Mega Thread The Adam Goodes Megathread - Now with Added Poll!

Why are crowds booing Goodes?

  • Racism

    Votes: 565 29.9%
  • He's perceived as a dirty player

    Votes: 563 29.8%
  • He's perceived as making a team game all about himself

    Votes: 758 40.1%
  • Because everyone else is booing, I thought I'd join in - like a Mexican wave thing

    Votes: 268 14.2%
  • Because Gillon doesnt want them to

    Votes: 135 7.2%
  • I have no idea

    Votes: 74 3.9%
  • Other

    Votes: 183 9.7%
  • His onfield message is at odds with his off field one

    Votes: 233 12.3%
  • He can do no wrong with the MRP

    Votes: 164 8.7%
  • I was saying Boo-Urns?

    Votes: 61 3.2%
  • Jack Watts

    Votes: 56 3.0%

  • Total voters
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well they wouldn't, of course, because the booing isn't along racial lines.

but thanks for confirming it's just a footy thing.
This comment is right up there in the stupid stakes along with the soccer player who wanted to deport Goodes.The issue isnt whether swans supporters have some rascist supporters as well.It wont come out when it involves one of there players.Its like sa
I can't. Plenty of others cop abuse but no other person or any race seems to have copped what Goodes has.
Which says it all - it's about the individual, not race.
An individual with a strong opinion about his race.We cant handle opinionated black men that dont tow the line.Thats the point..
 

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How much spin needs to be involved to make "you're an Ape" a racial comment?

I'll give you a hint. It's a number between nothing and zero.
In all honesty, I never made the link 'til Goodes pointed it out. Is there any other animals that are also racial slurs? You know, I wouldn't want to say the wrong thing now. Can we call him a dog? What about Chicken?
 

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In all honesty, I never made the link 'til Goodes pointed it out. Is there any other animals that are also racial slurs? You know, I wouldn't want to say the wrong thing now. Can we call him a dog? What about Chicken?
I've heard people call Hirdy a germ, does that count?
 

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What year of school is it that they teach what is/isn't a racial slur for each race?
School?

Any decent parent should be teaching their kid that you don't call other people names by the time they're old enough to socialise with others.
 
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The fact that you consider racial abuse is freedom of speech is actually more of a concern for mine.
The fact of projecting your political stereotypes into my mouth is even more disconcerting....Because you seem to think it's O.K to do that....It isn't, so quit it.
 
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I think those commentators who have decided that the booing of Goodes is purely racist have done him a disservice. The issue is more complex than that and there are indeed many people who dislike Goodes not for his aboriginality, but for other reasons. I won't cop the " Way he plays football" line as that is completely inconsistent with the reaction of the crowd to many other players who have done as much as and often a lot more to piss people off. The main issue in my opinion is Goodes strongly put views on Indiginous Australia. For some reason a great chunk of society simply won't tolerate men or women with a high profile stepping outside their station and getting political. Bono,Marlon Brando,Jane Fonda,Robert Frost,Frank Hardy,Paul Robeson,Peter Garrett ( before becoming a politician,Ben Affleck,Cassius Clay ( and Ali), Billie Jean King etc have all been pilloried at one time or another for daring to stand up for their beliefs on divisive issues. In time as views changed of the issues many of these people were applauded for their courage in stepping up and accepting the vitriol that they knew would come and using their positions to try and change the close minded ness of much of the public. Goodes is naive if he thought there wasent going to be a backlash to his AOTY speech and his stance on being racially abused on that fateful night. He may have been badly advised. Perhaps he believed Australians would be more open minded to views that they disagree with. who knows? This whole saga has been depressing. The booing should cease. The football clubs that the booers love have pleaded with them to stop in the name of common decency. It will be interesting to see what happens. It is low rent behaviour but it can't be slated as racist.
 
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This.

The whole war dance is the same as the haka is BS. The haka is done at the opposition not the crowd. Goodes made his opposition the crowd and since they can't jump over the fence to respond, they're responding by booing and he's losing the war quickly.

