{"id":7933,"date":"2020-12-10T05:26:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T06:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=7933"},"modified":"2020-12-10T08:56:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T08:56:45","slug":"perkins-hits-back-at-critics-of-interstate-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=7933","title":{"rendered":"Perkins hits back at critics of interstate comment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Essendon draftee Archie Perkins has hit back at criticism of his answers during the pre-draft process, saying his comments have been misconstrued.<\/p>\n

Perkins polarised the AFL world prior to the draft<\/a> after admitting that he had told clubs that he would prefer to not be selected by a team based outside of his home<\/a> state Victoria. <\/p>\n

However, after his wishes were granted by Essendon when he was their second first-round pick of the night, Perkins had some words for his critics.<\/p>\n

"I think it's sort of been taken a bit the wrong way," he said.<\/p>\n

"The clubs ask you the question, so therefore I'm going to answer it. It's not like I've gone out of my way to tell them that. They asked me."<\/p>\n

\"Zach<\/p>\n

Perkins joins athletic talls Nik Cox (pick 8) and Zach Reid (pick 10) as Essendon's three first-round picks from the draft, while the club also picked up academy products Josh Eyre and Cody Brand later on in the draft.<\/p>\n

After a horror season on the field as well as an off-season which began with key personnel departing, Essendon is hoping that the trio of Cox, Reid and Perkins sparks a successful new era.<\/p>\n

By picking the three youngsters inside the top 10 picks, Essendon became the first non-expansion club to do so since Hawthorn selected Jarryd Roughead, Lance Franklin and Jordan Lewis in the 2004 draft.<\/p>\n

Essendon's brains trust will be hoping that their trio of top-10 picks brings a similar amount of success as the Hawks' 2004 draft haul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Essendon draftee Archie Perkins has hit back at criticism of his answers during the pre-draft process, saying his comments have been misconstrued. Perkins polarised the […]<\/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\/7933"}],"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=7933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7935,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions\/7935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}