Brisbane Lions deny rumours off-season US trip has caused player rift

Soccer boss Danny Daly denies there was a “disaster assembly” after the allegations had been aired on Friday and labelled reporting of the incident “poor, insensitive and factually incorrect”.

What’s subsequent? The Lions play North Melbourne at Adelaide’s Norwood Oval on Friday night.

Brisbane Lions co-captain Harris Andrews has insisted there aren’t any inside tensions on the membership, dismissing the influence of an low season journey on the membership’s poor AFL begin.

Final 12 months’s grand finalists are 0-3 forward of Friday’s Collect Spherical date with North Melbourne, and feeling the warmth after reviews the membership’s 2023 exertions led to a dressing-room rift.

Lions soccer boss Danny Daly on Monday fronted media to disclaim there had been a “disaster assembly” after the allegations had been aired on Friday.

He labelled reporting of the incident “poor, insensitive and factually incorrect”.

Daly stated he had known as co-captains Andrews and Lachie Neale to hunt assurances there was no division throughout the enjoying group, and insisted no private relationships had ended due to the journey.

“It has been an attention-grabbing [Easter] from the membership’s perspective,” he stated.

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“We reached out to our leaders and so they reassured us … there isn’t a story.

“I all the time belief our enjoying group, that is the place it completed. The journey has nothing to do with our on-field efficiency.

“This group has been by way of loads of highs collectively and loads of adversity collectively. We have now full confidence in them.”

Andrews, who was holidaying in Europe whereas a small group of teammates went away collectively in October and November, is assured the squad shouldn’t be divided.

“By no means any rigidity in any respect … there’s nothing to be harassed about,” he stated.

“There’s been an enormous blow-up [externally] over the past couple of days [but] as a bunch we’re united, all on this collectively. [We] cannot management what different folks say.

“I am not strolling round going, ‘Oh, there’s gamers bickering’.

“We have not had the beginning we wished and other people go exterior the field to consider the reason why we have began this manner.”

Neale didn’t practice on Monday after injuring his ankle within the Lions’ 20-point loss to Collingwood final Thursday.

However the membership stated scans had cleared him of any ligament injury and anticipate him to face the Kangaroos, offered he participates in Wednesday’s foremost session.

AAP