\u201cWhen you come off-field, the interest in him is just unbelievable. He has a very different relationship with social media to … our age profile,\u201d Hocking said on Thursday in a wide-ranging SEN interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t understand it at all.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe works that exceptionally well. There will be a time, in my view, and this will involve all of us over the off-season, where we just need to have some reflection.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not about tiptoeing around someone like Bailey but more about tailoring it accordingly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re really, really early in the relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hocking also reiterated the club\u2019s crackdown on Mad Monday<\/a>, which will be changed<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are certain individuals who have dressed up inappropriately and we apologise … we\u2019ve been quite clear on that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Hocking said the AFL investigation into their third-party arrangements was \u201cintensive\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cAs far as vindication goes, I\u2019m certainly not sitting here and going \u2018you beauty\u2019 and punching the air,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been six months\u2019 work of work and if I said to either one of you, you\u2019re going to hand over your laptop and your phone … they were taken for four hours.<\/p>\n Cats chief executive Steve Hocking.Credit: AFL Photos<\/p>\n \u201cThere will be a range of people out there who think there\u2019s a cover-up, I\u2019ve had a relationship at the AFL, I\u2019ve worked there, Geelong may have been receiving some favours \u2013 it\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s actually one of the more trying things I\u2019ve been involved in.\u201d<\/p>\n Hocking said Geelong was now a destination club for top players because \u201cthe postcode really has helped us enormously … it is the place of choice\u201d.<\/p>\n He was asked about Kelleher, who joined the AFL late last year in a role where he liaises with clubs about financial matters, including audits.<\/p>\n \u201cReally importantly, no \u2013 [he was] kept very separate by the AFL,\u201d Hocking said.<\/p>\n He added Geelong realised they needed to put their player payments and football department soft-cap spending under the AFL\u2019s microscope.<\/p>\n Loading<\/p>\n \u201cOther clubs were starting to question, \u2018How do you get access to these players?\u2019 They don\u2019t understand how frugal we are when it comes to managing our list and TPP.<\/p>\n \u201cOff the back of that, we identified this and then what we did was, we said \u2018Hey, I think we need to hand ourselves over and open right up here\u2019. Wherever this goes, it goes.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you end up with too many barnacles on the boat, it\u2019s only going to go one way. We need to remove a few of those.\u201d<\/p>\n AAP<\/p>\n \u2018Safe place\u2019: Winmar opens up on racism class action against AFL<\/p>\n Jon Pierik<\/p>\n Football great Nicky Winmar says he wants to ensure the AFL is a safe place for Indigenous players after the Supreme Court ruled he can join Phil Krakouer as lead plaintiffs in a racism class action against the league.<\/p>\n St Kilda great Nicky Winmar will join Phil Krakouer as co-lead plaintiffs in a racism class action against the AFL.Credit: ABC<\/p>\n The Supreme Court of Victoria ruled on Thursday that Winmar, the former St Kilda and Western Bulldogs champion, can take on a more prominent role, joining Krakouer, the former North Melbourne star, in the landmark case against the AFL. The class action also includes Krakouer\u2019s brother, James Krakouer.<\/p>\n![\"Cats](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/c5f6dca226b301d72c7b9fd90d0a061ee850d9eb.jpeg\")
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