Lachie Neale has had enough

[boncer34]

He's 100% right, people that send these abusive messages to players are absolute w***ers.

Not sure how you stop it though.

 

[Chief]

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He's 100% right, people that send these abusive messages to players are absolute w***ers.

Not sure how you stop it though.

Social media sites used to have at least some sort of assistance to remove these things and block users.

Now it's all freeze peach...

 

[Chief]

Lachie Neale needs to grow up.

For some people (not me) their happiness depends on their team's result.

Lachie Neale got 25 last night, so I doubt his comment is linked to gamblers.


The Brisbane fans are rightfully annoyed at their poor performance. Be grateful to the fans who financially support you and don't get smashed by 10 goals in your marquee H&A match.

Buying a ticket or a membership doesn't give anyone the right to post over the top abuse and threats.

 

[1970crow]

Society is going pretty well if dipshits posting crap about players on social media are the biggest stains going around.

 

[boncer34]

Lachie Neale needs to grow up.

For some people (not me) their happiness depends on their team's result.

Lachie Neale got 25 last night, so I doubt his comment is linked to gamblers.


The Brisbane fans are rightfully annoyed at their poor performance. Be grateful to the fans who financially support you and don't get smashed by 10 goals in your marquee H&A match.

Not sure you're telling the right people to grow up in this post.

 

[LoungeLizard]

It's not going to stop.
I think the best thing LN can do if it's upsetting him, don't go on social media.

 

[GOTHELIONS16]

Lachie Neale needs to grow up.

For some people (not me) their happiness depends on their team's result.

Lachie Neale got 25 last night, so I doubt his comment is linked to gamblers.


The Brisbane fans are rightfully annoyed at their poor performance. Be grateful to the fans who financially support you and don't get smashed by 10 goals in your marquee H&A match.

Shocking comment by you

 

[Unfazed]

Lachie Neale needs to grow up.

For some people (not me) their happiness depends on their team's result.

Lachie Neale got 25 last night, so I doubt his comment is linked to gamblers.


The Brisbane fans are rightfully annoyed at their poor performance. Be grateful to the fans who financially support you and don't get smashed by 10 goals in your marquee H&A match.

It was another player who was abused, not Neale, so it could have been gambling related. But abuse of any kind is unacceptable. Not sure why you're telling Lachie to grow up.

 

[Toffee Lion]

Lachie Neale needs to grow up.

For some people (not me) their happiness depends on their team's result.

Lachie Neale got 25 last night, so I doubt his comment is linked to gamblers.


The Brisbane fans are rightfully annoyed at their poor performance. Be grateful to the fans who financially support you and don't get smashed by 10 goals in your marquee H&A match.

Found the odd egg who DM's players abuse.

 

[iBeng]

Lachie Neale needs to grow up.

For some people (not me) their happiness depends on their team's result.

Lachie Neale got 25 last night, so I doubt his comment is linked to gamblers.


The Brisbane fans are rightfully annoyed at their poor performance. Be grateful to the fans who financially support you and don't get smashed by 10 goals in your marquee H&A match.

Clearly its Lachies fault for not single handedly winning the game, he deserves all the abuse he gets.

/s

Muppet

 

[spinningmagnets]

For some people (not me) their happiness depends on their team's result.

"Football players need to cop abuse because my life is pathetic."

 

[TheKanga]

I don't understand why someone gets the urge to harass someone.

Like at what point do they get the urge to message a stranger.

Losers well done to Neale for calling it out.

 

[TheKanga]

It's not going to stop.
I think the best thing LN can do if it's upsetting him, don't go on social media.

Deleting social media is probably the only way.

All that shit is the worst for peoples mental health.

 

[PhatBoy]

Lachie Neale needs to grow up.

For some people (not me) their happiness depends on their team's result.

Lachie Neale got 25 last night, so I doubt his comment is linked to gamblers.


The Brisbane fans are rightfully annoyed at their poor performance. Be grateful to the fans who financially support you and don't get smashed by 10 goals in your marquee H&A match.

People whose happiness is linked to a football game to that extent are the precise demographic who need to act their age, assuming they aren’t actual children.

 

[Hamingja]

It would be mostly people losing money gambling. Jack Jumpers players were having their family insulted etc down here and when they tracked them they weren't even in Australia. Just some degenerates overseas betting on Australian basketball in the middle of the night.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Calling these people out never has, at any time, done anything to stop it. Some just do it for attention and the thrill of knowing they’re getting through. “Calling it out” encourages them and other like-minded numbskulls.

Block, mute, ignore is the only way to deal with it. Period.

Other methods are:

- Remove yourself from social media completely

- Have a completely private social media account under a false name. A lot of people in the public eye do this - it allows them to engage with those they know and nobody else.

There will be some people with the “well they shouldn’t have to do that!!” opinion. Well yeah, maybe they shouldn’t have to. But they do.

Neale “calling it out” out of frustration will have the exact opposite effect to what he wants. It always has. It’s a very poorly considered decision.

The other aspect is problem gambling - when you derive your income from an activity which people gamble on, well unfortunately this is part of the territory. Gambling addiction is a mental health issue and it affects some people this way. Speak to jockeys or horse trainers, they’ve been copping it forever.

