{"id":32012,"date":"2016-05-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/charlie-dixon-downplays-five-month-booze-ban-2\/"},"modified":"2016-05-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T00:00:00","slug":"charlie-dixon-downplays-five-month-booze-ban-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/charlie-dixon-downplays-five-month-booze-ban-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Dixon downplays his five-month booze ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Charlie Dixon says his decision to give up alcohol was a suggestion from Ken Hinkley, and the coach didn\u2019t force the alcohol ban on him.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t too big of a deal really. I just did what he asked me,\u201d Dixon told Rowey and Bicks on FIVEAA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe asked me about it and I said, \u2018yeah ok,\u2019 and it wasn\u2019t like he put it on me, he just asked the question.<\/p>\n<p>His former team, the Gold Coast Suns, handed Dixon a one-match ban in 2015 after he admitted to drinking red wine on the nights before games, prompting Gary Ablett to say the club was \u201cextremely disappointed and embarrassed\u201d by Dixon and teammate Jack Martin\u2019s behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve moved on from that,\u201d Dixon said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone seems to always love asking me about that sort of stuff, but at the end of the day, I try to bring it back to football all the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what it\u2019s about now, it\u2019s about the football and not the previous stuff that\u2019s happened in the past. I\u2019ve moved well and truly past that.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN TO CHARLIE DIXON 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\/266583441&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>Dixon confirmed he had a \u201ccouple of beers\u201d after Port\u2019s win over Melbourne on Saturday, and said the club\u2019s alcohol policy was \u201csimilar to most AFL teams\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019ve got an eight day break, yeah that\u2019s fine, you\u2019re more than welcome to have a few beers and that\u2019s fine,\u201d Dixon said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA six day break, that\u2019s a no. It comes down to how you\u2019re going to react and how you\u2019re going to recover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said his five-month ban was to help him settle in a new state where he didn\u2019t have many people around him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was pretty much it, and to really give my body the chance to perform,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/kane-cornes-says-chad-wingard-will-go-down-as-greatest-ever-port-adelaide-player\">KANE CORNES CALLS IT &#8211; PORT ADELAIDE\u2019S BEST EVER PLAYER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/videos\/zoo-defends-its-decision-to-kill-gorilla\">NEW FOOTAGE SHOWS GORILLA \u201cPROTECTING\u201d BOY WHO FELL INTO ENCLOSURE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Dixon says his decision to give up alcohol was a suggestion from Ken Hinkley, and the coach didn\u2019t force the alcohol ban on him. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t too big of a deal really. I just did what he asked me,\u201d Dixon told Rowey and Bicks on FIVEAA. \u201cHe asked me about it and I said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6874,"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-32012","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>Charlie Dixon downplays his five-month booze ban - 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\/charlie-dixon-downplays-five-month-booze-ban-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Charlie Dixon downplays his five-month booze ban\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Charlie Dixon says his decision to give up alcohol was a suggestion from Ken Hinkley, and the coach didn\u2019t force the alcohol ban on him. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t too big of a deal really. 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