The UAFC

big mervyn wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 3:24 pm

Evil Kiwi wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 12:04 am I think Cooney should change his name.

Aye. "John" suggests his parents had a serious lack of imagination.

Snipe Watson wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 8:23 pm I hadn't seen the full post including the photo.
Gilroy isn't the sharpest tool in the shed that's a known. I suspect he knew exactly what he was doing including the racial undertones and thought it was funny. McFarland should rip him a new one. He just hasn't got the message from what happened to Paddy and Stu and the fact that he was nearly dragged into it.
The Telegraph is sniffing out any piece of impropriety and try to turn it into a scandal. That's their stock-in-trade.

Bart S wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 9:10 pm

Snipe Watson wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 8:23 pm I hadn't seen the full post including the photo.
Gilroy isn't the sharpest tool in the shed that's a known. I suspect he knew exactly what he was doing including the racial undertones and thought it was funny. McFarland should rip him a new one. He just hasn't got the message from what happened to Paddy and Stu and the fact that he was nearly dragged into it.
The Telegraph is sniffing out any piece of impropriety and try to turn it into a scandal. That's their stock-in-trade.

Snipe - i sincerely hope you are wrong about him doing this deliberately. This wasn’t even a private whatsapp chat - he put this on public display. After the whatsapp saga and then being highlighted for breaking the social distancing guidelines a week ago (much though i think that was the least newsworthy story of the year) surely even he would have known this could land him in trouble.

It is possible someone of his generation didn’t know the significance of the term and that he posted that picture because it was one of him and Cooney together - maybe i am just looking for a plausible explanation here because on the one hand i agree that the picture and words don’t paint a good picture at all but on the other i find it hard to believe he could be such an idiot as to do this deliberately.

Joe Schmo wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 12:57 pm

Bobbievee wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 3:12 pm Would the moderators on this site have allowed Gilroys post to stand?
I don't think so.
If it is open to misinterpretation then it will be misinterpreted.
People have been barred from this site for less.
Banning players from having social media accounts is probably impossible ( although passing an intelligence test first might be a help), but players need to remember that it is the whole world that can read their posts, not just their mates.
Bit like here really.

I wish someone would ban you.

Snipe Watson wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 8:23 pm I hadn't seen the full post including the photo.
Gilroy isn't the sharpest tool in the shed that's a known. I suspect he knew exactly what he was doing including the racial undertones and thought it was funny. McFarland should rip him a new one. He just hasn't got the message from what happened to Paddy and Stu and the fact that he was nearly dragged into it.
The Telegraph is sniffing out any piece of impropriety and try to turn it into a scandal. That's their stock-in-trade.

rumncoke wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 8:32 pm Only a moron would think he is saying a happy birthday to a group of African Children

Thus “coons “ never in a week of Sundays was a reference to The children and to only a racistphobic could think in that way