Fair weather supporters.... are you one?

[Daniel]

instead of imploding and sounding like a Parakeet, 'sack Buckley like he says....'

1. do you go to games?

2. are you there to appreciate or judge based on little inside knowledge whether we win or lose?

3. If you do have a gripe with the club, do you write to the club and offer your constructive criticism or do you whinge on sites like this?

...............

I'll start with me;

1. Yes I do

2. I can see where we are at, and while I don't envy Buckley's job, I understand it comes with the territory. Enjoy watching the youngsters like Smith, Crocker, Phillips, Maynard, Cox getting a taste.

3. I don't have a problem where I see us going. We definitely need to get to the bottom of the injuries issue as our gameplan stacks up when our youth have experience and leadership on the field guiding them.

4. Confident of making finals next year - and pray for a reduction in collision injuries to key personnel.

[piedys]

Must be expensive getting to the games from Honkers each week?

[Daniel]

Yeah, extremely.... but I go when I can

[Dave The Man]

I will go to just about every Game in Melbourne but we play the Crap we did today.

I will Leave Early. So I can beat the big Crowds at Train Station. Though I stay to end of Night Games as I wait for my Mate to Pick Me Up and Drive me Home(Great Bloke to do that Too)

[piedys]

[The Prototype]

If I could go, I'd go to every game I've been to the one game and that was 2014 when I was in Melbourne. I was meant to go to a game last year, but issues arose during my trip and I had to head home before the next game.

Only games I've missed on the TV are games that conflict with my job. Otherwise I try and catch the replay... any judgement passed is on what is seen on field, stuff I've no idea about I try not to comment on.

[thompsoc]

[Medieval]

1. I am a Legends Member and go to every game in Vic and have for the last 12 years (except for a month last year when I was overses).

2. I am there to appreciate AND to judge. Not based on little inside knowledge, more based on what I see out on the field. Things like shepherds, running, effort are expected and should be part of any player's performace in any game, no matter the scale. Losing is not preferrable, but is somewhat acceptable if you have given absolutely everything you can and are simply beaten by a better team on the day.

3. I have many gripes with the club at the moment, although most would not align with popular opinion. I don't write to the club to complain and I rarely post complaints on Nick's. The correlation between those two things is that regardles of whether I wrote to the club or complained on Nick's, nothing would change and so it shouldn't.


I constantly hear people complaining about Buckley's gameplan and it's become ridiculous. People say he has no discernable gameplan, but does any coach?
Someone please explain to me in detail, what is Don Pyke's gameplan? What is Alan Richardson's? What is any AFL coach's gameplan? I'm assuming the end result is to win, but the in between is semantics and if a gameplan was that easily identifiable by the fans in the stands or watching on tv, it wouldn't work well for very long, would it?

Anyway... back to watching the win against Geelong from a few weeks ago... for the 8th time.

[stui magpie]

I'm a legends member and I go to games when it suits me. I rarely go to Sunday games as Sunday afternoon is family time when the kids come over, so i watch those games on TV.

I go to most Friday and Saturday games in Melbourne.

I watch the game to appreciate, not to judge. I'm generally looking for positives from players, not negatives. I suppose when it comes to Collingwood I'm inherently optimistic.

I don't really have any gripes with the club, I have no real knowledge of what's going on so any constructive criticism I could offer would generally be about as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle. I tend to avoid whinging here or on other sites, there's enough whingers and whiners already. I get that some people need an outlet to vent their frustration, that's just not usually my thing.

[Geek]

[inxs88]

Good article or post. Outside those from interstate or overseas I think that you are either a fan or a supporter!! Fans come and go, supporters turn up. Fans make a Winter judgement and say "I'll watch it on tv in front of heater" where as supporters with the flu and relationship problems say "stuff it, I'm there at the G giving it my all"!!!

[jackcass]

Get to every game I can, generally 10-15 plus finals and at least 1/2 a dozen VFL games.

Don't claim any greater insight than any other mug supporter. Comment based on what I see. Acknowledge rational and logical mitigating factors when evaluating performance.

Don't have any gripes with the club. Think they are doing the best they can under difficult circumstances. Yet to see anyone make a case for gathering the banners and marching on the Holden Centre and simple generalities without proper analysis aren't going to sway my views. Seen it all before and no good comes of it.

[GreekLunatic]

I stayed till the end and heard that horrendous song and saw the scum supporters cheering like they won a flag

[5 from the wing on debut]

[Medieval]