With recent speculation of Wayne Carey returning to AFL football next year, Bomber coach Kevin Sheedy said Essendon had not discussed the possibility of the 31-year-old coming to Windy Hill and believes the football public should let the fallen football star get on with his life. “It is a shame people just jump on a person when they have gone through a tough period in their life - everyone mucks up.You see the President of the United States, Prince Charles and now Wayne Carey - and it looks like Wayne Carey is the worst one of everyone. It really annoys me because here are people that have done time mentally for indiscretion of life and they get blown out of the water by everyone. To me, growing up a Catholic, we were brought up that you just have to turn the other cheek and just forgive people at times. I just don't know if society actually sees that anymore. I just think it is time when you have to move on in your life and get on with your life for the rest of your life. Stop throwing stones at people in glass houses. Whether he does or doesn't play again - we have a good squad and we are looking at our squad and that is as far as I am prepared to look at it. As I said, it has never been brought up at a board level or selection area,” Sheedy said.

Q. At what point in the year would you sit down and talk about it, if he was available?
A. It would be too early for me to even say now. To see talent just sitting there. He is 32 next year, so you are not going to get a lot of footy out of him when it is all said and done.

Q. Do you think players at a lot of clubs would share Akermanis feelings?
A. There could be but I wouldn't want my players making any comments about any other player in any way shape or form in any other club whether it was Wayne Carey, Nathan Buckley or a player from West Coast or Port Adelaide. We have been through that over the years and the football club runs the club - the board and the management - they run the Essendon Football Club and that is the way it should be.

Q. Do you think your players would welcome him?
A. I would not have a clue - I have never even discussed it with them.

Q. Would you be unhappy getting input from your players if they came to you as a group and offered that we don't want a particular player to come to the club?
A. You would always take it on board, of course you would. That is what a club and a team are about. From that point of view I have been down that track before with Ben Doolan, Steve Carey and Peter Bradbury back in 1986. Those circumstances back then we had just lost three players for a year - Watson, Van der Haar and Darren Williams. We actually made the finals getting Raines - he was a very good player. It wasn't a bad decision then when you look back in hindsight - Raines is probably one of the best players ever drafted to a club in 1986. If you look back at the history, I think that only eight players only ever made it from that draft - that was the first ever draft in national football history. I think Lynch is the last of the mohecians, him and Febey - so there is still two.

Q. What would your thoughts be if Carey came to the club and said look - no one is that keen on me, so I am willing to play for a small amount of money just to prove that I can still play and fit into a club. Would you be happy to sign him for a one year deal?
A. Highly unlikely. Our situation is clearly that we have a pretty happy list of players and I wouldn't really want to bust open that camaraderie here and if anything I would go to my captain and four vice-captains and discuss it with them. If it went any further, naturally you would debate it with the club Chairman and CEO and it would go to board.

Q. A Lloyd, Hird, Carey forward line is pretty impressive?
A. Yes but at what cost?