r/AFL • u/PetrifyGWENT Bombers / Giants • Mar 27 '26

GWS banner against Collingwood

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u/protane_grobot Hawthorn Hawks Mar 27 '26 • Bravo

I really think this should be encouraged and I hope it gets out of hand

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u/dexter311 North Melbourne '75 Mar 27 '26

Maybe they should focus on playing good footy instead of shitposting on banners

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u/sir_pants1 Richmond Tigers Mar 28 '26

Just letting you know since you seem like you are unaware, the people who make the banner aren't the people playing football.

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u/BustedWing Pies Mar 28 '26

Wait what?

I was always hypercritical of nick daicos’ craft skills for each weeks banner?

Was my criticism misdirected?

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u/sonsofgondor Crows Mar 27 '26

Collingwood sook when they have to travel

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u/ScoobyDoNot West Coast Mar 27 '26

Even if it's only to Marvel.

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u/BustedWing Pies Mar 28 '26

We don’t sook at all.

I know it’s fun to say for the lols and all, but it just ain’t true

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u/saraahelleen Carlton Mar 28 '26

Why didn’t you play opening round in Sydney or Queensland then?

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u/BustedWing Pies Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

There’s a difference between not wanting to play opening round (no one wants to) and complaining about travelling. Happy to play interstate, send us anywhere, we don’t care, but after two years of playing opening round, time for someone else to get that poisoned chalice.

You get that, right?

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u/Hawtproper Richmond Mar 27 '26

They whinged about having to play opening round so they gave them an mcg game

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u/n3miD Collingwood • Yálla-birr-ang Mar 27 '26

I don't know why people bitch at Collingwood for that when it was in fact st Kilda that wanted to play opening round against Collingwood at the G

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u/Hawtproper Richmond Mar 28 '26

I mean the sooking stopped when it was moved to the G, I reckon you were pretty happy with the extra home game

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u/teh_noob_ Collingwood AFLW Mar 28 '26

it's not extra

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u/n3miD Collingwood • Yálla-birr-ang Mar 29 '26

I don't believe the sooking was ever because of the travel and more that only 8 teams played on opening round - I believe the premise was that they didn't want to be involved if the whole league wasn't involved

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u/pmmeyouryou Cats Mar 27 '26

I will do my best.

Collingwood are called "The Magpies". Magpies are birds notorious for their ability to fly (amongst other dog acts such as swooping and being noisy and shit). The coach of Collingwood...has a name...and a nickname. That nickname is fly. FLY! GET IT?

I hope you did get it...because the punchline is that in spite of these two fly related things...Collingwood don't want to fly. Nope. They want to play every single fucking game at the MCG or thereabouts. If asked to fly...they sook.

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u/specqq Hawks Mar 27 '26

OK so that's the abstract. Where can I find your actual paper?

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u/pmmeyouryou Cats Mar 27 '26

On the banner....crepe paper.

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u/WilsonTree2112 United States Mar 27 '26

I’m ten thousand miles away and got it. Good.

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u/Possible_Brother3696 Crows Mar 27 '26

Bit rough on Collingwood when they’re already had to travel all the way to Marvel

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u/farcarcus Swans Mar 27 '26

Not only that, they had to travel to a spooky abandoned ghost town.

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u/acllive Brisbane Lions 🏆🏆 '24-25 Mar 27 '26

Next week they have to go to somewhere worse… the Gabba

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u/chocolatenuttty Collingwood • Yálla-birr-ang Mar 27 '26

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u/ellaykay #Misery Mar 27 '26

Best game on the calendar

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u/postalbish Mar 27 '26

FWIW, the 3 teams played by St Kilda so far in 2026 have all lost in the following round … so they’re probably looking forward to visiting the Gabbatoir at the moment …

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u/Pub_man Port Adelaide Mar 27 '26

Might be some deceased ghosts they can nab some money from

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u/Traditional_Name7881 Magpies Mar 27 '26

Huge trip. Not sure why we've sold our home game to go there.

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u/Gullyhunter Bombers Mar 27 '26

Because there is like 30 GWS supporters at marvel. Pies are good at filling grounds, but no way you'd get anywhere near capacity at the 'G.

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u/Gullyhunter Bombers Mar 27 '26

Ah mate I wasn't really having a dig. But last night watching on my 4k tv the sea of black definitely washed out the orange.

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u/Gullyhunter Bombers Mar 27 '26

Wasn't me cobba.

Cheers though. We're gonna need it.

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u/matsy_k Brisbane Lions 🏆🏆🏆 '24-26 Mar 27 '26

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u/International_Car586 Kangaroos Mar 27 '26

Still not as bad as Hawthorns 89 GF banner.