You made your bed Adam. We'll forgive you if you say sorry to the entire nation though.
If I was Goodes, I would go tell you to go glory be yourself and then continue to play knowing that it would piss suppoters off even more. And the louder the boos got, the bigger the smile on my face. It has obviously affected Goodes and there's no turning back now for the crowds. Even their own clubs telling them to stop won't work.

Will you boo him next chance you get even with Hodgey and co telling you to stop?
 

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School?

Any decent parent should be teaching their kid that you don't call other people names by the time they're old enough to socialise with others.
Oh FFS. Another parent of the year. 24/7 standing right next to them ready to smack them with a ruler, even when they're at school.

You tell a child what not to do.

They do it.

You tell them 100 times, exactly the same thing.

At some point they figure it out, and you hope to god they don't come home from school crying with a pencil stuck in their eye.
 
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Guys and girls who think that there really is nothing wrong with booing Goodes, do you realise that you're now going to be seen as racists, regardless of whether you are or not? There's no grey area here anymore. It's now very much a black and white issue.

Do you understand that although you might just think Goodes is a tool who deserves to be booed, like Ballantyne and Boomer, that you're going to sitting their booing with hundreds of others who genuinely feel that Goodes had no right to point out someone in the crowd who'd called him an 'ape'?
Do you realise you'll be booing along with some others who feels that he shouldn't make any comments about Aboriginal history?
And lastly, do you realise that you'll be booing along with one or two, who genuinely think that "black campaigners get everything given to them, and can **** off!".

Sad but true, but there is varying levels of racism showing it's face amongst those who really want to give Goodes a piece of their mind. You'll be seen to be in that last group, even if you're generally in the first.
So your going to perpetuate the old labeling & name calling card as a means of silencing free speech....Well done.
 

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Any decent parent should be teaching their kid that you don't call other people names by the time they're old enough to socialise with others.
What's that got to do with racial slurs? Most 'names' are not racial slurs. At what age are kids typically informed of what is/isn't a racial slur?
 

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Goodes had 15 disposals in the West Coast Game, 14 of them were backwards kicks or handballs and 1 was a goal from a push-in-the-back to Schofield which wasn't called (what a shock). He was convincingly smashed by Shepherd (a young kid half his size), then Wellingham, and manhandled like an unresponsive Micky O rape victim by Tom Barass, a first gamer.

It's time to hang up the shoes Goodes, you've had a good run.
Wrong thread?I think the swans might be the ones to determine that.If u watch the Hawthorn game he was about there only decent player
 
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We walk past dozens of security cameras, our seats are numbered, our season tickets are named, etc etc etc. Did I hear a racist adult? Shame him good and proud. Did I hear an unmistakeably young female voice? Go through club/admin/ground channels. Official statement endorsed by league, will not name or identify child due to being a minor.
Exactly, I don't think anyone is actually saying she should not have been spoken to or challenged on her comments, but to do it so publicly when a child is involved is terrible. I find it astounding, that those that are supportive of Goodes rights on this have no compassion for a child.
 

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An individual with a strong opinion about his race.We cant handle opinionated black men that dont tow the line.Thats the point..
So there are no other black footballers with strong opinions about their race?
Tell that to Shaun Burgoyne, Michael O'Loughlin, Nathan Lovett-Murray, Michael Long and so on
 
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In all honesty, I never made the link 'til Goodes pointed it out. Is there any other animals that are also racial slurs? You know, I wouldn't want to say the wrong thing now. Can we call him a dog? What about Chicken?
In all honesty, how old are you?

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So your going to perpetuate the old labeling & name calling card as a means of silencing free speech....Well done.
Seriously, this crap you're carrying on about with 'free speech' is laughable.

"Oh, but it's my right to boo whoever I want!". Well, yes, it sure is, but it's also everyone else's right to make a judgement as to why they think you are indeed booing an outspoken black man so vehemently.
 
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