Segregation at the footy...Yoohoo AFL this is Australia

[the claw]

were a bunch of pussies when it comes to violence get caught up in an exchange of differences in a soccer match in gb and see how fast the adrenalin kicks in.

 

[hanshin]

A bit of a beat up by The Age as usual.  Jill Lindsay spoke on SEN this morning stating this was not the case.  I suppose due to our lack of finals appearances in the last 20 years, we have forgotten how it all works.  Each club has an allocation which is put on sale on a particular day.  Ideally the AFL likes to put supporters of a particular club together in certain sections.  Then on the next day, the opposing team gets to access its allocation of tickets.  After that, it is open to the general public.  The difference in SA is that there will be NO general public seats available due to the massive membership bases of both clubs & the ground capacity.  The anomaly there is if the parents follow Adelaide for example, but the kids follow Port.  It is not actually a deliberate segregation of the crowd due to fears of violence - more just trying to keep supporters around their own supporters.

Yeah right, in 2001 I seem to remember seeing Richmond and Carlton fans mixed in all over the 'G (and didn't it make it even better when we beat them......). If the AFL have this policy, then it must be a recent one.

It is obvious that Football Park is the most feral venue in the AFL, and the security staff there struggle to control the respective rabbles when there is only a tiny amount of opposition supporters, with a relatively even number of both knuckle-draggers it will be a nightmare for them.

Put up electric fences, bring out the Alsatians, have the water canons on standby.......

At least the general crime rate in Adelaide should drop for the initial stages of the game, after the end though you wouldn't want to make the wrong turn while driving home.......

I'm siding with ZIPS... from my finals xperience (RFC and others) there is has always been blocks or bays sold to more-or-less one group of supporters.

I also agree that this is a beat-up of a story... no one cares about SA, the state, its football teams, or its population (even most in SA itself who cant wait to leave) so the only way to get people interested is to hype up a 'football becomes soccer' angle.

PS... its not that i dont like SA... like most australians, we just dont have any reason to be interested...

 

[OUCH-That Hurt]

I believe in segregation at the footy, let us be segregated at all Richmond games until the last quarter when we are ten goals up and then let us mingle with the LOOSERS.

 

[Legends of 2017]

south australians are a different breed to the rest of the human race (again Richmond supporters excepted ;D ).
David Parkin was on sen the other morning and what he said basically highlighted the mentality of the cretins over there. He went over there earlier this year and was picked up by Peter Rhode, now an official at port. He noted some huge scratches on his newish 4WD but didn't say anything.Rhode opened the back up to put his bags in, and Parkin saw his number plates lying there."Yeah. I was too slow to take them off when I came over here", Rhode said.
Another favourite report I heard highlighting their brain capacity, happened a few years ago. A player drove to football park to play a match. After the game, he went back to his car to find it vandalized, because he had Victorian plates on it. The player concerned: one Gavin Wanganeen and he was playing for port adelaide at the time ;D

 

[Al Bundy]

They are feral suporters taht have no idea on the rules. Can't wait to watch the game & see the smack ups (supporters). Like the WWE wrestling.

They should have named this final "The Cage Match"  :rofl  or

"Finals Slams I" AFL spin on things...   :spin