Everyone gives Collingwood a hard time because they're such a successful team, and I think they have the most members of all the teams (this used to be the case a few years back, dunno now).
Collingwood seems to have the most die-hard fans, who can get pretty comical!! Very otp!!

Nah, I think they just pick on their working class roots......

They haven't been successful for a while and they certainly don't have the most members now.

Everyone has a go at them because their fans are a bunch of ferral, arrogant idiots.

bit like magpies in real life then

Collingwood = Eddie (everywhere) Maguire ...I worked for the S.A.N.F.L for 15 years and I love the game Western Australia also had...and still does..a state league ...Carn the Crows!...oh, and then the Eagles

Currently West Coast Eagles, with 44,000 members are the biggest football team of any code in Aussie, I think the next team in members is the Adelaide Crows, followed by Collingwood.

However it's all about to change, within 3 years almost certainly Melbourne Victory will be the biggest football team of any code and will surpass that 44,000 member total of WestCoast as the sleeping giant of real football in this country has realised it's not based on Ethnic culture anymore.


and boy have I been waiting for a long time for this to happen. 26 years to be exact.... Mark my words it will happen.

3 years may be optimistic but the Victory have certainly been getting some crowds in. I'm not sure how many of those are actually members though.

I thought Adelaide had passed a milestone 50,000 during last season actually

Thought so.

http://www.funtrivia.com/en/Sports/A...rows-3815.html

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What ranking were the Crows in club membership numbers at the conclusion of the 2006 season?

i love it. closest game to football (soccer) there is. i remember as a boy my footy coach screaming "TRIANGLES LADS, LOOK FOR THE TRIANGLES!" thats what the best afl teams do. quick passes and off the ball movement making triangles. my coach was a nutter but i suspect he was right. i scream the same at my thai kids now and we're doin alright. afl is a superb game. i was lucky enough to live in brissy when they were the top boys.
its a great game to watch. coorparoo training ground were clients of mine and i met akka a coupla times. he was a true gent despite what media types may say.
afl beats any of the rugby codes. knuckle draggers the lot of'em. cant wait to get back down under and the new season to start.

also, the rumbles that kick off are highly entertaining. i wish our national game was like it used to be. except the racism(banana throwing etc) and liverpool winning every year of course.
COME ON TOWN!

50,000 at AC and I thought 44,000 at WCE was as good as it gets.

MV currently have 11,000 members, last year it was 6,000, next year 2007 should be circa 20,000, however thats when they enter into the Asian championship league. Which is when they should really grab the publics attention.

There is a strong possibilty now, that the A league GF will be switched to the MCG, with a projected crowd of 80,000 plus, should MV play Adelaide or Sydney.

Put another way, the push is now on, for real football to take on AFL in this country.

AFL Friday night
Football Saturday afternoon

Oh how we suffer in Victoria

The only reason West Coast have 44,000 is cos we dont have a ground big enough to take more. If we had a 80,000 stadium here in Perth there would be 60,000 members easy.

Good God I hope not!! Soccer is the most BORING, overrated sport I have ever come across (along with baseball) Sleep inducing. Simplistic. Played by arrogant, over-payed simpletons. Aussie Rules is fast paced, vibrant, technical and the players are the fittest in the world. It rocks!!

.... and that will be why its the largest sport in pretty much every country in the World apart from the US and Oz.

March 28th can't come quick enough for me Bill. I think I'm developing Footy Deprivation Syndrome...!!!

I've got high hopes for Freo this season.
Word is that they're very confident at Windy Hill as well, so you'll be happy about that.

Can't wait for it all to start again...

It will eventually end up the biggest sport here as well, Trouble with that is, from a UK point of view, isthey will also possibly end up seeded/rated higher than England. Between 7 and 11 years I give it. Or two to three world cups. A good indicator of that is the age of the people going to the games, which I would rate at an average of between 18-24 Yolds

It's the Aussie way, they just focus on England, and dont stop till they dominate them.

Oh well if that drive means that Football continues to grow here the way it has for the last 18months or so, then I'm all for it

Ah yes... Melboune Victory, the first club in the world to outgrow their new stadium, at olympic park, before it was even built lol