Unless it was incredibly personal (which no-one can really confirm), I don’t see a reason for booing on the same level as/arguably more than Houston?
ehh who cares, its part of the game.
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Unless it was incredibly personal (which no-one can really confirm), I don’t see a reason for booing on the same level as/arguably more than Houston?
Who cares? The point is that people have a right to boo at a game. If you're so sheltered that you can't handle booing then:Okay, but what was the reason he was in the top 2 boo’ed players (by volume) on the night?
Banter and general insults should absolutely be part of the game (think M Clarke’s ‘get ready for a broken ****in arm’), but personal insults and slurs that lessen historically marginalised groups shouldn’t beehh who cares, its part of the game.
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People have a right to boo. Doesn’t mean that the reason they’re booing is right. I’ll leave it at thatWho cares? The point is that people have a right to boo at a game. If you're so sheltered that you can't handle booing then:
a.) Don't go to the games (if you're a fan)
b.) Don't be a professional athlete
I get that your underlying question is to try to dredge up the argument about what Rankine did, but it really doesn't matter. People have different opinions on the issue and people in the stands have different reasons for booing.
Either way, the point is that they have a right to boo and if you're a professional athlete you should be able to take it, and if you're a fan you should also be able to take it. It's not as if it was physical violence, like in EPL, or if he was constantly receiving death threats and being harrassed off the field, etc. Those things are obviously crossing a line, but simply being booed during an away game? Being worried about that is just amateur-hour stuff.
Banter and general insults should absolutely be part of the game (think M Clarke’s ‘get ready for a broken ****in arm’), but personal insults and slurs that lessen historically marginalised groups shouldn’t be
We've got a good one, but he went and got himself suspended.I knew it was game over when we had a CBA with Laird, Keays and Peatling. Really need another decent mid.
People have a right to boo. Doesn’t mean that the reason they’re booing is right. I’ll leave it at that
Of all the issues we saw last night the woke flogs are worried about booing an opposition player. Pathetic.
No. Hence why you shouldn’t be booed if you went out to play footy next weekIf I walk up to a bikie dude at a bar and call him every name under the sun, am I a victim if he retaliates by calling me a word of a marginalised group?
I’m sure if a player purposely decked another player in a game, he’d get weeks in this day and age (willing for this to get pulled up if I end up wrong lol)What about if he decks me? One option is blatantly against the law even when provoked with words. What isnt is insulting marginalised groups. Why is one against the law and the other isnt? We need to get some perspective here.
First off my UGLY (from Los Angeles): game was on at 2:30am so I woke up at 5am to watch, only to see a message from a friend telling me the result.
Fair enough. I’m just very weirded out by the situationAnd who are you to dictate what is right or wrong? It’s their right reason. Not yours to be judge jury and executioner.
No. Hence why you shouldn’t be booed if you went out to play footy next week
I agree, hard to find any positives from the game .....I do think though, Pedlar justified his inclusion over Dowling, and showed he is a Finals type player with a Finals temperamentThere aren’t any positives to take out of it. None.
Our form has been shit for a month. Finally caught up with us.
So many of our younger players showed they aren’t up to it yet. Very real likelihood of a straight sets exit, if that’s the standard.
It's not about what YOU think is right or wrong. They have the right to boo. Booing is a natural part of professional sports, and your judgement of why they are booing is just that: your opinion.People have a right to boo. Doesn’t mean that the reason they’re booing is right. I’ll leave it at that
Who said you would? I’ve been very vocal about Houston being a campaigner through over a yearActually if I instigated everything, then I deserve what ever I get. Sure as shit im not going to cry about being booed.
Im glad someone posted this, but I disagree with the summary a bit.I had a paragraph typed out and this stupid site crashed on me (the app doesn’t work & the mobile site continuously updates and refreshes)
I’m just going to say. We crumble under pressure. We always have. Slight improvement this year. But I feel like for years I have been saying the same thing - it’s all in the head. Whoever is the club psych, needs to be replaced.
I hope lack of finals experience is the reason, but I fear when it impacted about 90% of the blokes out there tonight.
Fair enough. I’m just very weirded out by the situation
People pay their money ...they're entitled to barrack how they wish !Because he was antagonizing and getting stuck into Rankine 3 weeks ago alongside Houston (the other boo'd player).
Whats the reason we never boo'd Quaynor in the 7 previous games he played against our club?
Then you've got the 7 who HAVE played. Of those, only Walker, ANB, Dawson and Laird could hold their heads up to any degree. They weren't great, but they busted their proverbials all night. We will miss the big fella when hes gone.
By many reports, it wasn’t Quaynor that reported it (and we’re not even sure if it was him that was the recipient), and in fact he (or whoever the recipient was) didn’t really care. Why was he the one that had to be significantly booed?For example, probably a lot of fans were pissed off that Quaynor/Collingwood created a huge incident over something that arguably would have been victimless (after all, no "marginalized groups" even heard this interaction). Now you may not agree with that sentiment, but there IS an argument to be made that no one would have even known about this - and therefore no one harmed. I'm not taking a position either way. I'm just saying both arguments have some validity and therefore the people that take that view have a right to boo.
In addition, as many have pointed out, they could have been booing because of the way that Quaynor treated Rankine in prior games. We don't really know and it's just makes the AFL look small and amateur to get worked up and judgy about that, considering it's a professional sport and as one of the previous posters pointed out:
"Of all the issues we saw last night people are worried about booing an opposition player."