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Originally posted by Pieman7
Total scumbag, just ask the Melbourne Football Club.

That's the same club who was once rumoured to not like Aboriginal footballers, right?

I'm afraid you're the only scumbag around here, mate.
 
Originally posted by PiesPremiers


Im serious. Wouldnt take him if he was given to me. Im happy with the 22 blokes that run out on saturday. Dont want Pike.

There's nothing wrong with any of the 22 Collingwood players who made it out on to the park, and certainly from a team building perspective, there's no need to trade any for any other player in the league.

However, I'm fairly certain that every other team in the league outside the Lions would have been happy to have Pike produce his 2002 form with them this season (along with his B&F and 3 Premiership medals).
 
Originally posted by Stocka


That's the same club who was once rumoured to not like Aboriginal footballers, right?

I'm afraid you're the only scumbag around here, mate.

Which club did like Aboriginal footballers in the early days?
By theway, why are we laughing at Pikey? What's he done?
 
Originally posted by Dogwatcher
Which club did like Aboriginal footballers in the early days?

I'm not just talking about early days . . . try the last decade even.

For what it's worth though, Fitzroy is recorded as being the club to first have an Aboriginal player on their list. Joe Johnson played from 1904 to 1906, including in the back-to-back Premiership teams of 1904-05.

I believe a number of relatives of his also played for the club, including Trent Cummings from 1994 to 1996.
 
Here's a question for you.
What's the difference between hating Aboriginals because of their colour and hating South Australians because of where they come from?
It's a fairly similar principle isn't it?
I'm not attempting to belittle the pain aboriginals feel at rascism, but I feel it's a fair question. Hating someone or something bcos its South Australian is the same as hating someone bcos they are Croat or Serbian isn't it?
Hmm philosophy.
 
Originally posted by Dogwatcher
Here's a question for you.
What's the difference between hating Aboriginals because of their colour and hating South Australians because of where they come from?
It's a fairly similar principle isn't it?
I'm not attempting to belittle the pain aboriginals feel at rascism, but I feel it's a fair question. Hating someone or something bcos its South Australian is the same as hating someone bcos they are Croat or Serbian isn't it?
Hmm philosophy.

The difference is, that one situation eminates from relatively good-natured ribbing which has arisen from various reasons, and is epitomised through sporting rivalries. Very few occasions have seen this rivalry amount to anything that was out of hand.

The other situation is borne from ignorance, in which hundreds of thousands (or more) people have suffered from in various ways over a long period of time, via various means of persecution, which includes cases of mass-murder.

Would have thought it was a pretty obvious difference, myself.
 
Originally posted by Dogwatcher
Here's a question for you.
What's the difference between hating Aboriginals because of their colour and hating South Australians because of where they come from?
It's a fairly similar principle isn't it?
I'm not attempting to belittle the pain aboriginals feel at rascism, but I feel it's a fair question. Hating someone or something bcos its South Australian is the same as hating someone bcos they are Croat or Serbian isn't it?
Hmm philosophy.

Because South Australians didn't have their children taken away from them. Because South Australians don't have the worst infant mortality rates in Australia. Because ... you get the idea.

Not even close to being the same...Fool!
 
Originally posted by funky_monk


Because South Australians didn't have their children taken away from them. Because South Australians don't have the worst infant mortality rates in Australia. Because ... you get the idea.

Not even close to being the same...Fool!

Sorry Monk and Stocka, I didn't really apply my question properly.
I'm definately not attempting to make light of the pain Aborigines have experienced, as I'm very aware of that.
What I am trying to suggest is that ignorance breeds ignorance.
Over the past 12 years I have witnessed the media on both sides of the border progressively become more denigrating to people living in either state.
I truly believe the major media outlets are breeding a generation of people ignorant to the bigger picture.
Reading some of the debates on this forum leads me to believe that many of those ignorant people come here.
The media outlets are breeding people that are more South Australiancentric or Victoriancentric than ever before.
In many cases it's not just good natured ribbing anymore, it's becoming stupidly dangerous. Any debate now is virtually becoming a slanging match becuase people aren't willing to concede a point and are too willing to degenerate into name calling and abuse.
When I posted that comment I was merely trying to point out that some of the comments directed by over people are a form of 'ism'.
I'm definately not attempting to make light of the tragedies experienced by Aboriginal people.
 
Pike is a strange, strange person. Matthew Campbell, when asked what he thought of Pike (they were former teammates), just said he was a 'bit different, and ill leave it at that.'

Did you see Pike accept his Premiership medallion from the little Auskick kid? he just grabbed it off the kid and put it on himself, didnt even shake hands. For me, that just about sums the man up.
 

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