MINI: Izak Rankine

All the latest AFL fallout from Izak Rankine's alleged homophobic remark against his Collingwood opponent on Saturday Night.

Adelaide is set to argue that suspensions during the finals should be treated more seriously than bans handed out in the home and away season, and a Snoop Dogg song is featuring as part of the defence.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
We've got to begin because now sports is spilled out
into crazy town this week. This whole easy thing is
embarrassing for the AFL and now they're saying, well, yeah,
it's Snoop Dogg's faults and the Pies. Lad said something
nasty to me about some of that in last year.
I had no choice to use that kind of language.

(00:48):
So what is the Snoop Dogg defense?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
There's Snoop dog defense. Of course, Snoopy is playing the
Grand Final Entertainment this year. Yeah, he is a rapper
and well has used lyrics that Adelaide will probably be using,
reportedly be using. So he's got a hit called Dogs
Are Going to Get You.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, and that your ring tone, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:10):
That is not my ring tone? Definitely not, but i'd
later gin he used, as we said, the Snoop Dogg defense,
and they're probably going to reference that song, which uses
the homophobic slur.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Going to do with a guy choosing to use language
like that. It's embarrassing for the club, isn't it. The
it's their best defense. They're pulling out all the stops.
It's a five game suspension, so it's all lack of accountability.
And also the club should be embarrassed by that language
as well, not trying to defend him and then saying
pointing over, there snoop dogg.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
And they also referenced the fact that Dan Houston was
talking about how he knocked Isaac Rankin out in last
years last season as well and almost saying that he
I guess baited him by saying as well, hang on, no, no, no,
that doesn't give you the chance to say that word
on the field. I don't know, I don't care what
you say.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, the club, I think used the language of there
are mitigating circumstances. So what about all the kids who
have been educated right now, we spent a long time
getting where that's not acceptable to use words like that,
and then they're going to understand unless you're playing finals. Yes, yeah, yeah,
because that's what this is really about. I wanted if
it was to start the season and then there's five
game band where the club would just take it move on.

(02:22):
But because they're on the poison finals there, and also,
I don't understand any other sporting body in the world.
You'll know more than me on this an it's where
they can propose a ban. Surely the bodies should just
say that the ban is the ban. It's not proposal.
A judge in court doesn't go, I propose you do
ten years and then you come back and go, do
you know what, there's some circumstances around this whole crime

(02:42):
I did. How about I just do four of these?

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Okay, let's you do four this ninety eight?

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, said some. It's gone into a fifth day. It's
getting embarrassing. It's ridiculous what they're doing here, because it's
got to be stamped there. Jack Graham from the West
Coast Eagles, he was suspended for four games. Are you
self reported? This has been going on for a couple
of years now and the AFL have done a really
good job in stamping it out. So I don't know
what our lad's doing. I don't know what they're thinking
that they going to get this reduced. He's out for

(03:10):
five games. Sorry, you can't use that word on or
in someone's workplace. You just can't do it, and an
AFL field is these players workplace and he's gone. I'm sorry, Isaac,
You're out for five games, you know, to miss his
he his Grand Final if Adelaide makes it.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
So do you think that they won't buckle, they won't
go down to four or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
I don't think so. No. I think the AFL has
to stay in line with how they've punished this party.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Right, there's a precedent, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
There's a precedent, and they've handed out five games suspensions
before four game, as I said with Jack Graham, So
I don't think we're going to see Isac ranking again
this year.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Do you know what we need right now? The only
way this gets any strangers is if Snoop Dog Old
comes out as gay.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
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