https://www.fromthestandsal.com/2016/11/28/troubles-in-the-terrace/ Mon, 09 Oct 2017 22:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.9 https://www.fromthestandsal.com/2016/11/28/troubles-in-the-terrace/#comment-5499 Mon, 28 Nov 2016 07:46:00 +0000 https://www.fromthestandsal.com/?p=10688#comment-5499 It’s a shame that this perception of the NT fans as being solely out for themselves has permeated into this article. As a terrace member for over ten years I am not someone who booed my fellow fans and I don’t know if I could to be honest – we’re all paying customers of a football franchise at the end of the day, not proper member so my voice counts for little. However this article doesn’t present or attempt to investigate why these events have occurred except to link it to the long running (and outdated) stereotype of “thuggish” football fans in Australia for some reason. Has anyone thought to actually ask who was booing and why? As someone with no affiliation with the NTC, or any formal group past or present, I can certainly understand why some people booed when the club and their fellow fans have seemingly betrayed, co-opted & rebranded the very thing that these “thugs’ spent years investing their lives in. If there hadn’t been a dedicated group of football fans behind the goals since Olympic Park, would the club even have half of their marketing appeal? (or marketing material?) The fans do count for something, in some way. Why the need to harshly label those who spent years and thousands of their dollars (with no assistance from and sometimes outright hostility from the club) trying to make this club more than just a franchise in their own little way?

]]> https://www.fromthestandsal.com/2016/11/28/troubles-in-the-terrace/#comment-5498 Mon, 28 Nov 2016 06:30:00 +0000 https://www.fromthestandsal.com/?p=10688#comment-5498 Very well said. Sums up the thoughts of a lot of fans

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