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Brisbane AFL great Jonathan Brown has described the Lions as dysfunctional and a club divided after Mondays decision to axe Justin Leppitsch as senior coach. Jonathan Villar Jersey .Leppitsch was released from the final year of his contract after Brisbane slumped to a 17th-place finish with just three wins this season.Brown, a triple-premiership teammate and good friend of Leppitschs, gave a scathing assessment of his old club as it plunged further into crisis.There is obviously a fair bit of distrust (at board level) and a fair bit of distrust in the football department as well, Brown said on Fox Footys On The Couch on Monday night.So its a big operation (to fix) going forward.The football department has got problems there. Theyre not united, the playing group is not on board with some of the off-field stuff, so it needs to be completely tidied up. It is dysfunctional, unfortunately, at the moment and that hurts me to say as an ex-player.I love the footy club and have good relations with a lot of people at that football club. I love what Leigh Matthews has done for the footy club in the past but unfortunately it looks like there needs to be a fair bit of work done.Brown said he hadnt spoken to Leppitsch in the hours following his sacking but had sent him a text message and expects to catch up with him later this week.Leppitsch didnt attend Mondays media conference at which chairman Bob Sharpless and chief executive Greg Swann announced the move.His management company released a statement saying he would take a few days to reflect on the decision before making any public comment.While disappointed at the state of the Lions, Brown admitted he wasnt surprised to see the axe fall on his mate after three dismal seasons at the helm.I think he was in a bit of trouble ... he presented to the board last week and it was a positive presentation but he was coming from a long back, Brown said.This has probably been in the works for the last few weeks. Leppitsch presented really well and I think he had the support of Leigh Matthews but ... the AFL recommendation was that they probably didnt want Leppa to continue in that job.Ultimately though it was the boards decision, which Leigh Matthews is a part of and unfortunately he got his marching orders one year early. Milwaukee Brewers Jerseys . Sulaiman, 44, was chosen unanimously Tuesday in a vote by the leadership, the World Boxing Council said. Sulaiman becomes the sixth president of the organization. Cecil Cooper Jersey . To the surprise of many, it isnt the Wolverines but their in-state rivals the Michigan State Spartans. http://www.brewersteamshop.com/Brewers-Stephen-Vogt-Kids-Jersey/ . In Europe, top teams seem to be largely happy with their squads after spending nearly $1 billion in the off-season. And although English league clubs are unlikely to splash cash in January, Arsenal and Chelsea could be tempted to strengthen their squads with new strikers. Mark Wood has been ruled out of Englands tour to India after the discovery that he bowled at the tail end of the English domestic season with a broken ankle.It all means that Wood faces a third ankle operation within a year and, however optimistic the prognosis, it is bound to cast doubts on the resilience of Englands fastest bowler and invite concerns about his career both at county and England level.Wood had already been ruled out of the one-day and Test series in Bangladesh and his hopes of recovering in time for the India tour were banished when it was discovered that he fractured a bone in his left ankle when bowling in a Specsavers County Championship match against Surrey in September.With Durham under threat of relegation, he chose to ignore warning signs that something was wrong and battled on gamely. Durham stayed up, but it all came to naught when the ECB relegated them anyway after reluctantly intervening to prevent their bankruptcy.Englands national physiotherapy lead Ben Langley put an optimistic slant on Woods recovery, taking comfort from the fact that the injury is different to the one that required two earlier operations.Woody showed his commitment to Durham with the way he bowled 35 overs in that Surrey game, and we know now that he also showed a hell of a lot of courage and resilience, Langley said.His foot and ankle swelled up hugely during the game, which was obviously worrying, and then we were perplexed when nothing significant showed up on the first scan. Orlando Arcia Jersey. It was only when we got him in for a second scan that we discovered hed been playing on despite having fractured a bone.So its a different injury to what hes had the previous surgery for, and theres no reason to think that when hes had this bone fragment removed, he wont be able to get back to bowling as well he has for Durham, England Lions and England in the second half of the 2016 summer.Wood has been awarded a central Test contract by England for 2016-17 - without such an award it would have been questionable about whether Durham could have afforded his salary so soon after requiring a financial bailout from the ECB - but his ability to fulfil a full international summer remains unproven.He made a blistering comeback in the second half of the summer, delivering some of the most potent fast-bowling spells of the season as he helped Durhams to the final of the NatWest T20 Blast and also featured in Englands 4-1 victory over Pakistan in their one-day international series.He bowled more than 200 overs in all competitions, purportedly without ill effects, but when he pulled out of the Bangladesh tour the problems became evident. Concerns can only have deepened with the latest news. ' ' '
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