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Four Points: The questions De Goey should ask himself
Everyone knows Jordan De Goey can play, and everyone also knows he can play up. Plus: St Kilda gets the wobbles, Hawkins’ incredible run to 700.www.theage.com.au
A pretty fair and measured article about the issue.
Four Points: The questions De Goey should ask himself
Everyone knows Jordan De Goey can play, and everyone also knows he can play up. Plus: St Kilda gets the wobbles, Hawkins’ incredible run to 700.
A pretty fair and measured article about the issue.
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I reckon he’d be a better dancer for sure!
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So it looks like a couple of the other blokes were in Bali as well.It’s easy to lose perspective when it comes to Collingwood’s Jordan De Goey.
He is a gun footballer who has performed well – under rookie coach Craig McRae – since returning to the Magpies in late January after a club-imposed exile. He has engaged in community work since getting himself locked up in New York.
Collingwood’s Jordan De Goey.CREDIT:GETTY IMAGES
The 26-year-old has clearly been happy in the environment in 2022 and, importantly, his teammates have his back, and he had impressed people in the football department since his return. Those people are not the types to suffer fools.
His position was strong when it came to signing a new contract at the club, with interest from opponents genuine.
For the bye week he made the same choice many AFL players have made, including, according to club sources, two of his teammates, to get some sun on their back in Bali and to remove themselves from the Melbourne fishbowl.
Collingwood treated him as one responsible for his own decisions and any consequences that may flow from them. Nothing wrong with that, nor his desire to let the hair down for a moment before putting his head down again in an effort to help the Magpies back into the finals.
Unfortunately, a video appeared on social media showing a hand that appears to be his grabbing at a female friend’s top to attempt to expose her breast in a Bali nightclub. If that is his hand, he made a choice when out drinking that, if he’s honest with himself, was poor.
The woman in the video had no issue with his behaviour, posting later on Instagram she could not “believe the backlash towards Jordy and myself”.
For that, he’s lucky the incident remains a learning opportunity.
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He may argue everyone present understood the context, but it had the potential to become a much more serious issue for him. The reflex response for most seeing that act on video was that it was wrong and disrespectful. Women are justifiably sick of that sort of behaviour from too many men when they are out.
Anyone asking De Goey not to engage in that behaviour is not exactly expecting him to make a sacrifice akin to dying on the cross. Nor is it a huge expectation to ask him to be humble enough to learn how to have a good time in what is now a digital existence.
Didn’t he learn anything from the New York experience? You can have fun without having to show the bird or make sexually explicit poses to an acquaintance holding a camera with an Instagram account.
That might be hard for him to get his head around and even difficult to accept – as many before De Goey have shown – but it is the price that comes with being a public figure with a high income that provides privileges and responsibility.
Jordan De Goey has again attracted unwanted headlines for the MagpiesCREDIT:GETTY IMAGES
The fact he has railed – again – against that expectation doesn’t make De Goey a bad person, just someone who is taking time to learn some hard lessons that even what he may consider a minor storm in a teacup can be ferocious nonetheless. The Pies are waiting to hear the full story.
He might hate the intrusion but it’s a reality that the media – and not just social media – is an imperfect yet unstoppable beast, and he would be better served learning to deal with it rather than blaming it for limiting his choices which remain wide and varied.
There’s another important issue to consider here, and one that Melbourne have been going through in the last week – no football club needs such distractions, particularly Collingwood as they propelled forward with such a positive vibe under McRae and new president Jeff Browne.
There is no doubt that De Goey has been influential in Collingwood’s recent run of success; he can just as easily interrupt the club’s run to the finals.
Then there is another choice that De Goey faces, a broader choice about becoming the best footballer he can be, something which remains a tantalising prospect eight seasons after his debut.
The club and his management’s thinking around his next contract seemed to be progressing well, and quietly without much external talk with the number of years on offer the main discussion point.
Everyone knows he can play, everyone also knows he can play up. The equation was as simple for Collingwood as it has been in football for time immemorial when a player verges on becoming too hot to handle – were the list of hassles worth his on-field return?
Now he’s added another incident to the list, the timing likely to bring all sorts of voices such as board members including Christine Holgate into the contract discussion.
That equation will affect what salary the Magpies and other clubs might offer.
For Collingwood, those are pretty simple questions because although the Magpies will be better next year with De Goey, someone will replace him if their offer doesn’t satisfy him enough to stay.
De Goey might want the questions for himself to be as simple but they rarely are for young men attempting to set themselves up for a fulfilling life, particularly those under a constant spotlight.
Do I need to modify my behaviour? What do I need to do to show the best version of myself on and off the field? What is within my control? Why am I being judged and how should I handle that? What impact has this had on other people at the club? Whom do I talk to for honest, direct, experienced feedback about where I am at? What parts of the narrative around me are uneducated, biased and ill-informed and what is relevant and worthy of contemplation?
Scott Pendlebury, McRae, football manager Graham Wright and former player and board member Paul Licuria would be the people I’d be listening to. If he can commit to that, a penalty is unlikely.
Those people know him best, the good and the parts that need improving.
De Goey has a future in football. Only he can decide what it looks like.
Mason Cox , he’d do the electric boogaloo.
Glasses on too
Four Points: The questions De Goey should ask himself
Everyone knows Jordan De Goey can play, and everyone also knows he can play up. Plus: St Kilda gets the wobbles, Hawkins’ incredible run to 700.
A pretty fair and measured article about the issue.
By copping all this shit? Doubt it
Not smart enough. But setting up a fake scandal and a gotcha on returning to Australia would be the stuff of legends and very easy to do if you were in his position. Someone should do it. Would love to see the reaction. Get Ginnivan on to it.
How was your trip?
Hard enough to cut of the blood supply to his brain?
Ands that’s as far as it should get too..Pies should stand behind Jordy and tell everyone to just get a life and GTFO!
My money’s on Ruscoe or IQ
