{"id":19779,"date":"2016-01-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/james-hird-s-tell-all-interview-slammed-as-joke\/"},"modified":"2016-01-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T00:00:00","slug":"james-hird-s-tell-all-interview-slammed-as-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/james-hird-s-tell-all-interview-slammed-as-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"James Hird\u2019s \u201ctell all\u201d interview slammed as a joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>James Hird\u2019s exclusive interview with the ABC on Sunday concerning Essendon\u2019s disgraced supplements program has been ridiculed for its lack of depth.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI wasn&#8217;t part of that overseeing role. I was part of the Essendon Football Club in a senior role at the time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no experimental program that went on. It wasn&#8217;t a pharmaceutical nature. There was no intention by anyone and Stephen Dank included in my belief, to cheat the system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many who watched the interview were surprised by the lack of new information and Hird\u2019s refusal to accept any wrongdoing, and interviewer Tracey Holmes also copped flak for not asking harder questions of Hird.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/screen_shot_2016-01-18_at_10.39.04_am.png\" width=\"769\" height=\"896\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/screen_shot_2016-01-18_at_10.39.19_am.png\" width=\"758\" height=\"820\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/screen_shot_2016-01-18_at_10.39.40_am.png\" width=\"761\" height=\"632\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/essendon-guilty-verdict-a-stitch-up-says-graham-cornes\">ESSENDON VERDICT A \u201cSTITCH UP\u201d SAYS CORNESY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/lifestyle\/man-who-died-alone-in-nursing-home-left-behind-message-for-us-all\">MAN WHO DIED ALONE LEAVES BEHIND HEART-BREAKING MESSAGE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Hird\u2019s exclusive interview with the ABC on Sunday concerning Essendon\u2019s disgraced supplements program has been ridiculed for its lack of depth. \u201cI wasn&#8217;t part of that overseeing role. I was part of the Essendon Football Club in a senior role at the time,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was no experimental program that went on. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11737,"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":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-19779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"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>James Hird\u2019s \u201ctell all\u201d interview slammed as a joke - 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\/news\/james-hird-s-tell-all-interview-slammed-as-joke\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"James Hird\u2019s \u201ctell all\u201d interview slammed as a joke\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"James Hird\u2019s exclusive interview with the ABC on Sunday concerning Essendon\u2019s disgraced supplements program has been ridiculed for its lack of depth. \u201cI wasn&#8217;t part of that overseeing role. 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