Sam Newman blasts the AFL for recommencing the season in fresh podcast rant
Outspoken footy figure Sam Newman has blasted the AFL’s decision to continue with the season, saying the competition is in crisis and disarray in a fresh rant on his controversial podcast.
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Sam Newman has taken aim at the AFL, blasting the decision to resume the competition.
The former Footy Show host said the game was in a state of disarray.
Speaking on his You Cannot Be Serious podcast with Don Scott, the controversial 74-year-old said he agreed with comments from former Gold Coast Suns defender Joel Wilkinson who slammed AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan and called for his resignation.
“I’ll tell ya, he’d be no fan of mine and I don’t mind if he’s not. But Joel Wilkinson is onto something. Those people in the top office have got their head up their a …,’’ Newman said.
“They have no idea what they’re doing. The competition is in crisis. They are thinking of going down to Tasmania. It should never have started in the first place.
“It should never have recommenced the competition in the first place because the most popular state with all the football teams in it, most of them, are not allowed to play here, no crowds are allowed to go. They don’t know where they’re going to play the grand final, they are in a state of disarray and it comes from the top.”
Newman also blasted the AFL as racist after the league’s controversial vaccine injection plan.
“They accuse indirectly, us, me, of being racist because we have an opinion about some individuals and yet they are culpable for the most disgraceful display of racism saying that a certain group of people, the indigenous people are not as healthy and not capable of looking after themselves and therefore we better take them aside and inject them with something else other than what we’re injecting the white players with,’’ he said.
“You cannot get a more flagrant example of racism.”