(06-09-2021, 03:14 AM)Mav date Wrote:Is all you have to do, LP, is to show that 1 person booed Like Hodge for you to equate that treatment with Goodes? Or is 100 enough? It’s sophistry to compare the responses which were clearly at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to intensity and spread across different clubs’ supporter bases.I think you deny the behaviour of football fans in general to suit the political debate.
You comment like you've never been to a game. Tony Lockett, Crackers Keenan, Neil Blame, Wayne Johnston, Jim Buckley, Kevin Sheedy and any other number of eternal AFL villains say hello!
What started as a normal feature of AFL play, became much much worse because of Goodes actions and reactions not in spite of them.
Hodge was a hard man of AFL, but would he have even dared to deny his on field actions in the public media? A great part of the crowd's initial booing of Goodes was the crowd calling his on field behaviour bullcrap, long long before he made it about race!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"