Western Bulldogs mid-season draftee Caleb Poulter and his influencer girlfriend have described Poulter’s stunning response to being delisted by Collingwood final 12 months.
Poulter, who was choose No. 30 within the 2020 Draft, performed simply 12 video games for Collingwood throughout 2021 and 2022 earlier than being surprisingly delisted. He has since been picked up by the Bulldogs on this 12 months’s midseason draft.
The 194cm left-footer came upon that he was axed over the cellphone whereas holidaying in Bali together with his associate Sam Guggenheimer, and the 20-year-old footy star didn’t take the information effectively.
‘I come out (of the villa) and also you had been bawling, you had been crying,’ Guggenheimer mentioned on the Simply For Women podcast.
‘You simply mentioned ‘I have been delisted’, these are the phrases you mentioned ‘I have been delisted, I have been dropped’.
Bulldogs draftee Caleb Poulter (pictured with associate Sam Guggenheimer) admits he did not react effectively to being delisted by Collingwood
Poulter’s axing put stress on his relationship and footy star ghosted his teammates
‘From there, we tried to get pleasure from our vacation however I feel there have been plenty of questions above our heads.’
Guggenheimer mentioned the stunning information brought on Poulter to ‘ghost’ everybody – together with his Collingwood teammate and then-housemate Jack Crisp.
‘You had been very unhealthy at speaking with individuals, you ghosted everybody, you ghosted your teammates, you ghosted Jack, you ghosted your coaches, you had been like ‘f— them’ in a approach,’ she mentioned.
‘I feel you had been a bit offended, you did not actually have any solutions, no-one actually answered your questions so that you had been sort of like ‘f— this’ and also you threw all of it up.’
The younger gun believes he ‘fell out of favour’ with the coaches at Collingwood – and he handled the difficulty the fallacious approach.
‘I used to be clearly fairly upset on the time,’ he mentioned.
‘As a substitute of coping with it in the best approach, I simply stopped replying to everybody.
‘I feel I used to be simply one of many ones that fell out of favour and that is simply how it’s typically in an expert atmosphere.’
The previous Magpie made his debut for the Western Bulldogs towards Fremantle
Guggenheimer mentioned the change was laborious on the pair’s relationship, too.
‘You had been making an attempt to get an AFL contract however I do not assume you had been essentially working laborious for it, you misplaced a little bit of confidence and religion,’ she mentioned.
‘Going from you being drafted, you having a full-time profession in AFL, incomes a number of cash, having all these buddies … every thing had modified.
‘ you with no confidence and no drive in your soul since you had been so harm, it was laborious for our relationship.’
Poulter had 12 disposals in his Western Bulldogs debut two weeks in the past at Marvel Stadium towards Fremantle, his first AFL recreation since taking part in Spherical 9, 2022.
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