Giving up footy, thus this forum

[Grantysghost]

Re: Giving up footy, thus this forum

He made the same request of me. It just took me 9 months or so to see it.

Feels good to be back among friends.

G is on fire atm making this place awesome.

Welcome back!

[bulldogtragic]

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I’m back out. Still here for everything else, but I’m done. This side doesn’t make anything about it enjoyable. It’s miserable and monotonous doing this all the time. Week after week, month after month, and year after year.

May our skills never improve, May we play players out of position, May we give sub standard footballers a nice long career.

On the flip side, I think a refresh is pointless. We stuffed the Lobb trade and Bruce trade. We need to refresh and all this talent over a decade gave us one of the youngest premiership teams and then middle nothingness. So with apparently no depth, I look forward to seeing if we can be at least honest and do a full rebuild. Including trading out good players.

So I willl stay around for that, but I really have had enough of the rest. This is meant to be enjoyed and all it is seeing his long you can endure it.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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I’m back out. Still here for everything else, but I’m done. This side doesn’t make anything about it enjoyable. It’s miserable and monotonous doing this all the time. Week after week, month after month, and year after year.

May our skills never improve, May we play players out of position, May we give sub standard footballers a nice long career.

On the flip side, I think a refresh is pointless. We stuffed the Lobb trade and Bruce trade. We need to refresh and all this talent over a decade gave us one of the youngest premiership teams and then middle nothingness. So with apparently no depth, I look forward to seeing if we can be at least honest and do a full rebuild. Including trading out good players.

So I willl stay around for that, but I really have had enough of the rest. This is meant to be enjoyed and all it is seeing his long you can endure it.

Yeah, Saturday Night was the last straw for my dad and I. We won't be going to the footy anytime soon.

I commented to my wife that I actually don't enjoy it anymore either. The drive from Geelong is horrendous, the food options and prices are ordinary, and the team gives little enjoyment to watch on a week to week basis.

We do it because we pay for memberships and it's become habitual, not because it's enjoyable.

[bulldogtragic]

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Yeah, Saturday Night was the last straw for my dad and I. We won't be going to the footy anytime soon.

I commented to my wife that I actually don't enjoy it anymore either. The drive from Geelong is horrendous, the food options and prices are ordinary, and the team gives little enjoyment to watch on a week to week basis.

We do it because we pay for memberships and it's become habitual, not because it's enjoyable.

I hear you. I re-tried watching live games the last two weeks and can feel my stress levels re-rising. I endure it, not enjoy it anymore. I love the club and want it to improve. List management interests me. But I’m done with match day. It’s Groundhog Day. I found I was happier without it, so going back to that again.

[Grantysghost]

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Yeah, Saturday Night was the last straw for my dad and I. We won't be going to the footy anytime soon.

I commented to my wife that I actually don't enjoy it anymore either. The drive from Geelong is horrendous, the food options and prices are ordinary, and the team gives little enjoyment to watch on a week to week basis.

We do it because we pay for memberships and it's become habitual, not because it's enjoyable.

Wow that's crazy as we were saying the exact same thing (wife and I).

It's not the team, I love watching them no matter what.... It's the experience.

It's too bloody loud. I don't need people racing the fence animations. I don't need higher or lower is this a fkn quiz show or a game of footy?

The game is exciting enough it doesn't need artificial rubbish.

I actually liked the lights, which they've stopped doing now after goals which is fine by me. Not needed.

However the noise levels are beyond insane.

I like watching the vfl live for this reason so hard we can't go to whitten to watch it

As for the food, it's rank. Even the Hot Dogs aren't Don anymore (primo) and just don't cut it.

Profit profit profit!

Maybe I'm getting old.....

[GVGjr]

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Yeah, Saturday Night was the last straw for my dad and I. We won't be going to the footy anytime soon.

I commented to my wife that I actually don't enjoy it anymore either. The drive from Geelong is horrendous, the food options and prices are ordinary, and the team gives little enjoyment to watch on a week to week basis.

We do it because we pay for memberships and it's become habitual, not because it's enjoyable.

I hear something very similar to this from a few people nowadays.
Years back I was critical of people leaving the games early but I'm not now because the whole experience of going to the games is vastly more difficult now than it's ever been.
I believe this was the main reason years back why NRL games never drew the same sorts of crowds than they AFL did because in Sydney just driving to work during the week took an extraordinarily long time and by the weekend the thought of battling traffic again to attend a game wasn't attractive enough for them to front up to that struggle again.

Prices at the footy for the quality of food you end receiving is shocking.

I take the train too and from the footy now and it's cut down on the traffic angst plus I don't really enjoy watching us on the tele so prefer to be at the game win, lose or draw.

[Hotdog60]

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I wonder what would be worse the flashing lights and noise or the channel 7 commentary team.

[The bulldog tragician]

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If everyone hates the flashing lights, who are they for?

I actually see far fewer young children at matches lately due to our time slots so I don’t think it’s for them.

