Speaker 1: Dan Houston.
Speaker 2: Wanted to your dad could have you in nice kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah it is pretty sum shouldn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's very sharp.
Speaker 2: It's very warm as well. I'm looking aboard again outside,
Speaker 2: but it's cool.
Speaker 1: Calls it.
Speaker 3: They never failed gear.
Speaker 2: The racing.
Speaker 3: There's nothing one today.
Speaker 2: Dave Lloyd text of that said, looks like a fashions
Speaker 2: on the field sort of get.
Speaker 1: Used a little form guard in the top Puckett.
Speaker 3: Right, Hey, Dan, you must have doing doing this radio spot.
Speaker 3: You must have some weeks like last week where you
Speaker 3: go go on radio days after the showdown.
Speaker 1: Talk about that never with you.
Speaker 3: Conversely, you must have other days whether the alarm goes
Speaker 3: off and you've got a spring in your step that
Speaker 3: I reckon. That is the best port win I can remember.
Speaker 3: Is extrawdinary what you did in Geelong.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. It is if it is a little
Speaker 1: bit extraordinary when you look back on it, and it's
Speaker 1: a clear reminder that seven days is huge in footage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: genuinely flat. This week really up and about that was
Speaker 1: a really good win. I can't remember too many more.
Speaker 1: We've got close in pregims which would have probably topped it,
Speaker 1: but that probably Yeah, the thing that.
Speaker 3: Makes it so good though, And I reckon, if you're honest,
Speaker 3: I reckon everyone in the team. You must go to
Speaker 3: Geelong thinking we'll probably stuff to you, but we'll do
Speaker 3: our best so to actually win.
Speaker 2: That's that's the hardest kicking foot And with all the
Speaker 2: injuries too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was that they were pretty full strength.
Speaker 1: They will planning some really good footing and we had
Speaker 1: some injuries and you know, I think we all chipped
Speaker 1: in really like, all contributed really well, and there wasn't
Speaker 1: anyone where you go, yeah, probably you know, left it
Speaker 1: to too few people. Everyone chipped in and we got
Speaker 1: the result and stuck to our game plan, which is
Speaker 1: really important.
Speaker 2: What was the message? We talked about it a lot
Speaker 2: during the week. How do you talk about going to
Speaker 2: a game where you're so such a massive underdog, you've
Speaker 2: come off a bad loss and to boot, you've got
Speaker 2: a whole stack of injury suddenly to do with. So
Speaker 2: what what was was there? You know, A couple of
Speaker 2: words that everyone spoke about all week was a normal
Speaker 2: prep What stuck with you about the lead up to
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we felt like we're a little bit flat in
Speaker 1: the show down, a little bit boring and stagnant in
Speaker 1: the way we played, and we wanted to come out
Speaker 1: to Gelong with a bit of energy and play, you know,
Speaker 1: a more exciting brand of offense so that we could
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't have to defend for long periods
Speaker 1: of time. And we felt like we were able to
Speaker 1: put the the pressure on Gelong with our offense and
Speaker 1: put them under pressure to defend. And we came at
Speaker 1: them and got them on the back foot, which was
Speaker 1: what we wanted to do.
Speaker 2: So the shackles were off.
Speaker 1: The shackles. Yeah, it felt like that the shackles were
Speaker 1: off and that there was a lot of freedom. We
Speaker 1: simplified it down and what we wanted to do, move
Speaker 1: the ball, be aggressive and I think it was fifty
Speaker 1: points in the first quarter. I really spoke of that.
Speaker 2: We had Zach Butter's on seven News last night. He
Speaker 2: was filling in doing some captaincy duties with Connor Rosie out.
Speaker 2: He said, he's strengthen foot, he's not talking, so he
Speaker 2: kept it short before the game.
Speaker 1: Do you remember what he said, Nah, I think Buzzy's
Speaker 1: actually undermining himself a little bit. I thought he was
Speaker 1: really good and he spoke really well, I can't remember
Speaker 1: exactly what he spoke about, but you know, as a
Speaker 1: playing greut, we wanted to take a little bit of
Speaker 1: buttsy into how he played and tough and aggressive and
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit cheeky. Say I thought he
Speaker 1: did really well. Honestly say, I think Buzzy's just trying
Speaker 1: to get a little bit of a couple of compliments
Speaker 1: here or there.
