If White knew all this particularly the Sobey incident why would he go play for him the very next season?!

There's absolutely nothing wrong with what Kev did. Toxic culture like this needs to be exposed. In this day and age you cant tell people you hope some of your players hang themselves. Joey is a certified wanker and we've known that all along. The amount of people who still defend him on here is ridiculous.

Not defending Joey but pretty ridiculous White claiming to be about culture then goes and signs with this toxic club and coach the very next season

Anon maybe he was filled in upon arrival! I'm really impressed with white for exposing this stuff. Rumours have been going on for years that wright is an old school bully type, quite frankly that group txt is as disgusting as it gets from a manager type. It’s the sales pitch he wants the public to see, but this reality is all to real.

Yeah you got a coach talking about hanging players. Good on ya Kev. Let's hope everyone reads this and potentail clubs NEVER hire Wright again. Piece of dog shit.

Looks like that other thread about Joey might've been true

Which player did Joey assault last year? Assuming this is why sobey left

That'll end Joeys Teaxs gig lol

Clean out the coaching staff from top to bottom. They all profess their love of Joey, then YOU are just as culpable as him.
True colours coming out now......
Never seen anything like this before.
The club is a basketcase right now.

Thats a bit more than dirty laundry. You can't defend this shit, that is some odd shit to say. How could White possibly have known what the culture etc was like until he was apart of it!?

Good for him, actually being a leader and defending his TEAM MATES! It may cost him his contract, and considering he's defending guys who aren't even returning, that's an amazing feat in my books.

Joey can got collect more bottles after reading this.

"Rich of Kevin White to air this laundry when he's extremely fortunate to have an NBL gig at all."

How are those two things related?

The club wanted Joey gone for a reason. Its not so much as what is going on with Adelaide, they're trying to build a culture, its what is going on with Joey Wright!? Who says stuff like that in a position of power?

Wonder if they'll try and use this to avoid paying him out? Surely this would be against his contract as how a coach should conduct his own behaviour? This type of thing would've been detrimental to the team chemistry? Never easy to do any job when you know/suspect the boss doesn't like you, let alone not like the majority of the team!

So which member of that group chat leaked this to the players?

I can't see KB, Darren or Janx leaking it for different reasons.

All this tells me is that Joey had someone who he couldn't trust working against him.

If the club knew Sobey was hit then whomever knew about it needs to go as well. Silence is agreeance it's ok.
Hit someone at work and see what happens.

Not sure what the Sixers can do they've already parted ways with him

Is Joey really that good as a coach anyway. Only won one title with Brisbane with a ridiculously stacked team

Joey hasn't done anything wrong in my opinion. No doubt the line about hoping players hang themselves will get blown out of proportion by social
Justice warriors.

Players are a bit soft these days...

If players don't listen to the coach, they should be shown the door. White should have spoke up at the time and not back stab him now. I don’t know if Wright wacked Sobey or not but what I can see is that Sobey was crap before he got there and his hero ball in Brisbane this season cost them games.

Wright has done the correct thing and moved on, all assistant coaches, fitness staff and most of the team should also go, starting with White.

Which coach will want to go there to coach. Better get Goregeon, he won’t cop the crap.

White wasn't going to say it, UNTIL, Joeys little interview yesterday were he politely backstabbed the entire roster.

"So which member of that group chat leaked this to the players?"

Kevin was part of the group chat.

That wasn't White, that was KB that was part of the group chat.

hopefully the club had some idea what they were doing and have not paid him out a cent.

let him try and chase them for the money. not sure he would have wanted to go down that path given this.

its disgusting.

he might want to re think staying in adelaide this year as he suggeted he would do.

not fan of kev white on court by any means but this took some balls.well done.

now which coach leaked it to him? it was the message that gave the balance stories some credibility.

Eagle, be a man and use your real name!

Piece of shit Eagle. 36ers deserve to be in the comp just as much as your pathetic over spending Wildcats

Be a man and use your real name.
Lol I wonder how many posters use theirs.

Wow good luck attracting decent free agents Adelaide.

Kevin White would not have been part of that group chat. That would have been assistant coaches, fitness guy and maybe team manager. Now one of them has seen fit to leak it. and seeing Joey's name is now trending on twitter, it's fair to say it's gone global.
So somebody in that group has tried to distance themselves from Joey Wright. I'm sorry but all are guilty by association. That's what happens when regimes change. Everybody goes, you can't run with the fox and hunt with the hounds. Only a total cleanout now is appropriate.

Are people really defending Joey Wright here?

No nbl club will waste time on Wright now.
Twerp.

Was being sarcastic towards Eagle for previous requests and whinging from them about anon not using real names.

Joey Wright vaunt be defended on this. Its out there, its real, players body language now makes more sense to me from this past season.

Coaches that want to sign Kevin White now = 0

That may be true, hence why it was so incredibly big of him to do the right thing!

