UPDATE: Brisbane star Charlie Cameron has grow to be the fourth Indigenous participant inside 24 hours to be subjected to a racist assault on-line.
Cameron had racist remarks directed at him on social media over the weekend, with the AFL set to conduct an investigation into the incident.
Lions CEO Greg Swann stated he was « offended and upset » that Cameron and different gamers had continuously been attacked.
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« It is cowardly behaviour, hiding behind social media and abusing and attacking our gamers, » he stated in a press release on Tuesday night time.
« We’ve got reported the incident to the AFL Integrity Unit and past this assertion, we wish to take a powerful stance in opposition to this taking place and help any repercussions that the perpetrator could face. »
The repeated assaults brought on AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan to launch his personal assertion on Tuesday night time, with the league boss reiterating the sport’s no-tolerance stance on racial abuse.
« This has to cease. It not solely hurts the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander gamers focused however all Indigenous gamers and gamers of color throughout the league in addition to their households, their team-mates and pals. We strongly help all our gamers and condemn the racial vilification of anybody in soccer and anybody within the wider neighborhood, » McLachlan stated.
« The AFL needs to clarify, there isn’t a place in our sport for anybody who vilifies our gamers. »
The assault on Cameron comes simply hours after Fremantle revealed that Michael Walters and Nathan Wilson had been racially abused. The incident got here barely 24 hours after an assault on Adelaide’s Izak Rankine.
Dockers CEO Simon Garlick slammed the abuse in a press release on Tuesday, with the AFL to conduct an investigation into the matter.
« This pointless and disgusting abuse mustn’t occur and it saddens me, and everybody at our membership, that it does, » Garlick stated in a press release on Tuesday.
« People that conceal behind pretend accounts to harm others are pathetic and we want to have the ability to curb this functionality on social platforms.
« I urge followers … name out racist and homophobic slurs for the abhorrent and archaic discourse that it’s. It has no place in our sport or in our neighborhood … sufficient is sufficient. »
The assaults on Cameron, Wilson, Walters and Rankine come simply weeks after Bulldogs star Jamarra Ugle-Hagan was the primary participant to name out abuse this season.
The AFL is but to seek out the perpetrator of the assault on Ugle-Hagan regardless of full cooperation from each the Bulldogs and St Kilda.
Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks stated Rankine was « holding up nicely » within the aftermath of the weekend’s assault, however didn’t mince his phrases when discussing the incident.
« It is only a cowardly act, » he stated. « It is simply somebody who’s making an attempt to harm. I see it as probably not an individual as such, it is somebody sitting behind a keyboard.
« If somebody goes to the difficulty of overlaying up their id, it is not an precise account, it is by no means been used – to me that is an indication that we’re not really coping with a human being, we’re coping with somebody who’s simply making an attempt to be divisive. »
Nicks has confirmed that Rankine will take the sphere in opposition to Carlton on Thursday night time to kick off the AFL’s Collect Spherical in South Australia.
« He (Rankine) has acquired 100 per cent help from everybody on the footy membership, » the Crows coach stated.
« That’s the greatest we will do for him for the time being and possibly getting out and having a sport of soccer may assist him with that. »
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