here here MSC.
Just don't understand the behaviour by a % of the younger gen nowadays.

WTF is wrong with US????????? And I say US because this is beyond just AFL bashing. This Incel, misogynistic shit has spread throughout all of society... 

Lads (and yes I am addressing the men on this forum .. dont care about wokeness this is beyond that crap, WE ARE ALL TO BLAME for bringing up a generation of SHIT males) time for a farkin change... call it out. Smack the next son of a bitch who does something like this in front of you...  no more excuses... 

cheeez how friggin dumb of these so called blokes.
Hope the book is thrown at them and for all to see.

Can you imagine if this same behaviour was at one of our games, worse a NPL Club the kind of headlines it would recieve.

Damn that's pretty feral behavior 

https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/we-must-be-better-footy-furore-as-male-players-rate-trip-female-team/news-story/3c3ccb12963f1e4e9ed6ae05f37591dd

Rozelle Tree To Miss 6 Weeks After Making Contact With Paul Kent's Head — The Betoota Advocate

this is unbelievable - it's like happy gilmore meets a drunken bogan rampage 

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/golf/when-strangers-are-doing-shoeys-at-the-golf-it-s-time-to-rein-it-in-20240428-p5fn2y.html

Might as well have an A-league side in Alice Springs lol 

Have the Todd tavern pub attacked at half time and allowed to bring some goon sacks
Or red wine 🍷 in a cardboard box lol

Probably had powdered his nose prior  to the fracas.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/new-south-wales-news-fox-sports-journalist-stood-down-after-tottis-brawl/0039d63d-4e4b-49bb-a09b-9fe01adbc6ab

Not really the place but rather than start a new thread.

Dead AFL player Harley Balic’s dad makes devastating drug use claim | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

In an explosive development, News Corp reports that during his career Balic was placed into the AFL’s controversial “medical model” that opens the door for players to take illicit substances without facing penalties.

According to the report, Balic’s death has become the focus of a Sports Integrity Australia (SIA) investigation.

The Australian anti-doping watch dog in March said it had begun assessing allegations made by Federal MP Andrew Wilkie surrounding the sport’s illicit drug policy.

Interesting that this sort of thing is barely a blip in the news cycle.

Of course lucky for us we don't have to worry about 'lack of security'.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/leichhardt-oval-hill-exposes-disgusting-football-disgrace-that-simply-must-end/news-story/d2eb6d874b09b3cbfc0e5a1d39cd43fb

“I’m on the hill at Leichhardt Oval right now and the disgusting, misogynistic, violent and offensive language we are being subjected to by a specific handful of male Tigers fans right now is so reprehensible and vile I can’t tell you,” Barr tweeted on Saturday.


She said both Tigers and Sharks fans alike were subjected to the torrent of abuse, reporting that security, stadium staff and police didn’t intervene.

Even when an elderly man was nearly knocked to the ground, while another one “addressed with a threatening and aggressive tone when he politely asked them to watch out for his small grandson while they were staggering around”.

“Shame on the men around them who laughed and said nothing,” Barr added.

“Shame on the school that apparently employs one of these clowns, spotted carrying on like a goose by his students who started calling out ‘yeah, let’s have a beer, sir’.

“And shame on those who – when I posted on X about this experience – said I’m soft, this is what footy is like, and I should cop it or get out.

“Men are using violent, offensive language towards players and about women and I should leave the game because that’s just how things are?

“Footy matches are not special places where men get a pass from behaving like respectable human beings.”

Barr also called out the lack of security and seeming lack of responsible service of alcohol.

Didn't want to start a new thread but how's this?

AFL testing players and then telling them to fake an injury when they've tested positive.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-27/afl-drugs-policy-tightrope-analysis/103639040

bet you Hadley won't report a word on this let alone the stoopid nrl shows on Fox.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/very-disappointing-ugly-redfern-oval-grand-final-melee-under-investigation/news-story/6b5a0219ad8cd988714a364628a1d671

That article is typical firewalled to join but I get the gist........
the days of the good ol good sportmanship terminology has gone out the window the modern age......
Parents on sidelines have lost the plot like they are on SM that I'm not involved in but hear enough so many wouldn't have the gall saying the same to your face but its creeping in more and more at local grounds.
Hand to you being a ref Muz.
Having been at local grounds all my life as a player and watching parent I just shake my head and most times stand on the opposite side away from these types calling out more and more at grounds.
We also see the gall of players more arguing with you refs/linos over BS - like they are in the EPL and other big leagues today because they have influenced this attitude as well.
Don't think it will change but get worse, sure there was always a small % of fucktards but its alot more today, christ U6's not surprised, seen it right through to U16's in football nowadays.

Sort of, not really related but rather than start a new thread. Referee abuse.

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/reece-walsh-will-be-ok-but-what-about-the-referees-who-are-being-abused-20230629-p5dkbn.html

Walsh’s evidence was also considered unreliable after he said he was responding to Carrigan’s remark to “slow your f---ing brain”.

