Discussion Opposition Supporters

[bubblegoose]

This isnt a bash the opposition supporter thread. I'll leave that for the new & improved Milney Loves to Snap to start that one ...

Who are your favourite opposition supporters & back it up with a reason. Try to think outside of 'Well my best mate barracks for wah wah so they're my second team' crap.

Recently Port fans were humble enough to come on & congratulate our team for such a great game, etc. In my opinion, Port fans would have been the last one sto do that.

My pick is the doggies supporters (on the overall balance). In a similar boat to us history wise & I've had some good grounded / balanced verbal stouches with the pups supporters.

 

[HoldenMCaulfield]

I was almost surprised to see so many Port supporters on this board after last weekends game with congratulary messages. Good on them !

Also, the Adelaide thread a couple of weeks ago was a good one with a few good posts from Crows supporters.

The supporters I am not very fond of here on Bigfooty are Carlton and Collingwood (of course) and Geelong and Hawthorn (I really hope we will not be as arrogant should we... you know).

Outside Bigfooty, I also get along with most Bulldogs supporters and also most Richmond supporters (this may be related to me considering these two as the other teams I sort of like).

 

[SammyFish25]

Outside Big Footy i cant stand

Adelaide, Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Geelong, Hawthorn, Port Adelaide supporters

All either banwagon supporters, or just really cocky and abusive towards our boys.. get along well with Doggies and Richmond supporters well and as for the rest im not fussed with them...

 

[It Was A Good Day]

Hello Father Goose,

Opposition Supporters? Well if i have to choose i am going to have to say Fitzroy supporters - They no longer pose a threat to our march to glory

then Richmond and maybe Dogs, but they are still very scum.

 

[HoldenMCaulfield]

Well, I guess that University supporters are okay, too...

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

My best mates a Carlton supporter, I'm enjoying the current streak we have going.

He always goes back to the 16 -1 flag thing, but then I'm like...'how many of those flags do you remember well enough to have enjoyed'? And him being 5 in 95 I really doubt he remembers much.

On here I like Dogs and Dons supporters surprisingly.

I dont have too many mates (apart from the aforementioned Blue) who are as nuts about footy as I am. They're all kinda like 'meh'. So I dont form too many opinions on their side because of them.

 

[cartwright]

I use to think hawks supporters were ok ... but now they've got their 50k, the feral bandwagoners are changing that.

Dee's supporters? There's not many of them... maybe that's why they're ok.

 

[bubblegoose]

Dee's supporters? There's not many of them... maybe that's why they're ok.

Would you believe sainter_girl, that there are actually more paid up members of Melbourne than St Kilda? As of this second, according to the respective membership tallies on each website:

St Kilda: 29292
Melbourne: 30032

 

[CHBench]

Can't believe we haven't cracked the 30k. IIRC that night where all theplayers did a ring around, we only signed up 500.

Best i have to say are Hawks supporters. Behaved with class when winning a premature premiership. (Not to mention wiped the smugness off the Cats supporters faces. )

Usually whoever is down the bottom of the ladder, Melbourne, Richmond for example. I feel sorry for their supporters, but that fondness usually evaporates when they make their climb back up the ladder into the 8 and supporters start getting a bit cocky.

 

[cartwright]

Would you believe sainter_girl, that there are actually more paid up members of Melbourne than St Kilda? As of this second, according to the respective membership tallies on each website:

St Kilda: 29292
Melbourne: 30032

GFC?

Dee's: maybe other supporters signing up?

Disappointing for the saints. Our best year for quite a while & the supporters aren't signing up ...

Usually whoever is down the bottom of the ladder, Melbourne, Richmond for example. I feel sorry for their supporters, but that fondness usually evaporates when they make their climb back up the ladder into the 8 and supporters start getting a bit cocky.

pretty much agree. although, always an exception to the rule: have loved seeing carlton at the bottom and didn't feel sorry for their supporters.

 

[TheStinger]

My dad is a Bulldogs fan and the few times I've been to a game in Melbourne against them the fans have always been pretty good.

But living in Adelaide the most games I go to are against the Crows and Power. I have always had problems with Crows fans. They are intolerable when they are winning and whingers when they are losing. To quote a Crows fan in the 4th quarter of the rnd 2 game , loud enough for me to hear "No wonder you're winning when you have 7 number 1 draft picks running around ya cheats."

Another quote from two years ago, "Will someone get on that number 35...he's just running around by himself." Number 35? So you don't know who Robert Harvey is? I would have understood if it was Montagna or Ball but Harvey? Give me a break.

But on the flip side, apart from one drunk idiot who for some unknown reason wanted to fight me, I have had nothing but good times with the Port fans. After the 2004 Prelim final I expected them to be arrogant as, but they were for the most part just amazed at how good the game was.

They praised the Saints and wished us luck for next year. I may have a slight bias towards them as I know they president of their cheer squad but Port fans are on the whole pretty good. At half time of that PF I went down to see my mate and after a little apprehension as to my motives (thought I was causing trouble) the rest of the cheer squad were really nice.

We were all just happy that it was a good tight game instead of a shellacking either way. Port fans get a bad rap sometimes for being overly passionate but normally any anger or vitriol gets directed at their own players when they don't perform well and not at the opposition.

So in conclusion, Port fans good, Crows fans bad.

 

[bubblegoose]

Hawthorn have so many members they are able to sacrifice a few to the footy gods to try to turn their fortunes around.

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[krusden]

So in conclusion, Port fans good, Crows fans bad.

strange as it sounds I actually agree with the Stinger.

It's strange as I thought that Sainter fans or non-SA football fans would cop more crap from Port Power fans due to their "feral" nature.
Power fans are IMO relatively feral but at the ground they turn on their own first rather than the opposition. The last two (vs. saints and cats) crows games i have been to the fans yell out "rigged" and that everyone is "cheats" whereas at the power match the torrent of abuse was directed at specific power players for muffing a mark or a kick or kicking backwards.
So, if I have a choice for my next game in SA as a watcher of football ( and I will go to more matches not involving the saints over here because, well I just can) then I would choose to watch the Power play someone over the crows
Which is weird, but true.

 

[Plugger35]

strange as it sounds I actually agree with the Stinger.

It's strange as I thought that Sainter fans or non-SA football fans would cop more crap from Port Power fans due to their "feral" nature.
Power fans are IMO relatively feral but at the ground they turn on their own first rather than the opposition. The last two (vs. saints and cats) crows games i have been to the fans yell out "rigged" and that everyone is "cheats" whereas at the power match the torrent of abuse was directed at specific power players for muffing a mark or a kick or kicking backwards.
So, if I have a choice for my next game in SA as a watcher of football ( and I will go to more matches not involving the saints over here because, well I just can) then I would choose to watch the Power play someone over the crows
Which is weird, but true.

Sounds similar to WA with Freo supporters being generally preferable to West Coast supporters.

Freo supporters are similar to Port supporters in that they are more traditional type footy supporters who tend to bag their own team rather than the opposition if they lose. They tend to be a lot more humble in defeat or victory.

West Coast supporters, on the other hand, are made up of a lot of the champagne, theatre goer set, that feel they have a divine right to win every home game. Most of them only cheer when they are winning and go deathly quiet or disappear when they start losing. If they don't win they blame the opposition, umpires and anyone else but their own players who they put on a pedestal. Very poor losers in general.