Football administration is a world of double talk, paranoia, lying, cheating, scheming, insecurity, feuding, conspiracy, sneakiness and dishonesty. Perhaps one day, Fremantle will become adept at these dark arts, but for now we are rank amateurs. The club didn't have the heart to sack you at the first opportunity, and made an awful fist of it this past week. It's been ugly and unfair, but I reckon president Ross McLean was genuinely sorry when he publicly apologised this week. Don't judge your executors too severely.
Football clubs can make good people do bad things.
My mate says you're a nitwit who deserved to be sacked, but I reckon he's harsh. The argument's over now but whatever else happens, Drummie, you've been responsible for two of the best moments of my adult life. The first was back in 1999, when we beat the Eagles for the first time after nine straight Derby losses. I was sitting next to a journo who in 1995 bet Fremantle would not beat West Coast before the turn of the century. The second was last year, when we beat the Eagles again.