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CibbuanoKerr still part of our future: Eagles
May 28th 2008 00:51
WEST COAST midfielder Daniel Kerr will be a part of the club's future despite reports he wants out, according to chairman Mark Barnaba.
Kerr is contracted to West Coast until the end of next year, but a number of Melbourne clubs say they are reliably informed he wants out and that he has refused to sign a seven-point document, a pledge that several years of repeat poor off-field behaviour was now behind it.
Barnaba said the entire West Coast list had signed the strict-core value agreement.
"If you didn't sign, you didn't play," Barnaba said.
"I have to give credit to Daniel because he does get a lot of negative focus. He's made a very mature and concerted effort to live the core values of the club."
Rival club officials describe the rigid way of life at the Eagles as like being in a "concentration camp."
But Barnaba said the club still needed to employ strict processes following last year's player behaviour crisis which resulted in West Coast being put on notice by the AFL commission that they could lose premiership points or draft picks if their were anymore off-field
incidents.
"It's the price this club had to pay," Barnaba said.
Barnaba said that apart from a leadership group and a core values committee which was established in April last year - before the club was summonsed to the commission table - it would continue to be independently audited and reviewed on a monthly basis.
Kerr is contracted to West Coast until the end of next year, but a number of Melbourne clubs say they are reliably informed he wants out and that he has refused to sign a seven-point document, a pledge that several years of repeat poor off-field behaviour was now behind it.
Barnaba said the entire West Coast list had signed the strict-core value agreement.
"If you didn't sign, you didn't play," Barnaba said.
"I have to give credit to Daniel because he does get a lot of negative focus. He's made a very mature and concerted effort to live the core values of the club."
Rival club officials describe the rigid way of life at the Eagles as like being in a "concentration camp."
But Barnaba said the club still needed to employ strict processes following last year's player behaviour crisis which resulted in West Coast being put on notice by the AFL commission that they could lose premiership points or draft picks if their were anymore off-field
incidents.
"It's the price this club had to pay," Barnaba said.
Barnaba said that apart from a leadership group and a core values committee which was established in April last year - before the club was summonsed to the commission table - it would continue to be independently audited and reviewed on a monthly basis.
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