Rusty
Bencher
Duff said:Manly To Win! said:Duff said:The enemy is the enemy. If an opposition kid is made to cry, good. If an opposition fan is beat up by security, good. If an opposition fans plans to have a day at the footy are ruined, well good.
that is one of the stupidest things I've ever read. How would you feel if this happened to you and how is that kind of thinking going to help Manly and the NRL progress?
Did you read the rest of my post?
Going to an opposition ground is at least naughty, at most an act of hostility.
To say it again, i am a regular traveller. I went to probably more than 20 games last year given we went all the way.
The opposition fans are our enemies. Think about what you don't want to happen to you, that is what you want to happen to them.
The players do battle on one side of the fence, we have the other. Read a public forum if you want to get fired up. Other supporters hate you and me equally. If you want them to get away with it, that's your choice. I don't, so they can eat a bag of dicks. If you dare to support a different team to me, you get what i give you. If you wont join in, it's your choice.
If they hate us for being who we are, then brother, you better believe i hate them.
f**k the enemy. Let'em get what's coming.
I am all for tribalism, or for the us v them mentality. But the NRL is a professional sport, and it would die if every game became an exclusive one supporter type only event. There is no life in a supporter group that doesn't have an opposition. Games would become timid affairs with a tennis like personality if only one side was represented, and people would be turned off if they could only see their team at home.
You might like the idea of locking opposition fans out of Brookvale, I don't. Better to let them in and rub their faces in the humiliation that comes with driving an hour to see your team lose to the mighty sea eagles. As I say I have been to many, many away games, and I expect to be given **** if we go down, even if we don't. Its not for the weak at heart, and that's fine, but if you cut that experience out than core supporter groups don't thrive and the code will become 'gentrified' and dull.
If its a one off then the NRL might ignore the problem, but mark my words if it happens time and time again, they will have to step in and create a system that allows at least some away fans access. Its the only way to ensure that the contest (Between the fans) remains filled with life.
Its in no-ones interest for stadiums to be full of one sided crowds, we want them full, but if clubs can't fit in at least some opposition fans than they should be forced to expand their grounds or move somewhere bigger. Its as simple as that.
BTW The Tigers have allowed Sharks members to buy some of the remaining tickets, which is fair. What they have done by playing this game, s Syd v Syd affair in the smallest of the three venues available to them is highlight the problem to the NRL.
I predict that it will begin a push for the NRL to assume powers to force games away from suburban venues when they will be over capacity. When that happens to us, we only have the Tigers to thank.