Brock McLean may wish to contemplate extra time within the media following his cheeky clip of outspoken former Port Adelaide midfielder Kane Cornes.
Cornes delivered to mild a brand new course by the game this week when he spoke concerning the AFL Record’s transfer to not publish participant weights for the primary time.
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The Power premiership participant has turn out to be a human headline since his retirement, typically making outlandish or controversial statements in his TV or radio gigs.
Cornes was at it once more this week, slamming the transfer which Record editor Ash Browne mentioned was made by the AFL itself after it determined “in this day and age it is inappropriate for weights to be a public matter, in a publication like the season guide”.
The 40-year-old’s response to that was sometimes blunt.
“The world has gone so soft that I can’t believe it,” Cornes mentioned on SEN radio.
“You’re a professional athlete. You’re not an influencer on social media.
“No longer in my role as a commentator can I go and say Jake Lever is playing on Charlie Curnow, Curnow has an 8kg advantage – he should take him deep to the goalsquare.
“I don’t know where this is going to lead to. Are they going to ban us from knowing Caleb Daniel is 168cm? He could easily be offended by being one of the shortest AFL players.
“What is going on?”
The choice has drawn a really combined response, with some slamming it as a humiliation or a joke, whereas others felt it was a non-issue.
McLean, 37, has spoken publicly about his consuming dysfunction and psychological well being points throughout his 157-game taking part in profession with Melbourne and the Blues.
He conceded he was struggling to get his head across the publishing change.
“It’s a bit of a head-scratcher for me,” McLean mentioned on 3AW in Melbourne.
“I can understand the reasoning behind it and putting eating disorders and mental health at the forefront of their decision-making.
“I can only talk about my experiences and certainly that was never a problem or an issue for me in terms of my body weight being out there for public record and everyone in the footy world knowing what I weighed.
“My issue was around how I developed this narrative in my head that if I somehow wasn’t at the weight the coaches wanted me to be, then I wouldn’t play.
“There’s more information probably needed to know why the AFL have made this decision, otherwise we’d just be speculating.”
McLean added nobody had ever spoken about it being a difficulty throughout his profession, stating that in itself was a part of the issue.
Pick 5 within the 2003 AFL Draft, McLean mentioned the strategy in direction of consuming problems in males nonetheless wanted to alter.
“I think that’s the biggest issue with eating disorders, particularly amongst males and professional sporting athletes, is just – and certainly the case in my experience – the shame attached to that.
“Somehow thinking that you’re weak or less of a man or it was somehow immasculating to have an eating disorder.
“Everything you read and heard and saw was that it only affected women. You never saw a male talk about his experiences with an eating disorder.
“It was never discussed in the group and I’m only assuming here it was the shame attached to things like eating disorder and mental health.
“I think that (needs to be) the starting point, people who have experienced those issues coming out and talking about them publicly so we can start to normalise it a bit and start to make the men out there suffering in silence realise they’re not the only ones going through it.”
For the file, this reporter lined AFL for a few years and whereas it was useful to have participant weights at occasions, for match-ups or to discover the event of a younger participant, for instance, total it was a hardly ever used statistic.
McLean felt it was a really minor difficulty and couldn’t resist a cheeky dig at Cornes on the similar time.
“If someone’s weight isn’t published in an AFL Record it’s not the end of the world and I’m sure no one’s going to stop buying Records just because player’s weights haven’t been published in it,” he mentioned with amusing.
“There’s nothing like a bit of over-reaction in the footy world.
“Until the AFL comes out with the data and the reasoning … we just don’t know and we’re just speculating.
“I did see Kane Cornes comment that he’s not going to be able to tell the difference between defenders and attacking players and their weight difference.
“If that’s the biggest issue that’s going to come out of this, then I think it’s pretty much a non-issue.”
Source: www.news.com.au