It was refreshing at Ballarat to just chat about the game before and at half time without the endless assault on our senses.

Whenever I am asked in surveys by either Marvel or our club about my “match day experience” I raise the relentless screeching and the horrible distractions of the lights. It evidently falls on deaf ears or is filed away under Negative Stakeholder Engagement Feedback never to be seen again.

[Grantysghost]

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If everyone hates the flashing lights, who are they for?

I actually see far fewer young children at matches lately due to our time slots so I don’t think it’s for them.

It was refreshing at Ballarat to just chat about the game before and at half time without the endless assault on our senses.

Whenever I am asked in surveys by either Marvel or our club about my “match day experience” I raise the relentless screeching and the horrible distractions of the lights. It evidently falls on deaf ears or is filed away under Negative Stakeholder Engagement Feedback never to be seen again.

Do you think there's a big club/small club gap here?

They love their blockbusters, appropriating WAR for money.

I just want to watch the game.

Who is driving this nonsense?

[FrediKanoute]

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I hear you. I re-tried watching live games the last two weeks and can feel my stress levels re-rising. I endure it, not enjoy it anymore. I love the club and want it to improve. List management interests me. But I’m done with match day. It’s Groundhog Day. I found I was happier without it, so going back to that again.

I don't watch games live. Follow them intermitently on the AFL App and find out if we win or lose. If we win I will watch the replay. If we lose.....welll.......I haven't wasted 3 hours of my life and I am in a much better mood not having witnessed it.

[bulldogtragic]

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I don't watch games live. Follow them intermitently on the AFL App and find out if we win or lose. If we win I will watch the replay. If we lose.....welll.......I haven't wasted 3 hours of my life and I am in a much better mood not having witnessed it.

So I’m copying you! This was working well for me this season and going back to it. I want to make footy work for me and I’m a convert to this method to make it work. I don’t know what’s changed the past few years, but footy isn’t fun anymore for a range of rewarding and this group has a special knack for self imploding fairly regularly the same way. I guess we all work out how much footy to take on board to the point there’s still something positive there.

The way it looks on TV and description of what they do at Docklands, I’m glad I’m another state too!!!!

[mjp]

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I don't watch games live. Follow them intermitently on the AFL App and find out if we win or lose. If we win I will watch the replay. If we lose.....welll.......I haven't wasted 3 hours of my life and I am in a much better mood not having witnessed it.

LOL. I miss a lot of games live. I generally watch anyway (absolute beltings have me leaving the recording 'unwatched') but even losses aren't as bad on replay. I love the anticipation of watching the game live but some weeks - like last week when we had the Catters who basically own us - it is more like dread than anticipation...

[FrediKanoute]

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LOL. I miss a lot of games live. I generally watch anyway (absolute beltings have me leaving the recording 'unwatched') but even losses aren't as bad on replay. I love the anticipation of watching the game live but some weeks - like last week when we had the Catters who basically own us - it is more like dread than anticipation...

I totally get this! I think if I was in Melbourne I would watch more games , but being in a different time zone it means I have an easy out.

[Bulldog Joe]

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I am with most of the comments.

Life has enough stresses and Footy was my emotional chillout.

Now it just adds more frustration when I need something emotionally uplifting it drags me down.

I actually think it was more enjoyable when we were rubbish as you could take pleasure in improvements either by the team or individuals. Enjoy wins against the odds.

Thinking about the really enjoyable games that I managed to attend I go back to the first year with Rocket.

The win against Adelaide in Grant's 300th and later that year when we beat Brisbane with a massive last quarter off the ruck dominance of Will Minson and centre clearance work from Cooney roving to him.

Even 2016 didn't provide that level of enjoyment as the finals were all stressful.

Losing when you expect success is deflating and the effort against an undermanned Geelong was so difficult from an emotional aspect.

[bulldogtragic]

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I am with most of the comments.

Life has enough stresses and Footy was my emotional chillout.

Now it just adds more frustration when I need something emotionally uplifting it drags me down.

I actually think it was more enjoyable when we were rubbish as you could take pleasure in improvements either by the team or individuals. Enjoy wins against the odds.

Thinking about the really enjoyable games that I managed to attend I go back to the first year with Rocket.

The win against Adelaide in Grant's 300th and later that year when we beat Brisbane with a massive last quarter off the ruck dominance of Will Minson and centre clearance work from Cooney roving to him.

Even 2016 didn't provide that level of enjoyment as the finals were all stressful.

Losing when you expect success is deflating and the effort against an undermanned Geelong was so difficult from an emotional aspect.

I hear you Joe. If it wasn’t for the people here I’d probably go AWOL again. I’ve been verbally using your signature a bit lately in the real world. Pretty much sums up how I feel about succinctly. With the treadmill this team is on and doesn’t appear to be able to get off, I fear that I won’t ever get the satisfaction back. Which is kind of sad considering growing up basically at the WO as a kid. But I guess that life.