Western Sydney Wanderers

[Peaches]

I was there on Sunday …..I was a guest of a SFS member who I played golf with yesterday morning and he said he had a couple of spare tickets ...so I went to experienced it

Well up in the middle of the ground , where the fans rattle their jewellery instead of clapping ...it was quite bizzare ....I haven't witnessed that type of atmosphere at the SFS since the 2005 semi against the Dragons....but yesterday was heaps louder & was continuous for 2 hours , even when the Wanderers were down 2 Nil

I like my soccer , but by no means fanatical, but i have to admit the Red & Black Bloc put on a fantastic show of fan support . Yes , there were some Things that they shouldn't have done ...Let off Flares ( even though personally I thought the coloured smoke look great ...lighting & throwing one on the ground is obviously way too dangerous. at any time....maybe the SFS staff could do controlled lighting on both steam sides to create the atmosphere tat the fans want to achieve & deter people from bringing them in & lighting them dangerously.

I believe the Bloc didn't mean to sing throughout the anthem , As They started singing before and probably couldn't hear it had began...when they finally realized they stopped
But with such a massive group there is unfortunately some idiots who wreck the great work of so many great fans ...throwing beer on the opposition etc & I hope the leaders of the Bloc try and get rid of this type of behavior that spoils the look of otherwise the best fan cheering & supporting of a team I have ever seen on Australan soil .....I for one will be going to a Parramatta Stadium home ground to witness the passion again . At the Fox Studios I only witness fun between the Wanderers & Mariners fans , saw many taking photos together ...very colorful with the red & yellow jerseys & plenty of playful banter ...it was great to see.
Overall it was a fantastic afternoon & one I will long remember

If the Wests Tigers fans can take all the good elements of the RBB cheering & chanting avocets of their supports ,we as a fanbase would get our Wests Tigers team across the line on a lot of the close ones.

Yes yesterday , I became a Wanderers fan .....but like Balmain & the Wests Tigers & Apia Leichhardt ...they will be my team through the ups & downs

Very well put.
Parramatta Stadium I think goes off just as well. Not quite the wall of sound without a roof but its still an awesome experience and great time. You'll love it too.
And 100% we didn't mean to sing throughout the anthem. They were singing 'We are Australian' at the Harmony Day match.

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[Peaches]

Your missing the point here Allan. To you your supporters group are all innocent soccer fans who hoot and holler and sing and chant in support of you team. Maybe because you are young you don't see the risks associated with a large group displaying mob mentality with a militant structure. This is a perfect organisation for the antisocial to join so they can run amok with relative anonnimity due to the power of numbers. This is already starting to manifest with people chucking flares, causing damage and covering their faces. This in your first year. It will get worse no doubt as the popularity of your club increases. You have stated that you think your numbers will swell next year. I hope for your sake when it does the new members are soccer fans and not from the group I am suggesting they come from.

We don't have a militant structure. We have volunteers who help run a very much volunteer organisation.
And I can assure you many members of the RBB don't want these people. We call them 'flogs' and we are hoping they'll find something else to entertain them.

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[Blackpearl]

Haha you talk about the so called RBB like your some gods gift to Australian sport. Thinking its your right to have the streets closed so you can all march as a MOB to a game of football…
Sure your chanting and mimicry of 'capo's' as you call them is just a bit of dorky fun. If it remains that way then no harm no foul. However it is plainly obvious that many see what your doing as far more important than that. That is where your little group will get itself into trouble.
I didn't say you were a bunch of hooligans yet. Disrespectful? Most definitely. Hooliganism will come with time. Have you any idea how many gang members are apart of your group? What about anti social trouble makers? This is where these people hide.....right in plain sight.

unfortunately many are duped by media bias . 9 and 7 have obvious agendas that they need to follow to maximise their financial gains on nrl and afl. football is the world game and generates passions that the nrl can only dream of.

as for hooligans at sporting events the worst by far that i have witnessed were dogs ( aptly named ) supporters running riot through the anz stadium in 2006\. kicking car doors, running across car bonnets and generally abusing any wetstigers fans and / or the vehicles that they were in. strangely did not even rate a mention on channel 9, funny about that !

the nrl and sydney based teams in particular are fortunate that the a-league football season is a summer sport

 

[Marshall_magic]

I want to know what the attraction is for these thugs bringing flares is? Also where are they hiding them as they enter the stadium cos surely the officials aren't dumb enough to not search people thoroughly at the gate

I have seen people entering the stadium with 3-4 flares in their pockets. It amazes me that they get through security, I never look out for them, but I can still find them (and this is often right outside the turnstyles). It amazes me that they get them through, although I believe security at some stadiums could be more diligent. On occasion some of the people I go with have their pockets frisked, although I have never had it happen to me.

