AFL Player 27: Mason Redman 🐕 - Goes whack

[Lore]

Contract Status: Free Agent 2028
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 24, ghostdog

 

[Vindicater]

That makes no sense.

 

[Phone]

the dumbest player on the list does something dumb and it doesn't make sense???

 

[bacon buster]

I mean did anyone read the article?

It read as though his management was called by other clubs to sound out his availability?

Trying to create a narrative that Redman is somehow contradicting himself is ridiculous

 

[CUcrusher]

I mean did anyone read the article?

It read as though his management was called by other clubs to sound out his availability?

Trying to create a narrative that Redman is somehow contradicting himself is ridiculous

"It is unknown if Redman was aware of the approach" 100% was not Redman wanting out but they'll label it as such

 

[DonsRule]

 

[EnolaGay]

I don’t know how many times I need to say it. Merrett is not well liked within the playing group, doesn’t have many friends, and has an inability to connect with a vast majority of the playing group. That doesn’t take anything away from him as a player or a lead by example type. But outside that he’s moreorless an individual

He sounds like Sam Mitchell.

 

[Lore]

 

[Donflicted]

Edmund saying they don’t even know if Redman was aware of the approach but clubs and managers do meet all year around and at times the player wont even know about it

Also his manager Williams has said his committed to the EFC

The snippet attached is from Scooter from the Lunch time catch up podcast who has good connections to the club

 

[DallasCrane316]

So Morris is saying this happened earlier in the year, Edmund saying that it happened recently but they are unsure if Redman was even aware of it.

Merrett camp leaking info?

 

[DallasCrane316]

FWIW Edmunds spoke to Redman’s manager who reiterated that Redman is committed to EFC.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Merrett camp leaking info?

That’s what it looks like. Merrett annoyed at Redman’s statement and going “yeah well he did it too”

 

[Old Campaigner]

Or maybe the media had known about it for ages but it was seen as a non-issue until it could be woven into a larger Essendon exodus narrative

 

[VelvetSledge]

Footy journalism is the absolute bottom of the barrel. Outside of Cal Twomey, the rest are just racing to the headline with no integrity whatsoever.

 

[faible]

Footy journalism is the absolute bottom of the barrel. Outside of Cal Twomey, the rest are just racing to the headline with no integrity whatsoever.

Essendon generates clicks; either you support EFC, or you love to revel in EFC being down.

Way more fun to stick the boot in to EFC whether it's factual or not than write about something dull like North being shit and trading their F1 away so have no draft currency.

 

[Lore]

So Morris is saying this happened earlier in the year, Edmund saying that it happened recently but they are unsure if Redman was even aware of it.

Merrett camp leaking info?

How would the Merrett camp even be aware of it if Redman wasn't?

 

[Old Campaigner]

Essendon generates clicks; either you support EFC, or you love to revel in EFC being down.

Way more fun to stick the boot in to EFC whether it's factual or not than write about something dull like North being shit and trading their F1 away so have no draft currency.

Collingwood is the same. It was a joke on that Coodabeens segment but if they can fit Collingwood in the headline somehow they get a way bigger audience

 

[bacon buster]

Footy journalism is the absolute bottom of the barrel. Outside of Cal Twomey, the rest are just racing to the headline with no integrity whatsoever.

That's sports "journalism" in general these days.

That's why the Pablo Torre expose on the Kawhi Leonard/Aspiration clandestine deal has been so refreshing the last couple of weeks. Suggest anyone interested in some juicy sports goss check it out, even if you aren't a basketball fan

 

[andleanback]

Footy journalism is the absolute bottom of the barrel. Outside of Cal Twomey, the rest are just racing to the headline with no integrity whatsoever.

Gotta make themselves relevant somehow. Print journalism is dying, getting clicks is the only way they can make sure their job is safe.

 

[DallasCrane316]

How would the Merrett camp even be aware of it if Redman wasn't?

Tom Morris’s version seemed to indicate that Redman wanted out earlier in the year, which Merrett would be aware of (if that’s true).

Edmund saying it was a recent approach

 

[andleanback]

Tom Morris’s version seemed to indicate that Redman wanted out earlier in the year, which Merrett would be aware of (if that’s true).

Edmund saying it was a recent approach

When was the last time Sam Edmund actually had a proper scoop and got a story right? If ever

 

[Vindicater]

I mean did anyone read the article?

It read as though his management was called by other clubs to sound out his availability?

Trying to create a narrative that Redman is somehow contradicting himself is ridiculous

No it read like Redmans agent sounded out some clubs, potentially without consulting Redman first.

 

[DallasCrane316]

No it read like Redmans agent sounded out some clubs, potentially without consulting Redman first.

The one from Edmund was harmless.

The one from Morris, which indicated Redman was weighing up a trade request earlier this year, appears spiteful. And my guess would be a leak from the Merrett camp as they seem to be speaking regularly to Morris.

 

[Lore]

The one from Edmund was harmless.

The one from Morris, which indicated Redman was weighing up a trade request earlier this year, appears spiteful. And my guess would be a leak from the Merrett camp as they seem to be speaking regularly to Morris.

If Merrett knew about Redman weighing up a trade request and encouraged him to stay and recommit to the club because that's what leaders do, then that would explain Redman wanting to speak about Merrett now sniffing around Hawthorn anyway. You'd be pissed too

 

[DonsRule]

 

[Lore]

Sounds like either Edmund after contacting Ben Williams, or Ben Williams of his own volition, called Tom Morris and made him walk it back?