Carlton Supporters Club

Yep, that is bullcrap behaviour that has gone on too long.

Rubber bullets and tazers from now on, but only after a year or two playing without crowds to let them all cool off.

I'd also ban anyone U18 from attending games, to free up authorities to be a bit more authoritarian. I'm thinking dogs, truncheons, riot shields and the like from the good old days of the EPL!

I think either the States or the Feds should fine the FA, and I mean seriously fine them 7 or 8 figures to force them to lift their game! I write that because the problem isn't just caused by the fans, it's almost encouraged by the authorities. The bosses grin like idiots when someone asks them formally about flares or venue damage, they take it as a joke question.

The same spoilt brat fans going to or leaving games destroy station platforms, buses and trains, they cost the public more than the sport is earning locally.

Sorry, but the exhibited behaviour is indefensible at all levels and comparing other sports to what happened isn't a sound argument.  What's with these bloody flares anyways?  Never seen one of those at the AFL.  Fancy blaming a player for what happened by pinging one back!?! There's an elephant in the room that won't be addressed - there's a section of these supporter bases that just doesn't get it. Never have, never will.   It lead to clubs getting shut down in the past and I wonder if Victory, among others, is being seriously looked at.

You're right the behaviour was indefensible on every level but I will say the keeper should not have tossed the flare back into the crowd, that was pure stupidity on his part and should be sanctioned.
The players should all agree on a new rule that from now on, first sign of a flare and they run off the ground and the game is cancelled and made null and void (ie scores cancelled as the crowd could use it to an advantage). I would then reschedule the game with no crowd (competing teams to foot the bill).

Listening to the wireless this morning was enlightening.  Apparently, after many supporters had left, those remaining were families with young children who stayed in the hope that the game would re-commence.  It's not fair to those young soccer fans that the airheads with axes to grind spoil the game and, potentially, the competition, for them.

Sorry, but the exhibited behaviour is indefensible at all levels and comparing other sports to what happened isn't a sound argument.  What's with these bloody flares anyways?  Never seen one of those at the AFL.  Fancy blaming a player for what happened by pinging one back!?! There's an elephant in the room that won't be addressed - there's a section of these supporter bases that just doesn't get it. Never have, never will.   It lead to clubs getting shut down in the past and I wonder if Victory, among others, is being seriously looked at.

One flare in 22 years, yep that's a massive problem compared to flares on what, a weekly basis?

Every boat in Victoria is supposed to carry flares as part of safety equipment, they're too easy to obtain and the penalties for incorrect use too light.  You can't legislate human stupidity.

Collingwood vs Carlton Millenium match was the last time I saw a Flare at an AFL game.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-22/tempers-flare-at-the-mcg-after-collingwood-and-carlton-game/101356288

That's a recent fight between fans, that was hidden under the table.

Not deflecting anything, but flares at the soccer is a massive cultural icon globally and only in Australia does it seem to be a huge problem. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf8Vz7Kf0hE

People are idiots everywhere.  Only the soccer gets focussed on here in this fashion.  Regarding it going on too long...  That was an assertion LP claimed like it happens frequently or all the time.  The game was homogenised in 2004 and its ended up exactly where it started.

Yep, flares are a minor irritation c.f. invading the playing field and assaulting a player and officials. That's crossing a line that beggars belief.

Last time I was really shocked at crowd behaviour was the day the crowd wanted to take on Darren Milburn at PP...the atmosphere was like a dry field on a fire ban day while lightning cracked overhead.