R13 v Adelaide United | Sun 1st Jan | 7:35pm | Kids Go Free

Hasn't been a problem at any of the other games I've done it at. 

Me buying 3 x Hatrick Passes, on top of my 3x Season Passes was unnecessary, but I bought them to help the Metrics. But when the product on display is rather dire, maybe I should try to get a refund, quoting the Consumer Guarantee Act (product was misrepresented)

The first one caught me so off guard I could have made a diamond.

But yea popping a balloon hardly seems like an remove from premises offence.  Maybe a "ask nicely to not do that again" offence at most.

Think that is a little naive. I don't believe a new coach will necessarily do the honourable thing and walk away from his contract with no payout (i.e Ernie). These guys probably have mortgages, kids, wives working at the club (Jesus wept)

And there may actually be two head coaches and contracts here (Jesus wept again)

actually there are two areas I'm gonna criticise. Several times we had free kicks in their half, but rather than applying an attacking and innovative approach, we simply knocked the ball backwards and then across our back line to durante, who had the whole 11 organised adelaide team in front of him. We deserve to get Nil with an attitude like that. In fact all our free kicks look unimaginative and unrehearsed do we even practice them?

Secondly, we are playing on a perfect newly laid pitch, but everyone had to take a touch every time the ball was played to them on the ground. Ffs, the way to score goals is to play the ball first time before the defence have time to react. 4 simple first time passes can open up the defence very quickly. Watching some of our hacks having to set the ball up every time was painful.

Our throw ins are very good now.

A club gopher (Schmitty) came & told Patrick to tell me to stop popping balloons. Security started coming & then backed off. I went to security to get Schmitty to come & talk to me rather than the clubs YF puppet. It was then that security told me that the Head of security, Peter Gill, had instructed them to eject me. I then popped another balloon in the tunnel of Aisle 21 & was manhandled out. Peter Gill, said that I was being ejected as I had broken Stadium rules, & I was swearing! 

I heard a loud one on TV coverage!

Perspective.

Yes, it was sharke for the most part yesterday - so frustrating to watch (I'm prepared to cut some slack becuase of the weather).

However, we are not the only ones with problems.  This is the table since we lost 6-1 at Victory.

I mean, what do the bottom 7 teams offer the A-League?

A quick recap to get my head around. Several people told you to stop popping baloons and you continue doing it? And now you complaining about getting kicked out in front of you daughters?

I feel more sorry for 'the puppets' who have to deal with this while the game is on than for you.

Hatter is about to go postal

Good perspective, shows we've been pretty much as shark as the other also-rans tbh (which i suspect  would satisfy welnix).

Maturity would suggest not to pop them in the 1st place, let alone repeating it... I say that cause I assume having daughters at the game, you would be somewhere in your 40s so it's not like you are a child now.

Or are you more offended that Patrick was tasked to deal with you considering your recent spats on here.

I wouldn't have told the security guard to "go f*ck himself" if he asked me to stop doing something. And if they told me that they'd kick me out if I did it again, I probably wouldn't be surprised if they kicked me out when I did it again. 

But maybe that's just me.

For the record - I think it was absolutely ridiculous that they told you to stop initially, and it was weird that Schmiddy came to talk to me instead of directly approaching you, but I can't really disagree with their decision to evict you.

This was the whole point of the incident. If Schmitty wanted to tell me to stop popping balloons, why didn't he talk directly to me? Why would he talk to you, rather than me?

The reason I went to security was to get them to get Schmitty back, so I could talk directly, but I was told that the head of security had instructed them to eject me. 

If I want to pop balloons I will, just like Patrick keeps banging his drum. 

I'm not complaining about getting kicked out in front of my daughters, where do you get that idea from?

That incident was a damn sight more entertaining than the sharke that was on display on the field last night, or have you got used to being served up mediocrity week after week?

Probably be more chanting in Aisle 3 than in the Fever Zone if I did that!

Can you not pop them in future - totally annoying and distracting - I dont care what sharke we are being fed on the pitch - I come to watch the game and enjoy the chants not you popping balloons. 

