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\u201cI don\u2019t have a problem with the media speculating, but they are speculating with less information than I have \u2014 and I have less information than other people at the club have, who probably have less information than the AFL have,\u201d Scott told journalists at Kardinia Park when questioned on Stengle.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s reasonable to say in this situation, more so than say (Gryan Miers\u2019) situation, you\u2019re just asking the wrong person. One, if I had good information, I probably wouldn\u2019t tell you anyway because I\u2019d consider it to be private. But, this is one where I genuinely don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Cats are continuing to manage him through an \u2018individualised program\u2019, as per their weekly injury report.<\/p>\n
Whateley, host of AFL 360, shed light on the updated IDP which will leave coaches in the dark with certain off-field issues their players may be dealing with.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we just saw there (from Scott), and I think not accidentally, was the illustration of the absurdity of the AFL\u2019s Illicit Drug Policy as it relates to senior coaches,\u201d Whateley said.<\/p>\n
Scott won’t give Stengle return date | 03:45<\/p>\n
\u201cThat policy was unveiled last month, and it includes a clause that there\u2019s a $250,000 fine should a senior coach be brought into the loop on the specific information on the breach of the Illicit Drugs (Policy). The changes were the president, the footy manager and CEO can know \u2014 and we know that the club doctor and psychologist are the point figures.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, if the senior coach is brought into that loop, it comes with a quarter of a million dollar fine. I\u2019m told there was guffawing in the briefing when that was unveiled. I think Ken Hinkley described it best as being \u2018typical\u2019, the AFL\u2019s attitude towards senior coaches.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said it was \u2018crazy\u2019 that players come to their senior coaches for everything, and there\u2019s nothing a coach wouldn\u2019t do to help his player. But, when it comes to potentially the biggest crisis in a player\u2019s life, the coach is specifically excluded.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat would\u2019ve been interesting today, is if Chris Scott had sat there and illustrated that he did know precisely what was going on with Tyson Stengle, would that have left Geelong open to a quarter of a million dollar fine?\u201d<\/p>\n
Stengle has played 93 games at Geelong in four full seasons at the club, after brief stints at both Richmond and Adelaide in the early days of his career.<\/p>\n
In the club\u2019s most recent premiership year of 2022, he kicked 53 goals and earned his maiden All-Australian jacket.<\/p>\n
Scott fires back at Miers speculation | 02:38<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are unbelievably proud of what Tyson Stengle has been able to do at that football club,\u201d Melbourne great Garry Lyon said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey think that where he\u2019s come from, his history, background, what he\u2019s achieved \u2014 they think he\u2019s remarkable, and it\u2019s something they\u2019re unbelievably proud of. It\u2019s something they want to celebrate every time he gets to the line.<\/p>\n
Whateley ended by saying: \u201cIt\u2019s a long way back. It\u2019s not impossible to get back, but it\u2019s a long way back once it gets to this position.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox Footy\u2019s Gerard Whateley believes that head coaches are bound by an \u201cabsurd\u201d clause within the league\u2019s recently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,12923,1119,10145,13659,61,54980,301986,86692,7484,3512,301987,668,30907,85,82592],"class_list":{"0":"post-623430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-chris-scott","14":"tag-football-club","15":"tag-garry-lyon","16":"tag-geelong-cats","17":"tag-gerard-whateley","18":"tag-head-coaches","19":"tag-illicit-drug-policy","20":"tag-injury-report","21":"tag-ken-hinkley","22":"tag-knee-injury","23":"tag-point-figures","24":"tag-press-conference","25":"tag-senior-coaches","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-tyson-stengle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623430","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=623430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}