Being successful and trying to win games is fine. Absolutely nothing wrong with that, its competition after all. How certain clubs conduct themselves matters though. Oakleigh for me are not a good club and have tried to make life difficult for South for 20 years, from unethical ways of trying to poach players to using its power within the federation to gain an advantage.
I spoke previously about the pecking order, St Albans and Nth Geelong will of course try and beat the Knights, but they respect the order of the cro community where knights sit at the top. Preston likewise, altona, lalor sloga. Sydenham etc dont go out of their way to disrupt the order.
But no us Greeks know better, we wanna piss away decades of top flight hellas excellence so some suburban wankers who once had corporate boxes at lakeside in the 90s can sit at eaton mall and legitimately want to be bigger than South, really?
It goes South, daylight, then heidelberg and then daylight to everyone else.
Spare me this new found lovefest between oakleigh and heidelberg. When heidelberg dropped out of the nsl in 1995 Oakleigh despised them, bentleigh despised them, they were running around like miniture hellas clubs thinking they were doing our bidding. It was so pathetic i actually preffered Heidelberg beat them. It was a sign of what was to come and i knew things would be x1000 worse if South went down and i was proven correct, because our community is a joke.
Its not all bad, the hellas spirit does this still live on at certain clubs, and South has competed and been defeated by some of them, thats fair. For many others all i can say is xalia.