who would you go for if you were not a saint?

[Iceman234]

Bulldogs for me.

No question - good bunch of blokes, underdogs and bought their memberships as well when it looked like they were going under.

Our Victorian underdog friend.

[Dal_Santos_Gal]

If it's not RED WHITE AND BLACK .. its no one.

If St Kilda were to merge, fold or whatever.. as far as I am concerned AFL would no longer be apart of my life.

I might go and watch Casey or start following the soccer.

Now if St Kilda hadn't been around when I started to follow the saints. BTW I was brain washed at a very early age and pretty much had half my family trying to get me to says Saints before mum and dad.. ( and not complaining about that mind you)

But if I had not been brain washed and got to decide myself it would have been either Carlton, Kangaroos or (GRINDING MY TEETH) Geelong....
Why...... because when I was a kid my favorite colour was blue and I am sure I would have picked a team that wears blue....
The scary thought about it is I love animals and the colour blue as a child and I just have this horrible feeling it might had been geelong... (oh please someone grab me a SHARP knife now)

[aussierules0k]

[Bernard Shakey]

San Francisco 49ers, because Jerry Rice is the greatest athlete of all time.

Having said that I live and breathe St Kilda and absolutely love Robert Harvey.

We lost on Friday night, but I won.
I came home on the train with to one of nature's gentlemen (probably second only to Harves), premiership rover, Brownlow medalist, St Kilda captain Ross Smith. A great and very humble man.

[woooosaints]

eagles cause im from WA

[Teflon]

jessica alba.

[mad saint guy]

Would just play footy. Too hard to see many Casey games and I despise every other AFL team.

Who knows...I might be bored and desperate enough to sit through a game or two of Rugby.

[Saints Premiers 2008]

hey
i went down to geelong with a mate 2day to watch one of the best games i think ive ever seen and we were in the port CS as he is a massive fan!
and just watching their players, supporters, staff....etc it got me thinking that if i wasnt a saints i would be a power fan!
just wondering who you would be if you wernt a sainter????

Ormond Amateur fan myself. Hate 15 AFL sides.

agreed plugger...i could not fathom even going for another team

although i have always had a soft spot for box hill...god knows why

[hobbo]

well since leaving melbourne and moving to nsw ive tried to follow an NRL team but i cant seem to find the same passion for the Knights as i do for the Saints.So to answer the question of the thread i would never follow another team in the afl if the saints were no more but i would really concertrate on NRL as its an awsome game,i can watch all 8 games every week and enjoy all of them,whereas i can only watch one game of AFL a week and to hell with the rest :):)
GO SAINTS

hobbo...............

[jk23]

I know who I will be barricking for this friday night ( 2 hours only ) no need to say the team, cannot bring myself to type it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MCG-Unit]

Geelong

edit: just to hope for, not necessarily to go

[st_Trav_ofWA]

East Fremantle Sharks !!!
Cronulla Sharks
Western Force
Perth Wildcats
Perth Lynx
Perth Oriels
Miami Heat
Dallas Cowboys
Toronto Bluejays
Tampa Bay Lightning
HRT
BMW Sauber F1 Team
Willeton Tigers

i think thats all the teams i would follow if the saints didnt exist

[riccardo]

Melbourne Storm and Victory.

AFL is cr@ptacular at the moment, wouldn't bother if not for Saints.

[st.byron]

No-one but the Saints in the AFL.
Wouldnn't mind seeing the doggies win it though. They're fans are as starved of success as we are. Them and the Demons I wouldn't mind.
If there were no Saints, I'd probably just go surfing and go watch
North Fremantle and East Fremantle when I can.

[Cam1lla]

the way the afl is...if it wasnt for stkilda i wouldnt be a fan

id just play the game...watch some games

yeah same for me

[Rickabee]

I've always sort of had Richmond as my second team. I just couldn't support Carlton, Collingwood or Essendon - too rich, too smug - I just enjoy watching anyone beat them (until the interstate teams came along!).

While I was growing up in New York I always hated the New York Yankees baseball team because they won all the time and I really enjoyed watching anyone "knock them off their perch", so that explains my attitude to the teams above. I guess I've always been an "underdog" type of supporter.

Richmond is a little bit like us in that they have a huge supporter base when they get going and they are not rich like the above teams. I was also influenced by seeing them from '67 -'82 and I just enjoyed the fast free flowing high scoring game style that they played. I remember watching Royce Hart playing in the 1966 Reserves Grand Final (before our match against Collingwood) and thinking "this guy is going to be great". As it turned out I was right! I guess it's fair to say that I was influenced by who was successful at the time that I started following footy (1966), like "Saint Bev" was for Hawthorn.

The Richmond supporters do "eat their own" at times and this is a bit off putting, but most of the players seem to remain loyal, so that's a "plus". I do enjoy watching them knock off any other team (except us).

Mind you, I've now also got a soft spot for the Bulldogs because they have been without success almost as long as us, but I want us to have two Premierships before they do.

[Leo.J]

No Saints, no AFL for me.

[stinger]

port melbourne..........supported them as a young un from when i watched them play finals.......

[saint_kiki]

Lions... or god forbid WCE

[super dooper]

I would probably go for sydney

My dad played a bit of under 19s for South Melbourne so at least there is a little bit of a relation, although i would be no where near as passionate as i am for stkilda!

[Animal Enclosure]

Tigers have always been no#2 for me courtesy of relatives but I think I'd really struggle. Would probably just get an AFL membership & go to the best games each week.

More likely I'd move the family to QLD & enjoy the weather, with no Saints in Melbourne I'd have no reason to stay!

[spert]

No Saints, no interest.

[Prodgers]

I would probably give the game away or buy a North membership cause they need the numbers.

Other than that i'd go buy a v8 supercar driver membership which gets you into the corporate team areas at v8 supercar races

[Solar]

scarey as it sounds to me I would have taken up the swans, my grandfather was a big south melbourne fan and they were on the TV every sunday.

[OneEyedSainter77]

Before the farcicial decisions we've copped the last two years, I would have said Carlton (second favourite team and my mum and sisters go for them) (once again, I have to reiterate if you mention this in a post in disgust I will ignore you as I have explained this in virtually every post I've made)

Now however, I think I'd follow Collingwood cos my girlfriend and housemates all support them....



















AS IF!!!!!!! nah, if St.Kilda folded NOW, I would probably turn to rugby league (which means learning the rules) and follow the Melbourne Storm (I have a soft spot for all Melbourne sides, but I don't follow them)

Seriously, no St.Kilda - NO AFL for me...