When it comes to annoying fans, I know some of my fellow Dragons supporters are right up there.
Some of them have an irritating sense of entitlement, as though the mere fact that they support St George means that the premiership is always theirs by some sort of divine right.
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You'd have thought not winning a premiership since 1979 would have knocked that out of them, but you'd be wrong. It's an arrogance that annoys me - and I support the same team as them.
Others might give the "most annoying" crown to the Bulldogs supporters. And maybe the "most dangerous" as well.
Me, I find it hard to go past Souths fans as the most annoying. Not all of them, mind you, just the ones who buy into all those hoary old myths about Souths.
You know - being "the pride of the league", how "when South Sydney are doing well rugby league is doing well", bragging about how they've won more premierships that anyone else and the team stands for truth, justice and all things bright and shiny.
I've had enough of that "pride of the league" tag which arrogantly implies that South Sydney are somehow better than every other team ever to have played in the competition. Not even a Dragons fan would be so arrogant as to make that claim for their team.
Even worse, it's a phrase they bestowed upon themselves. Really, a team that has made the finals once (ONCE!) since 1989 and has won three wooden spoons this decade has no business referring to themselves as the pride of anything.
Equally arrogant is the idea that the league's health relies heavily on South Sydney. What a joke - Souths have sucked worse than an industrial suction pump pretty much every year since 1989 but the game itself kept on going. And it certainly didn't even come close to falling into a heap in 2000-01 when the Bunnies weren't in the comp at all.
If anything, the facts show that Souths' performances are actually irrelevant to the health of the league.
As for winning the most premierships, this is true - they've won 20. But they won 11 of the premierships between 1908 and 1932 and not once were there more than nine teams in the comp.
In fact, just four of those 20 premierships were won in competitions boasting more than 10 teams (incidentally, all of the Dragons 15 titles were won in comps of 10 teams or more). Sorry, but winning comps that only have a few teams in them isn't exactly something to crow about.
They also seem to be the most fickle supporters in the comp. Back in 2002, I headed off to see the Charity Shield, which marked the Bunnies' first game back after their two-year axing.
As expected, the Sydney Football Stadium was awash in red and green jerseys (some so new they were probably bought at the merchandise stall on the way in). I looked around and said to myself, "if you guys could have been bothered to turn up to games three years ago your team would never have been kicked out".
But that season, the Bunnies started losing and all these fans who turned up for the Charity Shield suddenly found suddenly found something better to do than go watch their own team.
They'd whinged for two seasons about not being able to see the Bunnies play yet it just took a handful of losses for them to give up on their team all over again.
There's a more personal side to my dislike of Souths fans. In all the games I've been to over the years - including a few Bulldogs games - the most obnoxious and offensive fans I've experienced were barracking for South Sydney.
It was at a WIN Stadium game late in the 2007 season. The Souths fan in front of me spent the entire game screaming some pretty offensive things at the players and officials, not caring that there were women and children sitting within earshot.
When an elderly man asked him to shut up, he returned fire with such a vicious reply that I could see spit flying out of his mouth.
Then it was my turn to be on the receiving end when I'd had enough of his obscenity.
If he hadn't ruined the game and forever tainted my opinion of Souths fans, there was the tool outside the ground with one of those big plastic trumpets. He thought it hilarious to sneak up behind me and blast my eardrums with his trumpet. Then he tried to pick a fight with me after I told him I found temporary deafness much less hilarious than he did.
There, my rant is finished. Now I'll just sit back and await the angry emails from Souths fans. All six of them.
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