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Getting a bit sick of it. I've been to games so I know there are flogs who use the numbers of active to look for fights but this media loves to ham it up it's a never ending saga 

It's never-ending. The Herald sun is top of list it needs to do as much as it can To protect its territory.

Melbon - says it all 
Scrooge 
cancerous 

https://sydneyfc.com/news/gameday-guide-sydney-fc-v-western-sydney-wanderers-2/

Yeah no worries bloke, Shitney football fans are going to be forced to wear a wristband so they can be easily identified by police and its "Melbon" that is cancerous.... 

whereas the WSW fans will have ankle monitors on. 

Lol 

Mono wristbands is no big deal but a good directive imo whereas having a opposing code with all the media influence and clout protecting its treasured handball game on a national scale is and has been a cancer against our game for decades and yes I’m afraid it’s your town.

Sure mate, wristbands are awesome, forcing a group of spectators to be easily identifiable by police and security is a great way to NOT be a cancer on our game... whats next matching necklaces?

completely agreed, but the reality is unless you're in third world now everyone is getting identified. Last time I was in Germany to get in the ultras I had to pay basically bribed security because I didn't have photo id or card for that section

In south America though its still very old school, they're too scared to tell people what to do lol 

I'd just flat out refuse to wear a wristband though. Like primary school 

Unfortunately the in fighting within some members of the football community would rather call out the cancer within our game than the big one outside called the AFL & it's horrible media.
This is why this game will never grow we are not united. So glad I don't live in Melbourne, apart from AFL you have the stench. 

The thing is there are people in active that act like flogs and when you have 100s even thousands that's hard to control so yes the media is wrong but football does have a hooligan problem 

unpopular opinion. 

whilsts at games i like ultra support more, l'm meh about hooliganism and not really bothered by it. These a-league ones are mostly sad cases (and so are a lot of euros tbh) but the anarchy anti-authoritan, powerless struggles and wanting to be a part of something ideas at the centre of it is understandable

if it's not involving the public, kids - and somewhere else, who cares? 

I also don't think it has a negative effect on crowds like the powers that be believe. The game was never as packed as when we were in the headlines every week. 

you call this a hooligan problem? lol go to europe or south america if you want to see a hooligan problem.

Issue is the media, and the lack of knowledge and culture surrounding football in this country. Its been an issue since the NSL, nothing's changed.

Hence our main grievances should be on the AFL controlled media & not at each other.

We can all hold hands and sit around singing "kumbaya" all day long Robbo, APL is NEVER gong to unite with the rest of football in this country .... NEVER.

Hmm sounds like somebody is pining for the good ol NSL days? HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAH

No argument with me in regards to the APL government. Hopefully the A-League can go back to the FA.

As John Lennon said loosely
We all want a revolution, but if you go around carrying a picture of chairman Mao, you can count me out.

If you want a return to the old NSL clubs with all their ancient European rivalries, well you can count me out.

Youve already been counted out bud.... no problem, no one is expecting you to join the rest of us.
FA doesn't appear to want the Aleague anymore .... what a pity eh?

So the FA wants to go back to 3-4K matches again with Sth Melb v Avondale.

Seems like it mate.... 4K for "NPL on planes" would actually be phenomenal. 

The rival comp run by the APL is going to have to step up its marketing if the NST does get such large crowds. 

https://www.news.com.au/sport/football/spectators-nazi-salute-gesture-rocks-aleague/news-story/d93e957fc2c65223603ea8213b13b516

WTF is going on up in Shitney? Is knife crime a trend now?

According to Americans on twitter we need more guns. 

I think we should all be able to legally tow cannons behind our Dodge Ram pick ups...... lol

Seriously though, guns wouldnt have done a thing to stop that poor mentally broken man who stabbed all the innocents in Westfield. He was holding a knife and NOBODY had the guts to tackle him to the ground and diffuse the situation... I couple of tourists threw a plastic bollard at him and the scarpered.... Now I know "fight or flight" kicks in and its hard to tell what our reactions would be in the face of such danger but the dude was clearly sick and on a rampage .... not one big dude stepped up to clock him one on the chin as he was running past? Such a sad sad situation all round... 

guns would have made the attacks worse, because the attacker would be using a gun, not a knife. These yanks suggesting "more guns" are just fucked.

It was a long knife and you would need to be totally fearless( or stupid)to physically confront him.I don't think I could have done it 

IF rebel sport was nearby, I would think someone would grab a baseball bat and use that to practice some fencing with him before clocking him one.

Mate Im no macho man I promise but if my wife and kids where in the way I would have had a crack at him, stabbing be damned. 

I just think we have become a society unwilling to defend what is right and good in the world. A couple of hefty lads sitting on this guys chest until the coppers turned up would have prevented a whole lot of suffering and death.

You'd like to think you'd do the right thing but if 50 people are running at you saying there's a lunatic stabbing people and your wife and kids are with you you're probably going to get as far away as quickly as possible.

Yeah thats a fair call.... its easy to bluster about on the internet... but still a little saddened that the bloke ran past hundreds of people. He sidestepped quite a few blokes who squared up to him was more my point and they, as soon as the danger went away from them, just stepped back... Sure maybe I would have done the exact same thing or even pissed my ants in fear but this could have ended so differently if thousands of people didn't have to wait 40 mins for a brave young constable to pop him one with a gun and kill him.... thats all Im saying.

No I get it. I said the same thing to my wife. I'd be way more comfortable heading towards trouble if I was standing with another bloke who was full of piss and vinegar, the size of a house, covered in tatts and was egging me on and we had chairs or something to put some distance between us and fuck knuckle.

Otherwise I'd probably be on my bike too.

Too often you read about some poor bastard sticking up for someone and then they get the shit kicked out of them and their head stomped on. It's grim.