Comic, radio host and mad Carlton fan Dave Hughes has come clear on what he was doing within the Swans rooms after Friday’s match on the SCG.
Hughes, who co-hosts 2DayFM’s breakfast present Hughesy, Ed and Erin, was noticed within the Swans rooms after the ladder-leaders ran away with a commanding 17.15 (117) to 9.11 (65) thrashing of the Blues.
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Hughes’ presence within the Swans rooms raised a number of eyebrows with the Channel 7 commentators — and cameras — displaying the Blues fan mingling with Brownlow Medal favorite Isaac Heeney.
“Did I see Dave Hughes earlier than?” James Brayshaw requested. “He’s a card-carrying member of the Carlton Fan Membership.”
AFL nice Luke Hodge added: “He’s a 50-year-old man carrying a Carlton jumper however he needed to put a jacket on as a result of he’s within the Sydney rooms.”
Brayshaw replied: “He’s having selfies with Isaac Heeney. There he’s. Shameful, that’s. Why isn’t he within the Carlton rooms?”
Richmond legend Matthew Richardson commented: “What’s he doing? He ought to be over there speaking to the Carlton boys.”
However his look within the Swans rooms gained’t imply he has to show in his Blues membership as he was within the rooms for his radio present.
Pre-match, he posted a video of himself in Chinatown ready for the sunshine rail to the SCG the place he hosted Triple M’s The Rush Hour alongside Brayshaw, earlier than internet hosting a singles occasion on the footy for the breakfast present.
He couldn’t assist himself, predicting “an almighty boilover after we beat the Sydney Swans”.
Posting a video of the second on Instagram, Hughes captioned it: “We informed our @hughesyedanderin lovely single women we’d take them to the winners rooms. This was actually exhausting for me.”
His breakfast present co-host Erin Molan backed Hughes up that it was troublesome for him to be within the Swans rooms.
“I’ve by no means seen a person in a lot ache,” Molan stated.
“He smiled in our first image after which realised and frowned.”
On Tuesday, in an everyday section on 101.9 The Fox Melbourne’s Fifi, Fev & Nick, Brendan Fevola kicked it off calling Hughes “ya little traitor”, referring to the sight of Hughes within the Swans rooms.
“That was disappointing that that received reported on Channel 7 really,” Hughes stated.
Fevola needled additional: “You had been smiling and speaking to all of the gamers — get outta there mate.”
Hughes: “Mate, I didn’t wish to be there.”
Fevola: “You lapped it up although.”
Hughes: “The very fact is, what we’re doing here’s what you guys do is service your listeners. You’re the present of the individuals, there’s little doubt about that. Properly I’m the present of Sydney. So we received some single women and we stated ‘the place can we discover single males in Sydney’ and we thought we’re going to go to the SCG the place the recent single males are. So we went to the SCG and we assured that the women would get into the winner’s rooms. So if had been Carlton successful …”
Fevola: “That was by no means going to occur.”
Hughes stated that none of his group “received fortunate”.
Hughes doubled down saying: “The very fact is I didn’t even wish to go into the Sydney rooms and I stated to our individuals ‘I’m not happening there, I’m leaving now’ as a result of Carlton had been horrible.”
Fevola stated Heeney had DMed him saying Hughes was “consuming their Gatorade and had certainly one of their sandwiches, had been consuming their lollies and stuff”.
Hughes: “I used to be not consuming their sandwiches. I hung again after which there was an opportunity to speak to Isaac Heeney — who’s going to win the Brownlow — and I assumed right here is my likelihood.”
Nevertheless, he did admitted he did really eat a number of the meals within the rooms.
There was much more star energy within the Swans’ rooms, with UFC nice and Sydney fan Alex Volkanovski invited in to sing the group music.
The Swans win on Friday put them a sport and a half forward on prime of the AFL ladder forward of the second-placed Essendon because the aspect moved their document to 9-1 with a humungous share of 154.7.
