{"id":41355,"date":"2020-05-07T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T05:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=41355"},"modified":"2020-05-07T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T05:32:10","slug":"kevin-sheedys-heartfelt-words-for-dean-laidley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/kevin-sheedys-heartfelt-words-for-dean-laidley\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Sheedy\u2019s Heartfelt Words For Dean Laidley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Aussie Rules coaching great Kevin Sheedy says \u201cwe just need to make sure we can keep this young man alive\u201d after former North Melbourne coach and player Dean Laidley was arrested last weekend amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/afl\/revealed-friends-despair-at-troubled-exafl-coach-dean-laidleys-drug-use-and-failed-rehab-bid\/news-story\/676aef22e8cb9d718e012c0bf460f6f5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports of drug use [source]<\/a>.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sheeds told Rowey &amp; Bicks on the FIVEAA sports show that Laidley\u2019s situation reminded him in some ways of Ben Cousins\u2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cObviously drugs really change the dynamic of a person\u2019s life. The more you take the worse you get, there\u2019s no doubt about that.<\/p><p>\u201cBen Cousins\u2019 father had rung me to see if I could get him over to Melbourne\u2026 we\u2019d just lost Chris Mainwaring and a great young actor in Heath Ledger, all Western Australians, and I\u2019m thinking to myself if I don\u2019t get Ben Cousins out of that position &#8212; he was on a merry-go-round and he\u2019s still on it by the sounds &#8212; but we got him to Richmond and he\u2019s still alive. That\u2019s the main thing.<\/p><p>\u201cIt\u2019s very hard to get these people off that merry-go-round and help them. We just need to make sure we can keep this young man alive and get out of the predicament that he\u2019s found himself in.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-north-melbourne-coach-is-in-jail-after-weekend-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Laidley was arrested in St Kilda on Saturday night<\/a> after police were called to an incident outside a residence about 9pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was charged with stalking and other matters and will appear in court on Monday, May 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LISTEN HERE:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-41355-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.acast.com\/roweybicks\/interview-kevinsheedy-5may2020\/media.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.acast.com\/roweybicks\/interview-kevinsheedy-5may2020\/media.mp3\">https:\/\/media.acast.com\/roweybicks\/interview-kevinsheedy-5may2020\/media.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aussie Rules coaching great Kevin Sheedy says \u201cwe just need to make sure we can keep this young man alive\u201d after former North Melbourne coach and player Dean Laidley was arrested last weekend amid reports of drug use [source]. Sheeds told Rowey &amp; Bicks on the FIVEAA sports show that Laidley\u2019s situation reminded him in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38081,"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":[396,143],"tags":[246,248],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-41355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rowey-and-bicks-2","category-sport","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-sport"],"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>Kevin Sheedy\u2019s Heartfelt Words For Dean Laidley - 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\/sport\/kevin-sheedys-heartfelt-words-for-dean-laidley\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kevin Sheedy\u2019s Heartfelt Words For Dean Laidley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Aussie Rules coaching great Kevin Sheedy says \u201cwe just need to make sure we can keep this young man alive\u201d after former North Melbourne coach and player Dean Laidley was arrested last weekend amid reports of drug use [source]. 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