It’s a shame that only retired players feel like they can speak about what happened. I reckon there would be a few current crows players reticent to tell their story for fear of being ostracized within the club.

So, those that had experienced trauma as children had their childhood trauma exploited in order to re-traumatise them as adults in front of their peers. WTF?

Ricciuto needs to be fully examined for his role in this fiasco

The camp itself was clearly completely inappropriate to say the least. The response from the club and the people investigating what happened in the years since is simply unacceptable and highlights completely unsafe working conditions. You need to be able to report things that have happened to you, and at the bare minimum be offered support for what you have gone through. Very brave of all of these players to come out to make things better for the future, and to hopefully find peace.

Well articulated Bryce

The camp was psychologically harmful it was Totally unprofessional and unethical. To do that sort of stuff properly, you would have to prep people until you felt they were equipped with the psychological resiliency and psychological defenses, believing they are fully prepped to undergo such aversive conditioning. Also with a whole lot of back-up support, before you start to hit them with their greatest vulnerabilities. It's more a military technique to screen out those that lack resiliency for an extreme war environment or to train military people to tolerate torture rather than a resiliency building program for elite sportsmen. My guess it was Ex-Military that ran the program rather than mental health professionals. Amateur hour at the Club management level and inappropriately qualified Camp facilitators.

Apparently this was some part of elite SAS army training drills. The people who sign up for the SAS go in with their eyes open knowing that the training will be grueling physically and mentally and so will be prepared but even then the attrition rate is quite high. You can't surprise normal people to undergo mentally invasive training programs completely blind it's asking for problems even if they're elite athletes being in a war is completely different to playing a sport. Maybe, if you let players know about the program before they do it and explain to them every little detail and tell them it's completely voluntary maybe it wouldn't have fractured the club and would have strengthened those who decide to do it.

Although it is a bit late, well done Bryce for speaking up and supporting Eddie and Josh. 😊

I love the comments about reflecting on not speaking up. Everyone has those moments. I hope we can do better in future.

Honestly sounds like an extremely decent fella! Pity he has to say he regrets things that he did when he was thrown into it. Hard to imagine how hard that position he found himself was for a new player. Terribly sad that the club and AFL have taken the “nothing to see here view “ Clearly there was

Listen to this high. And visualise the situation

It’s easy to see why they couldn’t win a premiership as they obviously were not a close enough team to trust each other and deal with what happened . Soft leadership and pike should have been more focused on bringing the team together to deal with the emotional weakness that can be found in most of us as individuals. The main strength of a team is that it cannot be brought down by 1 or 2 hits or body blows as the other numbers are there to protect and defend the parts that are wounded and bleeding so they know they are safe and the ones inflicting the damage will see they have no weapons anymore. It’s true that it says a lot about the whole club 😭😭😭

Well done Bryce for being so frank about the experience. You together with brothers Crouch, Stengle, were all treated unfairly well after the camp and proves little improvement in player management has been achieved yet those players will all continue to deliver for other teams against the crows youself excepted i guess, demonstrating how inept the crows have been and perhaps still are.

Who ever at Adelaide's management level that authorised or approved of this camp should be sacked! I hope those that have been scared by this look at their legal options.

I can't see how the club can truly move on whilst the people who instigated or defended the camp remain in place. What is being described is similar to capture and integration process that occurs in the Army, and it has no place in a civilian/sporting environment. I guess the most disturbing element was the use of what should have been privileged and confidential information. I'd love to know what qualifications the 'counselor' had because no professional would allow such a breach of trust.

I want those culpable held accountable and punished. They should be removed from the industry. Not only was the camp appalling, but there's a massive coverup.

Omg. Literally our combat core soldiers go through this in training .Imagine the SAS or Commandos. Watch search for warriors if you dont believe me....... our boys are girls serving go through way worse than a little camp.

Can we get our draft picks back????

This sounds like the coaches and administration's revenge on the players for loosing the 2017 Grand Final. The AFL and the Adelaide football club should be sued for this inappropriate conduct. This is a work place environment and all work place policies were ignored. The due process is to persue legal action.

Cant even imagine, the abuse Eddie would have copped compared to Sloan,Gibbs etc 🤦🏾‍♂️☹️

As a Crows supporter, 2018 and 2019 sucked big time. They should have just moved on from the GF and started preseason normally.

Bryce just upset there wasn’t a TAB on site

Seems like Gibbs didn't tell the camp organisers anything they could use and wasn't in the gf, so all they had on was that he got traded. Probably needed to speak for the guys who did get cooked by these assholes. Riccuito should be shown the door , all he's done is cover his arse while the team fell apart. Crows supporters deserve better.

This is just about the $$

The only thing AFL players should be doing at pre season camp's is gaol kicking practice!!!

Your a BlueBagger for life Bryce!!!

If they turned up on grand final day wouldn’t be a topic

The camp showed that they didn’t have it.

Sounds like living under Dan Andrews during Covid19 Psyop.

Weirdo club, strange behaviour from the Adelaide Football club.

Its not what they say in public, but what they say when they think their not in public an not on record, Tex is a prime example and is a complete knob with 🤣🐓pics on his phone he proudly showed me at Ramy weeks after the camp..🤯 true words...AFClub has lost, transfered ect over 18 quality players since 2012 output of products ++ plus input of products negative-- = Adelaide Football Clubs previous 3seasons current player list, board, admin and attitudes visions need a long hard look change and restructure top to bottom

Heavy metal music playing. Sounds like a paradise

Over reaction about all this. It’s just a boot camp designed to hurt your precious feelings and give you the skills to deal with them. Sounds like a few cups of concrete needed to be dished out and thank Christ these young men were highly paid skilled footballers and didn’t decide to join the army where they would of only had mummy to cry to.

Don Pyke is thought of being an evil cult leader by some

someone should have told gibbs how to be a better player!!

Well done Bryce for being over paid, didn't matter then but all of a sudden it's an issue. Who knows with a little more luck you maybe able to sue 💲

Toughen up princess.

Who cares now.. been 4 years clearly the phrase “sticks and stones” was taken a whole lot differently

More games Gibbs! How about all the debt you ran up here in Adelaide??? That’s why you didn’t get games!!!

They got it wrong simple as

Tex walker seems like a knob

And that's why there should be only 1 s.a team PORT ADELAIDE,, oh and there far from RACIST

Sounds like this was mental training to bring out one's competitive nature and remove fear mentally, make you go faster & harder. I still don't see any issues however Adelaide lost that 2017 GF because clearly the team had plenty of soft 🐓 in that side. Lining up to have a cry to try get some compensation. So many european soccer teams do this. X factor is that 1% that makes you a winner.....

what a disaster....destroyed the club