Five Things I Hate Hearing in the Outer

[arrowman]

I don’t claim to be the world’s greatest expert on the game, but when I sit in the outer it seems there’s quite a few people worse off than me! Five things I hate to hear (but I do hear regularly):

1. Yelling abuse at players when they make a mistake or aren’t having a good game. Not “Come on X, lift your game!” but out and out “you’re no good” stuff.

2. Holding the ball. What is so hard to understand (apart from the more recent interpretation change)?
- EG: Opposition player has had prior opportunity, gets tackled, and immediately disposes of the ball legally. Crowd yells “Baaaaallll!” Fair enough as an ambit claim, but crowd then goes on to abuse the umpire for “getting the decision wrong”.

3. How a zone works at kick-ins. Crowd yells for players to “man up!” as they set up the zone. Followed by groans and abuse when the short kick-in to a flank works. Crowd fails to notice that receiving player now looks helpless as the zone moves to man-on-man in the much more restricted area he now has to kick to.

4. Zoning off a running player. Opposition player has the ball, Crows player is 5 metres or so away, and zones off in an attempt to “corral” him. Crowd yells for Crows player to “run at him!” apparently unaware that when you run at a player from that distance even Grenville Dietrich could step around you.

5. Manning up after a turnover. Crows have ball, Crows players immediately try to leave their opponent and make space to receive. Ball is turned over, and for 10 seconds or so they have free men because Crows players were making space. Crowd yells abuse at Crows players for “not manning up”.

Some people apparently have never played the game - or if they have, they weren’t paying attention at the time.

 

[Cap]

yep i agree with all those points

i went the power v melbourne on the weekend

every time a melbourne player got near the ball up went the "baaaalllll" call
and then every single time a power player got takled " highhh" and the booing for the umpiring giving a bounce up.

at one point when one of the burgoyne brothers didnt break the 5th tackle he was trying to avoid and got pinged holding the ball, i started hearing the old "umpire is a cheat" call from some loyal supporters,

the problem is that alot of supporters (crows and power) look at it from their teams perspective,
people have to remember there are two teams playing !!!

i think fans need to have a read of the rules before going each week !!

 

[arrowman]

I loved it when Eddie got pinged the other day (I can't remember by who) for calling "Dropping the ball!" when there is no such rule.

 

[tribey]

1. Yelling abuse at players when they make a mistake or aren’t having a good game. Not “Come on X, lift your game!” but out and out “you’re no good” stuff.

My all time favourite was a few seasons back when one of our players (can't quite remember who it was) was corralled in a forward pocket by two defenders and was about to be tackled. He somehow managed to kick over his shoulder to the top of the square where the only player there was an opponent.

Considering his only other options were handballing it out of bounds (deliberate) and getting tackled (holding the ball), the fact he was able to deliver the ball to such a dangerous area his action was somewhat of a minor miracle - it was hardly his fault not one of our other forwards had thought to stay in the corridor.

But...

... howls of derision from the peons around me "who was that to?!", "jeesssus!", "hopeless!" etc etc.

3. How a zone works at kick-ins. Crowd yells for players to “man up!” as they set up the zone. Followed by groans and abuse when the short kick-in to a flank works. Crowd fails to notice that receiving player now looks helpless as the zone moves to man-on-man in the much more restricted area he now has to kick to.

I've given up trying to say "it's the SECOND kick that matters" while hearing a chrous of "not this bloody windmill crap again."

4. Zoning off a running player. Opposition player has the ball, Crows player is 5 metres or so away, and zones off in an attempt to “corral” him. Crowd yells for Crows player to “run at him!” apparently unaware that when you run at a player from that distance even Grenville Dietrich could step around you.

It's great isn't it

5. Manning up after a turnover. Crows have ball, Crows players immediately try to leave their opponent and make space to receive. Ball is turned over, and for 10 seconds or so they have free men because Crows players were making space. Crowd yells abuse at Crows players for “not manning up”.

There's a family of silly middle-aged women in front of us who have been going to the footy for as long as I can remember - and after all these years they still have no idea about the game whatsoever.

They'll regularly pick out an opposition player who is standing more than 5m away from a given Crows player and then shout out stupid crap like "who's on #17?!", "BENNY MAN UP!", "What's Bassett doing? Get on him Nathan!" - this is despite the fact the ball is 100m away.

 

[Tyson20]

some of the points are correct, no question its so frustrating sitting at an AFC game and listening to some of the tripe that comes out of people's mouths.

cant agree with the "ball" call tho because its a lottery at the moment! when u think its a dead set cert to be penalised, they bounce it, and when u think "oh ball up" they ping them! the cry of "balllllllllll" is great, even when its obvious it will be a bounce. it keeps the umps on their toes, and a bit of noise, no matter what it is, could serve to "intimidate" the opposition.

 

[beckybiglands]

Other than the obvious, as previously stated, the people who don't have a clue what the rules are, the people who commentate the game for themselves and the people who say everytime we kick a point of stuff us, "I'm not continuing my membership".... I just hate the teenage girls sitting behind me...
"I bought these new shoes what do you think? Yeah, I'm going to get my nails done too... Oh No, was that the cute guy just then? Damnit...."

