skeptic wrote: ↑Thu 22 Sep 2022 2:54pm
It’s hard to imagine that these things didn’t occur as stated…
What’s missing is the context. The first story for example, those aren’t rationale responses to the challenge. Hence the question becomes what was happening that got the club so worried like that?
That leads to the two obvious follow ups… is there a reasonable scenario that sees a club advocate for separation of a relationship and termination of a pregnancy?
Secondly… would they take this course of action with a non-Indigenous person.
On both levels it doesn’t seem right.
The next thing that perplexes me though is how have Clarkson and Fagan become the principle figures of interest here. Surely decisions like these would be primarily driven through the club’s welfare individuals?
We’re talking about near DFFH levels of intervention (noting that they’re obviously adults).
I’m also unsure as to how this happened so vehemently against the wishes of all those involved and the non-specific denial from Fagan and Clarkson.
If there was no wrong doing whatsoever, I’d expect a more impassioned response focused on clearing his name… this is obviously juxtaposed with I guess what legal instruct him t say.
I guess what I’m trying to say here is that like most things… the answer is pbly in the middle but geeez we are still missing a lot of information
My gut says it seems fairly unlikely that at least some misconduct hasn’t occurred but I can’t say i have my head around it either
Best response/thought process I’ve seen in here so far.
Perhaps too much for the virtue signalling twats that have already applied the death penalty via their Kangaroo Court….
It’s a report based on one side of the story.
Let’s now have the actual investigation where the other parties have an opportunity to have their say.
That’s all assuming everything is done on face value.
Then you will now have AFL branding, lawyers looking for different angles, the possibility of a prior fall out with an individual (eg. Rioli & Clarkson) and the revenge aspect.
It’s a little suss this report was finalised the week after Clarkson is announced as coach of another club as well.
It seems bizarre the alleged things could be said by an employer to an enployee, but I’m sure that family or mates would say to each other at times if a partner was right for them, but questioning a pregnancy goes way overboard unless it was a parent to son conversation if financial constraints are an issue for example in bringing up a child.
It would be very interesting if other non aboriginal players at any stage have been placed in the same conversations by all clubs. It not, then it’s looking really poor.
and despise the Pies, the Blues, and the Injectors.