(SEAN WALSH is a Melbourne Victory fan and BPL A-League blogger.)

Those following the A-League news of late will be disheartened to learn that the people of Victoria have been swindled. 

Apparently AAMI Park, that brilliant new facility along Swan Street, has been erected and providing a base for the Melbourne soccer teams with a fatal design flaw. It only contains one stand. 

(Or so you'd be led to believe if you read the blog of North Terrace regular Remy Davies on this site on Wednesday.) 

But those supporters in the North Terrace would do well to look around and realise they are but one part of the support for Melbourne Victory. 

They are a group of supporters much loved but also, in some measure, loathed by others within the club. Granted they provide the most vocal support and are a significant part of the atmosphere on match day. However they are not the sole reason for the club's success and should stop purporting to be so. 

These are the same fans that were giving Danny Allsopp the boo-boy treatment in season one and have been calling for Ernie Merrick's head since a few weeks into that season. So they have hardly proven themselves to be the most football savvy of supporters. 

They have been vocal with their complaints and the "woe is me" attitude is starting to wear more than a little thin.  Complaints of over indulgence by security/police and a lack of love from the club will only be taken seriously when they get their own house in order.  

They are supposedly an organised supporter group but are unable to police themselves. Until they are able to stop their own members from bringing in flares, or if the culprits are from outside their group assisting authorities to identify the miscreants, they can hardly complain about searches and over-officiousness by authorities. 

Flares are dangerous and have no place inside a modern stadium.  Come to think of it they have no place inside an outdated stadium either. To show what kind of intellect we are dealing with, Exhibit One is the brain surgeon who decided to throw a flare from the third tier of Etihad (in season three or four from memory).

They complain of assaults or mistreatment by security but allow those within their number to spit on or otherwise degrade security staff and police. 

Again, police yourselves and no-one else will have to. Don't expect too many favours from the people you and your mates have been spitting on and swearing at for the last hour or so.

Once they have taken action to fix these ills, they might find themselves in a position of strength when negotiating for their rights.

The North Terrace group up a banner the other night which read: 'No fans, no past, no future. Without us you are nothing'.

I'd suggest these supporters grow up and seek treatment for the delusion that they are bigger than the club.