{"id":30992,"date":"2016-06-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/ed-s-sledge-was-a-loan-from-stevie-j\/"},"modified":"2016-06-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T00:00:00","slug":"ed-s-sledge-was-a-loan-from-stevie-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/ed-s-sledge-was-a-loan-from-stevie-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed\u2019s sledge was a loan from Stevie J"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Adelaide Crow Eddie Betts has explained the moment he delivered the sledge to West Coast\u2019s Josh Hill that quickly went viral, and revealed it was one that had been used on him before.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI know Josh Hill really well,\u201d Betts told David and Will on FIVEAA Breakfast. \u201cWe\u2019re great mates and we always talk crap to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talk crap the whole game really. Every time on the field we run past each other we joke about something or give each other a little whack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe goes, \u2018Ed, have you got a pocket at this ground?\u2019 And I go, \u2018Joshie, I\u2019ve got a pocket at every oval I go to.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was only joking,\u201d Betts said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got that line off Stevie J when we played GWS. I said, \u2018Stevie, are you going to get a pocket here?\u2019 He goes, \u2018Ed, c\u2019mon mate, I\u2019ve got a pocket at every ground.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN TO EDDIE BETTS 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\/269119867&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>Betts said he was rarely sledged by opponents, except for one memorable occasion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m always nice, to be honest,\u201d Betts said. \u201cI don\u2019t go crazy at them and they don\u2019t really talk back to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there was one exception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBob murphy. I was actually talking to him on the field and he looked at me and he goes, \u2018Ed, I\u2019m not your mate, mate. Don\u2019t talk to me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But even then Murphy later admitted he felt bad about what he said and the pair now joke about the moment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/david-koch-fires-back-at-tim-watson\">WHACK \u2013 DAVID KOCH HITS BACK AT TIM WATSON<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/leon-byner\/adelaide-s-cheap-rail-system\">THE IMPORTANT ADELAIDE UPGRADE DONE \u201cON THE CHEAP\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide Crow Eddie Betts has explained the moment he delivered the sledge to West Coast\u2019s Josh Hill that quickly went viral, and revealed it was one that had been used on him before. \u201cI know Josh Hill really well,\u201d Betts told David and Will on FIVEAA Breakfast. \u201cWe\u2019re great mates and we always talk crap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":830,"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-30992","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) - 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