yaco55
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Source of this being her advice and not Hird's choice of wording? Besides, when you're senior coach and the supplements program which you organised and demanded turns into the farce it did, accepting responsibility is just PR 101. Hardly bad advice if she did give it and Hird shouldn't and surely wouldn't say these things if he didn't believe them...
LOL what? You're trying to tie the Switkowski report around her neck? If the board didn't issue an internal investigation into the serious of cluster****s that occurred, then the board would've been completely inept and would've learned jack s**t about what actually went wrong and how to prevent it happening again. And as for the public release, this same forum and Essendon supporters everywhere demanded to know what had happened with this porgram, how it was allowed to happen, who was responsible and what would been done to rectify it. Which goes into your last 'example'....
So you complain about the club being 'gagged' but when they actually do release something to us of substance, you complain? Lukin just can't win at all.
There's very good reason the club said nothing and Lukin or anyone else with half a brain, let alone qualifications and experience, would know that commenting and refuting events during a crisis situation where you don't know all the facts or what's happened is sheer stupidity. I seem to remember a certain statement released on the very day our players were issued SC notices saying the club says it was very unlikely we would receive any - see how stupid that was?
Not to mention the fact that if you pick and choose stuff to comment on, you give power to the content that you ignore.
For instance, you may refute 75 per cent of an article or be offended by it, but the remaining 25 per cent the general public members will look at and say "oh, they didn't refute that so it must be true" which continues on until you've drowned yourself.
It is far, far more practical to say nothing than to either selectively respond or respond to everything.
Disagree entirely. She's just yet another scapegoat for people to tie the whole thing around certain individuals necks to protect others.
EDIT: since the Hird standing down in round three was mentioned, I have no problem with her suggesting that as an option to him, it's her job after all to present these options and every man, women and dog knew it was a realistic option. Did anyone find out that she suggested it as option? Did she force him to do anything? No. So I don't see how that is something practical to tie around her neck either.
My question is if Hird refused to stand down why didn't Lukin leave her consultancy at Essendon ? It seems pointless for Lukin so stay on, especially seeing that she was working for the AFL.
This saga shows that certain people should have stood down at various times - Sadly it didn't happen.