A Facebook user posted a video of the face of a woman alleged to have thrown the banana. Credit:Facebook If the woman decides to take part, she will meet with the club's seven Aboriginal players, who will talk to her about cultural issues and how her actions affect the indigenous community. South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill has described the woman as an "idiot". "I am pleased the club has taken strong and immediate action," he said. Port Adelaide chairman David Koch on Sunday contacted Betts and Adelaide chairman Rob Chapman to apologise for the fan's action.

A photo posted to Facebook, purportedly showing the woman who threw a banana at footballer Eddie Betts on Saturday night. Credit:Facebook Koch became emotional when conveying their responses. "Eddie is not only an incredible footballer, he is an amazing man," he said. A still from a video showing a woman, bottom left, allegedly throwing a banana at a group of Adelaide Crows players. Credit:Will Bishop/Facebook "An amazing human being. And his response was 'thanks for contacting me; I hope you are not taking it personally because it's across every club in the AFL'.

"To quote Eddie, 'I am in awe of what your club does in terms of community programs for the Aboriginal community and what you do for my brothers at the Port Adelaide Football Club', which is incredibly generous from him and the mark of the man, and I got a similar response from Rob Chapman as well." Eddie Betts is chaired from the field by teammates after his 250th game on Saturday night. Credit:Morne de Klerk Betts also told Chapman that asking the woman to sit with the Power's Indigenous players was the best course of action. "In Eddie's words, it can no longer be us against them. It has got to be one mob; it has got to be educating and we have got to continually educate," he said. "He (Betts) understands like us, yes things like this can create a headline for a day or two, but if any good can come out of this it is to just make sure no football crowd, no workplace or no family thinks that this is acceptable football behaviour. As a club and as a code we have got to set the standard."

The woman, who is known to club members, would have most likely have hit Betts with the banana had his teammate Josh Jenkins not moved Betts away to avoid contact. Both Port Adelaide and Adelaide reacted angrily to the incident, witnessed by Port's Aboriginal Program manager Paul Vandenbergh, who captured vision of the incident and posted it on Facebook on Saturday night. The post was later removed. The Crows said they were "disappointed and disgusted" and Port Adelaide "appalled" after the footage emerged. Earlier on Sunday, the Power released a statementsaying they would "not tolerate this type of anti-social behaviour at ... games". The AFL said that it had been in contact with Port Adelaide and would provide assistance for the Power to help "deal with the matter".

Star Crows forward Taylor Walker was disgusted and said the fan in the video "shouldn't ever be allowed back in to enjoy the football". Crows CEO Andrew Fagan also condemned the act. "Expect strongest possible action to be taken against those throwing objects at our players. Abhorrent. Disgusting," he wrote.

Port Adelaide fan Jamie Christodoulou claims he sat behind the woman at the Adelaide Oval. In a Facebook post on Sunday, Mr Christodoulou said he yelled at her and "told her she took it too far". "She responded by saying, 'But he's a monkey', I yelled back, 'no, you're just a racist'. She got up and left," he said in the post. "Hope she doesn't come back. All year we've had to put up with her foul mouth dropping C bombs etc in front of our kids. "Hope they take her membership."

Mr Christodoulou said Betts "did heckle the crowd after he got that goal, but he didn't deserve such a racist act". "She clearly had it planned. It wasn't just a banana peel, it was a whole one," he said. A Port Adelaide fan page, The Alberton Crowd, shared a post overnight asking the banana-throwing woman to "never, ever come to a game again". "To the idiot who thought it would be a great idea to throw a banana at Eddie Betts, well done. You've now tainted all Port fans with the same brush and we will hear about how feral we are all week ... Stay home, we don't need fans like you at our games," the Facebook post said. The Alberton Crowd post has since been shared almost 200 times and received hundreds of mixed reactions in the comments.

"I am a Crows supporter but I would never blame all for the actions of one idiot half my family support Port Power and other half Crows," one person said. "No place in our club for people like that! Words are beyond me ...I am just so disgusted at this!" another said. There have been a number of high-profile incidents across Europe where bananas were thrown at black soccer players as a form of racial abuse. In recent times, Russian, Italian and Spanish soccer has been plagued by the practice. In 2014, Brazilian international Dani Alves put the act in the spotlight by defiantly picking up a banana and eating it on the field, winning acclaim and support.

Adelaide won the showdown by 15 points, and the incident occurred after Betts kicked his fifth goal - the last score of the match with 23 seconds remaining - in his 250th game.