Low dog who ever leaked the group chat. There was obviously issues there players werent happy and Joey wasn't happy. Pretty sure I heard a coach tell a ref for another ref for someone to pull their head outta their arse recently. It is a high emotion sport. Things happen things are said. But you have to have trust in the people around you and whoever leaked that group chat isn't someone to be trusted. It just throws more shit on the club all the players and some players in particular the management the nbl and achieved nothing more that trying to kick joey in the backside on the way out. Same goes for Kevin White who is he anyway

Who owns the mobile number in the screenshot

As a former professional athlete this type of conversation between coaching staff is certainly nothing unusual at all and would happen on a daily basis especially if a team/players were under-performing. I've heard a hell of a lot worse from coaching staff you would all know and respect.
How this private internal discussion between the coaching staff became public is really disturbing and could easily go legal.
Particulary when White was not at the Club when the Sobey incident occurred so his version is hearsay.

Not much worse that can be said than hoping players kill themselves. Sorry, but focussing on the leak and not the words used is part of the problem.

Not saying Kevin White is a great player but people shouldn't be bagging him.
Wright has issues it seems.

A lot worse is said in many of these threads and no doubt in some of your text messages to friends.
Put your big pants on if you want to comment on an internal conversation between coaches and note he said it was too harsh with a smiley face.
Fair chance your family members talk about cousins flippantly, and never in front of the cousins etc

'Missing the point' The point is Joey was calling them out all year! Go to the video tape please, I loved hearing Joey speak to the media because there was no B/S, if Griffin was playing bad he would say so, same with Harry. Saying what he said as he left was simply saying what he was saying all year.

Love the no names on here bagging White out. Classless. White is a hard nosed player and has a gig. You shit heads sit behind you keyboards and don't have once ounce of psorting talent and probably centrelink recipients. These Boards are detriorating rapidly.

"A lot worse is said in many of these threads and no doubt in some of your text messages to friends."

I've never told anyone, friend or random internet person, to kill themselves.

so what you're saying its ok to say that to your friends and family but you can't to fellow coaches in a private discussion?
the hypocrisy is dripping from your keyboard

Kev White is a man of integrity and this is a courageous effort to stand up for what he feels is right and for his team mates. I've always felt that Joey was a thug and a bully and this confirms that.

Geee tough one ... not something you should commit to writing in a text message and certainly not something that should be said. But White could be in abit of shit here for sharing that information publicly.

My understanding is if he was in the group chat and shared it he would be fine, but because the message was not addressed to him and he has shared it he might be in for abit of legal trouble.

If Joey was asked a question he would tell it like it is, how are you people let alone White exactly upset Joey told it they way he has been telling it all year?

Joey on SEN interview has named who he believes leaked the chat.

"Joey on SEN interview has named who he believes leaked the chat."

Who?

Joeys answer as he left showed integrity as he was saying the same thing all year both publicly and to his players.
White obviously knew of the incident with Sobey but still signed with the Sixers, as Captain he decides to expose internal communications, as Captain he could've done a lot more to work through this when it was happening, his comments as the Coach has left possibly crippling his future as a coach are disturbing, to me this shows zero integrity from White.
Perhaps White and players can show their internal messages about Joey, sound fair?

Listen to it. I don't want to name the person. Want this thread to stay open and not be locked due to legal issues.

Doesn't matter who leaked it. If you're a new coach coming in, would you trust any of the assistants now?
Did any of the assistants at the time say 'hold on Joey, that's a bit out of line'. I'd suggest not.
All are happy to put on their resume '36er NBL assistant coach', but go silent when their boss gets caught out.
Silence is agreeance. But maybe the coach hired them because they would say nothing. Hmmmm......

"so what you're saying its ok to say that to your friends and family but you can't to fellow coaches in a private discussion?
the hypocrisy is dripping from your keyboard"

No, actually not what I said at all. What I was saying is that people write all kinds of shit in group chats with their friends, but it's not the same as writing that in a group chat with colleagues.

(Kevin's clearly not the sharpest tool in the shed. Does he honestly think this makes look Joey look bad and not him?)

Lol look Joey look
How sharp are you?

Haha what a clusterfuck!

Interesting that DD which I assume is Daniel Dillon is mentioned. Joey only bagged 4 players publicly previously. Griffin, Randle, Moore and Froling. The plot thickens.....
I might just add here, that with maybe the exception of Randle, Wright recruited these players. HE chose them. HE is responsible.
Take ownership of this clusterf*ck, and maybe salvage a shred of dignity.

There is more to the screenshot chat than shows in the pic above. Where it clearly shows wright was joking about that comment but none the less pretty pissed off with those 4 players. Hope white has some good lawyers as he has gone out of his was to the affect the future earnings of the ex coach. Ie made comments deliberately to damage the future of coach.

Haha thanks for that input Joey. You have to be smarter than to write such disgusting things amongst work colleagues. Shows how arrogant and untouchable one must've felt.

noted no comments from Corey Williams, Shane Heal or the other social media warriors associated with the NBL ... all gone very quite on this topic !

Does this happen at other NBL clubs?
After 2 weeks break I started to forget about the NBL, this is big advertising for the finals.
He almost released this info on a hoops.com thread 2 weeks ago but it was taken down, it's not the best thing for the NBL but it still needs a platform to be exposed, no one should suffer work place bullying and if he didn’t say anything it would have continued at the next team. I hope Joey can get the help he needs and can get on with his life, and I feel bad for Adelaide, they were a top 4 team this year at least Adelaide can build for a bright future now.

