James Gallagher

And generally, the relationship between the players and the media, the players and the game has been fantastic.

We've got an issue here that we need to work through and resolve.

I've got no doubt there is a solution that we can all work towards, but there's got to be an appetite to do it.

We talk regularly, whether that's today.

I think I'm seeing him tomorrow.

So yeah, but yeah, and we'll certainly have conversation about it.

And I think these are not necessarily thoughts that haven't come up in our discussions previously.

I think we've just seen them play out in the last 24 hours or so.

I'm trying desperately to continually take the legal hat off.

Oh, look, they'll consider it.

It's hard without having seen the reasons and our team and,

Our legal team, I spoke to both Zach and Matthew Richardson last night and I made it really clear that they're going to have great legal support.

But if there's anything our team can do to help them, we will.

And I expect our guys will have a look at the reasons today and form some thoughts.

And if they've got some ideas about a way to run appeal, we'll certainly play that role.

I think we're a really professional game and we need to make sure that every element of that reflects it.

Yeah, I think ideally we'd have the reasons pretty shortly after.

I expect, I actually don't know this, but I know from my previous time at North Melbourne, quite often the AFL will be relatively flexible in the consideration of those decisions and the timelines for appeal.

I'd like to think that given there's a delay on the reasons that that would play out here.

Yeah, ideally we get the reasons quickly, but as long as it doesn't have a negative impact on the rights of the player, I think we can work with that.