Nicky Winmar. Vic Park.

[Presti35]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/05/26/this-iconic-image-of-a-proud-indigenous-footballer-standing-up-t_a_22110505/

[thesoretoothsayer]

Only statues of Collingwood players at Vic Park please.

[Mugwump]

Yes, I think it was an important moment which needed to happen in football overall, it happened at VP, and in its own way it helped cure the Collingwood Football club of something that needed curing. It was brave and defiant and free of the self-serving behaviour of others who have paraded on this topic. I would be happy to see it.

[barrackers]

If there were other statues at Victoria Park I wouldn't be against the idea, but there's not. Surely statues of Collingwood legends at Vic Park should occur first and I'd also argue that Leon Davis has done as much for CFC indigenous relations over 11 seasons vs Winmar's 30 seconds of defiance.

[5 from the wing on debut]

I was on the Rush Stand half forward flank, Yarra Falls end, when that occurred. It didn't make any impact on us at the time as no-one around us even knew that it had occurred until well after the game.

When I did hear about it my thought was that there were no racist comments from my part of the crowd.

[daics aka the ruckman]

[orie]

[HAL]

What does "it" refer to?

[thompsoc]

I was at the ground that day.
Can't remember whether there was any racist comments that day.
But I did hear it at times at other matches.
I knew instinctively then that the age of sledging whether from the crowd or players was over.
Yes, we can't have racist comments but it has gone onto anything that can offend.
We now have crowds that do not yell, do not get excited and the involvement from the crowd is minimal.
It makes for a bland game day experience.
And when you take out the emotion in football you take out the heart and soul.
Because, as I said before, the game of kicking an inflated ball between 2 sticks has no intellectual or noble aspect about it.
The game is tribal, aesthetically interesting and just plain animalistic

[watt price tully]

[Piesnchess]

[swoop42]

It's a pity Winmar wasn't even referencing the colour of his skin when he lifted his jumper.

Of course that truth doesn't match the story many want to tell so it's been reconstructed along the way.

[RudeBoy]

I took my 'wife to be' to that game, because coming from interstate she had no idea of what Collingwood meant to me, so I wanted her to see me in my 'natural habitat' amongst the Magpie Army at Vic Park, before we got married. Anyway, my recollection from sitting not far behind the cheersquad was that Winmar lifted his jumper up and pointed to his stomach as if to say 'guts'. However, it matters not, as we all know that Aboriginal players regularly copped racial abuse on and off the field, so I'm happy to recognise this incident as a pivotal moment in our society beginning to grow up. Walking home from that game that day, I was more depressed because Collingwood had not had a good history with Aboriginal players and I was jealous of teams like st kilda and Essendon who had enjoyed the thrill of having such wonderful and exciting players.

[Damien]

Nicky Winmar no way. He's already on a pedestal for that day. He might have done something meaningful for indigenous rights that day but let's just say I don't think as a person he's statue worthy.

[5 from the wing on debut]