Shane Warne v Adam Goodes fires up on Twitter stage

Paul Barbieri
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Adam Goodes

It’s not the first time Goodes has been accused of this, with incidents from earlier games this season having been scrutinised at the time.

But in the wake of so much attention going to dives by North Melbourne’s Lindsay Thomas and Geelong’s Jimmy Bartel last week, Goodes was always going to cop a serve for doing it in one of the most-watched games of the season.

And Warne, a former St Kilda Under-19s player, wasn’t having a bar of it as he took to Twitter to have a go at the Sydney champion.
 

To which Goodes replied:

 

As if that wasn’t enough punishment for Goodes, AFL great Dermot Brereton launched a further serve at him on Fox Footy on Sunday night, effectively saying Goodes isn’t doing the sacrificial acts out on the field he was once famous for.

“When you stage for free kicks, you get a reputation for trying to milk a free kick and the umpires ... they won’t penalise you, they’ll hurt you by not making a decision against you down the track and it will go against you and the crowd don’t like it,” Brereton said.

“Other than that I laugh about it, saying, 9.5 difficulty blah blah blah ... it’s when you stage making out you’ve been hit in the face and you’re staging for an action that suggests to the umpire that was untowards towards me, this bloke needs some form of censure whether it’s a free kick or beyond, that’s real bad. 

“The main thing with Goodesy at the moment, this bloke is such a talent. He’s such an all-time great and will go down as one ... but if he doesn’t have the ball he’s non-competitive. 

“If he’s said all these things about Buddy (Lance Franklin) at the start of the year, ‘turn up prepared’, he’s consistently in the lower end of pressure acts for his team.

“He’s such a gun but he’s reduced to cameo appearances ... I want to see him go out there and tear games apart.”

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