{"id":15580,"date":"2017-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/"},"modified":"2017-03-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T00:00:00","slug":"garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Garry Lyon defends his Erin Phillips comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Garry Lyon has defended comments he made about Adelaide Crow Erin Phillips taking her very young twins out onto the ground on the day of the AFLW grand final.<\/h3>\n<p>Lyon was criticised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/news\/national\/garry-lyon-says-no-player-should-take-young-kids-onto-footy-field-not-just-women\/news-story\/6c4388e05d945d3c182e57faa9289aad\" target=\"_blank\">News Ltd columnist Susie O\u2019Brien<\/a> for being a hypocrite after he questioned Erin\u2019s decision:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTo suggest Phillips did the wrong thing had the effect of highlighting her role as a mother and as a woman. Criticising a man for doing the same thing doesn\u2019t have the same impact or power because men are not judged as fathers the same way women are judged as mothers,\u201d Susie said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was basically suggesting she should be back in the nursery, not out on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhillips was the co-captain of the first AFLW premiership team, best on ground and MVP and yet Lyon couldn\u2019t just let her enjoy the moment &#8212; he had to tear her down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLyon is wrong to suggest it\u2019s not a gender issue because gender always comes into it when you are talking about parenting &#8212; women in public roles are assessed for their mothering skills much more than men are judged as fathers, so the same criticism has a very different meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"678\" width=\"483\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/phillips_twins.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>But Lyon hit back at Susie, saying he had also criticised male footballers for taking very small children onto the field.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was commenting on a footballer. Not a man. Not a women. A footballer,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care whether it was Erin Phillips or Jordan Lewis \u2026 I was just a touch concerned for the little, little kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/sportsday-sa\/did-the-adelaide-crows-make-a-draft-blunder-asks-kane-cornes\"><strong>KANE CORNES: DID THE CROWS MAKE A DRAFT BLUNDER?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/david-and-will-s-on-air-stoush-over-sa-boycott\"><strong>DAVID &amp; WILL\u2019S ON AIR STOUSH OVER SA BOYCOTT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garry Lyon has defended comments he made about Adelaide Crow Erin Phillips taking her very young twins out onto the ground on the day of the AFLW grand final. Lyon was criticised by News Ltd columnist Susie O\u2019Brien for being a hypocrite after he questioned Erin\u2019s decision: \u201cTo suggest Phillips did the wrong thing had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-15580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Garry Lyon defends his Erin Phillips comments - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Garry Lyon defends his Erin Phillips comments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Garry Lyon has defended comments he made about Adelaide Crow Erin Phillips taking her very young twins out onto the ground on the day of the AFLW grand final. Lyon was criticised by News Ltd columnist Susie O\u2019Brien for being a hypocrite after he questioned Erin\u2019s decision: \u201cTo suggest Phillips did the wrong thing had [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FIVEAA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1395FIVEaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-03-29T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lyon-phillips.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"620\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tim Ashdown\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@1395FIVEaa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@1395FIVEaa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tim Ashdown\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/sport\\\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/sport\\\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Tim Ashdown\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687\"},\"headline\":\"Garry Lyon defends his Erin Phillips comments\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-03-29T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/sport\\\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":291,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/sport\\\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/lyon-phillips.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/sport\\\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/sport\\\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\\\/\",\"name\":\"Garry Lyon defends his Erin Phillips comments - FIVEAA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/sport\\\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/sport\\\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/lyon-phillips.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-03-29T00:00:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/sport\\\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/sport\\\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/sport\\\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/lyon-phillips.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/lyon-phillips.jpg\",\"width\":620,\"height\":350},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/sport\\\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Garry Lyon defends his Erin Phillips comments\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/\",\"name\":\"FIVEAA\",\"description\":\"Always Adelaide\",\"alternateName\":\"FIVEAA\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687\",\"name\":\"Tim Ashdown\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Tim Ashdown\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/author\\\/tashdown\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Garry Lyon defends his Erin Phillips comments - FIVEAA","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Garry Lyon defends his Erin Phillips comments","og_description":"Garry Lyon has defended comments he made about Adelaide Crow Erin Phillips taking her very young twins out onto the ground on the day of the AFLW grand final. Lyon was criticised by News Ltd columnist Susie O\u2019Brien for being a hypocrite after he questioned Erin\u2019s decision: \u201cTo suggest Phillips did the wrong thing had [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/","og_site_name":"FIVEAA","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1395FIVEaa","article_published_time":"2017-03-29T00:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":620,"height":350,"url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lyon-phillips.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Tim Ashdown","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@1395FIVEaa","twitter_site":"@1395FIVEaa","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Tim Ashdown","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/"},"author":{"name":"Tim Ashdown","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687"},"headline":"Garry Lyon defends his Erin Phillips comments","datePublished":"2017-03-29T00:00:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/"},"wordCount":291,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lyon-phillips.jpg","articleSection":["Sport"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/","url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/","name":"Garry Lyon defends his Erin Phillips comments - FIVEAA","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lyon-phillips.jpg","datePublished":"2017-03-29T00:00:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lyon-phillips.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lyon-phillips.jpg","width":620,"height":350},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Garry Lyon defends his Erin Phillips comments"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/","name":"FIVEAA","description":"Always Adelaide","alternateName":"FIVEAA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687","name":"Tim Ashdown","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Tim Ashdown"},"url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/author\/tashdown\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15580"},{"taxonomy":"geo_market","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/geo_market?post=15580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}