Windy Cindy
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This bloke has absolutely no self awareness..
Player Watch Jeremy Finlayson
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This bloke has absolutely no self awareness..
He's a campaigner
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McGuire and Barrett is what makes Wednesday’s FC
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The same Eddie McGuire who jumped up in a fancy restaurant and screamed "Justice has been served MAYNARD IS FREE TO PLAY!!!!" after he ended the career of Brayshaw
Early in his career as Collingwood President and his many media gigs he was considered PM material - yes that’s Prime Minister! His many ‘foot in the mouth’ comments certainly put paid to a political career. But you never know!
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- Dec 11, 2015
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Well if trump can get in once and even twice, there’s hope for Eddie yet.
An insightful long article in the age re Jeremy finalyson. It covers a lot of sensitive issues and imo posters should be sensitive in what they might post. Moderators please be aware.
link?
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Their paywall locked me out
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...ame-over-homophobic-slur-20240430-p5fnov.html
WWOS seems to have poached most of the article and can be accessed. He talks extensively about his remorse and learning from the experience.
'Ashamed' Finlayson remorseful for homophobic slur
'I wish I could take it all back'
wwos.nine.com.au
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It kind of slipped my mind that we do have an AFLW team now with a vast amount of queer players and staff. All the people saying "it's just a word, get over it, world's gone soft" and s**t like that might have also had that slipped their minds as well. Those players put their bodies on the line for our club and have to work other jobs while chasing their footy dreams and getting paid peanuts compared to their AFL counterparts. Glad he reached out to Loz at the very least, he seems genuinely remorseful obviously and it's just a shame the situation was leapt on by people who wish bigotry was still acceptable when the guily party himself has even admitted he made a huge mistake.
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All of that is absolutely true, but let's not think male and female issues of LGBT representation of sport is the same. I've not heard of women having that word said to them. It's a specifically male slur.
Edgie, I'm trying to remember but didn't you crack a lesbian joke about the AFLW a couple of months ago?
I thought it was funny so what do you do.
- Sep 29, 2012
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Listening to Hinkleys press conference it didn't sound like Finlayson was a lock to come back in. Only that he was in the squad?
He has to find a space in the team for McEntee first before he can even think about Jez
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Given that Aliir is missing I am not sure how Ken can leave Finlayson out. I would have thought that Jeremy would be the ideal tall player to cover forward or back.
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It won't surprise me if Finlayson is a late change for tonight's game, either that or he plays for the Maggies as he has missed enough footy already and he has to play somewhere.
If he does play for the Power the team needs to get around him and show their support as much as possible.
As for the booing, it's inevitable he is going to cop it for at least the rest of this season regardless of the oppo, so he is either going to cope with it, or succumb to the pressure.
As for those doing the booing, you can bet London to a brick a large percentage of them will have hurled similar insults, or worse to numerous gay people over the years, but that won't suit their narrative and mob mentality will take over!
If he does play for the Power the team needs to get around him and show their support as much as possible.
As for the booing, it's inevitable he is going to cop it for at least the rest of this season regardless of the oppo, so he is either going to cope with it, or succumb to the pressure.
As for those doing the booing, you can bet London to a brick a large percentage of them will have hurled similar insults, or worse to numerous gay people over the years, but that won't suit their narrative and mob mentality will take over!
