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Posted January 02, 2015 05:38 · last edited January 02, 2015 05:38

I think it's kinda funny to see how quickly the whole RBB/WSW love affair has turned on itself the moment its hit a little adversity. Don't forget that at least some of their poor form would be attributable to all the travel and disruption caused by the ACL and CWC campaigns - so the very success that made some of those fans so arrogant is a contributing factor as to why they're so pissy now. It's also funny to think that not only is the fanbase turning on the players unlikely to help morale and form, but it would potentially put off some future signings - who wants to play for a club where the fans act like that towards you? All of which gives me a bit of the ol' schadenfreude.

On the other hand, it's a very bad look for the A League which already has to battle preconceived ideas about violent thuggish fans in Australia - an image which hasn't been helped by the actions of what the RBB always say are a minority of WSW fans. Football in Australia doesn't need stories about fans jumping advertising hoardings to try to assault (their own) players. The whole thing is just very, very ugly.

This is a sharkty incident and a sharkty look for the league as a whole. But it is just a tiny bit amusing.

Or to put it another way- RBB are dicks.

There seems to be a deficit of fun in a lot of their supporter activities. Flares and protests. Capos and regimented chanting. And the Posnan FFS. You can't see the game when you do that!

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martinb edited January 02, 2015 05:38
ConanTroutman wrote:

I think it's kinda funny to see how quickly the whole RBB/WSW love affair has turned on itself the moment its hit a little adversity. Don't forget that at least some of their poor form would be attributable to all the travel and disruption caused by the ACL and CWC campaigns - so the very success that made some of those fans so arrogant is a contributing factor as to why they're so pissy now. It's also funny to think that not only is the fanbase turning on the players unlikely to help morale and form, but it would potentially put off some future signings - who wants to play for a club where the fans act like that towards you? All of which gives me a bit of the ol' schadenfreude.

On the other hand, it's a very bad look for the A League which already has to battle preconceived ideas about violent thuggish fans in Australia - an image which hasn't been helped by the actions of what the RBB always say are a minority of WSW fans. Football in Australia doesn't need stories about fans jumping advertising hoardings to try to assault (their own) players. The whole thing is just very, very ugly.

This is a sharkty incident and a sharkty look for the league as a whole. But it is just a tiny bit amusing.

Or to put it another way- RBB are #$%^&*.

There seems to be a deficit of fun in a lot of their supporter activities. Flares and protests. And the Posnan FFS. You can't see the game when you do that!