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Re: Adam Goodes
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Total Tiger said:
Wow leaving aside the fact that its the Swans that have told him to take a rest not the other way around, have a read of what Micky O and Goodes mother have had to say in the last couple of days if you don;t have any empathy then quite frankly I don;t know what to say...........
rosy23 said:I didn't for one second think it was addressed to me NY. It hasn't hit a nerve at all. I think it's an ordinary article with irrelevant things thrown in to pad it out. Feel free to point out where you disagree with me rather than judging me.
I don't feel the desire to tit-for-tat over specific points, it does nothing to my general view, that whatever the original motive, the behavior has got out of hand, and it may be effecting the (71??) indigenous players currently plying their trade across the land. One of them happens to star for Richmond.
As a footballer he is now average (he gets about 15 touches a game), so for me it is hard not to draw a conclusion that there is some racial motive behind the level of crowd noise.
From you specifically it may have absolutely no racial connotations. For Goodes, Jetta, McLoughlin (and probably others) they are now personally effected by what they hear. If that is happening IMO it's become wrong.
I'd also like to highlight that the dance this year (not angry IMO) and the incident with the 13 year old girl in 2013 were both conducted during the Indigenous Round - at a time when we're supposed to be celebrating our original inhabitants, their culture, and the positive impact they've had on the game. Who knows what was going on in Adam's mind.
IMO it would be sad that what stopped him wasn't the tap on the shoulder, the selectors, injury or a well timed shirt front, but the voice of what has become a loud mob.
i can't guarantee i'll respond further, there's nothing anyone can add IMO apart from Adam.
In my opinion it is really simple if the media and Adam Goodes just ignored it then the booing would diminish if not stop. The fact that it is getting to him is just going to make it worse. Is it racist in my opinion no, in the same team Jetta doesn't get boo'ed and Lance Franklin who by all reports off the field is a tosser yet he doesn't get boo'ed. No other Indigensious player gets boo'ed but because one does it makes the whole country racist.
brigadiertiger said:
I think he had been trying to ignore it since the initial blow up but it didn't stop. As for your other point no other aboriginal player has been confrontational like Goodes. If it was all to do with dislike of him as a player why aren;t other players who are just as bad as him on field if not worse not booed like him?
mld said:
i agree....im quite blown away with the rude awakening that so many people are filled with such aimless,mindless vitriol and hatred.....goodes is just human..a father and a son like the rest of us...not perfect but also has fantastic great qualities....betweem reading the forums and watching 'go back to where you came from ' on abs tonight I'm quite disheartened by all the hatred that just goes on and on and on
