Player Watch Jeremy Finlayson

[theouthouse]

Imagine being so passionate about the right to use homophobic slurs without repercussions that you visit another club's board just to make sure everyone knows about it.

Funny how a lot of people on here are pretty passionate about a bloke not being able to express how he is feeling emotionally.

Ths is the sort of stuff that needs to be encouraged, yet here the media are shitcanning a bloke for doing something he should be applauded for and encouraging others to do the same. He is on record as being immediately regretful and remorseful of his onfield remarks, recognising their inappropriateness and rightly so.

Many men should feel safe to vocalise their emotions and how they are feeling without ridicule and judgement and being manipulated out of context. I appreciate his honesty in his answer.

Yet here we still are as a society.

 

[Papa G]

Probably just proves that most players, even though they are of this weakened generation think that these sort of "slurs" are fine and don't believe they should be punished at all, but toe the company line and gargle what the AFL/Media Managers tell them to say because their incomes rely on it. Its not what they really think.

 

[sobrave]

Look! He hasn't spoken about the incident other than those times he spoke about the incident! That's basically the same as not saying anything at all! Yay Jeremy!



I reckon he had every opportunity to provide that context on the podcast. Or they could have take that segment out. Or re-recorded it. These are not just unfortunate nasty things that keep happening to poor old Jeremy. These are things he's doing.



He's hurting himself and the club. Given the reports of abuse being directed at his wife, and of rocks being thrown at their house, it sounds like he's hurt his family as well.

Anyone who abused his wife or threw rocks is of course a worthless coward, but why invite them for another go?



The AFL stated very clearly that Finlayson would have been suspended for longer but for the immediate contrition he showed.

His comments on the podcast make his earlier contrition seem insincere. If the AFL forms that impression, they'll be furious. They might take further action. If a player lies to an AFL investigation, then brags about or otherwise discloses that they lied, they can probably slap the player with a penalty for bringing the game into disrepute.

I'm not saying Finlayson lied or that he is not contrite (but I do believe he was whinging about being hard done by), but why would invite the question?



The AFL hasn't asked the club to do anything. The club has written a statement for Jeremy to read because he couldn't manage to either shut up about the incident or at least make sure that every comment he made was inescapably clear.

If the incident is something about which he feels deep shame and remorse, I'm surprised he wants to publicly comment on it at all. If he feels like he let his teammates and the club down, then he could have said exactly that in the first place.

Spot on

 

[PatientMental]

Bloke might as well just paint his face white and chuck on a red nose and colourful wig next time he plays

 

[Pappagallo]

Funny how a lot of people on here are pretty passionate about a bloke not being able to express how he is feeling emotionally.

Ths is the sort of stuff that needs to be encouraged, yet here the media are shitcanning a bloke for doing something he should be applauded for and encouraging others to do the same. He is on record as being immediately regretful and remorseful of his onfield remarks, recognising their inappropriateness and rightly so.

Many men should feel safe to vocalise their emotions and how they are feeling without ridicule and judgement and being manipulated out of context. I appreciate his honesty in his answer.

Yet here we still are as a society.

His original comments weren’t manipulated. He just did an extremely poor job of explaining himself to the point that it seemed like his original remorse was insincere.

He has since clarified his comments with what he should’ve said initially, if he had to say anything at all.

 

[ClintEastwood]

If im being honest i think Jeremy’s on field attitude needs to change. Doe anyone else notice how often he blasts his team mates when they dont hit him lace out? I understand hes going through a lot but he may need to look at his anger.

Yes to all of that.

 

[Tibbs]

Jeremy know he would cop a hit for what he said. I am pretty sure that his saying he was 'p!ssed off at the 3 week suspension' was in reference to the double standards of Clarkson getting let off lightly after his homophobic rant.

The PA has already called out the AFL over this! There was just no need to do it again. As others have said ...

 

[LittleLika]

At least he didn't mention the Ottoman Empire.