Speaker 2: Do you you do you talk much with the group before?
Speaker 2: Because you started you were really quiet. I remember you've
Speaker 2: said to us before when you first came into Putty
Speaker 2: these days, are you you loud? Do you keep yourself
Speaker 2: in the sort of the pre match build up?
Speaker 1: I'm pretty I'm pretty quiet, and I'd sort of stick
Speaker 1: to myself a little bit in the pre match warm up,
Speaker 1: But once I'm on the field, I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit more vocal and get outside myself. And yeah,
Speaker 1: with the you know, less experienced players on the weekend,
Speaker 1: I felt like I had to, you know, sort of
Speaker 1: over exaggerate that a little bit.
Speaker 3: And you mentioned some of the prelings before. It feels
Speaker 3: to me, and you know this might sound judgmental or harsh,
Speaker 3: but it feels that ports problem and to the extent
Speaker 3: that you've had a problem over the last sort of
Speaker 3: Underkin's tenure is just lacking that little bit of extra
Speaker 3: mental edge, the self confidence to really nail big opponents
Speaker 3: in big games. And that's why I think this is
Speaker 3: the best win you've had because it was like for Ken,
Speaker 3: it's like I can coach, you, guys can play, we
Speaker 3: can do this, So how do you sort of you
Speaker 3: can probably generate like an enduring benefit from Cardinia Park
Speaker 3: last week to take it into things like the prelimbs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. I'm sure it will be referenced
Speaker 1: throughout the year, showing that you know, with you know,
Speaker 1: a team that was probably a little bit less experience
Speaker 1: playing a team that was really experienced, if we can
Speaker 1: stick to our game plan and it'll get it done
Speaker 1: against anyone anywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: I think that'll be a really good message for us
Speaker 1: throughout the season. And as you said, it might be
Speaker 1: that little bit of belief that we need.
Speaker 3: Because even the start was incredible, but the hanging on
Speaker 3: was really impressive too, like because they were coming a
Speaker 3: big time at the end. So it's sort of like
Speaker 3: the twin challenges of football attacking well, but then holding
Speaker 3: on to a lead like the second half was as
Speaker 3: extraordinary as the first.
Speaker 2: Yeah was.
Speaker 1: We got obviously tested in both ways, you know, coming
Speaker 1: out and having to respond from last week, and then
Speaker 1: we had to hold on in the end, which we
Speaker 1: probably didn't think we put ourselves in that situation. So
Speaker 1: there's there's heaps of little lessons out of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Gelong were coming at us and I thought it
Speaker 1: was really strong connection point of us to be able
Speaker 1: to hold on there at the end.
Speaker 2: Selection day to day, How has the skipper looked on
Speaker 2: the track this week? And do you reckon? We'll be
Speaker 2: back in Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we've got main training tomorrow and we also had
Speaker 1: a training session yesterday kind of did everything. So I
Speaker 1: think he'll be a test to see how he goes
Speaker 1: tomorrow in main training. And then we've got a few others.
Speaker 1: I think Lockie Jones might be a test too, and
Speaker 1: then yeah, I think tre McKenzie will be back as well.
Speaker 1: So I think there's a few players that will be
Speaker 1: in the.
Speaker 2: Selection Sunday game, isn't it.
Speaker 1: So you've got the Sunday games, yeah, yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 1: it'd be a squad tonight and then obviously it'll be
Speaker 1: refined on Friday.
Speaker 2: Well, all the best. So the Hawks here you have
Speaker 2: played actually some decent footy surprised the teams recently, so
Speaker 2: you have to be on your on your on your game,
Speaker 2: I think on this weekend. So all the best, mate,
Speaker 2: we'll chat to you next week.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Just have me in she's dead.
Speaker 3: David Pemberthy and Will Goodings six to nine five double
Speaker 3: a breakfast