Here we go again...

[Frankie23]

A BAND of renegade Magpie fans chanted cruel insults at Geelong champ Gary Ablett about his fallen father.
"Your dad is a murderer," about 200 Collingwood supporters sang in unison behind the city end goals at the MCG last Thursday night.
The chant refers to Gary Ablett Sr's involvement in the drug-related death of Alisha Horan, 20, in 2000.
Nova breakfast host Dave Hughes said he was shocked.
"What they sing is so out of line, I can't believe it," he said.
Hughes said the Collingwood supporters, who were not part of the official cheer squad, were involved in organised singing and chanting.
"They stand behind the goals - I reckon a couple of hundred of them - and sing," he said.
"It's almost like they have had choir practice - the songs are in unison and they know the words."
Songs include F--- you Pussycats to the tune of Tom Jones's What's New Pussycat.
Manager Liam Pickering said Ablett was unaware of the abuse.
Former cheer squad president Kerri Baptist said the rogue supporters were removed from the squad last year because of persistent antisocial behaviour.
"They step way over the lines of decency," she said.
"If they are club members and the club knows who they are, they should be thrown out.
"People either love us or hate us, and this sort of stuff makes people hate us even more."
Cheer squad identity Joffa Corfe said the renegade fans stood in the bays at the back of the Ponsford Stand goals drinking and shouting abuse.
"That's crap and shouldn't be tolerated," he said.
Collingwood spokesman Nick Hulett said he did not believe the rogue fans were Magpie members.
Ablett Sr was with Ms Horan when she died of a drug overdose at the Park Hyatt Hotel. He was later convicted and fined $1500 for using and possessing ecstasy and heroin.
Last week three Collingwood supporters were charged with assaulting Brad Jones, the father of Melbourne footballer Nathan Jones, at the MCG.



On the Herald Sun webite, IMO just another swipe at the club, thoughts??? Does anyone sit around there and know the real story??

 

[abs_of_STEELE]

Everyone loves us, don't they?

 

[bucksisbest]

A rubbish story that could be written about 8 other clubs , if there wasn't an agenda.
I'm not offended by it by the way as I am not full of shit about what goes on at the football , and wanting to pretend we're at the opera , like the other ********* on this forum who nearly faint at the notion , then go post disgusting things on bay 13.
Jones' old man getting bashed at the footy is roundly seen as disgusting , but in this case we have to be careful how far we end up going , and how honest people are about themselves.

I'll put good money channel 10 try to squeeze a story out of this.

 

[Ant85]

Just read it and what a load of $%^&!

Don't buy into it, the HS is a tabloid/nonsense paper that relies on sensationalism as news.

It's trying to create drama from nothing, and boost its sales.

Nothing wrong with Collingwood crowd behaviour, the crowd taunting players and umpires has been part of the game since it started and every supporter group does it.

We don't need to apologise, nor feel guilty.

 

[TwisTz]

Cheer squad identity Joffa Corfe said the renegade fans stood in the bays at the back of the Ponsford Stand goals drinking and shouting abuse.
"That's crap and shouldn't be tolerated," he said.

Hypocrite much.

 

[mattys123]

So Dave Hughes has become the greatest and most trustworthy source the Herald Sun can find. Piss off, Hughesy is an unfunny, untalented so called comedian who hates the **** out of the Collingwood Football Club.

If this makes the first 40 pages of the Herald Sun tomorrow, they should be ashamed of themselves, even if it is true it's nothing more then what happens at every game, every ground, every week.

Some foul language, a stupid chant, who ****ing cares, go sit with the Carlton cheersquad Hughesy you Carlton w***er, and you will here a lot worse then that.

Cmon, leave us alone you morons at the HSUN, stop trying to pick the very small element out week in week out, and maybe one week right a positive article about us. Oh but wait, good news about Collingwood wouldnt sell papers.

 

[Smoky]

They only got in because of the 50,000 Collingwood supporters that donated their time on that Thursday to the Homeless shelters for Easter... otherwise they wouldnt have even got a seat!

Moral of the story is... NO MORE CHARITY WORK GUYS!

 

[frantelle]

FFS Journalism is ****en pathetic really. The way they carry on soon we won't be allowed to shout "BALL"

 

[alfiiee]

I wasnt aware of it and im just above it..
Gary Ablett wasn't aware of it..
Most people here seem to know nothing about it..???

Did it actually happen or not?
Cheersquad members ?
Confirmation?