Coward

 

[LittleLika]

Barrett the gerbil would've been licking his lips once that podcast was released. FFS jez

 

[afl2004]

This thread is 100x more toxic then any anti hinkley talk

 

[Jonts]

Probably just proves that most players, even though they are of this weakened generation think that these sort of "slurs" are fine and don't believe they should be punished at all, but toe the company line and gargle what the AFL/Media Managers tell them to say because their incomes rely on it. Its not what they really think.

cRaZy nO pLaYeR hAs CoMe OuT oF tHe ClOsEt?!!

 

[gbear]

Why the heck is your wife doing a podcast to begin with? Seriously just added fuel to the fire. ******* amateur hour!

 

[Papa G]

Why the * is your wife doing a podcast to begin with? Seriously just added fuel to the fire. ******* amateur hour!

She's actually a minor celebrity these days. SHe writes articles in the Advertiser and everything. She's pretty, married to a footballer and has cancer. Potent Podcast mix.

 

[gbear]

She's actually a minor celebrity these days. SHe writes articles in the Advertiser and everything. She's pretty, married to a footballer and has cancer. Potent Podcast mix.

The advertiser explains it all. Enough said.

 

[gbear]

Time to find an effective replacement for Finlayson’s role as you can’t fix stupid.

 

[simba_]

lol being angry right now that one of our players wives does a podcast

 

[El_Scorcho]

Funny how a lot of people on here are pretty passionate about a bloke not being able to express how he is feeling emotionally.

Ths is the sort of stuff that needs to be encouraged, yet here the media are shitcanning a bloke for doing something he should be applauded for and encouraging others to do the same. He is on record as being immediately regretful and remorseful of his onfield remarks, recognising their inappropriateness and rightly so.

Many men should feel safe to vocalise their emotions and how they are feeling without ridicule and judgement and being manipulated out of context. I appreciate his honesty in his answer.

Yet here we still are as a society.

Nobody is having a go at him for expressing himself, but when he's a public figure he needs to do so in a way that doesn't bring his employer into disrepute. If he'd just said what he said during the clarification to begin with this wouldn't be a story

 

[chiwigi]

Clearly done to boost the podcast.
No problem with that, apart from having to read the shitshow it causes.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Given his football and life challenges he should avoid all media for the rest of the year. He appears incapable of expressing his thoughts and emotions at this difficult time.

 

[SC_Power]

lol being angry right now that one of our players wives does a podcast

Hope they don’t look at what big Ivan’s partner does……

 

[gbear]

Given his football and life challenges he should avoid all media for the rest of the year. He appears incapable of expressing his thoughts and emotions at this difficult time.

He is just dumb as heck regardless of circumstances.

 

[MrMeaner]

Funny how a lot of people on here are pretty passionate about a bloke not being able to express how he is feeling emotionally.

Ths is the sort of stuff that needs to be encouraged, yet here the media are shitcanning a bloke for doing something he should be applauded for and encouraging others to do the same. He is on record as being immediately regretful and remorseful of his onfield remarks, recognising their inappropriateness and rightly so.

Many men should feel safe to vocalise their emotions and how they are feeling without ridicule and judgement and being manipulated out of context. I appreciate his honesty in his answer.

Yet here we still are as a society.

No one is saying that he should not express himself. We are saying that it's probably not the smartest thing to do with an active mic. It is even less smart to then just push 'publish' on that thing.

 

[JimmyBC]

I've decided I don't really care about this lol

 

[JohnHinckleyJr]

We were port Adelaide now we are a bunch of sissy's worrying about some bloke saying he is pissed off about being suspended..

Geeks

 

[VineValerian]

There's a limit to people's patience. So frustrating to have the club serially embarrassed. He has no impulse control and is clearly not the sharpest tool on the rack.

Extremely poor at expressing himself articulately, so his ideal course of action
should just be to shut up and do his time.

Comes back and after a couple of weeks no one remembers it happened.

Now, it'll run the rest of the season, and potentially train wrecks our season.

P***ed off with Jez - and, more particularly, his wife.

They should know better than to go down that rabbit hole.