Hawthorn racism review

[Grantysghost]

Listening to Luke Hodge on the radio just now, he says he didn't know.

In all seriousness what is he going to say? They’ve all had meetings with their managers this morning and concocted their public responses.

Cynical I know bad but in my experience this is the world.

Crushed ibuprofen ! Hey that’s a good band name.

[azabob]

Listening to Luke Hodge on the radio just now, he says he didn't know.

Hodge has done a lot of denying lately. This and now the whole Cyril Riloi and Kennett issue.

Surely he must have known?

[Mofra]

Hodge has done a lot of denying lately. This and now the whole Cyril Riloi and Kennett issue.

Surely he must have known?

If you're the captain, isn't his job to know?

If I had a workmate that suddenly broke up with their pregnant partner I'd be at the very least curious. If it happened multiple times, shouldn't questions be asked?

[Happy Days]

That was horrible to read. It goes beyond anything I can remember seeing out of a club before, beyond a lack of care and venturing into targeted degradation and dehumanisation that you would expect from a prison.

If something like this came out about us I’d have a really hard time continuing my support.

[bornadog]

In all seriousness what is he going to say? They’ve all had meetings with their managers this morning and concocted their public responses.

Cynical I know bad but in my experience this is the world.

Crushed ibuprofen ! Hey that’s a good band name.

I agree, of course he must have known something.

I am really angry about this. It just ads to a long list of treating the indigenous people of this country badly. A culture that goes back 60,000 years and their country takenover and treated worse than dogs. As 1Eyedog said, surely after more than 200 years we would have stopped being arseholes.

[SonofScray]

Awful stuff. Severe over stepping of professional boundaries looks like the best possible reading of it, but on first read of that ABC article, it’s actually a lot more problematic than that.

[Grantysghost]

Gil is talking at 1030.

[DOG GOD]

WTF have I just read. Unbelievable to think this happened.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

This is why we can't have nice things...
What a disgrace, and echoing Happy Days' comment, if this was our club I'd have to really think through my continued support.

[bornadog]

This is why we can't have nice things...
What a disgrace, and echoing Happy Days' comment, if this was our club I'd have to really think through my continued support.

I would want every person sacked and start again

[Mofra]

What a disgrace, and echoing Happy Days' comment, if this was our club I'd have to really think through my continued support.

If the people involved weren't removed, I'd also revoke membership

[Grantysghost]

AFL to conduct independant review.
Panel of 4 to be led by a KC.

Looks like they're taking it seriously.

Re accused, natural justice was his key word to give them due process which is fair.

Didn't comment on whether they'd be stood down said something like that's the clubs process maybe.

He was in full deflection mode.

[MrMahatma]

That's horrible and hard to fathom.

[GVGjr]

As bad as this is, and it's horrendous, we also need to accept that many clubs have tried to pressure players into decisions or have ignored unacceptable behavior in an effort to win games of football.

We only need to look at the way Collingwood tried to coerce Adam Treloar to not let his wife move to QLD to further her own sporting career and then effectively sacked him when they didn't get the answer they wanted. This was a clear breach of decency to someone who was professional throughout his time at Collingwood.

I think there would be plenty of clubs that couldn't survive a lot of scrutiny on they way they have addressed racism over the last 10 years despite the education that has been available.

[Mofra]

Hun running with Fagan may be stood down.
Fagan is "blindsided" by the report & allegations