Roast Fans getting Warnings and Booted for Being too Loud

[BringouttheGimp]

#isgimpjoffa?

Just gifted re..

 

[sr36]

See the brilliance of the Gimp yet again re..

I mentioned boycotting the game yesterday..

Joff takes over the reigns.

Libra intuition re. Am I a great or what re.

Youre Joffa's inspiration re. You've been donning a gold jacket at night clubs for years - way before Joffa. Putting it on when you knew it was game over and your lines and moves had worked.

 

[76woodenspooners]

'Loud' Collingwood fan had been reported for abusive language before

The Collingwood fan who claimed he was threatened with being kicked out of the MCG on Monday for barracking too loudly says the police reaction was heavy-handed and that he "is totally against" abusive language.

But it wasn't the first time Simon Grech has been reported at a match, and his recent social media history is littered with profanities, threats of violence and aggressive phrases.

Mr Grech said he was unfairly reported by Melbourne supporters who alerted authorities over him "cheering too loud".
When he was asked to re-create an example of his barracking on 3AW radio on Wednesday Mr Grech enthusiastically yelled, "'Let's go Woody'... and that's it".

But in September 2018, he uploaded a video of himself and a friend at the footy screaming "F--- you, you f---ing c---s, let's go" with the caption "F--- these c---s".

Mr Grech confirmed to The Age that this footage was taken at the MCG during last year's grand final.

In tweets since April, he describes the performance of Geelong player Joel Selwood as "dropping to his knees ... like a $2 hooker" and calls Essendon fans "junkie cheating dogs".

A fan has also revealed she reported Mr Grech for anti-social behaviour in July 2018 for "shouting" and "rude language".
After the game, the fan, who requested anonymity, was so concerned she sent an email to AFL membership to ensure her complaint was received.
"Someone called Simon who sat behind my friend and I ... He also used the c-word and f-word. He made fun of people who turned around to show displeasure in his behaviour. He often curbed behaviour when security walked by then continued once they left," the fan said in an email to AFL membership.

The fan contacted The Age after recognising Simon Grech from a news story published on Tuesday.
Others on social media have been supportive of Mr Grech and backed up his original claims that he was not being offensive at Monday's game.
"Mate believe me (Mr Grech) is a good bloke ... I've been going to the footy since the 80s and have seen d**kheads galore," one wrote.
Another who saw the incident said he was "not swearing, not offensive in any way, just loud".

There is nobody more indignant than a reformed criminal being accused of a crime they didn’t do!

 

[BringouttheGimp]

Youre Joffa's inspiration re. You've been donning a gold jacket at night clubs for years - way before Joffa. Putting it on when you knew it was game over and your lines and moves had worked.

Well if you do the sums and that re.. there was always gonna be someone brave enough to do it. Bit like the egg boy and that re.

 

[JB1975]

Hang on a minute.

What kind of rubbish is this?

I’ve been going to the football for years.

I said (in a post above, not that long ago) I’ve never seen a fight. I also said, maybe I’m lucky.

So I don’t need your gratuitous advise about YouTube or sticking my head in the sand.

Now you’re saying it happens regularly; then you’re saying over the years a scuffle breaks out....

That’s so confusing, I don’t know if you’re exaggerating or being spot on, it’s totally confusing.

NB: just to repeat as maybe I need to say this slowly, i haven’t seen a fight at the footy, so I asked about it and yes I doubted the regular aspect.

But that seems clarified now, it does happen, but not regularly but over the years a scuffle breaks out.

I'm with you on this one. I've been going to the footy on a regular basis for decades, and have never seen a fight among the crowd at a game. It undoubtedly happens from time to time, but the filming of such things these days means that the whole thing becomes sensationalised.

Things were probably worse in the 1980s and 1990s, but even then just a few scuffles.

None of this is to discount anyone's experience of such violence, but any suggestion that it is a regular occurrence is hyperbole.

 

[Maggie5]

I told you guys that I suspected this bloke was "known" hence why it was cops that came and not the usual security.

Would not be surprised if he has criminal form.

Btw, how dumb are all these people with their disgusting social media posts that all the world can see?

You were right about history however maybe he has changed as I stand by his behaviour on Saturday, he wasn't at all like that.

I wouldn't tolerate that sort of language or behaviour and would have said so if he was being abusive.

Maybe sometimes you just can't get away from your past.