Joey Wright has named Sixers' assistant coach Darren Golley as the source of the leak, saying on SEN radio that he was "a disgruntled coach".

Source:

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2020/02/28/ex-adelaide-36ers-coach-responds-to-explosive-allegations-by-co-captain/

You mean the assistant coach that Joey Wright hired himself??

"he has shared it he might be in for abit of legal trouble."

What legal trouble could he be in??

Not buying it was Darren Golley. He's not in that chat group. Easy target to throw him under the bus. Maybe look at who WAS in that group.......

Some fans must only see Joey through rose coloured glasses.

Will be interesting to see how Boti and Fitz spin this shitshow.

'No, actually not what I said at all. What I was saying is that people write all kinds of shit in group chats with their friends, but it's not the same as writing that in a group chat with colleagues.'

So you would be OK with exposing White's private text messages about Joey to his fellow team mates (sorry colleagues). I suggest they would be same/worse as what Joey said -which he quickly followed up with it was maybe too harsh:)

To the Teammates (sorry colleagues) who have defamatory group messages about Joey from Captain White (or anyone in the team) perhaps its time to share.....and don't worry about any blow-back because people on this forum are calling this 'Integrity'

Brendan Teys.....would you care to comment being the other co-captain?

/ go away joey dont you have another radio interview to do

Whenever I've seen Wright be interviews he's always seemed like a bit of a dickhead... Not surprised about any of this.

He's lasted way longer in the NBL than his record should have allowed so good riddance.

Slick, this complaining senior player signed with the Sixers knowing all about the Sobey incident, became the Club Captain and didnt try and fix it during the season but said 'there have been issues' nice one Captain Sherlock but you actually did nothing....sorry let me rephrase, after the season is over, the coach is gone you call foul ...puh-lease!

You then say 'The person who leaked the group chat did a good thing alerting players of what their coach is saying about them behind their back'
Actually no, what Joey thought about his players they knew, you knew, we all knew as he call players out often in public.

That Dwayne's World SEN interview was hardly impartial. Dwayne prefaces the whole interview by saying he doesn't see what sort of a 'win' Kevin White is getting out of speaking up, throws Joey a few absolute soft balls then finishes by wishing him all the best, hoping this is just a small 'blip' on his way to becoming a great coach elsewhere.

What does "MOTO" stand for?

You cant publish private conversations without consent.... that's the type of trouble you are in !

"You cant publish private conversations without consent.... that's the type of trouble you are in !"

hahahahahahhahahahahaha

Eric Griffen has joined the group chat haha

Slick, he said it has a joke hence the - smiley face straight after.
He said it in a closed/private conversation.
Joey never said go hang themselves in public.
The hypocrisy about you Slick and White is you made this public? get it? Slick are you there?

Show me the owner/White's private text messages about Joey, providing these will allow you to dismount from your holier than thou horsey.

Slick may I see your teacher or your boss's private conversations to management about you that are disturbing, would you be OK with this?
Slick?
are you there Slick?

Now White is just airing every bit of dirty laundry he can think of. Thats not leadership.

It was a private conversation, story ends here Pip.

Remember your migraines against New York in 1990 Conference Finals and what Jordan said to you in private?

Why has it taken so long for this to come out, especially that screenshot. Surely people that saw that are just as bad standing back doing nothing until it's all over. If management or ownership had seen that conversation then something serious needs to be done. Bad things happen if apparently good people stand by and watch it happen.

What's important is that everyone had fun and we all tried our best

Ben Fitzsimmons putting his 2 cents in. Wonder who he's talking about now?

"People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Someone about to learn that lesson in a big way."

140+ replies for a Kevin White thread.
Not bad.

White plays like sniper, dirty laundry should be kept out of public, you speak up at the time or shut up.

Jacob Wiley
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One of the best coaches I've ever played for! Very unfortunate it had to end in this fashion
@Adelaide36ers
but the club has great pieces in place and
@wrightcoach12
will be successful wherever he goes!

Jacob Wiley
@Jwiley_24
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Joey has drastically changed the lives of many playerers and coaches throughout his career in The NBLfor the better. He absolutely changed my life for the better and made me a better person, not just a player. Had my back when my wife got sick and when my daughter was born.

Jacob Wiley
@Jwiley_24
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All this "whistle blowing" in Adelaide AFTER Joey has left the team. Screenshots of texts?? Cmon man. This is ridiculous. I have great respect for every single player on that team but this approach isn't it. He’s gone, he left! Would love to hear other players opinions..

Alvin Snow Jr
@Alvin_SnowJr
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He took chances on guys. He supported guys. He has been a huge help to dozens. Thank you coach
@wrightcoach12
for your contribution to the lives and careers of so many!

