Opinion The Booing of Pendlebury

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I'm now laughing at the pies fans outrage at booing. Hypocrisy at it's best.
Our memories only last a fortnight. ;)

It was shit form to boo Ablett and Sheed in our respective matches against them. Gaff I think is a bit of a different circumstance given the severity of his actions towards Brayshaw - there’s still a human element there but would concede that the world would be a much better place without it.

The closest parallel to it from a Collingwood perspective is our booing of Riewoldt at the 2010 Grand Final march. Again; that was very poor form.

This isn’t an Essendon-only issue, it’s pervasive to all supporter bases at all clubs. All the same, it was disappointing. The world would be a much nicer place without it.
 

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Can you read, I said there were bad decisions both ways. The Crisp one was a shocker, but I guess you guys didn’t see Tip throw the ball over his head to Daniher to snap a goal.
Guess what? You're on the Essendon board where there's an Essendon bias we make no apologies for. If you can't reconcile that and post with the appropriate respect then you're done here.
 

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I think it was a hangover from some pretty average umpiring.

It certainly did not cost us the game but there were still enough of our classless, racist, nuffie supporters still there to take it out on a bloke who deserved applause for a bloody good game.

I thought Bucks was spot on the money with his comments.
 

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Was directed at the Umpires just didn’t help that Pendles flopped at the end of the game.
I thought the booing was aimed at the umpires for their shocking performance. They were particularly bad today with Walla tackled high at least three times and Bags clearly taken high early in the last term.
 

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Can you read, I said there were bad decisions both ways. The Crisp one was a shocker, but I guess you guys didn’t see Tip throw the ball over his head to Daniher to snap a goal.
Can you comprehend?

The reason we felt, as a collective, so aggrieved was because the decisions/non-decisions were out of whack. Collingwood suffered no more than the typical few howlers in a game. I think the consensus is that we were reamed. This is the point of the discussion. Adding that Collingwood had some umpiring go against them has little baring on this discussion.
 

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So you’d be all cool if Collingwood fans booed Hird after an ANZAC game?

The umps did shocking calls both ways, pretty ordinary to boo and it was coming directly from the Ess cheer squad so they can’t blame non members or some other excuse.

You were never in the lead during the entire game and yet I’m in some bizarro world where you were robbed.
Hi buddy
1) Hird has retired from footy but is still open to coaching the pies after the Buckley bridesmaid era concludes.
2) The bizarro world you are referring to is the actual world. It’s only bizarro because the holding the ball/incorrect disposal rule doesn’t exist anymore.
3) Booooooo
 
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incidentally, The Booing of Pendlebury sounds like the title of a dodgy coming of age novel about three victorian era school chums.
Ha ha. I wish Colin Firth actually played Scott Pendlebury on Anzac Day instead of just playing him in the mini-series adaptation of this brilliant novel you have just invented.
 
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