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The 'mighty' Blackburn Rovers... Premiership Champions 1994-95, before that they last won the top league in the 1913-1914 season. When they looked like this...



One of the founding members of the Football league in the UK (and therefore, the World) they have sadly gone downhill rapidly since being bought by some Indian chicken farmers (Venky's) who don't have the first clue about tradition, history or how to run a fething football club....

Not really my team, but my wife supports the Fremantle Dockers (making them my second team by default), who on the weekend scored an upset win over Geelong to put themselves on the verge of their very first grand final appearance.

This is is a club that in their 19 years of existance has never finished higher than third, and won just three finals, and just once before played in a preliminary final (in which they were rank underdogs and comfortably beaten by Sydney).

I'm an Eagles fan and we're supposed to hate our cross-town rivals, but I've got to give credit to the Fremantle fans for keeping the faith.

 Snrub wrote:
Does supporting a rubbish team include supporting the Aussie Cricket team?

Because i mean lately.... Damn man.... Damn...

They've only really been poor relative to the high expectations placed on the team. The 4-0 shellacking in India was dire, but largely the result of our strength in pace bowling being negated by India doctoring pitches (in response to the WACA pitch being green and fast, they doctored the pitch in all four test matches, because they're donkey-caves).

The Ashes ended up 3-0, but that didn't really reflect the series. The only one sided match was Lords, in the other two result matches Australia could well have won, and in the two drawn matches Australia had dominant positions ruined by the rain.

I mean, I'm not saying everything is great in Australian cricket right now (we really, really need some batsman that can bat time), but it sure ain't English cricket of the 90s, or anything that severe.


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 sarpedons-right-hand wrote:
The 'mighty' Blackburn Rovers... Premiership Champions 1994-95, before that they last won the top league in the 1913-1914 season.

Moral of the story is to hang in there long enough, and a rich man will come in and buy some players for you...