I've found Eagles supporters at Subi to be pretty bad. In 2009, two young blokes — 20-something, big boys, looked like tradies — sat behind the cheer squad drinking all day — the Eagles only allocate two rows of seats to the cheer squad, the rest of the bay is opposition — and started abusing the hairstyles of cheer squad ladies, calling them fat and ugly, etc.

I stood up and told them to shut up, and they wanted to belt me! I had my three kids there! The cops came down and escorted them out, then the rest of the crowd started hurling abuse at us for “getting them kicked out”.

Another incident, this one last year, I was taking my babies to the toilets at half time, and we were all decked out of course in Dogs gear and the boys were totally thrashing them, this older guy — maybe 40-45 — slams into the back of me as he walks past. I've called after him, “Oy, that's a bit unnecessary, you idiot” and he turned around and pushed me, screaming, “Come on mate, let's go!” I told him if my kids weren't there I'd like nothing more than to watch him bleed all over his Eagles guernsey, and to rack off before I called it a day on him with the cops. He called me a c---head and stormed off. My little girl asked me what a c---head was. I told her “that fella that just walked off” and said no more

Swans fans last year in Canberra were very well behaved. Absolute credit to them. Best interstate crowd I'd ever been in.