Collingwood prima Brodie Grundy has endorsed the club's determination to basal down Jordan De Goey, saying his teammate's alleged behaviour overseas is unacceptable.
De Goey is presently incapable to articulation Grundy and the remainder of his teammates successful their pre-season grooming owed to being stood down by Collingwood aft helium was charged with battle implicit an incidental successful New York successful October.
The 25-year-old is present backmost connected Australian ungraded and has been grooming with Leopold, a section squad successful the Geelong Football League, portion being coached by Cats large and ex-Magpies adjunct manager Garry Hocking. Despite being stood down, De Goey continues to beryllium paid successful afloat by Collingwood.
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Grundy, who is portion of a seven-man enactment radical astatine Collingwood, suggested De Goey's behaviour was hurting the caller civilization that the Magpies are trying to physique successful the aftermath of the Do Better Report.
"We person gone done a batch arsenic a shot nine implicit the past 18 months, 2 years. We are moving truly hard to marque this nine thing that we are arrogant of," Grundy said connected Monday.
"That alleged behaviour is thing that we can't basal for truthful until that plays retired - that is thing we cognize much astir - Jordan volition beryllium spending clip away.
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"Until things play out, I americium conscionable supporting what the nine is putting successful place. Jordan is entering his eighth play now, helium is simply a professional, I deliberation he'll beryllium a large capable lad grooming distant from the radical and that is going to play retired successful the adjacent 5 to six weeks."
Despite backing the club's stance, Grundy said he'd remained successful interaction with De Goey and expressed immoderate sympathy towards his troubled teammate.
"Actions are 1 broadside of it, determination is the quality broadside arsenic well. You bash empathise with him being overseas, by himself astatine that constituent (De Goey's person Luke Dyson was besides contiguous successful New York and charged), you bash deliberation it would beryllium scary, but, obviously, the alleged behaviour is thing we can't basal for astatine this shot club," Grundy said.
"But, having said that, Jordan is inactive a Collingwood subordinate and we enactment him. Like I said, we reached out, we person been successful changeless conservation with him, and [we're] hoping arsenic a idiosyncratic helium is doing the champion helium can."
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The 27-year-old said determination was nary crushed wherefore De Goey couldn't beryllium "upskilled" successful the team's gameplan nether caller elder manager Craig McRae.
"It's conscionable going beryllium connected him," Grundy said.
"It's going to beryllium a situation for him to beryllium capable to support up his conditioning and to travel in, but I americium sure, if and erstwhile that happens, helium volition beryllium hopeless to enactment his champion ft forward."
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