"If it's a young kid, pull his parents out as well. Where, as a game, do we say 'no, this isn't happening'? There has to be hard and fast rules, if anyone comes close to getting racial they are completely ruled out of our game. "I just get worried about Latrell or any Indigenous player in our organisation. But he shouldn't have to handle it, he shouldn't have to keep dealing with this. "He'll handle it and we'll handle it and we'll support him as a club. "Latrell is a real role model for our game, we love him at our club, he stands for Indigenous people and he stands for good people. I can't get my head around it to be honest, I don't understand in Australia how anyone can be raised like that. This is not something Latrell just cops on the footy field, this is something he's had to deal with his whole life," Demetriou said. He continually shows the quality person that he is. "Latrell answers his critics with his character every week.
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