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Fans divided. Commentators divided. Where does RWO stand?
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71I was at the game and I booed loud and proud!0%39I was at the game and did not boo.0%13I watched on TV and booed loud and proud!0%11I watched on TV and did not boo.0%8I watched on TV, booed loud but am telling everyone I didn't and how appalled I am by that behaviour.0%0The poll is expired.
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Gerard commented on OTC it was some of the loudest booing he's heard in AFL. Maybe that will help us shed the "lack of passion" tag. That's what I thought it showed, passion. And it never even occurred to me that the crowd was booing anyone but the umpires. -
I think it was great.
What did they expect? A standing ovation?
It's also great to see some passion from our fans.Comment
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It was great to see the fans so moved by the umpiring. The umps were @@@@ and the fans let them know through voice.
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Don't care for this non-story.
And I care less for the "Sydney fans are really great now, they wouldn't have even known when to boo 10 years ago".
Swans made the Grand Final 11 years ago. Since then, the exposure of the Swans into Sydney is about 5 trillion times more than what it used to be.Comment
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Come on. If the shoe was on the other foot and one of our captains copped the same treatment from an Essendon crowd, we'd be going on about how feral and repulsive they are.Comment
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For this one time and one time only I don't have an issue with it.
Collectively the club and the crowd needed to voice it's disapproval to the AFL at the current standard of umpiring. Booing just the umpires off was not going to make that statement as it happends every week at every game.
We as a supporter group and a club left everybody in the foobtall world with no doubt that we are not happy with the way things are going regarding Hall's treatment.
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I don't really like to boo, and didn't join in with it on Saturday, but I've never seen the SCG crowd that angry before. At the ground I didn't for one moment think that the crowd was booing Lloyd, it was continuous from when the siren sounded to the presentation. The umpiring was very poor and deserved a spray irrespective of our performance and I think the crowd sensed this, I felt it was more the result of built-up frustration at a number of decisions in the second half, that intensified after the McPhee out of bounds replay was shown on the big screen. Just a very frustrated crowd, which I was a part of, don't see it as that big a deal.Last edited by Xie Shan; 4 June 2007, 10:44 PM.Comment
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I didn't boo - but I felt like I was missing out on something. Is that wrong?Comment
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I made sure I booed the umpires, that little one was smirking the whole time! Which made me boo him off even louder, but I refused to boo Lloyd and Essondon, its hardly their fault and they weren't the ones I was so angry at!Comment
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On ABC radio, the boos were loud and clear. Good on the Swans crowd for finally showing some passion and giving the umps the treatment they deserved after some poor umpiring decisions e.g. Hall's "push in the back" and McPhee clearly over the boundary line. IMO, the umps would've still been booed like hell by the crowd if the Swans won.
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If the game was played in Melbourne and the boot was on the other foot in every aspect, poor decisions throughout the game etc., I've no doubt the Essendon crowd would have acted exactly the same way as we did.
And I would have just laughed my ass off at them, but not for 1 minute would I think they were booing Kirk or Barry or Hall (well maybe they would boo Hall
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Healy is smart enough to know it, obviously @@@@@ Mike and Throbby Balls aren't.
BTW. Who posted the other week that Healy was a swan hater
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