Speaker 1: The memories flow on a historic night at the Australian
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame ceremony and we have our very
Speaker 1: own inductee here at the desk.
Speaker 2: Look who's back. The rapid return of Sam Darcy as
Speaker 2: the Bulldogs look to get going and mount this second
Speaker 2: half challenge.
Speaker 1: And the art of coaching in the moments of high
Speaker 1: tension when as a firm hound required and when do
Speaker 1: you step back?
Speaker 3: We'll ask Sino and horse. We've talked about is this
Speaker 3: step into it, embrace all of it, hit in the
Speaker 3: room and pat.
Speaker 1: It's unedifying for a senior coach to do that. They're
Speaker 1: on the side of Courtia with the brain, take the
Speaker 1: man on. They played the best footy I've ever seen
Speaker 1: at the start of the season and injury said President left.
Speaker 1: The couple said, of course they do.
Speaker 3: It is the stuff that legends.
Speaker 4: Are made of.
Speaker 3: What is holding the ball?
Speaker 2: I don't think I could answer it clearly right now
Speaker 2: that I can do something.
Speaker 3: Wrong, you know, And I need to get on the board.
Speaker 4: Sexy the fans lover and with no fans no through
Speaker 4: sixty year old.
Speaker 1: He has previously been five total Australian long serving captain
Speaker 1: and Demon's Team of the Century member as of tonight,
Speaker 1: he's Australian Football Hall of Famer Jarry Lyon.
Speaker 4: That's great to see to.
Speaker 2: See you again, Jared, thank you, I Steen colleagues here
Speaker 2: in this studio, thank you.
Speaker 3: Great to celebrate like winners. Yep, we did, we did.
Speaker 2: I sort of wandered out very late. Hodge and crew
Speaker 2: still in tow and Revolt and Crewe Brown just lording
Speaker 2: over everyone. Jonathan and Fox boys were well represented and
Speaker 2: my boys were just right slap bang amongst them. It
Speaker 2: was a great night and you did a wonderful job too, Jared.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine now how much work you've done preparing
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 1: So there are a lot of unanswered questions as a
Speaker 1: turn out. I thought most of them would be Peter dally,
Speaker 1: But yes.
Speaker 3: Just on the down low, right, did you drop a sneaky.
Speaker 2: I was last on, as you well know, and it
Speaker 2: was a long way because you're a bit nervous, and
Speaker 2: then I got up and almost forgot that it was
Speaker 2: a televis I pulled.
Speaker 3: Very nice all right.
Speaker 1: Well, as we get into it tonight, we're not going
Speaker 1: to rush. There's plenty of football to deal with and
Speaker 1: we will soon enough, but we thought we might just
Speaker 1: start with a little bit of reminiscing from a night
Speaker 1: a reminiscing.
Speaker 3: All I ever wanted to do was be a footy paper.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 5: That's really simple.
Speaker 2: That's all I wanted in life was to be a
Speaker 2: footy paper. Pretty simple and complicated. From the moment I
Speaker 2: could go.
Speaker 4: Fac to get drafted.
Speaker 6: You just want to play a game and then to
Speaker 6: go through and be able to achieve what we did
Speaker 6: as a group. You sort of sit back and pinch
Speaker 6: yourself because you did it start a night. What Nick
Speaker 6: said before is when you read it all those names,
Speaker 6: you sort of you do you pinch yourself to sort
Speaker 6: of sit and realize you're in the same group as them,
Speaker 6: which is surreal.
Speaker 5: I don't imagine how hard it would have been to
Speaker 5: tell your thirteen year old daughter that she couldn't play
Speaker 5: the game that she loves anymore, and twenty seven years
Speaker 5: later she's standing next to you in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 7: It's just.
Speaker 4: I had no ambition to come to Victoria at all.
Speaker 4: I was just house Australian and I was very happy
Speaker 4: in the cup that I was with, but also my
Speaker 4: lifestyle wouldn't have worked in Victoria.
Speaker 7: And rather than feeling like you know, I walked away
Speaker 7: with the game still owing me something, I walked away
Speaker 7: feeling like the game gave me absolutely everything. And I'm
Speaker 7: just feeling with so much attitude for the game and
Speaker 7: for the people involved in it.
