{"id":32700,"date":"2015-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/leigh-matthews-called-time-on-james-hird-as-coach-2\/"},"modified":"2015-08-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T00:00:00","slug":"leigh-matthews-called-time-on-james-hird-as-coach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/leigh-matthews-called-time-on-james-hird-as-coach-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthews called time on Hird as coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>There had been many calls for James Hird to fall on his sword or&nbsp;for Essendon to axe him. But last weekend one AFL great said it was time.<\/h3>\n<p>It was Leigh Matthews.<\/p>\n<p>And only days later Hird was gone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all make out judgement on our own philosophies,\u201d Leigh told Rowey and Bicks FIVEAA, saying James Hird should never have returned after being stood down as Essendon coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was Hirdy I would\u2019ve said, no, really I shouldn\u2019t come back as coach because it doesn\u2019t matter how good a coach I am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d have to be a super, super, super coach to still be able to coach with the kind of baggage that has been hanging around Essendon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s terrible when a club has to sack the coach, as opposed to when the coach reads the wind\u2026 and knows that it\u2019s time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leigh said after such a poor couple of months it was no surprise Essendon had pushed Hird out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN to Leigh Matthew here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/219909549&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>Leigh Matthews joins Rowey and Bicks every Wednesday throughout 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/coach-james-hird-was-an-unmitigated-disaster\">HIRD A &#8216;DISASTER&#8217; AS COACH, SAYS CARO WILSON<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/videos\/why-you-should-always-leave-your-dash-cam-on\">WHY YOU SHOULD GET A DASH CAM FOR YOUR CAR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There had been many calls for James Hird to fall on his sword or&nbsp;for Essendon to axe him. But last weekend one AFL great said it was time. It was Leigh Matthews. And only days later Hird was gone. \u201cWe all make out judgement on our own philosophies,\u201d Leigh told Rowey and Bicks FIVEAA, saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5842,"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-32700","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>Matthews called time on Hird as coach - 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\/leigh-matthews-called-time-on-james-hird-as-coach-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Matthews called time on Hird as coach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There had been many calls for James Hird to fall on his sword or&nbsp;for Essendon to axe him. 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