Review Rd 22 Review - Freo Do Enough to Win over WC

[muckypup]

Why not watch the game and get enjoyment from that? Ride the emotions and cheer and chant yourself. If no one else joins in or follows you, so be it, don't get hung up on what others are doing.

Sounds good in theory ..

 

[muckypup]

That's interesting, all depends on your perspective I guess as I went to a few games (Including a derby) and never once felt unsafe.

I get that the nuances of the sports are different and the game flows a different way ect, there would still be room for more crowd involvement IMO (after goals especially).

FFS you can barely get a Freo chant going these days

You need a group of like minded supporters in the same area.

 

[estibador]

The TV coverage must've had fake sound then.

Yeah sounded plenty loud on tv to me.

 

[Kram]

Footy gentrification. The boozed-up yobbos have been priced out.

Heading to the 2015 PF when there was a group of dudes on the train knocking off beers from a couple of 6 packs under the seat I knew it was going to be an interesting night.

 

[anchor man]

Yeah sounded plenty loud on tv to me.

It was loud at the game. Very loud.

 

[BStaff17]

Heading to the 2015 PF when there was a group of dudes on the train knocking off beers from a couple of 6 packs under the seat I knew it was going to be an interesting night.

Yeah some idiots gave the freo fans a bad look that night.

I get we lost and everyone was gutted but there was no excuse for some of the behaviour that night from some clowns at the game.

Crowd violence spoils Subi atmosphere

VIOLENT crowd incidents have marred the Fremantle-Hawthorn preliminary final, including a drunk fan who struck a woman. WARNING: Graphic language

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[Spirit Level]

You need a group of like minded supporters in the same area.

Yes exactly, some type of "cheer squad" to get the chants going

 

[GoFreo4eva]

That was Noddy's fault.

I agree he was a contributor as he should have been screaming at Chapman that he was hot but that does not excuse Chappy’s lack of awareness entirely…

 

[GoFreo4eva]

Mate. Infiltrate the cheer squad and blow it up from the inside.. they are wet flannels..
I would be there with you if I lived in Perth.
Our crowd used to be the best, I think we are only above gold coast and gws now.
We suck ..

Yeah nah…

 

[Madas]

Mate. Infiltrate the cheer squad and blow it up from the inside.. they are wet flannels..
I would be there with you if I lived in Perth.
Our crowd used to be the best, I think we are only above gold coast and gws now.
We suck ..

It’s true and I hate it
Majority only cheer for goals or boo umpire calls

FFS take a leaf out of Collingwoods book
They know how to lift their team

I think a very big portion of the crowd aren’t footy people , it’s just entertainment for them .
Or they are so old and broken they don’t know how to cheer anymore

I don’t know what it is but it sucks

When the voice is there it’s bloody loud , it’s just too selective.

End of rant
Carn dockers !!!

 

[mightymouse75]

The TV coverage must've had fake sound then.

Must have set up the mics where the noise was. Heard a couple of half chants n the 4th quarter.
From the freo 50m line, front of the top stand..
To many nannas and freagles

 

[mightymouse75]

It’s true and I hate it
Majority only cheer for goals or boo umpire calls

FFS take a leaf out of Collingwoods book
They know how to lift their team

I think a very big portion of the crowd aren’t footy people , it’s just entertainment for them .
Or they are so old and broken they don’t know how to cheer anymore

I don’t know what it is but it sucks

When the voice is there it’s bloody loud , it’s just too selective.

End of rant
Carn dockers !!!

We need Jeff farmer back.. he used to lift us.

 

[tacopavlich]

I think a very big portion of the crowd aren’t footy people , it’s just entertainment for them .
Or they are so old and broken they don’t know how to cheer anymore

I don’t know what it is but it sucks

Probably because gen Z have so much access to entertainment that football fanatics are going to become less common over time.

 

[Madas]

Probably because gen Z have so much access to entertainment that football fanatics are going to become less common over time.

It’s true
My 2 teenagers love and play footy but aren’t too fussed if they miss a game of AFL .
Always distracted on their devices when they do watch .
In saying that though It’s actually quite encouraging that there are a lot of young crew at the games and they are pretty vocal.
It’s more the old farts that shit me and there are a lot of them , they barely say anything other than to whinge about the umpires or comment how bad we are playing.
Maybe it’s just my mum and all the old farts in the block where we sit
I don’t think the cheer squad is as good as it used to be .
No songs
No chants
Not much banners and flags .

It could be worse , we could be GWS or Gold Coast , that’s just sad .

 

[muckypup]

Yes exactly, some type of "cheer squad" to get the chants going

It has to be loose. Just a block number where things can get going.

 

[ignoramus]

Generally not one for being polemical on these boards, but there's so much horse sh*t being spewed over these last couple of pages, I can't restrain myself.

