Which opposition supporters are the worst?

[goswannie14]

After a few years living in the wilderness I have been able to go to the Swans Melb games this year, so I experienced 7 teams supporters (St Kilda twice) in the 8 games.

StKilda had the most feral supporters, especially when they beat us at the "dome" (but we had the last laugh ) This was followed by the Richmond supporters.

Surprisingly to me the Carlton supporters were the friendliest, followed by the Hawks.

What was your experience with opposition supporters this year?

[BeeEmmAre]

Most matches I went to were in Sydney - plus the grand final.
The only game where I encountered a feral opposition supporter was the West Coast match in round 17 when I sat in the cheer squad.
But in the end he admitted he was just winding us all up and wasn't actually feral.

Collingwood supporters on the other hand .......

[Sanecow]

I have witnessed bad behaviour from the Essendon cheersquad as a lad and more recently been in the vicinity of some shocking Freo feral behaviour. WCE supporters are wine sipping polite clappers.

[goswannie14]

Yes they were very polite...or at least most of them were

[Refried Noodle]

I always hear about Collingwood being the worst, but I'll go with my own observations:

Port are definately up there. At Manuka there were a handful of cheersquad members who couldnt take a joke from some of the locals and they nearly completely lost it. Had a blast watching them lose after leading by 40.

Richmond fans in the standing area of the 'G: Last place you'd wanna be being an opposition fan

Carlton: I don't wanna generalise, but I can't stand pink shirt wearing metro's and they have the most.

On BigFooty its the Saints/Weagles tussle for the biggest iditos. Closely followed by Collingwood.

[swansrule100]

stkilda easily!

[Damien]

Essendon and Adelaide. Crows supporters at AAMI can be total maniacs, especially if they lose.

Actually had no problem with Saints fans until I read 'Saintsational'.

Never had a problem with Geelong supporters until the Semi, we had a row of feral cat fans behind us and they were total tools, really getting into all of us.....luckily Nick Davis gave us the last laugh though

[Plugger46]

Hawthorn - Their supporters kept saying "you'll go nowhere in September swannies" - Well I think we may have had the last laugh there.

[westernswan]

without a doubt eagles fans, bunch of bandwagon fans who only shout when there winning, unless you were actually there after that first QF and was decked out in swans gear you wouldnt know what it feels like to be teased and taunted at leaving subiaco oval...and wlaking into perth aiport , been booed and jeered , (but the way things worked out the best day of my life will be r15 nxt year) whatever the result is ive got plenty of comebacks up my sleeve:

PREMIERS 05

[BonBon]

I have not really had any bad experiences with supporters - maybe I am too intimidating?

Only some Adelaide fans have verbal diarrhoea. And physical spasms.

[Xie Shan]

Originally posted by BonBon
maybe I am too intimidating?

With your height?! LMAO.

PS. I really, really wish I had a smiley right now. You just keep prompting it...

[Frog]

Perhaps I am showing my age here ... But the crowds I can least forget are the Essendon crowd at Windy Hill (I went once and swore I would never return) ... The Collingwood crowd at Victoria Park (I remember a match in the early/mid nineties there - 25,000 rabid Magpie lots and a sprinkling (100/150) of Red and Whites - The only time I ever feared a crowd while getting out of the stadium) ... But the worst, Carlton, at (the old) Princess Park, before "Jack's Stand" was built ... Capper was playing ... and some things were said - They turned rabid!!!

No matter what team comes into the comp, these have scarred my mind and will be my worst opposition supporters whilst I breathe.

[anniswan]

Originally posted by BonBon
I have not really had any bad experiences with supporters - maybe I am too intimidating?

Only some Adelaide fans have verbal diarrhoea. And physical spasms.

Quote of the year must go to Bon's mum Jane whilst sitting in at AAMI stadium infront of a bunch of Adelaide Ferals.

She turned around so quietly and just let them know that "they have no class"

You had to be there, but it was very funny, maybe because they didn't get it

[no1swan]

From recent experience, I would have to say Geelong supporters, well one Geelong supporter anyway....

For the Geelong semi-final, having parked in the Moore Park car park on Driver Ave, it took quite some time to get out. But of course no one really did mind because we were still alive in the finals. Anyway, it took almost 45 minutes for me to travel about 100m. During which time I even chatted to people in the cars next to me. When I finally got onto Driver Ave, there were two Geelong supporter buses there, with the supporters milling around. The people in the cars in front were beeping their horns. We were still travelling slowly, when all of a sudden out of the corner of my eye I saw a Cats supporter come towards the car and then threw the contents of the cup they had been drinking in through the driver side of my car. All I can say is thank God it wasn?t beer, because I was completely drenched. I didn?t stop and get out of my car. I was in shock and I didn?t know what else this particular idiot would do. I was still on a high from the win that I laughed it of on my long, wet drive home.

I?ve travelled down to Melbourne several times to see games. I drove down last year for the SF against St Kilda. Sure, you feel upset when your team looses, but to retaliate against opposition supporters is just not on.

[Bunyip]

Re: Which opposition supporters are the worst?

Originally posted by goswannie14
Surprisingly to me the Carlton supporters were the friendliest What was your experience with opposition supporters this year?

I treated myself to an away game this year when the Swans played the Blues at Docklands. I went by myself, down and back on the day, confirming that I had officially become a footy tragic in my own estimation:-)

I had a great seat, well, one of the most unusual anyway. At the Dome there is a single seat by itself with the fence to the ground on one side and the fence to the home-team members area on the other. Now, I do plenty of shouting at our home games, but on this day I had to bite my tongue on many ocassions.

On the other side of the fence were these two female Caaaaarlton fans who epitomised footy ferals. They seemed to focus their barracking energy on bagging the Swans rather than supporting their own team. Among their more humourous efforts were the likes of "Sydney, you are so boring, you are hopeless" (just as the Swans kicked a goal); "Oh, that is ugly football Sydney"; and "Go back to mardi gras city you bunch of homo, gay queens".

The funniest, strangest and slightly alarming apsect of this experience was that many of the Blues members across the fence seemed to be directing their bagging of the Swans at me (much to the amusement of the people behind me). It was as if telling me off was somehow cathartic for them - bizare