05-15-2021, 01:57 AM
All done and completed. Best of luck with the survey and your studies.
I'd be keen to see if feelings of rivalry vary between different age groups. My hunch is that such feelings would be strongest among older supporters. i think the kids today not only have other distractions, but the circumstances are also different. The competition is now national, player movement is greater than it's ever been, and I think also the idea of difference as expressed through tribalism is taught differently to what it once was. i'd hazard a guess and say that old school rivalries are dying, despite attempts by the AFL to try and pump life into what was always, IMO, a fairly flaccid concept.
I'd be keen to see if feelings of rivalry vary between different age groups. My hunch is that such feelings would be strongest among older supporters. i think the kids today not only have other distractions, but the circumstances are also different. The competition is now national, player movement is greater than it's ever been, and I think also the idea of difference as expressed through tribalism is taught differently to what it once was. i'd hazard a guess and say that old school rivalries are dying, despite attempts by the AFL to try and pump life into what was always, IMO, a fairly flaccid concept.