No Oppo Supporters OPPOSITION OBSERVATION XXXVI

[Tiger Toffee]

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

Seems the pampered generation need to be taught this because it seems like words do hurt them.

 

[Punt rd end]

God he was ******* awful on Big Brother

Didn't watch big brother

 

[Coach_Required]

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

Seems the pampered generation need to be taught this because it seems like words do hurt them.

That was the case when we didnt have the internet, social media and mobile phones. These days bullying online and racial slurs linger for longer and cause more damage.

I hate with a passion being told what to do and how to act as a supporter (regarding booing) but there is a line people shouldn't cross, race and religion for a start.

 

[tigerwill]

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

Seems the pampered generation need to be taught this because it seems like words do hurt them.

Boooooo!
Hoooooooo!

 

[Punt rd end]

Boooooo!
Hoooooooo!

 

[Tiger_4_Life]

Mate, we have boo'd Buddy for years. The Conca game was one such game. Collingwood wasn't a one off there.

Mate, we have boo'd Buddy for years. The Conca game was one such game. Collingwood wasn't a one off there.

Yeah but this one felt different from Collingwood this year... It's only coz they're up and about. Like I said previously, they booed dusty this year.

I personally don't think it's racially driven either.

They're w***ers the pies supporters, and if there's a team that needs to tread very carefully when it comes to treading a racist line, the pies are best to err on the side of caution and stfu.

 

[captain blood 17]

Yeah but this one felt different from Collingwood this year... It's only coz they're up and about. Like I said previously, they booed dusty this year.

I personally don't think it's racially driven either.

They're w***ers the pies supporters, and if there's a team that needs to tread very carefully when it comes to treading a racist line, the pies are best to err on the side of caution and stfu.

Was everyone who boo'd Goodes a racist? No. Was there some people who started attending games to racially boo Goodes? Yes there was. Unfortunately, no one can guess the motives of why people do it at the point in time.
But the one thing you can't do is paint with a broad brush stroke and label everyone who does a certain thing. Boo'ing has been a part of a sporting landscape since Adam was a boy. I think Collingwood apologising is the wrong thing to do and could actually further stoke divisive behaviours.

 

[NaturalDisaster]

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

Seems the pampered generation need to be taught this because it seems like words do hurt them.

This myth was debunked years ago. Recent research has shown some words can hurt way more, and can stick with you where as broken bones heal.
(Btw im talking verbal abuse in general, not nessecarily booing)

 

[All Aust]

Yeah but this one felt different from Collingwood this year... It's only coz they're up and about. Like I said previously, they booed dusty this year.

I personally don't think it's racially driven either.

They're w***ers the pies supporters, and if there's a team that needs to tread very carefully when it comes to treading a racist line, the pies are best to err on the side of caution and stfu.

Definite LOL emoji too for getting CB17 in Stereo... CB17 FM. He he he.

 

[Tiger_4_Life]

Was everyone who boo'd Goodes a racist? No. Was there some people who started attending games to racially boo Goodes? Yes there was. Unfortunately, no one can guess the motives of why people do it at the point in time.
But the one thing you can't do is paint with a broad brush stroke and label everyone who does a certain thing. Boo'ing has been a part of a sporting landscape since Adam was a boy. I think Collingwood apologising is the wrong thing to do and could actually further stoke divisive behaviours.

To answer your first question, no they weren't but where it started and where it finished for Goodes was different and it took on very racist undertones.

Don't think im brushing anyone with a broad brush either, just think that this booing garbage has elevated this year and over the last few weeks and it doesn't really make any sense

 

[Karp3_dm]

I’m going Friday night just to Boo the dog Stewart

Come at me AFL woke police
Suck my booing balls

 

[Punt rd end]

I’m going Friday night just to Boo the dog Stewart

Come at me AFL woke police
Suck my booing balls

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I can't go Friday boooooo first game I've missed in over a year

 

[captain blood 17]

To answer your first question, no they weren't but where it started and where it finished for Goodes was different and it took on very racist undertones.

Don't think im brushing anyone with a broad brush either, just think that this booing garbage has elevated this year and over the last few weeks and it doesn't really make any sense

Absolutely by the end of the Goodes saga there was a racial overtone for sure. Agree 100%.
My brush comment wasn’t aimed at you fyi. It was a generalised statement. And the boo’ing stuff has come into the forefront of a few imaginations since the Goodes issue.
But, not all booers are racist. But some racists unfortunately do hide behind it.

 

[Tiger Toffee]

This myth was debunked years ago. Recent research has shown some words can hurt way more, and can stick with you where as broken bones heal.
(Btw im talking verbal abuse in general, not nessecarily booing)

I was bullied late primary into early high school so i know all about words, it didn't bother me to an extent as i just got sick of the abuse and teasing that was coming from all angles ( is that the same thing i don't know ) and racially abused a black dude and i mean full throttle, never been ashamed of it because i did it to stop the verbal abuse/teasing i was getting and stop it it did. I never did it ever again.

Best part was when this kid and i went into mediation with a teacher he actually tried to justify why he and his swather of friends were teasing me, like they had a right too. Teacher was horrified and gave a dressing down and from that day on till we left that school, we never verbally abused each other again.