As for the attraction? I have no idea, my guess would be playing to the cameras, although they have been set off before during the marches, so maybe not. I am not bother by them, I have grown immune after being caught in the smoke many times, it doesn't affect my breathing anymore (which probably isn't a good thing).

 

[Fade_To_Black]

I am a member of the RBB and this is a true take of what occurred.

I got to the Woolpack pub at 10:45 where a few hundred fans had congregated. **We weren't really singing at all as the band leaders were already in the city.**

We marched to Parramatta Station where we were singing to catch the train. TV cameras and photographers everywhere. Whoever led the march took us on the wrong platform which was a little embarrassing. We sung throughout the train ride. There were a few other people from the public on there but only Wanderers fans caught the train after we get on and I think that was a fairly smart move. Hahaha. We were fairly loud.

We marched through Central and had 7 pubs around Central Station to drink at which were organised by RBB leaders. The RBB core and a few guys from the band were at the Aurora Hotel and I managed to join my mates in there. We sung loud and proud as many Wanderers fans waited on the streets to be apart of the march. I saw a few camera crews looking to get interviews and whatnot but there is a general rule amongst the fans that we don't talk in the media after a couple of incidents were very much sensationalised.

The march came and we walked up Foveaux St. We started on the footpath but it become quite clear with the few thousand people matching that the road would be a better option to move the crowd and the police started to close down the roads. I think one or flares were let off as were little bungers but other then that, the locals and those in their cars had many smiles on their faces. It was an awesome sight looking back over the march. Photographers and TV cameras everywhere.

The march continued all the way to the stadium where stadium management stuffed up big time. It seemed everyone had a ticket for gate C for some reason and people were moving very slowly. I waited outside for over an hour and just got in before kick-off. They were frisking everyone and had 3 or 4 people doing this until they realized the crowd wasn't moving. They had so many police just standing there and they could have helped frisk if they had to and move the crowd along.

Inside the stadium was a cauldron. I had awesome seats a few rows from the front just to the side of the centre of the RBB. I was impressed by the Mariners fans who turned out for the grand final. Their side deserves their support during the season, not just the big game.

The national anthem was sung but we are at the RBB didn't know and were already singing. Once we realised we stopped and we heard the last line only. A bit of a shame there but was just how loud the stadium was.

Then the match was played. The Mariners quite clearly outplayed the Wanderers tonight. The officiating was poor and had the rub of the green gone our way tonight, it could be a 2-1 victory for us. Nonetheless it didn't work out that way and a great season had. I think we won the battle of active support though and it was great to see so many smiling people. A few flares lit off which is never great but no one was hurt.

Those seats at Allianz are just poor quality and quite clearly no where near the strength of Parramatta Stadium. We in the RBB stand on the seats at the game unless its those ones that flip up. And these seats were cracking and breaking off under the weight of a 55 kilogram teenage girl. And there was a lot more heavier people then here there too. Hahaha. We didn't destroy the stadium. It was literally breaking underneath us.

The turning of our backs on the Mariners I thought was a bit of a bad look. They were deserved winners. We didn't have to shut-up but we could of kept chanting while facing forwards.

So all in all a good night not great because of a loss. Most Wanderers fans recognised we were outplayed but were just still so proud of the performance of the boys throughout their debut season. I can't wait for next season now.

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Does anyone from the RBB start a sentence by saying "this one time…..at band camp....."? :wink:

Along with some others on here, I can see where the Wanderers' supporters fanaticism comes from and it is great, but from what you see and hear it is pretty obvious that a lot of so-called fans (from plenty of teams) just go to the game for anything BUT to watch the game. No wonder that it takes so long to get through the gates, move and act like an intimidating mob and the authorities are gonna be all over you, it isn't rocket science. The only group of people in this country that have earned the right and respect to have streets closed to accomodate their marching is the mighty men and women who have served this country in war.

