Guestbook 2008
February 8th, 2008
A new year means a new anti-season, and so a new Guestbook. 2007’s Guestbook logged 178 comments from people on both sides of the ‘members stand’. You can look back in history and read them all here
All comments for 2008 will be forwarded to Wayne Carey.
February 8th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
What a wonderful summer its been away from the dreaded game, alas here it is back again.
This time it’s being played overseas “pre season” (which is really the start of the season anyway) and will no doubt be televised. Makes sense - we cant have the fans sobering up and realizing that there is more to life than football.
Besides that, just think how much money the AFL is missing out on over summer - it is after all a corporation, reliant on its fanatics to fill the coffers.
February 12th, 2008 at 8:41 am
NEEDED MORE THAN EVER!
Get sport OFF the ABC and let the boofs consume their entertainment on commercial media - at no cost to the taxpayer.
February 20th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Football does have a positive element ,,,,,
It induces one to ride one’s bicycle more ,,,,,
February 26th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I am a marriage celebrant & I just love it when I am asked to celebrate on grand final day. It makes what goes on at the MCG totally irrelevant.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Football has it’s place, it draws the morons and scum of society into one place at one time. In doing so it increases the average IQ and reduces the crime rate of places not unfortunate enough to have a football ground in their locality.
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:41 am
I never understood the Australian obsession with watching other people play sport, and there is probably nothing duller on this earth than people who’s *only* topic of social conversation is what’s happening at the “footy” or cricket. Glad to see there is an organisation around to poke some fun at the obsessive spectator crowd.
March 18th, 2008 at 10:12 am
bahahaha get a life
you guys have nothing better to do than bag football?
your a bunch of softcocks who probably suck at everything and wanted to play football but weren’t good enough
so basically there is more to life than hating football perhaps you should go find out what it is?
March 19th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
When asked if wanted to join the Footie Tipping at work, I said I would rather lose a leg. The asker just stared at me in puzzlement.
March 20th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Joy of joys to discover the existence of the Anti-Football League on the dreaded first day of the season - and all because I saw someone wearing a badge and asked what it meant. At last I feel I’m not alone!
March 20th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Thank goodness I googled you - I thought this AFL was defunct after the founder passed away…I think? Anyway, glad to see you are alive and well. I was a member back in the 70’s and still have my certificate and badge, which I will wear with pride again this season! I’ll be rejoining very soon.
Phil, Keith is also alive and well and ensures the AFLs apathy stays on the straight and narrow. -the secretary.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Keep up the good work.
For those wanting solace in these ever decreasingly sensible times I commend them to “Desiderata” and to that old classic “Clancy Of the Overflow”.
March 25th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
I cannot believe there is such a sensible website. I am totally sick of urinating football players. I hate football and cannot get any sense out of 774 or 3AW when it is on. There must be something more interesting in the winter than overpaid, over testosteroned idiots jumping about and then getting drunk. Please Australia find something else to do.
March 29th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Wonderful to hear that others are sick of the never ending rubbish of ‘aerial ping-pong’, the latest saga of ‘wizz’ kids’ urinations, Sam’s prostrate (prostate) activities and bladder, and Carey’s shenanigans.
Yes, thank God there is a lot more to life than footy.
April 1st, 2008 at 12:03 pm
You guys seem a bit sad, concentrating all this time on something so seemless. Why not just go enjoy those other things in life that are so much better than the real AFL?
April 4th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I seem to remember hearing about this AFL some years ago but have just rediscovered it. I wish it embraced a larger scope of indifference. Why stop at Aussie Rules? Why stop at football. I am fed up with the time wasted at my work with people discussing football of all codes. Why should anyone give a toss if so and so pulled this or strained that. I am repeatedly frustrared with the overwhelming coverage of sport in our media. Why should 2 of the 3 ABC radio stations I can receive broadcast football on a friday night. Why should hours of airtime be consumed by drongoes commentating on the cricket. I long each year for that short reprieve between the cricket and the football season!
April 5th, 2008 at 9:52 am
How about you guys go back to playing chess or some other panzy sport instead of bagging a good sport?
April 5th, 2008 at 10:32 am
I’m so glad I have found this site. You’ll never believe what disgusting, unintelligent, loathsome, blasphemous practice is happening in my living room - both my parents are watching, shamelessly i must add, the detestible sport of football. My heart is too heavy to go on.
