{"id":12617,"date":"2018-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/malcolm-blight-opens-up-about-tony-modra-s-exit-from-the-crows\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:00:00","slug":"malcolm-blight-opens-up-about-tony-modra-s-exit-from-the-crows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/malcolm-blight-opens-up-about-tony-modra-s-exit-from-the-crows\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm Blight Opens Up About Tony Modra\u2019s Exit From The Crows"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Adelaide Crows premiership coach Malcolm Blight admits he regrets not speaking to Tony Modra before the star full-forward left the club at the end of \u201898.<\/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\/blight-modra.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThe thing I did wrong, and I\u2019ll say this now &#8212; I should\u2019ve thrown an olive branch out to him to go and have a cup of coffee with him or sat down,&#8221; Blight said on FIVEAA.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cBut he\u2019d had enough of me, and at that moment I\u2019d had enough of him. But I should\u2019ve been strong enough in myself to actually go and sit and talk to him and see if we could work something out. He would\u2019ve been handy the following year, he was better than probably what we ended up doing.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI probably disappointed myself &#8212; that I should\u2019ve gone and tried to have a chat to him somehow. Get over the egos, get over all that, but he was off and ended up goring to Fremantle. He went very quickly from the club.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Blighty revealed he bumped into Modra again years later while coaching during a Slowdown.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cHe was fine. Am I his favourite person? Probably not, but I respected what he did for the Adelaide football club for the time that he was there.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;The thing I did wrong, I should have thrown the olive branch out to him and gone and had a coffee with him.&quot; &#8211; Malcolm Blight opens up on the Tony Modra departure.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pPu6RTker6\">https:\/\/t.co\/pPu6RTker6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sportsday SA (@SportsdaySA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsdaySA\/status\/960802174870552576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide Crows premiership coach Malcolm Blight admits he regrets not speaking to Tony Modra before the star full-forward left the club at the end of \u201898. \u201cThe thing I did wrong, and I\u2019ll say this now &#8212; I should\u2019ve thrown an olive branch out to him to go and have a cup of coffee with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6872,"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-12617","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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