Rumour Tigers accused of groping teammate

[dont bowl there]

It’s a natural reaction to try and prevent it. He’s clearly laughing about it in the video, and laughs after it.

He gestured to not do it with his hand right at the start. Thats clear mate.

 

[Sentinel]

Who would have thought that this sort of thing does not go on in Sporting Dressing rooms among twenty something males?

Does not make it acceptable.

 

[Strange Cat]

If Cholly wants to press assault charges then I have no objection.

Im sure he will ring you up and make sure you are comfortable with him putting in a complaint

 

[GastevsBeard]

Hawthorn/Brisbane frantically deleting any evidence of the Hodgey/Birchall scrotum-pinching incident

 

[Dusty Goat]

He gestured to not do it with his hand right at the start. Thats clear mate.

Yes, a natural reaction. He’s not going to encourage it and thrust his penis toward the two begging to be groped. Doesn’t mean he didn’t view it as a joke.

 

[BBC1967]

Does not make it acceptable.

Every sporting club in Australia is now on notice.....

 

[Engimal v3]

 

[Strange Cat]

Every sporting club in Australia is now on notice.....

Well it is a workplace so the legal standards have to be meet

you wouldn’t be groping your co worker in the office would you ?

 

[OhDustinMartin]

This so much

some of the comment about players showering in their jocks or going home to have a shower somehow implies they are less than a man for doing so

I hope attitudes like these have change since my playing days

Sick to death of it.

Young men have one of the highest suicide rates of any demographic. This accusatory bullshit that if you're uncomfortable with something then you're somehow less of a man is pathetic and shameful. Look at the bloke in my DP. He ****ing killed himself, leaving behind two young kids. I've lost people close to me to suicide and it has rocked my community to its core, and people (men, 35-70 i mean) do not care one iota. It's a disgrace that people behave like this. You have no idea of the impact you cause.

 

[dont bowl there]

Yes, a natural reaction. He’s not going to encourage it and thrust his penis toward the two begging to be groped. Doesn’t mean he didn’t view it as a joke.

He didn't push the hand away and laugh, you can clearly 100% see with his hand gesture at the start he told him not to do it.

 

[DrakeOMalfoy]

Of course people are defending this as typical blokes in the locker room.

It’s not a locker room it’s a workplace. 99.9% of people that work in this country would expect to be fired if they did this to a colleague in a workplace.

Why are Richmond footballers any different?

 

[Jesse Custer]

I like it. There should be more of it.

 

[BBC1967]

Well it is a workplace so the legal standards have to be meet

you wouldn’t be groping your co worker in the office would you ?

So your club doesn’t engage in tomfoolery like this. Maybe we should troll through all club song videos and retrospectively charge players?

 

[Jobe Watson]

Every sporting club in Australia is now on notice.....

When I play sport with me mates we give each other reach-arounds in the showers like why is this even a big deal? PC gone mad.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Why are Richmond footballers any different?

Seems to be the question being asked every bloody week this season #culture

 

[Ron The Bear]

Im sure he will ring you up and make sure you are comfortable with him putting in a complaint

Much more likely that he'll conduct an interview and have a laugh at you and your ilk.

 

[PetterdHoisted]

Just a bit of light-hearted kancho.

aaahh you've reminded of an unprintable incident that occurred when I was on highschool exchange in Japan...goodness me

How does the recipient clearly view it as a joke? Can you explain that?

Can sexual assaults not occur in "footy team environments" ? Do people consent to their anus' being fingered publicly because they join a football team?

Can we establish a communal definition of 'anal fingering' please? You've typed these words repeatedly in this thread, but to me a pair of shorts and undies would make that act extremely difficult to execute, and it certainly wasn't happening during the Tiger team song. What do you think it means?

 

[Coach_Required]

Does white mans junk not matter?

Riewoldt was clearly doing it to Short at the end of that clip too.

Discrimination against a white mans smaller penis

Why didnt Riminton stand up for Shorty's rights too?

 

[McOrist]

Who would have thought that this sort of thing does not go on in Sporting Dressing rooms among twenty something males?

 

[Dusty Goat]

Does white mans junk not matter?

Riewoldt was clearly doing it to Short at the end of that clip too.

Discrimination against a white mans small penis

Why didnt Riminton stand up for Shorty's rights too?

Hugh is a race baiter at his finest. He doesn’t even cover the AFL.

 

[David Bondo]

I’d flatten any bloke that tried groping my genitals.

There’s something off about blokes that go grabbing someone’s genitals. I don’t think it’s just a joke they get something sexual out of it.

 

[Xtreme]

Richmond can't do anything right this month!

 

[My Tilly]

I actually am in the younger generation you're talking about. Yes, most people are pretty open in what they discuss which is a good thing but I can't say I have any mates that go around touching eachother's dicks.

There is a huge difference in being comfortable with yourself and allowing others to touch you anywhere without consent.

Chol might be comfortable with it but you'd hope that Short and Vlastuin would have absolute certainty that he's fine with it.

We need to remember a lot of these players are young blokes who are now forced into being cooped up in an isolated environment no different to what Victorians are experiencing. You are going to get stupid incidents like this on a weekly basis. I reckon Rance would have copped his fair share of butt slapping as well when he was a player.

I recall a few Geelong players were ridiculed many years ago in 2009-2010 for pulling faces at the camera while singing the team song. Was offensive to mentally challenged individuals. And it was. They stopped pulling the faces immediately but again, we live in a different world don't we. What some find to be immature pointless touching, others will see racial vilifying.

 

[OhDustinMartin]

When I play sport with me mates we give each other reach-arounds in the showers like why is this even a big deal? PC gone mad.

that's you and your mates. good on you. other people think differently. and that's fine.

me and my mates love a bum or dick tap. we wouldn't do that if we didn't know that we were comfortable. this is the issue at hand. you have no clue if Mabior was comfortable and it seems he was not. doesn't make him PC, or less of a man. it means he knows himself, and what he's fine with, what he's not fine with.

 

[Strange Cat]

Sick to death of it.

Young men have one of the highest suicide rates of any demographic. This accusatory bullshit that if you're uncomfortable with something then you're somehow less of a man is pathetic and shameful. Look at the bloke in my DP. He ******* killed himself, leaving behind two young kids. I've lost people close to me to suicide and it has rocked my community to its core, and people (men, 35-70 i mean) do not care one iota. It's a disgrace that people behave like this. You have no idea of the impact you cause.

I didn’t make the comments but I agree with you 100%
I use to shower in my jocks or wait till I got home due to not being comfortable showering with a bunch of blokes due to previous child abuse

and yet I was teased constantly about not being man enough or less of a teammate for not getting naked in front of the boys

it’s shit behaviour that needs to change