Fan threatened with eviction from MCG for barracking too loud

[Eagleboy68]

Smh.

What is the world.coming to.

A Richmond fan was also banned for 3 games for calling out "green maggot"

**** this soft world you leftard pricks have made it.

 

[Professor Knowall]

Serves him right for calling the flog bald.

 

[NorthernLights]

 

[Xtreme]

The AFL is skating on thin ice with fans now.

I hope fans start protesting. A few walkouts mid game should do the trick.

I think booing sorts the men from the boys. Only girly men get offended and ask for the booing to stop!

 

[Frank Gallagher]

Is 'Sugar Plum Fairy' acceptable? With variations of 'coloured maggot'?

 

[STPer18]

Understandable that many of you are upset after hearing of this, but just imagine what umpire Nicholls is going through right now.

He was labeled a, and forgive me for repeating this, 'bald headed flog' by a rowdy supporter.

This is a truly dark day for football - but we will stand behind Matty Nicholls and help him through this traumatic period.

 

[Harvey to Hayes]

If it's true about the homophobic slur, I don't see how this incident is too far off from when Goodes was called an Ape.
Don't know if he should've been thrown out, but making it personal like that is just not on and rightfully should be condemned.

It’s 100% completely not the same though? Even if old mate said the worst slur that’s been alleged surely you don’t think he was referencing his sexuality as a direct attack on his person? In this case it’s just a societally inappropriate swear...

 

[Ron The Bear]

I think booing sorts the men from the boys. Only girly men get offended and ask for the booing to stop!

Booing seems to be the language the AFL understands and takes to heart. It's unambiguous; they can't claim maggot = ****** or flog = ****.

 

[fpm84]

The AFL is skating on thin ice with fans now.

I hope fans start protesting. A few walkouts mid game should do the trick.

Plenty of Richmond supporters walked out mid-game last night...

 

[Harvey to Hayes]

O

We have different standards then. Fair enough.

Man you would not have enjoyed Victoria Park in the 70s or 80s (or most other grounds for that matter)...

 

[FreoRicci]

Nicholls has been called worst, a lot worst. And this is what the fan got banned for. Ouch.

 

[ShadeyP]

Of course he didn't call him a flog, he called him one of these
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A Maggot of sticks ?

 

[Big Cox 88]

#putyourcombout

 

[PetterdHoisted]

If true that the ump dobbed the bloke in...

We desperately need new umps in the game.

 

[westhawk]

Is it just me or does Eleni make a lot of mistakes

Not you, she is fu**in useless, easily the worst, but not far behind are plenty of others like Margetts and Nicholls. The umpiring this year is the worst I have ever seen in close to 40 years of watching footy.

 

[Cotchins Hair Piece]

kicked out for saying "bald headed flog"

wow, how soft is this lol

Not just kicked out, the AFL detained him for half an hour. He committed no offence, therefore the AFL have deprived him of his liberty, which in itself is a serious offence.

 

[tonk]

If this is true, it's a freakin joke.

 

[Ron The Bear]

“Umpire Matthew Nicholls was visibly shaken.”

Who shook him? I draw the line at manhandling an umpire.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Last week it was green Margot this week it was a bald Flog.
Bit of a Nanny state of affairs.

 

[blackcat]

Just heard on 3aw.

Fan goes to Matthew Nicholls “you can’t handball with one hand you bald headed flog”. Nicholls then pointed at the fan and security escorted him out of the stadium.

That is ******* ridiculous. AFL is fast losing the plot with this sort of stuff. Love how they quickly escort this Blues fan out. Yet anytime there’s a fight it takes ages for action.

Devilsadvocate scepticism: RussellWestbrook's <sledge> he copped from UtahJazz was not a sledge, far more insidious...

I still think alternative here f_g is bad, but let people behave as bigots and racists, educate your own children. I am not going to throw the sledger under the bus whichever the term, if all he said was flog though, the umpires need to grow a backbone, Australians are vertebrates.

 

[blackcat]

Good. We don't need people abusing people at games, especially at the people that are UMPIRING the game. There are ways to get your voice heard without acting like a campaigner about it.

like spelling cunt correctly, ask @slits, it's called pudenda, the plural is much more mellifluous.

skilts

 

[Frank Gallagher]

Fan at the ground sitting a few rows in front of him says he heard "****".

I hope no children were around.

 

[wadistance]

Fans are provoked when umps make shithouse decisions.
These days its like we're meant to just sit there and say nothing.

This is satire right?

Füllt grown adults get so emotionally invested in a game of sport they they turn to hurling abuse at a person who’s employed on a semi-professional basis to adjudicate the rules set by the administration?

How about some personal accountability


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[blackcat]

This sport is a joke pay your hard earned should be allowed to boo etc as long as you don’t cross the boundaries of racism or sexuality

why, - is anything not sacred oath now?

And problems don't get fixed by throwing abuse at people, because what starts out with good intentions of calling people out starts to become harassment. We don't need that.

#timeimmemorial

 

[Podsnap]

Why is it so hard to go to a game and not abuse people