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It was a bit misleading but can get your interpretation after rereading:The article doesn't claim one virtual screening, it claims one face to face meeting because of the issues with the borders through covid. IIRC the second one was when Noble could finally get over there to say we were going to draft him. There was no stone left unturned in the monitoring and scouting of JHF.
I think the problem is a lot of people just assume JHF came into the club with a timer on how quickly he could leave which is untrue. It's easy to judge him for walking when he did, and we all have, but the NMFC did itself no favours.
In 2021 North Melbourne claimed its first wooden spoon in 49 years. The club met Jason Horne-Francis once that year.
They kept waiting for borders to open up, but Covid curtailed their plans to get into South Australia.
So they bit the bullet and interviewed him over Zoom.