Rumour Multiple GWS players are set to be suspended to start the 2025 season after distasteful costumes and skits from their post-season function

[Pistol Night]

GWS: we are committed to improving our culture and standards
Also GWS: hire Jake stringer.

Lmao

Jake taking a dump in a locker makes him look like the Dalai Lama to the rest of the list now

 

[Tonythetiger]

None that come to mind tbh but racism jokes sexist jokes etc etc usually just laugh off as whatever, hear them semi regularly. Can’t give you specific examples of what was said tho. Just hear it in general. I’m no different in some things bother me while others don’t.

And again to make it clear I am not one of those lefty types who runs around boycotting or trying to ruin people for an opinion. I am not cancel culture, I will just have my opinion of you is all

All good. I'm so starved on adult conversation in my normal life was just interested at a possibly different perspective on something I feel like I'm pretty settled on in terms of like broadly how we treat comedy in society.

Growing up in the 90s we laughed at a lot of jokes where the punchline was just like blatant racism which I'm sure a lot of people complain that "you can't say anything anymore" but by and large I hope we have moved on from a lot of that stuff. Being an actual functioning adult now I look back on it as pretty bad times for a lot of people.

 

[geelong_crazy26]

Jake taking a dump in a locker makes him look like the Dalai Lama to the rest of the list now

Wait.. did he actually?!

 

[Bostonian]

So what women think about all this is irrelevant?

What any of us think is irrelevant.

We didn't need to hear about this at all.

 

[srobbo]

Venue copping it both barrels in their reviews. Zero sympathy.

 

[Mudman85]

Or is it possible, like all of us, that your social media algorithms are having an echo chamber effect? I am seeing a lot of criticism of the players in addition to the posts of support.

Not the case. I'm not on socials. I have read mainstream media articles and listened to radio. Very few comments in support of the AFL. "Workplaces" being able to issue fines for non work related activities is a slippery slope

 

[kickazz]

Venue copping it both barrels in their reviews. Zero sympathy.

Yeah gotta love mob rule.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Yeah gotta love mob rule.

They bring something into the public that was private they deserve a public response.

Hopefully they learn their lesson to deal with things personally rather than publicly.

Too many people appeal to authority - government give me this handout, social media lynch this person for me, AFL punish these naughty boys. Such people deserve the true democratic force of the public responding to them.

 

[Frank Bunn]

I was driving around this morn and Tom Elliott was speaking to a lawyer on the radio.

He mentioned that he got some information from a reliable source that suggested an employee was watching the CCTV the next day and laughing at what they were seeing.

It was another employee who came up to see what they were laughing at who got offended by it.

That was the jist of it from what I can recall.

It should be basic investigative journalism to look whether that was how events unfolded. No staff members complained at the time but someone who watched the video at a later time got offended. Unfortunately, most journalists are beholden to corporate sponsors such as the AFL so they will toe the line.

 

[Underarm]

I was driving around this morn and Tom Elliott was speaking to a lawyer on the radio.

He mentioned that he got some information from a reliable source that suggested an employee was watching the CCTV the next day and laughing at what they were seeing.

It was another employee who came up to see what they were laughing at who got offended by it.

That was the jist of it from what I can recall.

jeez thats unlucky. Probably should have held it at a private venue next time.

 

[Tonythetiger]

It should be basic investigative journalism to look whether that was how events unfolded. No staff members complained at the time but someone who watched the video at a later time got offended. Unfortunately, most journalists are beholden to corporate sponsors such as the AFL so they will toe the line.

Imagine if they had cleared it by everyone involved and then it was just happenstance that someone else viewed it? That's wild. I can still support that the AFL do need to act but there's definitely some sympathy I feel to the players.

 

[kickazz]

They bring something into the public that was private they deserve a public response.

Hopefully they learn their lesson to deal with things personally rather than publicly.

Too many people appeal to authority - government give me this handout, social media lynch this person for me, AFL punish these naughty boys. Such people deserve the true democratic force of the public responding to them.

Nah.

If anything, people's anger here should be directed at the AFL.

This public house had public figures do something they weren't happy with, they are allowed to speak up. We do not live in a censorship state. Why do you want to censor them? Seems a bit oppressive to me.

