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What Crows captain should have done to silence fans who booed victim of homophobic slur

Peter FitzSimons Columnist and author September 6, 2025 — 5.29am Advertisement

Bloody hell. What were the Adelaide fans thinking on Thursday evening, booing Collingwood’s Isaac Quaynor – the victim of Izak Rankine’s homophobic slurs last month – every time he touched the ball?

He’s the bloke who did the wrong thing??

Seriously . Rankine himself seems nothing if not sincere in his apology, and gets it. The Crows crowd does not. The whole thing had shades of the appalling Adam Goodes saga a decade ago , when the Sydney champion was booed all over the country essentially for being an Aboriginal man.

What should have happened then is what should have h

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