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LAST week, Canterbury Bulldogs appointed a person to help out the NRL club’s WAGs.
Yvette Davey recently joined the Bulldogs football club staff as “player engagement co-ordinator’’, a job that requires her to look after the footballers, as well as wives, girlfriends and families.
Already, Davey has hosted a day with the top 30 players’ families that concluded with a dinner. Wives and girlfriends were also given a small present.
Her role is understood to include keeping the partners “all settled” on match day and one of her tasks is helping players and their families with housing.
Davey’s job is all about inclusiveness and welfare. Cementing that “family’’ club environment.
“Yvette’s role is to look after the welfare of players, staff and families in a more detailed way than the traditional welfare role,” Bulldogs CEO Andrew Hill says.
“As ‘the family club’, we believe in looking after our people and their families off the field and Yvette’s appointment was the next step in making sure we had created a role that catered for that.
“It’s important that we provide support from the time someone joins the Bulldogs all the way through until they leave the club; and to make sure that we can help them in any areas that will enhance their lives.”
Davey declined to comment, but a Bulldogs spokesman said she wants to “stay in the background and go about her job quietly” though on the surface, her addition can only be viewed as a good move by the club after a turbulent time.
The spokesman was quick to point out that Davey’s role wasn’t born out of the Dogs’ Mad Monday scandal.
On the field, Mortimer points to the young talent coming through on the club list and fans should be excited.
“We’ve got a helluva lot of young guys that Des Hasler didn’t want to try out,” Mortimer says.
“But young players, Dean Pay is willing to give a go.
“You saw a few of them towards the end of last season. It (2019) is going to be exciting. It is something to look forward to.”
And this is where Davey’s role becomes important to the Bulldogs’ on-field success.
Anecdotally, players who have a content personal and family life are more likely to perform better on the field.
Yvette Davey recently joined the Bulldogs football club staff as “player engagement co-ordinator’’, a job that requires her to look after the footballers, as well as wives, girlfriends and families.
Already, Davey has hosted a day with the top 30 players’ families that concluded with a dinner. Wives and girlfriends were also given a small present.
Her role is understood to include keeping the partners “all settled” on match day and one of her tasks is helping players and their families with housing.
Davey’s job is all about inclusiveness and welfare. Cementing that “family’’ club environment.
“Yvette’s role is to look after the welfare of players, staff and families in a more detailed way than the traditional welfare role,” Bulldogs CEO Andrew Hill says.
“As ‘the family club’, we believe in looking after our people and their families off the field and Yvette’s appointment was the next step in making sure we had created a role that catered for that.
“It’s important that we provide support from the time someone joins the Bulldogs all the way through until they leave the club; and to make sure that we can help them in any areas that will enhance their lives.”
Davey declined to comment, but a Bulldogs spokesman said she wants to “stay in the background and go about her job quietly” though on the surface, her addition can only be viewed as a good move by the club after a turbulent time.
The spokesman was quick to point out that Davey’s role wasn’t born out of the Dogs’ Mad Monday scandal.
On the field, Mortimer points to the young talent coming through on the club list and fans should be excited.
“We’ve got a helluva lot of young guys that Des Hasler didn’t want to try out,” Mortimer says.
“But young players, Dean Pay is willing to give a go.
“You saw a few of them towards the end of last season. It (2019) is going to be exciting. It is something to look forward to.”
And this is where Davey’s role becomes important to the Bulldogs’ on-field success.
Anecdotally, players who have a content personal and family life are more likely to perform better on the field.