One-Eyed Richmond Forum
Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: TigerLand on September 11, 2017, 10:00:46 AM
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This was among my many favourite moments of Friday night.
I had a heated discussion today with a very floggy Cats fan about it. I'm all up for jeering and booing within the spirit of the game. I'm not someone that will yell abuse at an opponent or anything, (generally they'll always make you eat your words anyway) but I was making as much jeers and boos when the Cats came out.
Any Tiger fans think that this was unsportsmanlike behaviour by ourselves? I absolutely loved it and would have upset at least 1 Cats player, especially since the fact that it was their 'home' final.
I hope that any of the little media and society sook up over this doesn't detract our fans getting stuck into which ever mob rocks up next Saturday.
#LoudandProud #WelcometotheJungle
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stuff em the sooks, they boo everything down at the cattery - hypocrites
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Boo away
They fo that at their ground
As they do in W.A and S.A
Their supporters are hypocrites that only like it when its s one way street
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In many ways they're lucky nobody spat at them.
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Biggest lot of whining entitled supporters that I know.
It's football FFS. You go there to boo the opponent.
Down at the Cattery they spit and swear at you.
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I was abused by a cats fan for being too vocal maybe so, but i think 19 losses at the G should give us some rights to celebrate and barrack.
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After reading their overconfidence all week on BF it will be very satisfying to see them exit in straight sets .
Chris Scotts finals record is now in tatters after he inherited a premiership team .
They now have a very ordinary bottom 6 players imo .
They would be very foolish to chase Gazza .
You could almost put them in the same category as WCE and Port - flat track bullies.
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I thought it was hilarious. Just a part of footy.
Also one of the funniest things I ever heard was when they kicked a goal. Over the load speaker they played the Geelong chant.
My Geelong mate was embarrassed by it but I found it hilarious.
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Yep, bunch of entitled sooks! They hand it out at their ground, so we give it back at ours! What goes around comes around.
I draw the line at crowd violence & abuse, but booing the opposition is nothing more than hot air ...
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Bastards >:(
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after the cat litter park debacle I knew they were gonna cop it hard next time they came to the mcg, boy was I wrong, they copped it worse than I thought. Remember though, no whinging about when it happens to us, just wear it and give it back in spades.
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I thought it was hilarious. Just a part of footy.
Also one of the funniest things I ever heard was when they kicked a goal. Over the load speaker they played the Geelong chant.
My Geelong mate was embarrassed by it but I found it hilarious.
That was so embarrasing, SEN this morning has Cats fans complaining about their safety. Hilarious
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Biggest lot of whining entitled supporters that I know.
They expect to get Ablett for nothing too, because he used to play for them :lol
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When you start whinging about "home ground advantages" and the like, you're only going to lose. Did it to themselves IMO.
As for that Cats supporter that feared for her safety - give me a spell. Sour grapes pure and simple.
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Mum felt unsafe at Richmond Geelong AFL final lodges complaint
Yahoo7 Sport
11 September 2017 1:00pm
A Geelong fan who left the game against Richmond with her daughter prematurely because she "felt unsafe," has lodged an official complaint with the AFL.
The Cats supporter spoke of her ordeal on Melbourne radio, describing the scenes she endured at the MCG on Friday night as akin to "mob atmosphere."
"I go to the football with my daughter quite a lot and we’re quite fair," the woman told 3AW.
"We go and watch the game and support good play. We arrived and the atmosphere was just terrible. As people know, there were very few Geelong supporters there, which wasn't a problem.
"But from the moment we arrived - and I'm not immune to swearing, you hear it all the time - but the language was terrible.
"The sportsmanship, the booing, just the atmosphere - the mob atmosphere - it was just terrible.
"We felt unsafe. We didn't feel like we could support our team. There was booing, there were comments being made and we felt very unsafe.
"I wouldn't have wanted to be there with a young child.”
The disgruntled fan denied that her disillusionment amounted to sour grapes, conceding that the Tigers were rightful winners.
However, she felt the situation warranted an official complaint to the AFL, as well as the Richmond Football Club, Geelong Football Club and Melbourne Cricket Club.
"The best team won on the night definitely. It wasn’t about the game, it was the supporters," she said.
"We left before halftime and we never leave games early, we stay to the end whether we're winning or losing."
"Half of the reason we left early is because we didn't want to be on the train - win or lose - with Richmond supporters."
