The other effect is it flushes out what players are tradable at rival teams.
Black ops.
In reality we are not trading premiership winning mids for chicken change.
In AFL Journo world the utter desperation for "news" seems to turn them all into a baying pack of hyenas looking for scraps of truth .
They really give carp a bad name.
Barrett probably got bullied quite a bit at school and developed his obnoxious and abrasive manner from this.
If he was bullied more he might have had a deeper insight into what a [censored] of a man he is.