A year after Blaine Boekhorst’s embarrassment, Tyrone Leonardis is the latest AFL draftee to learn a harsh lesson about the pitfalls of social media.

Soon after Sydney recruited the small defender with pick No.51 in Tuesday night’s draft, it emerged he had liked two Facebook pages that were critical of Swans great Adam Goodes.

They were titled “Adam Goodes for flog of the year” and Adam Goode’s (sic) for wanker of the year”.

Tyrone Leonardis playing in October. Photo: Sydney Swans

Sydney were soon aware of the gaffe and said Leonardis had apologised.

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He apparently liked the pages last February.

Goodes retired from the AFL after a tumultuous final season, during which fans booing the indigenous star became a major issue in the game.

The two-time Brownlow Medallist is a revered figure at the club.

Leonardis’ blunder came a year after Boekhorst also had an awkward start to life as a Carlton player.

A few months earlier, Boekhorst had tweeted that either the entire Carlton team or then-coach Mick Malthouse had to go.

Malthouse laughed it off, Boekhorst was nicknamed “tweet” and he went on to win Carlton’s best first-year player award this season.

– ABC