{"id":17878,"date":"2016-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/i-was-sledged-by-wayne-carey-in-my-first-game-says-ryan-fitzgerald\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T00:00:00","slug":"i-was-sledged-by-wayne-carey-in-my-first-game-says-ryan-fitzgerald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/i-was-sledged-by-wayne-carey-in-my-first-game-says-ryan-fitzgerald\/","title":{"rendered":"I was sledged by Wayne Carey in my first game: Fitzy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Swan and FIVEAA regular Ryan Fitzgerald has spoken on Fox Sports about the first time he was ever sledged on field \u2013 by none other than The King, Wayne Carey.<\/h3>\n

\u201cMy first ever trial game for the Swans was against North Melbourne,\u201d Fitzy said on Fox\u2019s Back Page Live<\/a>. \u201cI took a grab about 55 out and I went back, looked for the lead, but as if I was going to pass off \u2013 I was going to have a crack.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I\u2019m lining up for goal I heard, \u2018Stop the game, stop the game.\u2019 And I looked around and it was Wayne Carey right on my back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fitzy said Carey called him a \u201cpraying mantis\u201d and ridiculed the unknown first gamer for attempting a shot from so far out.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was yelling out to my Swans teammates going, \u2018Someone lead so he doesn\u2019t have to kick.\u2019 And I thought, stuff you I\u2019m going to have a crack here.\u201d<\/p>\n

And how\u2019d that go?<\/p>\n

\u201cWent back and I sprayed it off to the right, out on the full.\u201d<\/p>\n

The anecdote came after Fitzy took to Twitter to criticise the way Sydney Swan Kieren Jack\u2019s parents handled themselves during a highly publicised family spat involving their son\u2019s girlfriend.<\/p>\n

Fitzy also wasn\u2019t impressed when Jack\u2019s dad made light of the situation in a jokey tweet he sent to the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

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Former Swan and FIVEAA regular Ryan Fitzgerald has spoken on Fox Sports about the first time he was ever sledged on field \u2013 by none other than The King, Wayne Carey. \u201cMy first ever trial game for the Swans was against North Melbourne,\u201d Fitzy said on Fox\u2019s Back Page Live. \u201cI took a grab about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17880,"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-17878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nI was sledged by Wayne Carey in my first game: Fitzy - 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\/i-was-sledged-by-wayne-carey-in-my-first-game-says-ryan-fitzgerald\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I was sledged by Wayne Carey in my first game: Fitzy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Swan and FIVEAA regular Ryan Fitzgerald has spoken on Fox Sports about the first time he was ever sledged on field \u2013 by none other than The King, Wayne Carey. \u201cMy first ever trial game for the Swans was against North Melbourne,\u201d Fitzy said on Fox\u2019s Back Page Live. \u201cI took a grab about […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/i-was-sledged-by-wayne-carey-in-my-first-game-says-ryan-fitzgerald\/\" \/>\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=\"2016-07-14T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/fitzy-carey.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\\\/i-was-sledged-by-wayne-carey-in-my-first-game-says-ryan-fitzgerald\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/sport\\\/i-was-sledged-by-wayne-carey-in-my-first-game-says-ryan-fitzgerald\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Tim Ashdown\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687\"},\"headline\":\"I was sledged by Wayne Carey in my first game: Fitzy\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-07-14T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/sport\\\/i-was-sledged-by-wayne-carey-in-my-first-game-says-ryan-fitzgerald\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":267,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/sport\\\/i-was-sledged-by-wayne-carey-in-my-first-game-says-ryan-fitzgerald\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/fitzy-carey.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/sport\\\/i-was-sledged-by-wayne-carey-in-my-first-game-says-ryan-fitzgerald\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/sport\\\/i-was-sledged-by-wayne-carey-in-my-first-game-says-ryan-fitzgerald\\\/\",\"name\":\"I was sledged by Wayne Carey in my first game: Fitzy - 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