Excellent thread. Although I have never been able to stand Melbourne, I will be cheering them all the way in tomorrow's GF. If anyone thinks Dogs fans would support Parramatta they are crazy.
The main reason the Bulldogs are not playing in the Grand Final is because the Parrascum took three of our players out illegally. First Cayless and then Hindmarsh kneed The General in the head in the first tackle theymade in the game. Both Hayne and Keating were charged for their illegal tackles on Goodwin and Hannant and both entered guilty pleas. So, will I be supporting Parrascum tomorrow? No fkn way in the world.
You are also right on the mark re their stinkin' bandwagon supporters. Most of them know nothing about the team they are supposed to love. When they were running near the bottom of the table earlier in the year they were getting crowds of about 4,000, even to home games.
The other thing which is very irritating is hearing all the bandwagon scum moan about how they couldn't get Grand Final tickets. GF tickets went on sale to season ticket holders on 29 July 2009 and to the general public a few days later. At that time, there were thousands of tickets available to anyone who had faith and belief in their team. Did the Parrascum bandwagoners buy their tickets then? No, of course not because a quick check of the draw and table will reveal that around 29 July their team was doing badly, the so-called supporters were nowhere to be fouind and so of course did not buy tickets.
So, all I can say is may Nathan Cayless start the game. May his hamstring snap in his first hitup. May Hayne cop some knees in the back of his head and get KO'd and may the Melbourne Storm smash the Parrascum into next week. The bandwagoners will will crawl back into their holes and justice will have been done.