Poll - What's your view on the booing?

[cruiser]

That we are feral and repulsive? Or does that rule only apply to opposition supporters.

I think you've answered your own question.

[NMWBloods]

I think it's good to boo and show displeasure at pathetic umpiring and a lot of passion. It just might have been better if the crowd had been able to reasonably quiet during the speech and then start the booing again afterwards. Difficult to do, but it would have been far more effective and polite.

[Old Royboy]

Two days later my voice is still croaky, so I guess I am guilty. I think I booed the maggots on and off right through the second half. The Sydney crowd needs to learn that booing after the game has no effect on the result - if they really want to stop this rubbish they should take a tip from Subi and Footy Park crowds, who boo bad decisions (or for that matter nearly any free to the opposition) for a full ten minutes. And it works- I have NEVER seen a carve-up like that against home teams in SA or WA. Significantly, we seem to have had the most support on Big Footy from those kings of booers, the Crows fans.
As soon as the maggots left I went down to the Noble Bar to try and restore the damage. Didn't bother with the presentation, rarely do. September 2005 the only exception!

SYDNEY CROWD IS STILL TOO PASSIVE DURING THE GAME - BOO LOUD AND PROUD, BUT WHEN IT COUNTS!!

[BeeEmmAre]

I only didn't boo because I was in the media centre.
I would have been close to ripping seats out and throwing them otherwise.

[Industrial Fan]

I booed - and I'm sure I was screaming at McLaren I was going to put a fatwa on him.

Hmmm.

[swansrule100]

i dont understand the point of booing, but i dont have a problem with it. I wouldnt care if people were actually booing lloyd. Seems the footy media will make a big deal out of anything. It just a stupid sound, doesnt really hurt anyone. I answered i was at home and didnt boo, i turned the tv off and went and had a few beers.

Everyone boos the umpires who cares. I also find the swans fans are learning to be passionate etc annoying. Makes it sound like all the supporters are studying afl for dummies and arent even sure where to look during a game.

[cruiser]

The Sydney crowd needs to learn that booing after the game has no effect on the result

While it was never going to have an effect on the result, it has encouraged a great deal of discussion in the media, which is a good thing. If the Swans crowd had just gone home quietly then I doubt that they'd be anywhere near the amount of media interest. It was the main topic of conversation during On the Couch last night. It has prompted the media to investigate why the crowd was so angry and in doing so, has encouraged discussion and raised questions about the hand in the back rule and the inconsistancy in paying that decision. The out of bounds was just one of those occassional bad decisions that can unfortunately affect the final result of a game.

The Daily Telegraph has gone so far as to ask the AFL to explain seven decisions during the game that went against the Swans: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...001023,00.html

[giant]

It was the main topic of conversation during On the Couch last night. It has prompted the media to investigate why the crowd was so angry and in doing so, has encouraged discussion and raised questions about the hand in the back rule and the inconsistancy in paying that decision. The out of bounds was just one of those occassional bad decisions that can unfortunately affect the final result of a game.

Normally OTC glosses over the Swans in a blink - nice to be the centre of attention for a change, especially if it highlights legitimate concerns with where the game is heading.

[reigning premier]

Booing is the last resort of the unsportsmanlike moron. I detest the act itself and label anyone who would participate in such grossly offensive behaviour as blight on society as a whole.



















Notwithstanding, that umpiring was so @@@@ on Saturday that I'll forgive all that participated a pardon just this once.

[AnnieH]

loud and proud. the umpires deserved it.

who ever said the sydney crowd weren't passionate, wasn't at the scg last saturday night.

[LittleSchneider]

I not only booed but stood on my chair, with many of my fellow Bay 29 swans supporters and booed and heckled so loudly I lost my voice. Lloyd forgot to thank the men in yellow in his speech.

[Damien]

I lost total control to be honest.

Booed from the siren to when I left the ground, never been so angry in my life haha

The only thing I personally regret is that I am pretty sure I was swearing, and there are kids in my area, so I wouldn't have been impressed with me if I was a parent, but these things happen I guess.

It's just a pity that the presentation was on, because all the crowd wanted to do was vent, it was as simple as that, had nothing to do with poor taste or a lack of respect. It's very hard to simply switch off.

Anyone at the ground who didn't - good for you, anyone not at the ground judging what happened in the heat of the moment - well boo to you.

[vanberlo=god]

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.

yes, they missed out on a win.

would of been nice.

good on the fans for booing, umpires have an ego these days, shouldn't happen.
prejudgement of players, preassumption of game style, its @@@@ing up the afl.

[Jewels]

I sit down front of the noble, very close to were the maggots enter and leave. I booed alright! I booed when they left at half time, I booed when they came back on, I booed every time anything resembling officialdom came near me. I didn't mean to boo Lloyd (though I do hate him) but I'd have booed my own grandmother if she had been in the middle at the end of that game.

[BAM_BAM]

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.

DST

spot on. That's exactly how I felt and still do.