Jacob Wiley
@Jwiley_24
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Replying to
@Alvin_SnowJr
and
@wrightcoach12
Alvin, do you remember summer league when Joey TOLD us he would make me a batter pro AFTER. I had a terrible rookie season
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Alvin Snow Jr
@Alvin_SnowJr
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How could I forget? He said "give him to me". We did and you've been an
@EuroLeague
guy ever since. He had a HUGE hand in your growth and development. I am forever grateful!

How is it so difficult for Joey or anybody else to make sense of the timing of Kevin's tweets?

Joey had left, but couldn't keep his mouth shut. Blatantly and physically calling out players (and then later having the gall to rationalize it as "his fault") was f****** moronic.

I don't doubt other players are at fault in all of this too, but Joey really messed up. I'm glad Kevin shared his side of the story - Joey certainly didn't shay away from sharing his...

D2.0 - more like Sherlock2.0!

Cheers Dazz.

^Mel Brooks ^ could be Kevin Brooks nickname?

Jacob Wiley
@Jwiley_24
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Made so many guys into actual players, maybe his methods were different, but it all came from a good place

Joey Wright, still playing the victim card.

Ramone Moore on Facebook...
"First off let me start off by saying it's crazy that me and 3 others was blamed for the lack of season we had this year. My relationship with Joey has always been good and he’s done a lot for me but up until this past season things between he and I changed for whatever reason I DONT KNOW, all awhile his comments about me and the 3 others was troubling. I’m only saying something to protect myself and the 3 others and to also challenge anyone to ask anybody who knows me or played with me if I’m a bad person bad teammate or whatever the case may be as said in some of the articles and videos that was published. Granted in team sports you win as a team and lose as a team I didn’t know 4 individuals was the reason for our lack of success but for somebody to say “I got ya back bruh" and go out and throw dirt on my name is crazy. I'm not here to speak on anything but the comments that was made about me. Truth be told I was never injured this season at any time (not the club fault), I was going through a personal issue and I asked for help and it seemed as if after that my minutes went down and my need for the team wasn’t there anymore but you guys would have never known because I was always professional smiled did everything asked of me all while dealing with being told we are going to sit you the rest of the year after being angry and confused of my role which affected my play as we all could see. I was not myself after a certain part of the season. All I wanted was help, not to be benched and played less in an attempt to “help me” with my situation. It’s really wild to me that after all the good things we have done together that it had to go down like this smh. Oh and this has nothing to do with a plan, accolades, tearing anybody down or whatever. I’m speaking the truth! This ain’t even me man but I had to say something after all the videos I watched and articles I read continuously being blamed when I wasn’t even out there for the end of the season. You can’t go in the media and bite our back out then want pity come on man! Nobody would have never said anything public if you didn’t set up a whole media tour to fuck over 4 dudes to make us look bad after you and the club decided to split ways. That’s “weak” minded shit!”

What a joke of a man... thats his legacy done and dusted. hahaha

pippen is a goose. it is hilarious when people start referring to sporting teams as a work place. omg imagine if I did that in my workplace etc etc.

coaches are going to say stuff from time to time to try and fire up players, to try and make them work together even if it means playing harder by hating the coach. there are professional basketball players, clearly some of them were a little less professional than others.

Afl coaches have and done a lot worse, some of the stories from a former saints coach that were going around a few years back make this look like child's play. There are others, it’s a ruthless business sport and you get paid on results. Get out to some 1/4 and 3/4 time huddles in the vfl , wafl at times and listen to the coach of the losing side, certainly if there getting pumped.

So we can't criticise him until he kills seven million Jews?" WTF is that!!! Mods please ban this guy!!

Griffin now dropping his mic on Twitter. This just gets better and better.

At first this was exciting, now it's like kindy kids fighting. Wake me when it's over.

Joey unemployable world wide. The victim card finally bit him on the ass

So, just burn the team down and start again at this point?

Kobeisdead said "So we can't criticise him until he kills seven million Jews?

Seriously you are a fracktard.

Famine Moore has bravely stated he was struggling, asked for help didn't get it, then Joey jokes about people hanging themselves

All class

Joey said he wanted a new challenge, getting a job in any capacity is now a big challenge.

Just read what griffin had to say. Articulate, direct and maturely wrote. Joey has pissed off the wrong group of players. And Jerome Randle hasn't even said a thing yet. Joey has sold the world on family first values, but ADELAIDE is a small place and the truth usually comes out when you least expect it.

