CENTURION wrote:gossipgirl wrote:good article, time to weed out those undesirable supporters.
there goes the Sturt cheersquad!
I was waiting for it. It's fair enough too, there's some damned morons in that lot and they make me want to facepalme some days. Cannot defend. One bloke from that group got in the poo for shouting out racist comments and embarrassed everyone involved with the club. I'm no longer friends with him because he wouldn't man up and apologise to the player and the player's family who happened to be sitting nearby, it was the old "oh it must've been someone else and we didn't see who did it".
Every clubs supporter group contains these idiots and Cornes has a point. The odd swear word isn't the problem, you hear that everyday and even on on TV these days, but the moronic comments sometimes go beyond banter and clever banter* isn't what people have a problem with. It's not about being 'sterile' it's about having some kind of boundary. Like when a certain club had a couple of supporters screaming out comments about Bali when they were playing Sturt, it shouldn't be up to the opposition to have "common sense" and stay away from the drunks. People who say crap like that should be kicked out.
I had to listen to this East Perth feral for most of Sunday screaming out like a psycho that he was going to wait for the umpire out in the carpark and break his f**ing legs. I mean come on, that stuff if just cringeworthy.
One problem is with the crowds in the SANFL and WAFL being smaller, those kinds of comments are heard just about all around the ground where as in the past it might have been drowned out and only your mates and a few people around you heard it. This is why it's unnecessary.