Goodes and booing

[chammond]

For the first 3 quarters I was near the Swans cheer squad so really didn't hear any booing at all.
For the last quarter I moved up to the front of level 3 at the other end of the ground and heard a bit of booing at one point but this was literally drowned out straight away by cheers.
One Saints fan stood up and clapped in a very decisive matter which was nice. Other Saints fans around him were also clapping.
I get the feeling that if it's left alone now it will start to die off more naturally.
Everyone who has a POV has thrown it out there by now and it will start to become a bit old hat...

I sat up in the 3rd tier, surrounded by Saints fans. No-one booed Goodes especially - he copped the same amount of abuse as every other Swans player. I guess that's a good thing?

I agree that this issue is pretty much dead (or maybe dormant). The racists are getting their fix by posting comments on news sites, and footy fans are focussed on the finals. Booing is so yesterday!

[Swansongster]

I'm loving that this Goodesy thread is on page 37 (in my view).

What a champ. I'll miss him when he's gone and hope he eeks out one more year of that resilient body even if just to help extract something extra out of the magnificent potential in our current and imminent young ones.

[stevoswan]

I'm loving that this Goodesy thread is on page 37 (in my view).

What a champ. I'll miss him when he's gone and hope he eeks out one more year of that resilient body even if just to help extract something extra out of the magnificent potential in our current and imminent young ones.

At work, we have to log in to administration software to record our notes for the day(I'm in aged care), and my first password was Swans05, a good place to start! We have to change it monthly, so I just add 1 to my password ie; Swans06, Swans07 etc. During the latest round of 'controversy' post Lewis Jetta's dance, my password had arrived at Swans37. I was quite happy about that! Coincidence, yes, but also a positive sign.

[Doctor J.]

I'm loving that this Goodesy thread is on page 37 (in my view).

What a champ. I'll miss him when he's gone and hope he eeks out one more year of that resilient body even if just to help extract something extra out of the magnificent potential in our current and imminent young ones.

And your post was post 437 in the thread!!!!

[Swansongster]

And your post was post 437 in the thread!!!!

Didn't notice that. Double bonus.

[CureTheSane]

It's on page Dean Towers for me.

[Triple B]

It's on page Dean Towers for me.

I think you clicked over to Buddy...

[RogueSwan]

It's on page Dean Towers for me.

I think you clicked over to Buddy...

Yep, I'm over on Buddy too.

[CureTheSane]

When I was writing that I was sure it would happen

[Mug Punter]

Am I drawing too long a bow when I compare the swift and universal condemnation of Chris Gayle (some debate about whether it is getting OTT but the general consensus is that he was out of order) to the lack of support that Adam Goodes got from the AFL and wider football community.

It would appear that being called baby is not acceptable but that when you object to being called an ape you are an attention seeker.

And as an aside if Gill and the AFL are really serious about eliminating institutionalised sexism then Sam Newman should have been sacked many years ago

[Meg]

MP, I think there is a comparison to be made but not the one that I think you are suggesting. Sadly there are a large number of apologists/defenders of Gayle telling those who are not prepared to laugh off Gayle's comments that we are the problem: that we need to get a sense of humour and join in the fun. I suspect they are the very same people who told Adam Goodes that calling a black man an ape is just a joke that should have been shrugged off. In both cases I have felt as though I am in a time warp and been transported back to the 1960s.

[cartman48]

Am I drawing too long a bow when I compare the swift and universal condemnation of Chris Gayle (some debate about whether it is getting OTT but the general consensus is that he was out of order) to the lack of support that Adam Goodes got from the AFL and wider football community.

It would appear that being called baby is not acceptable but that when you object to being called an ape you are an attention seeker.

And as an aside if Gill and the AFL are really serious about eliminating institutionalised sexism then Sam Newman should have been sacked many years ago

Sam Newman isn't employed by the AFL or an an AFL Sanctioned show so they have nothing to do with actioning Sam Newman's comments. People defending Gayle is no different to many people defending Goodes on the Booing issue - just depends which side of both issues that you happen to be sitting on.

[CureTheSane]

There is no real comparison here.
Ape etc, compared to public humiliation.
And that's what it was with Gayle, public humiliation, rather than sexism.
At a party is wouldn't have been an issue and would have just made her and others possibly cringe.
Interesting that Sam Newman can do what he does and nobody bats and eyelid because it's his staus quo.

Worse for me was the commentary team who took it further, and made light of it, before being told to apologise by their bosses.

[YvonneH]

Didn't think this thread (or similar ones would be bumped but here it is.

On back page life last night Kerry O'Keefe said the actions against Adam were 'sanctimonious and tall poppy syndrome', but the comments made to Paddy Ryder and Eddie Betts were 'racism'.

WHAT!!! Adam was called an ape, Eddie Betts was called an ape. Where is the difference?
Not sure what the comment to Paddy was.

Where was the outcry for Adam that this has caused? Don't get me wrong, I applaud any action to call out these people, but it all comes a little late for Adam.

[Industrial Fan]

I think history will look kindly on Goodes, even if he was painted as a sensitive villain at the time.