Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Off Topic => Sports Arena => Topic started by: Hillbilly on September 23, 2017, 12:11:45 PM
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Carn the Tiges!! First grand final since 1982. Last won in 1980. Nearly went to the wall in the meantime. There's hope for the Villa yet.
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Don't mind the AFL whenever I've seen it. But are the Brisbane Lions still rubbish?
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Yep. The dismal Lions finished bottom of the pile. Their time will come again.
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It'll be tough against the Crows though, they looked superb against Geelong.
I don't mind either of these two so add that to the Cowboys and Storm making it a Queensland dominated NRL Final and the Villa winning its been a good weekend.
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Yep. The dismal Lions finished bottom of the pile. Their time will come again.
Dramatic fall from grace as they were THE team when I lived in Oz 2004-06.
Colours not dissimilar to Villa (closer than some of our latest efforts anyroad) and they still had a bit of a support base in Fitzroy, where I spent most of my time. Called Brisbane but did an MK Dons from the Melbourne area about 10 years previous, IIRC. Aussies don't seem to take that sort of thing as personal as we do, though.
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Would love to visit Australia and see an AFL game!
...and five test matches as well!
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Like Brisbane due to their colours, the fact they're called the Lions and that they used to be the Bears.
Think the big teams were the Essendon Bombers, Collingwood, Hawthorn Hawks, Carlton and recently the Sydney Swans.
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Like Brisbane due to their colours, the fact they're called the Lions and that they used to be the Bears.
Fitzroy Lions went bankrupt and merged with the Brisbane Bears. The AFL strong armed the existing Brisbane Lions soccer club into handing over their name. The AFL can be pretty shady when it perceives a threat to its dominance.
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It'll be tough against the Crows though, they looked superb against Geelong.
I don't mind either of these two so add that to the Cowboys and Storm making it a Queensland dominated NRL Final and the Villa winning its been a good weekend.
The Crows are shit hot and Eddie Betts likes nothing more than scoring against Richmond. Gonna be tough.
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I am somewhat tired and emotional.
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Congratulations, an amazing performance by Richmond. 100,021 in attendance too.
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Not a huge AFL fan,but watch the odd game.
Checked on how my team the Brisbane Lions ate doing and surprisingly we are in the Grand Final against Collingwood.
Go Lions!
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Lost a close one by the sounds of it
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Behind for most of the match, but only one score in it.
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Over a week on and still all I can find to say is ‘Brisbane, you had one job…’
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Can’t believe there’s a footy thread here! Footy as in what us Melburnians usually refer to as footy.
Screw your Brisbane! Now we have 12 months of “the filth” that being Collingwood, Australia’s fanbase equivalent of the Bluenoses yapping at every given opportunity and level on 16 premierships with my Essendon and those Carlton scumbags.