Fair enough WP and that gives more credence to your point.
I think where the assumption that it was comes from interstate is based on that sort of behaviour being foreign to afl and cricket tributes (in fact most sport in this city) at major events in Melbourne.
Maybe it's more of a Rugby League culture thing. Or maybe there were just a lot of people on the turps.
Thoughts?
There were alot of people on the turps but that's nothing new, that happens all the time as well. Only thing that appeared to be over different was the queues to buy the turps. Heard some people say they had queued for over 20 minutes to buy some beers
Interesting point you make the behavoiur being foreign to sporting events here. One of my biggest "bug bears" is people who talk through or refuse to stand for the national anthem, to me that is incredbily disrespectful but it happens all the time and no one ever talks about that.
I remember at the MCG last year at the Hafey Tribute game where I was sitting I heard people talking, heard one person yell out "go tigers". That was disrespectful and downright disgusting but no one talked about it? Don't think the person was an interstater
Couple of years back I went to the Melb Storm ANZAC day game against the Warriors, someone yelled out during the ceremony (during the break in the last post IIRC) "Go Storm". How disgusting is that? Did we hear one word about it no.
I've been in Perth at Subi during an ANZAC round and people yelled out there...
My personal view was that the one of the problems is something the organisers created and that was by having the tribute
after the national anthem. We all now at AFL games that as soon as the anthem is over people start yelling out for their teams, that's a cultural thing as it happens all the time. It was a stupid decision. Again doesn't make what happened right but it did IMHO impact on it
Last year at the SOO in Brisbane they had a tribute for the late Arthur Beetson, the crowd though predomiantly from QLD had folks from NSW who travelled, during that tribute you would noat have heard a pin drop
So my point remains the same to suggest that this boorish behaviour was solely the result of interstaters or that is a cultural thing of NRL is not realistic and ridiculous.
I go to a lot/most of the big events in Melbourne and from experience I havent heard a pin drop for years now.
I blame the interstaters for sure.
Sorry cub but IMV that's a cop out because it's the easy way out. I too have been to many big sporting events in Melb plus interstate and I've witnessed bogan behaviour at our events. Certainly not to the extent to what happened on Wed night but it does happen and to sugesst otherwise is wrong
just seems easier to blame the outsiders than blame our own
Will keep saying it this should be about the WHO did and not where they came from
