Hornso Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 13 hours ago, penguin said: RDL playing as a lone striker for Melbourne City, what the **** is going on? Meanwhile Fornaroli is just gathering dust... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villaphan04 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Seems like a lot has been going off down under with the A-League recently. Think they moved the finals to Sydney for the next 3 or 4 years instead of the higher placed team. then today, this happened 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 (edited) Yeah, pretty ridiculous. The Melbourne fans are angry because the cup final is guaranteed to be in Sydney regardless of which team plays in it so they decide to riot during the Melbourne derby Edited December 17, 2022 by LondonLax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 Can anyone provide context to this? It seems people were expecting trouble beforehand? WTF is going on down there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 (edited) People at football games that do this kind of stuff have to be the thickest people on the planet. Tv cameras everyone easy to identify you so easy to prosecute and take action against you. Look like that fat guy in sunglasses that thinks he is hard they will find him so easily Edited December 18, 2022 by Demitri_C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Platt Posted December 18, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 18, 2022 The English Disease is spreading! The world is a powder keg at the moment I expect more of this stuff unfortunately all over the world not just in football. People have had enough any excuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted December 18, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 18, 2022 I'm trying to work out if it was sparked by the keeper throwing the flare back into the crowd. There's no excuses for what happened but he shouldn't be chucking flares about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 2 hours ago, sidcow said: I'm trying to work out if it was sparked by the keeper throwing the flare back into the crowd. There's no excuses for what happened but he shouldn't be chucking flares about. It was bubbling before that, the police wanted the game postponed before. That was just the excuse to spark it off and the keeper probably should have known better 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarium Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 12 hours ago, maqroll said: Can anyone provide context to this? It seems people were expecting trouble beforehand? WTF is going on down there? Recently the league governing body sold the grand final rights to Sydney for 3 years. So instead of highest qualifier playing at home, they now have to play in Sydney regardless. Everyone outside the governing body was upset and have been staging walk outs. Melbourne victory ultras, being typical asshats that they are, decided to throw flares and assault the keeper when he threw one of the flares off the ground as it happened to land back in the crowd it came from 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPower_14 Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 Yep, exactly as Icarium has saidd. There were definitely expected to be protests, i'd heard talk of preplanned walkouts. The A-League made a wildly unpopular decision and there has been an enormous amount of public anger directed towards them, including from players like Craig Goodwin who was the darling of our world cup run. Australian football support is mainly a family friendly environment but unfortunately every club has a small group who are cosplaying Green Street and you get moronic shit like flares and imitated ultra style behaviour. It's very childish an usually the proponents of it are very young and/or stupid. In this case though, the supporters had been whipped into a frenzy pre-game, Melbourne especially given they consider themselves the home of Sport in Australia and the GF had just been locked into Sydney, so it was a powderkeg. The GK throwing the flare back into the crowd has ignited it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Icarium said: Recently the league governing body sold the grand final rights to Sydney for 3 years. So instead of highest qualifier playing at home, they now have to play in Sydney regardless. Everyone outside the governing body was upset and have been staging walk outs. Melbourne victory ultras, being typical asshats that they are, decided to throw flares and assault the keeper when he threw one of the flares off the ground as it happened to land back in the crowd it came from Wasn't he their own player? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarium Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 7 hours ago, maqroll said: Wasn't he their own player? No, it was the Melbourne derby, so victory ( whose ultras consider themselves the 'true' Melbourne) and Melbourne city (owned by CFG). Victory fans threw the flares at the city gk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornso Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 Nobody shoots themselves in the foot like Australian football! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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