If your team is out, who are you barracking for?

billythekid wrote:[quote:38e7499ecb="rooster"][quote:38e7499ecb="Stangaman"]I`d like to see a different side win it for once and North Ballarat are the team I hope will win the flag for the first time and the whole town should get behind them because they are representing the town of Ballarat . "GO ROOSTERS"

Stangaman the whole town of Ballarat will never get behind the Roosters. Most Ballarat football followers still HATE North Ballarat. We trashed sides for years in the 70's,80's,90's, and stuffed the BFL and they will never get over it or support North while we are still called North Ballarat. A lot of people say they will get on board if we change our name to Ballarat, but why should we do that ?.This is a club thats been around for 126 years not 5 minutes like Bendigo. To the Ballarat people not interested we say 'get stuffed' we dont want or need them anyway. Good to have you on board Stangaman. GO THE CHOOKS.[/quote] What an arrogant statement! The truth at last ! What Ive said all along that NTH Ballarat were a mistake to bring in and give nothing much to the comp and if your attitude is common no wonder you have no support in Ballarat. I worry about the future of the whole comp not one club particular and I dislike Sandy playing in a made up failing VFL as it is ATM. I would much rather see them going around in a local comp and get that real footy club feel to them again.I dont know how many people have seen the footy series on SBS about the local teams in Tassie . Last night they featured King Island Association and they put the VFL to shame they had more than a thousand passionate supporters to their GF and from a total population of only 1700 .Thats what the VFL is sadly lacking passion and atmosphere.[/quote] Billy, North Ballarat bring a lot more to the competition than all the other clubs that are hanging on to their AFL clubs for an existance. The Roosters have a half alignment and it works perfectly,but the sooner the comp becomes a level playing field the better. Good luck to Port & Frankston for having a crack at it by themselves. If anyone is contemplating a fully stand alone comp, please let us know. King Island, they are waiting for you.

If the VFL goes back to a total stand alone comp with no AFL clubs or alignments then billy you'll get your dream of Sandy playing back in the local comp. They wont last 5 minutes standing on their own two feet without an AFL club holding their hand.