I'm posting too many times in a row here, but anyway...
I think what Trac is most annoyed about in all this is there's no respect for the mental side of injury recovery.
The club being weird about Trac after his injury saying he could be back for finals, and then Trac saying no on his socials and then deleting it was a bit jarring. I don't think we gave any respect to Trac's mental wellbeing after going through a life-threatening injury.
I think he would've been fine about going back on because that was the information at hand, if we then took it seriously after and said this guy is going to take time to recover and we're going to focus on supporting that.
Whether it's resilience or Goody just being mr foootball and thinking that's priority, regardless I can see why both Trac would feel un-cared for and Angus wouldn't want to be around.
There's plenty of messages around from Goody to the previous doctor about pushing Angus to play when he still had concussion symptoms. That hasn't been linked to the Trac situation yet, but I think it should be.
We've seen from selection plenty of times that players are forced out there before they should be. That worked one time that's visible with May in the GF, but 99 times out of 100 forcing a player back before they're physically & mentally ready will hurt the team and break down the player over time.
Goody's game-plan sucks and so does his ability to manage the mental health of injured players.
You make some great points. Could easily explain what's happened.
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