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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I have dug out this old thread after going to the twenty20 last night. There were apparently over 20k in the crowd.

Why is there a stereotype that all football fans are hooligans?

Having sat for several hours amongst cricket 'fans' I have to wonder.....

Throughout Australia batting there were numerous bottlles and lids etc thrown onto the grass and at the Black caps fielders and both dugouts.

Venturing out for a smoke during the match no less than three seperate groups of f**kwits were attempting to start fights with various people, including myself.

Going into the toilets I should have taken a small dinghy to help me get my way to the urinal through the streams of piss and sodden kfc hats.

Afterwards we were treated to two seperate blokes pissing on the wall right by the main entrance and numerous idiots throwing up and throwing bottles.

Anyone ever experienced any of this at a Phoenix game?

I certainly havent.
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cricket crowd is more ferral than rugby

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Ignore could not work out how to delete.Midfielder2010-02-27 15:53:47

Socceroo/ Mariner / Whangarei

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akatarawa wrote:
I have dug out this old thread after going to the twenty20 last night. There were apparently over 20k in the crowd.

Why is there a stereotype that all football fans are hooligans?

Having sat for several hours amongst cricket 'fans' I have to wonder.....

Throughout Australia batting there were numerous bottlles and lids etc thrown onto the grass and at the Black caps fielders and both dugouts.

Venturing out for a smoke during the match no less than three seperate groups of f**kwits were attempting to start fights with various people, including myself.

Going into the toilets I should have taken a small dinghy to help me get my way to the urinal through the streams of piss and sodden kfc hats.

Afterwards we were treated to two seperate blokes pissing on the wall right by the main entrance and numerous idiots throwing up and throwing bottles.

Anyone ever experienced any of this at a Phoenix game?

I certainly havent.
 
maybe that's because we are there "to watch the football"
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Remember the days at the basin when the poor kid on the ice cream and drinks bike would ride around the oval, and be greeted with empty (hopefully) beer cans raining down on him...
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I reckon cricket fans are the worst.....they get nasty drunks.....Nix fans get happy drunk!!!

After the WC game the Wellington police reported a quieter than normal night and said the big crowd partying in town was very well behaved.

I have memories of walking through Courtney place after rugby tests and there is this undercurrent of drunken violence. Alll those farming, out of town looking people with dodgy haircuts and big sideboards and wearing Swandriis or cheap Warehouse ski jackets...all pissed and many of them looking for a fight.
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akatarawa wrote:
Afterwards we were treated to two seperate blokes pissing on the wall right by the main entrance and numerous idiots throwing up and throwing bottles.

Anyone ever experienced any of this at a Phoenix game?

I certainly havent.
 
Agree with the general theme of your post - Nix crowd is noisy but well behaved.  We also have a lot of families which might modify d!ckw@d behaviour.
 
One of the last two games however we got dropped off near the stadium and on our way up to the main entrance there were a couple of chavs urinating RIGHT BESIDE the bl**dy walkway.
 
Absolutely uncalled for - they could have wandered away a few metres to wave their todgers around and  water the concrete.
 
I would like our research talent in NZ to collectively work on a pill which allows children to bypass late teens and early twenties.  Is that too much to ask?
 
Inside the stadium is a different story.  No major gripes except the odd drunk on Friday night footy - but only at the annoyed level (not the "who wantish a fightish?" stage).
 
 
 
 

"Phoenix till they lose"

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cricket fans are at the stadium longer (3+ hours of drinking sometimes). Probably didn't help the BC's didn't win.

Nix fans are not perfect. a friend of mine told me for the game on the 9th of Jan, her friend was wearing a hat of an epl team a couple of other fans didn't like (he was wearing a nix shirt though) and got beaten up, requiring stiches. Now I don't know all the details and if this happened inside the stadium, on the concourse or in town but that was completely uncalled for. The only reason they guy didn't get those two dicks banned is they apologised to him he following week.   

