Fev sacked

[Hollow Knight]

So from now on... any time you ask anyone a question on Bigfooty you'd think a fair responce is... "What business of it is yours"

We'd have quite a forum on our hands... let alone media coverage...

Brisbane Press conference...

Brisbane Chairman - "Brendan Fevola has been sacked, any questions?"

Daily Telegraph - "Why was he sacked?"

Brisbane Chairman - "It's none of your business"

Herald Sun - "Why was he sacked?"

Brisbane Chairman - "It's none of your business"

Herald sun - "Why are you hiding your reasons?"

Brisbane Chairman - "Seriously FFS, what business is it of yours"

A bit of critical thinking would be handy.

This could potentially all be decided in a court room. In the meantime what benefit is there for the Lions in publically elaborating on details that are really only the business of the direct participants in the situation.

 

[Pariah]

I bet a significant proportion of players delisted every year suffer serious depression as a result of their dream being shattered. Where is the sympathy for them? Should their original club take them back on while they are ill?

The decision to sack Fevola was obviously made shortly after New Years. Would it have been better for Brisbane to announce it then, and potentially derail his treatment?

Some player do suffer from depression after being delisted but Fev was still receiving treatment when he was sacked.

 

[Hollow Knight]

Some player do suffer from depression after being delisted but Fev was still receiving treatment when he was sacked.

So people with depression should be totally immune from being sacked for the duration of their affliction? (Which could potentially be lifelong).

Don't get me wrong, I consider depression to be a serious medical condition, but players get delisted all the time because of persistant injuries that prevent them from performing at the standard required. Why should depression be any different?

The club has an obligation to provide assistance, which Brisbane have committed to doing, but they don't have an obligation to keep playing them.

 

[ManWithNoName]

A bit of critical thinking would be handy.

This could potentially all be decided in a court room. In the meantime what benefit is there for the Lions in publically elaborating on details that are really only the business of the direct participants in the situation.

So why can't they say that? "for legal reasons we can't go into that right now". Simply more or less repeating the phrase "serious and persistent breaches of his contract" just makes it look like Brisbane are trying to cover up a lack of reasons.

 

[Hollow Knight]

So why can't they say that? "for legal reasons we can't go into that right now". Simply more or less repeating the phrase "serious and persistent breaches of his contract" just makes it look like Brisbane are trying to cover up a lack of reasons.

Well if your theory is correct, then it will all be borne out over time.

I still think it is more likely that the club doesn't feel it is appropriate (whether legally, ethically, politically) to publically elaborate more than they already have. Save the details for the negotiation table.

 

[lemon chicken]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/st-kilda-players-in-boozy-brawl-at-prahan-nightclub-love-machine/story-e6frf7kx-1225964158258

Troubled Brisbane Lions forward Brendan Fevola was busted arriving at Revolver nightclub at 7.30am during the season, while his club thought he was focused on recovering from groin surgery.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/st-kilda-players-in-boozy-brawl-at-prahan-nightclub-love-machine/story-e6frf7kx-1225964158258


http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/brendan-fevola-thrown-out-of-hotel-shortly-after-joining-brisbane-lions/story-e6frf9jf-1225886427177

Fevola and several others were ejected from the building because of complaints about the noise, leading to Fevola going on a 24-hour drinking binge after losing to Melbourne on April 24.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/brendan-fevola-thrown-out-of-hotel-shortly-after-joining-brisbane-lions/story-e6frf9jf-1225886427177


These plus the NYE lock up would be enough IMO.

 

[Smoky]

A bit of critical thinking would be handy.

This could potentially all be decided in a court room. In the meantime what benefit is there for the Lions in publically elaborating on details that are really only the business of the direct participants in the situation.

To claim something as strong as the Brisbane Lions did as their reason for Sacking Fev... yet even the media has no idea what he's done... Alister Lynch his Manager claims the sacking is illegal... the media pushed and pushed about asked what are the breaches... ok, you won't answer that, so you said multiple breaches, so you are saying there is definately more than one? "Urrgh, No comment"

Surely you see the whole issue relating to why Fev has been sacked appears to be hidden by the club and most think Brisbane have pulled the swifty... especially after it looked like the whole Family day fiasco... leaked by Brisbane, was a set up.

It reaks... and if Brisbane have hung him out to dry unfairly they should be hung, strung and quartered.

It is very much a moral issue and in my opinion very much peoples business...

 

[Smoky]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/st-kilda-players-in-boozy-brawl-at-prahan-nightclub-love-machine/story-e6frf7kx-1225964158258

Troubled Brisbane Lions forward Brendan Fevola was busted arriving at Revolver nightclub at 7.30am during the season, while his club thought he was focused on recovering from groin surgery.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/st-kilda-players-in-boozy-brawl-at-prahan-nightclub-love-machine/story-e6frf7kx-1225964158258


http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/brendan-fevola-thrown-out-of-hotel-shortly-after-joining-brisbane-lions/story-e6frf9jf-1225886427177

Fevola and several others were ejected from the building because of complaints about the noise, leading to Fevola going on a 24-hour drinking binge after losing to Melbourne on April 24.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/brendan-fevola-thrown-out-of-hotel-shortly-after-joining-brisbane-lions/story-e6frf9jf-1225886427177


These plus the NYE lock up would be enough IMO.

Yeah after 7 weeks of self admitted rehab it's pretty obvious they need to get rid of him because of any future drinking issues!

 

[Krakouertoa]

Wouldn't be surprised if wee Andy Anderson got a call from a couple of presidents the way that wording changed in the Hun, the second revision was drastically different from implying two separate instances of financial assistance. Good work Ed and Jeff.

