Tom Harley

I think it began long before Matthew Pavlich became CEO and Dean Cox became coach.

And I think that the fact that Tom Harley, who's now at the AFL and was CEO and before that footy boss, and John Longmire, who I just mentioned, many years their coach, I think the fact... that they have been, I'm told, personally shattered by this and looking at themselves as they should be.

And everyone who's been at that club should be.

So that was from the Don't Shoot the Messenger podcast with Caroline Wilson and also Corey Perkins.

I think it began long before Matthew Pavlich became CEO and Dean Cox became coach.

And I think that the fact that Tom Harley, who's now at the AFL and was CEO and before that footy boss, and John Longmire, who I just mentioned, many years their coach, I think the fact... that they have been, I'm told, personally shattered by this and looking at themselves as they should be and everyone who's been at that club should be.

So pretty strong there, isn't it? A couple of things I took out of that has been a hidden secret for some time at Sydney.

And Heaney's been living a dual reality, pretending to be one thing, but essentially being another was pretty strong.

And the fact that John Longmire and Tom Harley, those that ran the footy club for a long period of time, personally shattered by this and a wake-up call for the footy club.

Hard to...

Look, I don't have the specific details like Caro clearly does on the Hidden Secret and the Heaney situation, but hard to argue with any...

That's the important part.

He's the Tom Harley of the club.

Might not be the best, but he's the best leader.

Love it.

We've also got an eye on how we have competitive balance and how we base those rules in the system and ultimately have to try and balance all of those different priorities to try and accomplish as many of the wish lists as we'd like to see delivered from our broadcast partners, from our fans, from clubs, ultimately with an overarching approach of trying to maximise the number of fans that get to watch and go to games.

Tom Harley made an interesting point yesterday in the press conference talking about how he really wanted to listen to the fans.

And I've got to say, looking at the fixture, it does feel that has happened.

How do you listen to the fans?

You might not have taken a lot of the fixture in, but Grant Thomas, that's a sort of tweet.

You're up with Tom Harley.

Tom

O's tweet.

Nice of Tom Harley to look after both the cats and the swans in the fixture.

You know, with the fixture, you see what you want to see, I reckon.

Yeah, I reckon too.