Status of bottle-throwing offenders ...

[Captain Kickass]

Here's the thing : At AFL games in recent years, if a racist yells out something objectionable, they're identified within a couple of days and memberships revoked and/or bans issued. The fans have decided enough is enough, and see to it that the person who brought disrepute to their club is dealt with.

So why haven't we identified our offenders yet ?
Have any been "spoken to" ???

Sure, there were 40,000 people there, but these were Cat1 members !
It's a small pool to identify people from. How many of them can there be ???

 

[ThePedigree]

One is actually seen on TV footage throwing a bottle in front of one of those rent-a-cops in front of the tunnel.

And there was a lot thrown from in front of the kennel too. Not just cat 1.

 

[Natboy]

Don't forget all the tight arses who sneak in to the members area haha. Sorry to all the people I just offended haha
The cameras are very good and people have been spoken to already.
I just fired a long email off to Ms Castle and am hoping I get a reply

 

[Indiandog]

Don't forget all the tight arses who sneak in to the members area haha. Sorry to all the people I just offended haha
The cameras are very good and people have been spoken to already.
I just fired a long email off to Ms Castle and am hoping I get a reply

mate interested/ curious to know the content of your email to castle.

 

[Natboy]

mate interested/ curious to know the content of your email to castle.

Mate just a lot of things that we have spoken about on here mainly the standard of refs and that is what is really turning fans away, the hell we have been through as fans, how teflon Todd is now treating us in a harsher manner to save himself from being called biased, how we support the club but NOT the NRL. I also mentioned Assassin's idea that we will be covering up the NRL logo on all of our merchandise with black tape as a protest. I rambled on a bit but I expect to get a response

 

[Indiandog]

Mate just a lot of things that we have spoken about on here mainly the standard of refs and that is what is really turning fans away, the hell we have been through as fans, how teflon Todd is now treating us in a harsher manner to save himself from being called biased, how we support the club but NOT the NRL. I also mentioned Assassin's idea that we will be covering up the NRL logo on all of our merchandise with black tape as a protest. I rambled on a bit but I expect to get a response

good job and hope you get a response.

 

[pillow]

Here's the thing : At AFL games in recent years, if a racist yells out something objectionable, they're identified within a couple of days and memberships revoked and/or bans issued. The fans have decided enough is enough, and see to it that the person who brought disrepute to their club is dealt with.

So why haven't we identified our offenders yet ?
Have any been "spoken to" ???

Sure, there were 40,000 people there, but these were Cat1 members !
It's a small pool to identify people from. How many of them can there be ???

Too many of our 'supporters' have the **** da police/problem with authority issue...

 

[The DoggFather]

Apparently they open up that section before full time to everyone so I guess that's why a delay in catching those stupid ****s

 

[ThePedigree]

Apparently they open up that section before full time to everyone so I guess that's why a delay in catching those stupid ****s

Cat 1 is opened to everyone before full time? I get my membership checked by security at the entrance throughout the game whenever I come back from getting a beer to having a slash? Not sure what you mean.

 

[Izy]

Think about this.

What would stop me wearing a Rabbitohs jersey, going to one of their games and just start launching bottles at the refs? Not that I would ever do that. Hypothetically speaking.

Would the Rabbitohs have competition points taken away from them?

 

[Horny Wog]

Think about this.

What would stop me wearing a Rabbitohs jersey, going to one of their games and just start launching bottles at the refs? Not that I would ever do that. Hypothetically speaking.

Would the Rabbitohs have competition points taken away from them?

try it

 

[Phalangist]

Here's the thing : At AFL games in recent years, if a racist yells out something objectionable, they're identified within a couple of days and memberships revoked and/or bans issued. The fans have decided enough is enough, and see to it that the person who brought disrepute to their club is dealt with.

So why haven't we identified our offenders yet ?
Have any been "spoken to" ???

Sure, there were 40,000 people there, but these were Cat1 members !
It's a small pool to identify people from. How many of them can there be ???

Am I seen as a bad guy and someone who encourages bad behaviour if I see this whole situation as an over reaction by the media?

i hate when fans put a bad image on our club but jeez in the heat of the moment last seconds of game and to lose it like that you can kind of forgive someone for throwing a bottle on the field and assume they didn't really mean to harm anyone... Greg bird glasses his mRs and then plays for Australia yet we want to ban some fans that let passion take over for life? Fmd

i don't condone the behaviour but why the over reaction? Dragon army have been lighting up flares for years don't we think that is a lot more dangerous then throwing an empty plastic coke bottle...?

i don't believe people would have full bottles of coke at that time of the game.

like I said I don't support this behaviour but life bans for that is over the top.

 

[Izy]

try it

lol

What club do u despise?

Not low to do it, but if someone did, what do you think would happen?

 

[habs]

The NRL's kneejerk reaction is laughable and our response has been weak.

 

[Natboy]

Think about this.

What would stop me wearing a Rabbitohs jersey, going to one of their games and just start launching bottles at the refs? Not that I would ever do that. Hypothetically speaking.

Would the Rabbitohs have competition points taken away from them?

That is a legitimate concern that has been raised. Also people will always try to bait our fans as it doesn't take much for some of them to snap.
I am particularly concerned about the dragons and manly supporters. We don't need any more drama

 

[Horny Wog]

lol

What club do u despise?

Not low to do it, but if someone did, what do you think would happen?

I always hated the Roosters but Souths take the cake.

what would happen? It would be swept under the rug just like the cases of Isaac Luke,GBurgess,AReynolds concussion,Broncos Salary Cap breach,etc etc

NRL's hand must be forced, so i suggest when launching a bottle,coin, chair or any other projectile make sure you get the ref in the head

 

[Nexus]

I am a cat 1 member but I left literally right after we kicked the field goal as my wife is heavily pregnant and I had my 2 year old daughter. We wanted to get ahead of the crowd otherwise I would have been able to identify a lot of them I think

 

[Boldslug]

Think about this.

What would stop me wearing a Rabbitohs jersey, going to one of their games and just start launching bottles at the refs? Not that I would ever do that. Hypothetically speaking.

Would the Rabbitohs have competition points taken away from them?

This is why a club can't be "punished" with a loss of points for crowd behaviour, it opens up this type of possibility of people trying to sink another club's chances.

 

[Izy]

This is why a club can't be "punished" with a loss of points for crowd behaviour, it opens up this type of possibility of people trying to sink another club's chances.

Absolutely.

If ANZ Stadium management and the NRL are serious about security then they have a big task ahead of them.

Dogs, Tigers, Eels, Souths all play out of Homebush. That's not including the Swans, Wallabies. Then you have the Semi's and Grand Final.

I mean if the NRL even twitch and mention competition points there will be a MASSIVE backlash.

 

[Natboy]

I am a cat 1 member but I left literally right after we kicked the field goal as my wife is heavily pregnant and I had my 2 year old daughter. We wanted to get ahead of the crowd otherwise I would have been able to identify a lot of them I think

I'm in 131 but it seemed 99% of the bottles were coming from a couple of aisles right of that