AFL fans react to Collingwood captain Darcy Moore after his girlfriend said they don't want to live together

Darcy Moore and his girlfriend's living arrangements have become the talk of the AFL, with fans labelling the Collingwood skipper 'woke' and blaming his unorthodox relationship for his shocking form slump.

Moore's girlfriend Dee Salmin, who hosts The Sunday Hook Up sex education program on Triple J, raised eyebrows earlier this week when she revealed on a podcast why they don't live together.

Many fans said Salmin's long-winded explanation for why they live apart - complete with feminist buzzwords and therapy-speak - made their eyes roll.

'I don't live with my partner at the moment, and we have such different, independent, busy lives,' Salmin said.

'We get to have so much of what we had when we were still single in our relationship.

'But I wonder how much you can actually upkeep that when you do end up living together. So much of it is hetero-dynamic learnt behaviours that you might fall into.'

Her line about 'hetero-dynamic learnt behaviours' caused a firestorm on social media. 

Collingwood loyalists had mixed reactions, with some even linking Salmin's comments to Moore's performance woes - which led to footy analyst Kane Cornes boldly calling for him to be dropped to the VFL this week. 

Others simply found Salmin's interview confusing due to her use of head-scratching, progressive terminology.

Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi reposted a link to an article about Salmin's interview, writing in the caption, 'Heteronormative learned patriarch behaviours,' along with a string of mocking emojis.

Meanwhile, one furious fan wrote online: 'No wonder Darcy Moore is playing so badly. His head is full of woke, politically correct, feminist rubbish.'

'The sex had better be way better than spectacular to put up with that nonsense,' another added.

'This bloke has to be the wokest footballer in history,' a third wrote.

'Looking forward to the "heteronormative learned patriarch behaviour round",' wrote one fan with their tongue firmly in cheek.

Some jokingly theorised Salmin's revelation was just a way to divert attention from the Collingwood star's worrying dip in form in 2024.

'What Darcy is really trying to say, "I'm in the biggest form slump of my career in a premiership hangover year so I need a little distraction,"' one fan posted.

One Magpies supporter defended Moore, referring to former Geelong captain Joel Selwood who wrote in his biography how he and his wife Brit slept in different bedrooms during the football season.

But another fired back: 'Selwood did it for footy reasons.

'Darcy Moore is doing it as some sort of new age rubbish. What the f*** is heteronormative learned patriarch behaviours?'

Others defended the couple, pointing out that the 'marital bed' practice was a modern innovation, not a tradition.

'It's a good thing these two never opened a history book or they'd find that separate beds was pretty common for married couples for about a century before the 1960s,' one person wrote.

Others suggested it could just be a simple case of getting a good night's rest because one or both of the couple snores.

'I've been married for 25 years and the missus and I generally sleep in different rooms - we call it heteronormative f***ing annoying snoring behaviours,' one said.

The Magpies climbed the premiership mountain last year and have been fighting against a tide of injuries to keep their flag defence alive.

They take on a regenerating Hawks trying to prove they belong on the big stage at the MCG on Saturday.

'If you want to try to motivate yourself more by saying it's a final - go for it,' Collinwood coach Craig McRae said.

'But we're going to be heavily motivated for round 19 and we need to bring our best.

'This week it's Hawthorn and we're going to really hit them between the eyes with our best.'