So none of us are perfect but I was extremely disappointed to hear about it and felt embarrassed.
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I've only been to 3 Nix games so far and the All Whites game and I've loved the in stadium atmosphere. But I caught the Pram train home after both the All whites game and ACDC and I have to say the ACDC punters were way more polite and way less rowdy that the footy fans who were horrifically drunk and noisy as, almost rocking the train off its tracks they were jumping around so much and having no regard for families on the train. Celebrating is great but got to keep a little clarity re your surroundings
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depends on the manner of the celebration - we have sung all the way home many a time on the upper hutt line, and any non football people there (very few!!) thought it was hillarious.

as someone else said, we are there to watch the football, not to get pissed and fight people (although I wouldnt mind fighting Robbie Kruse)
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Oceanic6 wrote:
cricket fans are at the stadium longer (3+ hours of drinking sometimes). Probably didn't help the BC's didn't win.

Nix fans are not perfect. a friend of mine told me for the game on the 9th of Jan, her friend was wearing a hat of an epl team a couple of other fans didn't like (he was wearing a nix shirt though) and got beaten up, requiring stiches. Now I don't know all the details and if this happened inside the stadium, on the concourse or in town but that was completely uncalled for. The only reason they guy didn't get those two dicks banned is they apologised to him he following week.   

So none of us are perfect but I was extremely disappointed to hear about it and felt embarrassed.
Just another reason not to wear EPL team gear at A-League games....pretty harsh though.
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Feverish wrote:
cricket crowd is more ferral than rugby
 
Too true - took my elderly father to a one day game not too long ago - we were surrounded by a bunch of pissed up youngsters. Having been one myself a few years ago that, in itself, didn't bother me but I did get pissed off when they started sloshing beer on all and sundry.
 
I no longer go to cricket games at the stadium.
 
Generally speaking the Nix crowd is exceeding well behaved - you get the odd prat or two who confuse vocally supporting your team with getting pissed but I like the way the crowd almost self disciplines and the "required" standard of behavior is made clear.
 
He dribbles a lot and the opposition dont like it - you can see it all over their faces. (Ron Atkinson)
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kiwi pie wrote:
Oceanic6 wrote:
cricket fans are at the stadium longer (3+ hours of drinking sometimes). Probably didn't help the BC's didn't win.

Nix fans are not perfect. a friend of mine told me for the game on the 9th of Jan, her friend was wearing a hat of an epl team a couple of other fans didn't like (he was wearing a nix shirt though) and got beaten up, requiring stiches. Now I don't know all the details and if this happened inside the stadium, on the concourse or in town but that was completely uncalled for. The only reason they guy didn't get those two dicks banned is they apologised to him he following week.   

So none of us are perfect but I was extremely disappointed to hear about it and felt embarrassed.
Just another reason not to wear EPL team gear at A-League games....pretty harsh though.


Completely agree - I don't see why people feel the need to wear other football team jerseys to A-League games.

Worst example of it was the final round game at the SFS. Syd v Tards, everything to play for, and the Cove were in full force, but every camera shot panning across the mass of sky  blue shirts was ruined by the green and white hoops of two tits together wearing celtic tops right in the middle of it.

When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!

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We still get gimps who will wear their Liverp**l tops to Adelaide games ffs...

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my mum and i went to a crusaders/ hurricanes match 2 years ago and the crowd spent more time pelting the mascots with beer bottles than watching the game.  this was after poor old yf got torn apart in paper for ONE bottle getting thrown.  we made the decision about fifteen minutes in NEVER to go to a rugby match again.  
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I think football attracts a more sophisticated, on average better educated, & responsible audience here in NZ as opposed to unsophisticated, loutish, blokey rugby fans.  Perhaps I'm generalising?

Also, during the year I took along a German student from Dresden University doing his internship at our company to 2 Nix games (including the 6-0 thrashing of GCU), he was amazed at the number of females at the games.
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Cricket/Football are completely different crowds. The 8+ dudes i went with to the T20 arent the same guys who come along with us to the footy. We were down low on aisle 9 for the cricket and f**ked off alot of people. One of the boys even fell over the row in front of us, absolutely f**ked off his face after spending an entire innings sledging Warner on the boundary with every homophobic slur in the book. We got asked twice to move, the second time some of our guys got pretty upset and refused to.

Some other guy in another group of people next to us had a giant dildo filled with beer, he was going around w**king it all over random people, and after about 30 overs he got kicked out. Made for good lols (from where i was) but he wouldve been laid out if he was any closer to the dudes i was with.

