What are everyones plans this Sat now we are on TV

Dont finish till 11 30 so theres no point in me going home if I wanna be back in the city by 3pm - anyone up for a parma?

Probably have lunch and spend a couple hrs at the TAB before heading back to Dickens and then Colonial if i can make it.

How bout everyone else?

yeh jumping into a tab could be an idea.. will work something out saturday.. but no point going home ..

Yeah stay in the city, grab some lunch and just perhaps work our way from pub tp pub!

il be driving in saturday morning, so will have to go home and offload my car
then jump on the train and head back in..pain in the arse i know..but is the things we do so we can hit the piss and sing random leeds songs

beer parma TAB all sounds good IMO.

I'm sure you've all seen the scenes in the media by now....stuff like this makes me hate the media even though I'm a part of it. Too many fucking wanna be heroes throwing flares etc (Gate 7) I'm talking here just shits me...why aren't these problems anywhere else in the world...

I'm sure a few of you have heard what happened before game, basically a couple of young melbourne lads stupidly went to the young and jacksons (sydney pub) to scope what was going on, only to mouth off a bit and one guy got his head kicked in. us melbourne heard about it and ran over and there was a fight in the street for a couple of minutes...then about 20 minutes later we had our tram glassed by sydney cunts.

in short i've had it with the a league. shit football, terrible restrictions/rules, decisions and wankers who think they are hooligans. thing that infuriates me most is so many of these are my mates and i had to go in there and drag them away from these fights...i do not ever want to fight regarding such a senseless and stupid matter and ahh im just fucking frustrated.

I hear ya mate.

FFA and police are idiots. So much of this trouble can be avoided.

I treat it as an opportunity just to get on the piss with my mates, have a sing and a laugh, and go out afterwards. I dont take it that seriously at all, how can anyone take the A-League seriously anyway? Thats why all these fake rivalries and hooligans get to me...Its over a toilet seat FFS. Think the trick is not to take it to seriously and hope that the FFA sort themselves out and eventually give us a decent league.

Sounds as if the young melbourne lads who got bashed had it coming though, if sydney fans came to the captain cook pregame while we were away they woulda got the same treatment. If they werent wearing colours then obviously they woulda made it known they were victory fans. Then again I could be way off.

Come back down south Jimmy, take the piss again! 15 points...

Great post Liam.

I had a ripping time yesterday. Great morning and afternoon. Colonial was fantastic. The pub was class. Familiar faces, not too packed and was a great relaxed atmosphere. Everyone was there for a beer, a laugh and a good night at the football. Ditto with inside the stadium. The banter was great fun.

What happened after the match was unfortunately predictable and I'm still trying to come to terms with how the police could over-react for the 2nd consecutive year. Was like deja vu!

Last year myself and a few of the guys felt some slight effects of the capsicum spray after the breeze blew the spray towards our area after the coppers had sprayed it.

This year we were very close to actually getting hit with it after the copper decided it would be a great idea to spray randomly in the air. The effects can be found on Sammy's t-shirt. RIP to a quality Benny Sherman t-shirt.

It's a minority element that ruins it for all. Outside the ground when a flare appeared, it was a sad sight. When a flare is ripped these young try hards are a like a flock of seagulls swarming around a dropped chip at the beach. They all run and swarm to it and act like flogs. Cringe worthy stuff.

Jimmy, come back home to the South End. Next home game vs Wellington will be immense! Kenner back, James back, plus all of us that were at the Sydney game standing together up the back. Will be class!

Good read this article, can be applied to some of our 'supporters' as well.

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November 12, 2007

Pathetic would-be hooligans shouldn't be allowed to besmirch football, writes Richard Hinds.
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As they marched down Bourke Street in central Melbourne on their way to Telstra Dome, the 150 or so puffed-up adolescents in their light blue shirts brandishing natty little scarfs were in the mood for mischief. They were going to take this city by force - just as they had seen real football hooligans do on the telly.

So, emboldened by their numbers and clearly flattered by their police escort, these legendary hard men stopped at the King Street pedestrian crossing on a red light and then - scourges of the terrace that they are - surged across the road. Sure, the Millwall crew might have driven nails through the skulls of opposing fans and left calling cards near their crumpled bodies. But don't let anyone say the Sydney FC boys aren't up for a bit of jay-walking.

If that act of bloody defiance was well worth a four-week grounding with loss of pocket money, the naughtiness would not stop there. Spotting some Melbourne supporters drinking outside a bar, the Sydney lads formed a semi-circle around the tables and, not afraid of having their mouths washed out with soap, belted out a chant about Victory captain Kevin Muscat that contained several rude words.

