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Still has close mates at the club, eg Mitch WallisNot related to the interview too strongly but it was great to see him at the Footscray vs Williamstown final. Nice to see that he still has an interest in the club and hopefully knows he's always be welcomed here
Brilliant interview. Such a nice young man. I wish him nothing but peace.
He said we approached him mid-year in 2014.
Does that change history a bit? Did gws find out and then launched the counter-attack in swooping for Griffen?
Still doesn’t change the fact our club captain left us in the lurch.
My understanding from comments made from the club (PG?) was that we were into him (or his manager) even earlier but the normal convention is that a draftee sees out his first two years so we were biding our time, along with most other clubs that were eyeing off Boyd.Brilliant interview. Such a nice young man. I wish him nothing but peace.
He said we approached him mid-year in 2014.
Does that change history a bit? Did gws find out and then launched the counter-attack in swooping for Griffen?
Still doesn’t change the fact our club captain left us in the lurch.
Most of them are, but I'm still looking for the episode with Clay Smith
The main thing I took out of it is that he was contemplating retiring in 2014. That’s crazy.
Yep that and he will never play AFL again.
Few people speculated after he retired he could come back in a few years, but after listening to him that seems to be no chance.
He was never going to bring any of that up and give the media fresh fodder to attack our club, and a way to absolve themselves of any blame. and the last thing he wants is to suddenly be all over the news again. It would overshadow everything else the interview was for. To give people peace of mind that he is doing ok and that he is happy with his decision. I for one appreciated hearing it from him and not someone else.That was the key take away for me.
I too had some hopes he would "sort" himself out and return to footy but the interview last night changed my mind.
Seems we recruited a very good young player who simply didn't really want to play at AFL level. Just took him a while to work that out. Fair enough from his point of view.
To me, his mental health issues we had heard about was more him grappling with expectations of him given the money he was being paid.
Also think if we didn't win the 2016 flag he would have quit a few years earlier.
Good to hear he has no issues with the club and he talked fondly of his relationships there. Nothing around the bullying rumours everybody had heard about.
Great interview. I think we got the most out of Tommy in that finals series of 2016. I’ll always say, we got him to win a flag, and that was achieved. Will always be one of my favourite players at our club, and I’ve seen a lot of our greats, Grant, Hawkins, Beasley, Royal, McGuiness, West, Liberatore, Wynd, Purser, etc..