Speaker 1: How perfect an ending to the story was.
Speaker 8: It controversy to say this, but as a mother it's controversial,
Speaker 8: but it was the best day of my life.
Speaker 2: Nirive Old and Luke Aji I was picking a team
Speaker 2: to play for my life, they'd be amongst the first
Speaker 2: two I'd pick, no question about that. So to be
Speaker 2: inducted on the same night he is unbelievable. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what. I'd be very happy to play with Daisy
Speaker 2: Pears and Aaron Phillips as well. So and I'd happy
Speaker 2: to go on a footy troop. Peter Darley own that
Speaker 2: it was the most perfect line of all and.
Speaker 1: Gaz that that group you're bonded with those forever more
Speaker 1: and what a.
Speaker 2: Group they are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so cool.
Speaker 8: OK.
Speaker 2: I know you can get a bit of SYRAPHI and
Speaker 2: all this, but it's just so humbling, Like it was
Speaker 2: in a room full of megastars, and they all sort
Speaker 2: of defer to you to make sure you get a
Speaker 2: night to remember, which they will have been through at
Speaker 2: some stage. So yeah, I feel I had a great
Speaker 2: I have had a great close affinity with Nick for
Speaker 2: a long time obviously, and over the Melbourne days I
Speaker 2: was a Hawthorne man, so Luke Codge is everything you
Speaker 2: want to be in a footballer. And the connection with
Speaker 2: Aaron Phillips and her dad Greg, who I alluded to
Speaker 2: I played on in my first year, so it just
Speaker 2: came full circle.
Speaker 3: So awesome.
Speaker 2: Just it's just so cool, and I love watching all
Speaker 2: the families that come with Nick had at Big Crew
Speaker 2: and his family were Aaron Errands and Daisies and everyone else's.
Speaker 2: So it was just I knew it would be a
Speaker 2: big night, in a great night. It was exceeded expectations.
Speaker 1: So from the moment that the chairman gives you the call,
Speaker 1: which is totally unexpected, over the twenty six years and
Speaker 1: then the way and then to the night itself is
Speaker 1: I don't know, when you're reflecting years to come, how
Speaker 1: will you reflect on this in the course of your career.
Speaker 2: So I think individually it's as.
Speaker 3: High as you get.
Speaker 2: You had to have your Nikki there with me and
Speaker 2: my boys and everyone else, and my mom and dad
Speaker 2: and people.
Speaker 3: I love.
Speaker 2: It's I only think the Premiership can only be the
Speaker 2: thing that tops it. I would imagine individually your brown
Speaker 2: Law metal of course, But so yeah, this will go
Speaker 2: down as one of those nights I remember forever in
Speaker 2: a day. And you know we were up at breakfast
Speaker 2: this morning. He was sore heads and reflecting and telling
Speaker 2: war stories from the night before that they're the best moments.
Speaker 2: Jared and the boys have got their cameras out, and
Speaker 2: you know that Thomas my Son's going dipp I love me,
Speaker 2: Dipper wouldn't leave me alone. And then Lee Matthews is
Speaker 2: sitting there having a chat like us. I just love
Speaker 2: seeing all that.
Speaker 1: You've always been super careful not to talk about your
Speaker 1: career very much, just to snippet you.
Speaker 3: Had nothing tonight. I do understand that.
Speaker 1: But if we played these highlights, and I did like.
Speaker 3: The cinema as the boys thought, it was only ever
Speaker 3: on a stretcher, which is not true. But it does
Speaker 3: it give you, does it put you back?
Speaker 1: The thing you said that most struck me was this
Speaker 1: made you feel like a player again, That is true.
Speaker 2: I'd imagine, as you said, that's twenty six years since
Speaker 2: I finished playing. So life moves on, and I've immersed
Speaker 2: myself in this career now for the best part of it.