Can't wait for Randle’s mrs to let her feelings be known

Apart from the obvious fallout, it shows the mismanagement of the club. Joey clearly didn't want some of these players for various reasons, not condoning the hanging comment for a second. But imagine having your hands tied by being told here are your imports, Griffin is an unnone but the other 2 you have history with. Froling has had obvious problems stemming back to 2 colleges in 2 years, his year at Marquette was basically him being benched, not for playing reasons it looks like. So apart from DJ who is hardly the poster boy for consistency or toughness, 4 of your main rotations are problem children picked by management. Wouldn't be the 1st time a coach has expressed frustration on the door out, Joey not being a shrinking violet either. So what genius decided to put gunpowder and a box of matches together. What is the role of a high performance manager, just another made up title that means nothing and based on response of reply in message, pretty piss weak. Whole situation could have been averted by communicating with coach what players he wanted. Happens in juniors where kids are dropped because of attitudes, this a much more magnified situation. Why were players kept on, looks like club were on the cheap and didn't want to payout those not fitting the system.
So let's turn away from this Twitter shit storm and focus on the powers that be. Time for a total shakeup from these idiots in charge, just paper pushers that have failed in the past yet think bringing in a obvious toxic anti Joey player like Randle to sell seats was a good idea. Don't know Moore's personal problems, hopefully they've sorted, but why not just release him, pay him his money instead of letting him sit around without better things to do than reflect on a bad situation. No, instead let things fester. But as with the crows a bunch of people from all around the shop will be brought in to do a review. Tipping Riccuito, Gaze, Smythe and Jan Sterling, finding, fish rots from the head down. Why do theses administrators keep finding jobs in various sports, stuff them up then move to next one. Heads need to roll big time on this.

I wonder if the 36ers will now try and get their settlement money back based on conduct detrimental to the team?

"4 of your main rotations are problem children picked by management"

Moore (who wasn't a problem) and Froling were picked by Wright...

Moore became a problem even according him himself, just an unhappy player sitting there is not good, and yes, Froling had a Joey hand in it but nearly all the Froling clan are quitters when things get rough. But a disgruntled 2nd year player showing up woefully out of shape definitely unprofessional. Will be lucky to find a backup job in Nbl let alone an nba gig.
Sadly coaches are last to have input and backup, instead just the paper pushers and these experts brought in for reviews. Why are guys like Riccuito even mentioned in shit like this, stuffed up the whole crows coach debacle last year, runs a few pubs and have a radio show. Why not bring in Mick Molloy and Fitzy.

"Moore became a problem even according him himself"

AFTER Joey behaved like an ass by lying about Moore's injury and cut his role/minutes without taking the time to explain it - at least according to Ramone.

He could have behaved more professionally (or played better this season), but then again so could Joey. Before today, I don't recall Moore ever going on a verbal tirade or committing assault at the expense of his teammates/coaches.

Its disgusting to me how many people are attempting to defend Joey Wright. What he said IS a disgrace and he should be so incredibly ashamed.

Some idiots like Zodiac for example love their precious Joey.

The NBL need to step in here looks like a few players will need some professional help and the coach not a good look.

Jacob Wiley
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Man I uderstand some people didnt agree with how coach larry coached at @CSUMBasketball @ColoradoStateU but stop speaking and talking down on that man name!!! #Jesus

"Randle Griff Moore Froling White Dillon need to be cleaned out."

What has Dillon done apart from being on Joey's list?

#891. Oh my

I think it's fair to say now, Joey Wright, you have NOT left this club in a better place than when you arrived.
Your arrogance has been your downfall and your legacy is you were responsible for the worst incident the club has ever seen. Shut up and just go away before you do more damage.

"In the end this is all rather pointless and isnt going to achieve anything

Joey is gone, he is no longer going to coach the 36ers, even if the players are 100% correct and its all on Joey, there is nothing more to be done, he is gone,"

Tell that to Joey, who couldn't (and still can't) keep his mouth shut.

If he doesn't give his interviews throwing players under the bus and specifically naming them, none of this shit goes down.

EXACTLY! He couldn't just his mouth with his passive aggressive smug chuckling interviews, and guess what!? The players weren’t happu being disrespected and retaliated. Wright supporters can deflect to the 'leak’ all they want, it’s WHAT was leaked that upset the playing group! you really think this was just a one off comment? You really think the players didn’t feel his anger towards them his dislike all throughout the season. Ever worked for a boss that doesn’t like you? You become very disheartened very quickly. I’m glad they exposed juts a tidbit of what has gone on with the egoistical individual, pity it didn’t happen years ago.

Why? He came to his teammmates defence when they couldn't. He’s a true definition of leader in my books. That wouldn’t have been all that was said/players knew about, but they were willing to stay quiet so as to not rattle the cage. Joey is what he is, and the players needed to retaliate. Good for white and good for them. Randle interview with olgun is pretty solid read. You don’t mess with suicide as a topic.

Should have stood up at the time it was going down, had player meetings and gone to management, waiting for it all now is to late, the horse has bolted.

He did go to management and has been told it would be dealt with.

But has been told to sit back and say nothing, which again he did.

Only to see Joey continue to throw everyone under a bus.

Ramone was literally refusing to play and now he blames Joey. He didn't have these issues the last 2 seasons until he fell in with the wrong crowd it seems.

Joey Wright loves the all too often rhetoric that he's a players coach and players love playing for him. What a load of bullshit. It's clear plenty DON'T like playing for him. He's not this God that certain media types like to pump him up to be. Media types I may add who have gone very quiet currently. Happy to blow smoke up his arse when he's coaching but when exposed as an egotistical bully, say nothing. They are pathetic journalists/commentators for that. But like being a Catholic and when Cardinal Pell gets fingered, say nothing and pretend it didn't happen.
And whoever keeps posting tweets from Jacob Wiley, you may as well post tweets from Joey's mum. It's IRRELEVANT, Wiley was not playing for the Sixers this year. He wasn't in the locker room, and he hasn't been singled out by a coach for being the reason the 36ers failed. Good coaches don't do that. Joey Wright is not a good coach and clearly has anger management issues.

