Roast What is wrong with our supporters?

[onthemoney]

Crowd has been super flat this year. I tried to start some chants at the first Essendon game and the Melbourne game and people around me looked like they were embarrassed for me. Didn't bother yesterday, cheering, supporting and general banter was at a real low point. I yelled out "Carn the Hawks" at one stage and a Hawthorn supporter near me gave me that "urgh" look. And this is all in standing room. Perhaps we picked up some Melbourne fans in their recent lean stretch?

 

[Endorphin Machine]

I reckon it's got to do with the quality of the opposition. Have to say , I actually struggle to keep quiet

 

[onthemoney]

Many AFL members on here? First year of it for me, I was gold club but prefer standing. I've been lobbing up on one of those wooden decking bays around M22 I think it is, near the small beer stand, in front of red rooster. Will most likely be there again on Friday night if any other vocal fans are looking for another voice to join them in a stock standard Hawthorn three clapper or a "Bull... s**t..." should the moment call for it.

 

[Furn2]

Too busy planning our next KKK rally to make any noise.

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

1.40pm is too early to drink for some people?

Radio commentators wondered if people didn't realise it was an early start because the crowd didn't start to build until well into the first quarter. I would say not that we were confused about the start time but that it's just too early for some. It was a rush for me to get there by 1.40pm and I missed the first bounce. Why was it not a 2.10pm match?

*Another issue - and this is only yesterday - there were many Essendon supporters spread out in a lot of our reserved seating areas. They had that selling back tickets promo this week so obviously people were giving them to Essendon fans, but I think it's a little unfair on the others in those sections who want to be among other Hawks fans only. Nothing major obviously, but if I wasn't going I wouldn't give/sell my ticket to my Essendon mates just out of curtesy to the other members in the section. In saying that, I was actually sitting next to some Essendon supporters and it made the second half more enjoyable

You didn't have to be a Hawk member to buy those tickets, anyone could by them buy them as far as I could tell, just had to enter the promotion code word HODGE. I looked at it but where I wanted to sit was going to cost me $60! I'm not paying that for a H&A match when I already have GA membership so I sat high up in the Ponsford stand. A lot of other people must have had the same idea as it was packed to the rafters.

 

[Smooth Banana]

We have definitely been spoiled, that might be it. My last game was the Sydney game, hawks fans were up and about. Maybe we save our energy for the Sydney campaigners. Also, maybe I'm bias, I don't think Hawks supporters are ferals. Personally I prefer to sit back and enjoy the show

 

[Harper_Hawk]

I like to yell at the footy..win or lose...premierships or no premierships..especially at the green maggots!

 

[Hawkk]

I don't think we've ever been an overly feral crowd (ala Collingwood, Richmond or Port) its just not our go..

That said our Melbourne home crowds have been excellent this year...

Vs. Geelong - 73,584
Vs. Melbourne - 41,935
Vs. Sydney - 63,319
Vs. Essendon - 62,500

With games to play against Richmond, Port Adelaide (E), Carlton we should have plenty of blockbuster games in the run home.

 

[cryptor]

We don't even play 4 quarters. People should have the energy to cheer for that 15 minute patch where we actually play well and kick half a dozen goals to win the game.

 

[tige19]

Man, at the GF our supporters were going absolutely ape s**t.. Also at the Geelong prelim a few years back, when the cats came out it was crazy the boos they copped and in that last qtr every possession was cheered and every cat player was jeered.

It's probably true, we may pick and choose when to go bananas but for all the big matches I've been to our supporters have been brilliantly bias and one sided and sometimes unsociably wrong but I loved it.

 

[The Jet From Poowong]

When you go to a matinee or a cinema, you can't talk. It is pretty much what the AFL has turned this game into. Bloody San itised entertainment where you get warned for being too loud. Too loud for god's sake. Get ****ed.

Last year I almost got kicked out for being too aggressive for calling Petrie a punce in the choke game. And the gutless wonder who dobbed me in didn't return to their seat. Saw them on the way out and gave them both barrels.