 

[lemon chicken]

Yeah after 7 weeks of self admitted rehab it's pretty obvious they need to get rid of him because of any future drinking issues!

WTF? People are asking for reasons, these are the ones that made it to press. He hasnt been sacked for no reason, all these incidents have been confirmed.

 

[Smoky]

WTF? People are asking for reasons, these are the ones that made it to press. He hasnt been sacked for no reason, all these incidents have been confirmed.

So all we need to do is have a few Pubs and clubs in Brisbane report to the press every time a Brisbane player enter their premise and by the end of the year there will be about 8 players on their list

 

[lemon chicken]

So all we need to do is have a few Pubs and clubs in Brisbane report to the press every time a Brisbane player enter their premise and by the end of the year there will be about 8 players on their list

There was CCTV footgae of him trying ot get into Revolver at breakfast time when he supposed to in Melb getting injury treatment. Are you using Didak analogy to make this ok or something?

 

[skipper kelly]

To be fair Brown Dog, I remember reading that line originally in the article, but it seems to have mysteriously disappeared. Looks like the fact checking needs to be taken higher than the messenger.

Yes it was there. Seems the old AFL spin machine is at work again.

 

[Thommo 42]

A bit of critical thinking would be handy.

This could potentially all be decided in a court room. In the meantime what benefit is there for the Lions in publically elaborating on details that are really only the business of the direct participants in the situation.

fair enough, but why hold a presser at all then, if you're just going to sit there and make a mockery of it.

As impressive as Johnson has been since he took the role of chairman, he looked thoroughly out of his depth today

 

[Stamos]

What business is it of yours?

When a club sacks one of the stars of the game without giving a reason, it's football fans everywhere's business. If the Revolover incident was one of the breaches, Brisbane could easily have said so. If there was something more serious, they could have said "We have had legal advice that we can't discuss such and such incident". Instead, they made themselves look like absolute amateurs.

As for the discussion regarding delisting players who will as a result suffer from depression, there is a massive difference between delisting a player at the end of the season, and their career subsequently being over, and sacking a player mid contract, a month before the season begins, when he has been in rehab for a month and a half. This should be quite obvious.

 

[Krakouertoa]

Queensland, sunny one day, sacked the next.

 

[Hollow Knight]

When a club sacks one of the stars of the game without giving a reason, it's football fans everywhere's business.

Notsureifserious.

 

[Krakouertoa]

Johhno Brown is the one that gets off lightly in all this, staged a coup to nut Matthews so he could install Voss and the game plan he wanted, slags off Fev after publicly supporting him right up until the day he is sacked. How would you like this guy looking after your back?

 

[Hollow Knight]

Johhno Brown is the one that gets off lightly in all this, staged a coup to nut Matthews

Absolute rubbish. Fan fiction.

Absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

 

[Krakouertoa]

Absolute rubbish. Fan fiction.

Absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

Rightly or wrongly he believed the game had passed Matthews by, he wanted a different game plan, and he no doubt wanted another shot at flags before retirement, hence the incomprehensible short term recruiting. And yeah today was pathetic taking shots at a guy in rehab who he had been supporting.

 

[Hollow Knight]

Rightly or wrongly he believed the game had passed Matthews by, he wanted a different game plan, and he no doubt wanted another shot at flags before retirement, hence the incomprehensible short term recruiting.

Repeating the same fiction over and over doesn't make it true.

You're clueless.

 

[Krakouertoa]

Repeating the same fiction over and over doesn't make it true.

You're clueless.

The fiction seems to be causing friction, there were enough insiders who wrote as much at the time and would know better than you or I.

 

[Thommo 42]

you're on drugs.

There is not one insider that said anything of the sort. Lethal left of his own accord and all reports to the contrary are completely false.

J.Brown had absolutely nothing to do with Lethal resigning, he just decided he had had enough.

 

[Rod Stroker]

It's not often I concur with the words out of the mouth of Robert Walls, but I can see his logic here:

"'The only club I could see taking him would be Collingwood,'' said Age columnist, Fevola fan and former Carlton player and coach Robert Walls yesterday. ''He's got some sort of relationship with [president] Eddie McGuire. He would have to prove over the next 12 months that he's over his addictions and his bad ways. If he could do that and go to Collingwood on their terms, if he wasn't on much money and he knew the eyes of the world were on him, that if he stuffed up once it's all over, that'd be his chance"

I don't necessarily think that Collingwood would be the right club for him, but I agree with the conditions. It would make for quite a story though if it happened, Buckley's first major decision as senior coach to draft Fev!

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/such-is-fev-20110221-1b2ja.html

 

[gPhonque]

It's not often I concur with the words out of the mouth of Robert Walls, but I can see his logic here:

"'The only club I could see taking him would be Collingwood,'' said Age columnist, Fevola fan and former Carlton player and coach Robert Walls yesterday. ''He's got some sort of relationship with [president] Eddie McGuire. He would have to prove over the next 12 months that he's over his addictions and his bad ways. If he could do that and go to Collingwood on their terms, if he wasn't on much money and he knew the eyes of the world were on him, that if he stuffed up once it's all over, that'd be his chance"

I don't necessarily think that Collingwood would be the right club for him, but I agree with the conditions. It would make for quite a story though if it happened, Buckley's first major decision as senior coach to draft Fev!

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/such-is-fev-20110221-1b2ja.html

Oh please God, let it happen.

Didak, Beams, and Fevola together.

It's a match made in heaven for the rest of the competition.