{"id":13540,"date":"2017-10-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/tex-walker-apparently-blasted-jake-lever-over-his-decision-to-leave-adelaide\/"},"modified":"2017-10-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T00:00:00","slug":"tex-walker-apparently-blasted-jake-lever-over-his-decision-to-leave-adelaide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/tex-walker-apparently-blasted-jake-lever-over-his-decision-to-leave-adelaide\/","title":{"rendered":"Tex Walker Blasted Jake Lever Over His Decision To Leave Adelaide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Taylor Walker reportedly unloaded on Jake Lever when the departing Crow told his captain about his decision.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTex Walker, as the captain of the football club, was furious and let him know in no uncertain manner,\u201d Garry Lyon has said on Melbourne radio.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>SEN co-host Sam McClure also reported Lever\u2019s decision had not gone down well with teammates and coaches.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere have been senior players at the Adelaide football club who have been unhappy about this situation for several months now,\u201d Sam said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been going on at training and it\u2019s been going on behind the scenes. It started off as banter &#8212; it increased to more than just that. In the last 48 hours it has got to the point where the pressure valve had to be released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Jake Lever picked up the phone and decided to call every player on the list to explain what his decision was, and he was seeking a request home to the Melbourne footy club and to go home to Victoria to be closer to family, there were some players that accepted his phone call and were grateful for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were others, including the captain Taylor Walker who weren\u2019t so happy, and the phone call was very short, and his intentions were made very clear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe exit meeting between the head of footy Brett Burton and Don Pyke didn\u2019t go so amicably.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy guess is you will not see Jake Lever at the best and fairest on Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Adelaide skipper \u201cfurious\u201d at Lever | <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X14dqkOWq9\">https:\/\/t.co\/X14dqkOWq9<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TradeSENtral?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TradeSENtral<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9ue0fKshsK\">pic.twitter.com\/9ue0fKshsK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; 1116 SEN Footy (@SENfooty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SENfooty\/status\/915317341054840833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#13;\n&#13;\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/Adelaide-Crows-Superstar-Could-Be-Open-To-Offers-Says-Kane-Cornes\"><strong>RORY SLOANE COULD BE OPEN TO OFFERS, SAYS KANE CORNES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/David-and-Will-Call-Out-The-Online-Bullies-Trolling-Josh-Jenkins\"><strong>DAVID AND WILL CALL OUT THE ONLINE BULLIES ATTACKING JOSH JENKINS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Walker reportedly unloaded on Jake Lever when the departing Crow told his captain about his decision. \u201cTex Walker, as the captain of the football club, was furious and let him know in no uncertain manner,\u201d Garry Lyon has said on Melbourne radio. 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