{"id":71757,"date":"2021-05-16T13:39:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T13:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=71757"},"modified":"2021-05-16T13:58:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T13:58:28","slug":"swifts-coach-takes-thinly-veiled-swipe-at-stuart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=71757","title":{"rendered":"Swifts coach takes thinly-veiled swipe at Stuart"},"content":{"rendered":"

NSW Swifts<\/a> coach Briony Akle has taken a thinly-veiled swipe at Canberra Raiders coach Ricky Stuart<\/a> after his comments regarding the toughness of netballers. <\/p>\n

Stuart has been in the firing line over the last week for his comments made to News Corp journalist Paul Kent, and has since issued an apology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the Raiders coach was slammed by Australian netball great Liz Ellis<\/a>, Akle too, took a dig at the under-fire Stuart after her Swifts claimed a 55-43 win over the Vixens.<\/p>\n

"The Vixens are a championship team," Akle said. "I was not comfortable at all that we had won that game, even with five minutes to go."<\/p>\n

\"Briony<\/p>\n

"Netballers are tough. It was a tough 60 minutes of netball and it took that to win the game.<\/p>\n

"Swifts fans, they're crying out for netball and it's been nearly two years since we've played.<\/p>\n

"For them to be loyal to us and come back and turn out like they did today and support a team that has been away, it just shows the legacy of the team.<\/p>\n

"Netball and women's sport is definitely up there."<\/p>\n

Swifts star Sam Wallace was once again the chief destroyer for Akle, shooting at 100 per cent efficiency in the win as she went 48 for 48 on goal attempts.<\/p>\n

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NSW Swifts coach Briony Akle has taken a thinly-veiled swipe at Canberra Raiders coach Ricky Stuart after his comments regarding the toughness of netballers. Stuart […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/71757"}],"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=71757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71759,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71757\/revisions\/71759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}