Parra Stadium Tonight

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Marshall_magic

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I decided to head out to Parra Stadium tonight with a few of the boys for the game. Living in the area and having a few mates who are Roosters fans I thought it would be a good Saturday Night. Due to the late purchase of our tickets we were sitting on the family hill, no problem for us, but we agreed that we wouldn't be offensive in our chanting.

I hate Parramatta with a passion so I was cheering the Roosters (the lesser of 2 evils here) on here with a mate. After the first try, he made a joke about Hayne missing the tackle because he was filing his nails (harmless right?), then when the Roosters came back to our end of the field to recieve the kick off, a Parra fan (one of the 3 in front of us, a guy around 25, he was with another guy his age and a woman who I guess was his mother) launched into a tirade on Jason Ryles (called him a dog, a loser and said Moimoi would belt him, with many expletives, I didn't get too upset, but it was a bit inappropriate with kids around). A bit later I said Parra got a penalty because the Roosters tackled Jarryd Hayne (again, harmless) shortly after Hayne scored. We then got told by the group in front of us (who got right in our face) that we were a group of jealous talentless wannabees and we only came to the game to stir up trouble, we smiled and told them to look at the scoreboard, we also said we were supporting our team, but were told by the older woman to watch the game in silence. We continued to vocally support the Roosters, but decided to stop sledging Parra players.

About 10 minutes later another Roosters fan in the area called the Eels a pack of poofs (or something along those lines) and the Eels fan in front of us, again, children everywhere, decided that it was worthy for him to go over and try and start a punch on. Luckily the people in the area calmed him down. He was thrown out at halftime. The second half went down just fine, the 2 eels fans in front of us stayed in, and there were no real troubles, one of them at the end of the game shook all our hands and apologised for threatening us, but said he comes to the game every week and gets annoyed that people rip on Jarryd Hayne.

Simple question, did we cross the line, or is going to the footy about giving as good as you can get (which the guy in front of us surely couldn't cop, even people in there group were telling him that)? Sorry about the long post but these clowns really ruined what was otherwise an enjoyable night.
 
I was at that game last night too ( a mate had a spare ticket for a private box :smiley: ) and thouroughly enjoyed it .

no you didnt overstep any mark at all but you always have to remember that there's a bogan element in the eels fan base who aren't playing with a full deck . maybe it's the proximity to cumberland hospital .

it's not just there that the eels fans go nuts , it's rampant in their junior leagues too .
 
The Eels have the most pathetic pack of fans you'll see.

For every 1 or 2 nice blokes, there's a hundred toothless, heartless pricks.
 
@Marshall_magic said:
I decided to head out to Parra Stadium tonight with a few of the boys for the game. Living in the area and having a few mates who are Roosters fans I thought it would be a good Saturday Night. Due to the late purchase of our tickets we were sitting on the family hill, no problem for us, but we agreed that we wouldn't be offensive in our chanting.

I hate Parramatta with a passion so I was cheering the Roosters (the lesser of 2 evils here) on here with a mate. After the first try, he made a joke about Hayne missing the tackle because he was filing his nails (harmless right?), then when the Roosters came back to our end of the field to recieve the kick off, a Parra fan (one of the 3 in front of us, a guy around 25, he was with another guy his age and a woman who I guess was his mother) launched into a tirade on Jason Ryles (called him a dog, a loser and said Moimoi would belt him, with many expletives, I didn't get too upset, but it was a bit inappropriate with kids around). A bit later I said Parra got a penalty because the Roosters tackled Jarryd Hayne (again, harmless) shortly after Hayne scored. We then got told by the group in front of us (who got right in our face) **that we were a group of jealous talentless wannabees** and we only came to the game to stir up trouble, we smiled and told them to look at the scoreboard, we also said we were supporting our team, but were told by the older woman to watch the game in silence. We continued to vocally support the Roosters, but decided to stop sledging Parra players.

About 10 minutes later another Roosters fan in the area called the Eels a pack of poofs (or something along those lines) and the Eels fan in front of us, again, children everywhere, decided that it was worthy for him to go over and try and start a punch on. Luckily the people in the area calmed him down. He was thrown out at halftime. The second half went down just fine, the 2 eels fans in front of us stayed in, and there were no real troubles, one of them at the end of the game shook all our hands and apologised for threatening us, but said he comes to the game every week and gets annoyed that people rip on Jarryd Hayne.

Simple question, did we cross the line, or is going to the footy about giving as good as you can get (which the guy in front of us surely couldn't cop, even people in there group were telling him that)? Sorry about the long post but these clowns really ruined what was otherwise an enjoyable night.
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He was correct.
And they had every right to come and belt you blokes.
 
I was taken to the old cumberland oval as a eight year old in the late 1970's.

Parra were belting Balmain 42-0 or something like that. The Tigers scored a try and being eight was jumping around wildly celebrating.

This old guy behind me stood up and pushed me, and I went head first down the hill, didnt hurt me in the slightest, but I have hated parra and their supporters ever since that day. My parents were going off and the guy was eventually thrown out.

