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[Portmagpies36]

Former AFL champion Eddie Betts has revealed for the first time the trauma he felt after a “weird” and “completely disrespectful” leadership training camp he attended as an Adelaide Crows player in the 2018 pre-season.

In his autobiography, The Boy from Boomerang Crescent, to be released on Wednesday, the three-time All-Australian player says the secretive four-day camp held on the Gold Coast, run by a group he has chosen not to name, left him feeling “like a piece of me was brainwashed”.

In the book, Betts writes that confidential information he had given in a private counselling session on the camp had been misused, and that the camp co-opted sensitive Aboriginal cultural rituals that offended him, jeopardised the wellbeing of other, younger Indigenous players within the Crows’ playing squad, and affected his family life. He blames it for a lack of form in 2018 that ultimately prompted him to leave the Crows.

“The camp ended up appropriating a First Nations peoples’ ritual of a ‘talking stick’ and attempting to apply it to all of us, even the non-Indigenous players and coaches.

A knife, a harness and the ‘power stance’: Eddie Betts reveals ‘cult-like’ training camp

A pre-season training camp for the Adelaide Crows left the AFL champion feeling ‘shattered’, and he says his complaints led to him being dropped from the club’s leadership group. He tells the story in a new autobiography.

www.smh.com.au

Is this the camp, to quote Graham Cornes. .. nothing happened.

 

[TazD]

We hate on the camp but look at all the awesome results it produced.

 

[snozulu]

Former AFL champion Eddie Betts has revealed for the first time the trauma he felt after a “weird” and “completely disrespectful” leadership training camp he attended as an Adelaide Crows player in the 2018 pre-season.

In his autobiography, The Boy from Boomerang Crescent, to be released on Wednesday, the three-time All-Australian player says the secretive four-day camp held on the Gold Coast, run by a group he has chosen not to name, left him feeling “like a piece of me was brainwashed”.

In the book, Betts writes that confidential information he had given in a private counselling session on the camp had been misused, and that the camp co-opted sensitive Aboriginal cultural rituals that offended him, jeopardised the wellbeing of other, younger Indigenous players within the Crows’ playing squad, and affected his family life. He blames it for a lack of form in 2018 that ultimately prompted him to leave the Crows.

“The camp ended up appropriating a First Nations peoples’ ritual of a ‘talking stick’ and attempting to apply it to all of us, even the non-Indigenous players and coaches.

A knife, a harness and the ‘power stance’: Eddie Betts reveals ‘cult-like’ training camp

A pre-season training camp for the Adelaide Crows left the AFL champion feeling ‘shattered’, and he says his complaints led to him being dropped from the club’s leadership group. He tells the story in a new autobiography.

www.smh.com.au

That's ****ing appalling to treat your players like that.

 

[killtaker1993]

I support Eddie 100%

 

[robbo1981]

To think all they needed was a hug how they got it so wrong is unreal.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Imagine treating your greatest assets with such incredible disdain.

 

[edgie]

western bravedogs 324 frees against is kind of undefendable.

the nearest number in either for/against is melbourne's 359. it's a massive statistical deviation. are we meant to believe they're far more disciplined than any other side???

I've said before about the Bulldogs, it isn't always what they get. It's what the other team doesn't get.

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[Del165198]

collective minds = unbelievably connected

buzzword corporate wank for people who took a 2 month course in psychology and think they can apply that to professional sporting clubs and make bagloads of cash.

 

[Marmozet]

 

[Marmozet]

Destroy the Crows, Eddie!

 

[Steve Dore]

Looking forward to Ambassador Wrinkles Camry Crows Newsletter this week where he calls Eddie Betts a bare faced liar.

 

[Powertron]

“Apparently, our facial expressions weren’t up to game mode,” Betts writes. The playing group was made to practise their facial expressions, he says.

Surely at this point in the season someone is saying “are these guys for real?”

….or here…

Betts says the choreographed stance, which was intended to intimidate the game-day opposition, was even practised at Crows training.

