{"id":29951,"date":"2017-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/hodge-committed-the-worst-footy-sin-says-leigh-matthews\/"},"modified":"2017-03-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T00:00:00","slug":"hodge-committed-the-worst-footy-sin-says-leigh-matthews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/hodge-committed-the-worst-footy-sin-says-leigh-matthews\/","title":{"rendered":"Hodge committed the WORST footy sin, says Leigh Matthews"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Leigh Matthews wonders what\u2019s going on \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d at Hawthorn after superstar Luke Hodge was suspended for one game after missing training.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIn a football sense not turning up for training is almost the worst sin you can do,\u201d Leigh told Rowey and Bicks on FIVEAA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to say to my players, if you\u2019re not sure what\u2019s the right thing to do, just ask yourself the question: if everyone was doing what I\u2019m doing, would we be better or worse off?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf everybody, like Hodgey, hadn\u2019t turned up to that training session then there wouldn\u2019t have been a training session &#8212; no one would\u2019ve been there.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/312499909&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever you stop someone playing, it\u2019s almost like punishing yourself,\u201d Leigh said, \u201cbut it\u2019s kind of the short-term setting the standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that happened, I thought to myself, I wonder what\u2019s going on behind the scenes at Hawthorn\u2026 if they have little bits and pieces of lack of discipline, then you\u2019ve really got to put a foot on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Hodgey gets suspended for a game, it says to every other player, you put your foot out of place you\u2019ll have a severe penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/penbo-lets-slip-with-some-major-news-on-fiveaa\"><strong>PENBO LETS SLIP SOME MAJOR NEWS ON FIVEAA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/mark-bickley-says-port-adelaide-will-be-rejoicing-about-this\"><strong>MARK BICKLEY SAYS PORT ADELAIDE WILL BE \u201cREJOICING\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leigh Matthews wonders what\u2019s going on \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d at Hawthorn after superstar Luke Hodge was suspended for one game after missing training. \u201cIn a football sense not turning up for training is almost the worst sin you can do,\u201d Leigh told Rowey and Bicks on FIVEAA. \u201cI used to say to my players, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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