From what I've read of the incident you getting the boot was totally fair - you were asked to stop, you refused and were abusive to officials = see ya later!

We only get up to mischief when we are bored and let's be honest, last night up until the 90th minute, was boring. Popping balloons is less dangerous than flares or throwing bottles - Things I strongly disapprove of. Really what was required as this all happened as a result of CCTV  coverage, was that the stadium security chief should have got Hatter aside and laid it down that he and the stadium people did not like it and to cut it out. However, they chose to get Red Badge, to deal with it. Marley is a good guy and only doing as instructed by those further up his food chain. I believe Hatter would have stopped blowing them up and popping them if asked by the main man so to speak.

What about the absolutely wasted guy down in the front of the zone using excessive profane language? He and his drunk mate saw the game out without hassel.

Why does the head of security have to ask in person? If he instructs the security plebs - red badge - to ask you to stop then you comply. As for abusive people in the zone - they didnt have any impact on me as I was in aisle 23, if they were causing that much of a concern why not raise it with red badge at the time - they have a text number to assist with this. 

They reacted to loud popping of balloons which initially sounded like fireworks - most of the guys around me though this until we saw a balloon being blown up. I'll bet you anything that this was their initial fear.

Was it one of yours that ended up on the pitch?

So let's see, no balloons, no Rattles - old fashioned ones that used to be common at football games, no instruments except the drum that took years to get approved. When the football is boring and dross, you want us to just stand there silent or go home? Our money is as good as any one elses. Andy why not have the guy speak to Hatter. It is called fronting up. 

And to answer your other two questions, I don't have or use Balloons at the games.

Yes it was one of my balloons on the pitch, just as most of the other balloons at Phoenix games over the past few years have been mine as well. The usual response to a balloon being popped is to cheer, & this happened EVERY time a balloon popped. 

The incessant banging on a drum is annoying, but it adds to the atmosphere, & the Fever Zone desperately needs some atmosphere, as it is dying a slow agonizing death!

Schmitty is the Phoenix gopher that told Patrick to tell me to stop, he isn't the head of security.

Scmitty being the clubs rep - should have been authourity enough for you to get the point and stop popping them. Having a balloon on the field is annoying, as it causes delays - albeit fractionally.

Rattles/drums add to the atmosphere as do chants and singing and the odd well timed jeer to the players. Popping of balloons distracts from all of that.

Suggesting you were doing it to improve a flat Fever Zone seems ill placed - surely starting a chant or revving the group up would have been better.

incorrect - just no balloons being popped. The rest I've got no issue with - they add to the game and atmosphere. 

The club had a guy speak to Hatter (Schmitty) - who cares what his position is, he represents the club and on their authourity he asked Hatter to stop.

Having s**te football on the field should be more of a concern than a balloon.

(If I'd been allowed to pop it, it wouldn't have caused such disruption!)

I had started plenty of chants, the Zone was quiet, what were you doing to enhance the experience?

Read the posts correctly, so you understand, before you make posts like this. Ill informed, opinion of what didn't happen!

I cant believe all the angst about popping balloons. Far too much control being exerted by stadium security....god forbid anyone comes to Westpac and enjoys themselves apart from maybe drinking as there is money to be made letting people do that to excess....and up to a point is largely ignored

I think that was the part if a de-escalation strategy, send a YF pal first instead of coming with full 'authority'.

I personally don't mine the drums or the popping baloons, but if one of them is not allowed then we have to accept it.

Thanks Jeff, your opinion is important to me! ?

Love your work Conan. #ballongate

What was I doing? - screaming/shouting and encouraging our boys to fight for a win. Following the YF chants as I always do from aisle 23 - not getting bored and popping balloons in spite of being asked to stop.

Your apparent lack of understanding or care that your eviction probably had nothing to do with the balloons, but more to do with the subsequent ignoring of the request to stop is what I find most frustrating.

Good for you, keep up the good work Champ!