{"id":26685,"date":"2025-07-28T04:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26685\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T04:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:55:08","slug":"social-media-threat-to-simon-goodwin-melbourne-refers-matter-to-afl-integrity-unit-what-was-said-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26685\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media threat to Simon Goodwin, Melbourne refers matter to AFL integrity unit, what was said, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne has referred what appears to be a threat to senior coach Simon Goodwin on social media to the AFL\u2019s integrity unit. <\/p>\n<p>The social media post appeared on the X platform at around 6pm on Sunday night after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/afl\/live-afl-2025-st-kilda-saints-vs-melbourne-demons-round-20-live-scores-and-updates-blog-stats-start-time-aest-and-how-to-stream\/news-story\/17a767fd0a9749766fe554da41506a34\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Demons\u2019 fade-out loss to St Kilda<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>An anonymous account named \u2018Kozzy Owns You\u2019 posted a picture of a car in a carpark, along with the caption: \u201cI\u2019m currently waiting outside Simon Goodwin\u2019s car: Don\u2019t fret Melbourne fans you won\u2019t need to worry any further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FOX FOOTY, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every match of every round in the 2025 Toyota AFL Premiership Season LIVE in 4K, with no ad-breaks during play. 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Limited-time offer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s understood the car in the photo doesn\u2019t belong to Goodwin, nor was the image taken at Marvel Stadium. <\/p>\n<p>A Melbourne spokesperson confirmed to foxfooty.com.au the club was aware of the post and have reported it to the AFL integrity unit. <\/p>\n<p>The AFL is aware of the matter and expected to comment on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Gawn backs Goodwin after historic defeat | 01:07<\/p>\n<p>It comes just weeks after a Collingwood fan received a five-year ban from the AFL and all MCG events for directing a threatening message to Carlton coach Michael Voss.<\/p>\n<p>Goodwin\u2019s Demons lost Sunday\u2019s clash to the Saints despite leading by 46 points at the last change in the biggest ever comeback at three-quarter time.<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne gave up a costly 6-6-6 infringement in the dying seconds of the game, leading to Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera\u2019s goal after the siren as the Dees sunk to 6-13 on the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Cardinal sin!&#8217; Where did Dees go wrong? | 02:58<\/p>\n<p>Goodwin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/afl\/just-lost-their-minds-dees-stars-under-fire-for-dumbest-thing-ive-seen-this-year\/news-story\/77df3590fbf475882e3d9e58fc65b957\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">described the loss as \u201cunacceptable\u201d<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t shy away from it at all. We won\u2019t sugar-coat it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll just own it and do something about it and make sure it never happens again. Today is unacceptable. For all the good that was in the day, that last quarter was so far off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reports on Monday have stated state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/afl\/teams\/melbourne-demons\/afl-2025-max-gawn-on-melbournes-fadeout-loss-to-st-kilda-what-went-wrong-melbourne-board-meeting-sim-goodwin-future-latest-news\/news-story\/11c20144317c1f4a0dd81f6bed127f2a\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Melbourne is set to hold a scheduled board meeting on Monday<\/a> as pressure builds on Goodwin, who\u2019s contracted for 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne has referred what appears to be a threat to senior coach Simon Goodwin on social media to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,689,684,3239,25968,25966,2105,25965,647,7804,3257,677,22401,8014,1314,85,1122,25967,660],"class_list":["post-26685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-ben-cotton","tag-carlton-blues","tag-fade-out-loss","tag-fadeout-loss","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-integrity-unit","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-michael-voss","tag-oceania","tag-senior-coach","tag-simon-goodwin","tag-social-media","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda","tag-ugly-fallout","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26685","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=26685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}