Never mind that had Muscat himself stepped forward the blood would have drained from their pimply faces faster than the beer from a schooner on a 40C day. Nor that they would have been pitifully grateful to be wearing sneakers rather than the Doc Martens that were de rigueur with real hooligans (much better for running away.) The pale blue wave had really stuck it to the Victory!

Emboldened by the passive reaction of the locals, one Sydney fan boldly thumped the side of a passing tram, disregarding the risk of a broken cuticle. Oh, the tales of bravado he will have to tell behind the shelter shed at school today.

With the city trembling in the face of their bold deeds, the Sydney fans then marched up the stairs and across the footbridge to the stadium, where they would begin their night's work - attempting, successfully as it turned out, to incite a response from the locals with waves of their bony fists and yet more infantile chanting. The words were often lost, but you could usually get the gist: Baaaa. Baaaa. Baaaa.

Of course, as pathetic and juvenile as the Sydney supporters - and those among the usually well-behaved Melbourne throng who were dumb enough to react to their inane bellowing - were, the repercussions of this behaviour are serious for the A-League.

After the rival fans threw things at each other after the game and refused to disperse, Victorian police used capsicum spray to make sure they did. And so a handful of idiots had presented, gift-wrapped, another chance for the hysterical-minded and knockers in the media to portray A-League games as being hotbeds of trouble; as being about as safe as taking a stroll down the main street of Baghdad dressed as Uncle Sam singing, "I'm A Yankee Doodle Dandy".

By the next morning the newspapers carried predictable stories about crowd violence. Yet, as those of us who had walked along Bourke Street with young children beside the Sydney fans could attest, it was hardly a night of fear. In fact, when you caught the eye of some of the kids bellowing their rude little taunts and shook your head in their direction, they returned not a menacing scowl but the self-conscious grin of the ham actor. Most were guilty mainly of the offence of impersonating a soccer hooligan.

The problem for the A-League is this serial silliness inevitably escalates into something more serious because not everyone will play by the rules of this childish pantomime.

On Saturday night it was chair-tossing and ugly insults. But if the hooligan-wannabes from any of the eight clubs chant their ditties at some real hard men they might find out how it feels to be on the end of some serious bovver.

It was not just in the grandstands that the much-hyped Melbourne-Sydney clash failed to produce the genuine article. While some goal-mouth scrambles in the second half added drama to a mostly lacklustre match, there were far too many clumsy turnovers and too little enterprise in this 0-0 draw.

The A-League has a lot riding on gradually ensuring the standard rises so the new fans it covets will not prefer to sit home and watch foreign leagues. It has a bit invested, too, in ensuring the behaviour of the fans remains, at worst, a childish imitation of what you see elsewhere.

We missed your passionate outbursts on Saturday night Timmy. haha. You would have loved pre-match in the stadium when all the Sydney fans walked behind the South End. Was class.

i found the herald sun a good laugh today, full on gave it to sydney fans.. while im thinking it takes two... we do have our fair share of idiots... like sydney, and it seems most are around the 16 yrs age group... cause lets face it if it was lads from the SDC and others, even our age group fighting it would be more then 8 evicted and tad more full on... why these kids think its cool is beyond me, and jimmy if there going looking for fights at the away clubs pub thats just fucked and there at the football for the wrong reason. The other thing is i dont care if these people want to fight, if thats what they wanna do, then do it... BUT organise it, do it else where... pretty simple, keep it to banter at the game.... Away section just about has to be sectioned off now.. only away fans bar, pisser and entry/exit. sad but thats nearly what we need.

fuck the police is all i can say..what a complete and utter over-reaction by that one wanker that just esculated everything
once outside so..the wankers with the flare were pretty much that..WANKERS!
hope sammys top has been hand washed free of the spray..you looked as though you were about to commit murder when i bumped into you

edited to say..highlight of the night
sammy dropping the shoulder into the muzza who was running towards the flare, muzza absoloutley shit himself and thought sammy was well ard. Needless to say he ran even faster towards the flare

LOL
Here I was giving it my best well 'ard impression yelling at the cops and you pop up smiling at me and I can't help but crack up laughing and ruining my image! Haha.

I was very angry at the little muzza c*nts, and considering they are probably the only people in the world who could possibly be intimidated by me, I thought id let them know! Haha....good times.

Good catching up with Paul and Pete at the Colonial and Ryan at the ground aswell, where did end up Pete? We didn't see you after we marched passed Mens Gallery

was mainly laughing due to watching a copper go arse over tit as he was chasing a muzza on the inside concourse

Pete was with me and my little crew next to the sydney fans.