OT - SteveA would feel my pain

monsterman said:

super14 Reds -v- 'tahs

We go down at Suncorp 16-12 (I'm under weather due to bundy & cola front moving in)

Great view - box at 50m mark - pre game dinner at Gambaros etc, everything primed and lined up for a great night, but the boys could not get up .... ...... Roll on 07 when one Eddie Jones arrives to take over the reigns ... .... SteveA do you feel my pain????

Yep, I feel and share your pain. And my pain and pleasure on Friday night as well.

Western Force v Brumbies. The loss brought pain, but for a new team playing its first ever serious game against a team with more than half its players having Australian caps, the Force's try brought great pleasure. We have "Gold" Force memberships with seats on one try line right where the Force try was scored. Woo hoo.

Then the pain of the Reds game. (The pain started with the move from Ballymore which I blame in no small way for the loss by Qld)

My two teams - the Force because they are my local team and the Reds because I grew up playing in Qld.

A lot of Force members must have two teams, as many would come from somewhere else that plays rugby and would have a 'birthplace' team as well as the WAA team.

Went to a function and met the Force players - there are a lot of young lads - roll on '07 and '08. With a bit of age and experience........

SteveA

Its great to have some more decent rugby union in WA. but too many
[censored] singing Perth Glory songs after the game.... whats with that?

Steve, where were u sitting? ... I was in some "cheap" seats.. but had
an excellent view

alex said:

Its great to have some more decent rugby union in WA. but too many
[censored] singing Perth Glory songs after the game.... whats with that?

Steve, where were u sitting? ... I was in some "cheap" seats.. but had
an excellent view

Section 124 Rows P & Q. There are 8 of us (2 families) sitting together. Seven out of the eight of us were in the big photo of the crowd in the Sunday paper. The photo was a collage of various parts of the crowd photo-shopped together. The photo editor cut me out of the photo. My family think it is very funny. In their view I am not attractive enough to appear in a family newspaper!

Perth Glory songs? Was it on the buses and trains home? There used to be a fair bit of singing on the transport home after previous games but we now have secure car parking 5 minutes walk from the game (discounting time spent in the Irish Club which is in a direct line between the car and the game) so don't get the 'atmosphere' on the trains and buses.

I hope it was just because there aren't any Western Force songs yet. I'd hate to think that we might see 'soccer crowd' behaviour rather than 'rugby crowd' behaviour in the future. I'm not having a go at soccer or its supporters - I used to be a Hellenic/St George South supporter in Brisbane and my youngest brother played for them - but there is a certain behaviour that I hope not to see.

For example, the Moon and Sixpence is an English pub which draws the soccer crowd. It has had to ban the wearing of soccer team jerseys as they cause trouble. On the other hand, the Irish Club encourages the rugby crowd on match days and probably 80% are wearing rugby jerseys (both teams that are playing and other teams as well) and they have no trouble at all, at all, at all.

Steve(too unattractive to appear in a family newspaper)A