Goodes and booing

[stevoswan]

Just got my T shirt from KTigers and my donation to the Go Foundation is done.....thanks KT, your generosity is 'paying it forward' to quote an American term. Great stuff!!! You're a Swans fan legend.....

[Doctor]

There were a couple of pretend sobbers behind us and across the aisle. Boo hoo and all that. The Swans fans in front of them let them know what they thought in no uncertain terms and we then backed them up, at which point they backed down and then left early. Having said that, I felt that most of them were good. That may be related to being outnumbered though.

[MightyBloods]

I've been off the site for the weekend so I'm just catching up. But from what I saw at the game on Friday, the first time Adam got the ball (and it was down near the Pies supporter group) there was some booing. I mentioned that to my friends and they said ?but look, someone is being ejected" and it looked that way.

So when Adam was lining up for his first shot on goal - also down that end - I looked to see what the Pies supporters were doing. One was waving an Aboriginal flag and a group around him were clapping. If we are going to criticise we should give credit, too. That was a class act, right in the heart of Pies fans.

I returned to work today in Melbourne and a few Pies supporters mentioned that they travelled to Sydney for the game. I heard them discussing the game later on and one said "did you hear some of our supporters booing?. I couldn't believe it and I felt so bad and embarrassed".

So, the general community conscience is having an impact. And not all Pie supporters are bad, only confused. How could they mix the colour of black with red?!

[Melbourne_Blood]

There were a couple of pretend sobbers behind us and across the aisle. Boo hoo and all that. The Swans fans in front of them let them know what they thought in no uncertain terms and we then backed them up, at which point they backed down and then left early. Having said that, I felt that most of them were good. That may be related to being outnumbered though.

With everything that is happened and how it has played out, you are always going to get some dickheads who will continue to boo. The positive is that those with a shred of decency who may have booed Goodesy previously, might now realise they should probably keep their mouths shut. It seems from what you have and Goswannies said, this is happening.

[snajik]

A bunch of Collingwood supporters tonight showing their class by waving tissues at Adam. Wonder what their collective IQ would amount to?

Oh yes I happened to witness those pathetic dismal little grubs. Stupid little grubs it seems as nothing is actually making any impression on them. Nothing is sinking in. From my seat in the Noble Stand I wished for a pump action water pistol with which I could have given them a sound drenching, and only because it?s a bugger trying to get a water cannon up those escalators.
Then I thought how surreal yet poetic it might be to drop an enormous inflatable sheep down on them. I?m not entirely sure where one might purchase an enormous inflatable sheep but I?m sure those plastic barnyard figurines would suffice. How humorous it would be if whenever any of these tools embarked on one of their booing crusades that they would immediately be subjected to a hailstorm of plastic sheep. Now if anyone thinks this idea has merit, I?d be happy to stock up on these critters over the off season and distribute snap lock bags full outside the gates during season 2016.

[RogueSwan]

Someone up here in Coffs has created this awesome mural of the great man:
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[AnnieH]

Nice.

[Faunac8]

I am not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere but a terrific and for me personally, emotional story in The Weekend Australian magazine.
Titled Mob Rules Trent Dalton nails it. I am not sure if a link is available I couldn't find one without subscribing.

[AnnieH]

Did I hear St Kilda fans boo Goodesy in the first quarter the first time he touched the ball?
The commentators called it everything but booing.

I haven't watched the second half yet... hope it stopped.

[magic.merkin]

Nothing Major. They got into him on missed shots and walking in for shots. Nothing I was worried about on the Medallion wing.

Might have been more going on the closer you sat to their members on the opposite side.

St Kilda fan behind me, said to her friends im cheering him due to all that crap that has gone on. So that was nice, as i was interested how my day would go when the sat behind us.

[Markus26]

I'm afraid it didn't stop AnnieH. It's disgraceful. Noone should should cop that every time they go to work.

[Puppy Eyes]

Sorry, but I've been a big prosecutor of this fight here, on BigFooty, and on the radio.

The booing last night was next to non-existant. Those who did, you could actually hear them individually there were so few. The Herald Sun reporting of it is embarrassing.

There will always be a few dickheads. But by and large it was pretty good last night.

[swansrob]

Did I hear St Kilda fans boo Goodesy in the first quarter the first time he touched the ball?
The commentators called it everything but booing.

I haven't watched the second half yet... hope it stopped.

Yep, his first touch was met with a chorus of boos. Subsequent touches were also booed, but not as badly as the first - though they may have just been drowned out after that as is seemed to me there were more Swans fans than Saints at the ground (that said, I was standing quite close to the Swans cheer squad for the most of the match...)

[Swansongster]

I was there last night. Kudos to Saints fans. Very little booing.

Loved our fans cheering the Schneider Man too.

[Doctor J.]

There was a bit of booing but nothing like what he copped previously.

Had a quite few St Kilda fans around me but didn't hear any of them boo.

Don't have a problem with the booing as he's lining up for goal, particularly as he'd just got a very touchy 50 metre penalty. Any player would have been booed with that one.

What I do have an issue with is the Herald Sun reporting it as something that it wasn't and labelling St Kilda fans as something that they weren't. If you don't give the morons the air time or the publicity then its no longer "the" thing to do. The racists are then on their own and can't hide amongst the masses.