35,000 tickets sold for Eden Park

[LeagueNut]

We had another family sitting next to us, they had a young girl approx 8-9 years old. She was getting (accidentally) showered with beer throughout the second half, burrowing into her Mum and looking quite scared. We tried to calm down the morons sitting behind us but it was like talking to a tree sometimes.

Maybe I'm getting old, but I just don't understand the meathead mentality of people who show up with the sole intention of getting pissed and acting like feral animals.

 

[Dr Crane]

my highlight of the night was just after fulltime getting stuck in the middle of a bottle fight (along with my sister, my girlfriend and a mate in an australian jersey) between a bunch of kids (as in, 20-somethings) who were just there to get drunk and hang out with their friends.

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

I know it's easy to make bold and kneejerk statements, but.....we live in a country full of dangerous, violent, alcoholic merkins and deadsh*ts.

It can't just be put down to "a few idiots"....being at the game, and previous games like it, it was very obvious that the MAJORITY of the crowd were enjoying attempting to maim the Australian players and throwing bottles at other crowd members. It was just par for the course, and there was absolutely no groundswell of opinion against the idiots, no-one telling them to stop. Embarrassing doesn't do it justice.

 

[TheDalek079]

that's what is so bad about it. it wasn't a small, isolated section like at bullscum matches. it was coming from everywhere. hopefully the tickets to the rugby world cup are too expensive for those scumbags, otherwise there'll be a complete riot when Aussie beats us in the final

 

[Brutus]

This sort of garbage doesn't seem to happen at Mt Smart.

Is it just an Eden Park thing?

 

[Dr Crane]

This sort of garbage doesn't seem to happen at Mt Smart.

Is it just an Eden Park thing?

it does seem to be a rah-rah thing, although on a friday or saturday night at mt smart once the crowd gets past about 18,000 the same sh*t starts to happen, just on a smaller scale.

 

[Desert Qlder]

I'd just like to know why bottles are sold at the ground. Very silly to allow that.

Great crowd though.

 

[playdaball]

it does seem to be a rah-rah thing, although on a friday or saturday night at mt smart once the crowd gets past about 18,000 the same sh*t starts to happen, just on a smaller scale.

Agreed semi finals have the same feel

 

[LeagueNut]

This sort of garbage doesn't seem to happen at Mt Smart.

Is it just an Eden Park thing?

99% of the time, Mt Smart crowds are made up of genuine League fans who are looking for a good game of footy.

When the game is heavily promoted, or a finals game is on, the "general public" also come along for the entertainment. I think that's where the majority of the boofheads fit in.

Because of the size of the crowd, we had the League die-hards, the curious newcomers, and the boofhead morons all rocking up.

I think we would still have seen the same idiots if last nights game was at Mt Smart.

 

[ozbash]

I thought the majority of the crowd were nice, fun loving peops out for a good time....

apparently, my daughter told me I was hit by half a dozen or so bottles, but never felt them. They were empty plastic bottles thrown into the air in a Mexican wave.

hardly missiles ??