Geelong's fans booing the umpires

[Whiskers]

The Hird send off game was just a lucky chance to make eagles fans look good. Every team was being respectful towards the end. Everything was set up all nice and rosy to make you look good.

Every other game is where the eagles true fan base is. Definitely more feral than anywhere Inc Collingwood.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

I think the OP, though being a thinly veiled (if at all veiled) whinge, is accurate. Every team's supporters boo the umpires and naturally it comes across more at home games for interstate teams and Geelong, where it may as well be interstate. I'm an AFL member and go to a lot of games. Thus far I've been to four Collingwood games this season and three Carlton games (the most non-Geelong games I've gone to) and at each one of these their supporters have bronx cheered the umps "finally" giving them a free kick. With the Pies games, they've always been up by 5 goals!

The umpiring standard is deplorable, thus people boo, let alone when you get a crowd that's 80% for one team, of course they'll jeer anything that goes against them. I try not to personally but it happens. Anybody who claims their team's supporters don't jeer umpiring calls as much as the next is either lying or biased.

No veil at all. Quality post.

 

[Forward Press]

The Hird send off game was just a lucky chance to make eagles fans look good. Every team was being respectful towards the end. Everything was set up all nice and rosy to make you look good.

Every other game is where the eagles true fan base is. Definitely more feral than anywhere Inc Collingwood.

So if the Hird game was a 'lucky chance', then what do Eagles fans have to do to be the perfect fan? Politely clap our goals? Call for ball against our own players? Cancel the membership of anyone who boos?

 

[madfx]

The Hird send off game was just a lucky chance to make eagles fans look good. Every team was being respectful towards the end. Everything was set up all nice and rosy to make you look good.

Every other game is where the eagles true fan base is. Definitely more feral than anywhere Inc Collingwood.

yeah champ we changed our spots for 15 minutes just to look better in the eyes of the vics...

 

[bodazoka]

Has anyone actually been to a game before?? You all talk like you've never been to the footy before geez!

HTFU

 

[Whiskers]

Get back in your fishbowl eagle fans. It's pathetic you can use that Hird match to make yourselves look like an educated fan base.

 

[madfx]

Get back in your fishbowl eagle fans. It's pathetic you can use that Hird match to make yourselves look like an educated fan base.

I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 10,000.

It's 9294

 

[Crankyhawk]

Free kick differential does not reflect quality of umpiring, at either end if the table.

Free kick differential reflects the fans perception of the quality of umpiring and gives the average passionate supporter "justification" to say that the umpires were against them and to highlight individual errors that the fan believes were made.

That said, can't understand what WCE supporters would be mad about given their free kick differential ...

 

[canny30]

Christ Eagles supporters are gimps....had the misfortune of living there for 2 years and the difference between Eagles and Dockers fans is that Freo fans actually know what they are watching.

 

[Jeeves]

Lewis was probably the second-dirtiest player I have ever seen. His favourite hobby was flying knees-first into players who were already on the ground. Nice guy.

He had to put up with a lot of crap that was either ignored or silently encouraged by a lot of people. Thank god times have changed and players don't have to put up with this shit any longer.

Lewis, an inaugural selection in 1987, was a wonderful player. Skilful, balanced and free. He was a joy to watch. He became just the second Indigenous player, behind Winmar, to reach the 200-game mark and would doubtless have reached the milestone first had suspension not been meted out to him so regularly. When the opposition, bereft of ideas to dull his influence physically, tormented him verbally.

In many of those instances when he was stood down from the game, Lewis was reacting to racist taunts. Jibes that 15 years ago were seen as “part of the game.” When the culture of dismissing such insulting taunts by insisting that ‘what happens on the ground, stays on the ground’ was acceptable.

Yes, in the last 12 years the AFL has changed in many ways, but perhaps the most positive and significant, is that around the zero tolerance of vilification of any kind. The AFL was light years ahead of other sporting organisations in devising its racial vilification laws.

It came a little too late for some, but if anything can be gained from the hurt endured by Lewis and others, then it has to be that the current - and future - generation need not endure that abuse.

 

[Copernicus]

The umpiring was pretty bemusing I thought, didn't really think it was a big surprise that the Geelong locals were booing the umps after feeling as though they were shafted to a degree. 28-15 Port's way - imagine if that were the case at Subi? I imagine the Eagles fans would be going off their nut, but fortunately for them I don't think they have too much to worry about.

 

[Koki Freelander]

The trip from Young on Johnson was massive, though. One of the worst non-decisions I've seen.