Wrong crowd? Sounds like some Joey spin.

I want to know what assistant Kevin Brooks and high performance guy Adam Murphy did about this? The last msg on the screen shot of the convo is from Murphy with a smiling emoji. Bloody disgusting from a guy who's sole job is to help players get the best out of themselves and apparently in charge of they’re wellness scores!! Joey is a pig and getting his right whack, but others are involved and need to be held accountable. All piss taking aside if this were our own children involved we’d all turn from Keyboard warriors into ninjas.

939,

In the professional environment have you every privately made or heard a tongue in cheek comments like:

"He/she can go jump in the lake"
"He/she is nothing but an oxygen thief"
etc etc etc etc

In my professional workplaces in some of the most power organisations in the state I've heard everyone from the cleaner to the CEO make them.

Let's keep some perspective.

If they are kept within the private context, where there is an expectation that the conversations are private, they are a figure of speech, often expressed in a moment of extreme frustration, definately not to be taken literally. Of course, when people report these private conversations they can take on another meaning and out of context. Whoever actually did share these with the player needs to have a serious look at themselves. That is precisely what caused the damage here not the actual figurative, non-literal, intended to be tongue in cheek, statement.

Or you can look at it from the point of view that Coach Golley was the only person that stood up and said this is wrong. A good assistant coach is not a yes man. Joey likes yes men. Maybe Golley is the only person in this with integrity, cos it's clear the other assistants/managers thought it was funny. If they didn't why wouldn't they tell Wright he over stepped the mark? Wright has not apologised for his comments at all. Yes, maybe it shouldn't have got out, but it did, and Wright is doing a shitty job of damage control.

Zodiac

You clearly have never suffered mental health issue, but then again you need to have a brain to suffer from them

Sorry to offend you Zodiac but "Joey" is a turd.

Zodiac, I would have thought the worst part of this is the coach punching a player and/or hoping several 'problem' players commit suicide.

I mean you're entitled to your opinion, but it's wrong.

The real turd is griffin, trying to save face for his atrocious season. Lol at Ramone if he wasn't happy could if walked but still collected that pay check.? Froling is a fat turd with zero work ethic, be lucky to get another gig lazy and bad attitude, Randle just padding his stats, Kevin white is shit gutless prick they all could of spoke up sooner but chose not to. But hey who cares the 36ers are shit anyway!

Bit rich griffin calling Joey a disgrace to the club. Mate your defence was a disgrace to the entire league, you are softer than butter bruh!

Spot on #015 Sixers are shite.

KET

You do realise that the club was covering all of this up. Kevin White clearly indicated that it had been taken to the club and he had been told to keep quiet and that they would deal with it. They didnt!

Rather than actually do anything about it to protect the players, they effectively sacked Joey and then allowed the players to take the brunt of his attacks rather than explain the why he was released.

Doesn't mean that he was always in the wrong. Doesn't mean the players was always in the right.

All we are seeing is the tip of an iceberg

36ers should hand back there licence to the nbl! One bad thing after another.. nobody would want to play/ coach there especially not now... bunch of mediocre teenage girls with shit attitudes can't handle the truth, and they have the balls to call themselves professional athletes! Haaaa. Professional turds more like it!

*Shudder "Now to introduce the new coach of the Adelaide 36ers who will clean up the current mess and culture, Andrew Gaze"

If Randle stays even I reckon he'll ring Joey and ask him to come back.

Interesting to see Mudronja's take on it. Maybe Kev isn't practicing what he preaches.

Saddened that these comments were made on behalf of the playing group and that they were brought to the public by our captain. For a person that acted like he was on Joey's side all season, this is particularly disturbing.
We don’t all feel like that about Joey. He’s done a lot of good for a lot of us and he did everything he could to help our team last season. It was made impossible by people who did not buy-in to his philosophies... if I was to screenshot some of [Kevin]’s comments in our group chat a lot of people would be disgusted too," Mudronja said.

Even if there was an element of jest in that comment by Wright, after what Ramone Moore has posted, it just highlights what a total lack of empathy Wright had. A player comes to you for help and you ridicule him in front of the other coaches, behind his back. It shouldn't have got out but it did, and is a damning indictment on how you feel and treat players. What has transpired highlights how you coach, and it's a miserable fail. No integrity and a back stabber who uses players. Good luck getting another gig because it certainly won't be here in Australia unless your 'boys club' gets in to enough positions to bail you out. Right now, they are all f'd as well.

Zodiac is spot on. 4 players from the get go would not conform to what the Coach wanted from them. You try and run a successful team/business when 40% don't play by the team rules.
How frustrating it would be to coach muppets like this, I recall Joey calling them out during the year.
I'm glad he called them out again as he was leaving, they were selfish, concerned only about themselves. The integrity came from Joey as he was leaving he said the teams performance was 'on him', he owned it. He recruited the wrong players, those 4 weren't team players.

White you're no leader.
The stories of players not wanting to room with others falls on you too, you supposed to bring the players together. What did you do to get these 4 players together?