Speaker 2: Been really lucky to stay intimately involved. And this is
Speaker 2: an intimate job that we have. We're at the footy
Speaker 2: every week and we're dealing with players and coaches. So
Speaker 2: from that point of view, I'm scratching the hitch. But
Speaker 2: footy had been left well well behind. But as I
Speaker 2: was sort of sitting down writing a few things, and
Speaker 2: it did occur to me that I just felt it
Speaker 2: took me back to being a footy player, because you
Speaker 2: have to go back to you. I know you're going
Speaker 2: to ask me questions about it. So I honestly don't
Speaker 2: reminisce or re live in the past too often, but
Speaker 2: for no other reason than that, I don't. But I did,
Speaker 2: and I think that's the beauty of the night. And
Speaker 2: a few of the players came up and said the
Speaker 2: same thing. And I've got a beautiful message from Bucks
Speaker 2: today who said he loved that because you know, had
Speaker 2: had I that come around a year or two after
Speaker 2: I'd just retired, it would be a whole different perspective.
Speaker 2: But my perspective now is it's a beautiful part of
Speaker 2: my life and it's a great, big.
Speaker 3: But it's not the only part.
Speaker 2: And but as on this night, for ever more, for
Speaker 2: as long as I can walk, I'll be going along
Speaker 2: there and putting my footy shore it's on over the
Speaker 2: under my dinner suit and being a footy player again
Speaker 2: for one day a year. And I think that's that's
Speaker 2: almost the best part about all of it.
Speaker 3: Indulge me one more. You've indulged me a lot.
Speaker 1: I know the question I didn't get to last night
Speaker 1: as a follow up because time was a essence. What
Speaker 1: was the first coaching job that you were offered?
Speaker 2: Well, I wasn't offered, but I went to Adelaide and
Speaker 2: spent a day over there with the club about it.
Speaker 2: I don't know, three or four weeks after I retired.
Speaker 2: So Ross Dellen was a cab He was a board
Speaker 2: member from Coban originally, and I went over and had
Speaker 2: a day at the club and went out for dinner
Speaker 2: with them and just great people, really great people, and
Speaker 2: enjoyed it. Did a little bit of work on that list.
Speaker 2: But I wasn't really a coach here. I think they're
Speaker 2: interested to pursure it, but I wasn't. I was only
Speaker 2: thirty one or so, so I came back home to Melbourne.
Speaker 2: But I enjoyed that whole process. And you know, I
Speaker 2: read John Reid's a terrific fella, so I love going
Speaker 2: over there and having a chat with a crow. So
Speaker 2: that kind of was the first experience of it all,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't from my end, wasn't close happening.
Speaker 1: And then Melbourne and Richmond at various times had a
Speaker 1: little nibble as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a bit further down the track. And
Speaker 2: you know, I think those if I wanted to pursue that,
Speaker 2: that was pretty real. But I'm happy to have done
Speaker 2: what I've done. Not brave enough. Always say that when
Speaker 2: people talk about it, what in your coach? Well, I
Speaker 2: wasn't brave enough. That's why I've got unbelievable admiration for
Speaker 2: all those that jumped in feet first, because it's you know,
Speaker 2: it's NonStop and the twenty four hour day, all that
Speaker 2: stuff is. I like to do this, but I like
Speaker 2: to go home and shut the door.
Speaker 3: So I'm so thrilled for you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I really congratulations.
Speaker 1: All right, the rest of our show, so someone Horsey
Speaker 1: and to join us shortly. We've got the teams for
Speaker 1: some killer and the bulldogs. Shall we explore a bit
Speaker 1: of farming? Was another great.
Speaker 3: Passion, Yes, a great passion. I might get.
Speaker 1: Exposed here today hangers Clark and Mason Redmond, that country life.
Speaker 2: He's a real farmer jar.
Speaker 3: He might expose him. But there's a good cause behind all.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And then after us, first they'll take the
Speaker 1: look into the events of rounds.
Speaker 3: What are we up to? Fourteen?
Speaker 2: I'll be watching Joey Montagne's performance tonight very very closely,
Speaker 2: jered he was having a first crack and.
Speaker 1: A last crack, very nice, all right, d Day who
Speaker 1: was a d Day four thanks to Ossie Broadbound.
Speaker 2: Well, I went to the Port Adelaide Melbourne clash and
Speaker 2: I'll have a look at this and I reckon the
Speaker 2: loser of this game is going to find it really
Speaker 2: hard to be absolutely contending at the end. So put
Speaker 2: Adelaide found a bit of form and had a win
Speaker 2: on the weekend, the Demons desperately short against the ladder leader.
