As the Magpie hurtled across the MCG to celebrate on Friday it was a reminder there is plenty left in his tank – and a sign of things to come
e has never finished higher than fourth in his club’s best and fairest, never been an All Australian and never won a premiership. He has been labelled “unrecruitable” and “the dumbest footballer of his generation”.
It all came to a head during the bye round last year. Rest and relaxation mean different things to different footballers. Scott Pendlebury and his wife went hiking on Hamilton Island. Brody Mihocek went to a winery. De Goey booked a flight to Bali, and all hell broke loose. Looking back, a lot of the commentary surrounding his holiday was embarrassing. One of the favourite phrases in the football media is: “it’s not a good look.” That seemed to be his major transgression in this instance. He had considerable history, and had probably forfeited the right to the benefit of the doubt. But it was hard to land on what he had actually done wrong, apart from acting like a bit of a prat.
Jordan De Goey played one of the best games of his career against the Giants in the preliminary final.It came on the heels of Bailey Smith’s pitch perfect apology after he was photographed with an illicit substance. It was the antithesis of the Wayne Carey “if anyone took offence” school of apologies. These days, you “own it”. Whether you’re racially vilifying someone, whacking a teammate, or have your head buried in a bag of cocaine, you own it.
But De Goey didn’t play the game. He never really has. He issued a statement positing himself as the voice of a generation of aggrieved and harassed athletes. It was “liked” by dozens of AFL footballers. But it was a stretch. When he finally emerged,barely broke the 60-second mark. It consisted of three, grudging 25-second answers. By then, the whole thing had degenerated into a slanging match between Neil Mitchell and Eddie McGuire. Reading the transcript sucked my will to live.
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