Once player leaders like Creek and Shorter etc left there was no locker room leaders to call d[ckhead, selfish behaviour out.

I had to go back and see what triggered White to send confidential conversations, below are words Joey said:

Advertiser today:

Outgoing coach Joey Wright says he had to leave the Adelaide 36ers for the sake of his own mental health after realising his values were no longer aligned with the club and some of the players.

"To get away from that situation is for me, health-wise, the best thing to happen. As far as mental health, dealing with the pressures and stresses of that situation.

“I'm just concerned our values were inconsistent with one another and not that mine were right and theirs were wrong, but they were inconsistent and we just weren’t heading in the right direction.

The 36ers have missed the finals the past two seasons and towards the end, Wright’s relationship was excellent with some players and non-existent with others - namely imports Jerome Randle, Eric Griffin, Ramone Moore and Aussie big man Harry Froling.

“The ones who it wasn’t good with, it wasn’t good. I’m not a halfway person, I can’t be lukewarm, you’re either with me or against me and there were four who weren’t really committed and by then the three imports and Harry didn’t give us what we needed. That was the reality of it," Wright said.

“I would have loved for those guys to be a little bit more driven but we weren’t on the same page, and that’s not the club’s fault, that’s my fault and I tried everything I could to get them on the same page as everybody else.”

Really Captain White? These statements triggered you to release private conversations?

SO Joey wasn't sacked it was mutual parting. joey tried everything to get these 4 players working for the team but they weren't committed. No wonder Joeys mental health is mentioned as his first response.

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I think it's a tough one man. I don’t agree AT ALL with posting a screenshot of a group message, but Joey started this by dragging guys names through the mud. Bad actions from both sides IMO.
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Felix I agree with you 100% maybe he shouldn’t have mentioned names, but we BOTH know the dynamics of a basketball team and the said response crossed the line
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For sure, it’s genuinely snitching. As you said, he was already out the door. Best thing to do would be to send that screenshot directly to him and just say it’s here if you keep going (no idea if that was done or not)
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Agreed. This 'leak’ was done AFTER he left! It not like the club signed him to an extension... he’s gone, it’s over!

Way to Cherry pick statements to make a case.
Punch someone at work and see what happens to you.
And if you trot out the 'it hasn't been proven' bullshit then you are delusional and not that close to the inner workings. It did happen, 100% locked in without a doubt.
But we'll conveniently not mention that.
That alone was enough reason to sack Wright then and save the club 150k or whatever they paid him out.
Whoever in management turned a blind eye also needs to go.

There won't be a defamation case lodged by Wright as White will just drag Sobey in to tell the truth under oath. And there's a team full of other witnesses he can call on also. Not going to be a good look for Wright the other assistants or the club. And Wright's lawyers know it.
Why has no journo ever bothered to ask Wright that question directly? Why, for example John Casey, didn't you put it directly to him? After all it's a bug part of what White claims. Rather than go the pathetic soft road allowing Wright off the hook,why didn't you just ask 'Joey, did you or did you not punch/assault a player as Kevin White states?'
I'm no journo but I don't think that would be that hard, unless of course you're trying to frame the interview a certain way.
There's no defamation case coming it's all piss and wind.

What's it got to do with White. Does he need to bring up the cap fine in 1998 as well. He wasn’t part of that and wasn’t there. Perhaps he can give us his thoughts on Al Green. Wasn’t it White himself that got into a punch up at training this season.

Or maybe one of the four singled out by Wright was there when it happened? Hmmmm....think about that for a second.

Care to roll that dice now on the defamation??

Didn't think so.

If you weren't there it’s here say. Simple.

Don't be stupid, never ever been a punch up at any training. Were police called, was anyone charged. Wasn't there footage of BJ punching on at training this year, no mention of that by captain.

KET, other 36er players have confirmed it to a number of people. It's not a rumour.

"If you struggle to read in the context of how people communicate in English that means you struggle to make a point in English.

How dumb do you have to be to read that literally!"

Fair call. I don't believe Joey meant it literally - just hyperbole - but that is what he wrote. My point is that's entirely inappropriate and worse that any of the BS that Zodiac is up in arms about, whether or not he meant it.

If comments like that were directed at you by someone you worked closely with, that could possibly do some psychological harm.

BJ punched a wall (or something inanimate), not a teammate.

050, you obviously haven't seen Wright's interview with Channel 7. Educate yourself.

Wright called them out as 'not committed', big f'n deal. Everyone on this Board in every game thread has said the same thing about the 4 players. Seriously this is pro sports, grow a pair.
He has every right to say what he's said the whole year about these 4 players but at the end of the day Wright said the blame was on him.
For White (and the others) to fly off the handle for saying they were not committed is just crazy.
For White to comment on an incident from the previous year when he was at another Club shows what a deplorable person he is.
I'm backing MUD's response 100% and certainly not White's

LMFAO at incorrect statements by those claiming to be "in the know", cos I actually do know! The allegations that Wright punched Sobey were investigated by the club, the league, and even the Police took statements. The allegations were found to be unsubstantiated.
Sobey left because Lemanis offered him a Boomers role. That fact is well known by anyone even remotely associated with the Adelaide 36ers. I'm not one to speculate, but it makes me wonder who started the rumour and why. Smoke Screen perhaps?
Plus I can't believe that so many are taking Kevin White's side in this. He is a bitter, washed up, hack. His career, such as it was, has been dead for a while. He wangled a contract based solely on his promise to provide leadership on and off the court. So judge for yourself how well he delivered on that promise.