April 5th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Here we go again. More of this ridiculous nonsense for 2008. Despite people finding it hard to pay their mortgage they’ll always find money to go and watch football.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:43 am
If it bothers you so much how about you ignore it instead of wasting your time focusing on negatives.
Don’t you think there are more pressing issues to devote your time and worry too.
April 11th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
I can’t stand any of the rugby codes although I don’t mind soccer.
It’s less aggressive and requires a reasonable level of intelligence to be played properly.
What bugs me the most is the mindless dedication of the fans. they speak about “their” team as if they are family members.
Most sports are really just a useful distraction for the masses. The elite of this planet are very thankful that the masses are more interested in “footy” (or some other silly little game) than the real issues that control our lives. If only these moronic fans could see that the intrigue and corruption surrounding world politics and other world issues is so much more fascinating and interesting than any silly old football game. Damned wally brains!!
April 11th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Mato! This is “our” site why don’t YOU go elsewhere if you don’t like the comment. There are plenty of “footy” forums where you and your fellow knuckle draggers can spend all the time you like massaging each others’ egos.
April 16th, 2008 at 6:50 am
It never fails to astound me as to why grown men commentating on the radio and TV about the dreaded game, yell and scream like demented fools?
Is this a further attempt at making a boring game seen interesting? Perhaps it’s an attempt to whip the fanatics into an emotional frenzy in an effort to get more support out of the poor brainwashed fans. The Television sponsors pay the Australian Football League heaps of money to place advertisements in the middle of this madness, every supporter is a potential consumer.
Come on football zombies, snap out of it, join the Anti Football League, get off the commercial treadmill and come back to life.
April 16th, 2008 at 9:06 am
over publisized over paid,
they’re a bunch of ******.
get a real job where u work 7 am till 6pm and get paid peanuts.
great site its good to see more people that have the same views as we do
April 16th, 2008 at 9:07 am
p.s eddie mcguire is a doushe
April 16th, 2008 at 9:14 am
where can i purchase one of those anti football bunkers from. can u send me the link to the supplier.
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:41 pm
I wish we had an organisation such as this in the UK for soccer It is so refreshing to find sensible people who are anti football in all its forms
Down with football!
April 26th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Hi,I would like to join this anit-football league however I dare not because my husband and teenage son love AFL! My son would be devastated if I were to join and I suppose there are worse things than AFL that they could be fantatical about! So every now and then I’ll just ’sneak a peak’ at this site! Sincerely, Carolyn
April 30th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
What on earth is the State Government doing giving our taxes to the Geelong football club for use on the upgrading of their facilities. Schools, Hospitals, Aged care facilities; all of these are essential services crying out for funds. Has this dreaded disease spread through the corridors of power?
Could this be vote gathering? Should football fanatics be allowed to vote?
Perhaps the Anti Football League needs to gather some allies in high places?
Maybe we need to look within the government for our Wilkie Medal Award nominee.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:58 am
I’m not anti-football, I am quite happy for people to play any sport they wish - buy I don’t want to subsidise it through taxes and my bills!
Hey Mato, at least we play sport rather than watching other people.
May 5th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Football supporters inject so much energy into something that they have absolutely no control over. Face painting, buying overpriced merchandise, relentless water cooler conversations and giving up weekends to see “the game”… absolutely none of it influences the outcome of matches played!
There are three types of Football supporter that particularly sadden me: The Hardcore Fanatic, the Spineless Sheep and the Brain Washed Youngster.
The Hardcore Fanatics life will revolve around Football. We’ve all seen the obituaries in the paper: “Lifelong supporter of their beloved Xyz team”. Despite many years of loyal obedience and wasted money, would their Football team contribute financially to their supporters welfare if times were tough? I think not!
The Spineless Sheep are those that are actually disinterested in Football but claim to support a team and engage in Footy talk because they are too scared to admit they’re not fans. It’s a big herd and we all know them - the guy or girl in the office who will clench their fist and sigh upon hearing that “their team” lost on the weekend and offer a verbal quip about “We’ll get you next time” before slinking off into the background with a Cup-A-Soup. To an extent, I understand their position - it’s sometimes easier to “go with the flow” and not be challenged on your views. However, it is the ambivalence of this group that contributes to the ubiquity of Football and feeds the hype machine. (The Anti Football League should note that this group is a rich feeding ground for membership support as they are potentially closer to “enlightenment” than other supporter types).
