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Sure, but there’s absolutely no reason to assume what’s already available isn’t an accurate representation.

Given all the current available evidence I think it’s the most logical interpretation.

By telling him (or very strongly implying) if you contact her your career is over. It’s an atrocious abuse of power differential.

My reading is a bit different. He’s too scared to make contact because he’s been given the very clear message that contacting her will be very bad for his career and his AFL dream. This is the essence of coercive control. She can’t contact him because she doesn’t have his new number and no...

The allegation is that the club cut all contact between her and the player including removing him from their house and taking his SIM card.

Tell me the only thing you’ve read on this subject is one post in this thread without telling me the only thing you’ve read on this subject is one post in this thread.

Mate, you’re in cloud cuckoo land. Take it from a fellow North supporter, this is going to have serious consequences. I felt sick when I read the original report and I hoped against hope that there would be a rational explanation for the contents. Both because I didn’t want to think the victims...

Just because you don’t know their names doesn’t mean they haven’t put their names to the claims. Not known by you =/= anonymous

Stop telling me what to post Adolf.

Thank you for having the courage to share this. Your story is important and speaks to your spirit, determination and the universality of connection between mothers and their children. I am deeply sorry that you were subjected to these experiences but I am heartened that they have not defined...

Not necessarily. What if Evans or a coach also routinely had access to the Presidential email account. None of this is good, but it’s not necessarily true that Newbold is a liar and was “in on it”. It feels like the net is closing around the individuals involved though.

I can’t open the link to the emails. Is it an iPhone or unequivocally HIS iPhone? More than one iPhone can have proxy access to an email account.

We can and we should. It’s a ridiculous practice that should be outlawed. Use a bespoke service at arms length to the football department if the players need transitional living arrangements. Coaches are not parents. They have a manager/employee relationship with players. This paternalistic...

No. I’m saying it’s feasible Newbold never saw it. The question of who did see it, and who replied is very troubling. It’s almost certain it wasn’t the PA.

It is entirely possible Newbold is telling the truth. There is a similar email address in my role that I do not monitor. It is triaged by an EA who then distributed items to the most appropriate recipient. If you send an email to the address it is notionally coming to me directly. This isn’t...

This was already addressed a few pages back. The same article you’re quoting says the coach corroborated some of the testimony. Open your eyes mate. This ain’t a hatchet job by one player’s partner.

Assuming these are the same person, the key point here is that the player was trying to re-enter the AFL system at the time these were published. Even if he had processed the trauma, he was definitely not going to air any dirty laundry at that point in his career. It doesn’t seem to me that...

Do you know what the word “corroborate” means? Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com

Post 5253 in this thread has the full text. You’re welcome.

It’s in the article you were quoting. I assumed you’d actually looked at it. The text is back a couple of pages.

He corroborated part of them. Weird that you can post but you can’t read.

FFS, the report was exclusively about the experiences of indigenous players. Do you think this guy just wanders the halls at Glenferrie stopping everyone with a notebook to tell them about his experiences with the “Russian Mafia”? There are none so blind as those who will not see.

No. It doesn’t. It is exactly what you might expect to happen in an independent report. It wasn’t originally being compiled as a list of allegations, it was a list of experiences of indigenous players. A non-indigenous coach felt strongly enough about injustices that he wanted to validate...

My heart sank when I saw this. It seems exceedingly unlikely that there is an innocent explanation behind all of it.

You’ve either completely failed to comprehend what he said, or deliberately misrepresented it. Either way, it might be time for you to log off.

There are lots of posts in this thread that explain why this can lead to an outcome that’s inherently discriminatory and why that’s particularly problematic for Indigenous players. I suggest you go back and read them. But your initial comment about “racist spin” is just offensively wrong. Any...

This is the most terrible of takes. Do you understand why this report was being done in the first place? It was an entirely indigenous based review commissioned by the club in response to allegations of racist treatment of players. Do you understand why the positive experience of some...

It might be a lot messier than that. The line the AFLCA are taking hints at a “it happened, but…” justification of some sort. I feel like this is potentially going to be a very significant reckoning of the AFL’s culture and norms. A lot of stuff that coaches have thought is normal and ok might...

100 staff or 1 staff, it only takes one verifiable workplace bullying or harassment claim to cost you a lot of money. But this is off topic. So let’s get back to the matter at hand.

If the employee in question was over 18 then you probably exposed yourself to a VERY significant risk. As an employer, you have a power imbalance with an employee which must be taken into account in any intervention you make. I don’t know your particular circumstances but as someone who...