“Even accepting that those words were said by player Carrigan, and giving full weight to the fact that tensions were obviously high, the majority took the view that as a matter of common sense, the words said by player Walsh were essentially non-responsive to what had been said to him and were not explicable on the basis of them sharing a ‘close relationship’,” Bellew wrote.

“That was particularly so, in circumstances where the evidence of player Walsh was that had understood player Carrigan’s words to mean that he should ‘think and be smart’. If that was his understanding, there was simply no need to ask player Carrigan what he had meant. That factor tended against a conclusion that the words were said to player Carrigan as opposed to the referee.”

In other words, Walsh’s argument was so flimsy and didn’t make sense, so it wasn’t considered.

Broncos officials and teammates are throwing an arm around their young fullback, saying how he’ll learn from this episode and grow and how they’ve got his back and blah blah blah. The same things were said two years ago when he was busted by police on the Gold Coast with a bag of cocaine.

Walsh is being widely supported, but where’s the support and care for the referee? For the touch judge who copped a mouthful from an entitled 20-year-old for doing his job? Where’s the respect for all referees, who are under as much pressure as Walsh but on a fraction of the money?

In 2018, leading referee Matt Cecchin opened up to this masthead about the abuse that was driving him out of the game.

After making a controversial - and correct - call in the dying minutes of the World Cup semi-final between Tonga and England in Auckland, Cecchin received an avalanche of death threats on social media, so much so that New Zealand Police and Australian Federal Police noticed it and gave a police escort home to Sydney.

That article was supposed to be a line-in-the-sand moment for how we treated match officials. It certainly changed the way I wrote and spoke about them.

But, if anything, the abuse has worsened.

Ben Cummins still becomes emotional when he talks about the fallout from his controversial decision to reverse a set restart in the 2019 NRL grand final between Canberra and the Roosters.

When Jason Paris, the chief executive of Warriors’ sponsor One NZ, accused the referees of cheating earlier this year, it was disturbing how much support he was given.

It’s just as bad in other sports. The growing abuse of Super Rugby referees was highlighted earlier this week when Ben O’Keeffe revealed on Instagram the extent of the abuse he received after officiating in the Super Rugby Pacific final between the Chiefs and Crusaders in Hamilton on Saturday.

His post was disturbing with direct messages from people threatening to kill, stomp or punch him. Read one: “You should have been in that titan submarine you arse wipe.”

O’Keeffe also pointed to the plight of English football referee Anthony Taylor, who was attacked by a mob of angry Roma supporters at an airport in Budapest after their Europa League final defeat to Sevilla earlier this month.


“I think back to the referee walking through the airport and his family getting chairs thrown at them,” added O’Keeffe. “I hope my family is never subjected to this but the direction some fans are going now in rugby, I know we are closer than we have ever been.”

The NRL is considering tougher sanctions for referee abuse. It should direct the judiciary into longer time on the sidelines. Give Walsh six weeks. Give him 10. I bet he wouldn’t say another word to a ref or touchie for the rest of his career.

Referees should also be charged with greater authority to send players from the field, even if they don’t hear what was said. The Bunker rules on every other aspect of what happens on the field — surely that can be broadened to what is said to the whistleblower.

They need to be empowered to not tolerate any dissent. Can you imagine how former referee Bill Harrigan, who is considered the best of all time, would have reacted to Walsh’s remark?

Mostly, though, the responsibility should fall to the players, who could do worse than go to a junior footy match and watch how parents, and then their children, speak to referees, most of whom are either volunteers or teenagers.

This week, I was told about a recent rugby league match being abandoned because of the abuse of the referee.

The age group? Under 6s.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/brawl-caught-on-video-after-agrade-rugby-league-match-in-western-sydney/news-story/655d292d1bf0760e53feb10228a9f51b

Brawl caught on video after A-grade rugby league match in western Sydney

A video has emerged of a shocking fight between a group of men that started in a carpark following a rugby league match.

Maybe its something in the way the federation promotes "atmosphere" and flares that make these eshays wanna play up?

Ok they aren't ultras but you still see group attacks happen in our football. 

Dude, 15 year olds with fake Gucci bumbags draped over their shoulders and bad haircuts are NOT ultras.... 

Eh fight at Carlton vs Collingwood over the weekend. But he difference is it's a few drinks our football you get ultras coming in big groups 

https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/shocking-preplanned-local-footy-brawl-in-st-albans-vs-hillside-sees-game-called-off/news-story/5b8c01b4db590c5540028f23da46ae9e

Shocking ‘pre-planned’ local footy brawl in St Albans vs Hillside sees game called off

A suburban Melbourne footy match was called off at three-quarter-time after a disgraceful brawl between players and fans broke out.

Yeah, they really look bogan lol. I would be more intrigued on who's looking after their kids on that day.

ha ha lol

Tarneit maybe?

Was this a racist attack? I saw a few comments of people with Lebo names inn complete support of punching the ref. Is the ref from somewhere they don't like?

Bang on 

Doing this when your wife is pregnant

I hope the missus tears him a new one as well 

Yeah saw that. Poor diddums has ADHD or some bullshit and it was all out of character blah, blah blah.