Lastly, parents of brain washed youngsters paint their kids faces, take them to the games and talk Footy ad nauseam. The child has little to no opportunity to repel their fathers boisterous assailment and the vicious cycle continues.
There’s one question that some Anti Football members may hate, but I love: “Who do you barrack for?”. I enjoy proclaiming loudly that “I don’t follow a team because I don’t like Football”. It stuns the question asker (typically a Hardcore Fanatic) and raises the eyebrows of the Spineless Sheep in the vicinity! Unfortunately, unless Parental Brain Washing makes it onto the list of actions considered as “child abuse” , there is nothing we can do about the Brain Washed Youngsters. A pity - unless you’re in the face paint industry.
May 30th, 2008 at 4:20 am
If we could remove the ‘greed’ factor from corporations then maybe football would be played Saturday afternoons only, leaving Friday nights and the balance of the weekend for family or other sports.
If the media could understand the difference between ‘news’ and ’sport’ maybe our community would be better informed about the events affecting our society.
Instead of the government funding improvments to the current ‘football’ facilities how about sending those funds to local sports ovals for rainwater tanks, regrassing and fences to reduce the costs of vandalism.
This would help the majority not the minority!
June 6th, 2008 at 2:43 am
What I can’t cop about a lot of football supporters is that they’ll yell their guts out and get bent out of shape over footy, yet, many of them will justify their apathy towards politics by saying that there’s nothing they can do about it, so it’s pointless to bother. Can’t they see their hypocrisy?
June 7th, 2008 at 9:45 am
The great thing about being a footy player is that it doesn’t matter what you do wrong. Because if you stuff up and people criticise you for it, you can just run on to the footy field on the weekend and prove them wrong.
June 12th, 2008 at 8:55 am
While being an anti-football league member, I am also a member of 2 AFL teams. I believe that there is a place for sports in the community, though this has been blown completely out of proportion. Idolising young men for being able to jump is quite odd and the anti-football league is needed to help point this out
June 19th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Yes it is usual in democracy for a few to tell others how they should behave. Hang on thats not right it is a dicatorship.My advice is if you dont like afl, just keep away from it but dont bag what you dont want to understand.
I like all sport watching and playing it. I am a member of an AFL club and have missed one match this year out of 12 and have been to 3 states so far.
I dont discuss footy unless the other person is interested but wont stop discussing it to please you neither will I stop my passion.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:54 am
Grand final tickets are promised to the privileged few, while ordinary Australians moan about not being able to see their team in the grand final. That’s a dictatorship, Joy.
Also, the elite “few” who control this country love the fact that so many Aussies are obsessed with footy because it keeps them from interfering with important things like government policy.
Bread and circuses Joy. Bread and circuses.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:26 am
I would suggest that we dont lose sight of the fact that the Australian Football league is very much a corporation. This is no less obvious when we see Vic Roads offering vehicle number plates with your team logo and colours. At $495 a set of plates, it begs the question – how much money goes to the Australian Football League? Multiply it by the number of fanatics willing to move their obsessive passion for their team to the outside of their respective vehicles, and we are talking about a lot of money.
I wonder if people would be willing to place number plates with the logo and colours of a leading brand of cola drink onto their respective vehicles. Probably not, that would be supporting a corporation, which spends a lot of money pushing its products to the masses as hard as it can!
Hmmmmm.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:53 am
This is a great site and has full and my utmost support. From reading the comments of other visitors I realise that i’m not alone afterall!!! It’s great to think that i’m not the only one who must frequently get “that look” - you know the one……from all those “real Australians” when we say “oh, I don’t follow footy”. My dislike of this game stems, and is fuelled by the blatent amount of “in your face” social and media coverage that it recieves. This game has solely become a “business” which is all about making money rather than the enjoyment of playing a sport. This along with the over-indulgence and bad behaviour of the players -who are given “god like” status - especially when involved in some personal incident that makes the papers, ie: (drugs, drink driving, assaulting their girlfriend or postman etc etc etc.) The “zombie like” facination people have for footy is, I believe, a really sad reflection of our society. My suggestions, (to any footy follower), would be to go and buy a good book to read, go to a art gallery, find any other interest in the world no matter what it might be, just as long as you don’t tell others that your “hobby” is following footy for god sake!
