The AFL Discussion Thread

[SirRumpole]

It has nothing to do with the colour of your skin Adam Goodes. It was the fact in the first quarter the umpire let you get away with several cheap shots and you got paid the free kick

So ? It happens all the time. Sometimes you get a free kick, other times you don't.

Is the booing of Adam Goodes racially motivated ? Who knows. People on the other side don't like great players playing against them. If you happen to be a bit cocky (as Goodes is) then you probably get more than your share of abuse. That doesn't detract from the fact that he's a great player and a credit to the game.

 

[overhang]

It has nothing to do with the colour of your skin Adam Goodes. It was the fact in the first quarter the umpire let you get away with several cheap shots and you got paid the free kick



http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-27/lewis-jetta-sick-of-adam-goodes-afl-boos-sydney-swans/6650332

Twitter goes into meltdown for real ...

http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl...confused-by-fans/story-e6frf3e3-1227370441560

So Wayne Carey picks up his best mates wife and wasn't booed week in week out, Barry Hall sucker punches a player on the ground and wasn't booed week in and week out, one of the most hated players Stephen Milne had rape allegations pending and wasn't booed week in week out, Joel Selwood has the most free kicks in the comp and isn't booed unless he gets a free but yet somehow a duel brownlow medalist and player ranked 215th in the comp for average free kicks deserves to be booed for cheap shots and play style. What a load of rubbish, Goodes is booed because of some of the political comments he has made that has ruffled a few feathers of those that would rather he shuts his mouth and maintain the status quo.

I personally think Goodes went the wrong way about assisting the Indigenous in his political comments that seemed to be more focused on the past than trying to fix the present. But no way known he deserves to be booed every single week like he has for the entire football season and its a bloody disgrace that one of the great players of this era has to put up with this every single week.

 

[Tisme]

Has macho Adam picked on any 13 yearold girls lately? That's what professional footballers do isn't it ....destroy a child for being a child.

 

[SirRumpole]

Has macho Adam picked on any 13 yearold girls lately? That's what professional footballers do isn't it ....destroy a child for being a child.

Destroy ?

Teach them a lesson maybe.

 

[trainspotter]

So Wayne Carey picks up his best mates wife and wasn't booed week in week out, Barry Hall sucker punches a player on the ground and wasn't booed week in and week out, one of the most hated players Stephen Milne had rape allegations pending and wasn't booed week in week out, Joel Selwood has the most free kicks in the comp and isn't booed unless he gets a free but yet somehow a duel brownlow medalist and player ranked 215th in the comp for average free kicks deserves to be booed for cheap shots and play style. What a load of rubbish, Goodes is booed because of some of the political comments he has made that has ruffled a few feathers of those that would rather he shuts his mouth and maintain the status quo.

I personally think Goodes went the wrong way about assisting the Indigenous in his political comments that seemed to be more focused on the past than trying to fix the present. But no way known he deserves to be booed every single week like he has for the entire football season and its a bloody disgrace that one of the great players of this era has to put up with this every single week.

Ermmm yes they were booed week in and week out. Short memory

Nothing to do with status quo. It's football.

My son ran out with the Sydney Swans ... Adam Goodes is a dead set legend in my book. Playing the race card is uncalled for IMO

 

[overhang]

Ermmm yes they were booed week in and week out. Short memory

Nothing to do with status quo. It's football.

My son ran out with the Sydney Swans ... Adam Goodes is a dead set legend in my book. Playing the race card is uncalled for IMO

So you're recreating history then, none of those players I mentioned were booed week in week out. Carey was booed by North only, Hall was booed by West Coast only, Mine was booed for 2-3 weeks then it stopped.

If you don't think it's about his comments involving race then why has this booing only occurred since he became Australian of the year? He hasn't altered his play style apart from the fact he plays more up forward these days. There are so many other players much more deserving of being booed than Goodes but yet aren't, Aker wasn't booed and he was one of the most outspoken footballers going around.

 

[trainspotter]

So you're recreating history then, none of those players I mentioned were booed week in week out. Carey was booed by North only, Hall was booed by West Coast only, Mine was booed for 2-3 weeks then it stopped.

If you don't think it's about his comments involving race then why has this booing only occurred since he became Australian of the year? He hasn't altered his play style apart from the fact he plays more up forward these days. There are so many other players much more deserving of being booed than Goodes but yet aren't, Aker wasn't booed and he was one of the most outspoken footballers going around.

He dives and looks for a free kick because he is untouchable. Behind play he hits you in the bread basket and runs off from you and takes a cheap shot 5 metres from the ball. Need I go ON?

AKER got axed QUICKLY .. no media no representation ... NUFFIN.

Milne was terrorised for years and years. I should know. Spent 5 years BOOOING him from the grand stand.

 

[Tisme]

So you're recreating history then, none of those players I mentioned were booed week in week out. Carey was booed by North only, Hall was booed by West Coast only, Mine was booed for 2-3 weeks then it stopped.Aker wasn't booed and he was one of the most outspoken footballers going around.