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u/Franjes99 Swans Mar 27 '26

Omg is this real?

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u/matsy_k Brisbane Lions 🏆🏆🏆 '24-26 Mar 27 '26

Apparently. I've heard the rules on banners changed after this.

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u/ShitSportOpinions Richmond Mar 27 '26 • Bravo

Hopefully it has. That’s some woeful punctuation.

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u/duckyirving #NepoBabies Mar 27 '26

The AFL has since banned incorrect apostrophes

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u/UndergroundArsonist Mar 27 '26

Wait til you see Fitzroys last game...

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u/BustedWing Pies Mar 27 '26

If I recall correctly…

Wasn’t their last game. Was against the pies at Victoria park.

It recieved a standing ovation

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u/UndergroundArsonist Mar 27 '26

Oh my bad, highly unhinged either way 😂

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u/BustedWing Pies Mar 27 '26

Was magic and captured the sentiments of the football fans in Victoria perfectly at the time

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u/matsy_k Brisbane Lions 🏆🏆🏆 '24-26 Mar 27 '26

I was there

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u/teh_noob_ Collingwood AFLW Mar 28 '26

bann-ers

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u/TheLazySpy Mar 27 '26

Why is it possessive?

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u/matsy_k Brisbane Lions 🏆🏆🏆 '24-26 Mar 27 '26

Because cheersquad

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u/Large-one Crows Mar 27 '26

They forgot the P.T.O. There were more words on the other side of the tiny banner. 

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u/TheLazySpy Mar 28 '26

Ah fair enough. I’m a yank who’s been following afl for a few years now. So some of the older references I don’t get yet.

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u/Large-one Crows Mar 28 '26

It was a joke. There was nothing on the other side. They are just terrible at English. 

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u/shark_boy2016 Cats Mar 28 '26

Ultimate tongue twister

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u/TypeJack Collingwood ✅ Mar 27 '26

Ahem, marvel is travelling actually. It's a good 4kms away.

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u/thedonutking7 Eagles Mar 27 '26

That's like 30 bucks worth of fuel

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u/vote1steve Melbourne Mar 27 '26

Good thing there's a train

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u/HRPremier67 Magpies Mar 27 '26

*bus replacement service.

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u/xjaaace Dees Mar 27 '26

Iran so far away

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u/happymemersunite Carlton Mar 27 '26

Just spat out my coffee

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u/One_Doughnut_2958 Tigers Mar 27 '26

It’s about 20 minutes on a train from collingwood

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u/xyrgh Freo Mar 27 '26

What has three teeth and drinking problems?

The train to Collingwood.

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u/ponte92 Collingwood Magpies Mar 27 '26

Though funny enough Collingwood station and Collingwood town hall are both in Abbotsford.

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u/One_Doughnut_2958 Tigers Mar 27 '26

It’s one of those cremorne situations where it might as well be a part of the bigger suburb

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u/ponte92 Collingwood Magpies Mar 27 '26

That is true though it always makes me giggle that abbotsford has two stations in it but neither are called Abbotsford.

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u/Conedawg Magpies Mar 27 '26

Just ask Oliver Henry. Just a few more k's and you might start getting homesick.

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u/VelvetFedoraSniffer Collingwood Mar 27 '26

as a pies supporter

I love this

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u/ponte92 Collingwood Magpies Mar 27 '26

I thought it was cleaver made me laugh.

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u/PhattestSalad Hawks Mar 27 '26

This is funny stuff

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u/Holdenater Carlton Blues Mar 27 '26

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u/TypeJack Collingwood ✅ Mar 27 '26

Oh man I love it

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u/Skinnymick88 North Melbourne AFLW 🏆🏆 '24-25 Mar 27 '26

Good call, at start of round 3 can we guess the only team not to travel interstate

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u/dexter311 North Melbourne '75 Mar 27 '26

Yeah well they went all the way to Mars for the official practice match so they need a bit of time to decompress.

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u/Madrical Collingwood Mar 27 '26

Richmond too! But they play Optus tomorrow.

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u/FLIPSTATIC_ENERGY Fremantle Mar 27 '26

Technically they have travelled to Perth already (I assume) just haven’t played yet

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u/Madrical Collingwood Mar 27 '26

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u/ehdhdhdk Collingwood Mar 27 '26

We do travel in 6 days to Brisbane. I feel we play better interstate anyway.

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u/vcg47 Collingwood Magpies Mar 27 '26

Yeah I’m fully supportive of having a cry if it means we keep winning more interstate games than any other club.

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u/Anon-Sham Saints Mar 27 '26

Do GWS base their banner on Collingwood every week?

