explained Cox<\/a> on ESPN Australia\u2019s Red Time podcast. <\/p>\n\u201cLet\u2019s just say I darted a few eyes to find him to just go at him. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I\u2019ll say this. Dayne Zorko, he\u2019s kind, I think he\u2019s a great man, a great role model, a person I think I\u2019d be great friends with \u2014 are all things I would not say about Dayne Zorko, I\u2019ll be honest with you. <\/p>\n
\u201cLook, I don\u2019t think he\u2019s the favourite player of a lot of people, including myself. He\u2019s a great player, no denying that in respect to him and his ability on the football field. That\u2019s pretty much all I\u2019ll say around it.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the other side of the coin, probed for his thoughts on the incident earlier this week, Zorko was largely unapologetic about his actions. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf a seven-foot guy comes running at you in the streets, what are you going to do?\u201d said Zorko, who\u2019ll play in his 15th AFL season next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t really make sense to me that someone can initiate it, then you\u2019re just standing up for yourself and protecting yourself.<\/p>\n
\u201cShould I have grabbed his glasses? Probably not.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, it is what it is. I mean, you can see the AFL are having such a great year with all this stuff that a $5,000 fine seems suitable. Yeah, it is what it is.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t really care; I get to play in a grand final this week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collingwood forward Mason Cox has lashed Brisbane\u2019s Dayne Zorko following a fiery clash in last Saturday\u2019s preliminary final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,689,3237,10133,644,110737,88951,110738,110736,2105,11288,3231,13126,647,677,110740,19095,110739,3247,85,660],"class_list":["post-169270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-brisbane-lions","tag-collingwood-magpies","tag-cult-hero","tag-cult-hero-lashes","tag-dayne-zorko","tag-favourite-player","tag-fiery-clash","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-grand-final","tag-jack-jovanovski","tag-mason-cox","tag-melbourne","tag-oceania","tag-prelim-scrap","tag-preliminary-final","tag-ripping-goggles","tag-robert-cianflone","tag-sports","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}