already hit back at Matthews\u2019 remarks<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd Tigers champion and proud Tasmanian Jack Riewoldt also got riled up over it.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously I\u2019m Tasmanian, but but I found these comments completely in poor taste,\u201d Riewoldt said on Fox Footy\u2019s On The Couch.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they\u2019re disrespectful, and I think they\u2019re actually quite arrogant the comments that have been made by the outgoing CEO at the GWS Giants.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe incoming (Giants) CEO (James Avery) is the ex-CEO of Stadiums Tasmania, a Tasmanian, and it feels like it\u2019s a it\u2019s a hand grenade that\u2019s been lobbed into the GWS camp now that he will walk away from in the not too distant future and leave them to pick up the pieces of what is a pretty alarming comment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hawthorn legend Jordan Lewis agreed it was a \u201creally arrogant comment to make\u201d and was surprised Matthews, as the CEO of an expansion club and former AFL head of game development, went there.<\/p>\n
BOMBERS URGED TO MAKE \u2018TOUGH DECISION\u2019 ON SKIPPER<\/p>\n
Essendon has been urged to make a \u201ctough decision\u201d and change captains from Andy McGrath to Sam Durham under its new coach for 2027.<\/p>\n
Durham has been the AFL\u2019s No. 13 rated player since Round 13 in a brilliant run of form despite the Bombers\u2019 woes.<\/p>\n
The 25-year old was among Essendon\u2019s best last Sunday to lead the team\u2019s upset win over GWS, gathering 25 disposals (13 contested) with seven clearances.<\/p>\n
Buckley reacts to Tassie job heartbreak | 05:21<\/p>\n
It spurred Hawks great Jordan Lewis to suggest Durham should take over the captaincy from McGrath, who just replaced Zach Merrett in the role this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe coach that comes in has got a difficult decision on who he thinks will be captain of this football club,\u201d Lewis said on Fox Footy\u2019s On the Couch.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a lay down mis\u00e8re that McGrath will be captain.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe clear choice for me would be Durham. The way he played yesterday, the inspirational stuff he does on the field, the contest, the unwillingness to give up the ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think from the outside looking in, and yes, I don\u2019t know how he conducts himself inside the football club. But for me, if you want to change the identity of your football club and you want to get back to week in, week out, \u2018gritty not pretty\u2019, he is your man to lead this club forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
While removing McGrath after one year would be ruthless, Lewis says the Bombers need to make hard calls in the club\u2019s best interests.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got make tough decisions. They made what I thought was tough decisions with selection,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would you go another one year, two years, maybe three years potentially and have a captain who is well liked and performs a role in defence, but not in and around the ball like Sam Durham?<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is the one for me who is the obvious choice to lead this club forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A great has \ufefffired back at Giants chief\u2019s \u201cdisrespectful\u201d and \u201carrogant\u201d comments. Plus Essendon has been urged to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-813439","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\/813439","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=813439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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