Player Watch Ben Kennedy (Traded to Dees 2015)

[wicksy]

Here we go.....i have hafld it before and sometimes still deal with it..
Just over every afl player using it as an excuse
So yeah not a troll MATE

You should know better if you've hafld'd it before.

 

[Ducce35]

2012 draft..
With the exception of Grundy(who remarkably fell in our lap)
...maybe Marley as well.!

"You think that you are depressed Ben?"

I'm the one with depression.

National118Brodie Grundy

National119Ben Kennedy
National120Timothy Broomhead
National238Jackson Ramsay
National594Marley Williams
Rookie213Kyle Martin
Rookie227Sam Dwyer
Rookie335Adam Oxley
Rookie441Jack Frost

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Your an idiot, if you think this is remotely funny.
I hope noone u knows has depression, cause im not sure you understand the condition.

Ben Kennedy opens up on mental health issues during AFL career with Melbourne and Collingwood

FORMER Collingwood and Melbourne midfielder Ben Kennedy has bravely opened up on the “deep state of depression” he experienced during his playing career, revealing how a breakdown led to him to isolate himself from loved ones.

Kennedy, a highly-rated talent in the lead up to his draft year, was delisted by Melbourne last month after a five-year AFL career with the Magpies and Demons.

The first-round draft pick managed just 25 games in three years at the Pies, before he was traded to Melbourne. He managed 15 games in 2016 but didn’t play a senior game in 2017.

As the weeks in the VFL went by, Kennedy said he “broke down for the first time in years” and was “no longer seen visually as the jovial and energetic character” he was once viewed as.

“Football had finally taken its toll on me and all the pressure and expectation I had built up in my own head had caused me to lose my mind in front of my teammates. I had manifested an idea that I was a disappointment and that I was letting all those close to me down in the job I had grown up dreaming about since as long as I could remember,” Kennedy wrote in a Players’ Voice column for the AFL Players’ Association website.

“Kicking the footy in the backyard pretending I was Andrew McLeod, playing in front of 90,000 at the MCG was all for nothing in my mind, because I wasn’t playing AFL football when I had only ever obsessed over being a superstar and nothing less.

“I had become insular and had drifted from those closest to me. I’d drifted from the ones who cared about me the most — my family, friends and my girlfriend — those who had only ever cared about my wellbeing and loved me for Ben Kennedy ‘the person.’

“A feeling of resentment swept over me and I began screening calls from my girlfriend after games and making excuses not to see or talk to my parents.

“The false sense of embarrassment I felt on a Thursday afternoon when the teams came out (I would later joke that I don’t talk to friends on Thursdays) all because I wasn’t competing for two hours on a Saturday afternoon on the big stage.”

Kennedy said his refusal to seek help or connect with loved ones meant he was “knowingly leading myself into a path of self-destruction and feeling my masculinity was on the line”.

But the 23-year-old said a meeting with friend David Stiff, who is involved in player welfare, was crucial.

“It helped me realise I had a greater purpose and a reason to get out of bed because these people and things were waiting for me and that football was only a part of my life. Yes, it was a part I loved, but it did not need to define me,” Kennedy said.

“I guess as someone who experienced a deep state of depression both at the middle of my career and towards the end of it, I have learnt that it doesn’t need to be a boxing match. There’s no rule book to suggest you have to fight it alone, you can bring a friend to help or even a whole gang if you need it.

“Men in particular seem to have a false hysteria over what is seen as ‘tough.’ Talking about how you’re going doesn’t always have to be a means of introduction, mates want to help mates, we actually get a kick out of it.”

Kennedy said he had “found closure in accepting what I was able to achieve and what I wasn’t”.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/me...d/news-story/b6831e04ff9ac92f28150e82398183cf

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[regpies]

What came first? Poor footy or the depression?

If depression was first which resulted in bad footy then I feel for him.

If it was the poor footy and lazy professionalism first then I think he’s a lot like Boyd, can’t handle the pressure so blamed depression as a reason for not being any good.

He never got fit enough to play at AFL level. People can blame the sub rule but he was being picked as the sub because he wasn’t fit enough.

 

[Dynamics]

Always with the armchair psychologists.

People love jumping to conclusions with sweet f*** all actual evidence, all in the name of an "opinion".

 

[pablo disco bar]

You should know better if you've hafld'd it before.

I also didnt use it as an excuse

 

[Finnishpie]

I'm depressed. Mind you, it'd be a hell of a lot better if the pies make the finals next year....