Adelaide goalsneak Eddie Betts has called out a racist social media taunt with the support of several fellow AFL names.

The 32-year old re-posted a photo from the Crows' official Instagram account that showed him and fellow indigenous star Shaun Burgoyne arriving at Marvel Stadium on Friday night for the AFLX tournament.

Betts circled a comment from userย ferris.pete that read: "โ€œmonkey see monkey doโ€. He responded to the slur with: โ€œWhen will it stop why canโ€™t we just play footy. Why canโ€™t we just all get along.โ€

Burgoyne backed up Betts by commenting the user was โ€œjust a coward sitting behind a keyboardโ€.

AFL Playersโ€™ Association CEO Paul Marsh tweeted out that there was no part for this type of behaviour.

โ€œMore disgraceful, cowardly, racist behaviour directed at one of our gameโ€™s finest people. There is simply no excuse for this garbage. Our indigenous players deserve so much better.โ€ Marsh tweeted on Saturday night.

AFLPA president Patrick Dangerfield also came to Betts' defence, re-posting the image and tagging the user with the caption:ย โ€œDisgusting. Cowardly. Racistโ€.