong Dresser (Not a follower), Strong Club... makes prefect sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salzy Posted March 11, 2012 Report Share Posted March 11, 2012 And just when I thought Salzy couldn't get any gayer, he comes up with this shit. What the fuck, man? rof, collingwood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toogood18 Posted March 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2012 Get on West Coast for the NAB cup, they have a better team in than Adelaide I reckon, should win by 4-5 goals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadete Posted March 15, 2012 Report Share Posted March 15, 2012 Get on West Coast for the NAB cup, they have a better team in than Adelaide I reckon, should win by 4-5 goals. Hardly a scoop... Its pity its such a boring combination of teams in turns of viewer interest over here - I know they would argue much differently in SA and WA but a Preseason Cup final with two of the bigger Victorian clubs always seems to give the proper season a better kickstart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JVR04 Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 decided im going to get on GWS having a Neighbour in the squad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomby Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 R.I.P Jimmy Stynes, you were an inspiration to us all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadete Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 (edited) A Gentleman who provided the perfect example for Footballers and everyone else in this country on how to conduct themselves in all avenues of life. It’s not often a Brownlow Medallist leaves a bigger legacy as a man than a player. Jimmy did far above this with his work for preventing Racism and Intolerance and later his selfish efforts to save the club he loved. I have genuinely never been more upset over the death of someone I never knew... and I don’t even particularly like the MFC. I pray for his wife and kids in this trying time. Edited March 19, 2012 by cadete 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomby Posted March 22, 2012 Report Share Posted March 22, 2012 (edited) Wow Akermanis is a disrespectul bastard, have a read of this. http://wwos.ninemsn....aspx?id=8439611 Edited March 22, 2012 by tomby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danepak Posted March 22, 2012 Report Share Posted March 22, 2012 Akermanis is a prick. On SEN 1116, they were talking about him and lots of people called in. People were talking about what punishment he should receive bla bla bla. The only punishment that actually would work, would be if the media decided to ignore the guy totally. Basically push the guy out in the cold forever and let him be forgotten. But at the end of the day, the media wants Akermanis to say these things. Why? Because it sells newspapers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toogood18 Posted March 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 Sydney to beat GWS by 77 points Watch out for Dylan Shiel, he will be an absolute jet (FROM GWS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JVR04 Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 decided im going to get on GWS having a Neighbour in the squad. Sydney to beat GWS by 77 points Watch out for Dylan Shiel, he will be an absolute jet (FROM GWS lol that would be my Neighbour had a kick with him at the local oval a couple of times and he probably missed 2 out of 80 even though he isn't a forward he has a really good kick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Team is called Northern Blues, yet play in Red. Fuck them. VFA dieing a slow death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchPride Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Fuck off pls, can't live with this shit every weekend for 6 months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendo Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Western Bulldogs, shit team, shit club, shit followers, fascist chairman etc... Alberta network, fuck off dogs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thalfie Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 ADELAIDE CROWS 2012 (YYYY) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilsonMHFC Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Team is called Northern Blues, yet play in Red. Fuck them. VFA dieing a slow death. Were previously Northern Bullants who wore red, nts why they havent changed there tops to blue considering there name and there Carltons reserves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchPride Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Roffffff oh god, 18 faggots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Hendo tryhard ^ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Were previously Northern Bullants who wore red, nts why they havent changed there tops to blue considering there name and there Carltons reserves. Trying to keep their ties with Preston fans. Dipshits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dRoy Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Were previously Northern Bullants who wore red, nts why they havent changed there tops to blue considering there name and there Carltons reserves. They are northern blues. They play in dark blue. But I'm sure you would have noticed the team they played today also wore dark blue. So Northern wore their alternate jersey. Which was similar to their Northern Bullants jersey. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Bit random, but found these. Might bring back a few memories for the older lads. Someone loved taping Weagles losses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2xyTK3QQjI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marteaux Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Cringe to think what the score line is going to be when Geelong play GWS. Records to be broken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Rookie v Rookie. Won't be that high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braveheart Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Western Bulldogs, shit team, shit club, shit followers, fascist chairman etc... Alberta network, fuck off dogs. back to the newcastle Jets forum for you, mate. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deviant Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Northern blues will play in Red when they play in Preston. And Navy blue when they play at Visy park. Red because of Bullants heritage. Blue because of the affiliation with Carlton Football Club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadete Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Northern blues will play in Red when they play in Preston. And Navy blue when they play at Visy park. Red because of Bullants heritage. Blue because of the affiliation with Carlton Football Club. Needless to say that play the vast majority of their games at Visy Park. No real Preston supporter would support whatever this “Northern Blues” thing is... I mean FFS most of them left when Carlton got involved in the first place, Preston supporters were famous for usually being Pies supporters as well. Only two real VFA teams exist: Port and Frankston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dRoy Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Northern blues will play in Red when they play in Preston. And Navy blue when they play at Visy park. Red because of Bullants heritage. Blue because of the affiliation with Carlton Football Club. They will also wear Red when their Blue top clashes with the home opposition. Like we saw on the weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FB. Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 Already know most of this stuff, but thought this was a pretty intresting read none the less on hooliganism around Melbourne during the early days of Aussie Rules. One of the main reasons that North Melbourne was actually denied entry to the VFL for over 30 years, was because of the strong hooligan elelement that used to follow the club during that time. Some of the stories I've heard around the social club from the old timers about the riots and fights that used to happen at matches in the early 1900's are incredible. As an aside, incoprataing the word 'Pusch' or 'Larries' into a firm name would actually be pretty cool & historically relevant to our cities history aswell.... It’s timely that this week we should be dealing with the subject of larrikins and crowd behaviour in our historical article, given the furore surrounding crowd behaviour at the football this week and its stated deleterious effects. If the AFL are concerned about isolated and ugly events in the outer at the football today, they would have gone into paroxysms were they to be transported back in time to the late 19th and early 20th centuries when football crowd behaviour was altogether more brutal and vitriolic. That’s not to suggest that these behaviours are desirable today, but more so to point to how different our society was back then and, perhaps surprisingly, how little an impact such behaviour seemed to have on the popularity of football. Larrikins a shouting The term larrikin during the 1980s took on a decidedly mild and jocular connotation, usually used to describe a knock-about character with an irreverent sense of humour, like Paul Hogan, John Singleton or Bob Hawke. But the larrikin of a century earlier was a decidedly more menacing creature who broke up bars, smashed shop windows, engaged in sprawling street fights, pelted the Salvation Army with assorted missiles and brazenly fought police. Organised into gangs known as Pushes, every working-class suburb of Melbourne had them and often several. The composition of Pushes was not always drawn from a destitute under-class of unemployed, but often from young working men employed in local industry. Some of the Push names indicate the extent to which these young men were economically integrated, such as the Williamstown Nuggets (whose members were drawn from the boot polish factory), but most took their names from local streets and landmarks which marked their territory, such as: the Hoddle Street Lairies of Collingwood, the Moore Street Push of Footscray, the Rowena Parade Rats of Richmond, the Woolpacks (whose base was the Woolpack Hotel) of Carlton and the Primrose Push of Fitzroy. The scale of larrikin violence became a cause of public concern and the lexicon of the Pushes gives an indication of their cavalier attitude to law and order. In the larrikin dictionary an ‘Academy’ was a prison of reformatory, ‘air and exercise’ meant a short spell in jail; an ‘amuser’ was a thieves assistant who threw pepper or snuff into a victim’s face; a ‘beak’ was a magistrate; ‘copped’ referred to being hanged or arrested; ‘hang up’ meant to garrotte, ‘kinchin coves’ referred to boys who were taught how to steal, while ‘barrikin’ referred to the deployment of offensive language in supporting your own side. The larrikin was nothing if not parochial in their violent suburban sympathies and they made regular appearances at football matches – often seeing off an opposition team or umpire with a hail of stones. What may surprise some readers is that they did not always stand out from the rest of the crowd in early football games. Our first port of call in our study of the larrikin in football is North Melbourne and its vociferous crowds. Shin-boners and bone crunchers The North Melbourne Football Club’s famous moniker, the ‘Shin-Boners’, was like the names of the Pushes of Melbourne, locally derived. As a suburb housing multiple abattoirs and meat-works from the later part of the 19th century, the North Melbourne fans stamped their own unique trademark on the club in more ways than one. The local Pushes of North Melbourne included the notorious Crutchy Street Push, many of whose members became crippled and were tied up with court cases involving murder and stand-over tactics, as well as the Coffins. At one game played between Footscray and North Melbourne on 26 August 1899, the Crutchy Push, ‘wearing bell-toppers with blue and white streamers, attempted to rush the reserve’, and ‘to scale the fence’ before they were ejected by police who scoured the boundary, but not before ‘several blows were struck’. And yet the Crutchy Push were hardly unique so