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Yeah maybe. I think the first rule of journalism also applies to media facing representatives of any organisation: ’Don’t become the story’ Rightly or wrongly, that’s what’s happened here and even 5 out of 10 doesn’t cut it when the knives are out from a media perspective IMO

To be fair, if she’s going to be a club President, being proficient in front of the media goes along with the role. It’s not really anybody else’s fault if she did poorly? And yes I understand some people will have a go at her no matter what she says, but there’s also the possibility that she also did a bad job.

I get we may have differing views on this and that’s fine. I personally thought the Roffey interview was really poor communication for a club president. She didn’t choose her words very carefully and came across (to me anyways) as kinda flippant, trying to distance herself from the situation and not being careful about ‘optics’, which whether people like it or not, are important especially when all eyes are on us. I’m also not saying she was trying to distance herself, but her choice or language, would be the same as someone that is trying to distance themselves. Thus, very poor choice. So this is only a small, and I stress small, example, but I haven’t seen it mentioned. When she was talking about the club speaking to Tracc since the injury, she said, the club had been speaking to Tracc ‘for 5, 3 or 6 months, whenever the injury happened’ (I’m paraphrasing but that is very close to exact words) That is extremely sloppy for a President of a professional sporting organisation, when seemingly, the club is in turmoil? How difficult is it to know that it was basically 2 months ago. Not, anywhere from 3,5 or 6 or whenever the injury happened. I expect a bit more professionalism from the figurehead of our club to at least be across very very basic details when in front of the media? Just made her sound lazy and/or incompetent. In my opinion of course, others will disagree and that’s fine.

Oh yes I understood that part, I just wanted to see what Tom Morris had said as I couldn’t find anything in regard to this specifically

What a perfect year of AFL football. There has never been a football of AFL like this football year of AFL.

FFS this is amateur hour. If you’re going to do an interview, representing the club in a time of (perceived or real, take your pick) turmoil, you don’t add to the turmoil by not having all your ducks in a row and being consistent in answering very straightforward questions. Does anybody have their hands on the steering wheel?

Wayne Carey.

Pick 9, 10 and Kyle Amiss would be pretty bloody good.

Hurrrgghhhhhh. Sounds like that court case is going to be a barrel of [censored] laughs.

Well there’s a big big sound

Freo are choking badly here

EAT [censored] CARLTON AND YOUR SCUM FANS

Urghhhh he’s in trouble just from the very last action as far as I can see. Yes Moore ducks at the last second but if you watch the replay, Moore continues at the ball but kozzie pivots direction on his left foot away from the ball and towards Moore and ends up going across him. If he continued to run in the direction of the ball, he would’ve had a chance to argue it was more of a ‘collision’ rather than a hit to Moore. The argument will be that Kozzie initiated the contact when he had another option, not change direction and instigate contact first. Reverse the jumpers and make it a prelim final though and we would not have the same outcome in terms of weeks. Would be ‘nah the Melbourne player dropped his knees, it was his fault’ 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

I 100% get what you are saying, but all the vetting in the world can fall short when it comes to someone’s mental state, which put under pressure like an on air interview, can change very quickly in it’s stability. Especially if mood swings are at play which can happen in a matter of seconds. The fact he said yes and withdrew is not a good sign. I’ve made the point Traccs silence means he wants to leave and I now recognise that (even if it’s true) is a massive secondary issue compared to his mental health. So personally I don’t feel comfortable in speculating about anything that’s going on. I’m sincerely not casting aspersions on you or other posters, but I’ve been getting weird vibes for a number of days about questioning why he is or isn’t doing things but that’s just me. I legitimately just want him to be ok as this has all the makings of being way more serious than footy.

He may not be psychologically ready/able/willing enough to do a live interview? He went through a life threatening situation about 3 months ago. That can really affect a person. It has nothing to do with being a maturing man or a leader. Mental health issues can be crippling and can happen to anyone. Nobody, and I mean nobody, is immune from mental health issues.

Mason Cox is slow… but he’s also very very tall. Being a small, outside player than isn’t an amazing kick and mid paced makes his lack of overall skills all the more glaring IMO

The speed factor is huge. For the kind of player he is, he has to have speed in terms of AFL standards. He just looks mid paced.

For a 19 y.o. playing his 9th/10th game, I reckon he could be doing WAAAAYYYYY worse

Great kick petty!!!! Not bombing it high but at a height that is hard to defend

The AFL app needs a live pressure gauge.

Every time I hear Davis speak I’m a bit blown away by how eloquent and effective he is at communicating.

Ahhhh yeah right, I forgot he was involved with AFLW. Guess we’ll see what happens!

BBB retires and a couple days later Stafford is gone/leaves, anything in that or a kawinky dink?

Contributed to us getting a flag so I’m eternally grateful! Best of luck for the future

Ahhhh it was graded as high contact so looks like he did make contact with the head.