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But that didn't stop Ablett copping a barrage of abuse from AFL fans at the game against the Hawks, where he kicked three goals and had 23 touches.Kennett slammed the booing, but defended Hawks fans, saying that Geelong supporters were also cheering"I don't like that sort of behaviour. I think it's unsportsmanlike and it's certainly not the sort of activity I would like to be associated with, and I would prefer that Hawthorn members are not part of it," Kennett said.
"I don’t think on the sporting field the views one holds politically or religiously should flow over onto the sporting field. Goodes was called an "ape" by a 13-year-old Collingwood supporter during Indigenous Round in 2013, and called on security to eject her from the ground immediately after the slur, all which prompted a broader discussion about racism in AFL, and a debate over Goodes' actions.
Some believed the chorus of boos were motivated by racism against the two-time Premiership winner, and the situation worsened in the 2015 AFL season after he celebrated a goal during Indigenous Round with a war dance he had learned from young Indigenous footy players.The backlash forced him at one point to take time out of the game, such was the incredible toll it took on him in the last few years of his 372-game AFL career at the Sydney Swans.
It appeared from the earlier comment by Kennett that he did not understand that the incidents Goodes was involved in were all related to his Indigenous background because he was an Indigenous man – he would not have been in those situations had he been white. "I hope people look back at it one day and go, that was Adam Goodes celebrating his culture," he said. "We were just as shocked as anything," Essendon great Matthew Lloyd said."It wasn't reasonable either. For whatever your view is of whatever he liked, it's not appropriate to boo him like that," Craig Hutchison added.
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