RFC Indigenous Program - Cyril Rioli

[year of the tiger]

Excellent article in todays Age about Cyril and what happened at Hawthorn and why he left that club.

He is interested in being involved in footy going forward in an off field role - and he mentions Richmond or West Coast as 2 clubs he would be happy to be at.

He could add a lot to our indigenous program and support our work in the Northern Territory.

Anyway, it was a great read and shows the struggles our First Nations people still face today.

‘The only club I wouldn’t put my hand up for right now’: Why Hawks legend Cyril Rioli has stayed away

It is almost four years since Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett spoke to Cyril Rioli’s wife Shannyn in a manner that ultimately precipitated the champion footballer’s dramatic exit from the football club and the game that he had so richly punctuated for more than a decade.

www.theage.com.au

 

[DuD_Delist]

Hawthorn the family club.
Only if your.....................................

 

[mrposhman]

Would be a brilliant addition to our indigenous programme. Imagine having 2 champions working for us off field with the next generations, with both Bash with the BHF, and Cyril with the indigenous kids.

 

[TigerMasochist]

Bloody pay wall won't let me look.

 

[mrposhman]

Bloody pay wall won't let me look.

You might have read all your free articles with the Age. Using an Inconito window and you should be fine.

 

[TigerMasochist]

Would be a brilliant addition to our indigenous programme. Imagine having 2 champions working for us off field with the next generations, with both Bash with the BHF, and Cyril with the indigenous kids.

Bloody hell. Maurice, Sausage, Moju, Cyyyyrollli, just need to bring in Deano n poach Willie as well n we'd have to rename to the Rioli Football Club.

 

[Redford]

I read that article and the incident behind things that occurred at the Launceston airport.

Firstly, Kennet is, and always has been, a complete bum hole. A loud mouth, red neck bully who causes problems wherever he lands and whose few achievements are a) always soiled when you look under the bonnet of them or b) flow off the back of other people’s work and efforts and not his. Can’t stand the bloke.

However, in this particular instance, have to say it sounds a bit of a mountain out of a molehill issue that otherwise, was just Kennet’s *smile* personality at play again and shouldn’t have been given the energy, time or attention by Cyril and his wife.

 

[mrposhman]

I read that article and the incident behind things that occurred at the Launceston airport.

Firstly, Kennet is, and always has been, a complete bum hole. A loud mouth, red neck bully who causes problems wherever he lands and whose few achievements are a) always soiled when you look under the bonnet of them or b) flow off the back of other people’s work and efforts and not his. Can’t stand the bloke.

However, in this particular instance, have to say it sounds a bit of a mountain out of a molehill issue that otherwise, was just Kennet’s *smile* personality at play again and shouldn’t have been given the energy, time or attention by Cyril and his wife.

As a standalone incident yes it sounds like an over reaction, but at the base of the article, they document a number of other occurrences that had occurred and it seems like this was just that final straw that broke the camels back.

 

[Redford]

As a standalone incident yes it sounds like an over reaction, but at the base of the article, they document a number of other occurrences that had occurred and it seems like this was just that final straw that broke the camels back.

Yeah. Wouldn’t surprise me. Guy is just such a dhead.

 

[WesternTiger]

As a standalone incident yes it sounds like an over reaction, but at the base of the article, they document a number of other occurrences that had occurred and it seems like this was just that final straw that broke the camels back.

The article says that it was the last straw after numerous red flag situations that were never addressed.

 

[The_General]

Get him to the Tigers RFC. Now.
Sign him to our COVID top up list, and get him a role with the Korin Gamadji institute (hope I spelt that right)

 

[TigerMasochist]

You might have read all your free articles with the Age. Using an Inconito window and you should be fine.

Yep. Old fart n computers have a long standing love hate relationship. Only just moments ago got shown where the sneaky look button lives so that I can avoid the pay wall.

 

[ToraToraTora]

I read that article and the incident behind things that occurred at the Launceston airport.

Firstly, Kennet is, and always has been, a complete bum hole. A loud mouth, red neck bully who causes problems wherever he lands and whose few achievements are a) always soiled when you look under the bonnet of them or b) flow off the back of other people’s work and efforts and not his. Can’t stand the bloke.

However, in this particular instance, have to say it sounds a bit of a mountain out of a molehill issue that otherwise, was just Kennet’s *smile* personality at play again and shouldn’t have been given the energy, time or attention by Cyril and his wife.

Obviously it was a straw/camels back situation. As much was said in the interview.

 

[St Kevin]

I read that article and the incident behind things that occurred at the Launceston airport.

Firstly, Kennet is, and always has been, a complete bum hole. A loud mouth, red neck bully who causes problems wherever he lands and whose few achievements are a) always soiled when you look under the bonnet of them or b) flow off the back of other people’s work and efforts and not his. Can’t stand the bloke.

However, in this particular instance, have to say it sounds a bit of a mountain out of a molehill issue that otherwise, was just Kennet’s *smile* personality at play again and shouldn’t have been given the energy, time or attention by Cyril and his wife.

Tend to agree. Rather than this being racist, this just comes across as Kennett being a moron, which everyone should have already been well aware of. The other comment by the unnamed teammate is both ignorant and racist.

 

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Bloody pay wall won't let me look.

Clear your browser history.

 

[craig]

Clear your browser history.

Second computer skill every teenage boy learns.

First one is to locate what will require the browser history to be deleted

 

[fastin bulbous]

I was driving in lovely Darwin today and a Ute full of young white men pulled up next to an aboriginal woman and abused her unprovoked. This kind of stuff happens all the time. The xtra attention at the shops in case you might steal something, the sidelong looks, assumptions about neglect and abuse, the willingness to call aboriginal people lazy (ehem), the constant profiling, your husbands team mate calling him a boong, and then a flabby old *smile* who smugly stripped Victoria of its public services recons he’ll shout you some jeans cos you can’t afford proper ones. RACISM. All of us who don’t deal with it every day are not in a position to judge how it effects people. Would you expect the nurses at the hospital to tell you every day how much your dialysis is costing the tax payer? Well here in Darwin the nurses are quite happy to shame aboriginal patients in that way. If you are a white, educated man as I am, do the world a favour and suspend disbelief. It is in your face and everywhere if you are aboriginal.

 

[tigerdell]

That's often the case though. Overreaction and misunderstanding of repeated undertones.

If it was interpreted in one way, its a bad joke.
If interpreted another way is an oblique reference to racism. That has been used many times before in racist abuse.

Is cultural awareness understanding this duopoly and NOT saying a bad joke that can be taken as a racist snipe?

 

[kiwitiger]

I doubt it was intended as racist but it was dumb anyway . Sarcastic humor is best served on people you know well , who you know enjoys that type of stuff , someone of his position should be smarter than that ,

But doesn’t Caro enjoy dragging this stuff up ?

 

[fastin bulbous]

I doubt it was intended as racist but it was dumb anyway . Sarcastic humor is best served on people you know well , who you know enjoys that type of stuff , someone of his position should be smarter than that ,

But doesn’t Caro enjoy dragging this stuff up ?

I think that’s where a lot of the problem lies kiwi. Not knowing, not being able to see our privilege or how our assumptions affect others because we are so used to it. A lot of these issues are also tied up in inter generational trauma and abuse so another layer of offence on top when we fail to see what others have to overcome every day to get fair treatment.

I don’t want to paint myself as an ‘expert’ on this stuff. It trips me up often and is not easy to navigate for anyone.