Booing - Seriously, harden up

[Shane Heard]

Freo fans are taking it to another level in this gave v dogs...a boo-a-thon..3qrt time siren and an avalanche of booing.

But so ####ing what.

Booing is part of our crazy game.

It allows people to express their disgust in something.

It’s better than throwing full cans of beer over the fence like they did every week at Victoria Park back in the day.

 

[boltsbabyblues]

It'd be great if he punched another Freo player. Yeah he'd cop weeks but he'd be a legend forever

yeh! maybe he could try it on an adult this time, not a kid that's a family friend lol

 

[TBoyleSuperstar]

Exactly right. It gives the media something to pretend to be outraged by and guarantee stories for weeks to come. It's funny, really, in the NBA the players welcome being booed as it's usually the better players who cop it. It's almost a badge of honour to them.

Exactly.
But our media look at it like
Goodes.....don’t know why they are booing...he’s indigenous, it must be racist
Ablett.....don’t know why they are booing....recently liked a homophobic post...that’s why they are booing.
Never the thought that maybe, just maybe, we boo them cause they are good players.

Ironically, it was the media beat up about Abletts liking of the post that bought it to everyone’s attention

 

[Supercoach Bargain]

Next thing, stop the losing sides supporters moaning about umpiring.

 

[sr36]

If people want to boo then go nuts. Nothing will stop the booers and highlighting it in the media will just make it worse. But in my view people who boo at former players being traded, umpires or great players are fragile babies who lack the capacity to emotionally regulate their primitive feelings and experiences. They essentially turn into prehistoric humans reacting from their primitive parts of the brain. It's like the evolutionary development of the frontal lobe just does not exist when they scan their ticket and are confronted with the terrifying experience of witnessing an AFL player who used to play for your club running around for another club.

I agree with you, but there's no logic to supporting a football team, it's a primitive emotional connection. Why would you care about who wins and enjoy going to the footy if you didn't go into this state and enjoy going into this state?

 

[sr36]

Next thing, stop the losing sides supporters moaning about umpiring.

I think the real issue is that we keep score. If we didn't record the scores, no-one would lose, get upset and boo.

 

[Angus Young]

Have we become so overly sensitive as a generation that highly paid footballers being booed during a game is this much of a talking point?

yes...over sensitive, feminist culture... horrible.

 

[Cold Sober]

Boooing is just racist. It’s a form of white supremacy.

 

[canny30]

I boo Arts students

It's a precious society out there, the AFL want to run a competition based on how they'd like it to be, not as it really is....
Contrary to popular belief, psychology wasn't just some bullshit UNI course we all took to make us think we could analyze why our dumb friends were doing the dumb things they do and why we followed them? Have you ever come home after a night on the piss, looked in the mirror and said to yourself "You stupid dumb !@#$%!"?.

Actually if used correctly and if you bothered to listen in those classes , it turns out psychology has been a useful tool in teaching us all sorts of really interesting stuff about humanity. And also some really disturbing things as well, one of which is, unified crowd control. You are never ever going to get 90 thousand people attend a sporting event with half in attendance having an opposing view from the other all being nice and chummy! The problem on Anzac Day is they parade a bloke out after the game to accept an award when fans are still emotionally charged, it's a recipe for disaster. Simply do not subject the player to that awkwardness...The build up and respect given prior to the start of the game is sufficient enough, but the AFL are putting on a game of football and for over 120 years fans have booed something that has gone on in that game of football! The booing was directed at the umpires or Dylan Shiel's poor disposal! Nobody is going to a game like that and just sit there quietly without getting all emotional about the result. It's what footy fans do....did anyone notice Eddie's passion in the dying minutes when the cameras crossed over to him in the stands? He was going ballistic and that's absolutely fine, he was barracking for his team. I wonder how many times he booed the Umpires when he used to go to Victoria Park?

 

[juss]

Booing is just another gripe of the constantly offended. Its 2019, someone always has a problem with something.

 

[Billy ray]

Sooo has this made espn or bbc or cnn news yet and are they rightfully confused?

 

[BlueWaterHawk]

I don't think there are enough threads on this topic, might go and start me a new one!

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[Brutalitops]

It’s better than throwing full cans of beer over the fence like they did every week at Victoria Park back in the day.

Remember that game when Jacko Jackson started pegging them back?

 

[Foucault1989]

I agree with you, but there's no logic to supporting a football team, it's a primitive emotional connection. Why would you care about who wins and enjoy going to the footy if you didn't go into this state and enjoy going into this state?

100% agree. I went to the netball yesterday with my girlfriend and whilst I enjoyed the game I noticed pretty quickly that I was the only person questioning the referee decisions and heckling the opposition captain on several occasions (not loud and screaming just at normal talking voice). I tell you what though the netball mums and daughters in the row in front did not appreciate hearing "you're a hack Gabi Simpson" or "that's soft she barely touched her... How about Lizzy Watson getting shoved that you conveniently missed last quarter ". I was getting serious greasies all over the place.

After the game my girlfriend asked me why I acted like an idiot to which I replied that if I didn't act like that I couldn't get into the game and enjoy it. I needed an enemy to pit against my team and someone to vent frustration on to solidify my unwavering dedication to the Melbourne vixens for an hour and a half.

Apparently that's weird and no one does that at the netball....

 

[Vindicater]

The media will cause this to become a major thing. Expect booing every game from now on.

 

[Bigjobss]

Boooing is just racist. It’s a form of white supremacy.

Don't forget it is the patriarchy too, why dont women get boo'd? I demand an enquiry into the boo gap.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

the more it gets talked about, the more it'll happen.

Nothing surer. I reckon that's what most of the booing directed at Adam Goodes was in the end. The more people got told not to do it, the more people joined in and did.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Don't forget it is the patriarchy too, why dont women get boo'd? I demand an enquiry into the boo gap.

Do they boo at AFLW matches? I've never watched enough of one to notice.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Instead of booing can’t people act like adults and hurl abuse/swear/racism etc.?

How about throwing darts and sharpened coins?

 

[sobrave]

The guy left Brisbane because of Rockliff. Your mob then recruited Rockliff and he left the first opportunity. That's more telling of Rockliff's character that Polec would rather go to a club like North than stay at Port.

He left because north offered him a monster deal we didn't want to match

 

[Cold Sober]

God forgive anyone game enough to boo at a womens match, bloody hell, you'd be drawn and quartered in public.

 

[sandeano]

"Starker, zis is KAOS. Ve don't boo here"

 

[Bigjobss]

Do they boo at AFLW matches? I've never watched enough of one to notice.

I can only assume not but like you havent paid much attention.
Could you imagine the media shitstorm if a bunch of blokes bood during an AFLW game?

 

[Lyttelton Ranger]

If as a collective, we accept that booing is OK then I'd like to see booing taken to the next level. Some things that should be booed are:

1. All clangers committed by first gamers
2. Erin Phillips carelessly doing her ACL in the recent AFLW final
3. Crying babies and their mothers on airplanes
4. Church goers
5. Old people in nursing homes
6. Kids who don't make the podium of a colouring in contest
7. Charity muggers in shopping malls

The list goes on. When it comes to the graceful art of booing, it's either full blown anarchy or a vicar's tea party .... you decide

 

[AndyLucimitis]

As usual these debates morph off into something else.

My take is no one is saying it's unacceptable to boo players or umpires during a game.

The issue people had on Thursday was Essendon fans booing during Scott Pendlebury's acceptance speech.


Stick to the topic - the question is are people happy to boo a player whilst he's receiving an award ?