On the eve of the Victorian state election, Opposition leader Daniel Andrews revealed his view that the Essendon coach should be sacked if players are banned over the discredited 2012 supplements regime.
The Victorian Labor leader, a paid up Essendon member, believes Hird's position would become untenable.
On Thursday, Bombers chairman Paul Little revealed that in the event of guilty verdicts the club's members would help the board decide Hird's fate.
Asked how he would vote if such circumstances came to pass, Andrews said he would go against Hird.
"I'd be voting 'no' because, frankly, we need to move on," Andrews told SEN radio on Friday morning.
"I've got great respect for James as a player and someone who has led on the field and off but, frankly, we need a clean break with this. We need to move on. That's just the way these things are."
