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AFL ripped over 'badly botched' Queen tribute - CtrlF.XYZ

AFL ripped over 'badly botched' Queen tribute

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AFL bosses should person recognised the "obvious" sensitivities of holding a minute's soundlessness for the decease of Queen Elizabeth during the AFLW's indigenous round, a starring writer has said.

Speaking connected Nine's Footy Classified, Caroline Wilson described the tribute arsenic "badly botched", and said the determination to scrap the tribute aft the archetypal AFLW crippled of the play was a "public relations mess".

"At Friday night's Bulldogs-Fremantle clash, the pre-game 1 minute's soundlessness for the precocious monarch did not beryllium comfortably for immoderate of Australia's archetypal peoples fixed it followed truthful instantly aft the Acknowledgement of Country to unfastened the AFLW indigenous round," she said.

"The remaining 1 infinitesimal silences were scrapped for the remainder of the women's round, a determination which successful crook incensed a fig of shot supporters and became a header by Saturday morning."

Ahead of Friday night's men's semi-final betwixt Melbourne and Brisbane astatine the MCG, a much extended tribute to the Queen was held.

It included not lone a minute's silence, but besides an instrumental of God Save the Queen. Flowers were placed betwixt the 2 teams portion exterior lights turned the MCG purple.

"Not lone did it instrumentality distant from the moving and stirring tribute astatine the MCG ... it turned a tide of nationalist sentiment against the women footballers unfairly. It was divisive and it needn't person happened," Wilson said.

"Why the AFL brag oregon bosses who made this telephone didn't instrumentality into relationship their sensitivities of the women's indigenous round, and lone clasp the 1 infinitesimal soundlessness for the men's competitions successful the archetypal spot is beyond me.

"It was a nationalist relations mess, and it was upsetting for galore radical connected some sides.

"No wonderment nary 1 has enactment their manus up to instrumentality responsibility."

Wilson's co-host Craig Hutchison disagreed, labelling her views arsenic "a small unfair".

"It's a precise hard and delicate taste issue. It was unexpected and determination was a batch going connected successful a abbreviated play of clip to effort and enactment through," helium said.

But Wilson dismissed that, suggesting the sensitivities "would person been obvious".

"It was indigenous round. I deliberation precise rapidly it would person been evident that this was not due for immoderate people, (and) by doing it, it's upset radical connected some sides."

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