The AFL Discussion Thread

[MrBurns]

Adam may as well resign now unless he comes back as a man not a sulking victim.

All these calls about racism are rubbish but they have traction via the media and high profile w#nk### trying to jump on the indigenous welfare bandwagon.

If Adam is to salvage this he has to act quickly.....or be the victim forevermore.

Unfortunately the above mentioned w#nk### are probably telling him he's right so it's game over.....perhaps....

 

[sptrawler]

I just saw that Jones guy on the news, he made a good point, he said there are 70+ indigenous players in the AFL only Goodes is getting booed.

Like I said in an earlier post Hayden Ballantyne gets booed every game and gets called some pretty horrible names.
Guess it isn't a problem, he's from Scotish background, he's fair game.

 

[pixel]

Respect can't be demanded. Respect has to be earned.

Earned not only by doing one's job well - on that score, Adam Goodes is well ahead of the crowd. But there's more to it than doing well. Honest respect is earned by overall attitude, as in "Treat others the way you want to be treated."

Throw hostility in the form of an imaginary spear at the crowd, provoke them with an aggressive "war dance", and you can't be surprised when the crowd throws hostile Boos back at you.
If Adam wants to play the race card and differentiate himself from the average spectator, by all means call the Booing racist. But then you'll have to find another term to describe what happened under Apartheid, under Nazi rule, or what the Conquistadors did unto the American Natives.

Chalk and Cheese.

 

[Tisme]

Is Adam's "war dance" actually a traditional set of moves or something made up in recent time?

 

[Logique]

Aker tells it straight.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-ne...-akermanis-20150730-gini39.html#ixzz3hKuOeotV

..Akermanis said it would be a shame if Goodes decided to retire over the controversy, and said the 35-year-old needed to make a decision about "whether he's for the club or for himself".

"If you don't play, who's winning?

"For Adam and for me and for anyone else who's been booed, which I have over many years and got called even worse names than what he did, you cannot let them win."....

 

[Macquack]

Aker tells it straight.

"If you don't play, who's winning?

At the moment, the Swans are full of star players and cruising along in 4th place on the ladder. There is no real pressure on Goodes to actually play. What a luxury. If the Swans were struggling on the ladder, Goodes may have been able to turn the situation around and go out there and do what he is good at and what he is being paid for (winning).

I do like Goodsie, I think he is misunderstood and does not comes across that well in the media. Having said that, I don't feel too sorry for a champion athlete, two times "Brownlow medallist" and "Australian of the Year".

 

[sptrawler]

Media manipulation at its best.IMO

Warne reckons Goodes needs to just get on with playing the game and ignore the booing, it happens to all sports stars.
Courier Mail headline, Warne really hates Goodes.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...over-adam-goodes/story-fnia3gpf-1227463725465

The Courier Mail also has the headline, The speach that turned the public against Goodes.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...-really-divisive/story-fnia3v70-1227463023081

I don't know about anyone else, but I never heard it, or of it.
I'm also sure, the Perth fans weren't booing over it.

Lazy reporting.IMO Make up your own story.

What gets me is, they are making out only white people are racist, they somehow think blacks aren't racist to whites?
The booing has nothing to do with race, just a person with attitude and a media feeding it.IMO

 

[Tisme]

Media manipulation at its best.IMO

Warne reckons Goodes needs to just get on with playing the game and ignore the booing, it happens to all sports stars.
Courier Mail headline, Warne really hates Goodes.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...over-adam-goodes/story-fnia3gpf-1227463725465

The Courier Mail also has the headline, The speach that turned the public against Goodes.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...-really-divisive/story-fnia3v70-1227463023081

I don't know about anyone else, but I never heard it, or of it.
I'm also sure, the Perth fans weren't booing over it.

Lazy reporting.IMO Make up your own story.

What gets me is, they are making out only white people are racist, they somehow think blacks aren't racist to whites?
The booing has nothing to do with race, just a person with attitude and a media feeding it.IMO

Courier Mail is not considered to be much more than a Liberal Party rag, with a fella named Christopher Dore in charge. Anything that isn't pro Liberal is harangued, belittled, denigrated, etc. Even LNP supporters complain about the blatant bias in a monopolistic news print. They just make stuff up all the time.

 

[Logique]

Reports in the media that some Swans supporters will be pelting boo'ers with eggs at the ground.

I sincerely hope this is not true.

But don't worry, you've seen how accurate we are at kicking for goal! Probably miss and hit the light tower..

 

[sptrawler]

Reports in the media that some Swans supporters will be pelting boo'ers with eggs at the ground.

I sincerely hope this is not true.

But don't worry, you've seen how accurate we are at kicking for goal! Probably miss and hit the light tower..

Sounds as though the media frenzy is working, they will have plenty write about next week, if a riot breaks out.

Even if the fans hadn't thought of egg throwing, the media will talk them into it. lol

 

[SirRumpole]

Reports in the media that some Swans supporters will be pelting boo'ers with eggs at the ground.

