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A-League threads [Merged]
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From day 1 I’ve always thought that. Have never had any interest in the phoney B League and part of that has been due to Victory and so many of their fans being out of control “north of the city” punks and aholes.
Even after the Essendon game this year, final round, a bunch of them went running down the middle of Punt Road in heavy post game traffic chanting Victory rubbish, yelling and abusing drivers, trying to vandalise signs, bus shelters etc.
There’s a real bad and persistent problem with Victory fans. Not all of them…. but way too many of them.
This league has been soulless from the onset. Franchise clubs with no history, no passion etc. They then invite these morons to follow their clubs with no retribution. This isn’t a one off for Melbourne Victory.
Having flares at a public event is moronic, the "policing" of the so called "ban" on them is nothing short of laughable.
At one stage I was thinking about going to an A League game just to check it out, but the flaring idiots put me off. Now I just wouldn't bother.
At one stage I was thinking about going to an A League game just to check it out, but the flaring idiots put me off. Now I just wouldn't bother.
Agree here.But not a one off for soccer in this country. I grew up in Bell Park which is a suburb in Geelong.The cultural dilemmas between the opposing sides and home country Croatia,England,Italy,etc really caused a stir at times.One game at Hume reserve I witnessed as a kid one player downing an opposing player and referee.After that a guy got stabbed and died.Not sure that much has changed watching a video of the recent game.
And if that wasn’t apparent already, the expansion sides reiterated this. “Western United”…….talk about the epitome of nothingness. Heaping extreme soullessness on top of soullessness.
I just figured Melbourne Victory were South Melbourne Hellas and Melbourne City was Melbourne Croatia, colours looked familiar.
No idea what it is about soccer and crowd issues, not just a problem in Australia, they separate opposing fans at soccer games in many places, don't see that at Australian Rules or Rugby games.
DS
No idea what it is about soccer and crowd issues, not just a problem in Australia, they separate opposing fans at soccer games in many places, don't see that at Australian Rules or Rugby games.
DS
I'm still waiting to hear how none of the pitch invaders were current active support members. Nor were any of the 100's of people in the crowd clapping at the invasion current active support members. It's all a conspiracy to get rid of the active support groups.
I don't follow soccer much if at all, but when the A-League turned up they talked about not having teams which were tied to particular ethnic communities, like previous incarnations of the Australian Soccer competitions had. Then we got 2 teams in Melbourne - Melbourne Victory who were based in South Melbourne and wore blue and white. Hmm reminded me of another team I used to hear about. Not so familiar with the old Melbourne Knights also known as Melbourne Croatia, but red and white - Melbourne City colours are?? I don't think they have totally moved away from the ethnic community based clubs, which is not really surprising given they need the support of the communities to build a fan base.
In any case, soccer just seems to have issues, issues where crowds from opposing teams need to be kept apart in many parts of the world, why is that?
DS
Nah, they have. Carlton Victory isn't a Greek club. Melbourne Hearts City aren't a Croatian club. The ethnic mix is well and truly there and neither club could claim to be predominantly a particular ethnic club.
Victory's colours are derived from the Scottish National team. Not sure where Heart's colours came from, but now City are Man City sky blue.
City supporters tend to be those that followed Victory at the start, as they were the only Melbourne Club, but got so sick and tired of the Active Supporters that they jumped at the chance to follow another Melbourne club. I put myself in that category.
Melbourne Victory’s (yet another cringy franchise name thought up by a marketing genius) colours I always thought of as simply being based on Victoria’s state sporting colours, just as Sydney FC’s were based on NSW state sporting colours, given that both Melbourne and Sydney were one team towns in the initial launch of the A-League.
Victory's Club song is "Melbourne the Brave". Very strong Scottish influence when they were formed.