July 18th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
The Australian Labor Party has 14,000 card carrying members.
There’re over three hundred thousand card carrying members for the sixteen AFL clubs. Not to mention MCC members and AFL members. Melbourne has the least amount of members at about twenty eight thousand
The Australian media has something like six football reporters for every one political reporter. It’s no wonder news about footballers hamstring strains or their latest off field indiscretions are given front page coverage in front significant national and international events. It’s a sad indictment on the mentality of the Australian public.
July 20th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Roll on October!
July 28th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
I think it makes perfect sense that the Government should introduce new legislation that makes it compulsory for every australian citizen to become an AFL club member… and prevent morons like you guys from voicing your opinions no one cares about… AFL IS THE BEST SPORT EVER! CHRIS JUDD IS A GOD!!! GO CARLTON!!!!!
July 29th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Well, that just about sums it up.
Don’t know about others, but this fellow has completely justified my membership of the anti football league –he probably doesn’t understand how, and probably never will.
July 29th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Good old Jack.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:08 am
look… i don’t actually believe what i wrote, it was just a joke, but seriously… fair enough you guys don’t like Aussie Rules, but you all seem to think it’s a crime the rest of us do?? We’re just enjoying ourselves watching a game we find entertaining. There well might be more to life, but really… i’m happy enough just with footy…. that will do for me.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:05 am
I recently had to travel on the same train as a large number of a football supporters. The monosyllabic grunts emanating from these simian creatures only confirmed what I’d always believed. Also, why are most football supporters just plain ugly? Or. are all ugly people football supporters because they are excluded from normal ssocialising?
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:35 pm
AFL star urinates on cafe. Chris Judd has a sore foot and in other news the USA has launched a nuclear strike on Iran. We now cross to Carlton to look at Judd’s foot.
August 4th, 2008 at 3:31 am
The Olympics are on our doorstep.
This is a time where sports identities are paid lots of money to represent the team/country with the opportunity to be sporting “heroes”. We are able to barrack for them, wave the flag, and engage in everything between patriotic hysteria and abuse. We can shout, “kill the opposition”, and criticize our “heroes” when they fail, we can talk about these failures the next day/week, and watch the results over and over again on the TV. We can analyze why they lost and how.
There will be total TV, radio and press saturation covering the events.. …….wait a minute this sounds very familiar.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:26 am
I think we should create an award for the most ridiculous WEASEL words uttered on Radio or TV. An example; Player XXX causes injury during the unmentionable game, he is taken before the tribunal at which time he is suspended…as far as the presenter is concerned player XXX “accepted” a 1 week suspension as if he was doing something honourable. The fact is he broke the rules and was punished by a 1 week suspension…that is how it should be presented to the public. Bah Humbug
August 5th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
you XXXX need lives, seriously, football is an aussie tradition, you guys are the kids that where always XXXX at it as a kid and sat off the field and watched as the good ones got the girls, and use got level ups on pokemon. if you think you can rally together and ban AFL, then you need to reconsider your humanity
This message has been censored to comply with anti-sedition legislation -The Secretary
August 6th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Thank god for sites like this. I cannot stand the silly game of AFL. I also have no idea how it went from being 100 years old in 1996 to 150 years old in 2008. Does the AFL have anyone on the board who knows math?
August 6th, 2008 at 2:45 am
Never before have so many people worked themselves into so great a lather over so trivial a pastime over which they have so little control over the outcome.
Imagine if the same level of attention paid to ‘Australian Rules Football’ was paid to, say, the road toll and driver safety, local, state and federal politics … we would have a more efficient political system: or less dead on the road … instead we have S*m N*wman driving women to self-harm. Thanks, rabid, one-eyed AFL supporters! You’re part of the problem!
August 6th, 2008 at 8:43 am
To Bruce McRae and other uneducated fools.