 

[76woodenspooners]

Is a 39 year old man with facial piercings screaming "F--- you, you f---ing c---s" at the top of his voice anti-social behaviour?

Age, gender and facial piercings are irrelevant.

I'm happy this guy got removed, ...

He didn’t?

... the less people like him the better. As always the media only give half the story and people believe it like it's gospel.

This changes nothing. A bloke cheering loudly (and not abusively) at the footy got warned. Plenty of witnesses (one on this forum) have backed up his story.

 

[neilk]

I'm with you on this one. I've been going to the footy on a regular basis for decades, and have never seen a fight among the crowd at a game. It undoubtedly happens from time to time, but the filming of such things these days means that the whole thing becomes sensationalised.

Things were probably worse in the 1980s and 1990s, but even then just a few scuffles.

None of this is to discount anyone's experience of such violence, but any suggestion that it is a regular occurrence is hyperbole.

Ditto, saw a couple of drunks fighting out on the concourse after a game once but that was it. Sitting among Collingwood members seems to be a safe place.

 

[Baltimore Jack]

You were right about history however maybe he has changed as I stand by his behaviour on Saturday, he wasn't at all like that.

I wouldn't tolerate that sort of language or behaviour and would have said so if he was being abusive.

Maybe sometimes you just can't get away from your past.

Agree with the excpetion that is was only 9 months ago that he posted that stuff

 

[JB1975]

You were right about history however maybe he has changed as I stand by his behaviour on Saturday, he wasn't at all like that.

I wouldn't tolerate that sort of language or behaviour and would have said so if he was being abusive.

Maybe sometimes you just can't get away from your past.

It seems that what he actually did or didn't say at the match isn't of importance. What matters is what he says on social media, and that someone didn't like what he said in the past, and that he has piercings in his face.

The media have run a story to discredit him and we've been happy to buy it, seemingly all because we don't want people 'like that' at the footy.

 

[JB1975]

Ditto, saw a couple of drunks fighting out on the concourse after a game once but that was it. Sitting among Collingwood members seems to be a safe place.

I've sat in different parts of the crowd at different grounds over the decades, and discovered that the footy crowd regulates itself pretty well, for the most part.

 

[Baltimore Jack]

It seems that what he actually did or didn't say at the match isn't of importance. What matters is what he says on social media, and that someone didn't like what he said in the past, and that he has piercings in his face.

The media have run a story to discredit him and we've been happy to buy it, seemingly all because we don't want people 'like that' at the footy.

With the exception the video of him on his social media is of him at the footy abusing people and the fact he was so proud of it he wanted a larger audience to see it

 

[Maggie5]

Agree with the excpetion that is was only 9 months ago that he posted that stuff

BJ I can only post about what I saw and heard, further I am a bit of a prude when it comes to bad language but not timid when I hear or read it and call it out.
It isn't always once guilty always guilty.

 

[JB1975]

With the exception the video of him on his social media is of him at the footy abusing people and the fact he was so proud of it he wanted a larger audience to see it

And yet there's no suggestion that he did that on Queen's Birthday, or that he was warned for anything last Monday for anything other than being loud.

I'm not denying that the man has been an obnoxious tool at other times, the relevant question for me is: did he loudly abuse people at the footy last Monday?

 

[The Royal Sampler]

I must admit I have a bad habit of saying FFS if someone stuffs up, but is usually gets lost in the noise and i don't scream it out. No-one has ever said anything.

That’s because you’re scary as ****, Dyatlov, and if you fire them they can’t get a job anywhere else in the USSR.

 

[Saintly Viewed]

I've sat in different parts of the crowd at different grounds over the decades, and discovered that the footy crowd regulates itself pretty well, for the most part.

That’s my experience.

As a rule, I prefer not to sit to close to the cheer squad by preference.
So away games am higher level.
But that’s just reference as they tend to be very very busy in their work.

No issues with a good work they bring.

 

[Saintly Viewed]

Imagine if WalterBlaknWhte brought his wag to a game; we’d all be distracted.

He can too, as these days old mate Walt only must attend Reserves Games so he’s free for the seniors.

If he’s really daring hed bring his BFFL ottoman and a picnic basket of vegemite sandwiches.

Thursday hugs

 

[sr36]

We love our villains don't we. We've had 4 villains in this thread: The melbourne supporters for dobbing him in. The AFL. The Police and now this guy.

