Adam Goodes and Hall of Fame

[MattW]

It's also interesting/depressing/probably appropriate that Fox Footy disabled the replies to that tweet, unlike other tweets tonight posting snippets of 360.

[Velour&Ruffles]

Typical of Robbo. Always scoop driven, rather than supporting Adam's wishes.

Not right in this instance. Robbo was very firm in his support of Adam at the time and his view that the booing absolutely was racist. I've never heard him waver on that on the occasions it's come up since. We needed more such voices.

[barry]

People will ask, what will it take to correct this great injustice.?.
It will take substantial action. At the time, I said the swans should abandon games and play to empty stadiums. Impossible it was said. Then covid hit, and empty stadiums was actually pretty easy.

The other 2021 nominies should also reject their nominations. What a powerful message against the hollow AFL virtue signalling, that to say.. "if its not ok with adam, its not ok for me either".

Anyone know who the other nominies are?

[KTigers]

People will ask, what will it take to correct this great injustice.?.
It will take substantial action. At the time, I said the swans should abandon games and play to empty stadiums. Impossible it was said. Then covid hit, and empty stadiums was actually pretty easy.

The other 2021 nominies should also reject their nominations. What a powerful message against the hollow AFL virtue signalling, that to say.. "if its not ok with adam, its not ok for me either".

Anyone know who the other nominies are?

It's human nature to want to "fix" things, correct injustices, but this period of 2013-2015 when Adam was basically hounded out of the game
for saying some things that anyone with a full sized brain knows to be true anyway is a time that football, and in a wider context the country,
can't get back.
Mostly people want Adam to "come back to the game" so that they (not him) can feel okay. They want to feel that the sport they love and
get a lot of pleasure from is somehow separate from the ills of the world and the country they live in is different from the others.
But it's not.

[AnnieH]

From the Fitzpatrick statement in 2015.... "I have been fortunate to be a director of the two organisations in Australia which I believe have
achieved much for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders - Rio Tinto and the AFL". Yep, not just the AFL, but Rio Tinto as well. The twin towers
of virtue signaling in this country.

Forgive my forgetfulness, but wasn't Rio Tinto the mob who blew up sacred gorges in Western Australia?
Even if it wasn't, you're raping land for profit.

[AnnieH]

I spent last night out-trolling racist trolls doling out the same crap... he staged, he's a toss, blah, blah, blah, and shut a lot of people up.
Don't troll a troller.

[Kafka's Ghost]

A powerful statement by Eddie Betts. Thanks for sharing this link.

[KTigers]

Forgive my forgetfulness, but wasn't Rio Tinto the mob who blew up sacred gorges in Western Australia?
Even if it wasn't, you're raping land for profit.

Yep, Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara (WA). Rio decided there was $140M worth of iron ore there so they blew up the ancient rock shelters so
they could get at it. They only made $10 billion profit that year, so you know, things were a little tight.

[stevoswan]

From the Fitzpatrick statement in 2015.... "I have been fortunate to be a director of the two organisations in Australia which I believe have
achieved much for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders - Rio Tinto and the AFL". Yep, not just the AFL, but Rio Tinto as well. The twin towers
of virtue signaling in this country.

Yes....Rio Tinto......the company that destroys sacred indigenous sites. Gobsmacking.....

[Daisi]

Adam Goodes is a man of principle and courage and I have enormous respect for him.

Unlike the AFL which still hasn't got a clue. I noticed that during the Indigenous round Adam was barely mentioned. The only person who did speak of him was Eddie Betts, and Eddie said that Adam was a legend and an inspiration. I agree with Eddie.

[stevoswan]

Adam Goodes is a man of principle and courage and I have enormous respect for him.

Unlike the AFL which still hasn't got a clue. I noticed that during the Indigenous round Adam was barely mentioned. The only person who did speak of him was Eddie Betts, and Eddie said that Adam was a legend and an inspiration. I agree with Eddie.

+1

[Sandridge]

I agree with every pixel of this. I can scarcely say the word Fitzpatrick without wanting to vomit with rage.

WE have many, many, many reasons to hate Carlton. The fact that Fitzpatrick played for them is a big one.

[i'm-uninformed2]

I know this is a bit of a side note but: you know whom I would eventually like to see inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame . . .

Richard Colless. The AFL has occasionally admitted administrators.

Along with a bucket of earlier stuff, he was the inaugural Chair of the West Coast Eagles who devised their bid and then when they came into the comp, and the Chair who basically (along with others) salvaged then gave Sydney its sustained era of stability and success and was there through two flags, it’d be justified.

I’m a bit biased because I was lucky enough to get to know him a bit, but think it’s valid he get a nod at some point.

[liz]

The kind of comment you would expect from the wonderful Tony Armstrong...

Yokayi Footy: Adam Goodes, you're already in OUR Hall of Fame

[stevoswan]

The kind of comment you would expect from the wonderful Tony Armstrong...

Yokayi Footy: Adam Goodes, you're already in OUR Hall of Fame

Amen to that.....and beautifully put by Tony.