A week of bad sports: the AFL Appeals Board, an Aussie Olympian and Scott Pendlebury's arts and crafts project

About this episode

The episode discusses various controversies in sports, including the AFL Appeals Board's handling of a ban, comments made by Ryan Gregson, and recruitment news in the NRL.

Abbey has too many bad sports this week, so we're supplementing Good Sport, Bad Sport  with a new segment: Ab-solutely Not . One of them is the reaction to Lance Collard’s ban in the AFL; the handling of the case by the appeals board was completely at odds with the ‘zero tolerance’ messaging the AFL says it lives by. Then it's Scott Pendlebury's special golden guernsey - whose idea was that? And also this week, Aussie Olympian Ryan Gregson was on the For The Kudos podcast and made some pretty outrageous comments. We’d never heard the term ‘getting chicked’ before, but are we having misogynistic comments like that? Ab-solutely not. For someone whose own partner is an outstanding athlete and marathon runner herself, it was a very disappointing comment. Plus in the NRL, the new PNG team the Chiefs are going big on the recruitment. One of those is West Tigers’ Jarome Luai – he’ll join the new team after the 2027 season on a $1.2 million a season deal. And it’s tax free. But Jarome says he’s not going there for the money and it’s going to make a difference to a lot of people. Who’s going to follow him…

People in this episode

Hosts: Abbey Gelmi, Georgie Tunny

Guest: Ryan Gregson

Topics covered

• AFL Appeals Board
• Scott Pendlebury
• Ryan Gregson comments
• Jarome Luai recruitment
• State of Origin
• misogyny in sports

Keywords

• AFL
• NRL
• misogyny
• Ryan Gregson
• Scott Pendlebury
• Jarome Luai
• State of Origin
• sports controversies

Sponsors

Harvey Norman

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AFL, NRL, For The Kudos

Places: PNG, Perth

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