Fight

[Trucker Tiger]

weren't many Nazis around when the anzacs attempted to invade a sovereign nation

Under the command of another nation.

 

[Malifice]

Yeah fighting the Nazis was totally unnecessary

You're aware Gallipoli was WW1 right?

 

[Angus Young]

Walking out of the ground today after the game from the ponsford end heading towards Richmond station with my 2 kids and seeing 5 Collingwood fans laying into a dons fan was absolutely disgraceful.anzac day is a day to respect our fallen heroes not a excuse to carry on like dickheads.

meehhh cry me a river. 90,000 odd people gona be a blue here and there.

As long as YOU are being a good role model to your kids that´s all you need to worry about.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

Walking out of the ground today after the game from the ponsford end heading towards Richmond station with my 2 kids and seeing 5 Collingwood fans laying into a dons fan was absolutely disgraceful.anzac day is a day to respect our fallen heroes not a excuse to carry on like dickheads.

Looks like everyone kicked a goal.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

You're aware Gallipoli was WW1 right?

It's not "WW1" it's 'WWI', you have just insulted our diggers and I'm outraged!! OUTRAGED!!!!

Both are actually correct but the later is much more widely used.

 

[nineteen eighty]

Both team's supporters jostling for centrelink queue position given tomorrow is a Friday.

Would have been better if this came from a Tigers supporter.

 

[MagpieJoel]

weren't many Nazis around when the anzacs attempted to invade a sovereign nation

You mean the Ottoman Empire? Bet they cared about all the "sovereign nations" they ruled over.

Just another empire.

 

[Macpotata]

OP is 100 percent spot on. Big crowd or not, getting into a fight on ANZAC day shows what an absolute dickhead you really are.


No respect. No class.

 

[BF Tiger]

There’s generally trouble at these games owing mostly imo to the absolutely huge number of people who are rolling drunk. I don’t know if it’s the public holiday or the “event” atmosphere but something about Anzac Day brings in the pissheads.

Having said that, I didn’t see any trouble today. Though I was taking a piss and two blokes went into the cubicle next to me to do coke. Thought that was taking things up a notch.

Honestly unavoidable. When big teams play with big crowds you can count on 2 sets of drunken fans from both sides to clash. Morons tend to stumble into other morons.

Considering the volume of spectators to fights AFL has to be one of the safest crowd environments in the world.

Maybe it’s time to ban alcohol at the Anzac Day fixture.

 

[ioppolo]

I'm a passionate supporter but honestly, who gets into a fight over a game of football you are not even involved in FFS?

 

[Papa G]

ANZAC Day has always been a day of drunkenness, violence and domestic violence. That is the reality.

The Helen Lovejoys of the world getting their knickers in a twist about the booing, drunkenness and small amounts of poor behaviour as some sort tarnishing of the day is historically just off the mark.

ANZAC Day since day dot has been about men, who have been through horrors most of us can only dream of, getting pissed and letting their emotions (in a society that generally has repressed male emotion) out.

Whilst nobody wants to see violence at the footy, boorish behaviour has been a part of ANZAC Day since it started. We now have 2019 sensibilities being applied to things, as well as gross commercialization of the day, but let's not pretend ANZAC Day is a day where everybody has always been on their best behaviour.

 

[Kram]

You're aware Gallipoli was WW1 right?

Anzac Day is only about Gallipoli?

 

[Rusty Brookes]

So what's more disrespectful - Birds of Tokyo, the booing or the brawl?

 

[Rusty Brookes]

ANZAC Day since day dot has been about men, who have been through horrors most of us can only dream of, getting pissed and letting their emotions (in a society that generally has repressed male emotion) out.

Ever read Over 'ere Harv by Bruce Dawe? A great collection of short stories about a young man growing up in Melbourne in the early 1960s. One of the stories involves the main character Joey being sent to the pub to pick up his Uncle Vic and the next door neighbour from the pub on Anzac Day. Joey thinks the best way to get them out is to have a beer with them. One beer turns into two which turns into three and so on. Upshot is by the time they leave the pub, all three are hammered, they lose control of themselves walking down a hill, with the neighbour in his wheelchair rolling off, Uncle Vic with a crutch stuck in the wheelchair being dragged behind and Joey passing out. Just before he passes out, he remembers his mum had told him the local priest was coming around to try and get Joey to join the YCW association in an attempt to fix his irreligious ways.

 

[Art Corvelay]

weren't many Nazis around when the anzacs attempted to invade a sovereign nation

WWI? No.

Anzac Day is only about Gallipoli?

No, but the date represents Gallipoli and it’s widely held view it was unnecessary. It’s pretty easy to infer that what they meant.

 

[Mr_McBoogerBalls]

Yeah something about the day brings the worst out in both teams supporters.

Yesterday I had a Collingwood supporter screaming every obscenity, hitting the fence and making threats - I actually had to tell him to calm down about four or five times given there were kids nearby.

To my right, a bunch of methed up Essendon fans (bloody Essendon and drugs, seriously) were trash talking everyone and looked ready to kick heads in.

It's a game, people need to relax and just soak up the day for what it is.

 

[Demonic Ascent]

Yeah fighting the Nazis was totally unnecessary

There were Nazis in Turkey in 1916???

 

[radiojake]

WWI? No.

Nazi party was born and festered after WWI

 

[EasternTiger]

I can never remember if Collingwood are the scum or the filth?

Does not surprise a fight broke out. Both clubs are supported by the most obnoxious fans in the AFL.

 

[iameviljez]

Yeah fighting the Nazis was totally unnecessary

Yeah, but Turkey (or in fact all of WWI), Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq... the original poster has a point.

 

[iameviljez]

As long as YOU are being a good role model to your kids that´s all you need to worry about.

Who knows what the leadup was, but generally if there's five people laying into one person, some kind of intervention is necessary somewhere.