NATHAN Buckley has condemned the \u201cunacceptable\u201d boos directed at Geelong captain Joel Selwood during Saturday night\u2019s match against Collingwood at the MCG.<\/p>\n
Selwood was booed by Magpies fans throughout the second half of his milestone match over a high tackle on Collingwood youngster Jack Ginnivan.<\/p>\n
Buckley, who called out Essendon spectators for booing Magpies\u2019 captain Scott Pendlebury after an Anzac Day game in 2019, did not like the treatment Selwood received from the Collingwood faithful.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old, in his 227th game as Geelong skipper – a VFL\/AFL record – had the last laugh as the Cats came from 37 points down to beat the Pies by 13 points.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnacceptable [the boos], don\u2019t like it, don\u2019t like it at all,\u201d Buckley told SEN Breakfast<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cI understand the emotions that come with following your team and witnessing a great contest before your eyes and there is a cathartic effect of going to the footy where we release those emotions – anger, stress and we get emotionally involved.<\/p>\n \u201cI think cheer as loud as you want, hoot and holler as loud as you like, but I just think booing or denigrating someone is just not something that needs to happen.<\/p>\n \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean that I don\u2019t understand it, but I just don\u2019t like it.\u201d<\/p>\n Buckley continued, \u201cWhen I hear it, I don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I\u2019m sitting in a crowd or I\u2019m sitting in an environment and I see it, it\u2019s disrespectful, but that\u2019s my opinion.<\/p>\n \u201cRemember a couple of years ago, I chipped the Essendon crowd, or the crowd full stop, about \u2018Pendles\u2019 getting booed, and I said after that that I hope that I would\u2019ve been strong enough to have that opinion if it was the other way around, and I do.<\/p>\n \u201cI just don\u2019t like it.\u201d<\/p>\n Selwood finished with 22 disposals and five clearances in Geelong\u2019s come-from-behind win.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n