Get your first month for just $1. Limited-time offer.<\/a><\/p>\nWith the Swans leading by 28 points, Greene was interviewed by Fox Footy\u2019s Ben Dixon as both teams walked off ENGIE Stadium for the half-time break.<\/p>\n
After conceding his Giants were soundly beaten in contest and workrate in the first half, Greene was asked about what Papley was saying to Giants players in the wake of Sydney\u2019s second-quarter run of goals.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s looking overweight, so we\u2019ll see how he goes in the second half,\u201d Greene told Fox Footy before walking away from Dixon.<\/p>\n
Post-match, Sydney coach Dean Cox was asked what he made of Greene\u2019s eyebrow-raising comments. <\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t sure about that,\u201d Cox began. \u201cI don\u2019t really listen to other players during half-time interviews. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s always a bit of cheek between some of our players and their players \u2014 that\u2019s always happened \u2014 so, I\u2019m not sure what he said.\u201d<\/p>\n
Probed specifically on whether he had an issue with Greene\u2019s words, Cox said: \u201cI think people, when they speak in the media, generally are really calculated to opposition players. Some players push the boundaries a little bit \u2014 Toby\u2019s probably one of those.\u201d<\/p>\n
McLean caught in nasty clash | 00:45<\/p>\n
During the broadcast, Fox Footy caller Dwayne Russell could hardly believe what he\u2019d just heard.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t be going far, huge second half to come \u2026 what about Toby Greene?! \u2018He\u2019s looking overweight\u2019 \u2014 that\u2019ll get back. In fact they\u2019ll be playing that to him, Tom Papley, during the half-time break,\u201d Russell told Fox Footy.<\/p>\n
Triple premiership Lion Alastair Lynch reported just before the start of the third quarter that Greene\u2019s comments had been passed on to Papley during the half-time break.<\/p>\n
Swans skipper Callum Mills was interviewed shortly afterwards, declaring how much he loved having Papley back in the side.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow good is he? I think our fans love watching him and we love playing with him. He\u2019s an energy bunny,\u201d Mills told Fox Footy.<\/p>\n
It was a thought echoed by Lynch.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had the mad eyes going, he was chasing after Toby Greene, looking for Tom Green,\u201d Lynch told Fox Footy. <\/p>\n
Greene on a RAMPAGE in opening quarter | 00:41<\/p>\n
\u201cHe just adds so much energy to this team and outside what he does with the ball, he adds plenty of spice and plenty of passion to this team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fellow analyst Jonathan Brown added: \u201cIt\u2019s like a cage match, one on four at WrestleMania. He\u2019s taking them all on, the chief protagonist.\u201d<\/p>\n
It came after a spicy first half between the Swans and Giants, with an array of scuffles and incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We all expected a spicy Sydney derby. We all anticipated Toby Greene and Tom Papley to be central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12093,64,63,7491,3423,21865,21866,21867,21870,21871,7496,21872,21868,21869,19052,21864,85,19086],"class_list":{"0":"post-21317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-another-fine-day","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-ben-dixon","12":"tag-ben-waterworth","13":"tag-blunt-dig","14":"tag-blunt-mid-derby-dig","15":"tag-cage-match","16":"tag-callum-mills","17":"tag-cheeky-dig","18":"tag-dwayne-russell","19":"tag-energy-bunny","20":"tag-fans-love-watching","21":"tag-half-time-break","22":"tag-jonathan-brown","23":"tag-lynch","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-toby-greene"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21317","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=21317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}