Damien Hardwick exploded the first Victorian Jacinta Allan for his comments concerning the ongoing legal proceedings of Noah Balta.
The Richmond star is expected to be sentenced to Albury runs on Tuesday, April 22, after pleading guilty to an accusation of aggression provoking body lesions from a 27 -year -old man outside the Mulwala Water Ski Club in December 2024. The accusation is a maximum prison sentence of five years.
The football star received a suspension of four games by Richmond and the AFL, but Balta returned to play in 11 points from the Tigers against Gold Coast on Saturday.
The Footy Club and the AFL had given the green light so that Balta returned before his conviction, but this decision aroused criticism from the world of football and the wider community.
Earlier in April, Allan had launched a puffed attack on the club and the AFL bosses about the decision to bring the 25-year-old player, who took five points and accumulated 14 eliminations during the weekend, in the fold.
But his comments attracted Flack of Hardwick and other members of the world of football, the senior coach of Gold Coast Suns saying that Allan should rather focus on solving problems within his state.
Noah Balta (on the left, photographed with Adem Yze) returned to Richmond for the first time this season, after having served a ban on four games after pleading guilty to an assault
Victorian Prime Minister Jacinta Allan (Photo) had criticized Richmond and AFL to bring Balta back to the lap before he was condemned on Tuesday
But the former Balta coach, Damien Hardwick (photo), reached the defense of the 25 -year -old football player, slamming Allan for his criticism of Richmond and the AFL
“We have a Prime Minister who put his nose in someone else’s affairs,” Hardwick told journalists on Saturday, responding to the recent comments from Allan about Balta.
“It should simply focus on the fact that the state works well.
“It is an absolute mockery of his comments on this subject,” added the former boss of Richmond, who led Balta for six seasons.
He pleaded guilty, he understands it. He’s going to do his right.
“By talking to him, disappointed with his actions, supports the individual, he will go better as a result of that.”
Allan had described Balta’s alleged attack on Thomas Washbrook as “disgusting” earlier in April.
“Having looked at the images … what disgusting attack it was,” said Allan.
His comments occurred after Richmond plans to bring the defender back to the lap before their confrontation of the round 5 against Fremantle – but Balta was omitted from the team after being tried not to be ready.
Balta had received a suspension of four games by Richmond after the incident and returned to play his first game of the season on Saturday
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“Like many victorians … I’m going to sit with the children, they will watch Hawthorn, I’m going to watch the results of Essendon,” said Allan.
“Anyway, when we sit down (and look at football), how do we explain to children, in particular, how do we answer this question?”
“How do AFL and Richmond Football Club answer this question about what’s going on here?” What kind of message does it send to children on what is good and what’s wrong?
“I think it’s really a question that AFL and Richmond must answer.
“Let us remember the victim here who would undoubtedly be deeply traumatized by this experience.”
David King and Dane Swan both applauded to the Prime Minister for the comments, the first suggesting that she should “read the room” since Victoria is currently managing crime recently.
“I have never seen so many people with machetes and weapons under deposit by attacking us on the left to the right and in the center,” said King on Sen.
“We have half the state in the process of being unleashed right now.
Hardwick believed that Allan had other priorities to sort in his state and said that she should not “stick her nose” in the affairs of other people
“And she decided to choose the situation of Noah Balta. I think she has more on her hands. Control the controllables … I just think it’s weird.
“What do you put in rare the head on it?”
“I can’t believe it. She is making a good point on Noah Balta stuff but Gee Whiz, Jacinta, read the play.
Balta, meanwhile, turned out to be a crucial cog in Richmond’s victory on Saturday, holding Ben King to a single goal during the match.
“ He made a mountain of work, extras, supporting our young players … Not only to get the right to play, but he tried to regain respect for his football club ”, said senior coach Adem Yze, speaking on Balta, after the match.
“He knows that he dropped the club, he knows that he did something wrong, but he treated it every day.
“Noah’s performance today was pending and it is a credit for him. We are really proud of him.
Yze had previously said that Balta had been “ sufficiently punished ” by the football club on this subject, while the club captain, Toby Nankervis, said that the football star had owned his actions.
Yze had previously said that Balta (photo) had been “punished enough” by the football club on the issue
“We all know that Noah has done the bad thing and he will have to be responsible for his actions, what he will be. It was great to see him last night, “Nankervis told 3aw.
“I am sure that all our fans would have loved seeing him last night and having him behind was a massive presence.
“It was great for Noah too. He had to do a lot of work on himself and will therefore continue to see him again there. I think that clearly Noah has done the bad thing and he is really the owner of this and is really responsible for his actions.
“As a football club from the start, it is a question of ensuring that it is aware of the meaning of what it has done and now it is a question of finishing our arms around it as much as possible.”
