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demo1 6yo boy 6 years 10 months ago #1

demo1
I was wondering if any fellow DLers have come across this before and Im looking for some advice from outside.
Sorry if it is a bit of a rant and not the right forum..

Anyway my 6yo son loves footy, loves freo and has a passion for footy that I really admire. He likes all teams and enjoys little things like the banner, change room shots, team songs and the umps putting the ball in the air..
This year we have noticed he is not playing at school much any more despite being a great player for his age and kills it at his auskick games.
He is a popular little fella and is always included in most things in and out of school so it is a little unusual as he cant wait to play at home.
Anyway we had a melt down on the weekend as he has to go to school next week dressed as his future job. He was to go as a docker player. Like about ten kids in his class, He wants to be an AFL player. The difference being he is the only Docker.
Slowly over the last few days he has opened up and told us why he doesnt want to go as a docker now..
It appears he has copped a fair bit about supporting the dockers. His class is made up of slime supporters as are the teachers and there is constant banter towards him and he cant understand the hatrid. He asked me last night - Why do we go for the Dockers and not the Eagles?.
The principal is also a slime supporter and even brings it up at assemblies and flies the WCE flag after wins on the school flag pole.
He says they always give it to him after the dockers get beat, sing stupid songs and of course rave about how good the weags are all the time. In the games at school, the bigger dominant kids are the eagles and he and the kids that cant play footy are the Dockers..he has to say he supports the weags to get on the other team.
We have had a good think about it and in hindsight we have even seen other parents make stupid cracks at kids parties, parks etc when he has his freo gear on. Prob joking but still taken on board by him..
It is now really annoying me. The other mob are constantly put on a pedastal about how good they are, the media only talk positively and we very rarely get any good press out of WA..This inspires the yellow & blue masses even more.
Hey its only footy but we are seeing a little fella getting hammered (albeit probably not intentionally or hurtful) because he supports Freo..
What do we do without losing the plot at someone??
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Docker by the Sea 6yo boy 6 years 10 months ago #2

Docker by the Sea
Believe it or not demo happens both ways. Our principal is dockers supporter and during footy season has light hearted banter about Eagles. That's just the way it is.
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rogerrocks 6yo boy 6 years 10 months ago #3

rogerrocks
I noticed this many years ago when I started mixing with young people at uni. It was when Freo weren't much chop, and I noticed that none of the young kids had the ego strength to support a non-dominant team. All of the oldies were happy to, but for the kids in their late teens, backing a loser was not something they could cope with. And I suspect it is more so in primary school.
My son was a slime supporter. I took him and his slime loving cousin to a derby when he was 10 or so. Freo went well (it might have been 2003) and I rubbed it in. Some time in the 2nd quarter I was told to stop it if I didn't want to be hit :-)
But I do feel for your son. And I don't know what you do about it, other than change schools.
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finalport 6yo boy 6 years 10 months ago #4

finalport
Demo, why not have a friendly chat with the principal. He/she probably has no idea of the effect these actions are having on your little fella.
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blockerhall 6yo boy 6 years 10 months ago #5

blockerhall
Probably the simplest way for me to discuss this is with an anecdote taken from my children's time at Auskick. My kids played down at Menzies with the mighty Mt Hawthorn Cardinals (Hello Sam P-P). The normal situation on a Sunday morning would be over a hundred-odd Eagles jumpers, maybe 20 Dockers jumpers, and a smatter of the rest.

One Sunday the forecast was for inclement weather. Rain, high winds, cold, the works. No-one knew if Auskick was going to be on or not. But we decided we should rock up and see. The only kids that turned up that morning were kids with Dockers jumpers. And it was probably a 90% turnout of them.

Tell your boy he's barracking for the right team. For the right reason. Barracking for the other team is for the wrong reason. He may not understand yet. But he will.
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Wharfie Time 6yo boy 6 years 10 months ago #6

Wharfie Time
Dunno if this will help.

I grew up as a Catholic in a little country town. Due to family brainwashing I just always quietly believed Catholics were better than people of other religions. We were certainly more interesting - incense, proper warlike hymns, priests with Irish accents who drank, mysterious practices like confession and communion, lots of dressing up, AND we outbred everyone so our influence was on the rise. I was NEVER bullied about being a left footer. Other kids who were Catholics and probably brighter than I was WERE bullied, because they lacked my inscrutable smuggery.