 

[Cap]

sorry i was going to start a new thread but

i can tell you what i hate about sitting in the members

1) everytime I yell anything abusive or not i get stares as if i have interrupted a funeral

2) the excess Ade-el-aide chant which drones out when we have scored a goal

3) Old people saving 25 seats for them and ther 4 pals

4) Red Coats and Black coats trying to tell you where to sit

5) The fact its a Adelaide Home Game and I feel like i'm sitting in the interstate area

 

[Jars458]

1) "Whose that number ten" said in relation to Bones after this person behind me had been going to games for five years.

2) "Sit down and stop clapping, I can't see the boys celebrating" - after I jumped to my feet to celebrate a particularly good goal.

3) " I don't mind whether Port or the Crows win, when you support both you can't lose" - guy three rows in front

4) "Shut up you are being too noisy" - too many times

5) "Well you can't please everyone" - ground announcer some years ago after the laser light show was booed by about 70% of the Crowd because you would only see it if you were in the members

 

[beckybiglands]

Oh, Another thing I hate... I really, really, really hate...
Those bloody cheerleaders, that music is always crap! How good was it a few games back when they didn't dance, mwhahahaha

 

[tribey]

Bring back Aleesha "the next big thing" Rome!

 

[arrowman]

I've given up trying to say "it's the SECOND kick that matters" while hearing a chrous of "not this bloody windmill crap again."

I got sprung on that once. I took a mate to the footy and he groaned when the short kick in worked. “That doesn’t matter” I said. Then the second kick went to an unmarked player on the wing. “OK, that doesn’t matter” I said. Third kick was marked at CHF. My mate looked at me intently. “OK, That matters.”

2) "Sit down and stop clapping, I can't see the boys celebrating" - after I jumped to my feet to celebrate a particularly good goal.

I get to my feet a lot - “Welshyyyyy … Yeeeesss!” I used to sit in front of a blok who grabbed my jacket from behind to sit me down. Had to remind him that it’s Footy Park, not Festival Theatre.

One other story. A couple of years back I moved seats. I now sit in front of The Biggest Moron In The Crowd. He just opens his mouth and lets the wind blow his tongue around all through the game - never makes sense. Early on, v Melbourne - Neitz tales a mark and TBMIC says “Who’s that big number 9 for Melbourne?”
“Neitz” I said over my shoulder - and then muttered to myself “and while we’re talking about unknown players, that number 5 for Essendon is James Hird…” The bloke next to me said “Mate, we’ve been putting up with this for years!”

 

[napsyd]

I loved it when Eddie got pinged the other day (I can't remember by who) for calling "Dropping the ball!" when there is no such rule.

Bit off topic, but how about the Collingwood V Fremantle game. In the first quarter Collingwood had kicked 3-9, yet according to Eddie they had had 14 scoring shots. After adjusting my brain to eddie speed I realised he was calling out of bounds on the full a scoring shot! What was funnier was that Dermott picked him up on it!! Battle of the giant intellects!

 

[-WWJD-]

There's a family of silly middle-aged women in front of us who have been going to the footy for as long as I can remember - and after all these years they still have no idea about the game whatsoever.

They'll regularly pick out an opposition player who is standing more than 5m away from a given Crows player and then shout out stupid crap like "who's on #17?!", "BENNY MAN UP!", "What's Bassett doing? Get on him Nathan!" - this is despite the fact the ball is 100m away.

Sounds like you might be sitting near my Mum

Sitting in the Members stand, I get a lot of abuse for standing up and yelling and can't complain about too much abuse to the players because they hardly say a bloody thing.

But one that I hear a bit is "Jesus christ <insert players name>, what the hell are you doing on the bench, get back out there." When the boys on the bench run the boundary line. Do they really think it was their choice to be benched? That they want to be benched?

And I hate when Roo will kick a ball into the space in front of a leading Welsh and you'll hear a "Who the hell is that to...great kick Roo, great kick."

And then of course there are those three bleach blonde haired girls with number 17, 33 and 10 on their back and pretty little Crows coloured ribbons in their hair, who feel the need to squeal at the top of their lungs whenever someone with blonde hair goes near the ball.

That Eddie comment reminds me of KB last week against the Saints, Clarke has the ball on the half back flank "here comes McLeod." ...huh?!

 

[RooDog]

Sounds like you might be sitting near my Mum


And I hate when Roo will kick a ball into the space in front of a leading Welsh and you'll hear a "Who the hell is that to...great kick Roo, great kick."

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sounds like you sit near my old man n me he always says the to riccuito, but i must admit roos disposal has been ordinary at times this year!

 

[drakeyv2]

I have the 2 old muppets from the balcony sitting behind me at the footy. "What are you going to do now crows?, if you can't kick that Skipworth (goal from about 55 meters with a wet ball) you shouldn't be in the team, look Harold look Harold is that McConnell?" It drives me mad.

The one sound I realy hate at the footy though is silence.

 

[beckybiglands]

The one sound I realy hate at the footy though is silence.

