If Toby Greene has realized one factor from Thailand, it is this: do not get a henna tattoo.
That is based on his former participant agent, Mel Oberhofer, who managed Greene for a number of years when she labored at Connors Sports activities Administration, which is headed up by famend AFL participant supervisor, Paul Connors.
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Oberhofer was an AFL participant agent for over a decade however has since moved overseas to England, the place she works as a accomplice supervisor for Mercedes in Formula 1.
However talking to a different one in all her former shoppers, Tommy Sheridan, on his podcast, who performed 81 video games on the Fremantle Dockers and one other two on the GWS Giantswith Greene, Oberhofer confirmed a weird story from when Greene returned residence from an low season journey to Thailand one 12 months.
“I am simply going to learn out why individuals love you,” Sheridan mentioned to Oberhofer.
“Toby Greene has given me permission to say this. He’ll always remember the extent of care that you just had for him and all of your gamers; you’d all the time go above and past.
“He’ll always remember the time you picked him up from the airport after he texted with some severe considerations boarding his flight residence from Thailand.
“He mentioned, ‘There’s something critically unsuitable with my leg, Mel’. He reckons you had been at residence and he is operating out of reception – he reckons by the point he landed, you had been on the airport ready for him while he had no service on the airplane and also you rushed him to hospital the place you then discovered he had a severe an infection in his leg.
“It was really his birthday that day and he’ll always remember it; he reckons you calmed him down, you took him to the hospital, and you then drove him to his household and buddies’ occasion that evening for his birthday.
“These are little insights that I am positive are bringing again some reminiscences.”
Oberhofer did not want so as to add a lot to the story, however did make point out of 1 factor, which can have induced the leg an infection.
“Ethical of the story: do not get a henna tattoo in Thailand,” she mentioned with amusing.
“Toby would have given you a couple of scares, would not he, again within the day? He is one in all your favorites, I do know that,” Sheridan mentioned.
“I all the time say, Toby’s just like the little brother I by no means had,” Oberhofer replied.
“And what? Somebody really texted me, which was really fairly good, I awoke one morning within the UK a few weeks in the past, and so they had been like, ‘Are you content about Toby?’ And I used to be like, ‘What are they speaking about?’ And it was the information that Toby was the captain of the Giants.
“Toby’s gone by way of a little bit of a rollercoaster in his profession. Wonderful footballer, however would by no means damage a fly, and seeing him now change into the captain and tackle this function, it is a proud mumma, large sister second.
“We all the time say that we have been siblings to one another this entire time. ‘Tobes’ is particular.”
