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Title: AFL grand final 2017
Post by: Hillbilly on September 23, 2017, 12:11:45 PM
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.

Title: Re: AFL grand final 2017
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on September 23, 2017, 05:59:35 PM
Don't mind the AFL whenever I've seen it. But are the Brisbane Lions still rubbish?
Title: Re: AFL grand final 2017
Post by: Hillbilly on September 24, 2017, 12:00:16 PM
Yep. The dismal Lions finished bottom of the pile. Their time will come again.
Title: Re: AFL grand final 2017
Post by: OzVilla on September 24, 2017, 12:05:28 PM
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.
Title: Re: AFL grand final 2017
Post by: KevinGage on September 24, 2017, 01:37:12 PM
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.
Title: Re: AFL grand final 2017
Post by: CT on September 24, 2017, 07:50:25 PM
Would love to visit Australia and see an AFL game!

...and five test matches as well!
Title: Re: AFL grand final 2017
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on September 24, 2017, 11:49:41 PM
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.
Title: Re: AFL grand final 2017
Post by: Hillbilly on September 25, 2017, 11:45:40 AM
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.
Title: Re: AFL grand final 2017
Post by: Hillbilly on September 25, 2017, 11:48:35 AM
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.
Title: Re: AFL grand final 2017
Post by: Hillbilly on September 30, 2017, 11:15:49 AM
I am somewhat tired and emotional.
Title: Re: AFL grand final 2017
Post by: OzVilla on September 30, 2017, 01:03:36 PM
Congratulations, an amazing performance by Richmond. 100,021 in attendance too.
Title: Re: AFL grand final 2017
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on September 30, 2023, 07:48:03 AM
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!
Title: Re: AFL grand final 2017
Post by: Meanwood Villa on September 30, 2023, 08:24:45 AM
Lost a close one by the sounds of it
Title: Re: AFL grand final 2017
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on October 01, 2023, 11:59:58 AM
Behind for most of the match, but only one score in it.
Title: Re: AFL grand final 2017
Post by: Hillbilly on October 09, 2023, 02:07:26 AM
Over a week on and still all I can find to say is ‘Brisbane, you had one job…’
Title: Re: AFL grand final 2017
Post by: Havencheese on November 07, 2023, 08:14:56 AM
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.
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