{"id":733171,"date":"2026-06-13T03:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733171\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T03:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:16:13","slug":"former-afl-coach-explains-why-james-hird-is-the-right-person-for-essendon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733171\/","title":{"rendered":"Former AFL coach explains why James Hird is the &#8216;right person&#8217; for Essendon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former AFL coach and current Port Melbourne senior coach Brendan McCartney joined 3AW Football\u00a0and was asked about his time working with James Hird.<\/p>\n<p>He explains why Hird would be great for the Bombers and highlights the key strengths he would bring to the struggling club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is the right person for the Bombers,\u201d McCartney said on 3AW Football.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to listen to the full interview with Brendan McCartney<\/p>\n<p>Image: Morgan Hancock\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former AFL coach and current Port Melbourne senior coach Brendan McCartney joined 3AW Football\u00a0and was asked about his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,14676,85],"class_list":["post-733171","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-football-featured","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733171","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=733171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}