"Boys will be boys" 

"Just some people letting of steam"

"Doesn't happen every week"

"Isn't as bad as wog violence in socckah"

"No flares used"

Excuses list would be quite long today for the AFLers.

-PB

Gary Lyon is a pretty dominant figure in the AFL media nowadays ... will be interesting to see any media outlets pick up on it, or as you say pass it off.

Bloody sockah hooligans infiltrating da foodi

herald sun reported it 

Probably Soccer fans starved of action now the HAL has gone to bed for 6 months

Possibly longer hahah

-PB

You can watch the video of all the action here

http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/collingwood-and-st-kilda-fans-engaged-in-an-ugly-brawl/news-story/ed7b52db04b2fb5dd17ccfb0a2b3d982

Confirmed no flares

No doubt the pro AFL media do protect the sport as much as they can. It's definitely not an even and fair playing ground. The only problem and difference football has is when it happens it is a premeditated and thought out attack on opposition supporters.

Heard Neil Mitchell briefly say on 3AW "I'd better mention the anti-sociual behaviour at the footy yesteday, before the soccer fans have a go at me".

Meh

Our game has more pressing issues than trying to fight afl. Look after your own backyard first before you start flinging shit over the fence

Legit wasn't even aware the AFL had started. God damn I love living in the rugby league bubble.

Living in Brissy was bliss for that but fuck me the Broncos obsessed media was a whole other side of the coin.

No arrests made? Clearly not enough riot police nearby at the footy.

AFL struggling for relevance in NSW...

The article talks of men and women in the brawl. At least it was inclusive :)

I say the same thing about living in the 21st century in Victoria and not getting my news from 20th century sources.

I stopped watching FTA news bulletins almost 20 years ago and went sbs + print + internet only. I can count the number of times I've been stuck watching 10/7 news and it's every time I visit the olds.

It's terrifying. Like I never missed anything in 20 years. The exact same "news" as I last remember it. Some random crap about a state or federal concession that saves you $5 a week. New research shows one glass of red wine a day prevents cancer. It rained and some shop owner had water in his shop. Servo held up. Adelaide Crows/Port Adelaide player does something amazing or something terrible that's not so bad. Sometimes they report it from Mount Lofty, for no other reasons that they can say "I'm at Mount Lofty". People legit watch this every day their whole lives.

Another thing that's funny is they have this once in a blue moon "wow" story in Adelaide. It's a shop premises in Norwood. In its cellar it has an underground tunnel from when they built over a creek that runs through the suburb. Every year someone moves in to the shop and "discovers" it, and it's reported as amazing news each time. I just googled it and...

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/messenger/east-hills/cafe-owner-uncovers-historic-tunnel-and-bridge-underneath-the-parade-at-norwood/news-story/63db7d62e8891eaa039feb0f1a0020e1

Well fuck me, someone "discovered" a tunnel again.

Another thing is the afl has an agreement with the police https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.smh.com.au/national/afl-deputy-sheriff-in-police-deal-20101012-16hdq.html

Wow..I had no idea about that ! ....no wonder AFL has such a protected status ! ....that is so corrupt and against all normal moral and legal practices ..As I have never heard of it since , I assume it was all quietly swept under a rug and is still happening today ?

I'm trying to break my parents of the habit of watching Channel 9 news - Mum is good, she's pretty much converted over to either ABC News 24 or SBS News, but the old man is a creature of habit...

Saw this reported in The Age. Notably, comments were disabled for that article.

My parents always watched the 7pm ABC news and before I left I started getting them to watch sbs at 6:30 for the international perspective as well beforehand. Missed out on the sbs sports coverage but whatever, they were already watching football constantly.

The problem was I convinced the old man when I was teenager to switch from an Age subscription to the Australian because I was sick of the sports coverage being 8 pages of AFL and wanted more league and football stuff. Didn't realise at the time that the rest of it was full of utter shite.

Yeah there's no real good newspaper these days that is what I'd call truly balanced - it's all crap. It's probably not a huge issue since newspapers are going the way of the dodo anyway, but it's disappointing. Even a lot of the online news is utter crap these days - clickbait nonsense. I enjoy reading the ABC News online but even then some of the crap they allow to be published is astounding.

The odd occasion that I do actually sit down and watch the news, it's always SBS.

Classic

I read the Guardian Australia for my news fix from home. Clearly that's not everyone's cup of tea, obviously they are a paper for the left, but their austrialian football coverage is top notch (especially with squires and gorman).

They'll never go to print in Australia which is a shame purely on the fact that we could use their sport section sitting on a few cafe tables around Melbourne.

Their football coverage in the UK is top class, and in Australia you need say no more than that they employ David Squires.

Guardian sport is top notch for their sport coverage - I tend to stay away from the rest of the site as I feel it's controversial for the sake of being controversial 80% of the time aha.

But agreed, their sport coverage is excellent - I love getting a proper analysis about both football and cricket (not jingoistic nonsense that you get elsewhere) from them.

Hahaha.  12 years in Brisbane and it never ceased to amaze me how much content they could find to put the Broncos on the front page of the Courier Mail.  Wait until Origin time, you'll be in Dante's 7th circle of hell.

I was there when Lockyer was captain.  He could've scratched his arse and it would've been front page.

People are reading off Tablets and their Phones these days. Not really that critical that a print version is needed.

They should be tagging in those Vic Pol scum suckers in all of this after they called football fans "terrorists" like the VFL mouth piece cocksuckers that they are.