Speaker 2: It's over in Adelaide on then Dunghill both of these
Speaker 2: sides would expect to win this game, Jared, I think
Speaker 2: that would be.
Speaker 3: Fair to say.
Speaker 2: And the loser is a long way back, So Jason
Speaker 2: Haunt Francis looks like he's moving pretty well. Is he
Speaker 2: expected to be back? That's a big shot in the
Speaker 2: arm for them for years.
Speaker 3: And the short turnaround for Melbourne.
Speaker 1: So when we left Monday night, there are two different parts.
Speaker 1: Is Collinwood are heading to their bye after laying it
Speaker 1: all out there Melbourne, I've got to travel on a
Speaker 1: six day before they get to them.
Speaker 2: That is true. So, but Adelaide would even more fancy themselves,
Speaker 2: I would imagine so. And then you've got to get
Speaker 2: over the heartache off at one point loss and they've
Speaker 2: been the news of it, the captain and they're full back.
Speaker 2: So I think that's D day for me.
Speaker 3: What about you?
Speaker 1: I've started obsessing over Friday night. I can't decide is
Speaker 1: it Hawthorne or is it Adelaide. So this is so
Speaker 1: perfectly poised the classic eight point game because it's the
Speaker 1: four you get before you deny the others. How much
Speaker 1: of what Hawthorne did against the Dogs put things right,
Speaker 1: the re establishment of the pressure game and the return
Speaker 1: to form.
Speaker 3: For some players, it is third versus six.
Speaker 1: They're one game behind Adelaide if they if they get beaten,
Speaker 1: there's suddenly eight points behind in the race for the
Speaker 1: top four. If they win, then they draw alongside Adelaide.
Speaker 1: So how big a step did the Crows take because
Speaker 1: of the bizarre nature of the last fifteen minutes is
Speaker 1: should they win? Well, they did win, so that plants
Speaker 1: that does it establish them as a top fourteen?
Speaker 3: They get to test their credentials.
Speaker 1: Add into that, the last two times in Loncester and
Speaker 1: these teams have met, they've been three point results either way,
Speaker 1: So they've played a pair of thrillers and I imagine
Speaker 1: Friday night will be pretty much the same.
Speaker 2: That's interesting, and the top eight credentials have been questioned.
Speaker 2: Both these teams are one and four against top eight
Speaker 2: teams going into last week. They both got a scalp
Speaker 2: impressively or not. So they're two and four and they're
Speaker 2: up against each other again. So no, that'll be a beauty.
Speaker 3: So that's Friday night.
Speaker 1: Let's start our agenda at Thursday night, And really, Sam
Speaker 1: Darcy is the story here. It's the second time the
Speaker 1: Bulldogs and the Saints have played. He got injured in
Speaker 1: the first one on Easter Sunday night, and he'll be
Speaker 1: back for the second one, which just tells you how
Speaker 1: rapidly this has come to hand. All Darcy's heard he's
Speaker 1: grabbing at his left knee.
Speaker 2: Oh, he was in a real pain, Jared, real pain.
Speaker 6: I think the game will suffered great loss for this
Speaker 6: afternoon or this evening when Sam went down. I mean,
Speaker 6: he's the biggest, brightest, shining star we've got right now
Speaker 6: in the competition.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems ready to go. He'll be in the
Speaker 3: team when it's announced this afternoon. Now he's trying to
Speaker 3: hide that he's a cub and he might be the
Speaker 3: next big thing.
Speaker 2: He's done a really scrupulous and professional job on rehabilitation
Speaker 2: from that injury, and so we were welcome him back
Speaker 2: and look forward to having him part of tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Right, good choice on the DJs guest who's back? Sandarsis back?
Speaker 1: So round six it happenings back for round fourteen. It
Speaker 1: means he only missed six games. We lived through this
Speaker 1: in real time where it looked for all the world
Speaker 1: and he'd been told for all the world it was
Speaker 1: a knee reconstruction and we're going to see him this weekend.
Speaker 3: We're with a chair.
Speaker 2: This is a Seculta thinking we'll see him and see.
Speaker 2: They would have thought, don't have to deal with him
Speaker 2: unless we get the finals, and here we are.
Speaker 3: Six weeks later.
