FootyMang wrote:Long time observer of the div 7 forum, and I will admit it has been hard in the past to swallow some of the crap that is posted about our club and some of our individuals in the past, but having read what has previously been written about other clubs by certain individuals you learn to put up with it. This did strike me as quite an odd review from you morell having witnessed the same game you played in. However, another thing I have quickly learned from reading these forums, and this is something I think we can all agree on, and that is people tend to hold a biased view towards their own club (myself included). I don’t tend to enjoy reading anyone post generalised comments stereotyping another person’s club, and like you have done morell, attempt to bring the reputation of that club into disrepute. I think every member of any club would agree that at some point one of their own members has done something ‘stupid’. One thing I have noticed from your previous comments is you seem to be very self-centred, and you forget that all the greats that you have a Mitchell Park, and all the hard working servants of your club, that you would (deservedly) hold in the highest regard, we also have at SPOS (in our own members’ opinions). As do every other club on this earth. So when you constantly have a go at these people that are essentially driving the same ship with the same purpose that the great people at MP are trying to do, it really pisses me off.
Do you not think that MP has done any bad before? Do you think it’s ok that when (yes when… it does happen) they deserve to be battered on a public forum by the similar squabble to your own?
Rather than I regurgitate the same crap that you seem to do and preach everything SPOSFC, and how the sun shines out of our arse, I’ll provide our few readers with some of the facts from the game on Saturday. As it’s not fair to those mentioned above that you disregard their positions.
Saturday’s game:
Mitchell Park:
Yellow cards received (one for head butting and one for rough conduct) 2.
50 metre penalties against (separate incidents to the yellow cards) 2.
Down field free kicks against 1.
SPOS:
Yellow cards received 0.
50 metre penalties against (separate occasions to the yellow cards) 0.
Down field free kicks against 0.
In a tightly fought contest, this hardly suggests poor on -field leadership to me.
I would like to state that I along with the others at SPOSFC have loved our previous encounters with MP, and will continue to look forward to them (I think we sit at 3-3 in our short 3-year history). To quote one of our ‘inexperienced leaders’ after our round 1 drubbing at the hands of yours truly “those MP blokes are alright you know, love the rough stuff on the field, heaps of banter, but genuine blokes who love a beer and a chat after the game, that’s good footy”. This is something we like to think about ourselves. I witnessed both games this year from the same position (the sidelines) and on Saturday just gone it was very similar to the one played in round 1; except you dominated us in that game and we just got over the line in this one. It was physical, tough and for the most part played in great spirits. And from what I saw the same respect after the game on Saturday was given as we did in round 1… beers and smiles once the players left the change rooms. Am I assuming you weren’t apart of that?
I can’t just stop there without taking one last offence to another one of your comments “If you get a reputation of being a bunch of wangs, perception or otherwise, then it will affect sponsorship. It will affect recruitment. It will affect how you operate.”
For the record:
2017 players cleared to go to another club:
Mitchell Park – 29
SPOSFC – 6
Please stop taking petty jibes at our club, and like us, worry about your own backyard. If a club does something to you that you don’t like.. cop it on the chin and wait until the next time you face them.. don’t turn into a whiney bitch.
“#TeamDavidGillman” if you know the facts, which I’m sure you do as you’re an Adelaide Footy League know-it-all, probably not the best thing to be advocating for.
As I’m well aware you can’t stand not having the last word, so please feel free to contact us at
sposfc@hotmail.com to save everyone else from your distorted opinions. One of our officials would love to have a beer with you, or perhaps a soy latte, to chew the fat off some of the issues you see facing our club.
Thanks to the guys from MP that returned favour and hung around for a beer and a laugh. As morell has previously pointed out we don’t have much in terms of facilities at SPOSFC so we appreciate every dollar at our bar / BBQ. We (our leadership group and officials) will always stay for a drink at an opposing venue if welcomed. Special mention to Knowlsey from our officials for also sticking around – good bloke.
On a footnote – I always gathered you as an ‘older-retired-from-playing-stands-on-the-sidelines-with-a-clipboard-and-club-polo’ type of fella, but to learn that you were the #13 acting like a complete fool (sook) well after the siren, reminding all our players and officials of the 2015 elimination loss at the hands MP just speaks volumes to the type of person you are. Happy to complain about everyone else, but forget you’re straight from flogville yourself. I alluded to the fact before, but I have great respect for the people involved at MP, your players and officials. If you do your homework, I’m sure you’ll hear that our officials were over the moon and shared this with your officials when you won the GF in 2015, as yours was a great story. Unfortunately, you as an individual, we have no time for. #communityfootball
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 6:11 pm
