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Jason Akermanis believes he has been “black-listed” by AFL football for a decade given his outspoken views, costing him around $2.5 million in potential earnings. But of course, that must mean – because I had different hair and don’t quite agree occasionally with something someone says – that I’m not a team player, which is the greatest load of crap.“When you coach, there’s nothing better to realise there’s something greater than you and you can give back.”“His feedback was ‘oh Aker we don’t have a job for you now, but all I’ll say to you is in a footy club like this we want team players’. I know I shouldn't like Aker as much as I do for all the off field stuff but he's still one of my absolute favourites. I like him as a character but his comments re gay players should stay silent were shitAs a close friend to one of who was coached by Aker, apparently he went to extreme measures at North Albury and restricted a lot of the players to a lot of things. Jason Akermanis was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2015. r/AFL: AFL: The home of Australian football on reddit, including the Australian Football League, and all other aspects of the game. He is a Brownlow Medallist and triple premiership player who played for the Brisbane Bears, Brisbane Lions and Western Bulldogs. Jason Akermanis is one of footballs most controversial showmen and was unceremoniously sacked by not one but two clubs.

Jason Dean Akermanis (born 24 February 1977) is a former Australian rules football player. Asked about going into a “mental spiral” after being sacked by the Bulldogs, Akermanis said: “I’m still in it, it’s (been) 10 years.“When you get ostracised from an industry … yeah I’ve gone (into) coaching and all that kind of stuff, but it’s been a hard place mentally when you know that ‘I really should be doing this, it’s kind of what I’m best at and I’m being forced to do everything other than this. I’m sitting at home going ‘that’s what I deserved’ and you just can’t help but think ‘why’?” Akermanis said.“Survived 16 years in Aussies Rules, played my whole life in team sports. So I thought right then that’s the expectation that I’m not (a team player) and I mustn’t have been.Subscribe to our Fox Sports newslettersThe triple premiership Lion and Brownlow Medallist has attempted to return to the AFL industry via coaching since, but said he’s “been for jobs and got laughed out of the place”.Akermanis, who was knocked back by Essendon in 2015, revealed he asked premiership Eagles coach Adam Simpson for a gig, only to be told, he claims, that he was not “a team player”.Akermanis said one of his great disappointments was not receiving a ‘farewell game’, pointing out how Hawthorn farewell four-time premiership forward Jarryd Roughead at the end of 2019.“I can still go out and coach where I live or in another league, but I’ve done all that. That was disappointing.”“I found out what it was, because I rang Adam Simpson – sorry ‘Simmo’ – and I said to him ‘hey mate, you got any jobs’? And I got on well with Adam when we played together for Australia or whenever I ran into him.“Looking back, I see Jarryd Roughead … he’s not in the team, ends up getting a final game and kicking six. Early life. ‘Aker’ opens up about the Lions glory days, the Grand Final performance that saved his career, his rocky relationship with Rodney Eade before the axe finally fell and the story behind his famous handstand. Now he lifts the lid on his explosive exits from Brisbane and the Bulldogs. Jason Akermanis was born to thrill, but was his show overshadowed by the ever present controversy waiting just off stage? They say he’s a likeable or hatable person, and honestly he wasn’t well perceived by a fair few players out there except for the froths who loved him because he was an AFL Star.This is a great interview. I’m ready, I’m ready to step up – and I see it’s not going to happen anytime soon.” That’s the tragedy.“You can’t say ‘thanks’. There’s people that have paid good money – and a lot of times over the years – to watch you.