Reading the Essendon thread got me thinking. Who is our biggest rival? Generally rivalry seems to happen through one of two ways. Firstly a geographical rivalry; EPL - Arsenal/Tottenham, Man City/Man Utd etc. Or a rivalry built on great battles in a certain era ; Hawthorn/North, Hawthorn/Geelong, Carlton/Collingwood etc.

Geographically our rivals are Essendon or North. I've always felt more of the rivalry with Essendon. I've no doubt that it could really develop with the bombers rise up the ladder.

As for the second scenario, they're seems to be a real possibility of some bitterness developing between us and the two Sydney teams. But i'm not aware of a definite rival from the past??