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CEO of the Western Bulldogs Ameet Bains has said candidly that there is conflict within the team following rumors that head coach Luke Beveridge and head of football Chris Grant are at odds. With the AFL coach avoiding interviews with the media while the team reviewed the 2023 campaign, Beveridge has come under fire ahead of the opening round.
There have been rumors of conflict between Beveridge and Grant, however with the appointment of Matthew Egan as coaching performance manager and a recent investigation into the football department at the club, Grant’s workload has somewhat decreased. Several important players are also unsigned at the end of the 2024 campaign, which will heighten the tension surrounding the team.
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Many AFL supporters believed the Bulldogs underperformed in 2023 when the team missed the playoffs. Furthermore, it was allegedly Beveridge who was overridden when longstanding assistant Rohan Smith was fired. Following the incident, CEO Bains made an effort to diffuse any tension that could have existed around the team and declared that they had began 2024 on a positive note.
Bains acknowledged, however, that conflict had existed in the previous department prior to the underperforming club’s assessment. When questioned about rumors of tension, Bains stated on SEN Radio, “There has been in many quarters, I think just generally within the previous department going back to the… uncertainty.”
“I believe that’s really overdone, as I was on record a few weeks ago refuting some of the allegations about their being a blow-up and a breakdown and things like that.” Although Bains was honest about previous tension, he took action to put an end to the rumors and stated that the club’s atmosphere had completely changed before the new season.
“I had the privilege of being on our training camp in Mooloolaba for eight or nine days and I saw a really different program with just the excitement, the energy, the enthusiasm and the process that we’ve gone through – albeit it has been quite protracted and has involved two stages – has actually allowed for a lot of the people who have been at our club to almost have a cathartic experience talking about it and getting it off their chest with a view to then seeing what changes come from that,” Bains said.
