Mark Bickley
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781 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Aug
Mark Bickley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Whether it's the man in the street on talk back radio, whether it's in conversations amongst footy people where you say, Well, the player wants to play, can't he just sign a waiver?
And generally, you know, in ninety-nine percent of the cases, people say exactly what Andrew Dylan just said.
Well, you can't sign away the rights.
You know, the AFL, um, they have to provide uh a level of safety towards their players, and it's an obligation that they have.
So that's generally where
It gets hit on the head.
And I'm just thinking about Stephen Hocking, who's a an experienced administrator.
You've got legal counsel at at footy clubs that will, you know, that that go through most contracts with a fine-tooth cone.
You've then got to get to board level where there's generally some sort of person with some legal expertise.
It's just I feel like there's got to be some more complexity to this because I just can't see to your point how it could get past so many.
eyes without someone saying, Well what's the point?
It's not going to stand up anyway.
We've got a an obligation to our players to to look after them.
Mm-hm
Gentlemen, do do we know who was the first instigator of this waiver?
Is this Geelong saying no we can't play you, we're not prepared to take the risk and the player says, Well, I'll sign a waiver?
Or is this Geelong saying to the player, Um, we can't take a risk on this unless you sign this waiver?
Mm absolutely, like once again, we um I and and it's not j this isn't not just at AL AFL level as well.
You can you can you know I played uh a couple of years in the country before playing sandful footy and you don't have a doctor, you literally have a bloke with a wet towel and a and the magic spray.
And I got knocked out playing in the country and they just pick you up and you know, I would have been sixteen or seventeen at the time.
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