Tigers A Sporting Disgrace

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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.
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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.

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Then i suggest the writer of that article come and support this club for a while and see what we have to go through.

He is tainting the whole club with these allegations of spitting in this article.

I have not spat on any player - or anyone for that matter. And i'm not going to say that these things didn't happen - but look around at every club and not say it's just Richmond fans.

The media luv this stuff - he didn't say that in his article.

He offers no solutions to what Tiger fans should do - we should just cop it sweet. Well, as anyone knows, footy doesn't engender sweetness, especially when you've been the laughing stock of the AFL for 20 plus years.

We've been copping it sweet for 20 years. The only other thing left for us is to give up our club, because nothing else seems to be working.

That's not gonna happen as much as I feel like it at the moment, but i - like all RFC supporters - want some answers. We don't want condescending articles like this that say what rotten supporters we are - when we're not. We've supported crap for 20 years and to still have 25,000+ supporters still hanging around watching this **** means we're fantastic supporters IMHO.
 

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It is the cruellest irony in football. The club with the least tolerance for failure has been the most unsuccessful club of the past 2 decades.

And now, like it or not, the actions of a precious few HAVE tainted the rest of us.

25,000 supporters there on Friday night but only a 100 or so hanging over the edge screaming personal abuse and only one or two more spitting on our players.

This represents only a tiny minority of the supporter base but you know, only one bad apple...
 

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**** everyone else!(media,anti Richmond people etc)

What have they done for us lately ????

It's always been us and them so tell me,what's changed now?

Let them have their best shot and then remember it.

Move on.

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?
I dont know of anyone who said this.
Could this possibly be an example of the media talking thru
its ars for the sake of a good story.
 

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The hatred in the eyes of some of the fans, the snarling and swearing, was an evil and un-Australian sight.
re;The above quote only.

Spare me the journalistic spin u clown.

What u saw on Friday night were people who have simply had enough.

Thats it !!!
 
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LOL @ everyone else tainting us all the same as those 2 clowns on the weekend.

I say F@#$ em !!!

Let them think what ever they want, we know the truth, we are just frustrated supporters not absolute d$%@heads like those two people on friday.

Bring on the world, Richmond v The world


It's just a shame some players dont have the same passion as some of our really good supporters.
 

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Haha Herald Sun-how bloody typical.
95 percent of the crowd was pretty quiet at the end of the game - only the people lined up down the race were vocal.
Really after all the frustrations of Tiger fans,the place should have errupted but everyone was well behaved on the whole.
One person spat too not more as this article is implying.

Well done HUN-another shoddy piece of journalism.

Herald Sun's hatred of Richmond is so obvious.
 

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ch eddie should also take some of the blame here.i think it was mentioned by gary lyon on friday night that there are people lining up at the players race just to ge their mug on tv.eddies reply even tho he was disgusted in the behavoir was "we are here to provide the best coverage" or words to that effect.
just remember edward give it a few more weeks and the pies final,s hopes are shattered just remember to show your so called choir boys of a cheer squad in action.

cheers!
 
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exactly TOO, after port do a number on the pies this week, they face a revitalised carlton and the the pumped up saints.

If the pies are 1 and 7 after 8 weeks all hell will brake loose. Would be interesting to see how the Collingwood Sun report about that.

Something to the lines of "Collingwood are unlucky to not be 7 and 1, with the biggest passionate supporters in the country".
 

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Originally posted by oxx
re;The above quote only.

Spare me the journalistic spin u clown.

What u saw on Friday night were people who have simply had enough.

Thats it !!!
That's bullsh*t oxx and I can't buy into that. What the journalist saw on Friday night was a small minority of morons who had literally turned feral. Unfortunately we have all been tainted with the same brush. I also can't believe they truly support the club by acting that way. The spitting etc... is not on no matter how frustrated we get.

I can put Friday night down to the most embarrassing moment of my Tiger days. Not the on field inept performance but the off field antics by those d ickheads. I am as ****ed off as the rest of us with what is going on down at the club (both coach and players)....however, that doesn't mean we start acting like animals. These people had not simply had enough. If that was the case, it would have stopped at the coach and players copping a verbal. What they did was beyond anything that is acceptable and civil. We live in a civilised society and that kind of act should not be accepted by any of us.
 
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Originally posted by CJH

And now, like it or not, the actions of a precious few HAVE tainted the rest of us.

25,000 supporters there on Friday night but only a 100 or so hanging over the edge screaming personal abuse and only one or two more spitting on our players.

This represents only a tiny minority of the supporter base but you know, only one bad apple...
Exactly - as I posted in part on another thread

"I am angry because as a member of the RFC I have been labelled by the moronic actions of a few. Sure people are entitled to get angry - but to spit - please? What are becoming - clones of English soccer holigans?"

There were people queing around the race half through last quarter. For their few moments of "fame"

And like TOO I think Channel 9 can take some blame here - who won the bloody game? They spent more time following the movements of the loosing side than they did the winners.

If it wasn't so serious it would be a joke.

I know of someone that wasn't even near the race on Friday night but has had their face plastered on TV by Ch 9 - and the footage implies that they were part of the group abusing the team - how do you think this person feels at the moment? A little worse than tainted





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What better way to hide the fact that Eddie's team is not going too well, but to focus attention away from them onto us. Channel 9's focusing 2 weeks in a row on the deeds of a minority of supporters is appalling.

Me thinks we are being used to hide the Pies woeful start to the year.
 
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Originally posted by froars
What better way to hide the fact that Eddie's team is not going too well, but to focus attention away from them onto us. Channel 9's focusing 2 weeks in a row on the deeds of a minority of supporters is appalling.

Me thinks we are being used to hide the Pies woeful start to the year.
Granted Froars we well may be getting used that way.

But it still doesn't excuse the behaviour on Friday night.

Personally I reckon, now is the time for us to stand up and fight and show the Channel 9's, Mark Robinson's, Mike Sheahan's and the rest of the media we are no longer gonna be their lead stories.
 

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Originally posted by nineteen eighty
That's bullsh*t oxx and I can't buy into that. What the journalist saw on Friday night was a small minority of morons who had literally turned feral. Unfortunately we have all been tainted with the same brush. I also can't believe they truly support the club by acting that way. The spitting etc... is not on no matter how frustrated we get.

I can put Friday night down to the most embarrassing moment of my Tiger days. Not the on field inept performance but the off field antics by those d ickheads. I am as ****ed off as the rest of us with what is going on down at the club (both coach and players)....however, that doesn't mean we start acting like animals. These people had not simply had enough. If that was the case, it would have stopped at the coach and players copping a verbal. What they did was beyond anything that is acceptable and civil. We live in a civilised society and that kind of act should not be accepted by any of us.
Dis-agree.

I made special mention that i was referring to the above quite only.

What a ******** to say that the hatred he saw in the eyes of the people
was un-Australian.
****er.

My point was that he/she was generalising. not thet i agree with
spitting on blokes.
 
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