I find being a Dockers supporter is very like being Catholic. I firmly believe we are nicer and more interesting and fairer and better in every way. This means I can just say "Yeah Right" in a very annoying tone to my Eagles friends if they are silly enough to try engage in what they think is repartee. They have learned not to go on with it.

So my pretty dodgy advice is to explain to your son why we are secretly better in every way (we have man buns, the tallest player, Brady Grey etc etc), teach him how to use the Yeah Right technique and (at the age of six) give him a few ways he can change the subject to eg PLAYING footy.
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guy smiley 6yo boy 6 years 10 months ago #7

guy smiley
I have a daughter that I wasn't able to live with due to various reasons surrounding the need to wear a suit of flame resistant armour and carry a can of reptile repellent whenever I ventured near her other parent.

Way back in the day she confided a similar story about being hassled at school for being a Freo supporter... she was the only one at her northern suburbs primary and the other brain dead little zombie clones had it in for her.

This was back when things were grim. You know... Those Days. The Drum Years.

I was torn, I didn't want to pressure her about anything but I was chuffed to the max. So I told her that... I was proud of her choices and glad she supported my team but that it wasn't worth taking grief for if she didn't want to. At the end of the day it was only a game, sort of thing. I was always careful to make sure she knew I loved her though back in those days because I never knew if or when that time with her would be taken away so every moment was nurtured and nurturing.

Years later, after those moments were taken away and I had finally found her again after a long time apart, she mentioned in a call from Melbourne where she's at uni that she still follows Freo but she'd sort of got a second team now. How cool was that? After all that time and a lot of years with no contact, she still follows Freo? I was chuffed...


but there's an issue. The other team she follows is Hawthorn. Now she's just some red head trying to find her way in the world and good luck with that.
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White 6yo boy 6 years 10 months ago #8

White
Perhaps you could reinforce to your son the magnificent old addage of Doctor Seuss's, "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind!"

I'm an individual that enjoys being marginally unlike the masses, and I take pleasure in knowing that I'm not a "sheep" that acts on pressures implied by society. This notion is the exact reason I have loved being a Dockers supporter for 22 years now!!
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teasea 6yo boy 6 years 10 months ago #9

teasea
Send your story to FFC and just maybe a player could go to his school and give a talk and win others over, tho I guess these days they want to be paid for things like that!!!
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jimb2 6yo boy 6 years 10 months ago #10

jimb2
I second the chat with the principal. That sort of thing is way out of line. Every school would want to create an inclusive culture and if they are falling short they probably want to know.
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shane 6yo boy 6 years 10 months ago #11

shane
Send your story to the Eagles and just maybe a player could go to his school and give a talk and put the others off them.
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Raglan Matt 6yo boy 6 years 10 months ago #12

Raglan Matt
My sister is a Freo supporting teacher at a school in the Eastern Suburbs of Perth, you know the area, it has bred a few good footy players and the odd taxi driver/superstar. She has to put up with eagles loving co-workers and a principal who are absolute "Cam Blakemore" "Ray Sorrell" level of dropkicks. The only thing that makes the job bearable is walking in to school on a Monday after a winning derby with the obligatory purple on, and not saying a word. It drives them mad she reckons, and makes the other 50 weeks of the year worth it.

Tell your young fella he is a class above those who are trying to put him down, and school only lasts for a few years, they however have the shame of supporting the eagles stuck to them for life.
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larkin 6yo boy 6 years 10 months ago #13

larkin
Child abuse (the school) and snowflake comes to mind.
As they say
 What Doesn't Kill You, Will Make You Stronger

I got razzed at school from teachers and students for my wog looks.
I reckon it made me a little more tolerant as a person and less racist and that can't be a bad thing.
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hypen 6yo boy 6 years 10 months ago #14

hypen
I have sons down at Mt Lawley Inglewood football club and there are more GWS jumpers than Fremantle jumpers at training.

Blocker, there is a kid who played for the Cardies by the name of Rhiann Cox. Playing for East Perth Colts now. If he isnt the first indigenous WA cricketer to play for Australia he may end up being better than Sam PP.
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