Ironmonger
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I have always found Essendon supporters to be the blindest watching games of footy.
Every contest is a free kick for them and really don't appear to understand the game at all.
I know a lot of Essendon supporters who are smart about the game and really switched on, so don't take this generalised view as gospel.
Yeah, the crowd reactions at Essendon games are always a bit distinctive.
Booing the final siren when we beat them in 2013 was a pretty average response. Yesterday the repeated Bronx cheering of freekicks that annoyed me. I mean, if you're ironically cheering for the twelfth time in fifteen minutes, at some point wouldn't you realise it was time to stop?
But as you say, I know some very insightful Essendon fans. It's probably just a crowd thing. There might be some frustration about how their plans for global domination after 2000 (Manchester United of the AFL, they wanted to be) didn't quite pan out.