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SURELY Richmond fans do not believe that coach Danny Frawley is deliberately plotting the demise of the club. That in a clandestine way he is orchestrating losses and manipulating his players to perform poorly.
Round 5 photos
Fans fire up again
So why did so many fans turn feral on Friday night, cursing and spitting and seemingly prepared to eat their own?
It was a distasteful, unacceptable display of boorish behaviour. It is bad enough that adults hurl abuse and remonstrate, but to see youths spitting and swearing is a genuine cause for concern.
Football is a sport. In many ways it is a business, but shareholders do not rant and rave as many Tiger fans did on Friday, even if the stockmarket crashes and lightens their wallets.
One of the great aspects of football is the opportunity to let off steam. Psychologists suggest this is a good thing, an aside to a game that allows people to yell and hoot and get off their chests all the pent-up frustration and angst of a hard week at the office.
But civility must be retained.
No one condones abuse and hostility in the outer, as too often was the case decades ago when fans stood shoulder-to-shoulder and fought toe-to-toe on the slippery slopes of dilapidated suburban grounds.
Nor should it be acceptable that fans turn feral on their club, coach and players. And certainly not in the fashion that was on show when Richmond lost to Adelaide by 75 points.
Are these the same fans who, after the opening-round success against Collingwood, acclaimed Matthew Richardson the year's Coleman medallist, Nathan Brown the Brownlow medallist, the season a cakewalk and the Tigers the premiers?
Did the same fans not go to the footy on Friday night hoping for victory, just as Frawley and the players did?
And if they are fuming with the dismal effort, how must Frawley feel as he takes the brunt of the abuse and ponders his future?
The club and the AFL must publicly renounce such a disgraceful performance.
The general behaviour of fans at football matches has improved remarkably in recent times. But one wonders what the future holds if teenagers and youths so vehemently follow the lead of the abusive adults.
The hatred in the eyes of some of the fans, the snarling and swearing, was an evil and
un-Australian sight.
All this on Anzac weekend when we should remember the hard fight and sacrifice that helped make Australia a free country.
We are free to cheer or criticise, but let us not forget football is a sport and those who are at the coal-face give their all -- win, lose or draw.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,9380731%5E19742,00.html
Round 5 photos
Fans fire up again
So why did so many fans turn feral on Friday night, cursing and spitting and seemingly prepared to eat their own?
It was a distasteful, unacceptable display of boorish behaviour. It is bad enough that adults hurl abuse and remonstrate, but to see youths spitting and swearing is a genuine cause for concern.
Football is a sport. In many ways it is a business, but shareholders do not rant and rave as many Tiger fans did on Friday, even if the stockmarket crashes and lightens their wallets.
One of the great aspects of football is the opportunity to let off steam. Psychologists suggest this is a good thing, an aside to a game that allows people to yell and hoot and get off their chests all the pent-up frustration and angst of a hard week at the office.
But civility must be retained.
No one condones abuse and hostility in the outer, as too often was the case decades ago when fans stood shoulder-to-shoulder and fought toe-to-toe on the slippery slopes of dilapidated suburban grounds.
Nor should it be acceptable that fans turn feral on their club, coach and players. And certainly not in the fashion that was on show when Richmond lost to Adelaide by 75 points.
Are these the same fans who, after the opening-round success against Collingwood, acclaimed Matthew Richardson the year's Coleman medallist, Nathan Brown the Brownlow medallist, the season a cakewalk and the Tigers the premiers?
Did the same fans not go to the footy on Friday night hoping for victory, just as Frawley and the players did?
And if they are fuming with the dismal effort, how must Frawley feel as he takes the brunt of the abuse and ponders his future?
The club and the AFL must publicly renounce such a disgraceful performance.
The general behaviour of fans at football matches has improved remarkably in recent times. But one wonders what the future holds if teenagers and youths so vehemently follow the lead of the abusive adults.
The hatred in the eyes of some of the fans, the snarling and swearing, was an evil and
un-Australian sight.
All this on Anzac weekend when we should remember the hard fight and sacrifice that helped make Australia a free country.
We are free to cheer or criticise, but let us not forget football is a sport and those who are at the coal-face give their all -- win, lose or draw.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,9380731%5E19742,00.html

