{"id":422499,"date":"2026-04-29T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422499\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:16:08","slug":"why-tom-elliott-is-not-keen-on-an-afl-mental-health-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422499\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Tom Elliott is &#8216;not keen&#8217; on an AFL mental health round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been calls for a state-wide mental health round for all footy leagues across Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>3AW Mornings host Tom Elliott is against the idea, and thinks the AFL should focus solely on football and fix the issues that is impacting the game negatively for fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not automatically keen on the idea of having another special round of footy,\u201d Elliott said on 3AW Mornings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to listen to Tom Elliott\u2019s thoughts\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil the AFL is firing on all cylinders, until as fans we are absolutely happy with the way the game is conducted, I don\u2019t think we need to start lumbering football with another special round.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Image: Getty\/Quinn Rooney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been calls for a state-wide mental health round for all footy leagues across Victoria. 3AW Mornings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[184847,103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-422499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-football-featured","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}