From: jodi@arbo.microbiol.uwa.oz.au (Jodi Lindsay)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.australian
Subject: Re: Premiership blues and other Weagle crap
Date: 28 Sep 1992 02:39:37 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: cns.microbiol.uwa.edu.au

In article <1686C14728.PREDAVA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> PREDAVA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu writes:
>From: PREDAVA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
>Subject: Re: Premiership blues and other Weagle crap
>Date: 25 Sep 92 03:15:39 GMT

>In article <jodi.1.0@arbo.microbiol.uwa.oz.au>
>jodi@arbo.microbiol.uwa.oz.au (Jodi Lindsay) writes:
> 
>>
>>I can't believe how tame this newsgroup has become......
>>
> 
>>Where is all the slagging, mudslinging, griping etc. etc. by the
>>Melbournians now that the premiership is going to a foreign team???
>>
>>Have you all just retracted to your corners to lick your wounds???  Or
>>is it deathly silent because you just can't bear to throw your support
>>behind the Cats??
> 
>>Come on the Eagles  -  and show some spirit you Melbourne wooses!!!
>>Jodi Lindsay
>>Department of Microbiology
> 
>Dear Jodi et.al. (You know who you are)

As someone so aptly put it earlier:


YYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

> 
>We feel we must reply on behalf of the supposedly silent majority of Victorian
>football supporters re the UPCOMING GF.  Whilst Western Australians are notorio
>usly backward in most endeavours, you appear to definitely be breaking the
>mould here in making outlandish FORWARD predictions PRIOR to the actual event
>taking place.  Call it churlishness or whatever, but most Vics are intelligent
>enough to wait until after the game before singing the praises of their respect
>ive teams.

Call it gutlessness!!!!

67% of tipsters knew what they were talking about!!!!  As did the bookies!!!


> 
>As for Geelong supporters in particular, it must be said that all of the less c
>erebral teams have already been eliminated from the final race - re Collingwood
>, Footscray and St Kilda ( and some of the real basket cases fortunately
>never made it at all (Essendon, Richmond).  Hence, the remaining cohort of supp
>orters (Geelong) are in all likelihood too civilised (could we even say too buc
>olic) to partake in such activities.

Less cerebral???  Do any other Vic team supporters have something to say 
about this????

Our dictionary lists bucolic as:  of shepherds, pastoral, rustic...........
(hardly civilized)  And judging from the Geelong supporters on telly, we'd 
agree with that!!!!  Any relation to New Zealanders????

> 
>Geelong Football Club and its supporters have been around for 133 years (not 13
>3 minutes like the Whining Weagles) and have learnt from bitter experience not
>to count our eaglets before they hatch.

And how many premierships have you won in 133 years????  Not 1992's!!!!!
(ha ha ha)

P.S. who was the idiot who asked who Matera was???  The Norm Smith medallist 
thank you very much!!!!

> 
>Re Tom from Sydney Uni: we can only concur with that erudite statesman, Davin S
>loan of La Trobe Uni: STOP IT OR YOU'LL GO BLIND.  Tom, re a win for Weagles be
>ing good for the national comp (as if that is what we really want), the last
>time a non-Melbourne side won the Flag was 1963, and guess what, they could do
>it AGAIN!

It must be the Geelong supporters who are going blind - we could see this 
thrashing weeks ago!!!!

> 
>Being just a little further from Kardinia Park than a torp from Gazza could rea
>ch, I called home the other day and was informed that the whole town has been
>decked out in blue and white.  Even the Cop Shop has a big sign out the front w
>ith the boys in blue offering their support.  Christ knows, given recent financ
>ial crises in the town, we could do with a bit of cheer, and break the drought
>of 29 years.
> 
> 
>Yours in football, Paul and David
> 
>Let me at least make one prediction: Buddha to knock out Sumich in the first 5
>minutes.  The boy is uncontrollable at times!

Buddha didn't even get close to Sumich!!!   And as for that *WANKER*
ABLETT....................



Jodi Lindsay
Department of Microbiology