{"id":29876,"date":"2017-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/report-minister-spits-the-dummy-at-crows-official\/"},"modified":"2017-03-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T00:00:00","slug":"report-minister-spits-the-dummy-at-crows-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/report-minister-spits-the-dummy-at-crows-official\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT &#8212; Minister spits the dummy at Crows official"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas has repeated on FIVEAA a claim he made in parliament that Sports Minister Leon Bignell was at the centre of an \u201cembarrassing\u201d dummy spit with an Adelaide Crows official.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/david-and-will\/id1167323375?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>David and Will podcast on iTunes here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Mr Bignell] continued to insist to a senior Crows official that he wanted to be given a Crows women\u2019s team jumper,\u201d Mr Lucas told David and Will on FIVEAA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was told on the first occasion it wasn\u2019t the occasion to be discussing it. It wasn\u2019t a Crows function it was actually a cricket game\u2026 when he came back for the third time he was told to go away and put his request in writing if he wanted to persist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat particular exchange, which became increasingly testy\u2026 was witnessed by a number of people who described it as embarrassing behaviour by a minister of the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>PENBO\u2019S MAIL<\/h3>\n<p>David Penberthy said he had some mail about claims the Premier had contacted the Crows to apologise for Mr Bignell\u2019s behaviour:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy understanding is that apparently the Premier didn\u2019t, but Dan Romeo his chief-of-staff apparently did make a call to the Crows to say, look, if anyone was offended by anything, sorry, let\u2019s just move on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asked to speak on FIVEAA about the report, Mr Bignell\u2019s office replied:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLeon won\u2019t be coming on because the claims are untrue, but perhaps you should ask Rob Lucas to come on and repeat the claims outside of parliamentary privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\">COMMENTATOR DEFENDS HIS ERIN PHILLIPS COMMENTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/sad-news-today-for-two-afl-brothers\"><strong>SAD NEWS FOR THESE TWO AFL BROTHERS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas has repeated on FIVEAA a claim he made in parliament that Sports Minister Leon Bignell was at the centre of an \u201cembarrassing\u201d dummy spit with an Adelaide Crows official. David and Will podcast on iTunes here. \u201c[Mr Bignell] continued to insist to a senior Crows official that he wanted to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15557,"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":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"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>REPORT - Minister spits the dummy at Crows official - 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\/show\/report-minister-spits-the-dummy-at-crows-official\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"REPORT -- Minister spits the dummy at Crows official\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas has repeated on FIVEAA a claim he made in parliament that Sports Minister Leon Bignell was at the centre of an \u201cembarrassing\u201d dummy spit with an Adelaide Crows official. 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