Damien Barrett
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11,360 appearances
20 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
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um the decisions that he made to go down the path.
I mean just from the perspective of it guys, I I can see a scenario where a player, late twenties, early thirties signing a deal just to stay involved with the game that you've played your whole life and the city.
If the if the club came to me when I was still playing um and they said, look, we're we're not really sure whether you should be playing or not, you want to sell in this wave or you can continue to play, I'd sign it in a heartbeat.
That's right.
That's what I wanted to do.
I wanted to play out.
Would you do it now and you know what you
Yeah we could.
Yeah, I reckon I would concussion.
Oh no.
I think you go out there every week and there there are no guarantees and you go out there every week and that's what you do.
That's that's what you love doing and I'd probably sign at the moment.
That's where it becomes tricky, Damo, because it's how paternalistic do you want the law to be.
Do you want the law to protect someone or is it up to the individual to decide what is best for them?
And he felt that was best for him to sign that deal.
Yeah.
And just one more, just to sign off on it, the the player in question had been cleared through the the AFL systems to to play.
So it's not as if there was a breach of the findings of the independent panel.
But So why do they need to do it then, Damon?
This is what we haven't got the answers to, Chief.
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