The problem is everyone keeps lopping at the tall poppy and irrespective of what or how we support or barrack for our club, we are always painted in the wrong light. And then they'll have their hand out for money. This may very well be the last year I attend a footy match. Hopefully with a threepeat. Had enough of this manufactured crap with equalisation on every front and continually biased opinion. I can do without it.

 

[Davo23]

I like to yell in support of our players, not otherwise.
And yell abuse at the umpires.

I don't like to criticise the opposition too early, it may jinx us.

I reserve my extreme sarcastic wit against the opposition until the game is safe!

 

[Procrastinator35]

Fred needs more BiTchmond.

 

[marklar]

The problem is everyone keeps lopping at the tall poppy

Nothing to see here, move along.

 

[The Jet From Poowong]

Nothing to see here, move along.

He has probably half of the head high frees paid to Hawthorn this year.

 

[Dragz]

I've never found our supporters to be particularly loud tbh. It's like we need a few people in the cheer squad running around other sections waving a flag and engaging the crowd to chant.

 

[grizzlym]

You should go to a game with my dad. He is a throwback to the days of standing in the terraces. Never shuts up, never satisfied unless we are killing teams and playing perfect football.
Regularly threatens and abuses opposition supporters and magically clears space around us during the course of a game.

Exactly like my ol' man. We got a police escort out of the G during a final vs Essnedon in the 80s for our own safety. The ol' man goaded the Essendon Grog Squad to the point they were demented with rage.

 

[CD Xbow]

We save our voice for Adam Goodes!

I think we should stop booing Adam as it is could be interpreted as racist. In future I think supporter should yell "squirrel" instead.

 

[Taskmaster]

I agree that some games we can be a little flat. We haven't really turned it on this year. We had a pretty ave start to the season and now we are stringing the wins together, but winning ugly. Which is a good thing, no complaints here. Just not playing the exciting fever pitched football that we have seen in previous seasons.

I suppose we will get loud and go ape s**t, "When it matters" As Clarko keeps telling us, "It's not a sprint, but a marathon" We as supporters, will come home strong, like (hopefully) the team.

 

[Woodside Hawk]

Might depend on the opposition or quality of the game. My old man is a Cats supporter and he swears black & blue Hawks crowds are the loudest he encounters. Of course we've had a fair run of reasonable quality games against Geelong in recent times.

 

[Pessimistic]

I have a level 1 reserved seat but it was a big mistake to not have a few bays of GA behind the goals. Its clear some only turn up for finals or the grand final. There should be a mix

Btw prelim 2013 was the loudest ever. Siren completely blanketed by the noise

 

[Jones Boy]

On the Triple M broadcast for last years GF when the Hawks ran out, Gary Lyon (who has a more than quiet love for the Hawks) commented as follows:
"They've been spoilt this club. That's not a roar, that's just a sort of a polite applause. They've been here too often - third time in a row . . . GET UP OUT OF YOUR SEATS!! - geez this is the biggest moment of the year."

Classic and says volumes for our fans appreciation.

That said - I remember the roar when the boys ran on in the '13 GF was something to behold - as was the '13 Prelim against the Cats (as mentioned by a couple of others here).

 

[Pessimistic]

I want the threepeat, but surely more apreciative fans deserve the premiership fun

Maybe next year

 

[KOLOKOTRONIS]

We are an affluent club with extremely passive supporters. We have our pockets of numerous crazies however they are far and few between. We will become feral once we drop off.

Frankly we do not even attend home games with any great numbers. We should have attracted minimum 70 v Essendon on Saturday. We failed. Granted Essendon supporters didn't turn up either.

KOLOKOTRONIS

 

[heh]

This is another of my bugbears.
Love making noise at footy, the bro goes nuts too. But we always get wierd looks... and sometimes shushed.

It is same when in the nosebleeds with the teenie bopper.
She can get a bit despondent if we not doing well, so normally try and get some "carn hawks" or chants going. And again.. we get odd looks from the deathly quiet crew.

Also shits me when kids try to get a chant or a hawks clap clap going, and peeps block em out.
Would it kill yas to give them a couple of rounds??

And that turned into a bit of a rant.