05-31-2015, 03:03 AM
Just a word or three on Goodes.
I listened very carefully every time Goodes got the ball in the first and early part of the second quarter, and could not hear any booing from the Carlton supporters. They treated him with the respect that a great player deserves.
If only Juddy was afforded the same respect when he plays!!
Goodes confirmed that he did not do his war dance because the Carlton fans were booing, in fact quite the opposite.
However, I thought his war dance was as ridiculous as Lindsay Thomas pointing a pretend shot gun in the air, or Dustin Martin, I think it was doing the handcuff sign, although it could have been someone else, I stand to be corrected.
I abhor racism of any kind, there is no place for it in our society.
However, other than kissing a black armband after kicking a goal in order to express their emotions in remembering a deceased family member, I object to players using the football field either as a political football, or to express any religious or racial symbolism whatsoever.
Do I find anything wrong with Goodes dance? Not at all.
However, it's the old saying of time and place that applies.
Had Goodes stood in front of the Swans cheer squad prior to the first bounce, and performed the dance, just like the Moaris, who, as a TEAM, perform the haka in front of their opponents BEFORE a game, I doubt that anyone but the most abhorrent racist,would have had a problem with it.
However, he waited until he had scored a goal, and performed it in front of the Carlton fans, who, up to that point in time, by Goodes' own admission, had behaved in an exemplary manner.
It was a provocative act, designed to have a go at the Hawthorn supporters who had mercilessly booed him the week before, and saying to those supporters, and others who had booed him in the past and those likely to boo him in the future, that he would not be intimidated by their booing.
That's fine, Adam, but in my opinion, you picked the wrong time and the wrong place to do it.
I listened very carefully every time Goodes got the ball in the first and early part of the second quarter, and could not hear any booing from the Carlton supporters. They treated him with the respect that a great player deserves.
If only Juddy was afforded the same respect when he plays!!
Goodes confirmed that he did not do his war dance because the Carlton fans were booing, in fact quite the opposite.
However, I thought his war dance was as ridiculous as Lindsay Thomas pointing a pretend shot gun in the air, or Dustin Martin, I think it was doing the handcuff sign, although it could have been someone else, I stand to be corrected.
I abhor racism of any kind, there is no place for it in our society.
However, other than kissing a black armband after kicking a goal in order to express their emotions in remembering a deceased family member, I object to players using the football field either as a political football, or to express any religious or racial symbolism whatsoever.
Do I find anything wrong with Goodes dance? Not at all.
However, it's the old saying of time and place that applies.
Had Goodes stood in front of the Swans cheer squad prior to the first bounce, and performed the dance, just like the Moaris, who, as a TEAM, perform the haka in front of their opponents BEFORE a game, I doubt that anyone but the most abhorrent racist,would have had a problem with it.
However, he waited until he had scored a goal, and performed it in front of the Carlton fans, who, up to that point in time, by Goodes' own admission, had behaved in an exemplary manner.
It was a provocative act, designed to have a go at the Hawthorn supporters who had mercilessly booed him the week before, and saying to those supporters, and others who had booed him in the past and those likely to boo him in the future, that he would not be intimidated by their booing.
That's fine, Adam, but in my opinion, you picked the wrong time and the wrong place to do it.