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Cburn were brilliant. I went as a neutral onlooker. Stood in front of those water tanks at the clubroom end. What i saw today they r a better side than DS in this div last year. HS had a great first 1/4 really matched it with Cburn. After that Cburn just left them in their wake. Clean, tough, structured, skillful, disciplined and class. HS are on the right track but simply the best team won on the day and by a fair margin. It was a well contested game but the best side clearly won. One of HS guns #12 who was outstanding all day playing forward and back was badly injured with about 1 min to go in the last 1/4. He was in a terrible way and the teams called it a day at this point. Good call as the game was done. Just an incident in play no ones at fault at all. My only negative observation was a Cburn supporter yelling out too put up a screen and shoot him not really appropriate as this kid was badly injured. Even a CB player asked the supporters to refrain. Its a shame the on field professionalism shown by CBurn players hasn't rubbed off on a small minority of their supporter base. Some respect should be shown in what is a great game we all love. Polish a Turd!
I was at this game to have a look. CB way to strong and ran well out of defence by quick ball movement and hitting targets. Thought early on it might be a good contest but CB just to many good players and class all over the field. They should win the premiership by plenty but let's keep this in perspective that they are spending probably 2 or 3 times more than other clubs so they should win it. However I don't begrudge sides who have the $ to spend.
I must say I was disappointed in the behaviour of a small minority of the CB crowd when the young player was injured right near the end. As stated the incident was accidental but there was a concern for his well being. Great to hear a CB senior player tell another player to tell the supporters to pull their head in and give the player some respect. His only 19.
I got to watch some of the reserves game and during the 3rd quarter a CB player had a shot at goal and it brushed the post padding and was signalled a point by the volunteer HS umpire who was only 15 years old ( no offical goal umpires supplied for some reason) and the abuse he copped from the 8-10 adults including women where nothing short of disgraceful. Then they abused the water girl who came over and she was only about 14. I could see the HS crowd was none to happy with the treatment however were refrained enough to avoid what could have been an ugly incident. The HS president was there as well. Some of the CB forwards actually went over to the goal umpire and said good decision as it did brush the post and the field umpire also went over to the kid and gave him some support. I'm not sure why people including women act in this way and feel the need to abuse & swear at young kids when they were not in the correct position to see it anyhow.
The president of CB came over and stood a few metres away and the abuse seem to stop but he didn't talk to the group.
Even the CB senior players who were standing outside the change rooms appeared none to happy with hearing all this.
The senior game was played in good spirits however it appears the club just can't seem to control people from wrecking an afternoon at the footy. To hear this type of behaviour in vicinity of young children was an utter disgrace.
Now I'm sure some people will reply to my post but if you do that only tells me that you tolerate this type of stuff. I'm happy not to ever post on this div1 thread again if this is the last thing I write. I'm just disgusted and can only wonder what goes on at other games during the year. The club needs to be strong and get rid of these people improve there image.