AFL legend brands Bulldogs star Zaine Cordy ‘absolutely embarrassing’ after he had to be CARRIED to a car while worse for wear during club’s wild Mad Monday party
- Cordy had to be picked up off the ground by teammates outside Melbourne pub
- He was then carried to a waiting car during Bulldogs’ Mad Monday celebrations
- Matthew Lloyd said the incident was ‘a horrible look for any league footballer’
Essendon champion Matthew Lloyd has torn into Zaine Cordy after the Western Bulldogs star had to be carried to a cab by teammates during the club’s Mad Monday party.
The 25-year-old was photographed being supported by fellow Dogs Tom Liberatore and Josh Dunkley while worse for wear on Monday in what Lloyd described as a ‘horrible look for any league footballer’.
‘I hated this from the Mad Monday at the Western Bulldogs,’ he told Nine’s Footy Classified on Wednesday night.
Tom Liberatore (left) and Josh Dunkley (right) pick Cordy up outside the west Melbourne pub where the Bulldogs held their Mad Monday party earlier this week
Cordy – seen here being carried to a waiting car outside the venue – has been branded an embarrassment over the incident
‘Would you ever see your captain in this state? Would you ever see [Scott] Pendlebury, Lachie Neale, all the great players? [Christian] Petracca, [Clayton] Oliver?
‘That’s embarrassing, absolutely embarrassing for a league footballer to be in that state, even at end-of-season drinks.
‘Be in control. Imagine you’re a young first-year player looking at that, and he’s been in the system for nearly 10 years.’
Veteran footy journalist Caroline Wilson agreed.
‘They’ve had serious off-field discipline issues over the last couple of years, the Bulldogs, and that still continues to haunt them, to dog them, doesn’t it?’ she said.
Bombers legend Matthew Lloyd (pictured) said Cordy’s predicament was ‘a horrible look for any league footballer’
Bulldogs stars Bailey Smith, Marcus Bontempelli, Jamarra Ugle-Hagan, Josh Dunkley, Mitch Wallis, Louis Butler, Aaron ‘Astro’ Naughton, Arthur Jones, Anthony Scott and Tom Liberatore were among the players seen attending the event at a pub in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
The party stretched into the evening with some players – including Bontempelli – keen to kick on while Smith and a handful of players stayed to play pool at the venue.
The Bulldogs’ season came to a disappointing end last Saturday in Perth, where they squandered a 41-point lead to lose to Fremantle 11.7 (73) to 8.12 (60) in front of a record crowd of 58,982 fans at Optus Stadium.
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