(i did not take part in any of the above)

Otherwise at the NIX we just drink and sing (and swear a little... and yell alot)
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Is there any other country other than NZ where rugby is a yobbo sport? Everywhere else (Oz included), it's a toff sport.
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kiwi pie wrote:
Is there any other country other than NZ where rugby is a yobbo sport? Everywhere else (Oz included), it's a toff sport.
 
I've been to plenty of Rugby games and it is not a yobbo sport in NZ - rugby crowds are generally just as well behaved as football crowds - they are just very quiet - relative to football crowds of comparable size.
 
What we have in NZ is a well documented binge drinking culture. If you provide an opportunity for people to watch sport and drink for any more than a couple of hours many find that difficult to do without getting drunk, loud and obnoxious - hence the problems at T20 and ODI games.
 
  
He dribbles a lot and the opposition dont like it - you can see it all over their faces. (Ron Atkinson)
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Perhaps they should only sell light beer at T20 and ODI

When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!

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Pretty sure every country in the Western world has that same culture tbh. I blame poor fathering. One of the many duties a dad must perform is teach his son how to drink responsibly. That is, to sink piss without turning into a complete c**t.
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We need more Clayton's (the drink you have when you're not having a drink).
 
"... and then he said 'now we can all get some sleep!'"
 
 
Junior822010-02-28 12:06:45

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

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ginger_eejit wrote:
Perhaps they should only sell light beer at T20 and ODI

The "problem" is that if they did that a lot of people that only attend to get on the piss wouldn't go.

Such is the culture/power of the alcohol industry here.

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ahmad wrote:
ginger_eejit wrote:
Perhaps they should only sell light beer at T20 and ODI

The "problem" is that if they did that a lot of people that only attend to get on the piss wouldn't go.

Such is the culture/power of the alcohol industry here.


Maybe they should make like Burger King and water down the drinks
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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
No way!! Don't tell me that! ahmad2010-02-28 14:03:18

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ahmad wrote:
Such is the culture/power of the alcohol industry here.


Agree entirely.

Remember folks, pre-game at the Backbencher, post game at the Four Kings.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
LMAO

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ahmad wrote:
ginger_eejit wrote:
Perhaps they should only sell light beer at T20 and ODI

The "problem" is that if they did that a lot of people that only attend to get on the piss wouldn't go.

Such is the culture/power of the alcohol industry here.


They do it in Oz, there is ongoing consternation over the discrimination that they only sell light beer at RL matches at the SFS, but mid/full strength at Waratahs games

When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!

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    At the CCM game there was a guy near me who sat like a bearded zombie, drinking beer supplied by his mate, the bearded one was so stoned/drunk he barely looked at the game, harmless enough but you have to wonder why he bothered to turn up for the game. Like an earlier contributor noted, it is a booze culture and the only winners are the breweries,  guess for some people it's impossible to enjoy life without alcohol.
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Homer Simpson. To alcohol! The cause of -- and solution to -- all of life's problems!
And while I'm thinking about it...
``Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get.''
 
Mikewho2010-03-02 15:09:06
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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Whinge whinge whinge.

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Hard News wrote:
ahmad wrote:
Such is the culture/power of the alcohol industry here.


Agree entirely.

Remember folks, pre-game at the Backbencher, post game at the Four Kings.


Needs more bar tab to illustrate the point
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I found a new Nix supporter.....this cute caterpillar I discovered in the back yard. Have you seen one like this one before?







Is it a good omen, I sure hope so.
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If you had a mouse, you could wrap the caterpiller around its neck like a Nix scarf
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   Weve sung on the bus going uptown to the amusement of the other passengers. And you wouldnt need to fight Robbie Kruse. He'd fall over if you blew on him.
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Robb wrote:

ahmad wrote:

ginger_eejit wrote:
Perhaps they should only sell light beer at T20 and ODI
The "problem" is that if they did that a lot of people that only attend to get on the piss wouldn't go.Such is the culture/power of the alcohol industry here.
Maybe they should make like Burger King and water down the drinks

did you know that it is possible to adjust the soda water/flavour on the BK drink machines yourself? i once turned them all so that there was nearly no soda water to be a nuisance. i think the managers water it down so they don't have to change the flavour containers over so often. just some useless info for you all
Fruglo on 15.01.2013 wrote:

Fuck this stupid game

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