The former No. 1 draft pick says he can understand North supporters’ view of his departure but not why he is being booed by opposition supporters.
game at the Adelaide Oval. “Why are you booing him?” McLachlan asked the supporter seated in front of him. “The No.1 draft pick’s got to show loyalty,” was the reply.
“To be honest I was so happy we’d won, but I didn’t think I’d been anything special until Ken came up to me. And I didn’t realise he’d said anything at his press conference until someone told me and I had a listen and it meant a lot to me.” Coach Alastair Clarkson had come to North in a blaze of fanfare but his coaching future briefly seemed in question following allegations of racism directed at him and other Hawthorn officials, which they have denied. For Horne-Francis, the further uncertainty after the Kangaroos’ annus horribilis proved the final straw.
While Horne-Francis occasionally stays closer to the club with his long-term girlfriend, he has moved back into the family home in Adelaide’s outer south of mother Trish Gully and her husband Fabian Francis, along with the couple’s two children, three-year-old Fabian jnr and sister Phoebe, 11. In 2012, shortly after the birth of Horne-Francis’ younger sister, Francis was sentenced to four years’ jail with a non-parole period of 15 months after being found guilty of eight charges related to his former wife Debra Buckskin, including two counts of assault and threatening to harm. He was acquitted of a further 12 charges. The reports at the time describe Trish weeping in the courtroom as Francis’ sentence was delivered.
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