The Barracker is the official match-day magazine and is sold at the entrance of all games.

May called for a new bat and Peter Richardson brought out three; a barracker shouting "Peter, you haven't got one there wide enough!"

For many Australians, the verb barrack (or the accompanying noun form barracker), is used to denote following a team or club.

Activist and social realist artist Noel Counihan caricatured footballers for the press, and illustrated The Barracker's Bible (1983).

John Hirst, usually regarded as a moderately conservative historian, wrote: "In the end Clark became the sort of historian he had set out to supersede - a barracker for the 'progressive' side who accepted uncritically its view of the world."