far as riotous behaviour was concerned at football matches. Already by 1890, the ‘North Melbourne ladies’ enjoyed a reputation for their practice of driving hatpins into the arms and legs of opposing players passing to the dressing room. At one famous game played between North and Collingwood on 25 July 1896, the game descended into a violent free-for-all with the crowd spilling onto the ground. A report of the time noted that a ‘brazen faced shrew’ popped umpire Roberts in the face at half time and the violence spilled over at the games conclusion when a crowd stormed the ground, making a bee-line for Umpire Roberts who was accused of bias against North. In the ensuing melee, one ‘scoundrel’ was seen ‘wielding what looked like a bar of iron concealed in wrappings of brown paper’ and Roberts was only saved when Collingwood defender, Bill Proudfoot, a police constable, shielded Roberts from the blows. North was also shielded in another respect by Collingwood when its captain and ex-Carlton player, Bill Strickland, stated the club held no malice toward North Melbourne, with Strickland recalling that the riotous behaviour was redolent of the Carlton-Hotham (North Melbourne) clashes of the 1880s. Such behaviour was sheeted home by Strickland to the behaviour of a small number of hooligans. The press wondered if a stint in prison might not cool the ardour of such larrikins, while other journalists wondered what might eventuate when Collingwood was first defeated at Victoria Park. It is presumably for this reason that no Collingwood official is recorded as speaking out against North Melbourne’s application for admission to the VFL when it was formed in 1897. Such a trenchant statement might have become an albatross around Collingwood’s neck in the likely event that Collingwood might soon be defeated at their own home ground. There is no doubt that Pushes supplemented their violent nocturnal activities with visits to that most parochial theatre of suburban pride, Saturday afternoon football. But what is not clear is where the general violence of North Melbourne supporters (and as we’ll see later, many club fans) ended and the Pushes began. As we’ve already seen, the North Melbourne ladies had their own violent reputations in the 1890s, while the North Melbourne President from 1902-11, George Prendergast, was described by the Melbourne Punch as a violent demagogue. In 1940, the Vice President of North Melbourne, Alphonsus Vincent Tobin and his wife, were charged for a brawl on Station Pier at Port Melbourne and at the North Melbourne Football Club picnic on the 7th March. The reality was that football in the 19th and early 20th centuries reflected the brutal realities of society – during the savage Depression of the 1890s and the harsh realities of working-class existence for much of the 20th century. Football administrations knew that and knew how to respond to such charges. When the English rugby team visited in 1899, the Melbourne Mayor and shipping magnate, Malcolm McEarcharn, stated that ‘it is really something appalling to attend a football match here’ where fans ‘attend their either to hoot or create trouble. ’ It was left to Collingwood president, William Beazley, to defend the game at a later VFL reception. In a further defence of the game, McEarchan’s comments were described as ‘a prime example of forelock tugging before the noble English.’ But this revulsion at the new phase of the game – from one originating as a noble leisure activity of the respectable classes in the 1860s to one enjoyed by increasing numbers of Melbourne’s toilers from the 1870s – was an increasingly strident theme. By the 1890s and in multiple guises, sections of Melbourne’s respectable classes assailed the game and its supporters, particularly the barracker. Indeed the football barracker – now a harmless phrase but then a pejorative term, like the term ‘larrikin’ – was cast into a debauched pseudo-scientific category by the anthropologist, Dr P. Maloney, who delivered a lecture on sport at Melbourne University: “The cheer, the jeer, the howl, the yell, the scream, the boo-haa-haa are as unavoidable as the notes in an octave. To demonstrate the savage in our blood we need only look at the barracker – the most offensive parasite that has ever battened on a manly game.” In North Melbourne during the 1890s, the ground- as more generally – was controlled not by the football club, but by a board of trustees who bemoaned the fact that: “every common barracker and low ruffian who puts up his sixpence is at liberty to enter, and not only to enter, but to disgust the more respectable section of the occupants with the vilest of language, and even…to batter inoffensive and unprotected umpires.” Given that North Melbourne was a thoroughly working-class suburb, it is no surprise to find that common barrackers were, well, common and that it was not always easy to distinguish between larrikin behaviour and the general North Melbourne football population. But as should be clear by now, while there did exist discrete Pushes and gangs, they were not always a separate and disenfranchised group, but rather part of a continuum in an age of economic and social cleavage. Nor was North Melbourne unique in this regard. We will have further occasion to look at the behaviour of football fans, clubs and Pushes in subsequent articles, but our next port of call takes will take us back to the respectable patrons of football. - The Iron Sock 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazzatron Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 Good read, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toogood18 Posted March 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Hopefully the pies get up tonight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toogood18 Posted March 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Bloody ripper game tonight, the score didn't truly reflect how close the game was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salzy Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 Matthew Scarlett, what a champ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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