The AFL Gamers’ Affiliation say they’ll not be strictly certain by confidentiality if they’re accused within the media by previous gamers, their households or their consultant of not supporting a former participant or responding to their requests for assist.
As an alternative, in the event that they contemplate any accusation aired publicly to not be true, they’ve instructed their members in an e mail, they are going to be ready to appropriate the misinformation, relatively than adhering to their earlier coverage of not commenting or responding.
AFL chief Gillon McLachlan (left) and AFLPA chief Paul Marsh.Credit score:Getty Pictures
The gamers’ affiliation stated the change in coverage was required to make sure confidence is maintained within the assist system obtainable for previous gamers. The organisation has beforehand not confirmed, denied or gone into any element when requested if particular members had accessed their assist.
The missive reveals the gamers’ affiliation, which has been below fireplace in some quarters for its alleged lack of assist for people over the previous yr, has turn into more and more pissed off at public assaults on its packages designed to assist members. The frustration has been exacerbated by the affiliation’s coverage of not correcting the file publicly.
Within the e mail seen by The Age with the topic line “We’re altering the best way we deal with misinformation”, AFLPA CEO Paul Marsh wrote:
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“We have now seen a variety of situations the place false info has been offered to media about gamers who’ve had little, or no, assist from the AFLPA. These situations are sometimes deceptive and/or fully false. We have now additionally seen situations of different folks doing so on behalf of gamers.
“Any more, when members, their households or their representatives make incorrect allegations towards the AFLA that recommend we haven’t offered enough help to particular people within the public area, we’ll appropriate that misinformation.”
Nevertheless, the gamers’ affiliation made it clear that it meant to take care of the confidentiality vital to these searching for assist and wouldn’t point out specifics of the assist provided, even when correcting the file.
