Sydney Swans warn AFL about dwindling number of Indigenous players on 10th anniversary of Adam Goodes war dance [Video]

Sydney chairman Andrew Pridham has called on the game not to forget Adam Goodes’ story, as the Swans marked the 10-year anniversary of the champion’s war dance that sparked the “unimaginable public bullying” which hounded him out of the sport.

Pridham, who was at the helm in Goodes’ sorrowful final year as a player in 2015, used his pre-game address at the Swans’ Marn Grook match on Friday night, celebrating First Nations people, to urge the AFL to do more to restore the number of Indigenous players in the league.

The AFL is celebrating Indigenous culture through the first of its two Sir Doug Nicholls rounds at a time when the governing body’s handling of racial issues is again …