There was PLENTY of cheering and chants on Sat. No idea what game you were at not to notice it. Maybe your hearing is going in your old age? Were you not caught up in the Mundy chant ringing around the stadium in the fourth?

I concede that crowd wasn't the most vocal it could possibly have been, and it has certainly been more vocal before, not just way back "in the good ol' days" of Subi, but also routinely in the years since (even, sometimes especially, in the half-filled stadiums of the low years and 2020). But as others have pointed out, 17 behinds against a barely WAFL quality side is hardly fuel to fire enthusiastic celebration and fanatic screaming.

Then we get an argument that so many spectators are fickle and hard-to-please because of too much entertainment presented alongside calls for stupid sing-a-longs and other distractions from what's happening on the ground, because ... why? the game isn't enough entertainment for you?

And — seeing as I've gone this far, outed myself as a crank and set myself up to earn a thumbs down or ten — I might as well add this: all you Mexican wave instigators and supporters just feck off please! I've paid good money to come watch my team play football, not to see you bouncing up in front of me when nothing specific on the field has happened to warrant it.

 

[anchor man]

THe noise was at the stadium.
I was there, it was noisy, very noisy.
Some people may need hearing aids I think.

Must have set up the mics where the noise was. Heard a couple of half chants n the 4th quarter.
From the freo 50m line, front of the top stand..
To many nannas and freagles

 

[GingerDocker]

Generally not one for being polemical on these boards, but there's so much horse sh*t being spewed over these last couple of pages, I can't restrain myself.

There was PLENTY of cheering and chants on Sat. No idea what game you were at not to notice it. Maybe your hearing is going in your old age? Were you not caught up in the Mundy chant ringing around the stadium in the fourth?

I concede that crowd wasn't the most vocal it could possibly have been, and it has certainly been more vocal before, not just way back "in the good ol' days" of Subi, but also routinely in the years since (even, sometimes especially, in the half-filled stadiums of the low years and 2020). But as others have pointed out, 17 behinds against a barely WAFL quality side is hardly fuel to fire enthusiastic celebration and fanatic screaming.

Then we get an argument that so many spectators are fickle and hard-to-please because of too much entertainment presented alongside calls for stupid sing-a-longs and other distractions from what's happening on the ground, because ... why? the game isn't enough entertainment for you?

And — seeing as I've gone this far, outed myself as a crank and set myself up to earn a thumbs down or ten — I might as well add this: all you Mexican wave instigators and supporters just feck off please! I've paid good money to come watch my team play football, not to see you bouncing up in front of me when nothing specific on the field has happened to warrant it.

 

[Wilksyy]

Probably because gen Z have so much access to entertainment that football fanatics are going to become less common over time.

Pfft, Zoomers.

 

[Paracleet]

The energy in this thread

 

[ubiquitous226]

Generally not one for being polemical on these boards, but there's so much horse sh*t being spewed over these last couple of pages, I can't restrain myself.

There was PLENTY of cheering and chants on Sat. No idea what game you were at not to notice it. Maybe your hearing is going in your old age? Were you not caught up in the Mundy chant ringing around the stadium in the fourth?

I concede that crowd wasn't the most vocal it could possibly have been, and it has certainly been more vocal before, not just way back "in the good ol' days" of Subi, but also routinely in the years since (even, sometimes especially, in the half-filled stadiums of the low years and 2020). But as others have pointed out, 17 behinds against a barely WAFL quality side is hardly fuel to fire enthusiastic celebration and fanatic screaming.

Then we get an argument that so many spectators are fickle and hard-to-please because of too much entertainment presented alongside calls for stupid sing-a-longs and other distractions from what's happening on the ground, because ... why? the game isn't enough entertainment for you?

And — seeing as I've gone this far, outed myself as a crank and set myself up to earn a thumbs down or ten — I might as well add this: all you Mexican wave instigators and supporters just feck off please! I've paid good money to come watch my team play football, not to see you bouncing up in front of me when nothing specific on the field has happened to warrant it.

Love a good Mexican wave

 

[FreoRicci]

Oh don’t worry about noise.
The home final will be huge, electric. Biggest home final crowd ever coming up. Fans have been waiting patiently for this moment

 

[bruzaar62]

Love a good Mexican wave

Maybe during test cricket or soccer where you have large amounts of boring play it’s good for the crowd but during a game of AFL it’s just fricken annoying

 

[Yeti]

Oh don’t worry about noise.
The home final will be huge, electric. Biggest home final crowd ever coming up. Fans have been waiting patiently for this moment

 

[Paracleet]

Oh don’t worry about noise.
The home final will be huge, electric. Biggest home final crowd ever coming up. Fans have been waiting patiently for this moment

Should be close to 60000 and without most of the 6/7/8000 Freagles in the crowd.