Hugh McCluggage’s sentiments<\/a> from earlier in the week but said the practice would continue, albeit behind freshly-frosted glass.<\/p>\n“If that had been the case, we wouldn’t even be talking about this stuff,” he said, confirming the window upgrades.<\/p>\n
“So we’re a little bit unlucky there but we also talked about what’s OK to write on that board and what’s not, and certainly writing a partner’s name on the board isn’t.<\/p>\n
“I’ve probably done it 200 times and that’s probably the first time the player’s partner has ever been written on the board.<\/p>\n
“It wasn’t good enough on our behalf.”<\/p>\n
Fagan joked that he should get into the whiteboard business and laughed when asked to list some of the Blues’ strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n
“We’ll continue doing our whiteboard … I’m unapologetic about that,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We’re in a pretty tough business where you know every little thing matters.<\/p>\n
“Initially, when I first got here, I didn’t think our players knew enough about their opposition.”<\/p>\n
And he said the club would continue to welcome junior footballers, and their parents, into the club.<\/p>\n
He explained that poor weather had forced the planned outdoor clinic inside, leading to the lax in “security” that led to the leak.<\/p>\n
“We’re a pretty good footy club in that regard, in terms of looking after our community,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We did the right thing, unfortunately, somebody else didn’t do the right thing, and now we find ourselves talking about this ridiculously small issue all week.”<\/p>\n
Darcy Wilmot with fans after the R8 match between Brisbane and Essendon at Marvel Stadium on May 2, 2026. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
Brisbane welcomes a 1-7 Blues side under the microscope after repeated second-half lapses and an investigation into Hollands’ on-field mental health episode against Collingwood last month.<\/p>\n
Fagan was sympathetic to Voss, the former Lions captain and club great, and expected a response from Carlton.<\/p>\n
“Whenever we find ourselves in a place of adversity, we try to use that in a positive way,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I have real empathy for him … three weeks after we played in the Grand Final the next year, everyone was trying to sack me.<\/p>\n
“It’s a tough place, and it’s a lonely place.<\/p>\n
“I’ve sort of watched him over the last few weeks, how he’s gone about it and I reckon he’s done a fantastic job of that under really difficult circumstances.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frosted glass will be installed at Brisbane headquarters and their whiteboard strategy exercise will continue, albeit with some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99,603],"class_list":{"0":"post-6362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brisbane","8":"tag-brisbane","9":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}