Yeah, Oh it drives me crazy.. I've got three ladies who sit in front of me, the whole game, they just sit there with their ear pieces and don't say a bloody word... I don't even think I've heard them sing the song at the end of the game when we've won....... They must be fembots or something...

 

[Thewlis Dish]

I sat in the members two weeks ago with my North stuff on and was standing up and yelling every two seconds, and no one said a thing to me. They didn't even give me crap or any smug looks after the final siren, which was a bit strange.

Although some of the abuse directed at a half conscious Sinclair as he was carried off was pretty vulgar.

 

[gundy]

Oh, Another thing I hate... I really, really, really hate...
Those bloody cheerleaders, that music is always crap! How good was it a few games back when they didn't dance, mwhahahaha

Agreed becky. Given all the recent controvesy involving AFL and NRL players and the way they treat women as "objects" why does a professional sporting organisation still have scantily clad girls prancing around before games?

Do any other teams in the AFL still have cheer leaders. I haven't seen any at the five or six away games I've been to over the last few years.

 

[gundy]

Bit off topic, but how about the Collingwood V Fremantle game. In the first quarter Collingwood had kicked 3-9, yet according to Eddie they had had 14 scoring shots. After adjusting my brain to eddie speed I realised he was calling out of bounds on the full a scoring shot! What was funnier was that Dermott picked him up on it!! Battle of the giant intellects!

Also off topic, but did you hear Eddie in the post match wrap up going on about how great Malthouse was to not only be able to come up with a game plan to beat Freo but to manage to get the players to stick to it "under enormous pressure from the Subiaco CROWD". Maybe they need a higher fence at Suby to keep the spectators off the ground

 

[Fergus]

We have a silly old duck that sits in front of us and blames Ken McGregor for just about everything. We can be streaming forward, turn the ball over leaving them with loose men everywhere and one of the hits Kenny's opponent on the chest with a bullet pass and all we hear is "Come on McGregor".

 

[tribey]

NRL players and the way they treat women as "objects" why does a professional sporting organisation still have scantily clad girls prancing around before games?

Just on that topic - I love the hypocrisy of the NRL. On Sports Tonight a few months ago they ran a story about the NRL ordering all players to counselling and classes about treating women with respect etc. Then they ran a story about the NSW SOO Team jersey presentation - with scantily-clad cheerleaders with bits almost bursting out left and right.

A couple of days later came the mobile phone scandal when that group of NSW players left that obscene message asking for group sex from that women who went to the press with it.

I mean really...

 

[NikkiNoo]

Those cheerleaders really p*** me off big time - As a gymnast (well I used to be - a bit too old now) they are so bad it isn't funny. At least they stay on the members side most of the time now. Their routines are too long - whenever we did displays we had a rule - Short, Sharp and Shiny! People around us got sick of us having a go at them and told us to do something about it so a couple of years ago my sister and I went to the audition to see what they were actually after. Now the girls that have been in the squad for quite a number of years had trouble trying to figure out what the choreographer wanted them to do!! On the plus side though was that I was stretching my sister and watching their eyes bug out was funny - she can do this -

I suppose that my little sis and I used to bug people in our area cause we always yelled deliberate whenever the ball goes over the line and an opposition player was near it - we do know the rules but this is something we do for fun! Although I have noticed that when we don't yell it the people around us have turned around to ask why we didn't with a smile on their face.

Oh and we yell "seven point play" when we kick a point! Our rule is that if it doesn't go over the centre circle and we turn it back over and kick a goal it's a seven point play! (sometimes this can be increased to a 8,9 and 10 point play!)

My mum blames Ben Hart for everything and there is just no arguing with her. Plus she listens to 5aa and argues with them during a game - but cause she is going deaf she says it loud enough for the whole area to hear so it ends in my sister and I yelling "shut up mum" to the amusement of our area.

I have to agree though that the worse sound is Silence.

 

[Skippy_14]

We have a silly old duck that sits in front of us and blames Ken McGregor for just about everything. We can be streaming forward, turn the ball over leaving them with loose men everywhere and one of the hits Kenny's opponent on the chest with a bullet pass and all we hear is "Come on McGregor".

That sounds alot like the stupid old hag that sits behind us. "Come on McGregor", "What are you doing McGregor", "Ohhhh!" then she sits down and mutters something like "All that bloody McGregor's fault, he's USELESS!" to the old bag that sits next to her.
Then there's the ***. Don't even make me go into that stupid bastard! I tell you, who do they even support?

 

[arrowman]

Oh and we yell "seven point play" when we kick a point! Our rule is that if it doesn't go over the centre circle and we turn it back over and kick a goal it's a seven point play! (sometimes this can be increased to a 8,9 and 10 point play!.

I like your style, Nikki (and I don't mean the gymnastics!) - I love the 7-point play. Always the optimist, that's me.

As for free kicks - earlier this year there was a very dubious free kick paid to a Crows forward - so dubious that the crowd around me didn't even cheer much when it was paid. Then the replay went up on the screen and it was an obvious umpire error. I bawled out "That was a disgraceful decision umpire!!!!" to everyone's amusement.

We kicked the goal though

 

[arrowman]

Then there's the ***. Don't even make me go into that stupid bastard!

No, please do! This is fun.