{"id":618372,"date":"2026-04-20T03:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/618372\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T03:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:23:13","slug":"hardie-on-the-elijah-hollands-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/618372\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardie on the Elijah Hollands saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph is-rich-chat-ui normal ng-star-inserted\" data-start-index=\"2766\">Brad Hardie slammed the AFL\u2019s handling of the Elijah Hollands controversy, labelling it \u201ctotally mismanaged\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear Brad Hardie\u2019s full comments on the AFL\u2019s handling of the saga.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph is-rich-chat-ui normal ng-star-inserted\" data-start-index=\"2889\">Speaking about Hollands\u2019 seemingly erratic on-field behaviour, Hardie told 6PR Breakfast hosts Millsy and Karl there was enough evidence at the time for questions to be asked, and he challenged why the AFL Integrity Department didn\u2019t step in while the situation was unfolding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph is-rich-chat-ui normal ng-star-inserted\" data-start-index=\"3271\">\u201cHow did it fester for 24 to 36 hours without them taking some sort of action? What are they doing?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start-index=\"3271\">Hear more highlights below and download the 6PR app on iOS or Android to ensure you don\u2019t miss a thing!<\/p>\n<p data-start-index=\"3271\">\n<p data-start-index=\"3271\">Image: James Wiltshire\/AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Hardie slammed the AFL\u2019s handling of the Elijah Hollands controversy, labelling it \u201ctotally mismanaged\u201d. Press PLAY to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-618372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618372","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=618372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}