rexy wrote:Footy would be bloody quiet, and quite frankly very boring from an atmosphere point of view if no one ever said any of these things at the game IMO.
Dont like the constant and unreasonable bagging of specific players but fair dinkum you can have a go from the side lines surely, it is part of the theatre that is being at the footy. A bit of banter in the crowd, a wanker who wont shut up, humorous comment from the back blocks, creative and not so creative insults for umpires and opposition players coaches and supporters.
This is football heritage, it is part of what enthralled me about being at the game as a kid and what takes me back every week I can go, with my own kids in tow.
Nanny state!
If we're actually analyising this stuff, yeah, a lot of it does boil down to footy heritage. It's the way the game worked not too long ago. It's the way the kids are taught to play.
I tend to believe that over time, the footy public is going to catch up to the game as it's actually played.
Zone defenses, running plays, the proliferance of handball, these things aren't likely to disappear. They products of professionalism, fitness and strategy, not gimicks.
On the other hand, it's also a safe bet that for as long as there are crowds of people watching sports, there will be people yelling things out that make others roll their eyes.
I for one consider myself duty bound to make sure that my grandkids generation will know all about how the game was played properly back in 2010, and look forward to my comments during the game finding their way to a forum and thread like this
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