I sincerely hope this is not true.

But don't worry, you've seen how accurate we are at kicking for goal! Probably miss and hit the light tower..

Swans supporters are too intelligent for that sort of thing

 

[Tisme]

Swans supporters are too intelligent for that sort of thing

I see that Nova peris wept for Adam Goodes on the weekend.

"
When you want change it takes tremendous guts and leaders, ie. Adam Goodes,' she said.

'He said 'enough is enough... and when he spoke out the world said 'get back in your box, mate, you cannot stand up and use this because you're Australian of the Year'.'Senator

Peris said Goodes is a proud black man, and when people know his family's history it makes them uncomfortable."

Here's me thinking that the crowd still hasn't forgiven him for the psychological damage he has done to a 13 year old girl and having choreographed air spears thrown at them.

Just incase you don't recall (yeah OK it's Andrew Bolt and he isn't known for embellishing the truth) :

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/man_honored_after_yelling_at_13_year_old_girl/

And Salvos to the rescue (apparently the girl is ruined these days)

http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-premiership/the-mother-of-girl-who-hurled-abuse-at-adam-goodes-says-reaction-has-been-blown-out-of-proportion/story-e6frf3e3-1226651200208

real champ is Adam :bad:

 

[MrBurns]

I see that Nova peris wept for Adam Goodes on the weekend.



Here's me thinking that the crowd still hasn't forgiven him for the psychological damage he has done to a 13 year old girl and having choreographed air spears thrown at them.

Just incase you don't recall (yeah OK it's Andrew Bolt and he isn't known for embellishing the truth) :

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/man_honored_after_yelling_at_13_year_old_girl/

And Salvos to the rescue (apparently the girl is ruined these days)

http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-premiership/the-mother-of-girl-who-hurled-abuse-at-adam-goodes-says-reaction-has-been-blown-out-of-proportion/story-e6frf3e3-1226651200208

real champ is Adam :bad:

What right do the police have to detain someone who calls someone else an ape ?

Racism ? Bulldust, he does look like an ape and it has nothing to do with his colour.

Eddy Maguire suggested he be used to promote King Kong, we don't hear much about that now do we

 

[SirRumpole]

And Salvos to the rescue (apparently the girl is ruined these days)

Huh ? Did you read the article ?

The mother said

Her mother told 3AW radio on Monday morning that her daughter was doing OK, but she was still concerned about her treatment by security.

"She's not doing too bad considering everything that’s happened," she said.

Where was the reference to the girl being "ruined" ?

 

[Tisme]

Huh ? Did you read the article ?

The mother said



Where was the reference to the girl being "ruined" ?

I was referring to an recent article where the mother is wanting an apology by Adam and her daughter has slipped down the ladder. I'll try to find it ....later

 

[MrBurns]

Huh ? Did you read the article ?
The mother said
Where was the reference to the girl being "ruined" ?

The girl said she is sorry and will now "think twice", as she did not realise her denigrating comment was a racial slur.

There was no racial intent so it wasn't racist but she apologised for being racist , under pressure of course.

What a sham this whole episode has been.

 

[trainspotter]

Adam to return to training tomorrow with the playing group ...

"I don't think he had intentions to watch the (Swans) game, but he ended up watching the final three quarters and couldn't believe the amount of support that he had."

That means Goodes would have seen the entire SCG crowd stand for a minute of applause in the seventh minute of the third quarter - recognising Goodes's guernsey number 37.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-03/adam-goodes-to-return-to-sydney-swans-training/6668702

Try not throwing an imaginary spear into the crowd then giving the universal F U fist pump Adam. Also when you have both hands squarely in the oppositions back then feign a free kick to the umpires and receiving it wonder why you get booed.

Brisbane fans booed Kennedy and LeCrais kicking for goals two weeks ago .. no mention of that? Oh that's right .. they kicked 11 goals and 17 points. Maybe the booing worked to put them off their set shots for goal?

 

[trainspotter]

Sydney Swans Vs Richmond ... Adam Goodes 3 votes for plucking low hanging fruit. And he wonders why he gets booed?

 

[trainspotter]

LMAO ..... cheeky buggers:-

AS far as sporting memorabilia goes, this is up there with the most elusive of all time.

Prominent sporting and political identities continue to stake their positions over the Adam Goodes booing scandal, but it has taken this long for someone to try to cash in.

Now the imaginary spear tossed by Sydney Swans champion Adam Goodes in his SCG “war dance” has attracted bids of $20,000 in an eBay frenzy.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/...erates-20000-bid/story-fnii5smq-1227471216388

 

[overhang]

I've been to every Sydney vs Geelong game in Geelong over the last few years, won't be able to attend Saturday night. Can't remember the crowd at Skilled ever booing Goodes down there so it will be interesting to see the reaction. Make no mistake though if Goodes or any Sydney player receives a free that isn't obvious to bias eyes then the crowd will boo. A bit annoying though that the game is going to be mostly about Goodes when it should be about the legend of our club playing is 200th... Selwood.