{"id":333058,"date":"2023-09-22T10:31:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T10:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=333058"},"modified":"2023-09-22T11:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T11:00:28","slug":"sam-newman-call-rejected-by-fans-at-packed-mcg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=333058","title":{"rendered":"Sam Newman call rejected by fans at packed MCG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 90,000-plus fans who piled into the MCG on Friday night combined for an emphatic Welcome to Country statement in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/news-2023-gillon-mclachlan-grills-sam-newman-for-innapropriate-welcome-to-country-comments\/fce109a3-a12a-4276-97a0-3b414a81882f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Sam Newman&#x27;s inflammatory remarks\">Sam Newman&#x27;s inflammatory remarks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial AFL figure again triggered uproar this week when, on his podcast <em>You Cannot Be Serious<\/em>, he called for spectators to boo or &quot;slow-hand clap&quot; during the Welcome to Country ceremonies at the AFL preliminary finals.<\/p>\n<p>The former Geelong ruckman went further on <em>The Opposition Podcast<\/em>, calling for crowds to protest by singing The Seekers&#x27; 1987 anthem <em>I Am Australian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The song features the lyrics, &quot;We are one, but we are many&quot;, recognising Australia&#x27;s multicultural society.<\/p>\n<p>But in response to the Welcome to Country ahead of Friday night&#x27;s preliminary final between Collingwood\ufeff and GWS, there was not a boo in the crowd and thousands cheered and clapped.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antsharwood\/status\/1705157120575033590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/antsharwood\/status\/1705157120575033590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE TO COME.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The 90,000-plus fans who piled into the MCG on Friday night combined for an emphatic Welcome to Country statement in the wake of Sam Newman&#x27;s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=333058\" title=\"Sam Newman call rejected by fans at packed MCG\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333059,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333058\/revisions\/333059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}