We often criticise the poor behaviour of some bulldogs supporters so I feel if we do so for one we do so for all. Below I included a post made in the panthers forum about the behaviour of some fans at the Manly vs Penrith game yesterday. I was not there so don't know the accuracy of the comments.
However given that their is a full thread on the issue at the offical panthers forum with several different people confirming such behaviour it would seem to be accurate. If bulldogs fans are going to be subject to scrutiny it is only fair that the clowns at other ground are as well.
Yep......PK has been informed correctly. I was one of the group that was spat on repeatedly during the match.
These animals turned up just before the first grade game started, already drunk, and never stopped drinking through the entire game, and they started their abuse from the minute they arrived.
There were two separate bunches of wanker drunken Manly fans standing behind our group, and every one of them kept leaning in towards us during the entire match, and purposely screaming directly in our ears, and spitting all over us because they were so drunk they were unable to speak without spit flying everywhere.
They screamed and swore at the ref every minute of the game. They were screaming foul racial obscenities at Wesser and Presto every single time either of them touched the ball. Almost every time one of our players had the ball they were screaming out for their players to break our players legs.
They were leaning in behind my chair and screaming 2 inches from my ear that I was f......n filthy westie scum, that my team was f....ked, that you westie scum are all dole bludging a....holes, and so many other obscenities that it's not worth even mentioning them.
They were also calling Gower a pedophile. At one stage I was told that I could f...k off, my family could f...k off, and we filthy f.....n westie scum could drop dead. And F...k off back to penrith you f.......n scumbags.
I did not say one single word to any of these animals through the entire match, until the last couple of minutes when I screamed at them and said "f...k off you animals, get away from me" because I could not stand any more of it. I was shaking and ended up with a migraine headache.
And seeing as I had not spoken to any of them, or even looked in their directgion, there is no way that I could be accused of having provoked them, as I was too scared to even open my mouth out loud. Whenever I wanted to speak to my friends I just leant in and whispered to them. I did not even open my mouth at any stage to cheer on my team as I was too scared as to how much more abuse I would cop if I did.
And no, I did not report them to security because, for one, we were totally outnumbered by them, and two, they started to push on the back of my chair half a dozen times like they were trying to tip me out of my chair, and then sarcastically whining...."oops I'm sorry".....and then saying f....k off home westie scumbags.....and by that stage I was too scared to dob them in to anyone. Who knows what they would have done next if I had.
I thought I might just point out that this disgusting vile crap was coming from the mouths of animals of both genders in their twenties. Just for the record, I am a 46 year old female, who kept my mouth shut, and minded my own business, and I did not deserve the filth and abuse that was being thrown at me, and neither did any of my friends. Our only crime was to be sitting at their ground wearing an opposition team jersey.
Rhino and his wife, along with 4 other friends of ours, were also copping the same kind of abuse from another bunch of manly animals that were standing closer to them, and these animals were pushing on their chairs, and spitting on them as well.
Rhino also had the ropes that hold up his Panther Power banner burned through so that the banner fell down, and they made sure that they burned them in the middle so they could not be used again and had to be thrown away.
And btw, Rhino also has a baby and a toddler and he was very fearful for their safety and very angry at the filth that they were exposed to.
I can tell you for a fact that I have never, in all the years that I have been attending away games as far away as Canberra, Wollongong and Newcastle (Unfortunately I can't afford to go to NZ or interstate), I have NEVER been scared for my physical safety before.......and that includes Bulldogs games.......but I sure as hell was this time around.
In earlier years at Brookvale, abuse was no worse than most other grounds, but in the last 3 years or so, it has been getting steadily worse, and they have now overtaken the Bulldogs for disgusting behaviour.
I will definitely be emailing, and snail mailing both the Manly gorund manager, and the NRL head office. I hope that someone puts a stop to this before it gets any more out of hand.
Yesterday all around was by far the most miserable day that I have ever spent at a league match, and I hope that I never have to suffer through another one like it ever again.
One thing is for sure, I will NEVER EVER go near Brookvale oval again.
