This thread discusses the Content article: Stand for? I'll give you stand for

And Guy..
We marched through the streets of Freo to keep our club in Freo.
We paid our own way into the competition
We did it on our own without the WAFC or the AFL bailing us out or propping us up from year to year. (Take note WCE, WESTERN BULLDOGS AND NORTH MELB)

What do we stand for? what a bloody stupid question!
All I know is we stand up for ourselves!

I stand to applaud after losses.

How 'bout standing a round?

I'll tell you another thing that seems to escape BackAgainstThe - we have a memory.

When we lost the elimination final at Subiaco, we stood to applaud the progress our Club had made.
Did we applaud the loss? No.
Did we applaud the media's commentary and inferences? No.
Did we applaud the last half? No.

We remember much more than the last four quarters.

Did we boo Chris Judd when he won the Glendinning Medal? No.
Did we boo the selectors for not awarding it to Josh Carr for a four quarter effort? You bet.

Can we laugh, cry and cheer at the memory of Gary Dhurkay? You bet.
Do we mourn a political columnist who had the misfortune to love our footy team? Yes - we miss you Matt.

What BackAgainstThe doesn't understand (or is far too embarrassed to admit) is that we, as in our Club, the people's club, have much greater depth than most.

Will we forget you, Robert Walls? No.
Mate, you are an idiot. You played VFL and coached VFL teams, but that doesn't mean that you are not an idiot. You will get no credence from the Fremantle faithful.

We don't forget.

Absolutely spot on and well said, Merc.

I certainly won't forget Robert Walls or any of the other self-satisfied, pompous fools who take every opportunity to demean the football club that I love.

You forgot "disingenuous"

Poiple that would imply that Walls and others of his ilk actually did some research and then were being mischievous. The problem with Walls and his fellow cronies that DON't do the research and as a consequence are totally ignorant of the facts.

You only need to mention Shane Strempel and Robert Walls in the one sentence. It says everything about Robert Walls.

good point SD - add "indolent" then

smiley, good blog mate,

Re: Len Hall, Lest we forget. A K1W1 who embraces all that is freo and our game almost brought a tear.Freo is as Freo does.

Now put that in your pipe backsagainstthe.( goodonemerc)

Robert Walls and Brisbane Bears record

1991 after 10 rounds - 1 win and 9 losses
1992 after 11 rounds - 1 win 1 draw and 9 losses
1993 after 16 rounds - 3 winds and 13 losses
1994 after 8 rounds - 2 win and 6 losses
1995 after 15 rounds - 3 wins and 12 losses
1996 - SACKED

He must have been some freaking genius to last that long - must have had somthing on someone - else his rates were really good (I assume that how he keeps his gig with The Age).

Admittedly they made it to the finals in 1995 .... after Freo won only 2 games less in their debut season after making soooo many trading errors. But still Walls was sent packing, replaced by John Northey

Wonder wghy freo don't approach him for Harvey's replacement.

Staggering statistics, stickers. (And, yes, I'm very fond of my accidental alliteration there.)

Such a pity they can't be run across the screen every time the man opens his mouth on TV or published under his byline every time he goes into print.

If anybody were looking for justification to call Walls a sniveling, self-serving hypocrite, stickers just gave it to you.

Here's something to stand for. Being a good fan, staying at the game no matter how badly the guys are playing and cheering them when they leave the grounds. We never leave a game and we never boo at our guys no matter what.

surely there has to be a T-Shirt marketing opportunity in this for Dockerland - listing some of things we stand for, especially the hating Robert Walls part...