Gather Round started with Izak Rankine, who played senior SANFL football as a sixteen-year-old and who was racially abused by troglodytes a few days ago, curling a goal within the first thirty seconds. It finished in the gathering gloom of the Adelaide Oval with a mad scramble in St Kilda’s front half, and the mother of all frights for Collingwood.
In between, we saw a swaggering Adelaide and a cranky Richmond. We saw two excellent wins in the slop from Essendon and Port Adelaide. We saw the ultimate players’ coach fly the flag for his young star who had tilted the game Port’s way. And we saw a belated apology from the Collingwood Football Club to Nicky Winmar and Gilbert McAdam.
