Eddie McGuire on Fox Footy last Friday Night mentioned that Bobby Skilton is in hospital with a broken shoulder after having a fall. Not sure if anyone was aware of this, as I haven't seen this reported elsewhere in the media and concerned considering Bobby's age & recent health issues. Hope he's recovering well.
My dad spoke to Skilton a few days ago and he's in good spirits.
Poor Bobby hasn't had much luck the last few years.
It hurts a little bit seeing how well Zak Jones is doing at St Kilda, and doubly so knowing that we got shafted at the trade table. It eases the pain a smidge that there probably wasn't much more we could have done to keep him (unlike with Mitchell - which hurts a bit more because we also got shafted in the trade but we could have kept him if we had tried a bit harder and hadn't decided to prioritise other players). Afl.com.au's 'Data Report' with the guy from Champion Data focused on the value that Zak Jones is bringing to St Kilda, and I watched it yesterday, which is why i happen to bringing this up now.
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“Refuse to Lose” is a rugby league podcast but for their fifth (and currently latest) episode they talk to Kizza for well over an hour. The early stuff like his introduction to AFL, his draft story, his early training days as a tagger cover existing ground but the later stuff like his thoughts on the Adam Goodes racism incidents, the 14 and 16 GFs, and his post football career is new (well at least it is to me)
https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode/666961
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With the documentaries about Adam Goodes, the racism in AFL is forever cemented in History, and cant just be forgotten or ignored like the AFL admin would like it to.
This story, even if probably exaggerating its viewership in the US, just re-enforces how poor the whole saga was, and will haunt the AFL for a long, long time. In hindsight, knowing this wouldnt be forgotten, I bet they wished they did something substantial about it at the time.
‘Australia look like southern crackers’: US reacts to Adam Goodes documentary
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