http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/history-of-the-afl-could-be-turned-on-its-head-20140620-zsglu.html

Wooohooooo!

Go Blues!

Eat shit Bombers!

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb

Give me AFL premiership flags - then we have something to brag about.

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It is not as bad as you are lead to believe.......it is %$#^& worse!!!

The lobby will need a bigger cup cabinet.

What did they give out back then? Was it a flag, a cup, sterling silver gravy jug?

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Bottle of rum

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Koperek.

AFL flags for me too. Don't want to be known as the new Melbourne who haven't won anything for half a century.

Interestingly enough if this rewrite does get approval and the starting year is 1877 it will just happened to be the same year as SANFL was created albeit as SAFA but don't be surprised if they do set the starting year back to 1870 because then they can start plans to celebrate 150 years of AFL in 2019 (or is that 2020) and flog it off commercially to all in sundry. It's the typical AFL money grubbing way.

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A voucher for the apothecary ?

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Bombers will be 20* not 20?

I'll take it.

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NOW YOU'RE JUST SOME CLUB THAT I USED TO KNOW.

Me too.

Doesn't mean I don't want more current ones but our history is our history.

And it's glorious.

No need to deny it.

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Turkish Proverb

.and still port won't have their 621,544 flags that they have won..

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..if you can't be good, be good at it..

Under this proposal we'd have won 6 VFA flags, 14 VFL flags and 2 AFL flags.

You would need to count Port's SANFL flags IMO.

2 modern day flags helps too.

I think you'd have to count the 82 flag as an AFL flags in that scenario as South Melbourne were actually in Sydney from that time.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

we are the champions!!!

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Eddie Maguire just on SEN. Not happy about it and says some of our premierships should have an * next to them.

The logic is sound as the VFA was the pre-eminent football competition in Victoria at the time (1877 to 1896) and by definition therefore Australia as well.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

It's about time Eddie let go of that regular "schtick" he likes peddling about us, and shuts his mouth and just thanks us for the start we gave his pissant club back in the 1890s.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

I think every flag won between 1987 and 2003 could probably have a * next to them. Some were just cap cheats the rest had cap allowances.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

If Eddie doesn't like it then it's probably a good proposal.

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb