{"id":30353,"date":"2016-11-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/caro-stands-by-port-adelaide-slap\/"},"modified":"2016-11-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T00:00:00","slug":"caro-stands-by-port-adelaide-slap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/caro-stands-by-port-adelaide-slap\/","title":{"rendered":"Caro stands by Port Adelaide slap"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Port Adelaide\u2019s on-field performance was undercut by the mission to secure a China game for the 2017 AFL fixture, says Caroline Wilson.<\/h3>\n<p>Caro refused to back down on FIVEAA after Port CEO Keith Thomas bristled at her suggestion he had been \u201cworking around the clock\u201d on the China deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would privately say &#8212; and board members, too, would say &#8212; that perhaps they really, really focused on China to the detriment of football at a time when football required extra attention,\u201d Caro told the FIVEAA sports show&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo way will I retract that.\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\/292350356&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>\u201cThe entire club would admit privately\u2026 that collectively they spent a lot of time getting China over the line,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a fantastic achievement and it\u2019s going to be great for that club, but I believe that football as their core business had some serous problems last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not saying they shouldn\u2019t have let football perhaps be pushed aside at times, very subtly in the interests of an amazing achievement with China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m just saying I believe that they did do that, and I think they would privately admit that they did too.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/leon-byner\/aussie-government-tips-millions-into-clinton-slush-fund\"><strong>AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT TIPS MILLIONS INTO CLINTON \u201cSLUSH FUND\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/ben-jarman-like-father-like-son\"><strong>BEN JARMAN &#8212; LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON\u2026 \u201cHE\u2019LL TEAR A GAME APART\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Adelaide\u2019s on-field performance was undercut by the mission to secure a China game for the 2017 AFL fixture, says Caroline Wilson. Caro refused to back down on FIVEAA after Port CEO Keith Thomas bristled at her suggestion he had been \u201cworking around the clock\u201d on the China deal. \u201cThey would privately say &#8212; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4582,"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":[247,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30353","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) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Caro stands by Port Adelaide slap - 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\/caro-stands-by-port-adelaide-slap\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Caro stands by Port Adelaide slap\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Port Adelaide\u2019s on-field performance was undercut by the mission to secure a China game for the 2017 AFL fixture, says Caroline Wilson. 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