Couldn't agree more. Hardly a level playing field.

Must we have one of these butthurt threads every time there's a major rugby game on?

Fuck off, I don't want to talk to you either.

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I think what EG is trying to say is that we are all aware that this shit goes on but why continue to perpetuate this weak mentality. Maybe we should be focusing on improving our imagine. What that looks like, I don't know. But surely being stroppy over a few shitty articles does help us...

Actually, what you are describing is asocial. Antisocial implies hostility. Not wanting to be social is 'asocial'

"54% of people on this forum disagree with me. I'm a persecuted minority!"

I'm not condescending to you, please be better than that, especially if you're spraying popular and safe opinion around here.

I agree that we aren't treated fairly, but the uproar every time garbage like this occurs is embarrassing. We should worry about our own game and not theirs.

Edited by eastern glory: 22/6/2014 11:52:51 PM

You guys should check out fearofaroundball.com.

Take your head out of the sand, Sunshine. This media epidemic is real. I see it first hand almost daily. The FFA lives in constant fear of NRL and AFL owned media producing biased content to brainwash the masses.

My point is to not worry about or compare football fans' behaviour to those of other codes as a means of justification of the feeling of being hard done by.


So it really has no meaning then?

I'm not saying there's no reason to feel hard done by, just that there's no point or value in getting too worked up about.

And I'm not saying I have a specific definition of antisocial behaviour, I used it as it is a commonly used term when regarding fan behaviour. You don't need me to clarify what it generally refers to.

So being constantly lambasted in the media for doing much less is not justification for feeling hard done by.

And you still haven't told me what "anti-social behavior" constitutes.

I don't want to talk to you.

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blame sokkah hooliganz

It actually does mean something, but that's not the point.

My point is to not worry about or compare football fans' behaviour to those of other codes as a means of justification of the behaviour or the feeling of being hard done by.

Ah, "antisocial behavior"...

The ultimate buzzword that really means nothing.

Why should anyone bother comparing the behaviour of football fans to other codes?

Just try to eradicate the anti-social behaviour from football and don't worry about other codes or the media.

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I don't think the negative reporting of football will ever go away. Certain media outlets still try to correlate the ethnic drama in the A-League as some sort of offspring spawn from the NSL days. Theres not much we can do about it, so I think its a matter of just making sure the A-League / Socceroos continue to do well.

About three weeks ago I read a tiny little article tucked away in the courier mail, which reported an elderly couple getting bashed after State of Origin 1 in Brisbane.

The elderly man found someone, who had just attended the game, pissing in his front yard near the stadium. He went out and asked the man to leave his property. He was set upon by more than one person. His wife came out to assist him and she too was struck. Both required medical treatment.

It's interesting. I wonder where this would have gone if it was after the A-League grand final.

http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/latest_releases?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGZWJpenByZC5wb2xpY2UubnN3Lmdvdi5hdSUyRm1lZGlhJTJGMzg1MjguaHRtbCZhbGw9MQ%3D%3D

The crowd was also 'very well behaved'

Wheres your source though that states this stat.

This victim mentality is pathetic. We deserved to get smashed by the media for carrying on like small children when shit like this occurs. Get over it and grow up.


Also, we have a rugby league thread.

hooligans.

wonder how many drunken arseholes were arrested across the north for glassin cunts after watchin the maroons get smashed.

I would like to make everyone aware of this so that when the time comes when channel 9 lambasts the a-league for having one eviction amongst a sell-out derby crowd, we have an actual statistic to compare this negative publicity attack against.