Speaker 1: Dan Houston.
Speaker 2: Thanks to the Excelsior Hotel. It's always felt like home
Speaker 2: with meals from just twelve dollars. Got to love the
Speaker 2: Excelsior Hotel. It is the two time All Australian Dan Houston, Dan,
Speaker 2: good morning to you.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Will, Good morning Dave. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: No, not at all.
Speaker 4: Dan. Hey, look before we get in all the other stuff,
Speaker 4: obviously the big story overnight as well. Just said your second,
Speaker 4: your second nomination to the All Australian Team.
Speaker 1: It's a huge accolade.
Speaker 4: Mate, Well done, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was an absolute honest to achieve that award again.
Speaker 3: And you know, sitting in that room again with all
Speaker 3: those all those names, you pish yourself and yeah, it's
Speaker 3: an absolute honest to represent the club and make that
Speaker 3: team again this year.
Speaker 4: Was Jason Horn Francis Stiff we Reckon.
Speaker 3: He was, Yeah, I think you look around in the
Speaker 3: room and you go, there's so many elite midfielders in
Speaker 3: that room, and even the bench that was named last
Speaker 3: night was elite. And I said to one of the boys,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind rotating off for one of them. But
Speaker 3: Jas had an amazing year and I reckon. He'll have
Speaker 3: plenty of AA squads and AA teams ahead of him,
Speaker 3: and there's always if each year, And yeah, I think
Speaker 3: he was one of them.
Speaker 1: So I got to asked two saturdays ago.
Speaker 4: I was watching the game at home with my wife
Speaker 4: and when the rank and hit happened, our heads exploded
Speaker 4: and I said, who did that? And she said it
Speaker 4: was Houston? And I went, Dan Houston, Dan Houston did that.
Speaker 4: We've got to know you through the show, and we
Speaker 4: know that you're a good blake. But when that happened, mate,
Speaker 4: how do you feel about it in hindsight? Because clearly
Speaker 4: you were really cut up about it at the time.
Speaker 4: Can you take us into the events of the past
Speaker 4: couple of weeks and give us a bit of an
Speaker 4: insight into how you approach talking to Isaac about it
Speaker 4: as well?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess you know it's in a showdown. The
Speaker 3: emotions are un high at the final game, and yeah,
Speaker 3: I guess you know that's fit second of the moment.
Speaker 3: You know I made a wrong decision and yeah it was,
Speaker 3: but tried markedly best to play out the game as
Speaker 3: best as possible, knowing you know, there's a bit of
Speaker 3: uncertainty and yeah, after game, obviously was very remorse towards
Speaker 3: a bit out of my characteristic to do that, and
Speaker 3: I reached out to Isaac and I guess it's one
Speaker 3: of those things that happened to his life and you've
Speaker 3: got to move on. But yeah, for me, my focus
Speaker 3: now is fully going forward and it's one of those
Speaker 3: things that happens, and yeah, I've just got to try
Speaker 3: my best to move forward.
Speaker 1: What was it like when you spoke to him.
Speaker 4: Was it was because I think the thing is football
Speaker 4: is often see these things differently and know that stuff
Speaker 4: happens in the course of play.
Speaker 1: Was he accepting.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like you guys could sort of, you know,
Speaker 4: sit down and have a coffee or a beer without
Speaker 4: building each other.
Speaker 3: Oh, look, there's no there's absolutely no hard feelings towards
Speaker 3: Isaac or any of the Adelaide boys, And it's one
Speaker 3: of those things that happened. I reached out to him
Speaker 3: on text and yeah, I guess at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, I'd love to shaking hand and apologize and hope.
Speaker 1: I hope he's all right. But you're not. You're not
Speaker 1: still waiting from the right back. You're you're not still
Speaker 1: waiting from the right back to your text. Are you
Speaker 1: potentially okay?
Speaker 3: But yeah, those things happen in footy, and yeah it's
Speaker 3: part of the game, and you know those things happen.
Speaker 2: You spent you said your focus is now very much
Speaker 2: on the future. Where is your future?
Speaker 1: Is it the Port Adelaie Football Club? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think you know I've said in the past
Speaker 3: that I'm contracted and I absolutely love the footy club.
Speaker 3: I love being in Adelaide, and yeah, I've got my
Speaker 3: focus in particular in the next five weeks and helping
Speaker 3: this team push the finals and get them in the
Speaker 3: best possible condition and you know, do whatever I need
Speaker 3: to do around the club to help with that.
Speaker 1: So you're not leaving next year.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not leaving next year. He couldn't know me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've done a few of these before, Dan, and
Speaker 2: it gets this time of year and you know, we
Speaker 2: start getting plumped about it.
Speaker 1: So you're really saying you're going to stay there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I contract there. I wouldn't I wouldn't have signed
Speaker 3: the contract if I wasn't keen on Adelaide or keen
Speaker 3: on Port Adelaide. And you know, I love the place.
Speaker 3: I love the footy club, and the footy club's been
Speaker 3: good to me, So yeah, I committed to Port Adelaide.
Speaker 4: Did the circumstances of the last couple of weeks change
Speaker 4: anything in that sense? Like did you feel because the
Speaker 4: club flew the flag for you after what you did
Speaker 4: to rank? And has that made you feel even more
Speaker 4: almost obliged to I.
Speaker 3: Think it just rare firm the feelings that you have
Speaker 3: the Port Adelaide. They've they've always got my back. They've
Speaker 3: always been really supportive of me and they did everything
Speaker 3: that they could to try and help me during that period,
Speaker 3: whether it was you know, appealing or whether it was
Speaker 3: just even at the club getting around me. The boys
Speaker 3: there magnificent and yeah, I can't complain at all.
Speaker 1: Well, it's sound like a story there, Dan. We thought
Speaker 1: the five double a breakfast show curse was about to work.
Speaker 4: Its magic again, but it sounds like you're staying So yeah,
Speaker 4: all right, good, Hey, thanks for fronting up too, Dan,
Speaker 4: because you know, before we let you go of you,
Speaker 4: I know you've been in Melbourne a couple of times,
Speaker 4: you went there with your family and this week obviously
Speaker 4: for the All Australian. Has it changed your interactions with
Speaker 4: the public, if you had anyone getting you know, under
Speaker 4: your grill when you're down the local supermarket or anything
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 3: No, not really. I think you know, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of I've had a few Adelaide supporters come up to
Speaker 3: me and just you know, not not not say anything bad,
Speaker 3: but just you know, so I was unlucky and wishing
Speaker 3: me the best, which has been really supportive. And then
Speaker 3: I've had poor supporters who have always had my back
Speaker 3: and you know, I'm very grateful for that and I'm
Speaker 3: glad that people understand, you know, my situation has been
Speaker 3: out of character and you know that they're supportive and
Speaker 3: make me feel comfortable.
Speaker 4: Dan Houston Port Adelaide Football Club sounds like for twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five as well. Good on you mate, Thanks for
Speaker 4: talking to us this morning.
Speaker 2: Well thanks to the great people at the Excelsior Hotel
Speaker 2: which is always for like home meals from just twelve dollars.
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Speaker 1: So two stories out of that one to recap.
Speaker 4: Dan Houston says he's not going anywhere, and either there's
Speaker 4: something wrong with Isaac Greenkin's phone or.
Speaker 1: He still thinks that Dan newshoul can go and get stuffed.
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