 

[wixism]

Dave Hughes was at the game so he wouldnt make that shit up.
i saw him there
but yeah what more can you do.

 

[thatday]

Honestly, how many clubs have the group up the back who stand and sing? FFS, go stand with the Grog squad for a couple of games and see what you hear. This is just bad journalism from the sun trying to make something out of nothing, again.

Oh and btw, Hughsey, I have heard far, far worse coming out of Carlton supporters mouths and quite honestly, if you think what these blokes were singing was bad you must not attend many Carlton games, either that or you're just a one eyed hypocrite.

 

[Rohan25]

I was in M35 row D, which is sort of adjacent to the cheersquad and I didn't hear any singing.

I'm also really glad that Dave Hughes has now appointed himself the arbiter of what is acceptable at the football.

 

[DoubleO7]

I wouldn't be surprised if we hear more of this on 'Before the Game' from the main man himself, Dave Hughes.

 

[Jabso]

A BAND of renegade Magpie fans chanted cruel insults at Geelong champ Gary Ablett about his fallen father.
"Your dad is a murderer," about 200 Collingwood supporters sang in unison behind the city end goals at the MCG last Thursday night.
The chant refers to Gary Ablett Sr's involvement in the drug-related death of Alisha Horan, 20, in 2000.
Nova breakfast host Dave Hughes said he was shocked.
"What they sing is so out of line, I can't believe it," he said.
Hughes said the Collingwood supporters, who were not part of the official cheer squad, were involved in organised singing and chanting.
"They stand behind the goals - I reckon a couple of hundred of them - and sing," he said.
"It's almost like they have had choir practice - the songs are in unison and they know the words."
Songs include F--- you Pussycats to the tune of Tom Jones's What's New Pussycat.
Manager Liam Pickering said Ablett was unaware of the abuse.
Former cheer squad president Kerri Baptist said the rogue supporters were removed from the squad last year because of persistent antisocial behaviour.
"They step way over the lines of decency," she said.
"If they are club members and the club knows who they are, they should be thrown out.
"People either love us or hate us, and this sort of stuff makes people hate us even more."
Cheer squad identity Joffa Corfe said the renegade fans stood in the bays at the back of the Ponsford Stand goals drinking and shouting abuse.
"That's crap and shouldn't be tolerated," he said.
Collingwood spokesman Nick Hulett said he did not believe the rogue fans were Magpie members.
Ablett Sr was with Ms Horan when she died of a drug overdose at the Park Hyatt Hotel. He was later convicted and fined $1500 for using and possessing ecstasy and heroin.
Last week three Collingwood supporters were charged with assaulting Brad Jones, the father of Melbourne footballer Nathan Jones, at the MCG.



On the Herald Sun webite, IMO just another swipe at the club, thoughts??? Does anyone sit around there and know the real story??

A bit of foul language and slander? Duely noted, perhaps we should get them to sing "Your father's a crackwhore" instead?

I wouldn't be surprised if we hear more of this on 'Before the Game' from the main man himself, Dave Hughes.

It would be gold (not intentional comedy but bathos type humour) to see Sam "Inane" Lane try to grill Hughes and Hughes trying to be serious and heavy handed about it.

 

[FromDaics2Dids]

When im back home in Melb, standing room behind the goals in the Ponsford is the best place to watch the game, i dont know if any of the supporters are on here, but every week i go to the G i stand amongst you blokes, find it amusing and enjoy it there more than anywhere at the G.

As for the cheer squad and Joffa, no wonder he has made those comments. He always cops a w***er chant from the boys up the back, and rightly so he is one.

On the issue of Ablett chant, its nothing compared to some of the abusive songs song all day long at a Premier League game over here.

 

[FuManchu]

For the sake of balance, all those Age haters, should post vireolic anti HS stuff now. All of them

 

[Jabso]

HS is the most tabloidy while The Age is more agenda driven. HS will jump on the headlines and what will sell papers (Didak/Shaw 6 pages a day, Joffa w/guns, this stuff), while The Age will take pot shots depending on who they don't like at the time.

For all the crap he cops Sheehan writes about footy and doesn't let egos get in the way of his articles unlike Walls and Wilson. Although The Age does have some great non-headlining journos.

Just on Wilson I wish she would actually talk about footy more. I know off-field is her special area but surely as an opinion piece writer more than a journo or analyst she could offer something. Because without talking about footy, especially during the off-season she just trots out the same old recycled stuff. For example this pre-season she trotted out the same crap about Richmond being in trouble weekly, with a ever so slightly different slant on it, a few years ago Carlton were in her sights.

