{"id":377450,"date":"2024-03-19T00:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=377450"},"modified":"2024-03-19T03:02:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T03:02:49","slug":"murky-story-emerges-after-key-womans-pies-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=377450","title":{"rendered":"Murky story emerges after key woman's Pies exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leading AFL<\/a> journalist Caroline Wilson believes there is more to the story after Collingwood<\/a> lost a female employee from a senior position at the club.<\/p>\n

It was revealed on Monday Clare Pettyfor will leave her role as general manager of football operations\ufeff at the Magpies this month.<\/p>\n

Pettyfor will return to the Demons where she previously worked as general manager of media and communications.<\/p>\n

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Pettyfor was hired by the Magpies at the end of 2022 to join football manager Graham Wright's team.<\/p>\n

After winning last year's AFL premiership, Wright announced he would take extended leave from March to September this year.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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"Collingwood are framing this as Clare has been poached by Melbourne, to go back in a senior media relations role, a senior executive role. I'm not sure that that is exactly what's happened here," Wilson said on Nine's Footy Classified<\/em>.<\/p>\n

"Clare Pettyfor went to work with Graham Wright, they proudly announced her joining the club. Less than 18 months later Clare's ambition to work in a footy department has ended.<\/p>\n

"I don't think it has ended as well as it could have, and in fact I don't think Clare's relationship with everyone in the footy department was as good and productive as it could have been.<\/p>\n

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"And I think there is a level of disappointment in the way that, maybe, Clare was not encouraged as well as she could have been.\ufeff"<\/p>\n

With Wright taking extended leave, Collingwood announced in December it would need to decide on who would fill his duties for six months.<\/p>\n

While Pettyfor was high up in his team already, Wilson says the Magpies opted for Brendon Bolton and Justin Leppitsch\ufeff to share Wright's role.<\/p>\n

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She believes that decision may have flared tensions within the club.<\/p>\n

"I don't know if everything is united as it could be within the football department," Wilson said.<\/p>\n

"Certainly the departure of Clare has seen a level of disappointment in some women staff at the club.<\/p>\n

"I'm not going to say there's a woman problem at Collingwood, I can't say that by any means.<\/p>\n

"But last year (club CEO) Craig Kelly we know had trouble with his AFLW players, and there was a bit of a tense moment where he had a crack at them.<\/p>\n

"I don't think everything has been hunky dory."<\/p>\n

C\ufeffollingwood was contacted by Wide World of Sports for comment but had not responded by time of publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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