Do you have a second team?

[Dry Rot]

How do you define "a second team"?

One you follow closely, or that you like to watch and see win?

Or just a faint preference vs other teams?

Or perhaps for the interstate Woofers here, one that's on TV every week whether you like it or not?

[mighty_west]

Williamstown are my second or other team, all other AFL sides mean nothing to me, going to be interesting next year in the VFL though!

[Webby]

Although it's the Dogs by daylight for me, I love the opportunity to run the judgmental ruler over other clubs. I don't have an outright favourite, but I do have tiered clusters from most liked to least liked. Formed since childhood..

Group 1:
Swans - Barry Round was a favorite as a kid and always a fellow struggler. Happy their supporters saw some success as they did it tougher than any for a long time
North - always an anti-Essendon ally. Also punched above their weight as a club - which I respected
Geelong - country club and lacked success when I was a kid. Didn't seem overly cocky, growing up
Fitzroy - honest, no frills struggling club. Bernie Q was a favourite. Became hatred in '89, but tempered since

Group 2 - neutrals:
Hawthorn - other side of town, but were the good guys in my mind 2, 3 or 4 times a year vs Essendon. Size and arrogance has crept in over past decade, though.
Richmond - Poorly run. Squandered powerhouse. Amy Winehouse of AFL when i was growing up
Melbourne - Switzerland of AFL. Don't like 'em, don't hate 'em. They're just there.. And that's their biggest problem

Group 3 - disdain:
Brisbane - absorbed Fitzroy and were gifted the world by Oakley & co
St Kilda - just an awful club. 26 spoons and countless court appearances. Felt they were a joke whilst growing up and a disgrace as an adult
Adelaide - 1997
West Coast - Upstarts
Freo - Upstarts
GWS - Upstarts
Gold Coast - Upstarts

Group 4 - extreme disdain:
Carlton - arrogant cheats
Collingwood - are Collingwood

Group 5 - irrational hatred:
Essendon

[Bulldog4life]

Each week I barrack for the teams that I have picked in the footy tipping comp.

In the finals if the doggies aren't playing I barrack for any interstate team to win. My rational thinking is that if I can't be happy I don't want any other supporters of a Victorian team to be happy. Or should that be irrational!

[Ghost Dog]

Although it's the Dogs by daylight for me, I love the opportunity
Richmond - Poorly run. Squandered powerhouse. Amy Winehouse of AFL when i was growing up
Melbourne - Switzerland of AFL. Don't like 'em, don't hate 'em. They're just there.. And that's their biggest problem

Group 3 - disdain:
Brisbane - absorbed Fitzroy and were gifted the world by Oakley & co
St Kilda - just an awful club. 26 spoons and countless court appearances. Felt they were a joke whilst growing up and a disgrace as an adult

Post of the month. Very funny read

[Twodogs]

Each week I barrack for the teams that I have picked in the footy tipping comp.

In the finals if the doggies aren't playing I barrack for any interstate team to win. My rational thinking is that if I can't be happy I don't want any other supporters of a Victorian team to be happy. Or should that be irrational!

Sounds perfectly rational to me.

[LostDoggy]

My second team each week is whoever is playing the cows. Everything about that club grates against my soul. So many reasons, so many knobs from fans to players to media.

Central districts bulldogs were my first team until I discovered the VFL. Platten was my hero as a kid and I watched most of the hawthorn games back then. If anything they would be the side I dislike the least. Clarko is another connection to Centrals and the long awaited premiership.

[Ozza]

I certainly don't have a second team - but if the Bulldogs were to fold tomorrow - my kids would follow their Mum's team, Geelong, and I guess I would end up following them.

Geelong and Sydney are the most inoffensive of the other clubs in the league.

Essendon, Carlton, St.Kilda, Hawthorn, North Melbourne, Collingwood are clearly at the other end of the scale.