Elmer_Judd
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- Jul 25, 2019
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I suppose, should the AFL come out at the end of the season and state that diving is genuinely against the ethos of the AFL, and put in place cumulative suspensions for players who do it, this kind of sanction can be excused.
In this instance, the optics of fining the two players - given the Essendon board on BF is adamantly both a) 'If there's death threats, that's not on', but also b) 'I saw the thread on twitter, there wasn't any death threats in there! Should've asked for evidence!' - would not have been good, either for the players or for the AFL. Players Association would've kicked over a hornet's nest, and they'd almost be quite right to.
We as supporters need to get in the ear of the rules committee somehow. They put these ridiculous laws in place, so let's lobby them to legislate against staging.
Clubs need to be proactive on abusive supporters on Social Media as well.
Kosi Pickett just got subjected to racist abuse a few days ago as well. Some real vermin out there on the Net