{"id":444971,"date":"2025-03-26T20:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=444971"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:11:40","slug":"put-a-sock-in-it-regret-lingers-after-gawn-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=444971","title":{"rendered":"'Put a sock in it': Regret lingers after Gawn reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne<\/a> coach Simon Goodwin<\/a> admits he immediately regretted exposing the personal situation of Max Gawn<\/a> after the club's defeat to North Melbourne on Sunday. \ufeff\ufeff<\/p>\n

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"I should've put a sock in it, shouldn't I?" Goodwin told Fox Footy's AFL 360.<\/p>\n

"I just didn't get it right… I think as a coach you go into this protective mode. I love the big fella, I love everything he's about \ufeffand what he does for our footy club.<\/p>\n

"I didn't articulate it in the way I would've liked.<\/p>\n

"If I had my time again, I certainly wouldn't go there but as a coach sometimes that protective mode comes out."<\/p>\n

\"Simon<\/p>\n

Goodwin said he left the press conference and immediately issued an apology to his player for the comments he had made.<\/p>\n

"As soon as I walked out I knew I had to go and speak to him pretty quickly," he said.<\/p>\n

"He was fine, he knew the place it was coming from. He just gave me a hug and said 'it's all good. We're fine. We'll keep moving forward'.<\/p>\n

"That's the type of relationship we have… we're not going to get everything right.\ufeff"<\/p>\n

Gawn acknowledged that his coach's comments had come from a place of "love and care" but insisted he would rather no excuses be made for his poor showing.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old dismissed suggestions of a potential rift between the pair<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\ufeff"There's no issue with me and Goody," he told SEN.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffHe is a father figure for me and he was showing love and showing care and I appreciate that."<\/p>\n

\"Max<\/p>\n

Still, some feared Goodwin may have used Gawn's personal situation as an intentional tactic to deflect away from responding to Melbourne's 59-point loss.<\/p>\n

The \ufefftheory was one the premiership-winning coach said he could understand how some may come to such conclusions but ultimately was not his intension.<\/p>\n

"You open yourself up (to that critique) and because it wasn't articulated well and it was left for everyone to have their own interpretation, that is what happens," said Goodwin.<\/p>\n

"People see it in a lot of different ways. A lot of different stories come out of it and a lot of different meanings take place within it.<\/p>\n

"As I say, we are imperfect and we move on."\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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