St Kilda and Geelong AFL hashtag on Twitter flooded with religious tweets

Bizarre religious tweets using the official AFL hashtag for Monday night’s St Kilda and Geelong game didn’t go unnoticed by footy fans. The flood of tweets would’ve made Terry Wallace proud.

Jade Gresham of the Saints in action during the round 11 AFL match between the St Kilda Saints and the Geelong Cats. (Photo by Albert Perez/Getty Images)

Twitter has become like the MCG for Melbourne-based footy fans that can’t get to games.

But on Monday night there were bizarre religious protests at the new footy mecca.

For fans starved of discussion about games and wanting to vent about peculiar umpiring decisions, how their team is playing and who was best on ground, each AFL game has an official hashtag on Twitter.

Monday night’s was #AFLSaintsCats.

But a quick click on the link took fans to what seemed to be more of a religious gathering than comments about questionable deliberate out of bounds decisions.

Almighty god kabir, the creater of all the universes!... 🌍

#AFLSaintsCats pic.twitter.com/k7KwH42Q76

— Rakesh Dass (@RakeshD43910683) August 10, 2020

Religious tweets using the #AFLSaintsCats.

Religious tweets using the #AFLSaintsCats.

On Tuesday morning footy fans had to scroll through at least 150 religious messages before they came across a tweet about the game.

It left them unimpressed, with many calling on Twitter to do something about the predicament.

“Hey @Twitter do something about these p****s. Look at the retweets! Why would someone watching the football retweet this s**t,” a fan wrote.

Another tweet said the AFL now had issues other than their umpiring, the “religious tweets spamming the hashtag”.

Saints on a tight turn around, umpires protect Geelong. Twitter feed invaded by God botherers

There is no God.

#AFLSaintsCats

— Steohen l3arl (@addictd2justice) August 10, 2020

Just spent 3/4 time blocking all those religious tweeters. #AFLSaintsCats

— JustJan2 (@bimmyjartel) August 10, 2020

Scrolling through the #AFLSaintsCats hashtag... pic.twitter.com/qTFq1X67He

— Tas Mavridis* (@TasMavridis) August 10, 2020

Geelong ended up winning the contest in a cakewalk, disposing of the up-and-coming Saints by 59-points with Sam Menegola best on ground.

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