{"id":32531,"date":"2025-07-30T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32531\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:42:11","slug":"gws-coach-adam-kingsley-takes-responsibility-for-toby-greene-outburst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32531\/","title":{"rendered":"GWS coach Adam Kingsley takes responsibility for Toby Greene outburst"},"content":{"rendered":"

GWS<\/a> coach Adam Kingsley has said he will “take responsibility” after Toby Greene<\/a> found himself in hot water following last Friday’s game against Sydney.<\/p>\n

The fiery skipper was involved in a few incidents against the cross-town rivals, with an elbow to the head of Isaac Heeney resulting in a one-week suspension<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Greene also copped scrutiny for kicking Dane Rampe in the groin<\/a>, but was subsequently cleared by the AFL after it was deemed he didn’t make contact with the Swans star.<\/p>\n

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The 31-year-old is a combative player at the best of times and taking on the Swans in a local derby brought that side of his game to the forefront last weekend.<\/p>\n

But according to Kingsley, who fronted media on Wednesday morning, his messages during the lead-up to the clash could have been a factor in Greene’s outbursts.<\/p>\n

“I’d wound him up a little bit during the week,” the coach said.<\/p>\n

“I need to be better with how I articulate that to him and what I’m asking him to do, being a little bit more explicit around the actions that I require and not some of the stuff which happened. I’ll take responsibility for that and be better next time.<\/p>\n

“We need him to channel his aggression in a little bit more productive action.”<\/p>\n

Greene is the most fined and suspended active player in the competition, but received support from Kingsley, who is adamant the skipper won’t repeat his performance.<\/p>\n

“I’m not concerned in the slightest about Toby Greene,” he said.<\/p>\n

“He crossed the line on Friday night, I don’t think it’ll happen again. I have full confidence in that. I have full confidence in him. He just lost his mind for a little bit.”<\/p>\n

The gun forward will miss Thursday night’s crucial clash with the Western Bulldogs and admitted on the Ausmerican Aces podcast that he wishes he acted differently.<\/p>\n

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Toby Greene tussles with Dane Rampe\u00a0via Getty Images<\/p>\n

“If I had my time back, I would love it back, but that’s not possible,” Greene said.<\/p>\n

“There was a bit going both ways and I probably let that get the better of me in terms of getting emotional and pretty wound up. I’ve been guilty of it previously in my career and it was certainly a slip-up and something I’d like to have my time back.<\/p>\n

“I thought I was almost past that, but clearly not … [there is] a bit to work on.”<\/p>\n

GWS are sitting in sixth spot on the ladder heading into the business-end of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GWS coach Adam Kingsley has said he will “take responsibility” after Toby Greene found himself in hot water…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-32531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32531","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=32531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}