Mitchell wants Cyril Rioli 支援する at 強硬派s
Sam Mitchell hopes his AFL 首相の職 チーム仲間 Cyril Rioli will one day return to Hawthorn but is steering （疑いを）晴らす of whether 大統領，／社長 Jeff Kennett should 辞職する まっただ中に 人種差別主義 主張s.
Four-time 旗 hero Rioli has said he will not be 伴う／関わるd at Hawthorn while Kennett remains in his 地位，任命する.
The 姿勢 is the result of 問題／発行するs that Rioli said fractured the 関係 between Hawthorn and its Indigenous players until his premature 退職 in 2018, 老年の 28.
Rioli and his wife Shannyn Ah Sam-Rioli have 詳細（に述べる）d to Nine newspapers some Kennett comments they 設立する 不快な／攻撃 and also told of 人種差別主義者 出来事/事件s that the club legend said 与える／捧げるd to his 決定／判定勝ち（する） to retire.
Kennett's second 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 as Hawthorn 大統領，／社長 is 予定 to end in December next year. He has yet to 答える／応じる 公然と to Rioli's comments.
目だつ 支持者s group 強硬派s for Change has been 圧力ing the former Victorian 首相 to 辞職する すぐに in the wake of Rioli's 声明s.
Hawthorn coach Mitchell 辞退するd to give his opinion on Kennett's position after the 強硬派s' one-point 敗北・負かす to Carlton on Sunday.
But Mitchell said he was "saddened" to read about Rioli's experiences.
"I was saddened to read the article and hear some of his words and Shannyn's words and the fact they feel like that certainly saddens me," Mitchell said.
"I've reached out to him in the last few months and tried to get him to reconnect with the club and show him some of the things that we're doing now to try and 改善する in this area.
"I'm like every other Hawthorn person who just thinks 支援する to the Cyril that we all loved. And whenever you think of Cyril not 存在 happy, that's going to make anyone sad and disappointed and I'm no different.
"Hopefully we can welcome him 支援する into the 倍の at some 行う／開催する／段階.
"But at the moment, you've just got to 尊敬（する）・点 his wishes that he's not willing to do that just yet."
Mitchell said he was unawa re of the extent of Rioli's experiences of 人種差別主義 at Hawthorn until last week.
"I certainly have looked into that and tried to work out whether this was a cultural thing that was happening," Mitchell said.
"My understanding at this point is that it wasn't.
"But by the same 記念品 I am very, very 熱烈な and those who spend time in our 塀で囲むs know that this is nothing to do with what's happening 現在／一般に.
"We are very 熱烈な about making 重要な 進歩 with First Nations people and we are very committed to that within our four 塀で囲むs."
Mitchell called a 会合 with Hawthorn's 現在の Indigenous players last Friday to 計器 their feelings on the 現在の club 環境.
"It was a really open 会議 and they all were nothing but 肯定的な about the moment," Mitchell said.
"That's all we can do something about.
"We're very 今後-looking in this area now with those guys because they weren't here (during Rioli's time)."