And if anybody thinks footy isn’t a gambling platform, grow up. The AFL is inextricably intertwined with gambling. It’s the single biggest funding source for the game, both directly from betting companies and indirectly from broadcast revenue, which is driven by gambling advertising. The AFL lobbies against gambling advertisement reform for a reason. The game and those within it have been bought.

 

[HTPunter]

Lachie Neale needs to grow up.

For some people (not me) their happiness depends on their team's result.

Lachie Neale got 25 last night, so I doubt his comment is linked to gamblers.


The Brisbane fans are rightfully annoyed at their poor performance. Be grateful to the fans who financially support you and don't get smashed by 10 goals in your marquee H&A match.

Win a flag, be undefeated in the first month

Lose their “marquee” match

 

[HTPunter]

Calling these people out never has, at any time, done anything to stop it. Some just do it for attention and the thrill of knowing they’re getting through. “Calling it out” encourages them and other like-minded numbskulls.

Block, mute, ignore is the only way to deal with it. Period.

Other methods are:

- Remove yourself from social media completely

- Have a completely private social media account under a false name. A lot of people in the public eye do this - it allows them to engage with those they know and nobody else.

There will be some people with the “well they shouldn’t have to do that!!” opinion. Well yeah, maybe they shouldn’t have to. But they do.

Neale “calling it out” out of frustration will have the exact opposite effect to what he wants. It always has. It’s a very poorly considered decision.

The other aspect is problem gambling - when you derive your income from an activity which people gamble on, well unfortunately this is part of the territory. Gambling addiction is a mental health issue and it affects some people this way. Speak to jockeys or horse trainers, they’ve been copping it forever.

And if anybody thinks footy isn’t a gambling platform, grow up. The AFL is inextricably intertwined with gambling. It’s the single biggest funding source for the game, both directly from betting companies and indirectly from broadcast revenue, which is driven by gambling advertising. The AFL lobbies against gambling advertisement reform for a reason. The game and those within it have been bought.

This whole post just seems like you wanting to get in a whinge about gambling - which is fair because the way it has normalised itself is awful, but you don’t get to just wave a hand at the player abuse either.

 

[Corn Cobbers]

"If my son gets his nose broken a few times, he'll learn where he can put his face" [Frank Sinatra]

 

[caveman72]

Lachie Neale needs to grow up.

For some people (not me) their happiness depends on their team's result.

Lachie Neale got 25 last night, so I doubt his comment is linked to gamblers.


The Brisbane fans are rightfully annoyed at their poor performance. Be grateful to the fans who financially support you and don't get smashed by 10 goals in your marquee H&A match.

Who said he was talking about last nights game? I would say he's saying it's the w***ers in general who abuse all players after doing something that gets their panties in a bunch

 

[HTPunter]

It was another player who was abused, not Neale, so it could have been gambling related. But abuse of any kind is unacceptable. Not sure why you're telling Lachie to grow up.

Considering his recent form & last nights performance, fair chance it could be Ashcroft - makes sense it’d anger the captain enough when it’s a literal 20 year old as opposed to Zorko orhimself.

Awful regardless but something particularly awful about abusing a 20 year old - an age at which point in my eyes is still a kid.

 

[_Cerberus_]

Lachie Neale needs to grow up.

For some people (not me) their happiness depends on their team's result.

Lachie Neale got 25 last night, so I doubt his comment is linked to gamblers.


The Brisbane fans are rightfully annoyed at their poor performance. Be grateful to the fans who financially support you and don't get smashed by 10 goals in your marquee H&A match.

So a team losing a game to another good team, warrants people hiding behind fake profiles calling players a s**t C word, making death threats, racist and homophobic slurs, as well as threatening sexual assault of said players wives, and even their daughters who are minors? This is literally some of the type of content that is sent out weekly by cowards on the internet. The fact you seem okay with this, and think financial privilege is a license to do the above, says more about you than the players.

Also unrelated, and not a reply to you. Saving me another post. But If people gamble and get angry a players for falling one disposal short of making you money, the issue is not the player, but YOU making a choice to gamble. There is a reason it is called gambling. Its not called "insta win every time". You took the risk, your loss.

And for those who say to players to just get off social media. Is just apologists to the toxic sh*t stains online, instead of telling people not to be a holes online, its blaming the victim of their vileness. People, regardless whether a sports person, should be able to freely connect with family, friends, and browse content in the way every regular person does.

If the AFL had any balls. They'd life ban all the ones stupid enough NOT to hide behind a fake profile. But oddly you never hear about anything like that happening much.

 

[rye]

its unfortunate that players need to be on social media to maximise their income and potential profile for opportunities post football. its really not worth them being on there for any kind of altruistic reason of more exposure for fans, just open themselves up to abuse.

 

[mightypowerrrr]

I apologise as I didn't know the full story.

I thought the comments were only about Brisbane's team performance.

I also thought the comments were directed to Neale but it sounds like he was defending team mates.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

This whole post just seems like you wanting to get in a whinge about gambling - which is fair because the way it has normalised itself is awful, but you don’t get to just wave a hand at the player abuse either.

Not whinging about gambling. I gamble myself.

The reality is if you make your living from a gambling-based endeavour - and some will argue with this, but footy pretty much now is that - then this is always going to happen. It affects some people very badly and this is how some of them react.

I genuinely believe that many in football, including many players, are in denial about the industry they are in.