{"id":15238,"date":"2017-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/collingwood-captain-s-pregnancy-comment-is-dividing-opinion\/"},"modified":"2017-05-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T00:00:00","slug":"collingwood-captain-s-pregnancy-comment-is-dividing-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/collingwood-captain-s-pregnancy-comment-is-dividing-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Collingwood captain\u2019s pregnancy comment is dividing opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Captain Scott Pendlebury\u2019s claim that he will leave Collingwood\u2019s Saturday clash with GWS in Sydney if his wife goes into labour has certainly stirred up some emotion.<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking on Collingwood\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/jock-journo\/id1215149475?mt=2#episodeGuid=tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks\/321866436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jock &amp; Journo podcast<\/a>, Pendlebury said the birth of his first child was his top priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to play, but if Alex rang me and she said \u2018we are on here\u2019 and I\u2019m in Sydney &#8211; I would fly back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if I have to miss the game, I will miss the game.\u201d Or even half the game:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOnce you get to the ground you have to hand your phones in,\u201d Scott said. \u201cBut Alex has got \u2018Wags\u2019 (football operations manager Marcus Wagner) number at the footy club, and if it is half-time, I\u2019ll have to (leave).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I do that, leave at half time? I would like to leave at half time, but that would be the worst-case scenario because it would really leave the boys in the lurch.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>But on Melbourne radio, Herald Sun footy reporter Glenn McFarlane said a half time dash was poor form:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs soon as I heard that I thought, you can\u2019t do that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t let him go at half time\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re either not playing and you\u2019ll stay around just in case or you\u2019re saying, \u2018I\u2019m out of here. I\u2019m going to take the risk as plenty of people have done in the past and go up to the game\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t leave a game at half time. 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Speaking on Collingwood\u2019s Jock &amp; Journo podcast, Pendlebury said the birth of his first child was his top priority. \u201cI want to play, but if Alex rang me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15239,"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-15238","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>Collingwood captain\u2019s pregnancy comment is dividing opinion - 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\/collingwood-captain-s-pregnancy-comment-is-dividing-opinion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Collingwood captain\u2019s pregnancy comment is dividing opinion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Captain Scott Pendlebury\u2019s claim that he will leave Collingwood\u2019s Saturday clash with GWS in Sydney if his wife goes into labour has certainly stirred up some emotion. 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