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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SBD Gonzalez

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Kidding, right?
If they did half the crap off-field, they would
Remind me how many strangers Goodesy has bashed to the point of permanent brain damage and a compensation payout of tens of thousands.

Why aren't we booing that guy every time he gets the ball?

What's Goodes done that even remotely compares in the Dickhead Stakes?
 

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Anyone else hope he gets booed this weekend or am I sick?

I think Australians are strong minded people who hate to be labelled so if the booing does happen it proves once and for all it was never race motivated.
 

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Kidding, right?
His agenda is to convince YOU that all the boooing is racially motivated, which is wrong
Sorry to harp on this but I do think it's high time one of you good folk came up with a single verified quote of Adam Goodes saying the people booing him are racists. Just one will do thanks.
 

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Manslaughter is not murder, the victim would not care about the difference.
Different penalties, different reaction by family and friends , compassion and forgiveness in the case of manslaughter being accidental or unintended

This is what is missing in this whole fiasco

And all due respect - we are talking about someone being called a name and having their feelings hurt
Not murder
 

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Anyone else hope he gets booed this weekend or am I sick?

I think Australians are strong minded people who hate to be labelled so if the booing does happen it proves once and for all it was never race motivated.
I hope they boo the shit out of him. Let him know we have feelings too.
 

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Sorry to harp on this but I do think it's high time one of you good folk came up with a single verified quote of Adam Goodes saying the people booing him are racists. Just one will do thanks.
What are we debating about then? How did all this become a race issue? Has Adam Goodes since come out and said it's not about race?
 

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"Gone against the grain?" Have you any idea how many people take their cue from Andrew Bolt? Hundreds of thousands. Yet you complain that his perspective is being frozen out of the conversation. (PS Bolt, Devine and Alan Jones are not interested in "conversation", in fact that's the last thing they would want to have happen.)
What was this about perceptions again?

It's certainly against the grain of the majority of press and officialdom on the issue from what I've seen.
 

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No, and neither did Goodes. He said the girl probably didn't know the racist connotation. I think she did, however, that's just speculation. See? Not all Goodes defenders hang off his every word. I could just imagine the backlash the poor bugger would have received if he said she knew it was racist.
He called her the " face of racism"

That's calling her a name that is hurtful also- and he had all night to choose his words
Two wrongs and all that

so racism bad but sexism good
<sigh>
 
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Kidding, right?
What was this about perceptions again?

It's certainly against the grain of the majority of press and officialdom on the issue from what I've seen.
Maybe. I wouldn't know. But I would certainly think it likely that the Alan Joneses and the Andrew Bolts and their fellow travellers have far greater sway over public opinion than "officialdom".
 

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Anyone else hope he gets booed this weekend or am I sick?

I think Australians are strong minded people who hate to be labelled so if the booing does happen it proves once and for all it was never race motivated.
Like I said before, I sell eggs and there's nothing I'd like to see more than boos this weekend.
 

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His agenda is to convince YOU that all the boooing is racially motivated, which is wrong. I don't have a political agenda, I don't blindly follow a party either.
So you have no agenda. Cool.

Why do you not like the idea that people think some of the booing is racially motivated? How does it hurt you if they think that? You can still boo and you will not be ejected from a match. What do you care about anything else given you claim to have no political agenda?
 

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Kidding, right?
He loaded the gun and every self righteous man and his dog are firing it
Yes, Andrew Bolt's dignified silence on the subject has been so inspirational and impressive.

Cuts both ways you know. You may say what you want about Adam Goodes but to suggest only one side is fanning the flames of this imbroglio is just ignorant, or fatally biased.
 
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