Personal issues could prompt an understandable desire to move home closer to family for Adelaide Crows prize recruit Fischer McAsey, reports Warren Tredrea.
Tredders has also revealed that McAsey was the target of “harsh” comments from his own Crows teammates during a recent trial against Port Adelaide.
Following a Melbourne report this week that Victorian clubs believe McAsey is gettable, Tredders told Rowey’s Sports Show:
“I’ve been sitting on some info and I’m not just going to run it because of the fact of ‘oh yeah…’ you’ve got to be able to firm it up… clearly whoever’s spoken over in Melbourne, they’ve had it firmed up from somewhere.
“There was an incident I’m hearing in the trial game that Port played – the first one at Alberton Oval – where there was some discussion from Crows players back towards Fischer that pricked the ears of some Port Adelaide payers. I think it was probably a bit harsh…
“The other guys he was drafted with have re-signed, so clearly the Crows have gone to him… the other thought – I know for a fact that he told some interstate clubs [before he was drafted] he doesn’t want to go interstate.
“Everything this report says to me – it adds up, but he’s also dealing with some personal issues around family that most people would say, I want to go home closer to family too…
“What has been reported is the clubs are bending over backwards and they know he’s gettable because he hasn’t re-signed with Adelaide… they’ve got to get pen on paper.
“We don’t know if he’s leaving. By all reports it looks to be headed that way but he may come out and sign up and stay, but the reports in Melbourne do have legs.”
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