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Ex-Wallaby and Nine columnist Peter FitzSimons says Alan Jones “bully-boy attacks” on Adam Goodes should see him depart the SCG Trust.
Jones was one of the prominent media figures to argue fans booed Goodes because of his actions on the field. “They (the booing crowds) just don’t like the fellow,” he told Channel 7 at the height of the controversy.
“Someone’s got to ask the question: why are they booing Adam Goodes and not the other 70 indigenous AFL players. Adam Goodes can fix this by changing his behaviour. He again today plays the victim.”
Fitzsimons hit out at his rival in his weekly newspaper column after Jones featured in the Goodes documentary The Final Chapter aired on Channel 10 on Thursday night.
“Where the hell was the SCG Trust on this? How could the Trust have as one of its stated values: ‘We embrace diversity, value differences and respect our communities’ and have its most influential member, Alan Jones, lead the bully-boy attacks on Adam Goodes, its most prestigious ambassador?” Fitzsimons wrote.
“As you all saw on Thursday night, there was Jones encouraging the mob … There are so many disgraces in the whole dreadful affair, but that one was right up there. Bravo to you, Swans chairman Richard Colless for calling Jones out on it at the time. But Jones’ continued presence on the SCG Trust corrupts its integrity.”
It’s not the first time Fitzsimons has called for Jones — who is one of 14 trustees — to go. He also said he should step down during the saga surrounding the decision to replace the Sydney Football Stadium last year.
Peter FitzSimons and Alan Jones in 2007.Source:News Limited
AFL personality Sam Newman has also found himself in the firing line after also featuring in the film.
Newman insists the storm that surrounded Goodes initially came about because of his actions on the field and not his skin colour before activists “hijacked” the issue.
“I didn’t think it started off being race-related and that’s what I commented on. If it’s gone to the next level it’s been hijacked by the activists,” Newman told 2GB on Thursday.
“It’s OK to have a narrative and discussion, but if people go on and on about how (and this is not about Aboriginals) they’ve been maligned or disadvantaged, at some stage we have got to get over it, move on and try and unite and unify ourselves, we are all Australians.”
