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Perth Now
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- Perth Now
Ex-AFL star's bizarre stunt out the front of the MCG
Imitating the absurdity of magician David Blaine's antics, former AFL player and personality Daniel Gorringe has begun a 48-hour stint of being locked inside a glass box out the front of the MCG. The 33-year-old began the stunt at 3pm WST on Thursday ahead of the clash between Hawthorn and Collingwood, and intends to remain there for an entire two days. The former Gold Coast and Carlton ruck has become one of the biggest names in the footy world thanks to his widely popular podcast Dan Does Footy. It is the latest in a long list of wild punishments that Gorringe has put himself through this AFL season, including dying his hair blue, shaving his head and legally changing his first name to Richmond. Those bizarre stunts usually came at the cost of a self-imposed bet with his former team, Carlton, losing. But this one comes from a promotion with Hard Rated following a post to their Instagram asking how many likes it would take for Gorringe to be locked in the box. If you'd like to view this content, please adjust your . To find out more about how we use cookies, please see our Cookie Guide. Now the 26-game player is in the glass box with spectators coming to knock on the glass and watch the events that unfold on a live stream. During his podcast on Wednesday, Gorringe talked about the stunt saying he had misread the text from the brand. 'I thought 'would you want to be behind glass?' (was in a corporate box),' he said. 'It's very much a different behind glass experience than what I thought it was going to be.' Ex-AFL player Dan Gorringe has begun a wild stunt of staying in a glass box for 48-hours at the front of the MCG. Credit: Dan Does / YouTube Hour two in the stream and Gorringe is currently tackling the heavy issue of how to order a pizza to be delivered to inside the box. Gorringe was previously in the crosshairs of West Coast captain Oscar Allen, after agreeing to be egged if the Eagles were able to beat the Blues in round 14. He was saved after Carlton got up by 34 points.
West Australian
14 hours ago
- West Australian
AFL legend Matthew Richardson urges West Coast Eagles to re-sign Harley Reid no matter the cost
An AFL legend has urged West Coast to re-sign young star Harley Reid, no matter the cost, as the club mulls over a monster deal that could make him the richest player in the league. In his column for The Nightly , Richmond great Matthew Richardson said losing a generational player in Reid would be disastrous for the Eagles as they go through the biggest rebuild in club history. Reid's management has presented several deals to West Coast, including a $24 million, 11-year mega deal which could take him through to the end of 2037. As debate rages over whether Reid is worth such a risky outlay, Richardson said the star's price tag was irrelevant. 'While $2 million-a-season is overs for Harley Reid, West Coast simply have to get this man signed and for the long term. If it's 10 years, just get it done,' he wrote. 'In time, he will repay every cent. He plays with passion and energy and has had to carry a midfield in just his second year. That's admirable. 'It would be a disaster to lose a generational player such as Harley. The way he puts it all out there for the Eagles each week tells me he is committed to being at West Coast.' Reid's season was ended prematurely by an ankle injury in their western derby loss to Fremantle, but he hinted he was happy to remain at the Eagles in a social media post. 'Not how I wanted the season to end and not the season everyone was hoping for. Very grateful for the fans who have shown up week in, week out. We'll keep building together,' he posted to his 134,000 Instagram followers. 'BRB (be right back),' he wrote. West Coast chief executive Don Pyke said he was confident the club would retain Reid and hoped a new deal would be finalised before the end of the season. 'Yeah, we are. He is contracted here until next year, and we hope to get something done. If we don't, then we will maybe have to park it and pick it up later on,' Pyke told SEN. 'He is enjoying his time here; he is really engaged with the group. He is very much part of the group, and he wants to see us get back to where we want to be, which is not where we are at the moment.'
