Adelaide forward Darcy Fogarty has taken sponsorship to new levels, getting a beer can tattooed on his bicep as part of a partnership with a South Australian brewery.
Fogarty took to social media to reveal a video of him getting inked up at Uncle Winston’s tattoo parlour in Adelaide, with the caption: “Getting something you love for your first tattoo. I chose Coopers Brewery”.
The move is part of a paid promotion for the upcoming Gather Round, with Fogarty and the Crows the key attraction in South Australia following their barnstorming 3-1 start to the year.
Coopers are already a long-term sponsor of the Crows
The tattoo doesn’t violate any AFL rules, with Fogarty’s deal with the brewery not viewed as conflicting with the AFL’s partnership with Carlton Draught.
However, speaking on SEN, former great Kane Cornes described it as a ‘shocking look’.
“You say I’ll do anything for money; Darcy Fogarty has been paid to get a tattoo of a beer can on his bicep, hopefully for a lot,” Cornes said.
“I don’t like it. It’s a shocking look for a professional football player to have an open can of beer on his arm because someone has paid him.
“What a joke.”
The move bears similarity to former Geelong player Garry Hocking’s attempt to change his name to ‘Whiskas’ for one match to promote a cat-food brand in 1999, in order to help the then-debt-stricken Cats.
The AFL refused to acknowledge the name change, referring to Hocking as ‘G. Hocking’ on the team sheet.
Former North Melbourne great David King has slammed coach Alastair Clarkson’s positive spin on the Kangaroos’ thumping loss to Sydney on Saturday night.
The Roos were thrashed by 65 points at Marvel Stadium despite the Swans being without eight players from the 2024 grand final, plus captain Callum Mills, with the list of outs including Errol Gulden, Tom Papley, Logan McDonald and Justin McInerney.
However, Clarkson maintained in his post-match press conference that the Roos, who are 1-3 to start the season, were merely beaten by a ‘very good side’.
“They made a grand final last year, and were the best side really for the bulk of the year,” Clarkson said.
“They showed what a good side they were to us tonight.”
However, speaking on Fox Footy’s First Crack, King was scathing of Clarkson’s ‘excuses’.
“That [Sydney] team is on par with what the Kangaroos put to the park on Saturday, and they were humbled,” King said.
“You’re talking to your members in these press conferences. To be disingenuous like this and suggest they are the grand final team of last year is 100 per cent wrong.
“It’s a dangerous game to try fool the North Melbourne faithful, because it can end really ugly… just stick to the facts and be honest. ‘Got beaten, got bashed, dark day’, whatever you want to say. But don’t try and spin things into something they’re not.
“Just be honest. That there is not being honest with the North Melbourne people… just treat the fans with respect.”
For the third time in four matches to start 2025, the Roos conceded more than 100 points to the Swans, continuing a long-standing inability to defend stemming back to even beyond 2023, when Clarkson first took the reins.
The Kangaroos have a tough clash up next, facing Gold Coast as part of Gather Round in the AFL’s first ever match for premiership points in the Barossa Valley.
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