{"id":391977,"date":"2024-05-08T21:42:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T21:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=391977"},"modified":"2024-05-08T22:04:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T22:04:27","slug":"american-rubbish-afl-great-whacks-down-ring-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=391977","title":{"rendered":"'American rubbish': AFL great whacks down ring idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

AFL<\/a> great Matthew Lloyd<\/a> isn't a fan of the "American rubbish" idea to introduce premiership rings.<\/p>\n

\ufeffWide World of Sports revealed this week Collingwood has lobbied head office to give the team rings for winning last year's grand final<\/a>, despite already having medals.<\/p>\n

The AFL gives medals to the winning players and coach of each grand final. The NRL gives out rings instead, following a tradition largely seen in American sports.<\/p>\n

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Lloyd – who won the 2000 grand final with Essendon – has no interest in copying the US any more than the AFL already does.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffNo for me – it's noise, American rubbish noise," Lloyd told Nine's Footy Classified<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Matthew<\/p>\n

"\ufeffI love the medallions.<\/p>\n

"Everyone still cherishes their medallion, but I don't know of any player who's got a ring that ever thought much of it."<\/p>\n

\ufeffFormer Bulldogs and Richmond player Nathan Brown agrees the idea is ripped straight from the states.<\/p>\n

But, unlike Lloyd, he's not totally opposed to it.<\/p>\n

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"\ufeffI don't mind the idea, it's very American and we seem to copy everything that is American," Brown told Nine's Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n

"I imagine it would resonate with young guys coming through… good luck to everybody who either gets a ring or a medal."\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"AFL<\/p>\n

The suggestion has received mixed reactions across the game.<\/p>\n

Melbourne champion Christian Petracca is all for the idea, but revealed on radio this week he doesn't know where his 2021 premiership medal is.<\/p>\n

"Well, to be honest, I probably would like it (a ring) more than a medal, because I actually don't know where my medal is," Petracca said on Nova 100's Jase & Lauren<\/em> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

"I think it'd be interesting. I love the NBA (who give out rings). So I think a ring would be cool."\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AFL great Matthew Lloyd isn't a fan of the "American rubbish" idea to introduce premiership rings. \ufeffWide World of Sports revealed this week Collingwood has […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":391979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391982,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391977\/revisions\/391982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/391979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}