Brisbane Lions coach Chris Fagan has expressed his frustration at racist remarks made to star Indigenous forward Charlie Cameron last weekend, but fears the perpetrator will be impossible to find or punish.
"The trouble is it is hard to find them because they do these things and they disappear off the off social media and they can never be traced," he said.
"I don't know whether the league can fine anyone if they are not members of clubs or anything like that, they don't have that jurisdiction I don't think."
Fagan said it was a small but damaging minority who make the "cowardly" racist comments to players.
"I don't know whether they understand all the hurt that it causes," he said.
"It's completely unacceptable. It's totally disappointing.
"I'd like to think that we'll be able to get rid of it completely, but unfortunately, I don't think that's going to be the case. We're going to be forever putting up with people doing these sorts of things, whether it's to our Indigenous people or other people within the community."
Fagan said Cameron was emotional after the incident but was a "very resilient person".
"He's been very normal around the club this week — trained with lots of energy this morning, he always brings that.
"But inside he'd be hurting, I've got no doubt about that."
'It is what it is': Cameron
Publicly, Charlie Cameron didn't show much.
He said "it is what it is" and that his mind was on this Saturday's match against North Melbourne.
"[We're] just going to Adelaide to play footy", he said.
"Hopefully it stops but who knows, hopefully [it] can educate people, that's about it."
Fagan said the club had handed over the incident to the AFL's integrity unit.
"Hopefully they've been able to find out who that person is, but I don't know whether that's the case or not," he said.
Three other AFL players were also subject to racist remarks over the long weekend, including Adelaide Crows small forward Izak Rankin.
Every AFL match this weekend will take place in Adelaide as part of the league's inaugural Gather Round.