People are only getting upset because the suspensions seem to be heavy handed, so it's the AFL that should be the target. But mob justice always likes smaller fish I suppose. The AFL are pretty tough to target, I agree.

 

[T2B_]

Venue copping it both barrels in their reviews. Zero sympathy.

Where? Couldn't see anything on.Google Reviews yet

 

[Bostonian]

Where? Couldn't see anything on.Google Reviews yet

Looks like they have turned comments off.

 

[T2B_]

Nah.

If anything, people's anger here should be directed at the AFL.

This public house had public figures do something they weren't happy with, they are allowed to speak up. We do not live in a censorship state. Why do you want to censor them? Seems a bit oppressive to me.

People are only getting upset because the suspensions seem to be heavy handed, so it's the AFL that should be the target. But mob justice always likes smaller fish I suppose. The AFL are pretty tough to target, I agree.

Not sure FBI was alluding to any want of censorship. Merely that if the venue does something people don't like, naturally they might pay the price of potential customers. That's the free market isn't it?

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Nah.

If anything, people's anger here should be directed at the AFL.

This public house had public figures do something they weren't happy with, they are allowed to speak up. We do not live in a censorship state. Why do you want to censor them? Seems a bit oppressive to me.

People are only getting upset because the suspensions seem to be heavy handed, so it's the AFL that should be the target. But mob justice always likes smaller fish I suppose. The AFL are pretty tough to target, I agree.

They can speak up - to the people they had an issue with. Go and speak with Toby Greene on the day. Why did they need to appeal to the censor state - sounds pretty fascist to me. Calling up the stazi to fight your battles for me "wah wah these people offended me". Who ever does that?

 

[Mudman85]

Looks like they have turned comments off.

Trip advisor

 

[Muddiemoose]

Venue copping it both barrels in their reviews. Zero sympathy.

So the people who hate all the “woke” crap and cancel culture are trying to cancel a business for doing something they don’t agree with?

Surely I’m not the only one who see’s the irony

 

[Sentinel]

So the people who hate all the “woke” crap and cancel culture are trying to cancel a business for doing something they don’t agree with?

Surely I’m not the only one who see’s the irony

How dare the venue hand down these player punishments.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

So the people who hate all the “woke” crap and cancel culture are trying to cancel a business for doing something they don’t agree with?

Surely I’m not the only one who see’s the irony

Difference is they actually did something worthy of criticism - dobbing.

 

[Tonythetiger]

So the people who hate all the “woke” crap and cancel culture are trying to cancel a business for doing something they don’t agree with?

Surely I’m not the only one who see’s the irony

Hit the nail on the head. It's only cancel culture when someone is saying something they don't agree with.

 

[Smart Fella]

I work as a physio in a clinic, so would be very out of place to hear that in a medical setting.

Don’t pay too much attention or care too much most of the time tbh. Joking about a terrorism attack on USA isn’t one I am fond of given my other half is American and over there you don’t joke about it. You may as well dress up as hamas and a headless baby while you’re at that line of joke, not much difference.

Just a no for me and entirely disgraceful. But that’s me and I feel most would probably agree

Doesn't that come down to 'too soon'?

Common sense says the individual needs to choose their audience wisely, which by the sounds of it, they tried to do.

Hypothetically, I wonder how an 'evil woman' themed night would have been responded to. Would the GWS AFLW captain be upset if Coniglio dressed as Leonarda Cianciulli carrying around a few bars of soap?

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[Mudman85]

So the people who hate all the “woke” crap and cancel culture are trying to cancel a business for doing something they don’t agree with?

Surely I’m not the only one who see’s the irony

So you don't like the taste of own medicine.... what a shock.

 

[Muddiemoose]

Difference is they actually did something worthy of criticism - dobbing.

Isn’t people leaning the venue’s details dobbing that hadn’t been reported?

 

[kickazz]

They can speak up - to the people they had an issue with. Why did they need to appeal to the censor state - sounds pretty fascist to me. Calling up the stazi to fight your battles for me "wah wah these people offended me". Who ever does that?

They can tell anyone they like. I agree that the bolded is usually the best first approach, but it's not for us to say they cannot tell the AFL or go public with it.