As for the knobheads throwing flares.....they should be hunted down by security and made to smoke a burning flare down to the stub, melting their lips together, and then they may have the feeling of what it would be like to have one lobbed on them in the crowd.

Australia as a nation can do without this crap TBH.

 

[T-D-C]

Pictures of the Damage done to the seats at the SFS.


Wonder if the SFS Management know where to send the bill of damage to the RBB Members?

 

[Muffstar]

Pictures of the Damage done to the seats at the SFS.


Wonder if the SFS Management know where to send the bill of damage to the RBB Members?

Just vandalism imo. Smeg made a comment earlier, if it were the Bulldog's supporters or any other NRL side for that matter, it would be front page news, about how thugish League supporters are and it's true.

 

[Peaches]

I'm betting not many people on this forum have been to a game, so none of you have any idea on what the makeup of the crowd is. It's exactly the same as every other support group for a sporting side. Young men, families, couples, grandparents, etc. Unless you have seen the crowd for yourself, you're making an uneducated guess and I can tell you first hand your wrong.

It's getting to the point where I'm about giving up on defending the club I love to a bunch of people whose opinions are made-up without seeing it for themselves. Do yourself a favour and experience it for yourself next season. Don't let your preconceived ideas rob you from this experience. Bring your family, you'll have a ball and all for a cost cheaper then going to Campbelltown.

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[Peaches]

Pictures of the Damage done to the seats at the SFS.


Wonder if the SFS Management know where to send the bill of damage to the RBB Members?

Just vandalism imo. Smeg made a comment earlier, if it were the Bulldog's supporters or any other NRL side for that matter, it would be front page news, about how thugish League supporters are and it's true.

As I've said many times the seats were braking under the weight of a healthy teenage girl. I'm not saying some weren't vandalised, but they broke under a girl who was definately one of the smaller people there.

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[T-D-C]

Pictures of the Damage done to the seats at the SFS.


Wonder if the SFS Management know where to send the bill of damage to the RBB Members?

Just vandalism imo. Smeg made a comment earlier, if it were the Bulldog's supporters or any other NRL side for that matter, it would be front page news, about how thugish League supporters are and it's true.

As I've said many times the seats were braking under the weight of a healthy teenage girl. I'm not saying some weren't vandalised, but they broke under a girl who was definately one of the smaller people there.

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Then you should not be standing on the seats? What gives you or any other fan the right to stand on the seats, and then break them? are the RBB or the wanderers paying for the damages caused?

I'm sure that the metal fixtures were not bent by the weight of a teenage girl.

 

[happy_tiger]

Pictures of the Damage done to the seats at the SFS.


Wonder if the SFS Management know where to send the bill of damage to the RBB Members?

Just vandalism imo. Smeg made a comment earlier, if it were the Bulldog's supporters or any other NRL side for that matter, it would be front page news, about how thugish League supporters are and it's true.

As I've said many times the seats were braking under the weight of a healthy teenage girl. I'm not saying some weren't vandalised, but they broke under a girl who was definately one of the smaller people there.

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Last time I checked seats were for sitting on or changing light bulbs , not for standing on or jumping and dancing on

Isn't that plain common sense or do the RBB members get to play by a different set of rules because they are special and almost won the title ??

Using that theory the Roar should of been able to burn Suncorp Stadium down multiple times

 

[Peaches]

Pictures of the Damage done to the seats at the SFS.


Wonder if the SFS Management know where to send the bill of damage to the RBB Members?

Just vandalism imo. Smeg made a comment earlier, if it were the Bulldog's supporters or any other NRL side for that matter, it would be front page news, about how thugish League supporters are and it's true.

As I've said many times the seats were braking under the weight of a healthy teenage girl. I'm not saying some weren't vandalised, but they broke under a girl who was definately one of the smaller people there.

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Last time I checked seats were for sitting on or changing light bulbs , not for standing on or jumping and dancing on

Isn't that plain common sense or do the RBB members get to play by a different set of rules because they are special and almost won the title ??

Using that theory the Roar should of been able to burn Suncorp Stadium down multiple times

The RBB are not the only active support who stand on the seats. Most active support do it. I don't know why it occurs, but it does.

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[Peaches]

Pictures of the Damage done to the seats at the SFS.


Wonder if the SFS Management know where to send the bill of damage to the RBB Members?