Maybe the 36ers should bring back drug testing and see who passes

Hi this is a 36ers player. Nathan Sobey got punched in New Zealand last year on the road as he stopped playing after he got hit in the face and Joey told him keep playing but he barked back so Joey got in his face and as sobey walked past him he punched him in the face. Sobey walked off court and said "goodluck getting anyone else to play for you" and ripped up his contract extension he signed. That's the truth. You will never know what 36ers player I am. You’re welcome. Bye.

(Maybe the 36ers should bring back drug testing and see who passes)


Do you think their all on meth?

This post is a complete lie. You're welcome

Lol at the person claiming to be a 36ers player!!! If you really are you are just making the club look even worse you troll!!

I reckon none of this would of came out if the 36ers made playoffs and went on to win the championship.., just a bunch of sooky players. I've always thought since Mitch Creek left that you no longer have any toughness.. mentally weak basket case of an organisation. Not everyone believes in joeys methods but seriously would any club sign Kevin white ? Griffin? Fat boy frolling? Disgruntled players that can’t handle the truth. The team looked selfish long before any of this. Drmic always whinging at every single call.. McVeigh pumping himself up after every shot like he just hit a buzzer beater in overtime to win the championship.. Johnson good offence no defence.. Ramone Moore an import!? Cmon seriously... mediocre player at best never showed much fight ..,white is a grub there fact that he signed on to a team with randle shows how desperate he is for a job.. griffin can’t defend on the court and he’s selfish.. look at his twitter wearing a jazz jersey.. how many minutes did you play for them?? Such a diva typical American import who thinks his shit don’t stink. Even if your correct about Joey etc there will be an asterisk next to your name and I doubt any nbl team would sign him. To much baggage and to call the coach a disgrace to the organisation when you been there 5 minutes ?? This whole situation just reinforces joeys comments that certain players are only in it for themselves not for the team. Seriously I doubt any nbl team would sign those 4 now. And it’s not like there world beaters with top level euro team for nba teams scrambling to sign them. No class at all. 36ers are a disgrace to themselves and the nbl in general. Good riddance I say

Funny that Joey has his army of friends and family on this thread speaking anonomously

I don't know Joey never met him in my life.. your also anonymous.. so... just stating my view From afar as a casual fan

Don't live in Adelaide never been there wouldn’t want to seems like a backward bat shit place.. answer this honestly taipans version of sobey who would of thought he would be the player he is today?? Still an up himself hot head with no media personality but he’s a lot better of a player after playing in Adelaide.. Honest question who would of signed froling? He’s got potential but hadn’t improved much if at all. It’s not all on the coaches etc. the dudes a professional athlete jeez even I look after my body better than he does.

JOey. Bye.

lol your anonymous as well you degenerate, I wish the 36ers all the best I couldn't really give a shit if Joey is gone I just find it amusing all these players airing there dirty laundry. Popcorn in hand

Froling is 21 years old and in his second year as a pro. The fact you all think and Joey say he didn't perform to standard show what he can be. 21 years old u fuckwits haha. Look at all the other second year guys??? Vague? Grida? All had worse years than Froling ? Maybe expectations of him are to high. Needs to get in better shape and work on his mental/attitude side of things but put him in the right situation and I’m sure he will be more than ok. And those that think sobey didn’t get punched are also delusional. This whole thing is a shit throwing contest and should be behind closed doors but at least it will result in a clean of house with the 6ers. Stop knocking people down for once or if you’re going to at least put your names to it.

Joey Stans, Kev White Stand. Who gives a fuck. It's all in the wrong and fuck it all

I agree with 229 RE Froling. Didn't know he was only 21. I can only think back to what I was doing at that age haha. I hope the biggest takeaway from this whole thing is mental health and taking it seriously. Privately or not behind closed doors or not you can’t joke about that stuff especially as a coach. In saying that going public with it isn’t right but who knows the truth behind heather the club did or didn’t do anything. Much like the sobey incident was it all covered up? And the sobey incident wasn’t covered by the club. Was done by Sobey as he didn’t want a circus happening end of season leading to finals.

Fat froling has always been fat and lady and always had a shit attitude. Mark my words He will be the same player at 25. Can't coach attitude.

why would Joey care about anything the players did away from the court?
He already stated he has internal conversations from the playing group which shows their poor attitude but would never share as that's not what is done. He doesn’t need any dirt.
Sounds like these dysfunctional players are imploding and whatever did happen off court is all on them.

This thread is both hilarious and insipid.

It was reported on the abc news today now it's public knowledge.

What was reported on abc news?

Have more respect for Zodiac guys.

^The text that Joey sent about the players killing them self