My Dad would have been Fitzroy under the same rules.

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Thats a great story. I have a 3yo son & 7yo daughter that I see on Sundays & when we play on that day I quite often will miss the game so they can watch kids channels on Fox, at their leisure, & I tape the game to watch later. Watched it eventually, after avoiding all media in the interim, at 11.20pm last night.

Its not easy yelling for joy in a whisper at 2am.

Anyway, great story. Love kids & especially Carlton kids. I'll bide my time but they too don't have a choice with both their Dad & Mum mad Blues supporters.

They're GAWN.

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Also would have been Collingwood if i'd followed the old man. Thankfully at the ripe old age of 6 we won the 81 GF and I was navy blue from then on.

great story townsy:-D

Yesterday we were celebrating my b'day and had family over. Firstly I was stoked as I got the GF DVD pack from Mum

Then I kicked all my non-afl inlaws out the door at 4.30pm so I could hear the game on the radio. Hubby entertained the kids and brought me left overs for dinner in the lounge. Kids listened to the last quarter with me. Little Miss Prussian brought me her Blues teddy to hug and Little Mr Prussian jumped for joy at the final siren and gave me a great big hug.
I know they are hooked on teh Blues

Hubby said "Bloody hell of course they won, just to stuff up another tip"

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Housewife,
mother of three,
navy blue always for me!

My dad is a long-suffering Collingwood supporter. He went to the drawn '77 GF and swore that he would never attend another game of AFL again. My sister was born on the eve of the 1980 finals series and was named after Rene Kink. Not sure if the spelling of Rene is the same or not (Mum may have intervened there).

Mum is a St. Kilda supporter. She would have been 8 or 9 when they won in '66 and for the last 10 years has displayed a slight tick whenever the Marine's Hymn is played and borders on full-blown Tourette's when they add the "Pride of South Australia" lyrics. My references to Nick's tears may be doing more psychological damage than I think.

I was born a few months after the 1981 premiership and have my grandparents to thank for bringing me over to the Blue side. There wa little opposition from my parents who, I think, realised that they couldn't send a young boy into the playground as either:

1. The kid in the Saints jumper who is pitied as the 'special kid' who's team can't help being ordinary, or
2. The kid in the Collingwood jumper who is going to be forever tainted with the Colliwobbles stigma

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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill.

same here.

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"You don’t get much more Navy Blue than Stephen Kernahan" - Marc Murphy

I've been having a great day anyway but that just topped it.

I've got a four year old boy and have no problem in telling you all that I have brain washed him completly.

He is so well programmed now it's crazy. He wears his jumper everywhere and doesn't take any crap from the weagles and dorker supporters over here.

There's nothing better than hearing him sing the theme song at the top of his voice as you walk through the shops. The rest of the people just stop and look at him. Classic!

Yep I'm proud of him!

To bad his sister wont let go of the purple mob!

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I support the Navy Blues whatever happens!

I'm in the same boat with my 4 yo except we're in Sydney.

He thinks it's great to say things like:

(This is standard bragging, but encouragement is given for him to use) at such times like when Swans supporters tell him we were a bottom team for years...

"If you want to look at the past...

"Carlton has been successful for over 150 years"

"Carlton has won more premierships than any other team"

I never told him about the last 5 years of misery. Mums the word...it never happened...there was a glitch...I think it happened to coincide with Y2K.....or we were trying to keep the rabbits out of Princes Park for a couple of years.

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

it's part of this modern crap culture of "Oh we must let the children make theior own decisions and support them in the decisions they make"...

They are kids for Chr!st's sake
CRAP! Lot's of things in this world are NOT NEGOTIABLE!






Footy Team support is one of them[/quote]

exactly!!!!

who are they to decide who they want to barrack for??? if they are born into a Carlton family, how could they ever want to barrack for ayone else. choice can be so over rated....

my old man was a carlton supporter, and took me to games when i couldnt even see over the fence, let alone to the other side of the ground, and i'm fairly confident that if i told him i wanted to barrack for anyone else i'd have been left arse up in the nearest rubbish bin.....

and because of that decision 'enforced' upon me, i now have one of my most cherished posessions, which is a carlton footy scarf, long ago faded, that was bought in the same year that richmond won their last flag, which i enjoy telling my richmond mates at every opportunity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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my last one was rubbish

At the game on Sunday i was sitting by myself up on level 3 and had a spare seat next to me.

Across the aisle was a mum with her little boy, he would have only bee 4 years old i'm guessing. Anyway you could tell he was quickly losing interest as the game went on and telstra dome staff removed him from the steps as he was sitting there with a colouring book.

Anyway as we started playing better i got more and more exited and got a bit fired up which he thought was amusing So after every goal i would give him a high five which he loved and he ended up sitting in the spare seat next to me as his mum was just across the aisle... Then i started teaching him a few of the players names (his favorite player was Gibbs and he had #4 on his jumper) he also knew the likes of Judd and Fevola.

I also got him to tell out WIGGINS when he got the ball

The thing that really made my day was when his eyes lit up when they played the song. You could tell he would forever be a blue bagger.

Anyway it certainly made the kids day alot more enjoyable and hopefully i helped turn him into a Carlton fanatic for life.

While we were watching the vision on Foxtel after the game, my daughter asked me if I could get a job at the CFC so she could be there after the games. I said not unless they start recruiting old men who can't play footy any more, I told her that policy ended in 2007 .

I told her that her Mum probably could get a job at the CFC if she wanted to.

She's now on the Dutchess' case for her to leave her current job and apply down at PP.

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That's great pklz, what a lovely thing to do. There are soooo many people that ignore children in our society.

BTW Can you let me know where you sit so next time I come to the footy with my 4 y.o. son you can teach him too??

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Housewife,
mother of three,
navy blue always for me!

so did his mum go off in the sack or what?



















sorry.

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Between our dreams and actions lies this world

My partner barracks for the Doggies. For years she insisted that our 6yo daughter would have to find her own team so as not to create tension within the household.

That didn't work and our 6yo daughter decided that she'd "officially" support both the Dogs and Blues.





Good weekend this one.


Won't be long now...

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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

My next task is to turn my own little brother into a blue fanatic. Hes a supporter at the moment but it only takes him half a quarter before he loses interest and pull out his Nintendo DS.

Sadly i only managed to convert one of my little brothers into a bluebagger though

Nothing like a premiership to break the deadlock.

Besides, we've all got a soft spot for the Doggies.

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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill.

Close. Actual conversation went something like this:

S: Mum, if we live in Hawthorn, why don't we barrack for Hawthorn?

M: You can barrack for whoever you want, but you know what will happen.

S: I know you're joking. I know you'll still love me.

M: No. No I wouldn't. I couldn't love a child that didn't barrack for Collingwood.

True story. And it's paid off as now she's almost as fanatical about the Pies as I am.

I follow Collingwood because of my Dad too. Thankfully he didn't get caught up in the father-son rule otherwise we'd all be dirty, rotten, filthy Carlton supporters.

Ahhhhh..............

it's all swings and roundabouts and cheese Man'd..............!


kindest regards tommi

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