Fox,

You really need to get to know a bit about football before sounding off. Use those offers you say you can claim and go see a match.

Otherwise you might be aware that 'grandfather' Goodes was easily outclassed and outplayed by a 20 yr old (who turned 20 on Sunday!) who has only a few games (four?) under his belt.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/jake-kolodjashnij-becomes-the-good-news-story-of-adam-goodes-night-20150809-giuw7x.html

Football is a young man's game. The 'mistakes' made by the older player like Goodes betray his declining physical ability and mental alertness, and loss of edge (and sometimes loss of 'bottle').

Goodes is very fortunate, one of the favoured few, to have been allowed to play longer than many others. Team management and coaches have to consider the probability of injury and slow recovery, and denial of opportunity to a replacement who is on his way up, not on the downslide.

One is left to wonder if it is the involuntary mental flinch of the anticipated coming tap on the shoulder and goodbye that is weighing so heavily on Goodes and making hims so sensitive that he is 'gutted' by a word from a 13yr old girl. A girl who all but the political few agree never intended him to take the interpretation, offence and hurt that he did. It was all in his mind not hers.

Goodes has to look to his future because the game could be over through one ill-timed play that a younger man would easily bounce back from and go looking for more.

Goodes should be counting his blessings from being given so many opportunities and having had such a long and fortunate career. While admittedly he had skills, there are many excellent players with equal skills who miss out.

Foxy, Goodes has a lot for which he should answer. He has not apologised for his baseless “face of racism” insult to the schoolgirl
Rita Panahi made a pertinent comment on those who support the nonsense of the fans being racist in booing Goodes:
“Those keen to portray fans as racist tend to be miserable self-loathing Leftists who see Australia as some backward, xenophobic corner of the world. Goodes being booed is just another reason to slam their country as racist. The truth is immaterial.”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/the-goodes-the-bad-and-the-ugly/story-fni0fhh1-1227460762592
We will see what develops, but expect nothing sensible from a bonehead like Coodes

Soon to be the Swan's 'Yesterday Man'. No excuses. No whining. He had a 'goode' run while it lasted.

Adam Goodes is one of the truly great players and
truly great leaders of the game. I should know -
I've loved the game since I was a teen. And I've supported
my own team through thick and thin.

Adam Goodes is a
thoughtful Indigenous leader, an elegant player and
former Australian of the Year. He represents the game
beautifully - as his awards can testify.

However as we know - Goodes has been
publicly traduced by a baying, bigoted, mob.
But they now don't really matter - as the Geelong game
proved - where heaps of people showed their support.

Those who support Adam Goodes include - 18 Club Captains of
the Aussie Rules Teams. Premiers Mike Baird and Daniel Andrews,
Jessinta Campbell, Waleed Aly, James Packer, and millions of
Australians who were simply appalled by the behaviour of an
ignorant few.

On the other side there's - Alan Jones, Andrew Bolt, Graham
Richardson, Jason Akermanis, Sam Newman, - to name just a few.

I know which side I stand with
and who I support -
with pride.

Still no link from Foxy for the alleged Washington Post article on a Yale University study on “right wing blowhard lies”.
Just because we know that it is garbage that she made up does not relieve her of the obligation to authenticate it, or come clean on her attempt at deception

<Rita Panahi made a pertinent comment on those who support the nonsense of the fans being racist in booing Goodes:
“Those keen to portray fans as racist tend to be miserable self-loathing Leftists who see Australia as some backward, xenophobic corner of the world. Goodes being booed is just another reason to slam their country as racist. The truth is immaterial.”>

Fair enough!

It takes considerable courage for Rita Panahi to speak her mind while knowing that in the extremely politically correct Oz of modern times she will be singled out and targeted for personal attack and vilification by the ruthless organised Left.

Fox, "However as we know - a 13yr old GIRL has been
publicly traduced by a baying, bigoted, Leftist mob."

There, I fixed that for you. Wherever did you get that quaint 'traduced' from though? LOL