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  • ScottH
    It's Goodes to cheer!!
    • Sep 2003
    • 23665

    Disappointing.

    Sydney Swans star Lance Franklin reportedly target of racial abuse as AFL and Victorian police investigate - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
  • Meg
    Go Swannies!
    Site Admin
    • Aug 2011
    • 4828

    #2
    The report on AFL website says racial abuse was directed at both Goodes and Franklin. Thankfully Swans players did not hear it.

    Disgraceful that it happened, but really encouraging that other spectators reported it.

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    • Mel_C
      Veterans List
      • Jan 2003
      • 4470

      #3
      It really is sad that this keeps happening. One good thing that came out of this is that it was Bulldog supporters that reported this person. Unfortunately there are going to be some idiots out there that think this behavior is ok.

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      • Matt80
        Suspended by the MRP
        • Sep 2013
        • 1802

        #4
        Originally posted by Mel_C
        It really is sad that this keeps happening. One good thing that came out of this is that it was Bulldog supporters that reported this person. Unfortunately there are going to be some idiots out there that think this behavior is ok.
        What feral people. They offer Australia nothing. They have a sex offender data base. There should be a racial offender data base. We should all know where they live. It?s disgraceful.

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        • ScottH
          It's Goodes to cheer!!
          • Sep 2003
          • 23665

          #5
          Originally posted by Meg
          The report on AFL website says racial abuse was directed at both Goodes and Franklin. Thankfully Swans players did not hear it.

          Disgraceful that it happened, but really encouraging that other spectators reported it.
          That is the bit I don't get. 99% of the time they say these things and no one except the immediate people around them hear it, so what is the point.
          I'd like to see these people say it to their face in a one on one, without their mates around them.

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          • Swansongster
            Senior Player
            • Sep 2008
            • 1264

            #6
            I saw this guy getting ejected. Didn't hear what he said but thought it must have been something like this when he was being escorted out.

            Looked like a well dressed elderly gent who should have known better but, hopefully, it is only that generation that the rest of society will struggle to educate about the inappropriateness of such behaviour.

            He was on the top deck at the end where us Swans fans had gathered (high above the cheer squad). I didn't see too many Dogs supporters up there.

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            • Ampersand
              On the Rookie List
              • Apr 2014
              • 694

              #7
              Did everyone see the donkey behind the goals waving a wad of cash at Buddy after he kicked a goal? I guess when you watch your team lose every week you gotta do something to keep it interesting.

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              • royboy42
                Senior Player
                • Apr 2006
                • 2078

                #8
                At least that's a bit funny...and harmless.

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                • Matt80
                  Suspended by the MRP
                  • Sep 2013
                  • 1802

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Ampersand
                  Did everyone see the donkey behind the goals waving a wad of cash at Buddy after he kicked a goal? I guess when you watch your team lose every week you gotta do something to keep it interesting.
                  Was it real money or Monopoly money?

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                  • Meg
                    Go Swannies!
                    Site Admin
                    • Aug 2011
                    • 4828

                    #10
                    Good article by Andrew Webster on this incident and more generally on the racism directed at Goodes by AFL crowds.

                    Continuing racist abuse of Adam Goodes shows how far we still have to go

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                    • ScottH
                      It's Goodes to cheer!!
                      • Sep 2003
                      • 23665

                      #11
                      People have not gotten over the fact he called out a 13yo girl.
                      Google "Adam Goodes Sook" if you dare.
                      You'll be amazed and shocked by what you read, and sometimes by who wrote it.

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                      • tasmania60
                        On the Rookie List
                        • Jul 2013
                        • 276

                        #12
                        Watched it and thought ,nothings changed at the Bulldogs. Watched a couple of games in the 90 s travel-led on the tram system and was amazed at the one dimensional thought pattern ! not a good look !

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                        • snajik
                          Senior Player
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 1115

                          #13
                          The only positive is that other spectators are acting on this type of behaviour.

                          These cowards deserve more than a good frog-marching though. They should be put on an island with all the other Bob Ewells.
                          It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who's learning to play violin. That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.
                          The Scarlatti Tilt - Richard Brautigan

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                          • Nico
                            Veterans List
                            • Jan 2003
                            • 11348

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Ampersand
                            Did everyone see the donkey behind the goals waving a wad of cash at Buddy after he kicked a goal? I guess when you watch your team lose every week you gotta do something to keep it interesting.
                            Are you sure it was a donkey and not an Ass?
                            http://www.nostalgiamusic.co.uk/secu...res/srh806.jpg

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                            • Nico
                              Veterans List
                              • Jan 2003
                              • 11348

                              #15
                              Originally posted by ScottH
                              People have not gotten over the fact he called out a 13yo girl.
                              Google "Adam Goodes Sook" if you dare.
                              You'll be amazed and shocked by what you read, and sometimes by who wrote it.
                              I just looked at some of that stuff. If that is a small sample of the narrow mindedness of our society then nothing will change. He is clearly booed because he is an aboriginal and Australian of The Year. Australian Tea Party, what a "wonderful" sector of our society.
                              http://www.nostalgiamusic.co.uk/secu...res/srh806.jpg

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