Senior coach Ross Lyon said that Fremantle strongly support the stand taken by AFL clubs and the AFL in condemning the racist social media posts targeting Liam Ryan.

Following the taunts targeting the Eagles forward, West Coast on Tuesday released a video that called for an end to the behaviour and provided an insight as to why the remark is so offensive.

Lyon said that this was an issue that the two rival WA clubs could rally behind. 

“We stand united as a WA football community and AFL community, we register our public support and I am really passionate in that space,” Lyon said.

“I’d just like to put that on the public record that we are fully aligned, we are fierce rivals with everyone in the AFL but there are causes when we come together.

“There is no place for this and we need to continue to call it out, because the standards that you walk by are the standards you accept.

“So, everyone needs to make a strong stance. We understand the racism is coming from a minority, but we need to weed it out, we just need to continue to educate. In the end, the good people come out on top.”

Lyon said that Fremantle had a long and proud association with Indigenous people.

This includes 19 players across the club’s AFL, AFLW and NGA playing lists, number one ticket holder and Indigenous elder Richard Walley, board member Colleen Hayward as well as a large cohort of past players, which includes current staff members Michael Johnson and Roger Hayden.

“I know our Indigenous players would be hurting, and all of those within the AFL, it is a brotherhood with the Indigenous boys, they will be feeling the pain as we are,” Lyon said.

“We hope it reaches to all corners of Australia to call out the vitriol and the bile from keyboard warriors, there is no place in our game for that.

“Personally, watching that video I think the education piece for our children coming through and all of us as adults is really pertinent.

“I learnt a lot more about the cultural understanding about when Australia was turned into ‘no man's land’, the atrocities that occurred and why the term is offensive, it has been used before to (denigrate) some of our greatest Indigenous players.”