How the situation of Captain Oscar Allen of the West Coast Eagles shows indignation rules; Hawthorn Hawks; Sam Mitchell; Garry Lyon; Simon Goodwin; Melbourne Demons; Eddie McGuire

All those who work in football know it, yet here we are.

Melbourne’s coach Simon Goodwin and his demons are not having fun, but served as the voice of reason on the Allen saga.

“It’s part of our sector. I don’t like it, but if you don’t do it, you’re not taking players to your football club,” said Goodwin. “Each club is in this process after any player – and nobody is off limits. Here is where it is. It started (with the approach of players in leadership groups and now we are moving in captains.

“At this moment, as an industry, in Clubland, nobody is seen as prohibited. The movement of the players will get more and more.”

Another premiership coach, Chris Scott by Geelong, said it: “I would say that anyone who played football before 2000 hates him, and anyone who started playing Footy after 2010 is probably in place.”

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The idea that everyone except the captains are authorized to meet the people of the rival club, a position that the former skipper Melbourne Garry Lyon has taken, is also such a romantic and imperfect perspective. Scott called him a “absurdity”. They have the more the right to explore their options and do it in a long period, rather than squeezing it at the last minute while the naive among us expect they do.

There has never been more money in the game and the riches of free agency are conceded, so the players would be crazy so as not to feel at least what is out there for them, just like the middle Joe would jump to more money, themselves.

Another reality: football is the work of these guys and have a limited time to collect.

At the same time, players like Allen take these decisions based on more than a simple money, which is why the meetings to listen to a coach or a tone of recruiter are actually important, just as he is having enough time to think later.

It is also convenient to highlight the beginning of the overwhelming of Allen, closed from an afternoon to four touch without bride on Sunday in a loss for the rivals of Fremantle.

We saw the players reach heights never seen first in a contractual year and vice versa.

There are all types of reasons for a good and bad shape, but it is certainly not easy to be a key to one of the worst teams of the competition.

The other part of this are Allen’s past knee lesions.

His suitors will complete the medical tests, while the West Coast knew his physical condition and the level of risk with any potential degeneration along the track.

Allen knows that the Brisbane Lions and Hawthorn have had the success of rehabilitating the players, so taking the biggest and longer contract could be in his interest. The meeting with Mitchell was also in his interest, which has every right to give priority.

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