Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou has decried some of the "cheerleading" on both sides of the banned A-League fans debate, saying it is an important issue but certain fan groups are starting to take it too far.

The publication of a list of 198 fans banned from FFA sanctioned matches led to mass walkouts by fans at last weekend's games, with this weekend's A-League matches featuring large swathes of empty seats as supporters' groups boycotted games altogether.

Many fans have levelled criticism at the FFA and chief executive David Gallop for not defending the sport when Scott Weber, from the NSW Police Association labelled them "grubs".

The FFA has attempted to make amends by belatedly responding to News Corp Australia's outing of the banned fans, and addressing issues like the lack of an appeals process.

Sorry, this video has expired Ange Postecoglou talks on Offsiders.

But Postecoglou says the supporters groups could become their own worst enemies as they vie for moral ownership of the game.

"I think for the first week, the supporters handled themselves pretty well, the protests of walking out during the game was very effective, very orderly ... but then it got carried away by some of the insecurities the sport has about itself," Postecoglou told the ABC's Offsiders program.

"There's a real issue here, the issue was the process, which for a long time I think people were quite happy for the FFA to take a hard line stance. It suited a lot of people's vision for the game, they didn't want any incidents in the crowds and that's been minimised.

"I think last week's protests - the fans felt very strongly about it - this is not an issue that's come up in the last week, this is something that's happened over years, and they felt they weren't getting any traction.

"Last week, they left the stadium, it wasn't a great look, but they made their point, and it showed the maturity of the fans that they didn't do anything anti-social.

"I've never liked anyone saying that without them the game doesn't exist, because it's just garbage, whether it's players, coaches, administrators, owners. I've heard owners saying 'this is my club'. It ain't your club. None of us would actually exist without the actual game.

"If we all walked away from it, the game would still go on, because there'd be a couple of kids in a park somewhere playing it. I don't like that notion that a certain group is above the game."

Ange tired of 'cheerleading'

Empty seats where the Red and Black Bloc usually sit greeted the Western Sydney Wanderers in their A-League clash against Brisbane. ( Getty Images: Mark Kolbe )

Postecoglou says he hopes the issue has got to a point now where there is conciliation between the FFA and its most disenfranchised fans, adding that 198 fan bans over the A-League's decade-long history was an acceptable figure.

But the former Melbourne Victory and Brisbane Roar coach said the "cheerleading" from clubs siding with those fans seemed tokenistic, given the issue has been around for a long time.

"I still don't understand the point of publishing those [198 names of banned fans]. Some will say it's a conspiracy to bring down the game, I'm confounded as to why you'd even do that," he said.

"To me, there's been 198 banned out of hundreds of thousands that go to the game, and that in anyone's language is a pretty low number and shows that the game has got that issue under control. The process is not perfect and David Gallop came out and said that, and they're going to rectify that.

"At the same time, some of the cheerleading I've heard like [Twitter hashtag] #westandbythefans, but really it's hashtag-we-stand-by-the-fans-now, because you didn't stand by them a year ago when they were really screaming about the same issue."