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JAMES Hird will be grilled by the Essendon board via speaker phone on Wednesday.
Hird, who is studying in Singapore, is expected to be warned that further public airings related to his 12-month AFL suspension will cost him his job.
The gag order will extend to the exiled coach's wife Tania and his legal team.
Asked last night about reports Tania would also be hauled before the board to explain last week's public outburst on ABC TV, Bombers chairman Paul Little told the Herald Sun: "I'm not commenting."
In a statement late yesterday, the club said: "Essendon Football Club wishes to advise the matter relating to James Hird has been referred to a board meeting on Wednesday.
"The club will not make any further comment until after this meeting."
Hird's former teammate Matthew Lloyd declared on the weekend that Hird would not be sacked.
But the suspended coach will be asked to help bring an end to criticisms of the AFL's handling of the Essendon drugs scandal.
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However Little, when fronted by a TV camera on Sunday morning, refused to confirm whether Hird was assured of his return.
"I don't want to comment on Matthew's statements or any other statements or any press articles ... I don't believe it's helpful in the current state of affairs," the Essendon chairman told The Sunday Footy Show.
"The appropriate forum for further discussion now is the Essendon board.
"We really now need to deal with the facts, and the facts are that certain things have been said and we need to assess that and decide what we do next.
"So I'm not going to speculate about what may or may not happen."
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On Saturday night Lloyd, speaking on 3AW, was confident Hird would return to coach the Bombers next season as the club deals with the fallout from Tania Hird's television interview on Thursday night.
"My understanding is that they spoken — James Hird and Paul Little — today and that James
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Hird will be the coach of Essendon in 2015," Lloyd told 3AW on Saturday night.
Essendon would face a payout of up to $2 million if it decides to sack coach James Hird this week.
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Essendon on Saturday denied reports chairman Paul Little would fly to Singapore for a meeting with Hird.
Hird is in Singapore on his way to France where he has been enrolled into an elite business school for a six-month course.
A club spokesman said there was no truth in the report of Little's Singapore trip and the Bombers had no plans of sending any representative overseas to speak with Hird.
But Little has demanded a "please explain" before the board meets.
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Essendon has already paid Hird nearly $1 million after he was suspended for this season.
The club would have to pay Hird a further $2 million if it terminates his contract for 2015/16 — a deal that was signed after his suspension late last year.
This would come on top of the $2 million fine for the supplement scandal that took place at the club under Hird's watch.
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The directors will meet or have a telephone link-up as early as Monday to discuss their views on Hird's future.
Little will demand from Hird an explanation for the motives behind his wife's interview and what role or support he played in it. They want to know why and how it happened.
Interim coach Mark Thompson also expects to speak to Hird this week.
Thompson said on Saturday he was trying to shield and isolate his players from the controversies of the investigation into the club's use of supplements in the 2012 season.
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Little conceded after Essendon's 39-point win over the Kangaroos that the club and players were desperate to regain some respectability after the club was fined and deprived of their eighth position on the ladder last season and relegated to ninth over their supplements program.
"I think they felt they had a bit to prove," he said. "To get a win, just lifted a bit of pressure off everyone and it was a good thing.
"A loss would have been more difficult to cope with for sure because of what is going around at the club at the moment."
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