{"id":46583,"date":"2025-08-06T00:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46583\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T00:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:46:09","slug":"ed-langdon-comments-on-sacking-of-simon-goodwin-200th-afl-game-press-conference-interview-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46583\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Langdon comments on sacking of Simon Goodwin, 200th AFL game, press conference, interview, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne stalwart Ed Langdon has voiced his support for recently sacked premiership coach Simon Goodwin<\/a>, ahead of his 200th game at AFL level this Sunday.<\/p>\n

Speaking to media ahead of his big milestone, the 29-year-old revealed how he and fellow Demons players found out his coach of nearly six years was being dismissed by the club\u2019s board.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was obviously a big day yesterday. We were told in the morning on a Zoom call, some of the senior players. We managed to get around to most of the younger players as well before that dropped (on) a big, emotional day,\u201d Langdon said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe all love Goody, he was a big part of the club so it\u2019s definitely a different feeling coming into (this weekend).<\/p>\n

\u201cDefinitely shocked, that\u2019s not the news I thought I\u2019d be waking up to. As I said, we\u2019re all very close with Goody (having) won a premiership with him.<\/p>\n

Langdon, who moved from Fremantle at the end of 2019, has been an ultra-consistent member of Melbourne\u2019s side on the wing. Only Kade Chandler (73 consecutive games) and Trent Rivers (51) have a longer ongoing streak in the Demons\u2019 side without missing a game.<\/p>\n

The long-sleeved specialist was understandably reluctant to comment on whether he aligned with the board\u2019s decision to stand down Goodwin.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really not for me to say. All I\u2019ll touch on is how much I love Goody … he\u2019s been pretty influential on my career, so I\u2019ve only got good things to say about Goody, what he achieved and what he did for this football club,\u201d Langdon continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t really say (what coach we now need); the board\u2019s going to go through that process. We\u2019ve got Troy Chaplin the next three weeks. He\u2019s been around for a long time and is an experienced assistant coach who, again, is pretty close to the players.<\/p>\n

When asked whether he felt the players need a new voice, Langdon added: \u201cI\u2019m not sure I would agree with that, but that\u2019s the board\u2019s decision. I can only comment on the players\u2019 relationship with Goody, which was always positive. We always respected him and loved him as a coach.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf that\u2019s what the board thinks, then that\u2019s what the board thinks.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Demons will officially begin life without their long-time coach on Sunday afternoon when they take on the Western Bulldogs at the MCG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne stalwart Ed Langdon has voiced his support for recently sacked premiership coach Simon Goodwin, ahead of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,40096,1119,667,1127,10145,61,40099,7804,28885,40097,17989,8014,85,40098,40095,698],"class_list":["post-46583","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-experienced-assistant-coach","tag-football-club","tag-footy-club","tag-fox-footy","tag-garry-lyon","tag-gerard-whateley","tag-long-time-coach","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-premiership-coach","tag-sacked-premiership-coach","tag-senior-players","tag-simon-goodwin","tag-sports","tag-troy-chaplin","tag-ultra-consistent-member","tag-western-bulldogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46583","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=46583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}