Saint Brendon Goddard says sorry to Fremantle Supporter-HS

Milan Faletic · Tue 20 Apr 2010 2:02pm

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/s ... 5855866431

ST KILDA star Brendon Goddard has apologised to a young Fremantle supporter hit by a ball he kicked into the crowd during Sunday's game at Etihad Stadium.
Goddard insisted on apologising to the Dockers cheer squad member, Kiran, despite the father of the young fan saying there was no need......

Well done BJ. Class act.

St Chris · Post: # 909614Post **St Chris** » Tue 20 Apr 2010 2:20pm

+1

Really didn't need to, but shows his class....

markp · Post: # 909617Post **markp** » Tue 20 Apr 2010 2:31pm

Manager of St John first aid services, Andrew Foran, said the boy suffered only "very minor" injuries.

"He was treated for a short time and then remained at the game to watch the rest of the match," Mr Foran said.

I thought the kid was on death's door?

Surely this story was not a beat -up??!

saintbrat · Post: # 909619Post **saintbrat** » Tue 20 Apr 2010 2:38pm

should have included a saints package

Saints class showing again-

Saint Bev · Post: # 909620Post **Saint Bev** » Tue 20 Apr 2010 2:39pm

A beat up over nothing. As if BJ would do that on purpose, but glad he apologised.

Thinline · Post: # 909621Post **Thinline** » Tue 20 Apr 2010 2:41pm

What a shame a kid got whacked when there's people like that beer chucking nuff nuff Doggie bloke sitting in the front row ...

iwantmeseats · Tue 20 Apr 2010 2:48pm

Kid should have taken the mark. This what happens when you dont go at the ball 100%.

markp · Post: # 909626Post **markp** » Tue 20 Apr 2010 2:50pm

saintbrat wrote:should have included a saints package

Saints class showing again-

May be why his dad said there was no need to apologise to him!

stinger · Post: # 909745Post **stinger** » Tue 20 Apr 2010 6:12pm

flower me ffs.....

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/s ... 5855866431

kosifantutti23 · Tue 20 Apr 2010 7:03pm

stinger wrote:flower me ffs.....

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/s ... 5855866431

Thanks for that fine addition to the thread.

St Michele · Post: # 909759Post **St Michele** » Tue 20 Apr 2010 7:05pm

kosifantutti23 wrote:
stinger wrote:flower me ffs.....

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/s ... 5855866431
Thanks for that fine addition to the thread.

They had it on the news here in Perth last night and it still soundded like they wanted to make it sound like he did it on purpose.
good on him for apologising

Buckets · Post: # 909761Post **Buckets** » Tue 20 Apr 2010 7:11pm

What????? So he didnt mean to hit the kid?

Saintsfan · Post: # 909768Post **Saintsfan** » Tue 20 Apr 2010 7:30pm

He should have blamed it on that he was too busy executing pleasing Saints Footy

Milan Faletic · Tue 20 Apr 2010 8:14pm

Saintsfan wrote:He should have blamed it on that he was too busy executing pleasing Saints Footy

Love the word "pleasing"

Milan Faletic · Tue 20 Apr 2010 8:15pm

Buckets wrote:What????? So he didnt mean to hit the kid?

No was aiming for the father but missed. Does that effect his Dream Team points?

awesome_days · Tue 20 Apr 2010 8:58pm

if he meant it he shouldnt apologise. only say sorry when you dont mean harm.

CeilidhSaint · Tue 20 Apr 2010 10:17pm

Watching the rest of the game obviously hurt him more than the ball to the guts. Must be devastated they crumbled in the first 5 minutes. Shame that.
MEDIA BEAT UP, looking for issues that ain't there. If he meant to hit 'em he would have watched where the ball went instead he just ran off.

Milton66 · Post: # 909826Post **Milton66** » Tue 20 Apr 2010 10:29pm

What a nice loving well-adjusted young man / role model our BJ is.

BelfastSaint · Wed 21 Apr 2010 7:31pm

For those of you who dont read bigfooty I just thought i would bring to your attention the image of BJ in the first post ....

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=696742

markp · Post: # 910176Post **markp** » Wed 21 Apr 2010 8:05pm

BelfastSaint wrote:For those of you who dont read bigfooty I just thought i would bring to your attention the image of BJ in the first post ....

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=696742

Nice.

Interesting that it was posted by a brisbane supporter... I'm not a fan, but I guess one thing about supercoach and the like is it means people end up following and barracking for players from other clubs.... I know a lot of people think BJ is a must have in their team.

Moods · Post: # 910179Post **Moods** » Wed 21 Apr 2010 8:08pm

CeilidhSaint wrote: If he meant to hit 'em he would have watched where the ball went instead he just ran off.

This.

Was OBVIOUS he didn't mean it for the above reason. I couldn't believe that supposed 'footy experts'were even questioning it. Body language tells you stacks about a persons actions, and B.J's indicated, that whilst in retrospect he may have been a little reckless he certainly wasn't lining anyone up.

It's a reminder of the times we live in though. Remember plugger lining up the old codger behind the goals in Sydney many years ago? Now THAT was deliberate (and bloody funny) Plugger would have been sued and been forced to mumble an apology after it being on the back page of every newspaper for the whole week. The old codger took it in good spirit at the time too (probably knowing he would be portrayed as a whinger if he didn't) Just shows how much the world has changed though.

saintbrat · Post: # 910850Post **saintbrat** » Thu 22 Apr 2010 9:18pm

someone mentioned cricket.....
Girl hospitalised by Gilchrist shot

3:54PM NewsCore
A FREAK drive by Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist hit an Indian student in the head - sending her to hospital - during a training session.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/crick ... 5857020334

Saintsfan · Post: # 910852Post **Saintsfan** » Thu 22 Apr 2010 9:21pm

saintbrat wrote:someone mentioned cricket.....
Girl hospitalised by Gilchrist shot

3:54PM NewsCore
A FREAK drive by Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist hit an Indian student in the head - sending her to hospital - during a training session.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/crick ... 5857020334

This kind of thing would happen in India all the time as teams including national teams have open training sessions where everyone gathers around. The security do not seem to care either.

saintslegendLH · Fri 23 Apr 2010 3:21pm

definately shows his class
good on him