…and then they signed up to go on the camp. No red flags at all, how could they possibly have known this might turn to shite!

 

[Del165198]

imagine if they'd actually just decided to play the footy that made them the dominant team that year, instead of stand like power rangers and get bent over by a club who'd made a history of failing for over 3 decades

 

[Festerz]

One of the architects of the Camp - Brett Burton

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- is working with private schools teaching kids 'mental resilience' using the skills he learned while working with the AFL.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=598918374712674

 

[Portmagpies36]

Destroy the Crows, Eddie!

I think they are doing a fair job of that themselves.

 

[Portmagpies36]

“Apparently, our facial expressions weren’t up to game mode,” Betts writes. The playing group was made to practise their facial expressions, he says.

Surely at this point in the season someone is saying “are these guys for real?”

….or here…

Betts says the choreographed stance, which was intended to intimidate the game-day opposition, was even practised at Crows training.

…and then they signed up to go on the camp. No red flags at all, how could they possibly have known this might turn to shite!

Just more proof how much up their own arse that franchise is.

 

[Del165198]

One of the architects of the Camp - Brett Burton - is working with private schools teaching kids 'mental resilience' using the skills he learned while working with the AFL.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=598918374712674

primary school camp directed by brett "birdbrain" burton espouses the values of listening when the person in power has the icon of power

 

[Macca19]

I knew Rory Sloanes “im a better husband and son” interview after the camp was a load of toss

 

[bomberclifford]

Jesus. No one comes out of this looking good.

Can’t wait for the blowback.

 

[240volt]

What other possible explanation could there be?

Climate change?

 

[chiwigi]

I think they are doing a fair job of that themselves.

Unfortunately this is the beginning of the end of the camp effects.

Keeping in denial and not dealing with it crippled them. Everyone knew something had happened.

Now it’s all out in the open they will be able to deal and move on.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

I knew Rory Sloanes “im a better husband and son” interview after the camp was a load of toss

It's gets better from Roo.

Hes still there BTW.

 

[Festerz]

Looking forward to Ambassador Wrinkles Camry Crows Newsletter this week where he calls Eddie Betts a bare faced liar.

Yep. And not just Cornes but every single one of the West Lakes 'Ambassadors' clique who have denied the pointed allegations from day 1.

I can imagine that if almost any other current or former Crows player had come out with this story the same old denials and targeted personal attacks would be made on the person recounting what happened.

But Eddie Betts is an icon of the AFL who is revered by supporters from all clubs. His credibility and reputation are beyond reproach - something the AFC itself played a key role in promoting over the past decade. There is no way the denials and claims of 'nothing to see here' can continue.

And not for the first time in its relatively short existence, those within the Adelaide Crows hierarchy and the SA media who support them have been shown up to be driven by arrogance and ignorance with no respect for integrity or the truth.

And what of the SA Government's 'thorough investigation' into the camp? Reading the excerpts of Betts' book in today's Age it beggars belief that the 2021 WorkSafe SA inquiry found no breaches of the Work Health & Safety Act 2012 (SA). Either that Act is woefully inadequate at protecting the welfare and interests of workers or the WorkSafe SA Inquiry itself was woefully inadequate.

And I can't wait for the apology from Cornes and other media sycophants who mercilessly pursued Sam McClure for his article exposing the training camp details. McClure was stripped of the Press Club award he won in 2020 for the story on the training camp.

But rest assured, just like the Tippet Draft breach scandal, the Crouch/Stengle drug possession arrests, the Charlie Cameron and Jake Lever controversies, and the Taylor Walker racism scandal this latest sorry saga of cover up and denials will be quickly forgotten by the crows and their Adelaide media mates.

Adelaide Football Club - 'The Pride of South Australia'.

Feck right off.

 

[PowerBaz]

Imagine treating your greatest assets with such incredible disdain.

Greyhounds?

 

[MrMeaner]

It's gets better from Roo.

Hes still there BTW. View attachment 1464413

I can’t qwhite put my finger on what the common element is uniting the players who liked the camp.