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Nathan Buckley has a frosty interview with Gerard Whateley about Collingwood culture
COLLINGWOOD coach Nathan Buckley has engaged in a frosty interview with broadcaster Gerard Whateley in regards to his club’s culture.
Young defender Sam Murray is under investigation from, while in 2015, Josh Thomas and Lachie Keeffe were suspended for two years for testing positive to the banned substance clenbuterol.
Whateley asked whether the Pies had an issue with illicit drugs and if the club had made a “dedicated effort” on that front.
In a terse exchange on SEN Radio’s Whateley, Buckley said he wouldn’t answer those particular questions.
HERE’S HOW THE INTERVIEW PLAYED OUT
Whateley: You have dealt with drug issues, either fairly or unfairly, in the past, some documented, some by interpretation or extrapolation. Does Collingwood have an issue with illicit drugs?
Buckley: No, not that I know of
Whateley: Would you know if you did?
Buckley: Yes.
Whateley: Did it previously?
Buckley: I’m really disappointed that I need to answer these questions from you. And I suppose it goes back to my last answer. This is not something that is big on our agenda right now, because it’s isolated. So that’s where it stays and we move on with what we can control. As our football has done our talking this year, our record in retrospect will do the talking. So I’ll be happy to stand on that.
Whateley: Have you made a dedicated effort on this front previously? From I mean you have two live examples of players who had their careers interrupted and one sort of deviated. And then you lived through the front page issues and what impact that may or may not have had on your team — Eddie McGuire said it did — and then a few years later, you’re facing one of those issues again. Did you make a determined effort at the club to try to make sure that you wouldn’t have to face this …
Buckley (cuts off sentence): Did you feel the environment in this studio change about a minute ago?
Whateley: Yeah, but it’s my job to ask the questions and I’m happy to ask them.
Buckley: I’m not going to answer them right now, mate. I’m really happy with how the club is going. I think that we are in a great space and heading in a really positive direction. We are full of people who are fallible, who are human and who make mistakes. Some of those mistakes are more public than others but we embrace our humanity, we embrace our fallibility and we support our people to the hilt. I think that’s one of the strengths of our football club. if you want to call it culture, if you want to call it — whatever you want to call it — we’re not perfect and we won’t be, but the quest for us to be as good a football team as we possibly can and the quest for us to be the best football club that we possibly can is what we’re on.
And if we have our imperfections laid to bare and judged externally, well then that’s a fair thing for us because we’re in a public forum. But one thing I’m going to do as coach is support and encourage our people as much as we possibly can because if we’re not making blues, we’re not learning — and that’s probably been the beauty of our journey to date.
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