Speaker 2: I do you know, we said before I show and
Speaker 2: reminisced about that night and everyone everyone thought he'd done,
Speaker 2: even down to the I think the Western Bulldogs, Medicos,
Speaker 2: certainly Luke and the family that we had those pitchers
Speaker 2: of them in the rooms. And then I went out
Speaker 2: a half time actually to do an interview and bumped
Speaker 2: into him and he had this resigned look on his face.
Speaker 2: So it is so uplifting that his back, and it's
Speaker 2: so important that he's back because they can't afford to
Speaker 2: misstep against this se Kulta side.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: You just saw McCrae back for Seculta. So he had
Speaker 1: the punctured lung in the game in Perth, and Soccer
Speaker 1: hasn't played since round nine against Carlton. Philippo's out there,
Speaker 1: so Darcy and Heinz has played the three games in
Speaker 1: his career in the middle phases of what we've seen
Speaker 1: so far and Harms is injured and Gardener just wasn't
Speaker 1: quite ready for it.
Speaker 3: So that game goes.
Speaker 1: The Dogs won by seventy one points, and we just
Speaker 1: crunched a few of those numbers that the damage that
Speaker 1: they did at stopping it was so phenomenally lopsided.
Speaker 2: Forty four to twenty three clearances cent abouts twenty to six,
Speaker 2: And as you rightly point out, there'd be a few
Speaker 2: coaches better place to sit back and go to work
Speaker 2: on those numbers than ross Lyon in the space of
Speaker 2: six weeks. So fore warned is always fore armed in
Speaker 2: these situations. And then Luke Beveridge knows better than anyone
Speaker 2: exactly what Rosslyn has been able to go to work on,
Speaker 2: So it'd be fascinating from a coaches box point of
Speaker 2: view to see it all unfold. There are players that
Speaker 2: just didn't perform last week for the Western Bulldogs who
Speaker 2: dominated this game. Was Marcus Bontepelli's first game back, just
Speaker 2: announced himself, so this could be the first time we
Speaker 2: see bonton Pelli and Darcy play from start to finish
Speaker 2: for the year for the Western Bulldogs, which would give
Speaker 2: them great heart. But the Saints have be taking some
Speaker 2: great heart as well from their last outing, which is
Speaker 2: a big.
Speaker 1: They just plotted in the scheme to bring Melbourne down.
Speaker 1: So plot and scheme again is looking at the coaches
Speaker 1: votes from that game and a couple of the players
Speaker 1: that were reference So Fraser got five, Sanders got four
Speaker 1: there too. Who need to get back into the fray
Speaker 1: for the Dogs is maybe they've become a little more
Speaker 1: peripheral as it's gone along Dale Williams Libertoire who was
Speaker 1: rarely poor last week, so their only bad loss for
Speaker 1: the season was against Hawthorne. We would absolutely expect them
Speaker 1: to rebound. But I mean, it is a bit. It's
Speaker 1: one of my pet hates in footys that there's only
Speaker 1: six games that have elapsed between when these two teams
Speaker 1: met the first time and.
Speaker 3: The second time. That that does my drawer is crazy.
Speaker 2: But anyway, they'll go to work on it and as
Speaker 2: I said, to be able to in the space of
Speaker 2: six weeks, go and just study all that. But Norton
Speaker 2: was mayor and Norton is another known that we can
Speaker 2: throw up here because when Sam went off, we all
Speaker 2: sort of said, well, this is your moment, and he
Speaker 2: had a moment. He kicked three could have had five
Speaker 2: and he's had a bit of an up and down
Speaker 2: season and was poor again the week before. So this
Speaker 2: is their time. But there's when round? What do we
Speaker 2: do around four? There's no time, no, no, there's games up.
Speaker 2: Absolutely this is it. Don't make a move.
Speaker 3: That's the start of the round.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night, right here on Fox Footy, when Saint Kilda
Speaker 1: and the Western Bulldogs meet. Our coaches are about to
Speaker 1: join us, Adam Simpson and John Langmire the art of
Speaker 1: coaching in a couple of tricky scenarios. When to just
Speaker 1: leave things one off alone, When to offer the right
Speaker 1: ferm hands
Speaker 2: The gold