A-League active supporters to return to the stands this weekend

Well said What is ironically great was that this helped the "Save the Nix" campaign as well as for the first time ever I think the NZ based team had the highest attendance for the round, plus their active fans were in QBE stadium to hold up their banners etc

Sounds Good History teaches me to be cynical of the FFA, but the fact the fans were smart enough to include a Solicitor etc was a good move so I think this will legit be done Well how about that, two weeks of united action and despite all the criticism from some quarters and comments sections a perfectly reasonable system has been thrashed out.... Perhaps most important is for the FFA to start defending the fans, so perhaps they'll stop pandering to elements in the media who will never come round Think the game would be considered to have "taken a step back", but the changes made here (and hopefully with owners too just as importantly) will lay the groundwork for the A-League and Football to take two steps forward in the coming years, we had got to the point where refinements were required

Headline: "Fans to attend games". Wow !

Hopefully the fans will also do more to shun dickhead behaviour from other fans. Needing an appeals process for banning supporters is pretty ridiculous. If the minority of dickhead fans followed the sport instead of seeing football as some proxy war then the FFA would not need to ban so many people. In my view the FFA is just trying to clean up the game to help it grow in Australia. Anyway, let's hope everyone learns something here and let's just get on with the football.

Philip is the voice of reason, again!

Credit to the fans and FFA. The FFA are dead right not to tolerate the idiots. Our game is one of passion like no other, however some can go overboard as a result of immaturity and the worst to emulate other football cultures. The fans wee dead right t acknowledge that the FFA cannot tolerate the idiots while also insisting the FFA reform its banning procedure to allow for appeals and other aspects of due process. The amazing this is that Wilsons hate campaign against our game lead to the most important week, culturalry since the FFA revolution . Our game grew up this week. Our game grew closer this week and to make it all the sweeter, Wilson relieved Patric Smiths annual 'Goose of the year' award for uniting us. Thank your Bourban Bekkie. Thank you to you, your type and their emissaries in this online community. You know who you are :-)

Amen

In the interest of fairness there is a need for caution. If people do display bad manners and do stuff that's illegal it's imperative the FFA Have the right to ban them. I would have thought that's important to the people who want to go to a game without bring intimidated. I am unclear of all the facts but a crowd mentality in any situation can be scarey to say the least. Anyway best wishes to both sides.

Dean, I have written lengthy responses to some of your previous flippant comments in the hope of educating you, but it seems like a lost cause. So this may well be my last attempt at a lengthy educational reply. It may be hard for a simple minded man to understand, but not only did the active supporters support their team last week, they were also supporting other active supporter groups (the nominal enemy), they were supporting the entire A-league, and they were supporting the name of football in general, by defending all of us and demanding action by the FFA against the rubbish of some media. In addition, unlike fair weather supporters who can only see past last week's win or loss in terms of whether they turn up the following week, the active supporters took a very long term view of what would be best for their club and for football long-term. Why? Because they want to be there every week actively supporting their clubs and if that meant one week sitting in a pub watching then so be it. In addition, the majority of them are club members and have already paid their attendance money so the clubs in question were not financially disadvantaged by their move. The only people disadvantaged were he FFA who were made to look out of touch with the fans. Finally, this type of coordinated action by the active groups across all clubs in the league is not the action of a "dummy spit". It indicates a very coordinated and considered approach by these groups who are not affiliated to each other and have no official affiliation to the clubs. These non-affiliated groups who are extremely passionate about their clubs, have also held up banners this year (Save the Nix) and in prior years showing strong support for each other and for the football community. This type of wide based, coordinated and forward thinking support for our game is not something ever seen in other codes in Australia and is just another example of the great passion that active supporters have for their clubs and our code. As for Mark B's comment about "the active crowd" using the same boring insults, I would ask him to name the active supporters on this thread or regular commentator to the Roar. I'll give him a clue though - it will be a small list, especially if compared to names of non-active supporters. I doubt he understands the difference between active and non-active. Most of us football going public here dwell in the non-active areas, the active supporters are predominantly found in other forums.

"Anyone who thinks a bunch of teenaged hooligan wannabe dummy spitters acting out of self interest could possibly coordinate enough with groups as disparate as the yellow army/nt, in order to negotiate with Gallop and FFA for 5 hours, and come out having achieved what they did, has no idea." Well said cm. This quote should just be cut and pasted as an automatic response from now on. Keep pasting it until they get it.

It can't !!!!! for an example look at the NSL.

Spruce your out of order dragging those names in to back up you less than insightful argument! No better than that lowlife Reb Wilson.

Mark,I'm sure you understand but I think the active crowd use the same repeated boring insults to people who don't agree with them because each side is talking about a different activity.The ones accused of never going or not even liking follow football.The accusers with the chips on their shoulder follow their active group,for them football is secondary,some openly believe the A League would not survive without their constant repetitive,pre orchestrated chants.

AS I'm missing your bowie get up. Seriously, was all this protest action merely to get those two items mentioned above? (one of which the FFA had already said they were going to do). So that just leaves one thing - access to the evidence. But read the Cove's words: a) Access to all evidence on which the FFA intends to rely on in any ban process... In other words, is it retrospective or can the FFA use it for all events post February 2016? So, it's hardly going to get on their to-do list with any amount of urgency.

Anyone who thinks a bunch of teenaged hooligan wannabe dummy spitters acting out of self interest could possibly coordinate enough with groups as disparate as the yellow army/nt, in order to negotiate with Gallop and FFA for 5 hours, and come out having achieved what they did, has no idea.

"i would not consider it a dummy spit at all but rather a well executed strategy with appropriate response which achieved initial objectives" Perfectly succinct. On point as usual c.

Great news. #fillthestands

Sure... so then when you try to converse on the issues with people, you'd expect the ones who do have an idea to engage with what's brought up rather than repeating things that people have consistently shown to be false.

Dont upset him too much,or he will have to find a different name.

i would not consider it a dummy spit at all but rather a well executed strategy with appropriate response which achieved initial objectives