{"id":644552,"date":"2026-05-02T08:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644552\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:40:08","slug":"selfish-cough-up-brisbane-whiteboard-leak-exposes-brutal-essendon-player-notes-afl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644552\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Selfish\u2019, \u2018cough up\u2019: Brisbane whiteboard leak exposes brutal Essendon player notes | AFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

A furious Chris Fagan has slammed the \u201chero\u201d actions of a parent who leaked confidential Brisbane whiteboard notes on Essendon<\/a> players.<\/p>\n

Private information out of the club was posted online ahead of the Lions\u2019 64-point mauling of the Bombers<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Photos that listed the strengths and weaknesses of Essendon\u2019s players were shared in a Bomber supporter group on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Former Essendon captain Zach Merrett was described as \u201cselfish\u201d, while maligned defender Ben McKay had \u201clow confidence\u201d written about him.<\/p>\n

Kyle Langford was also labelled \u201cselfish\u201d, while captain Andrew McGrath\u2019s weakness was \u201ckicking cough up\u201d and midfielder Sam Durham was labelled a \u201chot head\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody illegally took photos of information that was on a whiteboard and then decided to make a hero of themselves and put it out in the public domain,\u201d Fagan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI reckon it\u2019s a little unfair when it\u2019s your workplace and it\u2019s what you do every day … we\u2019ve been doing it for nine years … writing the strengths and vulnerabilities of opposition players up on a whiteboard.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat man was there with his children, using our facility, and he decides to do that because he\u2019s an Essendon supporter and be a hero. I think that\u2019s really disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Lions defender Jaxon Prior\u2019s only strength was listed as \u201cBronte\u201d, the name of his long-term partner.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke to Jaxon out on the field after the game, as did a lot of our players, and had a bit of a laugh and a joke together,\u201d Fagan said.<\/p>\n

He admitted the incident made him think twice about allowing external people to access facilities at the club at their Brighton Homes Arena headquarters.<\/p>\n

The dual premiership coach<\/a> said he learned the exercise of listing the opposition\u2019s strengths and weaknesses from former Wallabies mentor Eddie Jones.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe go out of our way to bring the community into our football club and use our facilities,\u201d Fagan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor someone to do that, it\u2019s really disappointing, and it makes you feel like not bringing the community in and just keeping it exclusive as an elite performance centre.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019ll keep bringing the community in, because we\u2019re a good footy club, and that\u2019s how we go about things.\u201d<\/p>\n

The usually reserved Brisbane star defender Harris Andrews was also furious about the incident when speaking after Saturday\u2019s win.<\/p>\n

Essendon coach Brad Scott was unfazed by the incident, saying it was an issue for the Lions to deal with.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrisbane have done that [listing strengths and weaknesses] for years, so that\u2019s nothing new,\u201d Scott said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t want that coming out of our building.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A furious Chris Fagan has slammed the \u201chero\u201d actions of a parent who leaked confidential Brisbane whiteboard notes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-644552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644552","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=644552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}