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My opinion is that the AFL is supposed to be or used to be a sport which allows the punters for a short space of time to forget their day to day stresses in life without being fed propaganda or being made aware of important issues outside of football.
I am aware of cancer , racism ,drugs, depression etc , i get reminded of this everyday via the media.
I personally don’t need to be reminded again when i go to the footy, the footy to me is to get away from this for a short space of time.
Sure , have the ANZAC day game and promote it as such purely on the basis that the game is held on ANZAC day but everything else needs to go.
Football players and clubs are there to provide me entertainment and they get paid accordingly for there efforts. Thats all i want , its not a tool to make me aware of issues that we have in society , there is other outlets that can and are being used to promote this.
Players should focus on what they get paid for and that is to play footy, they get well paid to do so , thats what i want and i imagine other footy followers as well.
So on the topic of Adam Goodes , again this is my opinion only… it is twice in a short space of time that he has created a media frenzy on a situation that he has labelled as racism on the footy field , both instances are inconclusive if it is racist, but Adam Goodes has been opportunistic to label it as racism for the purpose to create awareness.
I am all for Adam to promote his extra curricular activities but don’t use footy as a vehicle to do so .
I am aware of cancer , racism ,drugs, depression etc , i get reminded of this everyday via the media.
I personally don’t need to be reminded again when i go to the footy, the footy to me is to get away from this for a short space of time.
Sure , have the ANZAC day game and promote it as such purely on the basis that the game is held on ANZAC day but everything else needs to go.
Football players and clubs are there to provide me entertainment and they get paid accordingly for there efforts. Thats all i want , its not a tool to make me aware of issues that we have in society , there is other outlets that can and are being used to promote this.
Players should focus on what they get paid for and that is to play footy, they get well paid to do so , thats what i want and i imagine other footy followers as well.
So on the topic of Adam Goodes , again this is my opinion only… it is twice in a short space of time that he has created a media frenzy on a situation that he has labelled as racism on the footy field , both instances are inconclusive if it is racist, but Adam Goodes has been opportunistic to label it as racism for the purpose to create awareness.
I am all for Adam to promote his extra curricular activities but don’t use footy as a vehicle to do so .