Too right they all were booed, Adam Goodes introduced racism into the eqtn and AFL fans don't see the game as a vehicle for racial protest.

 

[trainspotter]

AKER http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/did-lynch-and-akermanis-get-booed.49523/page-2

http://www.thefanatics.com/sports.news.view.php?id=389959

http://www.theroar.com.au/2015/06/01/does-australian-sport-have-a-problem-with-tall-poppies/

Nahhhh no booing for AKER !

 

[trainspotter]

Too right they all were booed, Adam Goodes introduced racism into the eqtn and AFL fans don't see the game as a vehicle for racial protest.

Nuffin to do with the colour of your skin. It is football. Either you are "fair" and play the game as it was intended or the crowd (Colosseum Roman Times) will gin you. I umpired for 5 years at an extreme level holding the whistle. Under 10s don't f@ck around.

 

[overhang]

AKER http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/did-lynch-and-akermanis-get-booed.49523/page-2

http://www.thefanatics.com/sports.news.view.php?id=389959

http://www.theroar.com.au/2015/06/01/does-australian-sport-have-a-problem-with-tall-poppies/

Nahhhh no booing for AKER !

Every week, not a chance they were. Maybe you need to stop sitting in bay 13. Hell I'm a cats fan and Stevie J deserves to be booed many times more than Goodes is, he is a blight on the game with his sniping and playing for frees but he isn't booed as systematically as Goodes is apart from Freo crowds. You would have to be blind freddy to think that an AFL player has ever been booed to the level Goodes has received this year.

 

[trainspotter]

Every week, not a chance they were. Maybe you need to stop sitting in bay 13. Hell I'm a cats fan and Stevie J deserves to be booed many times more than Goodes is, he is a blight on the game with his sniping and playing for frees but he isn't booed as systematically as Goodes is apart from Freo crowds. You would have to be blind freddy to think that an AFL player has ever been booed to the level Goodes has received this year.

Aaahhhh Stevie J my nemesis. This guy gets away with scragging on a new level. Shirt pulling crotch grabbing Achilles heeel stomping mutha loader who when he decides to play football can actually turn the game. Kudos for him to get away with it. He does it off the ball and gets away with it offscreen.

Mr. Goodes on the other hand has a hand it in it and easily replayed on the TV. He takes a dive or does a great thing and it is all on Chammel 7 to look on the big screem. (not a typo) Last weeks game he scragged twice in the forward pocket and was awarded a free kick and some candy. Umpire let it go ... replay on the bigscreen and # 37 gets a free ball kick into the 50 metre arc. Crowd booooes deservedly so. He kicks a umpire goal. Crowd boos again. Happens 2wice in 15 minutes. Protected species?

'Not racist "... just how he plays football now .... please don't flame on about the prejudice ... it's football

 

[overhang]

Aaahhhh Stevie J my nemesis. This guy gets away with scragging on a new level. Shirt pulling crotch grabbing Achilles heeel stomping mutha loader who when he decides to play football can actually turn the game. Kudos for him to get away with it. He does it off the ball and gets away with it offscreen.

Mr. Goodes on the other hand has a hand it in it and easily replayed on the TV. He takes a dive or does a great thing and it is all on Chammel 7 to look on the big screem. (not a typo) Last weeks game he scragged twice in the forward pocket and was awarded a free kick and some candy. Umpire let it go ... replay on the bigscreen and # 37 gets a free ball kick into the 50 metre arc. Crowd booooes deservedly so. He kicks a umpire goal. Crowd boos again. Happens 2wice in 15 minutes. Protected species?

'Not racist "... just how he plays football now .... please don't flame on about the prejudice ... it's football

Well we will have to agree to disagree then TS as I really feel its more about his off field comments than his play style that people don't like. Andrew Bolt lambasted him after his article in The Age last year and from then on it's gone down hill. I see no explanation for why Goodes wasn't being booed pre 2014.

I will agree with you though that Stevie J is a freak but a flog, I wish we traded him to GWS last year.

 

[trainspotter]

Well we will have to agree to disagree then TS as I really feel its more about his off field comments than his play style that people don't like. Andrew Bolt lambasted him after his article in The Age last year and from then on it's gone down hill. I see no explanation for why Goodes wasn't being booed pre 2014.

I will agree with you though that Stevie J is a freak but a flog, I wish we traded him to GWS last year.

You are looking too far into your navel. It is football ... it is tribal. Nuffin to do with if you are a ginger Wolverine Irish Paddy Ryder playing for POrt HE ROCKS. Because he plays football, all for Adam Goodes dun what he has dun but PULLLEEEEEZEE stop milking the umpires thanks.

Don't care about AB in my discussions thanks ... he gets boooed cause his style of football has changed. He plays for the whistle and tags you in the holding pens / not cool.

Adam Goodes has done far more for indigenous people in the last 10 years then any other aboriginal to raise the awareness for their plight. Where is Michael Long, Nicki Windmarr, David Wirrapanda, Nova Peris Kneebone, Cathy Freeman, David Namijirra and Eddie Mabo now?

