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McLean blasts Blues over delisting

24th October, 2014
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Veteran onballer Brock McLean has blasted Carlton over the lead-up to his AFL delisting.

Earlier this week, the Blues announced they had delisted McLean, Mitch Robinson and Kane Lucas.

McLean said meetings with key club officials, including coach Mick Malthouse, around the end of the season had left him confident of another year with the Blues.

But his manager Adam Ramanauskas texted with bad news while McLean was on holidays in Copenhagen, saying the Blues were unlikely to offer a new deal.

Carlton football director Andrew McKay then rang McLean to confirm his time at the club was over and the conversation did not go well.

“I’m certainly not angry or bitter or anything like that, but I was just disappointed how it was all handled,” McLean told SEN radio on Friday.

“How I was sort of told one thing and led to believe one thing and Adam Ramanauskas, my manager, was told another thing, so there was no real transparency or honesty amongst the whole conversation or the whole situation.”

McLean is also nonplussed that he has not heard from Malthouse.

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“I don’t know the reason why Mick hasn’t rang me, but I would have thought, as the senior coach, he might have got on the phone to me,” he said.

When McLean went on his overseas trip, he was sure the Blues would give him another year in the AFL.

McLean said McKay told him he was squeezed out by their busy recruiting during the trade period.

The 28-year-old played 63 games for Carlton after 94 with Melbourne.

“He (Malthouse) was of the view that he wanted me around next year and that I was a required player,” McLean said of their meeting near season’s end.

“So I walked away from that thinking, ‘Yep, great, I want to play on next year and it sounds like Mick wants me here, so that’s good’.

“And then my exit meeting at the end of the year probably went even better.

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“So I walked away with the view that I was going to be around next year and there would be a contract available on the table sooner rather than later.”

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