The woman's account was backed up by another caller on the radio station who claimed he'd never heard so many expletives at a football game before - particularly from female Tigers fans.
https://au.sports.yahoo.com/afl/a/37040894/mum-felt-unsafe-at-richmond-geelong-afl-final-lodges-complaint/
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Haha what a load of bollocks.....both callers probably about as genuine as "Microwave Man" or "Mario from Doncaster"....
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I'm all for the boo, should be more of it.
You could say I'm a huge booer!!!
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I think we will have to break out the tea and dumplings for each cats supporter the next time we play and we will serve with a smile, oh the poor little darlings, I feel so sorry for them :'( stuffing winging idiots
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They were saying Boo-urns
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Geelong supporters are so stereotypically meek.
LMFAO losers
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They should count themselves lucky they didn't get Spiderman'd on the way out
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I was looking out for Adam Goodes. ;D
It was totally unexpected from my perspective - Put a smile on my face
As Dale Kerrigan said "x$!k 'em Darryl"!
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Us booing them was the start of a very special night. It was electric and proud to be a part of it :gotigers
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We made the 'G an extremely hostile environment for Geelong and I loved it. The booing was the Richmond fans way of signalling to the Geelong players and supporters alike that they were in for a fight. The "mob' mentality was exactly night. I also think it signaled to the AFL world that we are back! For ever one of the other three losing finals we have held back, almost fearful to barrack, waiting for defeat. This game we were up for the fight.
I hope we do the exact same thing next game! Time for our massive, passionate supporter base to influence the game. I want opposition teams and supporters to feel intimidated by the Tiger Tribe once more!
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We made the 'G an extremely hostile environment for Geelong and I loved it. The booing was the Richmond fans way of signalling to the Geelong players and supporters alike that they were in for a fight. The "mob' mentality was exactly night. I also think it signaled to the AFL world that we are back! For ever one of the other three losing finals we have held back, almost fearful to barrack, waiting for defeat. This game we were up for the fight.
I hope we do the exact same thing next game! Time for our massive, passionate supporter base to influence the game. I want opposition teams and supporters to feel intimidated by the Tiger Tribe once more!
:clapping
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This sort of article is so unfair to 99% of football fans.
My Mum is a Cats fan, and she couldn't be more happy for us long suffering Tiger's fans that we might win a flag. I honestly reckon that irrespective of hoping her poor son might see his team enjoy some success, she was as happy the Tigers won as she would have been if the Cats had won.
She has previously told me that prior to 2007 she never thought she would live to see another Cats flag. She was so excited when they won that flag. Ever since, her stated belief is that premierships are made to be shared around.
Each finals series she supports the Cats (if they are in it) and the team with the longest premiership drought, with one condition.
She will never, ever support Carlton.
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I draw the line at crowd violence & abuse
*Except Collingwood games
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We made the 'G an extremely hostile environment for Geelong and I loved it. The booing was the Richmond fans way of signalling to the Geelong players and supporters alike that they were in for a fight. The "mob' mentality was exactly night. I also think it signaled to the AFL world that we are back! For ever one of the other three losing finals we have held back, almost fearful to barrack, waiting for defeat. This game we were up for the fight.
I hope we do the exact same thing next game! Time for our massive, passionate supporter base to influence the game. I want opposition teams and supporters to feel intimidated by the Tiger Tribe once more!
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We made the 'G an extremely hostile environment for Geelong and I loved it. The booing was the Richmond fans way of signalling to the Geelong players and supporters alike that they were in for a fight. The "mob' mentality was exactly night. I also think it signaled to the AFL world that we are back! For ever one of the other three losing finals we have held back, almost fearful to barrack, waiting for defeat. This game we were up for the fight.
I hope we do the exact same thing next game! Time for our massive, passionate supporter base to influence the game. I want opposition teams and supporters to feel intimidated by the Tiger Tribe once more!
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It was great, i was more obnoxious than not, but only for the many many times we have been denied.
But i would never want a fellow footy goer to feel threatened.
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Geelong supporters really do have their head up thier @#$/
"If Richmond can beat us - we can beat Sydney ".
Home and away Hardwick Scott
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Dunno which is funnier - the OP or the first four replies...especially the one from "Mr. Magic"....
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/geelong-supporter-group-initiates-class-action-against-afl.1177042/
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Good old footy banter is part of the game.
After Lambert snapped the nail in the coffin in the last quarter, there were a lot of cheers from the Tiger faithful as Cats fans started to leave.
One tiger fan yelled, "Whereya goin'?"
One old cats fan quipped back, "Whereya been?"
Everyone laughed.