So that's my little story about verbal abuse/ racial abuse that i encountered.

 

[Rayzorwire]

True to form the AFL world tries putting out a fire by pouring petrol on it. This will turn into Goodes 2.0 now

Give it 2 weeks before they start running with the racism narrative even though it started in a game when they were also booing Papley. This country is f’d

So not only undeniably racists, but dwarfist kents too?

 

[Rayzorwire]

This myth was debunked years ago. Recent research has shown some words can hurt way more, and can stick with you where as broken bones heal.
(Btw im talking verbal abuse in general, not nessecarily booing)

Taking it you've never broken any bones?

And somehow never heard one of the millions of people who have complain that it never healed the same?

The analogy is as bad as the fact checking spiel.*



*Recent research has shown that any time in recent years you hear "myth", "debunk" and "recent research" in the same sentence, odds on you're about to served a steaming pile of BS attempting to warp reality using appropriately authoritative tones.

 

[Groupie_]

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

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mitch owens is the third best player in the entire league? i’m sorry what?

 

[kozi]

How much crack does the tribunal want to smoke. Newman cleared for that dog shot on Neale but they upheld a 2 week ban for a spoil running back with both eyes on the ball

Our game is in all sorts

 

[Nobby]

mitch owens is the third best player in the entire league? i’m sorry what?

Champion Data have some strange algorythms

 

[GhostofJimJess]

Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with booing buddy, and Collingwood fans suck.

But there was plenty that started the Goodes Booing, it didn't start out of nowhere. Whether it was right or wrong that's up to you, but it certainly went on for way too long. (Me personally, I don't think the Goodes saga was race driven, however I do concede that it allowed a very small % of people hide under sport to be racist).

Still doesn't tell me why nobody made a fuss for Stevie Milne?

I was sitting near the Richmond Grog Squad one Friday night when we played the Saints and every time Milne went near it they were chanting "No mean no! No means no!" Imagine Wilson, Cornes, Whateley etc visiting that conversation in the week afterwards nowadays.

FWIW, anyone who thinks the Buddy booing is about race is out of their mind. It's just classic tall poppy stuff, thrown in with a healthy sprinkle of groupthink and mindless conformity. If he'd knocked someone out, then it'd be open season imo, or if they were trying to putting him off his game, as the home crowd they were probably doing their job. But most of those Collingwood idiots were just joining in on a pile-on without any real reason why.

In the 2017 QF versus the Cats, whenever a Geelong defender - usually Tuohy or Stewart - took the kick out from a behind, they were booed by 50,000 Tiger supporters. It was just the crowd trying to become the 19th man ... might've even worked to be fair. It wasn't aimed at the individual Cats players - Shane Warne could've been playing for them that night and the MCG crowd would've booed the bejesus out of him, just to give the Tiges a little edge.

And there's a healthy tradition of former players who have left under seemingly disloyal motives being booed when they return to play against their former team. There's no problem with this - it's a rite of passage that most players would accept when switching clubs - and I'd think that most players would just suck it up for the rare road trip once a season at most. I also really like the way we've never booed Cholly, BEllis or Butler when they've come back to play us. All left with our blessing, and I'm thankful that our supporter base is generally smart enough to work this out. Higgins can pretty much GAGF though ... splitter!

Goodes, however, is a really different situation. The vitriole aimed at him completely took off directly after he called out that young bogun for her "ape" sledges. Fair enough too ... whoever was meant to be supervising her and educating her should've been ashamed of themselves for allowing it to get to that situation. It certainly wasn't a one-off - he'd put up with it for a fair while that match before finally pointing her out. Then the media drove the negative response by and large, by questioning Goodes' right to do the calling out, as if he knew the culprit was a 14 year old, and then subsequently turning the girl into the victim. When Goodes performed the "war dance" in a later match after being harassed by the crowd from the moment he ran onto the ground, the booing went into ridiculous overdrive. And any suggestions that it was mainly because he was a dirty player, like some people have tried to have us believe, are fanciful to say the least. He was no cleanskin, that's for sure, and a long long way from being my favourite player, but he was no worse than at least a few dozen other players around that time who threw their elbows/knees around or played for free kicks, yet never copped the booing Goodes did.

And I hope that Stewart gets a ******* earful every time he goes near the footy on Friday night, to just remind him never to act like a motherless thug towards any of our Tiger players ever again.

 

[aislegi]

Super win in the '95 George Ryder Stakes, beating some real good ones in Schillachi, March Hare, Pharaoh and a decent one called Mahogany.

Yes, he beat a crack field that day and, from memory, ran a race record but was later disqualified over a positive drug test

 

[aislegi]

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Who the f ck is Mitch Owens?

 

[Meteoric Rise]

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It seems the best player in the game right now is only the 6th best player in the game right now.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Champion Data have some strange algorythms

Very odd, like I can get behind the argument of the Bont being the best player in the league, I'd put Jez Cameron first myself but the Bont is a worthy first place. But whilst Owens has been great, it's a massive stretch to put in in the Top 10 let alone 3rd.