Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nHowever, the report states that a \u201cwhistleblower who was on the call claimed confidentiality obligations were breached regarding Steve May and his partner Sachi Dade\u2019s personal situation, along with the sharing of inappropriate and inaccurate legal information.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s understood there were no psychologists or welfare officers on the 20-minute call.<\/p>\n
It was in reference to a welfare check conducted on a private residence on January 29. No charges were laid and the matter is now resolved, Victoria Police confirmed.<\/p>\n
Steven May retired last month (Photo by Josh Chadwick\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
The AFL Players Association was made aware of the matter and considered it serious enough to refer it to the AFL, the report stated.<\/p>\n
May retired last month after the club\u2019s decision to cut ties with the premiership defender.<\/p>\n
Melbourne confirmed the phone hook up took place and issued an apology in a statement. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe meeting sought to provide reassurance of the club\u2019s commitment to supporting the families as well as the playing group,\u201d the club statement read.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhilst it was not our intent, we acknowledge the meeting has caused distress and for that the club is sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s alleged that while the meeting appeared to be well intentioned by the club, some described it as \u201cdeeply inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n
‘We were smashed in the contest!’ | 09:55<\/p>\n
According to SEN, Richardson said during the call: \u201cCan we all just make sure we keep this information to ourselves?\u201d Richardson said in the meeting at one point.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reason that this is a little bit unusual \u2013 I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever done this before \u2013 we\u2019ve had issues with Clayton (Oliver) and the like. Is that this is involving a partner.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guerra allegedly said: This (the May situation) will not be swept under the carpet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to understand that our objective is that we have people living to the standards we want that work and operate inside the Melbourne Football Club \u2026 that\u2019s everybody. If they can\u2019t, then we will have conversations with them about what that may look like for them going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
King allegedly added: \u201cI want our football club to be a welcoming place where everyone can come. Character is obviously a massive part of my values and what I look for in footballers and people as well\u2026 It\u2019s really important we address with you tonight the \u2018Maysie\u2019 stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne has moved to apologise for any \u201cdistress\u201d caused from a pre-season meeting where senior club figures allegedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[9126,638,279174,54514,64,63,689,55,639,3239,85022,152333,285933,43053,10124,2105,33330,10400,16712,647,7804,677,31723,285937,285935,285938,17286,269069,285936,285934,285939,87576,85,148066,79260,8018,660,171971],"class_list":{"0":"post-583939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-adelaide-crows","9":"tag-afl","10":"tag-afl-players-association","11":"tag-alan-richardson","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","15":"tag-australian-football-league","16":"tag-australianfootballleague","17":"tag-carlton-blues","18":"tag-club-bosses","19":"tag-club-statement-read","20":"tag-confidentiality-obligations","21":"tag-football-program","22":"tag-fremantle-dockers","23":"tag-getty-images-inc","24":"tag-josh-chadwick","25":"tag-justin-longmuir","26":"tag-matthew-nicks","27":"tag-melbourne","28":"tag-melbourne-demons","29":"tag-oceania","30":"tag-paul-guerra","31":"tag-personal-info","32":"tag-phone-hook","33":"tag-pre-season-meeting","34":"tag-premiership-defender","35":"tag-report-states","36":"tag-sachi-dade","37":"tag-senior-club-figures","38":"tag-sensitive-information","39":"tag-sides-victory","40":"tag-sports","41":"tag-steve-may","42":"tag-steven-king","43":"tag-steven-may","44":"tag-victoria","45":"tag-welfare-check"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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