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OT: Association Football Mk:2 - The Ultras Edition

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phantom eel

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So Sydney FC fans didn't stage a walk out part way through the game, and abandon the team they support in making their point?

That's a strategy the Wanderers fans/RBB would be wise to consider - instead of staging a pointless walkout and annoying their players (or player, as Twizzle would have you believe there is only one bloke who feels that way).
 

phantom eel

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And meanwhile... it looks like someone here has their hat on again...

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Mmmmmmm.
 

phantom eel

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Nice try. This all started because WSW fans act like f**kwits at games. Get that sorted and side stories like this don't happen.

You should be thankful that other clubs are showing the love whilst you're going through a tough time.
Bolded for truth.... :sarcasm:
 

Gary Gutful

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Fair point Gary.
It's a double edged sword. Those aren't the only options open to fans though, and there will be other avenues taken and this will keep going until the FFA do something about it.
The alternative is to do nothing, and that's not going to happen.

Suity

Agreed. To some extent I can understand why the fans are so frustrated and why they would do what they are doing. However, it isn't helping the game that they love.

Rightly or wrongly Football has a reputation issue at the moment. The only way that the FFA can turn this around is to show some leadership and openly acknowledge and address some of the bad sentiment that exists. A relentlessly positive communications campaign wouldn't go astray either.
 

phantom eel

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So Sydney FC fans didn't stage a walk out part way through the game, and abandon the team they support in making their point?

That's a strategy the Wanderers fans/RBB would be wise to consider - instead of staging a pointless walkout and annoying their players (or player, as Twizzle would have you believe there is only one bloke who feels that way).
Some of the Wanderers fans are openly discussing on forums the option to boycott finals matches :crazy:. Assuming the Wanderers make it to finals this year, how would totally aboandoning support for your team - worse than through staging a walk out - help things at all?

Ooh, the FFA have a bad gate at one of their finals games, so that will suddenly force them to do what exactly? The issue is with those fans (and large percentage among these of Wanderers fans) who have done things that have been deemed ban-worthy in the first place.

Fans who find themselves on a ban list have always had the right of appeal through their club (despite the Wanderers letter trumpeting support for wronged fans, that should already have been in place), and if they can't muster evidence against the allegation that led to the banning, they don't deserve to be excused - it is in a venue (and its hirers') rights to refuse entry as they deem fit, and has been in the small print of the back of ticketek tickets since last century :lol:.

The process in place is already better than for people who are randomly denied entry to pubs and clubs based on the feeling of the bouncer on the night... what is it that the protesting fans want, other than an ego boost for their fragile, pack mentaility self esteeem? :sarcasm:
 

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talking to yourself Bart ?

seriously ?

you seem to think being asked to substantiate an allegation is the same as someone disagreeing with you
 

phantom eel

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you seem to think being asked to substantiate an allegation is the same as someone disagreeing with you
You seem to have mistaken my digs at your internet pedantry as an indicate that I care either way? :lol:

Since you seem to have nothing better to do that dispute that a Wanderer's player's sanctioned media rounds might be a valid window into sentiment of the playing group, here's a Victory player's simalar message regarding the futility of fans staging a mid-match walk out over these "issues":

http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/article/2015/11/25/its-them-fan-walkout-khalfallah-0

Melbourne Victory A-League midfielder Fahid Ben Khalfallah hopes a planned supporter group walkout at Etihad Stadium on Saturday night doesn't go ahead, but he does accept the fans' right to demonstrate their anger.

Yes, it's not a second Wanderers player to "substantiate" your "allegation" :roll: ... but one player from each club involved - with no players stating any opposing view - should be enough for most reasonable people to accept the statement that the players don't support the fan walkout?

But if not, enjoy your continued internet pedantry while evading discussion of the issues raised :cool:
 

Suitman

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Is that why you keep responding to my comments ?

lol.
You must be getting confused Twiz. Didn't you ask Bart the question, but some other bloke called Phantom Eel actually replied?

BTW, last night.
Melbourne City fans.........


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Suitman

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Rightly or wrongly Football has a reputation issue at the moment. The only way that the FFA can turn this around is to show some leadership and openly acknowledge and address some of the bad sentiment that exists. A relentlessly positive communications campaign wouldn't go astray either.

I thought that's what the protests were about.
Most of the fans anger is directed at the FFA.
And, it's fans from EVERY CLUB who are protesting.
I know that you understand this, but there are some here who believe this is solely a Wanderers issue. lol.


Suity
 

phantom eel

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Is that why you keep responding to my comments ?
To make digs at your internet pedantry? Why yes, that could be it! :lol:
lol.
BTW, last night.
Melbourne City fans.........
Did they walkout half way through?

So how did the Wanderers fans' walkout "protest" go?

Hitting the FFA where it hurts :sarcasm:? Sticking it to the man? (The same man keeps the whole code afloat in the first place?)
 

phantom eel

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Stumbled on a news article...

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...-peaceful-affair/story-fni0cx12-1227627334628

IT had been building all week but a mass walk out by Wanderers fans in protest over soccer administrator’s perceived treatment of supporters was more fizzle than the promised fireworks.

The chanting began before kick off with the Wanderers’ Red and Black Bloc fans making the stands above shake.

Banging drums and blowing horns the vocal supporters appeared at one stage to turn their attention to a group of about five men, understood to have been among the 198 banned fans, standing behind the fence outside Central Coast Stadium.

But as promised at the 30 minute mark in the clash against the Mariners one of the group stood up, made an announcement on a loud speaker before the RBB began to filter out of the stands in protest.

More than 100 fans filed into Dane Drive outside Central Coast Leagues Club, unfurled banners and squared off against Public Order Riot Squad officers.


But the show of force was a peaceful affair with the small crowd eventually dispersing, some into the club others down the street.

By then it was half time and the hundreds more Wanderers fans who had also walked out in a show of support eventually made their way back to their seats.
Mmmmmmm.
 
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