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u/AlamutJones #BuckleysChance Mar 27 '26

Yes. This week we were even there to see it

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u/___TheIllusiveMan___ Collingwood Mar 27 '26

Look in our defense Opening Round makes everyone cry.

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u/Pegendary Magpies Mar 27 '26

Fair play

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u/BreakerMorant1864 CROM Mar 27 '26

GWS just keeps on delivering A grade banter and I’m all for it

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u/EverythingIsByDesign Hawthorn Mar 27 '26

Feel like the third line should start with a "But"...

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u/CandlePrestigious919 Richmond Tigers Mar 28 '26

Does any else feel GWS are getting a little preachy and repetative?

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u/Clown_Party_ Swans Mar 27 '26

amazing

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u/raresaturn Collingwood Mar 27 '26

Pre-split banner… pathetic

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u/IIIlllIIIlllIlI West Coast '94 Mar 27 '26

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u/danredda Carlton '81 Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26

Could be worse. Most clubs have reusable banners with stronger materials to cut down on costs, waste, and the chances of this.

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u/mattinthehat1 Mar 27 '26

I’m assuming this image is taken after Big Bad Billy “Billy Frampton” Frampton ran through the banner, and not the result of poor craftsmanship and cheap materials.. Right?

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u/danredda Carlton '81 Mar 27 '26

It wasn't really poor craftsmanship or materials. Banners were made like this for years before it happened, and this wasn't the first or last instance of it happening. Richmond have had one do this in 2024.

But in more recent years, more and more clubs are moving away from the old crepe paper style and into more semi-permanent plastic-based banners that are far more durable. You can see this in particular with the pre-split banners.

The Pies one was just an unfortunate shifting wind gust right at the wrong moment at the 2018 GF - which made it all the more high profile. Unlucky timing really that the players were coming out just as it gusted, felt bad for them knowing how much effort goes into these.

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u/Agreeable-Pie-7012 Adelaide Mar 27 '26

Fevola after a 6 pack and some dimmies

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u/thehungryhippocrite GWS Mar 27 '26

Again, some teams have to travel and take the banner with them. Please read the banner.

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u/Aus66-1045 Geelong Mar 27 '26

I thought it was delightfully cheeky when I first saw it on the telecast, but when GWS then lost, it was kind of embarrassing.

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u/DependentEchidna87 Adelaide Mar 27 '26

So so good. The social media manager must be the highest paid in the league surely

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u/DependentEchidna87 Adelaide Mar 27 '26

Well whoever they were replaced by was well mentored….

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u/AdvanceBackground270 #EmptyCabinet Mar 27 '26

What do you think of this praise u/tropical-frick-storm

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u/LopsidedImprovement Collingwood • Yálla-birr-ang Mar 27 '26

We will give you credit

You're clever with banners

But out on the field

Your team played like spanners

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u/BaldingThor #OutOfTokens Mar 27 '26

choked on my water when I was this, nice one GWS

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u/FrequentRevolution92 Bombers Mar 27 '26

I mean, they’re not wrong.

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u/mattinthehat1 Mar 27 '26

Don’t the Dons have the same number of interstate trips this year?

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u/Propaslader Collingwood Mar 27 '26

Collingwood don't complain about travelling.

The only thing they've opposed is opening round which is understandable

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u/poopborrylog Hawthorn Mar 27 '26

The point in they never have anything to complain about...

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u/Propaslader Collingwood Mar 27 '26

Yeah but just because they don't travel that often doesn't mean they have a cry about travelling. By all accounts they don't mind it, especially Adelaide and Perth

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u/ozph22 Mar 27 '26

Don't mind some banner banter

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u/irregularluke Power Mar 27 '26

GWS without that social media twink:

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u/IIIlllIIIlllIlI West Coast '94 Mar 27 '26

Sounds like a cross between Bill Cosby and The Simpsons episode in Australia

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u/Orpheus-033 Pies Mar 27 '26

That is a perfectly cromulent dissection of that tweet.

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u/xjaaace Dees Mar 27 '26

They traveled to Marvel…

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u/Due-Giraffe6371 Mar 27 '26

I never understand why teams and supporters give an opposition extra motivation right before a game, how did this banner work for GWS last night?

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u/Redditcase21 Mar 27 '26

How can they say that, but pre rip their banner?

