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A very welcome article and another encouraging filip from the North alumni.
But the quoted is exactly the problem I hope we've dug up, triaged and ensured never occurs again.
The best player in AFL and North Melbourne history has acknowledged that in retirement that he typically didn't give a toss whether we rose or fell.
Can you imagine Nick Riewoldt, Jonathan Brown, Matthew Richardson or Chris Grant ever relating to their clubs in that way?
And great players that they all were - none were Wayne Carey nor with the exception of Brown enjoyed the team success he did.
Hopefully this sort of attitude from the entire past player contingent is behind us but it's a telling statement in its honesty.
I would suggest that the specific circumstances around Carey leaving explain why he didn't feel connected to the club for most of the period since he left. In that sense, he's an outlier.