Past Brendan Fevola #2 (2010-2011)

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Concerned about his mental health, the Lions had brought him back from Melbourne to Brisbane early during the Christmas leave period in a bid to keep him out of trouble.

"We got him back a bit early to advance that program pretty quickly. It's obviously pretty disappointing that he chose to go out and the rest you know the details" Voss said.

 

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How a quiet night snowballed into rehab

• Nick Leys
• From: The Daily Telegraph
• January 04, 2011 12:00AM

For weeks Fevola's growing depression had been noticeable to everyone in the club. It had been a turbulent year for the star forward after all, a year mired by incidents embarrassing to the player and the club itself. Conscious of the risks of leaving Fevola on his own on New Year's Eve, a number of players decided they would take him for a sensible night out in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley to lift his spirits but also make sure nothing would happen to embarrass their colleague or the club.

It was an uneventful night on the town and the players enjoyed each other's company. Once midnight had been counted down and 2011 welcomed, the group started to slow down and the players said good night to Fevola, who got in a cab with a friend not associated with the club and left for the evening. "The players who remained thought he had gone home," a source said. "But at some point he came back."

 

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Don't expect sports stars to be saints

• Mirko Bagaric
• From: The Courier-Mail
• January 04, 2011 8:40AM

EXPECTING people to do things they can't do and distorting the objectives of an institution beyond its reach are a recipe for failure and unfairness. That's why the AFL and other increasingly image-worshipping sports bodies are even more in need of sober counselling than troubled Brisbane Lions star Brendan Fevola.

The claim that AFL footballers must meet higher standards of propriety because of their high profile is flawed. Footballers are no less entitled to behave badly than doctors, lawyers, journalists and plumbers. If they do transgress by breaking the law, then like everyone else they should be dealt with appropriately in this domain. They shouldn't be punished twice because their vocation has a public aspect. Double punishment is repugnant, in all of its guises.

 

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Brisbane Lions coach Michael Voss appears to be Brendan Fevola's only ally

• Damien Stannard and Nick Leys
• From: The Courier-Mail
• January 04, 2011 12:01AM

MICHAEL Voss has an almost impossible battle to convince an angry Brisbane Lions board that they should give a reprieve to wayward star Brendan Fevola.

An axe is hovering over the head of the full-forward and the final say over whether his contract is terminated rests with the board, which does not have the same loyalty to Fevola as the powerbrokers who recruited him.

Lions coach Voss is the only survivor of the Voss-Michael Bowers-Tony Kelly triumvirate who hired Fevola when he was cut by Carlton at the end of 2009.

 

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Wayne Brittain

"When you have kids it tends to mature you and round you off a little bit. It has not been able to do that for Brendan, unfortunately. Maybe this kick in the butt, with real consequences for his actions, will make him fight hard to get his career and his life back on track.
"He has not been up to the challenge, not had the desire to make the changes necessary. He has had obstacles, such as his marriage situation and moving here, but a lot of his problems have been self-inflicted.
"At some stage he is going to suffer the consequences of his actions."

 

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Paul Roos

''The two most recent guys have been Cousins and 'Hally' for different reasons [and] both of those guys benefited from getting out of football for awhile to reassess and then come back and both did well. The difficulty when you're trying to deal with things in the public eye is you don't really get any time and space, so it is hard when you're under the spotlight.''

''Sometimes the only way to do things is to step away, get some time to yourself, some time to think and process things. Hally really benefited and he came back and had a terrific season last year, so if Brendan decided to take that path I don't think there's any reason why that couldn't be successful.''

Terry Wallace

''In Ben's case being deregistered was the worst thing that could have happened to him at the time. I reckon Brendan needs the disciplines of AFL footy more than he realises. There's three sides to the story - the AFL's side, the club's side and the welfare of the person, but I have no doubt whether it was Ben Cousins or Brendan Fevola now that it's better for the person to stay in the game.''

 

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I agree with Roos.

There is no way that Fevola can get an inch of space to deal with his issues while playing for an AFL team and the 24/7 scrutiny that goes with it.

 

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Eddie McGuire

"I'm a firm believer that you give a person as many chances as you can give them until they get it right," McGuire said."He's had a slip - and not a major one to be perfectly honest, by the looks of things.
"But he's had a slip and he needs to get himself together. I hope he can.
"He's nearly 30 now and it's no longer only himself that he's blowing up - he's got his family and his football club and his reputation and the reputations of the AFL and others as well."

 

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EDITORIAL: End the unsporting antics

• Editorial
• From: The Courier-Mail
• January 05, 2011 12:00AM

Yet because our talents of the arena are such a valuable commodity, and sport in Australia is big business, too often young men with real problems are reborn and re-invented without truly being rehabilitated.

Much of the fault here lies not with flawed human beings – or indeed the ill-judged acts of young men, who if they were not in the public spotlight, would possibly go unremarked – but rather with their management.

Too often it would appear that the desire to make what can be some very expensive investments pay off on the field can usurp the need for discipline, or at times punitive action, in relation to off-field antics.

 

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Brisbane is no longer a contender for a top four position, as it mistakenly forecast after a mildly successful 2009 campaign. Fevola, even if he successfully overcomes his financial, alcoholic, spiritual and legal problems and plays well for the final two years of his contract, will not be part of the next Lions premiership tilt.

 

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Lawyer warned off Fevola
Paul Millar
January 5, 2011

PROMINENT lawyer Nicola Gobbo says she was warned off continuing a ''friendship'' with troubled AFL player Brendan Fevola by police, when she was the key witness in a murder case, because he attracted publicity and could make her an easy target for an underworld hit.

''Their concern was that they did not want any publicity relating to me in terms of where I was located at that time,'' Ms Gobbo told The Age.

