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March 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The incident received widespread coverage and prompted several clubs to claim
they would continue to try to seek talent from among the remote Aboriginal
communities, where the game is often played barefoot on dusty makeshift
fields.
Other clubs reportedly expressed hesitation about recruiting Aboriginal
players because they can be difficult to manage.
Australian
football, or AFL, is a national sport and the country’s most highly-attended
code.
One recruiter, Matthew Rendell, who works for the Adelaide Crows, reportedly
told the league that “unless they have a white parent we are not going
to draft an Aboriginal player and our club would not be alone in that”.
When the comments emerged on Friday, Mr Rendell resigned and the club denied
that it had adopted a race-based recruitment policy.
The club’s head, Steven Trigg, said Rendell’s position was “absolutely
untenable”.
“We can’t have him attached to the club,” he said.
Mr Rendell said his comments were misunderstood and he was “trying to help”.
“I have a strong track record of recruiting Aboriginal players,” he
said.
“My comments were about where recruiting could finish up without
proactive work. However, knowing the implication of such reports, I’ve
decided to stand down.”
Earlier, Jason Mifsud, the league’s community engagement manager, said any
attempt to base recruitments on race was “ignorant and offensive”.
“The one vehicle this country has had in the last 15 years to elevate,
celebrate and recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity is
football and if that door is going to start to get shut on us then we are
going to fight and scratch to keep it open,” he told The Age newspaper.
“Because if these prevailing mindsets are as strong as we hear they are,
we must fight to change them.
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