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How to tune into Sport NationCaro calls out use of F-word on national TV
SEN • September 9th, 2025 9:06 am
Caroline Wilson believes our standards have dropped if swearing on national TV is now accepted.
Both Collingwood star Nick Daicos and senior coach Craig McRae swore on the Channel 7 broadcast after the Magpies beat the Crows in Adelaide on Thursday night.
Mabior Chol followed up with several expletives after Hawthorn beat the Giants in western Sydney on Saturday, before swiftly apologising for his language.
Wilson feels that without AFL interjection swearing is seemingly acceptable which says a lot about the modern day standards of broadcasting.
“Since when did it become acceptable to use the F-word on national television after a prime time footy broadcast?,” Wilson said on Channel 7's The Agenda Setters.
“I don’t care if people think I’m a wowser after the brilliant performances of Collingwood and Hawthorn over the weekend.
“But the language of some of their group after the game… that was so out of character for Nick Daicos and it hardly felt off the cuff.
“Craig McRae felt almost deliberate. I don’t want to make light at all, or seem glib, about the Izak Rankine scandal but it almost felt like Collingwood had their own F-word theme going in to that game.
“And Mabior went with his three times.
“But most disappointing and amazing is that the AFL hasn’t batted an eyelid. Surely swearing like that on a national broadcast would have at least prompted a phone call from either head office or even the Seven Network, reminding McRae, Daicos and Chol that swearing like that is just lowering the standards for everyone.”
Wilson was not trying to get anybody in trouble, but was merely calling out the behaviour and pointing out that these incidents went unpunished.
“I’m not condemning any of them but it amazes me that the AFL seems to not even care,” she added.
“I don’t think we can let it pass by without making a comment because if that’s the sort of standards we’re working towards now then our standards have dropped.
“Most people I spoke to didn’t seem to really know about it, so that’s how nondescript it was.”