I see from last night nothing has changed, although I am surprised that the parra supporters did not join in the sledging of their own players with you, they are very good at that too!!!!

:supporter:
 
I think the rules should be similar to playing sport.

I play all age soccer on a saturdays and of course you give it to whoever your marking or playing against. You rough them up, give them ear full etc. And you shake hands after the game and it's all sweet.

I do think though, when your supporting a team, not playing in one, it's a bit overboard to think about fighting another person over taunting, Sure, disagree and argue, but a punch on? Please, watch the game and get over yourself.

I think you were sweet, and I was certainly smiling at the reactions you got from the Hayne taunting. Surely none of us ever reacted to that from others ragging on Benji.
 
Lucky you went onto the family hill or it could have been a tough nite.
 
For sure give it to the opposition players, but as I'm getting older I'm becoming a lot more conscious about who I'm sitting near. I cringe when some boofhead (supporting whatever team) starts unloading the expletives where families are and the young ones can hear. The true skill in sledging lies in getting it up the opposition without having to resort to it.
But enough waffling. Players get sledged, fans get sledged, people take themselves too seriously. Parra are a putrid team with putrid fans. Now they've lost they'll all jump back off hayne's de-railed train.
 
Earlier this year at Gosford in the trial double header when the Roosters played Parra after the Tigers/Sharks game, I remember one Eels fan racing down the stairs and give a huge verbal stray to an injured Roosters player who was being carried away on the medicab. I like many others in that bay couldn't believe what we saw and heard from this young lady.

I am forever thankful that the Balmain Tigers never merged with the Eels in 1999.
 
Parra fans are the worst bandwagoners around. And are all a little too precious about their train or plane or whatever stupid nickname he wants to invent for himself.

I have a mate who is a Parra fan and even he thinks that Hayne is a prat.
 
I was practically threatened one night at Parramatta Stadium for supporting the Toyota Cup boys too much! Personally I have no problems with fans yelling out whatever they want about whoever they want but I draw the line at too much swearing (I'm not a prude but its not necessary and it's suppose to be a family event) and deliberately being provocative to other fans. If you're 40 points up there's really no need to rub peoples noses in it especially if they've made the effort to go to an away game. The Sharks fans for instance on Sat night I give a lot of credit to for following their team all over Sydney given the year they've had.
 
I've never been threatened by a Parramatta fan. I have been threatened by a couple of Wests Tigers fans though (lol), and I also had drinks thrown at me at the 2005 semi final against St. Choke Illawarra for doing the oki choki at fulltime.

It was worth it.
 
Oh and Marshall_magic: don't feel guilty about what you did at Parramatta Stadium. They like to give it but they can't take it. Alot of people are like that. Parradoesntmatta and St. Choke have the most bandwagonners in the NRL. When they don't look like making the top 8 look how low their crowds get..
 
I might be a bit biased but ive never seen any trouble around me at parra games. Most of the fans that i sit near are all really well behaved and every now and then you get some bogan who even bags out our own players. But i think thats something you see in every teams fanbase. We had a Roosters supporter infront of us literally imitating the Hayne Playne crashing the WHOLE game and not one person said anything to him nor told him to shut up or anything.

I have to admit though that the worst fans ive encountered ( and am shocked that no one has mentioned it so far) are the Bulldogs fans. Last game i went to ( eels vs bulldogs at ANZ) a few parra fans were cheering when Hayne scored a try only to be jumped by a gang of bulldogs supporters. They were right near us and all these officers had to come and nearly 15 of them had to be escorted out of the stadium. It doesnt even end there, a roosters supporting FEMALE friend of mine had a bunch of bulldogs supporters wait for her after the game because she was chanting WHO KNOCKED THE DOGS OUT to the army.

I find their fans appalling and its come to a point where you cant even cheer for our own team as your safety can become compromised.
 
@iloveparra said:
I might be a bit biased but ive never seen any trouble around me at parra games. Most of the fans that i sit near are all really well behaved and every now and then you get some bogan who even bags out our own players. But i think thats something you see in every teams fanbase. We had a Roosters supporter infront of us literally imitating the Hayne Playne crashing the WHOLE game and not one person said anything to him nor told him to shut up or anything.

I have to admit though that the worst fans ive encountered ( and am shocked that no one has mentioned it so far) are the Bulldogs fans. Last game i went to ( eels vs bulldogs at ANZ) a few parra fans were cheering when Hayne scored a try only to be jumped by a gang of bulldogs supporters. They were right near us and all these officers had to come and nearly 15 of them had to be escorted out of the stadium. It doesnt even end there, a roosters supporting FEMALE friend of mine had a bunch of bulldogs supporters wait for her after the game because she was chanting WHO KNOCKED THE DOGS OUT to the army.

I find their fans appalling and its come to a point where you cant even cheer for our own team as your safety can become compromised.
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I agree with you there. I have seen Bulldogs supporters throw glass bottles at people heads after a game at Campbelltown, run into groups of people that included women and children just to try and start a fight (but only when 20 of his mates are with him ofcourse), try to intimidate people before and after the games by punching train doors and lights inside the train when people are right next to them. Some of them act like a bunch of monkeys.
 
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