1. Players can either choose to accept a ban or appeal it. THEY DO HAVE A CHOICE, and no option is seen as being heroic.
2. Football fans are tax payers aswell.
3. Football players are like all other people, they make mistakes.
Funny that you hate something so passionately without knowing a thing about it.
August 7th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Gerry, AFL supporters are all ugly because they have all had sex with Joffa and reproduced.
Don’t swim in the shallow end of the gene pool that is AFL.
August 7th, 2008 at 1:20 am
There are many people who do the wrong thing and break the law. We have a penal system to cope with this and it offers effective punishment.
If footballers were not falsely held up as so called “heroes” and so called “role models” they would be fined and punished without comment just like all other offenders, and we wouldn’t hear about it. They are not heroes, they are not role models they are just ordinary people made out to be more important than they really are. The Australian Football League is not the judge or jury in these matters and has no jurisdiction, it can only impose its own internal irrelevant punishments, which are really of little consequence
and just a phony as the whole game.
Let the court system take care of these issues and deal with them within the genuine legal system.
August 7th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Thank God for a site like this… because it’s just given me yet another reason to love football… so i can piss you guys off!!!
August 7th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Get a Life, You sad (pig skin) sack.
August 11th, 2008 at 7:56 am
I feel sport has a place in a sane society. The type of sport that the masses can and do participate in to promote health and fitness. Foolsball does not fit this category. However many sports that do are currently on offer during the Olympics. Unless the station with the rights to televise the Olympics also has AFL obligations. In which case Foolsball gets priority. Is it any wonder I hate football.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I guess some people will get obsessed with anything as long as it distracts them from contemplating their mortality.
August 12th, 2008 at 6:31 am
Heres another great article on the problem of Australia’s obsession with sport.
http://blogs.theage.com.au/malcontent/archives/2005/09/further_thought.html
He is absolutely right, if someone wants to waste their life and play sport, then they shouldn’t expect public funding for their training. Reduce the fees for the Doctor or the scientist and give it to the parasites (”olympic champions”).
Knock down the MCG and build some more victorian terraces and apartments, extend jolimont to the trainline.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:37 am
At last!! after interminable monday morning taxi rides in footy season with absolutely no interest in listening to the drivers rant about his team or the team that beat his team, I can now just flash my new AFL pin and extol the virtues of the “real” AFL - I was a member 40 odd years ago when it was almost anti Australian to question the sanctity of football - while I don’t mind a bit of sport in all its guises I can certainly do without the inevitable offield brainless behaviour that surrounds many past and present players of this code - may the cube be with you!!
August 15th, 2008 at 1:47 am
This site is a complete and utter discrace. you people who are stuck in the 17th century who are scared of a bit of rouhg and tumble. Football provides hard working people with a weekend of enjoyment that comes close to nothing else. they can forget there problems and watch there team fight it out. football is an aussie tradition and will live on and on!
August 15th, 2008 at 1:51 am
And another thing go and play your little pussy sports like chess and board games! you bunch of losers! Carn the brisbane lions!
August 16th, 2008 at 1:05 am
I have been in Melbourne for 26 years. When I arrived I was told how great Melbourne is because the then VFL was the greatest game ever. PLEASE Melbourne people this AFL is pathetic. Truly analised it is simply a lot of fit people kicking and catching. They push and shove each other before the “game” has even started, look silly passing a ball with a fist punch and the silly Melbourne people support this nonsense and outrageous payments made to these men by paying astronomical entrance fees. MELBOURNE AFL FANS you truly are dumb.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:18 am
if you cannot stand AFL then my suggestion is to pack up and leave… because it’s only gonna get worse and worse for you guys
Which AFL are you referring to, Brendan?
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:18 am
Oh great football sheep, why do you flock each week in large numbers inside huge oval pens, to watch other bovines run around on the grass.
You bleat and butt each other in the stalls, you are lead and fleeced by the shepherds of commercialism, your wool is traded for fine things, things to make the shepherds more prosperous. Come on sheep, break out of the mindless flock - come and join the anti football league, and bleat no more.
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Nice post, Eric. I’d love some of our pro-footy friends to respond to it, but unfortunately they wouldn’t understand it. LOL.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
How many Aus Football League stars does it take to change a light bulb?
None - the club organises a team of electricians to do it for them.
You do realise Football clubs are non-profit organisations…