This thread ls not about Adam Goodes . it is about the
Collingwood football club . Eddie McGuire ( aka McGob ) is the president of that club
and has made and has made some outrageous racial statements .
This is not about Goodes anymore , it's about the C'wood president .
Leave Goodes alone !!!!!!!
Jack Mac said
03:17 AM May 31, 2013
sandsmere wrote:
This thread ls not about Adam Goodes . it is about the
Collingwood football club . Eddie McGuire ( aka McGob ) is the president of that club
and has made and has made some outrageous racial statements .
This is not about Goodes anymore , it's about the C'wood president .
Leave Goodes alone !!!!!!!
Oh Dear!
My original comment was about E. McGuire but you seem to have a selective approach to the post, and the addendum was that players sometimes just have to suck it up and get on with the game.
Without contrary evidence I stand by what I posted, I am quite happy to be proven wrong, and I agree there is no place for racial vilification in sport, at whatever level. But if a player gets so upset about that how would he go with normal sledging in a match?
I played enough football of a reasonable standard in my younger days and if you got upset about barracking from the sideline perhaps you shouldn't have been there.
You have to remember that the most vociferous supporters are invariably those who have never been there done that and live vicariously through their football team.
You see it after a match the spectators take It to heart as though it's a war but players shake hands walk off and have a beer together.
Get over it: It's a game
ibbo said
03:21 AM May 31, 2013
pauline wrote:
Jack Mac wrote:
I actually don't mind Eddie as a person especially after his reaction a few years ago to his house fire and even allowing for his rants about the Bne Lions (not that I really care) but one would have thought as a long standing broadcaster he would have known better.Â
Having said that, and all the comments were totally inappropriate, what sort of sook is Adam Goodes. Â Gawd strike me, what that poor kid said wasn't appropriate but she didn't know it was a so called racial taunt. I've only seen footage without sound but he seemed to give a gob full as well. He's apparently as big as a mountain and plays in , apparently the toughest game of all and falls to pieces when a 13 yr old girl barracks him.
Methinks some do protest too much.
Ditto Ditto
I have said it before,and I repeat again.I believe that the whole episode was scripted.Security people nearby,cops nearby.no way in the world would a 13 year old be detained for two hours in a Police cell.Add this to the latest maguire garbage comments ..
rockylizard said
04:43 PM May 31, 2013
Gday...
Just a thought ... red headed people are called Rangas (orang-utans) ... including our PM. Is this worthy of huge media carryon - racist or otherwise. In fact media have regularly referred to PM as "the ranga".
And as a dyed in the wool Collingwood supporter, how upset should I become when Collingwood supporters are universally seen and referred to as "toothless bogans". I do not fit that image but just have to grin and let it go over my head.
The rules of 'politically correct' are applied when it suits ... just listen to all comedians who push PC to its very limits ... and jibes will always be there.
I remember the line from the movie Bodyline .... The English captain had been called a bastard by one of the Aussie cricketers and he approached the Aussie captain for an apology. The Aussie caption replied, looking at this team, "OK, which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?" Puts it perspective I thought.
And the older one ... who called the cook a bastard? Reply - who called the bastard a cook!
I do not tolerate racism when it raises its ugly head, but like everything in our complicated, complex, often mixed up world - ya gotta let circumstances determine the response.
Cheers - and I will just keep travelling and ignoring foolishness - John
ken thomas said
08:08 PM Jun 4, 2013
Bloke walks into a fancy dress shop to get a Dracula costume for Halloween.
The woman handed him a Collingwood jumper.
"Sorry," he says ... "You must've misunderstood me; I said I want to look like a count."
This thread ls not about Adam Goodes . it is about the
Collingwood football club . Eddie McGuire ( aka McGob ) is the president of that club
and has made and has made some outrageous racial statements .
This is not about Goodes anymore , it's about the C'wood president .
Leave Goodes alone !!!!!!!
Oh Dear!
My original comment was about E. McGuire but you seem to have a selective approach to the post, and the addendum was that players sometimes just have to suck it up and get on with the game.
Without contrary evidence I stand by what I posted, I am quite happy to be proven wrong, and I agree there is no place for racial vilification in sport, at whatever level. But if a player gets so upset about that how would he go with normal sledging in a match?
I played enough football of a reasonable standard in my younger days and if you got upset about barracking from the sideline perhaps you shouldn't have been there.
You have to remember that the most vociferous supporters are invariably those who have never been there done that and live vicariously through their football team.
You see it after a match the spectators take It to heart as though it's a war but players shake hands walk off and have a beer together.
Get over it: It's a game
Gday...
Just a thought ... red headed people are called Rangas (orang-utans) ... including our PM. Is this worthy of huge media carryon - racist or otherwise. In fact media have regularly referred to PM as "the ranga".
And as a dyed in the wool Collingwood supporter, how upset should I become when Collingwood supporters are universally seen and referred to as "toothless bogans". I do not fit that image but just have to grin and let it go over my head.
The rules of 'politically correct' are applied when it suits ... just listen to all comedians who push PC to its very limits ... and jibes will always be there.
I remember the line from the movie Bodyline .... The English captain had been called a bastard by one of the Aussie cricketers and he approached the Aussie captain for an apology. The Aussie caption replied, looking at this team, "OK, which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?" Puts it perspective I thought.
And the older one ... who called the cook a bastard? Reply - who called the bastard a cook!
I do not tolerate racism when it raises its ugly head, but like everything in our complicated, complex, often mixed up world - ya gotta let circumstances determine the response.
Cheers - and I will just keep travelling and ignoring foolishness
- John
The woman handed him a Collingwood jumper.
"Sorry," he says ... "You must've misunderstood me; I said I want to look like a count."