{"id":316454,"date":"2023-07-16T03:50:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T03:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=316454"},"modified":"2023-07-16T03:58:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T03:58:41","slug":"demons-whacked-over-demeaning-grundy-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=316454","title":{"rendered":"Demons whacked over 'demeaning' Grundy treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

M\ufeffelbourne<\/a> has been criticised for its "demeaning" explanation for the axing of star big man Brodie Grundy<\/a> just months after luring him to the club.<\/p>\n

Grundy was sold on being a star ruck tandem with Demons skipper Max Gawn<\/a> when he moved from Collingwood in the off-season, and enjoyed a strong first half of the year when he shouldered the full ruck duties with Gawn sidelined through injury.<\/p>\n

However, with the skipper now at full health, Grundy has been sent down to the VFL to "refine his forward craft"<\/a> to allow Gawn to assume primary ruck duties. <\/p>\n

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It's an explanation that left veteran AFL columnist Damian Barrett scratching his head.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffI find it demeaning what they're now subjecting Brodie Grundy to," he told Nine's Sunday Footy Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"MELBOURNE,<\/p>\n

"To use that quote of him going back to the VFL to 'refine his forward craft', he's been a ruckman for 10 years, he's not a forward and he's not going to become a forward in the space of two weeks of VFL play. <\/p>\n

"So why did they go down the path of recruiting him and then 17 rounds into this first year of a deal that goes into 2027 on a total of $900,000 a year, $250,000 of that being paid by Collingwood. <\/p>\n

"It just makes no sense and I just don't like the 'refine his forward craft' need with the decision to go and get him."<\/p>\n

While Melbourne suggested that Grundy is on board with the decision, Essendon great Matthew Lloyd questioned whether he'd be able to get back in the team.<\/p>\n

\"MELBOURNE,<\/p>\n

"\ufeffThey thought it could work," he told the Sunday Footy Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n

"I admire the courage now to drop such a big-time recruit. I say 'drop' because I don't think he's going to come back as a forward. <\/p>\n

"He's pretty much a back-up for Max Gawn if he gets injured. They thought it was going to be different at the start but it just has not worked."<\/p>\n

"\ufeffThe narrative around the way they're going to use him has changed from this time a month ago," Port great Kane Cornes added.<\/p>\n

"He's never been a forward, he will never be a forward, he's a No.1 ruckman and he's got four and a half years left on his deal."<\/p>\n

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