Revealed: How Adam Goodes feels about building bridges with the AFL 10 years after racism tsunami turned him into footy's biggest recluse

A decennary aft Adam Goodes performed his iconic Indigenous warfare dance, it's been revealed however the Sydney Swans champion feels astir reconnecting with the crippled that made him famous.

The code's astir decorated Indigenous subordinate has distanced himself from the crippled since 2015, pursuing the prolonged booing saga that lasted 3 seasons.

The two-time Brownlow Medallist has besides knocked backmost offers to beryllium inducted into the NSW Australian Football Hall of Fame and AFL Hall of Fame.

With Sir Doug Nicholls circular approaching, the AFL has made efforts to get Goodes backmost successful the crippled - but without overmuch luck.

'No, helium is not funny close now,' Swans committee member Michael O'Loughlin revealed to News Corp.

'He's fine. He's surviving his champion life. We miss him, we emotion him and hopefully astatine immoderate constituent we volition get to spot him again. 

'He loved the crippled and the crippled fto him down and it has fto a batch of radical down.

'He should person walked retired a leader and that helium didn't is simply a existent indictment connected us.'

Goodes became a awesome for Indigenous rights aft lasting up to relentless assemblage maltreatment successful 2013.

He had been lasting adjacent the sidelines during the past 2 minutes of the lucifer betwixt Sydney and Collingwood erstwhile helium heard idiosyncratic successful the assemblage outcry implicit the fence: 'Goodes, you're an ape.'

The culprit was a 13-year-old girl. She was escorted from the crushed by information guards aft the Swans prima pointed her out.

Days later, then-Magpies brag Eddie McGuire suggested promoters of a King Kong philharmonic successful Melbourne inquire the footy prima to beforehand the show.

In 2015, helium celebrated a extremity against Carlton with an Indigenous-themed warfare outcry that saw spectators people him heavily.

That twelvemonth helium refused to enactment successful a expansive last motorcade for retired players, and has declined astir invitations to AFL events ever since - adjacent declining an invitation to beryllium inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame successful 2021.

AFL president Richard Goyder acknowledged that the AFL should person done amended by Goodes aft helium rejected the 2021 invitation.

'The attraction of Adam successful his last years astatine AFL level drove him from football,' Goyder said astatine the time.

'The AFL and our crippled did not bash capable to basal with him astatine the time, and telephone it out.

'The unreserved apology that the crippled provided him successful 2019 was excessively late, but, connected behalf of our committee and the AFL, I apologise unreservedly again for our failures during this period.

'Failure to telephone retired racism and not lasting up for Adam fto down each Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players, past and present.

'We anticipation that determination volition beryllium a clip successful the aboriginal erstwhile Adam volition privation to beryllium connected to the crippled again.'

Goodes returned to the SCG successful May 2022 for the Swans' 10-year premiership reunion, doing a thigh of the crushed astatine halftime successful the Swans' clash with the Gold Coast.