Questions have been requested over Josh Dunkley’s exit from the Western Bulldogs regardless of the now-Brisbane midfielder saying he has “no problems at all with the club”.
Port Adelaide champion Kane Cornes questioned Dunkley’s declare after a clip from an interview with the Lions’ web site surfaced on social media.
“It’s been a great pre-season so far. The boys have come back really fit and are running really well,” Dunkley mentioned.
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“Which has been a bit of a change-up for me too because we didn’t really run a lot at the Dogs – as much as we do here.”
Cornes questioned whether or not a “lack of fitness” was behind the Bulldogs’ season-ending fade-outs within the final two finals campaigns – in opposition to Melbourne within the 2021 Grand Final, and in opposition to Fremantle within the 2022 elimination closing.
He additionally identified Dunkley said in that interview the Lions have “even better midfielders” than the Bulldogs.
Dunkley took to Twitter on Wednesday evening, replying to an offended Bulldogs fan and claiming he had been “taken way out of context”.
“I genuinely have no problems at all with the club,” Dunkley mentioned.
“However if that’s how you want to try and rev up round 3 (when the Lions play the Bulldogs), then go ahead. All I’m looking forward to, is playing against my old team mates.”
Cornes questioned whether or not Dunkley was hiding the reality.
“I don’t fully believe him when he says he has no issues with his former club. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have tried so desperately to leave twice,” he mentioned on SEN’s Sportsday.
“His old coach Luke Beveridge said Dunkley left only for money.
“I’m not sure that’s entirely accurate, either.”
Dunkley was traded to the Lions on the ultimate day of the commerce interval, together with a future third-round choose and future fourth-round choose, in trade for Pick 21, a future first rounder, a future second rounder and a future fourth rounder.
His supervisor Liam Pickering took a swipe on the Bulldogs after the deal was accomplished, telling Trade Radio: “I think it could have been done first thing this morning to be honest.
“Haggling over a pick that’s in the future, a fourth-round pick that is probably never going to get used anyway, but anyway that’s what we do.”
Dunkley had beforehand requested for a commerce to Essendon, with Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge believing cash was the rationale for the exit requests.
“He would’ve been offered a better deal, but we still offered him a lucrative contract… Probably the Essendon approach highlighted to him how much he could’ve possibly earned at another club, and that would’ve been part of it,” Beveridge instructed the Herald Sun late final yr.
“I think it’s a combination of maximising your opportunity, and leveraging good form, and we haven’t been able to satisfy him as far as his contractual demands go.”
Originally revealed as ‘If that’s what you need … go forward’: Josh Dunkley fires up over Bulldogs exit
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