 

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Phil Jauncey

"Alcohol is a depressant which gets rid of your inhibitions - it is the eternal truth serum," he said."The booze only exacerbates the problem. It would be great to get off the booze but that is not the whole problem.
"If someone like Fevola has demons, all the booze does is let them loose. It doesn't solve them.
"Quite often what booze does is make people who think they are not very good act that way to prove it.
"Sometimes in sport, players behave badly because something inside them is saying 'I am not as good as people think and I am going to prove it'.
"Whether that is the case with Brendan I am not sure. But often that is the case."

 

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Ralph Carr

Former Carlton director and music industry management veteran Ralph Carr said the star forward "clearly has problems, but the managers involved over his career are key in helping to sorting these out as much as the club is", reported the Herald Sun.

"Many players only speak with their agents or managers during their contract negotiations," he said.

"Footballers are much like entertainment clients and needed more attention, advice, support and guidance. One of Fev's main problems is that because he is such a good player when going, people may not be able to tell him exactly what he needs to hear."

 

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2010: Top Sport Sex Scandals

1. Tiger Woods
2. Joel Monaghan
3. Brendan Fevola

Not an AFL season goes by when Brisbane Lions spearhead Brendan Fevola doesn't find himself in a pickle. This time around alcohol wasn't to blame, but instead a brainless decision by Fevola to take a nude shower photograph of model Lara Bingle back in 2006 during their brief affair.
The pic came to light this year and landed him in big trouble, again, with the AFL. It also played a part in Bingle's eventual split with the vice-captain of the Australian Test team, Michael Clarke.
The former Carlton forward admitted he took the offending picture but the League said it could not be proved he was responsible for its distribution around the traps.
Still, the neanderthal behaviour of Fev sent another wrecking ball through the AFL's battle plans to present itself and its players as a "female friendly", modern sporting code.

 

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Fev keeping you busy Grim, if only it was positive news for once.

On side note, would have though that this belonged in the 2006 top sport sex scandals, another poor attempt to score easy points off the coat tails of others.

 

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Fev keeping you busy Grim, if only it was positive news for once.

For me, probably the most annoying thing out of all this is that we don't get to hear any news about anyone else.

Surely out of the multitude of stories on Fevola, many of which don't contain any new information, some of them could have been used to let us know how Rockliff and Redden are going.

 

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Andrew Carrazzo

"I mean for all the stuff he's been through, he's a pretty resilient guy and has got a pretty thick skin," Carrazzo said."I've got no doubt that if Brisbane are willing to back him in, that he can bounce back and play some good footy."
"Hopefully his personal life can get back on track. On a personal level yeah I do feel for Fev a little bit. I'm friends with him and it's not great what he's going through."

 

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Why the Lions have to cut Fev
MARK DUFFIELD
The West Australian
January 8, 2011, 1:32 pm

If it was OK for the AFL to deregister Ben Cousins for bringing the game into disrepute in 2007, when will football heavyweights admit the same applies with Fevola?

The fact that nothing eventuated from the Northbridge arrest did not save Cousins. After too many ignored chances it was the straw that broke the camel's back. Nor was he saved by the duty of care argument currently being pushed on Fevola's behalf - that he would be better served playing football than trudging around on his own in the football wilderness.

When West Coast sacked Cousins he was a player without a club. Deregistration by the league left him without a job. This is not to say that Cousins was treated harshly. But it is to say he will have the right to claim harsh treatment if the league does not move against Fevola now.

 

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The Lions' new football manager, Dean Warren, has been appointed to manage the probe into Fevola's future, which should be decided over the next fortnight.

 

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Although Brown was unable to reveal any updates on the Lions' approach to dealing with the serial offender, he did believe that the senior playing group would be canvassed for their opinions on his right to a place in the side."I would have thought that at some stage we'll get consulted. No doubt with decisions like this it's a pretty big decision. It starts from the top down, but I'm sure we'll get asked our opinion," he said.

 

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Brad Hardie predicts the trouble-stricken Fevola to be back playing with Brisbane a month into the new AFL season and that he could boot in the region of 60 goals after his return. Fevola should be offered a revised contract with strict behavioural clauses and a total ban on drinking for the 2011 season, Hardie says.
He calls for Lions management to impose a two-month suspension on Fevola to miss the NAB Cup summer series campaign and Brisbane’s opening three AFL premiership season games.

 

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I like Hardie's call on this.We should do that word for word.

 

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I like Hardie's call on this.We should do that word for word.

Not sure on the legal constraints in retrospectively changing a contract. It may be dependent on Fevola's willingness to comply, which is not so straight forward when manager's get involved.

 

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THE wider media continues to be frustrated by Brendan Fevola not being sacked after his New Year's Eve arrest where he was, in a nutshell, being a ******** to himself. As such the Herald Sun ran a poll asking: “Should the Brisbane Lions sack Brendon Fevola?”
As a parallel, last year their respected journalist Jon Anderson was so completely sozzled that he gently eased his car through the rear entrance of the local pizza shop, and subsequently blew a thoroughly irresponsible .139.
If you’re wondering, they didn’t run a poll on whether “Ando” should have been sacked.

 

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How is Fev going in rehab? Where is his future at?

He is still in care right now. We've had a lot of discussions behind closed doors about how he is travelling and how it has been working well. As a footy club, we are pretty determined to ensure that this is done right. We are constantly updating the AFL and AFLPA (players association), who have a genuine interest in how he is going. We hope that once we get some more clarity we can have a few more discussions about what is going to be best for everyone.

Is it too soon to say when, or if, he'll play for Brisbane again?

At the moment he is on leave indefinitely. With these things you can't put definitive timelines on. It is about patience and making smart decisions about what is in Brendan's best interests and the best interests of the club.