Richmond has defended its determination to barroom AFLW icon Daisy Pearce from entering its alteration rooms arsenic portion of Seven's sum of past week's clash against Carlton.
Pearce has been connected Seven's unchangeable of callers for the past fewer years and successful the off-season added a Geelong adjunct coaching relation to her duties. She volition execute that relation alongside her broadcasting enactment aft retiring from the game successful January.
While Carlton reportedly had nary issues with Pearce being successful their rooms, Richmond elder advisor Neil Balme explained wherefore they didn't privation the Cats staffer wrong their ain rooms.
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"It astir apt seems a spot unkind," Balme told SEN Afternoons.
"But it's conscionable a happening that you don't truly privation adjunct coaches from different clubs hanging astir rooms aft games to spot what they tin find out.
"I cognize I'd spot her to the constituent that it's not what she is determination for.
"But you can't bash some jobs, truthful I deliberation it's tenable of america to accidental that.
"It's surely not personal."
Pearce has go an highly fashionable commentator owed to her fantabulous knowing of the game, and Balme said barring her was a motion to her shot nous.
"It is (is a motion of respect)," helium said.
"She could fig thing out, she's got a beauteous footy mind.
"Geelong are truly fortunate to person her but to beryllium capable to bash some jobs is simply a spot hard astatine times."
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