“Disgusting behaviour”: Whateley slams Gorringe over Docherty comments

Gerard Whateley has criticised Daniel Gorringe’s choice to air what were meant to be private comments about Carlton's Opening Round performance made by Sam Docherty on his podcast.

The former Sun and Blue turned content creator was dissecting the Blues' 63-point loss to Sydney on his Dan Does Footy podcast on Friday.

During his recording, the 33-year-old played an audio clip from his former teammate, with Gorringe having asked him to help explain why Carlton fell away in the second half once again .

Docherty, who retired last year from Carlton, provided a frank assessment about how his former side was beaten on Thursday night, using several expletives, believing that his comments would be used as background and not publicly aired.

While the former Carlton co-captain stands by the comments he made, he did express regret for the language used and apologised for it.

But for Whateley, he thinks that these sorts of comments after just one round of football feed into what he describes as a ‘doom loop’ surrounding Carlton.

“The problem, I think, and it was there immediately watching that third quarter,” he said on SEN’s Crunch Time.

“Carlton fans turn up in big numbers, but those bays were half empty at three-quarter time.

“They’re going to create a doom loop around that club.

“And it’s so hard to guard against, other than you can’t get caught in the doom loop.

“And this is why normally the nonsense in the modern media is pure nonsense.

“But Sam Docherty just feeds the way that’s been depicted, it feeds the doom loop to fever pitch after one game.”

Whateley then criticised Gorringe directly, believing it was reckless to use the audio clip in the manner that he did.

“That’s just reprehensible behaviour,” Whateley added.

“I know you don’t want to stand inside the media, but there are actually parameters that guide what goes to air and what doesn’t, and what’s private and what’s public.

“And just because you want to crash through what things have always been, you can’t do that.

“I think that is disgusting behaviour.”