Is there any video of this? How do you grab an opposistion player with 'no malice'? What other reason would you grab an opposition player for?
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Bit rough.
Wonder if they'll extend the ban into post-game when players approach fans and take selfies and the likes along the boundry? Same amount of malice in that as there was with the Collingwood fan there.
Wonder if they'll extend the ban into post-game when players approach fans and take selfies and the likes along the boundry? Same amount of malice in that as there was with the Collingwood fan there.
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Why?
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Mm, did he though?
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What about it? Perhaps Goodes should have been booed every week and driven from the game.
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That is a completely different topic altogether and you know it
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The difference is walking around the boundary after the game is done specifically for fan engagement
This was just following a ball over the boundary during play.
I thought there was some sort of unspoken rule where you could give your own players a pat on the back or something. Or at least I think I've seen it happen on TV in the past.
I could understand this if it was the EPL or a European soccer league but seriously this is Australia and we have never had any issues.
I agree it should not be encouraged but suspending a harmless incident makes me almost disgusted where we are as a country.
The AFL should now tell the players you are nit allowed to high 5 the crowd, no heading to the boundary fence after the games you must stay within field of play. No photos with fans either because this is encouraging fans that human contact is ok.
I really feel for this guy, paid his hard earned money to attend and become a member and is suspended for giving an opposition player an encouraging hug.
No wonder our young generation are scared of their own shadow, big corporations trying to protect them from nothing.
I agree it should not be encouraged but suspending a harmless incident makes me almost disgusted where we are as a country.
The AFL should now tell the players you are nit allowed to high 5 the crowd, no heading to the boundary fence after the games you must stay within field of play. No photos with fans either because this is encouraging fans that human contact is ok.
I really feel for this guy, paid his hard earned money to attend and become a member and is suspended for giving an opposition player an encouraging hug.
No wonder our young generation are scared of their own shadow, big corporations trying to protect them from nothing.
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Firstly, learn what the dance means and secondly, those imaginary spears hurt. I got hit by one once.
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But there is no difference if their objective is to protect player welfare. If they come into contact with fans during or after a game the risk is the same, so may as well stamp out post-game niceties to be sure.
I wonder how long they sat down with him and trained him how to say sorry and to say he was wrong.
Would this have been investigated if it was a bloke in a suit?
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Without buying into the culture war crap you're trying to start, if a player is running around the boundary with his hand out for a high 5 he's inviting interaction which is fine
It needs to be the players choice though, you can't just reach over and grab someone like old mate did
Without buying into the culture war crap you're trying to start, if a player is running around the boundary with his hand out for a high 5 he's inviting interaction which is fine
It needs to be the players choice though, you can't just reach over and grab someone like old mate did
I’m not trying to start anything. The guy did nothing harmful amd at worse should if simply got a suspended sentence. This is disgusting this guy got suspended.
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If the players are unhappy with the risk of interacting with fans after the game then they can choose not to get in close for selfies and hugs and high 5s
The West Coast player just followed the ball to the boundary while trying to play the game
And the WCE player didn’t give a crap about it, in fact he had a bit of a smile about it all.
Next minute the fun police (media) get involved start talking about it as if a fan jumped the fence and dived on the player, 1 day later AFL think we have a mass murderer attending the games and suspend.
It’s almost comical how out of touch with real life the AFL is.
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If there was any ambiguity, Lewis Jetta, in support of Goodes, made it unambiguous with a very clear spear throwing gesture towards the crowd.
He shouldn't have done it, we all know he shouldn't have done it - the penalty is stopping anybody else from doing it. He probably meant no harm.
We don't want to end up having stadiums fenced off from the crowd, like they do with soccer.
We don't want to end up having stadiums fenced off from the crowd, like they do with soccer.
Yes it’s a very worrying trend, I saw another guy at an eagles game and half his arm was hanging over the fence. It’s very concerning. Lol
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I misread the thread title and thought a pies player by the surname “toucher” was getting banned for a year lol
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