 

[SirRumpole]

Stevie J should be booed after the low hit he gave Jarrod McVeigh and got away with.

:swear::swear::swear:

 

[Tink]

Hawthorn legend Dermott Brereton has suggested current AFL star Adam Goodes should review his on-field antics and “work out what he can do to change” his theatrics.

Brereton, a former flamboyant player who often goaded opposition supporters with on-field histrionics and a rugged style of play, has led a defiant stand against the AFL’s call to end collective booing.

The former premiership player said jeers were just part of the game and players subjected to it needed to think about why they were being targeted.

It followed calls for fans to stop booing Sydney legend Goodes.

“People will boo, they will cheer, they will hiss, sometimes they will swear ”” it’s the behaviour of the player that can stimulate those responses,’’ Brereton told the Herald Sun today.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...e-crowd-reaction/story-fni5f22o-1227458981632

 

[Tisme]

Hawthorn legend Dermott Brereton has suggested current AFL star Adam Goodes should review his on-field antics and “work out what he can do to change” his theatrics.

Brereton, a former flamboyant player who often goaded opposition supporters with on-field histrionics and a rugged style of play, has led a defiant stand against the AFL’s call to end collective booing.

The former premiership player said jeers were just part of the game and players subjected to it needed to think about why they were being targeted.

It followed calls for fans to stop booing Sydney legend Goodes.

“People will boo, they will cheer, they will hiss, sometimes they will swear — it’s the behaviour of the player that can stimulate those responses,’’ Brereton told the Herald Sun today.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...e-crowd-reaction/story-fni5f22o-1227458981632

Dermott was so hated his mauling at "that" grandfinal is one the best watching ever.

I disagree with the notion Adam is being booed simply because of his resorting to ungentlemanly behaviour, he has admonished the crowd using race as the tool, he certainly has resorted to becoming like an injured soccer player to milk free kicks, he has been taking cheap shots, he did hurl abuse at an impressionable child ... he has become a crotchety old man with a hate starting to consume him and the crowd picks up on that ... they want the old Adam who is a brilliant footballer, who plays the game for game's sake.... when two tribes go to war, not three.

 

[Logique]

Although I'm a Swans supporter, I disagreed with the club administration coming out and saying '..if you boo Adam Goodes you are a racist..' That's way wide of the mark, and a little insulting to footy fans.

Let's be fair, Adam in recent years has courted attention and publicity, although I had no problem with his or Lewis Jetta's on field 'spear throw' celebrations.

Gillon Maclachlan of the AFL hasn't overreacted, to his credit he got it exactly right, saying to footy fans..hey it's gone a bit far, not a good look and could you ease up a bit.

 

[SirRumpole]

Although I'm a Swans supporter, I disagreed with the club administration coming out and saying '..if you boo Adam Goodes you are a racist..' That's way wide of the mark, and a little insulting to footy fans.

Let's be fair, Adam in recent years has courted attention and publicity, although I had no problem with his or Lewis Jetta's on field 'spear throw' celebrations.

Gillon Maclachlan of the AFL hasn't overreacted, to his credit he got it exactly right, saying to footy fans..hey it's gone a bit far, not a good look and could you ease up a bit.

I doubt if any player could expect to be cheered by the opposition fans. Goodes should take it as a compliment because it means the opposing fans think he will run rings around them, which he often does.

 

[sptrawler]

Although I'm a Swans supporter, I disagreed with the club administration coming out and saying '..if you boo Adam Goodes you are a racist..' That's way wide of the mark, and a little insulting to footy fans.

Let's be fair, Adam in recent years has courted attention and publicity, although I had no problem with his or Lewis Jetta's on field 'spear throw' celebrations.

Gillon Maclachlan of the AFL hasn't overreacted, to his credit he got it exactly right, saying to footy fans..hey it's gone a bit far, not a good look and could you ease up a bit.

Absolutely spot on, it is just another example of journalists, talking up a story.

Whatever the reason for the booing, the last thing it is, is racism.

Goodes, made an issue out of nothing, and Australians are giving him $hit over it, nothing more than that. Australian spectators hate poor sportsmanship and sports people getting in their faces, ala the Tomic/ Kyrigos issue. The media tried to beat that up as a racist thing also.

It is also an Aussie thing, to niggle people who can't take it, the more response people get, the more they will crank it up. Not saying it is right or wrong, just the way it is.

Booing a sports person has nothing to do with racism.IMO

Also on a scale of 1 - 10 it doesn't even rate.
Goodes needs to watch the Tour de France, to see how to respond to spectator heckling.

Froome was spat on, punched and had urine thrown on him by spectators. Does that mean they are racist? No the French are just poor losers.
If Nairo Quintana was winning and he coped the same treatment as Froome, the press would be saying it was racist.

I'm sure Froome would have been much happier, if people only booed at him, but he just got on with it it and won.

The problem for Goodes is, the public will remember him for this, rather than his brilliant career.