{"id":293626,"date":"2023-05-06T06:08:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T06:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=293626"},"modified":"2023-05-06T06:58:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T06:58:21","slug":"stuart-explains-controversial-guests-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=293626","title":{"rendered":"Stuart explains controversial guest's appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ricky Stuart<\/a> has explained why former Wallabies<\/a> coach-turned radio announcer Alan Jones<\/a> was in his coaches box for the Raiders Magic Round win over the Bulldogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Broadcast cameras captured Jones nestled behind Stuart throughout the full 80 minute contest.<\/p>\n

Jones was a mentor to Stuart as he came through the rugby ranks while the former was coaching the Wallabies in the 80s, and even picked him as injury cover on a tour.<\/p>\n

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Stuart said Jones had messaged him earlier in the day asking to come along.<\/p>\n

"Alan texted me yesterday and said he was doing a lunch up here [in Brisbane]," he explained.<\/p>\n

"He said I'd love to come along and support you. I rang him up and said, 'That will be great, I'll get you some corporate tickets if you want to come along'.<\/p>\n

\"Alan<\/p>\n

"He said, 'No, shit no, I'm with you blokes. He said, 'I don't want to be in corporate, I'd rather sit on my lounge chair at home'.<\/p>\n

"And I said, 'Oh great, well sit up in the (coaches) box'.<\/p>\n

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Jones went into the Raiders shed after the game and gave a brief speech.<\/p>\n

When Stuart collapsed three times during 1998 while playing for the Raiders, he said it was because of Jones he survived after doctors didn't think it was serious.<\/p>\n

\"Fogarty<\/p>\n

According to the Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, now-Raiders chief executive Don Furner visited Stuart, and would later call the late John Fordham – who was Stuart's agent – to pass on his concerns.<\/p>\n

Fordham then called Jones.<\/p>\n

"Turns out I had encephalitis, which is swelling of the brain," Stuart said.<\/p>\n

"If it wasn't for Alan. Honestly. He organised for Kerry Packer to supply his private jet and get it to Canberra immediately to fly me to St Vincent's Hospital. I was gone. I was very ill. If I didn't get to St Vincent's, I don't know what the outcome would have been.<\/p>\n

"Donny saw the situation and how ill I was. I went to Canberra hospital three times and got sent home three times. My body was failing."<\/p>\n

"He's a special person to me and many, many people."<\/p>\n

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