The crowd demands that every slightly high contact is a free yet scream bloody murder when the same interpretation is applied to the opposition. But that is what a good home crowd should do so I have no problem with it. That makes the Geelong crowd an effective crowd IMHO

 

[SJ]

The crowd demands that every slightly high contact is a free yet scream bloody murder when the same interpretation is applied to the opposition. But that is what a good home crowd should do so I have no problem with it. That makes the Geelong crowd an effective crowd IMHO

In recent years, the Geelong home crowd has become one of the tamest there is. Often you won't hear a 'roar' the entire day.

 

[LongBomb]

Are you sure they were not booing the players?
The Geelong board is pretty funny at the moment. Listening to some supporters you would think we have the worst team in the comp.

 

[Ron The Bear]

Here's a different side to Geelong supporters.

YOUNG men in Geelong are significantly more violent when the Cats win.

People are 39 per cent more likely to end up in the emergency department as a result of an assault on days when the Geelong Football Club won, research by Deakin University's School of Psychology found.
...
"Interestingly, we did not find an association with alcohol. It didn't matter if the Cats were playing at home or away - the important issue is if they were winning or losing."
...
"We now need to try to identify the people who are turning up, either victims or assailants, and find out what their issues are," Prof Miller said.

Violence flares after Cats win

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Geelong fans booing the umps?

Well I never.

Seriously though, given the run Geelong has had since 07, it's surprising to see them upset at the umps at any time really.

 

[tazhawk]

Geelong fans booing the umps?

Well I never.

Seriously though, given the run Geelong has had since 07, it's surprising to see them upset at the umps at any time really.

Was about to post the exact same thing.

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[Cousin of Daicos]

Was about to post the exact same thing.

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Don't get me wrong, all supporters whine about the umpires.

I'd say Hawthron and Collingwood more than most, but at least Collingwood and Hawthorn have the stats to back up the whining. Probably the two clubs who have the received the least frees over the last 4 or 5 years. I know we're 18th for frees received right now (last I checked).

 

[The 747]

He had to put up with a lot of crap that was either ignored or silently encouraged by a lot of people. Thank god times have changed and players don't have to put up with this shit any longer.

Sorry but thats no excuse. There was more than one indigenous player in the AFL at the time, the others didnt resort to biting their opponents or other things Lewis did. He was a dirty player, whether black or white is irrelevant.
To the OP, any ground where the majority of supporters are for one team you will hear the umpires being booed. Sometimes both teams supporters boo the umpires.

 

[DTRAIN87]

Was about to post the exact same thing.

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No you weren't. Such a post is too intelligent for you to post.

 

[Pat_Footy]

With Steve J, Chapman and Bartel all playing for frees since 2007, no wonder they have had the green. The umps are cracking down finally and the fans don't like it....

 

[DTRAIN87]

With Steve J, Chapman and Bartel all playing for frees since 2007, no wonder they have had the green. The umps are cracking down finally and the fans don't like it....

ROFL West Coast in Perth since 1987 Board!!!

 

[The Karma Bus]

Don't get me wrong, all supporters whine about the umpires.

I'd say Hawthron and Collingwood more than most, but at least Collingwood and Hawthorn have the stats to back up the whining. Probably the two clubs who have the received the least frees over the last 4 or 5 years. I know we're 18th for frees received right now (last I checked).

Adelaide have had more frees for than frees against in 1 year of the last 9 years..

 

[newcs]

Here's a different side to Geelong supporters.



Violence flares after Cats win

A common problem in Geelong, that may contribute to this is that some locals are very territorial. They might go into the city after the game to celebrate the win, everyone could be happily drinking and talking together in the pub/nightclub until one person mentions that he lives in Corio and the other person mentions he lives in Belmont, then all hell would break loose.

However there is nothing in that article that says that the offenders are Geelong supporters, they could quite easily be p----- off opposition supporters trying to cause trouble.
Secondly, It said the study was done over 5 years to Feb 2010, in that time Geelong's win/loss ratio was 88 won / 32 lost, I wouldn't classify the data they used as evenly balanced and reliable for such a comparison.

(P.S. apoligies if I offended anyone from Belmont or Corio, they're both good suburbs but it's well known they don't get along, I could have easily said Norlane/Newcomb , Whittington/Wandana Heights etc etc.)

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Adelaide have had more frees for than frees against in 1 year of the last 9 years..

Not the same as having the least actual number of frees paid to you. I mean, Lance Franklin has a lot paid against him too, but that's because he gives away stupid frees.

Doesn't change the fact that he doesn't get a lot that he should now does? Cloke cops it even worse. Cloke should be asking these defenders for dinner before f**king starts.

But then, we weren't really talking about Adelaide in here.