Past #6: Jason Horne-Francis - NM have been informed by JHF's management that he will seek a trade to SA [contracted for 2023]

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Rood shock but teen star learns from icy punishment

RUSSELL GOULD
NORTH Melbourne caretaker coach Leigh Adams says Jason Horne-Francis took the “valuable lesson” of his axing last week well.

Adams said the No.1 draft pick would be strongly considered to make an AFL return for the final game of the season.

Horne-Francis was dropped last week for failing to meet training standards, which included not taking an ice bath properly in clear view of Adams, who decided the teenage star should be omitted.

Horne-Francis is contracted until the end of 2023 with the Kangaroos, but remains the subject of speculation he may look to return home to South Australia amid talk the Crows will come hard for him.

He had nine clearances and 29 disposals in a starring role in the VFL last weekend.

Defending the decision to axe Horne-Francis, Adams said everyone at the club had to meet standards – and it was how they responded that would prove most telling.

“He wasn’t able to implement his recovery protocols to the level which needed to be done and that’s a rule we have got for our whole footy club.

They were the consequences for Jason last week,” Adams said on Wednesday.

“It’s not a huge deal within the four walls of the footy club.

It was a decision he made in the heat of some frustration around our loss (in round 21).

“We had a really good, honest chat about it last week, he understood where we were coming from. He went back and had a really solid game.

His attitude has been fantastic.

“He’ll be right in calculations to come back into the team this week. Not certainly … he’ll be thereabouts because his game and his attitude was great on the weekend. He’s learnt a great lesson from that and we’re sure he’ll be a good player from that lesson.”

The Kangaroos could lift themselves off the bottom of the ladder with a final-round win over Gold Coast but will have to do so without captain Jack Ziebell, Jed Anderson and most likely Jaidyn Stephenson.

Ziebell had surgery after hurting his AC joint, Anderson has entered the AFL’s concussion protocols, while Stephenson is recovering from a back injury.
 

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guess whos staying now...
 
From the Herald Sun

Jason Horne-Francis’ lack of interest in requesting a trade back to Adelaide is music to the ears of Roos staffers who have been baffled at times by his attitude.
Horne-Francis was dropped for his lack of professionalism last week when failing to properly rehab with an ice-bath even when a senior member of the coaching staff asked him to do so.

He is only 19 but one insider reckoned this week the coaches could have picked out a similar incident that would have given cause for that kind of tough love most weeks this year.

The hope is that at some stage with the strong reinforcement of the coaching and development team the penny will drop but no one inside the club believed dropping him was the wrong decision.

He responded with an excellent VFL game to put his name up for selection again.
 
R00StaR said:
Weren't you saying he was gone?
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if we didn't get our s**t together. And not sure if you noticed, but we've kind of got it together lately.
 
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