{"id":119285,"date":"2025-09-04T22:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119285\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:13:08","slug":"adelaide-fans-boo-collingwoods-isaac-quaynor-after-izak-rankine-homophobic-slur-ugly-crowd-reaction-video-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119285\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide fans boo Collingwood\u2019s Isaac Quaynor after Izak Rankine homophobic slur, ugly crowd reaction, video, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adelaide fans have been savaged for an awful display, targeting an opposing player for ugly reasons during their side\u2019s qualifying final loss to Collingwood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Magpies defender Isaac Quaynor starred in the visitors\u2019 win at Adelaide Oval but he was one of several players to receive targeted booing from some Crows fans.<\/p>\n

Some, like former Port Adelaide star Dan Houston, being booed were expected but few thought Crows fans would react in such a way to Quaynor.<\/p>\n

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It has not been confirmed which player was targeted by Adelaide superstar Izak Rankine when he delivered a homophobic slur during the sides\u2019 Round 23 clash, but Quaynor spent most of the game playing on Rankine and was seen in several heated exchanges with the Crow.<\/p>\n

The reaction to Crows fans booing Quaynor was therefore a chorus of confusion and outrage, with a wide range of experts criticising the message being sent.<\/p>\n

Triple M\u2019s Kate McCarthy said on air \u201cstay classy, Crows fans,\u201d then tweeting \u201cbooing someone for calling out homophobia is truly something isn\u2019t it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile journalist Rohan Connolly wrote: \u201cIf you ever wanted to confirm the stereotype of footy fans as uneducated, bigoted a***holes … yep, booing a guy (Quaynor) for being on the RECEIVING end of a homophobic slur … yep, that will do it. D**kheads.\u201d<\/p>\n

ABC\u2019s Damien Peck added: \u201cCrows fans booing Quaynor at Adelaide Oval is just pathetic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to AFL Nation post-game, Quaynor admitted he did hear the Adelaide Oval crowd taunt him, but didn\u2019t pay too much attention to it.<\/p>\n

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Craig ‘Disappointed’ with Quaynor boos | 07:19<\/p>\n

\u201cI did hear a little bit of it, but to be honest, I get so locked in to games that I don\u2019t pay much mind to anything else other than what\u2019s on the field,\u201d Quaynor said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, what I paid mind to was the Collingwood fans with the Collingwood chant, and the incredible noise they were making.\u201d<\/p>\n

His coach Craig McRae declared post-game though he was always against booing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is disappointing,\u201d McRae said in his post-match press conference. <\/p>\n

\u201cNot just Isaac, but Dan (Houston). There\u2019s always stories behind things. I\u2019m just not a booer. <\/p>\n

\u201cI said this years ago \u2026 I just get disappointed with that. I just find that really disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if the booing felt \u2018pointed\u2019, McRae said: \u201cI\u2019m not sure. Just when I first heard it I thought \u2018that\u2019s disappointing\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Craig ‘Disappointed’ with Quaynor boos | 07:19<\/p>\n

After footage played of the Crows fans\u2019 booing when Quaynor touched the ball, Fox Footy host Sarah Jones said: \u201cI don\u2019t think we need to do that, as a footy code. We\u2019re better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hawthorn legend Jason Dunstall added: \u201cWe don\u2019t, we don\u2019t. But credit to Isaac Quaynor, because you know what? He said \u2018stuff them, I\u2019m going to have them booing all night\u2019. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd he did. Every ball that came his way, he won that contest \u2014 I thought he was one of the better players on the ground tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

However Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks refused to criticise his fans or speak on the booing at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not one for me to comment on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Nicks repeated the phrase when asked a second time.<\/p>\n

Rankine\u2019s four-game suspension will now expire in time for him to play in the Grand Final, if Adelaide qualifies, due to the Crows\u2019 loss on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide fans have been savaged for an awful display, targeting an opposing player for ugly reasons during their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-119285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}