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Well said and I do feel for you, it’s sad to think that the current experience of the footy might be turning away people like yourself from bringing their kids along.
The drinking culture –
I’ve been a premium level Melbourne member for 8 years now. This gives me a reserved seat on level 2 in the southern stand and one of the reasons I do it is to get away from the Joe Publics and be around the hardcore fans however on Monday night against Richmond with 83,000 in attendance and a close game in the balance in the 3rd and 4th quarter, I found myself getting up very often to let people through, while the game was going! I know this isn’t a new thing and that people get up to go to the bar to beat the queue, I’m absolutely not begrudging people’s choice to drink at the game and I occasionally do it myself but it was alarming to be to see so many people doing it. Even teenagers.
I feel like such a stick in the mud for thinking that I like to just sit there and watch the game uninterrupted, when I’m there with friends and go in on rounds I hate the fact that I’m shouted early on when I don’t even want a drink and then my return shout is probably going to end up coming around the late 3rd quarter/early I the 4th when one of these numps turns to me and says it. What part of I don’t want to miss the game don’t these people understand?
The lack of understanding –
You’re speaking my language here with the long ball up the middle fan. I go to the footy and love to yell and get animated, but I’m always realistic in what I yell out. It’s a two team sport and most of the time when you yell out things like “pick it up”, “Just kick the bloody thing”, “why did you fumble it” the players are trying to do the exact thing you wanted them to, they aren’t idiots. I would love it if people just had a bit more understanding about how the game is played but you’re just going to get these things I’m afraid. Seeing players guarding grass while people yell out to man up, a player outside the 50 waiting for the right option while people yell to just bomb it in, playing possessions footy to slow it down and people yelling to just move it. These things are all here to stay.
Abuse –
No tolerance for it at all. I would never call one of my players a loser, criticise the action and don’t get personal. Make criticism constructive. As for that guy going down to the bench to abuse Motlop that’s not on.
We’re all different footy fans but as a whole we need to lift our game.
Fan behaviour is ruining the AFL match-day experience