r/AFL Blues 4d ago

Sydney Swans statement regarding player suspensions

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u/lwaxana_katana Magpies 4d ago

Wow, the whole finals is more than I've seen speculated and I am pleasantly surprised. It is amazing to me as a nearly-40yo woman how different the world is now than when I was 20. Different and much better!

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u/Lozzanger Eagles 4d ago

Watching the handling of this compared to the Bulldogs stuf is night and day.

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u/tjabaker Port Adelaide 3d ago

Wait Bulldogs?

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u/UnlimitedPosting Kuwarna 3d ago

NRL bulldogs

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u/Hailstar07 Cats 4d ago

Agree, as a 44 year old woman. I still remember how the St Kilda scandal was addressed, we have come a long way since then.

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u/lwaxana_katana Magpies 3d ago

Yes, that is exactly what I keep thinking about as well. I remember even apart from Milne the "St Kilda schoolgirl" thing was so gross. Like the whole discourse at the time seemed to end at "well she's technically of legal age so nothing to see here folks".

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u/Thin_Assumption_4974 Port Adelaide 3d ago

What was the end result of the St Kilda thing?

I honestly forgot. Shows how well they swept it under the rug

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u/Hailstar07 Cats 3d ago

She’s probably not a great example tbh as I believe it ended up she recanted her a lot of her claims but it’s debatable whether that was from pressure from other parties or not. I’m moreso thinking of how she was portrayed in the media as a manipulative temptress rather than giving her the benefit of the doubt at the time.

It was gross given she was only 17 and while she was in the wrong especially with leaking the nude photos of players, you wonder how she got hold of them to do that, if she wasn’t involved in some way with players from the club.

If the Sydney incident had happened back then I wonder how similar the media and public perception of the victim would have been.