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The AFL's most senior Indigenous official has encouraged Indigenous players from all 18 clubs to perform the Adam Goodes' war dance next weekend to show support for the Sydney champion.

Jason Mifsud also said opposition senior coaches should take to the big screens during quarter- and half-time breaks to urge fans not to boo Goodes.

The AFL's head of diversity who was on Tuesday expected to address the issue with the AFL commission said the Subiaco crowd had demonstrated that a stronger response was required from the game on Goodes' behalf.

Mifsud added that he feared young Aboriginal athletes could reject Australian football as a result of the "non-welcoming and non-affirming treatment" of one of their heroes.

"I implore supporters of every club to shut their eyes and imagine those clubs without their indigenous players," Mifsud told Fairfax Media.

"Sometimes you don't know what you've got until it's gone. It's very disquieting to consider that a young generation of talented footballers could be lost to the game. What we have achieved in the past did not just redefine a code. It redefined a country."

Sydney Swans chairman Andrew Pridham says the booing by rival supporters of Adam Goodes is "100 per cent racist", and anyone who allows the jeering to continue is also racist.

As AFL chief Gillon McLachlan and reigning Brownlow medallist Matt Priddis implored football fans not to jeer the Sydney champion, Pridham urged the leaders of rival clubs to band together and say "enough is enough" in support of Goodes.

The father of Lewis Jetta, who performed a war dance in support of Goodes, had contacted McLachlan to express his concerns.

The Swans said little on the topic in recent weeks out of respect to Goodes and to avoid fuelling the issue, but felt it was appropriate to comment after the hostile reception their dual Brownlow medallist received in Perth on Sunday. It followed calls by Jetta, who said the booing of Goodes "needs to be thrown out the window".

Pridham wanted rival fans to appreciate the final days of Goodes' illustrious career rather than hooting him every time he touched the ball.

They all claim their childish jeering is not racism. Oh no. Fortunately we’ve evolved sufficiently as a society they know if they admitted the truth — that the genesis of the booing was related to the colour of Goodes’ skin — they would be shamed.

Instead the booers stutter and stumble as they try to justify standing with the red-faced mob screaming at a man of quiet dignity who has had the temerity to call out racism, speak his mind and respond to those who taunt him.

AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan has labelled the incessant booing of Sydney star Adam Goodes as “ugly” and is urging the football public to bring it to an end.

The two-time Brownlow medallist has been on the receiving end of booing all season, with teammate Lewis Jetta coming to his defence with a war cry directed at West Coast fans on Sunday.

McLachlan, who received a phone call from Jetta’s father yesterday, described it as “a complicated issue”.

“I think when you have Lewis Jetta’s father calling me, (that shows) that this is having an impact on people beyond Adam Goodes,” McLachlan said. “There’s obviously been a campaign for some months now against one player, and the booing has been going on for some time against Adam Goodes.

“I want to make the comment that it’s obviously hurting Adam, it’s hurting a lot of people in our industry.

“It is taking an emotional toll on a number of people and I’m asking people to have a think about that when they go to the footy.”

Aboriginal footballers across Australia have been urged to “shake a leg’’ for Adam Goodes every time they kick a goal this weekend.

Stung by the looming prospect of one of the game’s most cele­brated indigenous players being heckled into retirement, Abor­iginal sports stars and the AFL have called out the vociferous booing of Goodes as racially loaded abuse that must stop.

Another round of Goodes-baiting in Perth on Sunday moved AFL chief executive Gillon ­McLachlan to declare “enough is enough”. West Coast Eagles chief executive Trevor Nisbett took aim at racists within his club’s ranks and urged other clubs to do the same. “I implore all clubs to stop this nonsense,’’ he said. Unrelenting abuse of Goodes at ­Subiaco Oval, which resulted in some fans being thrown out of the ground, provoked Goodes’s teammate Lewis Jetta to direct a spear-throwing “war dance’’ at a section of the crowd.

Jetta’s reaction was condemned by some commentators, despite the broad acceptance of the Maori haka, Greg Inglis’s “goanna’’ try celebration and Tim Cahill’s post-goal flag-sparring.

OUR greatest fear is yet to unfold. On Grand Final day, Adam Goodes will be booed as he does a lap of honour with all the other retirees and when that happens, all of football should hang their heads in shame.

It would mean they — the booers — couldn’t be stopped, despite heartfelt pleas.

What a horrific spectacle it will be.

On the day when football and footballers are celebrated for their genius, a large bunch of boneheads will continue this appalling attack on Goodes, and the MCG will reverberate to racial overtones and bigotry.

And because the game is beamed around the world, and presumably the pre-match entertainment, there will be millions of people wondering why, in this great country of ours, a black man is being booed and jeered while he is driven around in the back of a car.