But what a beat up. It sounds like nobody did anything wrong.
The Melbourne supporters have probably experienced him before on a bad day, so it's understandable that they got concerned when he was being really loud
The AFL don't seem to have had any involvement whatsoever.
The Police received a complaint about a guy who had behaved inappropiately before, they investigated and warned him to not go too far.
The guy who had behave inappropriately in the past, but doesn't sound like he did anything wrong here.

 

[76woodenspooners]

I must admit I have a bad habit of saying FFS if someone stuffs up, but is usually gets lost in the noise and i don't scream it out. No-one has ever said anything.

My go-to expletive of choice is ‘tsk tsk’. When I really lose my shit I shake my head while going ‘tsk tsk’ and do this eye roll thing.

Like you, I’ve managed to dodge sanction over the years. Nobody has ever pulled me up on it.

 

[sr36]

My go-to expletive of choice is ‘tsk tsk’. When I really lose my **** I shake my head while going ‘tsk tsk’ and do this eye roll thing.

Like you, I’ve managed to dodge sanction over the years. Nobody has ever pulled me up on it.

You'll get your comeuppance. It sounds to me like you're racially abusing Kalahari bushmen, by mocking them and their language and using it as a term of insult.

 

[The Prince 29]

Guy near me got the Boot for Same Reason.

IF fans want quiet then they should stay home

It's not about being quiet though is it?
Abusive, boorish fans yelling insults laced with profanities among children. Kick em'out.

Now pass me a knife and fork, I want to eat my pie...Oh and pass the cheese platter!

 

[kickitolachie]

Mclaughlin is a disaster for Australian rules football. His moves to sanitize and control every aspect of the game from AFL headquarters will kill it.

Atmosphere at games depends on crown involvement, indicated by noise.

Barracking is why a lot of fans go there.

Blaming the umpire for your teams ills is essential. Otherwise you have to blame your own players.

If everyone has to sit and quietly observe a match, without responding out loud to what they see, a great many will stop going because they are too
frustrated to stand it at one end of the spectrum, or too bored to be bothered at the other.

Rules tinkering is another aspect of the same thing. A Toby Green rule wasn't needed. It was rough play and could be free kicked without changing the rules. Now we have McLaughlin defending the decision about Howe's mark because his unnecessary rule apparently makes one of the great sights of football illegal.

McLaughlin is full of the holier than thou political correctness that Rugby has brought to the Folau statements. There we have a religeous fringe dweller sacked because of his refusal to back down from his principles. His notions of what God might do to miscreants have no bearing on football, and shou7old have no connection to whether he can work in his chosen field or not.

He is somehow able to distinguish a racist boo from one directed for some other purpose.

It is time to replace this wowser with someone who understands that footballers and football supporters are not merely numbers to be crunched as they pass the turnstiles or switch on their TV's. They are actual people who care about their footy, react to its highs and lows, and use it as a catharsis for the built up tensions of their lives. Silencing them will drive them to other avenues to achieve this.

For reference, I almost never yell anything at all when I go to the footy, and haven't since I was a kid, so I am not actually pleading my own case.

 

[WalterBlaknWhte]

When Frankston was playing in the second division of the VFA it was still possible to park your vehicle against the boundary fence.

The Bogan Gigantica would reverse their Sandman panel vans (yellow duco with large-breasted warrior women painted on the side for extra cred) for prime vantage.

The Bogan was faced with an enduring dilemma - do I imbibe my chilled VB tinnie or hurl it to the field to remonstrate poor umpiring. Nourishment versus free speech? Errant tinnies were often returned to their hurler and cheered when these fountained upon opening.

These were simpler times filled with community spirit. Gil from Admin would have more empathy with fans if he hadn't emerged from Ammos and polo.

 

[BringouttheGimp]

Is it wrong to go with your mate Spiro to 5 different Bunnings stores and get him to buy a can of paint at each store and have him say.. 'what's that re.. you got the color wrong you gifto'.. so they have to put it in the mistint section.. and then you come along 5 minutes later and buy it at a 20% discount? Saving yourself $100s in paint.

What is the world coming to re. Unfbelievable man.

 

[Mooresome]

BJ I can only post about what I saw and heard, further I am a bit of a prude when it comes to bad language but not timid when I hear or read it and call it out.
It isn't always once guilty always guilty.

I would believe Maggie5 before any dribble the Afl or anyone else put out, so based on that then neither the police or security should be asking him to be quieter. Check out a complaint sure np with that but over reacting gets you nowhere.