Phil Davis

If it wasn't done, they must be so concerned about themselves.

And then if you move to the second one and you go, okay, if they did know, why did they do nothing?

Well, it's either A, they were so preoccupied with themselves once again that that did trump the need or desire to probably separate their own expected performance.

And I think if you boil that all up, there's obviously been a clear failure of oversight during the night, which is disappointing.

As I've given you a few hypotheses about why it all could have happened, but as you bring it to the top, you say, well, it wasn't good enough.

And they should be treated in the same way.

And then if we go a level above that, the third level, we go to the AFL, Gerard.

And I've said it before on the show, and I think if we ignore the fight for attention, you know, in this world of Netflix and YouTube and all this, there's a clear three priorities for me that we have to get right.

One, mental health.

two past players.

And the third one is sort of like joining the two and that's career transition.

I think they're three of the biggest problems facing the game.

And we've seen it across the last 12 to 18 months, the amount of challenges that are through our game.

You know, unfortunately we've seen suicide, there are divorces, there's financial distress, there's mental health issues, all these things that we're seeing across the plethora of players at the moment.

And if we come back to mental health, which to me is probably the number one, we go, well, what are the systems in place?

Yep, every club has two PDMs, one in charge of sort of like the indigenous part of the program, the other broadly.

And then we also generally have a psychologist.

If you look at what's on their remit,

two PDMs, play development managers, sorry, just doesn't get it done with what's required.

If you want to incorporate mental health and making sure players are attuned to that, it doesn't seem like it's cutting it.