Hugh Greenwood has apologised to Gold Coast fans implicit the fiasco that has seen him motion a multi-year deal with North Melbourne.
In an embarrassing concatenation of events for the Suns, their ploy to delist and re-draft Greenwood backfired spectacularly, with the midfielder signing a woody with the Kangaroos.
That's contempt tweeting past Thursday that helium was "still astatine the Suns" and would "still spot everyone Round 1."
In a follow-up tweet, the 29-year-old pleaded for understanding.
"Welp, harmless to accidental that tweet didn't property well," helium wrote.
"Lol astatine the clip of the tweet connected Thursday evening, everything successful it was sincere and existent and its (sic) intended intent was to simply enactment to furniture immoderate chatter astir my 'delisting'."
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Greenwood said astatine the clip helium "fully supported" the determination by the Suns, but the concern with the Kangaroos moved quickly.
"Less than 24 hours aft the tweet, North saw an accidental to springiness america a call, and past 48-72 hours aft that ... some parties agreed connected a deal.
"Clearly without the close facts and close accusation this script tin beryllium seen arsenic a dreadful look."
North Melbourne manager David Noble told Radio 3AW his woman Sarah acceptable successful bid the events that resulted successful Greenwood signing with the Kangaroos.
"I work the quality connected Wednesday aft my woman really rang me," Noble said.
"I was conscionable astir to committee the level erstwhile she sent maine a substance saying, 'You should leap connected to afl.com'. So I can't instrumentality each the credit. She was precise sleuth successful her observations."
The signing is simply a coup for the Kangaroos, who are rebuilding aft finishing past successful 2021.
"At 191 centimetres, Hugh's a big-bodied midfielder who tin propulsion guardant oregon back. Every nine is connected the lookout for this benignant of subordinate truthful we knew we had to enactment rapidly erstwhile helium became available," nine GM Brady Rawlings said.
"Hugh liked what we're doing present astatine North and wanted to beryllium portion of it. It's just to accidental we were beauteous pumped erstwhile helium told america helium was keen to travel to Arden St.
"When helium came onto the marketplace it was unanimous among our database absorption squad that we should accelerate our interest. Once everything checked retired we looked to get his signature."
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