Personally I prefer HS due to the qauntity of footy content but The Age has better articles. To be honest I only read Collingwood content.

Some of the lowest acts are actually from no name journos looking for a strong headline (I know they don't decide headlines, but they word their articles so that the headline is made). I.e. the social commentators over the Shaw/Didak fiasco (interesting no 6 pages daily on Bock) and the bum journo from The Australian who someohow decided to run with the story that Didak will be definately sacked the day after.

 

[bigrayohall20]

Probably one of the worst calls ive heard at a game of footy. It just proves that a lot of people are correct by calling Collingwood 'scum'!

Beat up a players Dad one week, tell a player that his Dad is a murderer the next week... Geez i'd hate to have something to do with the Brisbane Lions at the moment. Who knows what could happen during or after the game on Friday!

 

[conodie05]

Probably one of the worst calls ive heard at a game of footy. It just proves that a lot of people are correct by calling Collingwood 'scum'!

Beat up a players Dad one week, tell a player that his Dad is a murderer the next week... Geez i'd hate to have something to do with the Brisbane Lions at the moment. Who knows what could happen during or after the game on Friday!

Jeez you don't generalise much do you?

If you don't have anything constructive to say, keep it to yourself. You want to talk about taunts at the footy? Try listening week in, week out to the shite that is hurled in Alan Didak's direction. Opposition supporters give him the Bronx cheer and yell out "murderer" every time he gets the ball. And that is what I hear sitting in the MCC so I can't imagine what its like in the outer.

I'm sure GA jnr couldn't care less what is directed at him on the field when he is part of a winning side. Players clearly have thicker skins than the anorexic, anaemic media fraternity.

 

[Snag Breac]

So Dave Hughes has become the greatest and most trustworthy source the Herald Sun can find. Piss off, Hughesy is an unfunny, untalented so called comedian who hates the **** out of the Collingwood Football Club.

If this makes the first 40 pages of the Herald Sun tomorrow, they should be ashamed of themselves, even if it is true it's nothing more then what happens at every game, every ground, every week.

Some foul language, a stupid chant, who ****ing cares, go sit with the Carlton cheersquad Hughesy you Carlton w***er, and you will here a lot worse then that.

Cmon, leave us alone you morons at the HSUN, stop trying to pick the very small element out week in week out, and maybe one week right a positive article about us. Oh but wait, good news about Collingwood wouldnt sell papers.

I'd heard Hughes was a Carlton fan. But I've seen him twice at the Lexus Centre, and I don't go there very often. Odd.

 

[The Royal Sampler]

So Hughes says there were "a couple of hundred" fans, and now the HUN is reporting "about 200 fans". Sounds flimsy in the extreme.

 

[The Dawes]

More lazy, low-brow journalism from the guttersnipes at the Hun.

 

[Passion8pie]

My friend asked Hughsey "have you come to see a real team play"
he answered with ,he is there cause he was taking his cousin from Hong Kong to see a game .
I think the back squad are hilarious,Hughsey's probably jealous that
they are funnier than himself.
Cant see why he would be offended by them, after i got a carlscum wooden spoon delivered to him ,the message back to me was "stick it up your A****,
i wasnt offended, i thought that funny too.

 

[shawthing09]

If your disgusted by that you obviously don't have enough contact with the general population. Sure it isn't great taste but come on you are almost garunteed to hear far more offensive stuff from random school kids on the train.

If Hughesy takes himself so seriously that he is disgusted by that shit it is no wonder he finds it hard to funny without putting on an annoying high pitch voice and pull a funny face to try and steal a laugh.

 

[King Woodie]

If your disgusted by that you obviously don't have enough contact with the general population. Sure it isn't great taste but come on you are almost garunteed to hear far more offensive stuff from random school kids on the train.

If Hughesy takes himself so seriously that he is disgusted by that shit it is no wonder he finds it hard to funny without putting on an annoying high pitch voice and pull a funny face to try and steal a laugh.

I think that is the point, Shawthing... there has to be a point where some people actually learn to grow up, and stop following a bunch of brainless f wits, giggling when someone says a swear word or a fart joke. Let's respect a bunch of hard working and courageous athletes who are doing far more than what these people are ever capable of doing in their lives.

We need leaders at Collingwood, and not just in the football team.

I agree, it is just a beat up, and you get that rubbish at games all the time, but it is the ugly side of sport perpetrated by people who will never amount to anything.