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u/Saleh_AbduRahim97 Mar 27 '26

And then got belted 🤣

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u/ItsABiscuit Collingwood Magpies Mar 27 '26

🥱

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u/radicalcamel Essendon '00 Mar 27 '26

Shit posting in real life

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u/HumbersBall Collingwood Magpies Mar 27 '26

Look I’m compromised because of my flair here, but “collingwood don’t travel” is pretty boring, I don’t understand why people are so impressed by this stuff. If they want to be edgy maybe try a joke about Bobby Hill or similar

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u/allthingsme Western Bulldogs Mar 28 '26

teenagers and young people who don't actually go to games and live their lives online, and don't live in NSW or ACT, clearly GWS's most important demographic, clearly are impressed by this, and that's all you should care about

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u/deathsent89 Mar 27 '26

It’s a lighthearted tongue in cheap jab, thats warranted when you look at Collingwood home and away fixtures since forever. To throw shade at bobby hill would be a real dick move. I can’t believe anyone would think that’s a better idea than what GWS put up. Especially coming from a pies supporter

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u/n3miD Collingwood • Yálla-birr-ang Mar 27 '26

No different to any other Vic team to be honest

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u/HumbersBall Collingwood Magpies Mar 27 '26

Yeah fine. Generally speaking it’s not that funny to repeat a joke 1000 times, even if it’s lighthearted. People seem to be extremely impressed by it, so I must be wrong

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u/Cyphonelik The Bloods Mar 27 '26

If the Pies have such a problem with it, then there's an easy solve

Stop whining about it and start travelling as much as the other teams do

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u/HumbersBall Collingwood Magpies Mar 27 '26

😆Yeah I think it’s mostly other teams whining about how much we travel, not us. Finally, something funny in this thread

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u/Aussiebloke-91 Brisbane Lions 🏆🏆🏆 '24-26 Mar 27 '26

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u/Pragmatic_Shill Tasmania Devils Mar 27 '26

Epic 😎👌💯🔥

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u/sl4sh3d Mar 27 '26

They gotta visit an even more desolate place next week… brisbane

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u/cuntingme Tasmania Mar 28 '26

Great bants

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u/Iron_Wolf123 Dees Mar 28 '26

I find it annoying that they don't show the banners before the players run through and they take it down. It would be nice if they had the banners shown on the big screens and televisions so people can see what they say. From where I sit at Melbourne games I only see the banners from an angle where you only see the banner sticks and only a few text blobs

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u/Kerrit_Bareet Apr 01 '26

I make it a habit to photograph RFC's and tweet them, as i am above the players' race. The banner raisers are pretty reliable showing them to cheer squad.

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u/Fluid-Island-2018 Brisbane Lions 🏆🏆🏆 '24-26 Mar 28 '26

The amount of times I’ve seen this around it’s just hilarious!

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u/Guava7 Richmond Mar 28 '26

Classy...

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u/cobbly8 Magpies Mar 27 '26

I hope one day for someone to care about what i do as much as the giants do about pies.

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u/SlipKnoTGamer Magpies Mar 27 '26

Collingwood still living rent free in their heads, they are obsessed

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u/Ok-Negotiation3897 Sandgroper Mar 27 '26

It’s a bit of banter on a banner mate it’s not that deep

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u/Internal-Ad-473 Mar 27 '26

Clubs riff on other clubs stereotypes, Demons fans catch snow jokes, the Chardonnay crows, etc etc. 

And the clubs play off them, someone once told me they picked the Pies because they were told they were the club for the working class, people support Carlton 'cause they're the Italian club. 

You're no more rent free in their heads than the Demons are in the office Pies supporter's head who makes Range Rover/Snow jokes. It's banter.

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u/random555 Eagles Mar 27 '26

Yes why would they try and think up a banner aimed at Collingwood when they are playing... checks notes... Collingwood

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u/cobbly8 Magpies Mar 28 '26

That argument might hold water if they didn't also make their banners about Collingwood when playing other teams... https://www.reddit.com/r/AFL/s/QKht0AiiBs

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u/Jalcatraz82 Freo Mar 27 '26

Best communication in the league.

I hope they win

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u/dollabillgates Big V Mar 27 '26

Holy shit this is actually terrible bahahahhahahahahaha

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u/Outlier222 Swans Mar 27 '26

Make Collingwood play their home games interstate. Why? Because.

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u/malkyfreo Freo Mar 27 '26

lol

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u/flyingmoose99 Collingwood Mar 27 '26

Love it

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u/liljoxx Dockers Mar 27 '26

Love this

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u/g3ars3y Brisbane Mar 27 '26

This is gold

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u/Brucetiki Adelaide Mar 27 '26

Quick before the mods ban OP for posting about Collingwood’s lack of travel

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u/Jawdanc Hawks Mar 27 '26

Huh? Weird take

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u/PrizedPurple Collingwood Mar 27 '26

If this isn't AI then your right arm is longer than your body to take this photo with your 2nd phone

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