Yeh agree 100%...couldn't stop reading no matter how angry it made me.Originally Posted by paper_rival
The thing that concerns me the most is how he'll be remembered in 5, 10 or 20 years. It would be a travesty if this negativity towards him continued...imagine what people would say if he became Prime Minister.
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Goodes is making a habit of timing his milestones with finals. He played his 300th game in the second semi-final in 2011 against Hawthorn. But I don't want that match to be an omen for Friday night as we lost by 36 points!
I see the vilification of Goodes as a positive in that the only way that Australia's racists can talk about how they feel is anonymous, online and against an individual footballer.
Goodes has taken away some of their privileges so no wonder they're angry.
Adam Goodes' stellar career
Draft history: 1997 AFL Draft third round selection, No.43 overall.
Games: 349 (most in South Melbourne/Sydney Swans history, 14th in AFL/VFL history)
Goals: 434
Achievements
Premierships: 2 (2005, 2012)
Brownlow medals: 2 (2003 equal, 2006)
Career Brownlow votes: 162
All Australian: 4 (2003, 2006, 2009, 2011)
Best and fairest: 3 (2003, 2006, 2011)
Swans' leading goalkicker: 2009-2011
AFLCA Player of the year: 2006 (equal)
AFL Rising Star: 1999
Indigenous Team of the Century
Swans' co-captain 2009-2012
No need to lose the boos, says Goodes - M.afl.com.au
AND ...
6 TLMs (2003, 2006-2007, 2009-2011)
It only started in 2002 otherwise I'm sure there would be more.
No need to lose the boos, says Goodes - AFL.com.au
Classy response from Goodsey to the incessant booing.
Pick 43...calling this a bargain is the understatement of the millennium
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Sums up the great man!
lets send this absolute champion in every sense of the word out in the manner he deserves...
Well said Brother!
Hang on. "Sending him out" makes it sound like we expect this to be his last game.
+1, but not tomorrow - we need to lift the Cup at the G to achieve it!
"You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."
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