GWS Wacky Wednesday antics included Django Unchained slavery and 9/11 attacks skits as Toby Greene fined $5000
WHY GWS PLAYERS WERE FINED AND SUSPENDED
GWS players organised a dress up theme of “controversial couples” for their end-of-season function. Players dressed up in themed pairs and many performed skits connected to their costumes.
An anonymous complaint was received the day after the event on September 19.
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Josh Fahey (four-match suspension), Jake Riccardi (two-match suspension)
Fahey dressed as former NRL player Jarryd Hayne and Riccardi as a taxi driver. In the course of the skit, Fahey simulated inappropriate acts on a sex doll. Riccardi was not involved in that part of the skit.
Toby McMullin (two-match suspension), Cooper Hamilton (two-match suspension)
McMullin and Hamilton simulated the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre in costume related to that event.
Harvey Thomas (two-match suspension), Joe Fonti (two-match suspension)
Thomas dressed as a particular professional sportsman and Fonti as a girl, acting inappropriately during their skit.
Idun and Whitfield re-enacted a scene from the movie Django Unchained characterising slavery.
Additionally, club leaders Toby Greene, Sam Taylor, Tom Green and Harry Perryman were fined $5000 each for not displaying “appropriate levels of leadership” in their failure to stop the acts continuing.
GWS will also provide further education for the entire playing group, in addition to the already mandatory education sessions in relation to violence against women, and racial and religious vilification.
