(06-09-2021, 02:33 AM)Mav date Wrote:We’ll expect St. Kilda’s Max King to be hounded from now on for successfully flopping to draw a 50 metre penalty that almost turned the game against Sydney. And I wonder why Darren Milburn wasn’t heckled universally for ironing Silvagni after he’d kicked the ball. And far from being hounded out of the game for sliding in and breaking Gary Rohan’s leg, I can’t even remember who was the culprit.Firstly, Milburn was booed by Carlton fans until he retired and disappeared from view. I recall a game at the MCG a season to two back in which that highlight was played pre-game or 1/2-time and he was booed again long long after he retired.
Sorry, but there is a significant difference here about those examples and Goodes, of which Leigh Matthews is another prime example. When he retired Matthews did not deny the horrible unsavoury things he did on the football field, he acknowledge them, spoke of regret and apologised to fans and opponents.
Not sure if King has discussed anything yet, but I know Thomas publicly apologised to Rohan.
None of them stared down the camera and denied those events to fans that had just witnessed them!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"