Yet again i will make it simple for you guys 40,000 people urging each other as well as their team on, creates a mob mentality. Now in melb there are 2 opposing sets of the supporters at the ground hence the crowd reaction to intimdating umps is completely different. Also i invite you to check any ground in the AFL and see if ANY team has amazing stat of not losing a free counk count for a couple of YEARS. . Player stats, can be bloody useless IMHO. Bloke can rack up 40 possies playing “chip chip” and get BOG!
Eagles support the most intimidating - yeah right, and pigs fly. What did The late great George G use to call them? Chardonnay swillers. Dockers fans are more intimidating - they are hungrier after nigh on 20 years of underachieving. Collingwood and Richmond are the most feral by a country mile. Tigers fans in Melbourne just plain wierd looking - can barely string a sentence together.
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George loved everything WA,including the Eagles. He was the WA equivilant of Ted Whitten, loud mouthed, inaccurate, bully boy.
Yeah 50000 Pies suporters and 5000 Western Bulldogs,Melbourne,North melbourne supporters!!!Yeah thats 2 sets of supporters.
Mate i was in bay 13 at the “G” in the 80’s Collingwood V Melbourne you want to see mob mentality..on display that day all day by the balck and white army!!!
The lopsided crowd numbers Pies V 3 or so Melbourne clubs still exists.
Anyway i will let you know if things have changed,im going to Eagles V Collingwood At the G Friday 23rd August,reckon i will see first hand this mob mentality that you talk about.
You need to get over this thing you have with the Eagles and Subi oval or go out and by an Eagles membership and come out of the closet!!
Whatever typical ignorance, no one here has explained how the eags havent lost a free kick count in 2 years. you can bang on all ya like about opinions… but FACTS are FACTS, as the free kick count shows. Ive said it many times to 58shark, most decent and knowledagble fans in wa are die hard wafl fans. Ohh and if we take you so called “theory” a bulldogs v melbourne crowd would be 10,000 in total. Wonder if you would like to check last time a match with 2 melb teams pulled less than 25000. Nothing beats watching AFL in Melb
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Whatever typical ignorance, no one here has explained how the eags havent lost a free kick count in 2 years. you can bang on all ya like about opinions… but FACTS are FACTS, as the free kick count shows. [color=#ff0000]Ive said it many times to 58shark, most decent and knowledagble fans in wa are die hard wafl fans[/color]. Ohh and if we take you so called “theory” a bulldogs v melbourne crowd would be 10,000 in total. Wonder if you would like to check last time a match with 2 melb teams pulled less than 25000. Nothing beats watching AFL in Melb
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That statement nullifies any validity of your argument unk, unless of course you’re some sort of professional that has done ‘extensive’ studies on WCE fans. If not, it is no more than your opinion. Like I suggested before, get over this fetish of studying the ‘baying, howling’ WCE supporter and concentrate on the players on the field - it’ a lot less taxing on the heart. :lol:
It is interesting to listen and read the views expressed that the umpire was correct in awarding the free kick to the Eagles. However, as I have said many times we shouldn’t let the facts get in the way of a good story. The umpire was clearly and demonstrably wrong twice.
The first time he was wrong was when he didn’t award a free kick for the initial tackle which was marginally high and in all probability most times would not have been paid. Secondly, he was wrong when he awarded a high tackle for the second tackle which was clearly not high. The umpires’ department have suggested that he ‘misspoke’ when he said the second tackle was high. However, it is clear that the whistle did not get blown before the second tackle and was blown as a consequence of the second tackle. Not it surely is not possible that the umpire didn’t see either but guessed and we all know that umpires don’t guess, even when it would have only be possible to see the infringement if the umpire in question had zray eyes.
That statement nullifies any validity of your argument unk, unless of course you’re some sort of professional that has done ‘extensive’ studies on WCE fans. If not, it is no more than your opinion. Like I suggested before, get over this fetish of studying the ‘baying, howling’ WCE supporter and concentrate on the players on the field - it’ a lot less taxing on the heart. :lol:
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Still no reasonable explanations i see regarding never losing a free kick count here like “forever” i notice. As mentioned been to many many WAFL games and the understanding of the game amongst die hards is tremendous, heck they even lamb blast thier own players when they give away “obvious” frees. Something happened betwen WAFL fans and the 40,000 eagles fans that i dont undetstand! My perosnal Fav tho 58shark is when born and bred WA footy fans, still support thier original AFL team, and bemoan the the WCE fans. That is GOLD!
Still no reasonable explanations i see regarding never losing a free kick count here like “forever” i notice. As mentioned been to many many WAFL games and the understanding of the game amongst die hards is tremendous, heck they even lamb blast thier own players when they give away “obvious” frees. Something happened betwen WAFL fans and the 40,000 eagles fans that i dont undetstand! My perosnal Fav tho 58shark is when born and bred WA footy fans, still support thier original AFL team, and bemoan the the WCE fans. That is GOLD!
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And you won’t see me trying to explain the ‘free kick’ indifference. I’ve said it twice before unk, I don’t give a a rats about umpiring stats be it at Subi, MCG or Wyndham oval. I said what you get is what you get be it home or away - not worth fussing over coz it ain’t changing. People have whinged about the umps since forever. As for supporters of the game, I don’t give a rats about them providing they don’t overstep and start the rubbish we see in soccer, racism and the rest of the crap that goes on at ALL venues. If WCE supporters start the vilification, spitting etc, then I will hang my head in shame for them.