Well then he blew it by singling out that 13 year old girl and acting like a wuss.
She was 13 for goodness sakes. If he had just ignored it, nothing would have happened.
The brains of young teenagers are not fully developed and they haven't had much life experience at that age.
The girl will probably look back on this later in life and be embarrassed by what she said, and she's going to have all the film cilps and news stories to review to remind her of what she did; forever after.
That said, it's worth remembering that football is an intensely tribal culture and factional, whose factions are at "war" with each other. Footy is a war game. Listen to the words and the terminology of the commentators and read their descriptions of the play.
Football fans are not known for their highly evolved cultural sensibilities. They are baying-for-blood, members of opposing war bands (even if the war is an artificial and highly stylized one).
Goodes' provocative "war dances" and enacted "spear throwing" expresses a desire to do violence to those at the "pointy end" of his performance.
Remember, he's doing this to football fans, and they are guaranteed to respond with a sort of tribal violence of their own and yes, even with racist taunts given who they are.
Goodes is a mature adult, or at least one would like to believe so, but when I see him acting out throwing spears at rival team supporters and finishing off with an obscene arm gesture, doubts arise. What on earth did he expect to happen?
The girl has the excuse of youth, Goodes has the excuse, I suppose of belonging to an uncultured, aggressive tribal "team" who tries, every other weekend or so, to "thrash" their rivals and "humiliate" them by "beating" them in, after all, what is only a game.
People like him are teaching our youth that violence in the context of tribal factionalism (aka football) is an ok and even normal way to behave.