Just vandalism imo. Smeg made a comment earlier, if it were the Bulldog's supporters or any other NRL side for that matter, it would be front page news, about how thugish League supporters are and it's true.

As I've said many times the seats were braking under the weight of a healthy teenage girl. I'm not saying some weren't vandalised, but they broke under a girl who was definately one of the smaller people there.

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Then you should not be standing on the seats? What gives you or any other fan the right to stand on the seats, and then break them? are the RBB or the wanderers paying for the damages caused?

I'm sure that the metal fixtures were not bent by the weight of a teenage girl.

I can say personally that at matches I've been to, we stand on the seats unless its those flip ones. I don't know why, it's just an active support thing I guess.

I haven't seen them brake like on Sunday afternoon/night and yes once again they were breaking underneath the weight of a teenage girl.

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[T-D-C]

I can say personally that at matches I've been to, we stand on the seats unless its those flip ones. I don't know why, it's just an active support thing I guess.
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I haven't seen them brake like on Sunday afternoon/night and yes once again they were breaking underneath the weight of a teenage girl.
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So you would be happy if a bunch of Storm or another "active" supporters came to Leichardt stood on the chairs and broke them all? You should not be standing on the seats and destroying other people property period! :bash Its the blatant disregard for other people & property that pisses me off. Same with the whole Passion is not a crime bullshit. Yes it is a bloody crime if your destroying other peoples property, harassing other supporters and throwing crap onto the field.

Seems like some in the RBB think they are above the rules just because they are "Active" Support. What a crock of shit.

I hope the SFS find out who were the owners of each and every ticket that destroyed a seat and ban the lot from the stadium for life!

 

[Peaches]

I can say personally that at matches I've been to, we stand on the seats unless its those flip ones. I don't know why, it's just an active support thing I guess.
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I haven't seen them brake like on Sunday afternoon/night and yes once again they were breaking underneath the weight of a teenage girl.
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So you would be happy if a bunch of Storm or another "active" supporters came to Leichardt stood on the chairs and broke them all? You should not be standing on the seats and destroying other people property period! :bash Its the blatant disregard for other people & property that pisses me off. Same with the whole Passion is not a crime bullshit. Yes it is a bloody crime if your destroying other peoples property, harassing other supporters and throwing crap onto the field.

Seems like some in the RBB think they are above the rules just because they are "Active" Support. What a crock of shit.

I hope the SFS find out who were the owners of each and every ticket that destroyed a seat and ban the lot from the stadium for life!

Obviously I wouldn't be happy if Leuchardt was trashed and I'm not happy about what happened to Allianz either.

I haven't seen the seats destroyed like that so I don't know what you want me to say. This isn't a weekly thing and if they break under the weight of a healthy teenage girl, they probably aren't the strongest.

And I don't think many of the people there meant to just break things and go on a rampage. I'm not doubting some would as there are some so called fans amongst the support base who are just outright knobs. But how do you ban a knob from an active support group?

There are some RBB core who say they just want to literally flog a couple of blokes because of the way they act. What gives any supporter the right and ability to say no you're not welcome? It's an event they paid their ticket to so they have every right to be there.

Harassing other supporters are isolated events. Same as Tigers fans do to other fans. Don't blame societal problems on a sporting group.

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[stryker]

Who's this healthy 55 kilo girl Allan that is causing all this damage? She is a menace and must be stopped at all costs…..

 

[Peaches]

Who's this healthy 55 kilo girl Allan that is causing all this damage? She is a menace and must be stopped at all costs…..

She was your typical football loving teenage girl funnily enough. You know those girls who rack up big phone bills and love shopping with their friends. They're so intimidating.

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[stryker]

Hahaha yeah she sounds awful.

 

[Yossarian]

I think the core issue is that regardless of whether you're 55kg or 155kg, don't stand on the bloody seats!!!

 

[stryker]

Bring your family, you'll have a ball and all for a cost cheaper then going to Campbelltown.

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This sentence confirms my feelings earlier on in this thread. You sound like a scientologist on the recruit. Nothing against people having other interests but when you come onto the Wests Tigers Forum…which supports a joint venture, one half of which represents the McCarthur region, and brag about a rival code new to the area all the while having sly digs about our club....well it doesn't take a genius to see through your words. I said before this RBB thing sounds like a cult. The more you talk about it the more that assertion sounds right.