7NEWS
15 hours ago
- 7NEWS
Much-loved AFL champion Callan Ward lays bare brutal details of final Bulldogs act
Beloved AFL great Callan Ward has shared the grim details of his final days at the Western Bulldogs before his shock move to the GWS Giants. Ward, 35, left the Bulldogs at the end of 2011 to join the GWS Giants in their inaugural season in the AFL. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Callan Ward on his final day at the Bulldogs. Ward — who retired this year after suffering a shattering ACL injury in Round 12 — recalled his last game with the Bulldogs on Channel 7's Unfiltered. 'It's an unbelievably emotional game. The fans are absolutely with you until they're not. Fremantle, last game as a Dog, the boos ... OK, not a Dog anymore,' said gun interviewer Hamish McLachlan. 'I've never been booed in my life to start with, and I felt like I had a good rapport with a lot of the Dogs members and fans, and I'd always got on well with them,' Ward said on Unfiltered. 'I hadn't announced by then that I was leaving, but I think everybody knew that I was leaving, especially the Dogs people. 'It wasn't an enjoyable experience. I feel sorry for the guys that actually get booed every week. My mum hated it. I didn't play that well that day, but I think the umpires noticed Because I got two Brownlow votes that game.' Then a meeting was called a couple of days later which blindsided Ward and his teammates. 'So we obviously played, didn't play in the finals (that year), so we had a big Saturday and a big Sunday, and everyone got a text message on the Monday morning, mad Monday, morning at 7am or something,' Ward revealed. 'They said everybody is expected at the club at 8am. So nobody knew what it was. Everyone's just like, we have to get there, because it's obviously serious. 'We all got there, you know, rolling into the meeting room, and James Fantasia (the club's former football who resigned in 2013) is like, 'Wardy, up. Explain to the boys what's going on.' And the whole club was there, like, all the playing group, the whole club, and I'm panicking. I'm like, can hardly breathe. 'And I get up there and I have to tell them that I'm going to the Giants for five years. So I did not even know where to start ... I stumbled my way through, like a minute chat or whatever it was, and said, 'I'm leaving ... I'm going for five years. I've taken the Giants offer. I've loved playing here. Thanks, boys,' whatever it was. 'Then, when I sat down in my seat, because everyone had had their own seats, I sat down in the second row in my seat, and James Fantasia goes, 'What are you doing? Get out of here.' 'So I had to get up .... That was my last time in a Bulldogs meeting. I met the boys at the pub at 10am.' McLachlan said it was a 'very final' departure. 'Looking back, it was actually more funny than anything else. Like, even when James said 'get out', I heard a lot of laughs from the playing group. So it's more like humorous than anything else.' Ward said he made the decision to join the Giants after they offered him a 'life-changing' offer. 'You didn't even know there was a new team coming into the competition,' McLachlan said. 'Yeah, speaking about being naive ... (My manager) just turned up to my house, and he had a sheet of paper with all these names on it, and there were three names circled, and it was myself, Dale Thomas and Dayne Beams, I'm pretty sure, was the third one. 'He said there's a new team coming into the competition ... they didn't have a name back then. And he said, these are the players they're interested in and I was like, 'Why would they be interested in me?'. 'Like, I was a fourth year. I wasn't. I was playing OK, but I wasn't a gun. I was still learning how to play AFL football and how to be a professional footballer. And I was so young, so I was so surprised by that and, as you said, I didn't even know there was a new team coming into the competition.' The Giants offer was incredible and Ward informed the Dogs about it, but they didn't change their offer. The Giants also wanted Ward to be captain, but Ward's initial response to that was 'no way'. 'I think they saw leadership qualities in me for some reason ....,' he said. 'Anytime I was invited into the leadership group with the Dogs, which was only once or twice with some of the young boys, I'd just not go. I just like avoid it all completely because I just didn't want to speak in front of the group. I didn't want to be seen or try and do any leadership stuff. I dunno, I just didn't want to do it.' Ward also revealed he had a stutter when he was a child and had a fear of public speaking. He said the Giants offer was 'five or six times' what he was on at the Bulldogs, but he was determined to stay in Melbourne because he was 'so comfortable'. 'I've got all my family in Melbourne. Yeah, my friends here. I love Melbourne. I love the Western Bulldogs anyway ... as the months progressed I was kind of speaking to a few people about it, like my family and friends, and I was thinking about it a little bit but at the same time, like, not really. 'And then they upped the offer a little bit, I think, by 100 grand a few months later. And then I think it was maybe 700 (thousand) a year and I'm thinking maybe I should ... 'Like, 700 compared to what the Dogs offered me, which was less than half that. And I was kind of like, it's a good opportunity. I can come out of my shell a bit in a new in a new state ... sounds like the club's awesome, they've got some really good draft picks. 'So at 700 a year, I was like, money is a big factor here. That is life changing for me. Would never dream of being on that much as an AFL footballer or doing anything in my life. And then, so in my head, I think at that stage, I was like, I'm gonna go. 'And then I got a text message a week later saying they've upped offer by 100 grand a year. So I was like, I was going (anyway). I didn't tell them I was going, but I was gonna go for 700 so they upped it. So now I'm definitely going ....'
