Sack Gill call for Goodes fail

A SENIOR indigenous leader says Gillon McLachlan should be removed as AFL boss because of his failings in the Adam Goodes racism row.

Mick Gooda, who led an AFL contingent invited to address the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2011, said last week’s belated apology to the dual Brownlow medallist “isn’t enough”.

“I had a friend on the AFL commission who told me at the time that people were blaming Adam for it — that he had brought it on himself,” Gooda said yesterday. “They were saying exactly what the rednecks were saying.”

The retired Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner said the AFL had “lost its way” in fighting racism after the exit of chief executive Andrew Demetriou. A social media post from Gooda on Saturday declaring “heads should roll and give someone who cares a go” was liked and retweeted by Adelaide Crows champion Andrew McLeod.

“Where has Gillon McLachlan been here? What, put a bloody apology in an annual report six months later? That’s how important they thought it was,” Gooda said.

“I’m as angry today as I was then. I just don’t think an apology is enough.

“If they want to get back to where they were, just scrub the leadership and start again.

“They all just sat back and let it happen.”