‘Need to get the police involved’: AFL coach’s sad revelation over increase in player abuse

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West Coast coach Adam Simpson has revealed the club has asked for police involvement to help quell the growing tide of vile social media abuse given to his players.

Watch every game of every round this Toyota AFL Premiership Season LIVE with no ad-breaks during play on Kayo. New to Kayo?But tracking down cowardly and often-anonymous social media users is much more difficult. “Some of the abuse from, not the expert commentators and the football parts, that’s all there for us to understand and consume. But the private stuff, the online abuse some of our players have received this year has probably gone up to another level,” he said on Fox Footy’s AFL 360.

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