Gibbons did reveal the constant speculation around the club’s preview hurt morale and focus at the Blues labelling it “incredibly stressful”.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-trade-period-2021-live-updates-day-6-player-movement-continues-as-jordan-dawson-bobby-hill-rory-lobb-seek-late-moves-20211010-p58ytb.html?post=p52y0r#p52y0r

Say what you like about the review whether it was right or wrong to do a cleanout. Here is one ex-player Gibbons who says that it destabilised the playing group.

He said it did have an impact on the atmosphere at the club.

“It was incredibly stressful,” he continued.

“If you talk to anyone throughout that time, a lot of people will try and play it off, but you’ve got coaches who don’t know if they’ll be there next year having to perform weekly and stay positive and players in the same position.

“It creates a, I wouldn’t say toxic (environment), but it’s pretty unspoken. When you sit down and have a chat to blokes towards the latter end of the year, it was getting to everyone.

“No fault of the media, but it was in the media every day and it becomes a bit of a cycle.”

Was that before the review?

Interesting article. Too bad it removes the context.



As I've posted elsewhere, he said that "you’ve got coaches who don’t know if they’ll be there next year having to perform weekly and stay positive and players in the same position."
How is that different to the 17 other clubs? Every club will make delistings, many clubs have had coaches move or lose their jobs. Many players and coaches knew full well that they were uncontracted and not being approached to re-sign. To suggest Carlton are on their own as the article implies is rubbish. I feel for Gibbo but he's no different to another 50-100 players who will be delisted across the AFL.

The difference is that Carlton was going through a public review. The other clubs were not.

Maybe I’m just old school, but about time these soft c03k players learnt a thing or two about being in a high performance environment.

If you want to drive high standards and best the best of the best in any vocation you need pressure applied to be better. It’s clear from the coaches to the players that everyone was a bit too comfortable in mediocrity and once the review started to challenge the standards the precious footy department failed to rise to the occasion, but rather went into self preservation mode.

Thank you Sayers for standing up for us supporters who a fronted up for a very long time, even when the players didn’t

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Maybe I’m just old school, but about time these soft c03k players learnt a thing or two about being in a high performance environment.

If you want to drive high standards and be the best of the best in any vocation you need pressure applied to be better.

It’s clear from the coaches to the players that everyone was a bit too comfortable in mediocrity and once the review started to challenge the standards the precious footy department failed to rise to the occasion, but rather went into self preservation mode.

Thank you Sayers for standing up for us supporters who a fronted up for a very long time, even when the players didn’t

Interesting article. Too bad it removes the context.



As I've posted elsewhere, he said that "you’ve got coaches who don’t know if they’ll be there next year having to perform weekly and stay positive and players in the same position."
How is that different to the 17 other clubs? Every club will make delistings, many clubs have had coaches move or lose their jobs. Many players and coaches knew full well that they were uncontracted and not being approached to re-sign. To suggest Carlton are on their own as the article implies is rubbish. I feel for Gibbo but he's no different to another 50-100 players who will be delisted across the AFL.

Keogh’s not happy with Coaches delisting players they don’t rate, but he’s all for giving the arse to about 10 players he doesn’t rate.

Seems logical.

Regards Cazzesman

There is just no nice way of delisting a player. Someone always comes out at this time of year a bit pee'd off with their club or the way it was handled.

The tone of the article and some of the responses on here doesn't match with the actual interview that I heard.
Firstly, he said he was aware of the situation from before the season ended.
He went to make his case to Vossy with whom he spent a couple of hours with, and Vossy was pretty transparent (Gibbons' words).
Then he was obviously disappointed when told by Lloyd & Austin, with Vossy also on the call. He said he understood and that it would have also been tough for them.
Classy guy.
He was asked about confusion in the game plan and he said they trained all summer on an attacking game plan right from the backline.
They only started focusing on defense after a few rounds into the season when it became clear they were too easy to score against... (which says a fair bit). So that change might have caused confusion.
They asked whether he thought Teague should have been sacked. He started off saying he wasn't sure but ended up conceding that he was treated harshly. Tim & Gary were leading him in the interview.
They also asked him about playing forward when he was previously a gun midfielder, he said that initially under Bolton, that's where the opportunity was but then he liked playing there.

So, he was aware. He wants to keep playing. He was pretty gracious all round. He was led into a few of the responses written about. But pretty BAU as far as I'm concerned and no indictment on anyone. FYI, I would have personally liked to see him given a go in the midfield but them's the breaks.

Bit harsh mate. He'll tell you in three years if we should have delisted them this week.

There is just no nice way of delisting a player. Someone always comes out at this time of year a bit pee'd off with their club or the way it was handled.