{"id":12042,"date":"2018-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/melbourne-footy-reporter-apologises-to-taylor-walker\/"},"modified":"2018-04-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T00:00:00","slug":"melbourne-footy-reporter-apologises-to-taylor-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/melbourne-footy-reporter-apologises-to-taylor-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Footy Reporter Apologises To Taylor Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Victorian footy journo Damian Barrett has penned a so-called \u2018love letter\u2019 to Tex Walker after the Crows captain\u2019s recent pasting in the media.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" 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\/taylor-walker_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cTex Walker, thank you,\u201d Barrett begins his article for afl.com.au.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThank you for being yourself, for the on-field chest-out and strut, for the &#8216;Power Ranger&#8217; stance in last year\u2019s finals.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThanks for not forgetting from where you came, for being prepared to say things which leave you wide open to attack.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWe love the loyalty that accompanies your every public word and passion for your club, appreciate the vulnerability to which you expose yourself on some of those words.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThanks for being old school in a new school world.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Barrett apologised to Walker for the onslaught he faced after recent controversies regarding Jake Lever, last year\u2019s GF loss and a poor showing against Collingwood in round four.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThanks for not taking yourself too seriously when all others do.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cAs an industry, we\u2019re quick to smash Taylor Walker.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cCan\u2019t understand why\u2026<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWhat you see with Walker is what you get. There\u2019s not many people in the AFL in 2018 who can lay claim to that.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Something of a love letter from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barrettdamian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@barrettdamian<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/texwalker13?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@texwalker13<\/a> this morning! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VZXd3t5KMZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/VZXd3t5KMZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; AFL.com.au (@AFLcomau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFLcomau\/status\/989270530019606529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian footy journo Damian Barrett has penned a so-called \u2018love letter\u2019 to Tex Walker after the Crows captain\u2019s recent pasting in the media. \u201cTex Walker, thank you,\u201d Barrett begins his article for afl.com.au. \u201cThank you for being yourself, for the on-field chest-out and strut, for the &#8216;Power Ranger&#8217; stance in last year\u2019s finals. \u201cThanks for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-12042","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) - 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