sturtpeter

[bulldogproud]

Hoping that Sturtpeter is still reading this thread. Top guy whom I miss now I am at Mildura. Hoping you still have my number. Please give me a call sometime. Will pass anything on to Seamus Maloney that you would like. He is coaching the side I am doing stats for here.
Cheers

[MagicKiwi]

Yes strutpierre - nice to meet you also.

[therisingblues]

"Wolfie" ran out and gave him a gob full, Stringer swung at him and "Wolfie" put his arm up to block it just as the Cameras caught the action and it looked like Wolf had swung at Stringer. A very infamous event which got National news headlines. Completely twisted and blown out of proportion by having a drunken Neil Kerley and Harry Kernahan claiming to have seen it. The weight of witnesses later that told the Police that Stringer swung at him ensured no further action was taken although Wolfies family wanted action against Stringer and their pound of his flesh too.

The site of about 50 irate North supporters trying to get into the Glenelg changerooms but stopped by the Police and Kerley and Kernahan yelling out obcsenities and bullsh*t from the safety of being behind the Police was very interesting - now amusing but could have got really ugly at the time.

I agree with your final statement that it "could have got really ugly at the time" had the police not been there. Footy is one thing, and a brief punch up between two individuals in the crowd watching the Footy is a step too far, but a mob of about 50 supporters attempting to get into the opposition player's changerooms in retaliation for something that happened on the Footy field is a leap into a violent abyss. If a supporter enters the playing arena and wants to get confrontational with a player then he's taking his own chances, if everybody begins over-reacting, because the player over-reacted then of course, as you said it could get really ugly.
I think the above shows just how out of hand things can get when spectators on the actual playing field begin mouthing off at players. They have been known to clock one another for things that are said out on the field, that may be right or wrong, part of the game or something that needs to be stamped out, but why should specatators feel the right to immunity from retaliation if they're going to engage in the same practice? You announce yourself in the ring, then you play by those rules.