1 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: We have ourselves the final four. 2 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 2: After a pair of compelling performances in the semis, the winning. 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: Coaches are with us. 4 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 3: Long Live the Demon King. 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 4: Melbourne umbarals its new coach with pledges to change the 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 4: game plan rather than the list and. 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 2: Origin returns to the AFL Landscape. League bosses pin their 8 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 2: hopes on February to revive the long dormant formats. 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 3: We talked about. Is a step into it, embrace all. 10 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 2: Of it, hit in the room and eton it's unedifying 11 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 2: for a senior coach to do that. 12 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,160 Speaker 3: They're on the side of Courtia with the brain takee 13 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 3: the man on. 14 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 2: They played the best footy I've ever seen at the 15 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 2: start of the season. 16 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:45,599 Speaker 1: And if you said president left, the couple older said, 17 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: of course they do. 18 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 3: It's the stuff that legends are made of. What is 19 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:49,520 Speaker 3: holding the ball? 20 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 4: I don't think I could answer it clearly right now 21 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 4: that I could do. 22 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: Something wrong, you know, And I need to go. 23 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:57,959 Speaker 3: And the board's actually the fans love it. And with 24 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 3: no fans, no through sixty year olds. 25 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 2: With our final four Gays come the biggest prelims imaginable. 26 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 4: Four great teams MCG Friday Night and Saturday twilight. It 27 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 4: has meandered a little bit, as we've talked about a lot, 28 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 4: but it's going to come to a very pointy end 29 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 4: this weekend. 30 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:22,400 Speaker 1: I can't wait. 31 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 4: Both both games present as blockbusters in every. 32 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 2: Fast record cumulative crowd for a prelim weeks and as 33 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy two thousand, this will be a 34 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 2: pair of ninety sevens ninety. 35 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: Below that right out and obliterate. 36 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 4: If he could do it on Friday night, if it 37 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 4: was big enough, Yeah, how good? 38 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: Will it be? All right? 39 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 2: Our semi final review Chris Fagan and Sam Mitchell are 40 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 2: going to join us as they look towards preliminary finals 41 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 2: on the couch and dissect all that happened with Jack Revolt, 42 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 2: Jordan Lewis, Nathan Buckley and Jonathan Brown Tomorrow night our 43 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 2: players Patrick Dangerfield, the Geelong captain and veteran Magpie defender 44 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 2: Jeremy How How is he fair? Car on the track 45 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 2: is the big question? Will he be ready for Saturday? 46 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: Ray Chamberlain on the umpire in front our favorite pairing 47 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 2: on Wednesday nights, John Longmeyer and Adam Simpson, as well 48 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 2: as Dave Hughes is going to join us next Monday 49 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 2: night is the second most important count on the calendar. 50 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 2: Tonight we continue the most thrilling the GVPS. The most 51 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 2: valuable players in the estimations of Gary Lyne from the 52 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 2: previous weekend's Footy at Stake is the Mustang GT Fastback, 53 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 2: valued at ninety three thousand dollars, iconic design, Armorial performance 54 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 2: five Leader, the eight engine. 55 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 3: We're down to pointing in now. I think our leader's 56 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 3: out of contingent. 57 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 4: He didn't add to his telly on the weekend jured, 58 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,079 Speaker 4: So this magnificent automobile. 59 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 3: He's still up for grabs, as I understand. 60 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 2: And he was the clubhouse leader attending what You're about 61 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 2: to do? 62 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 4: One vote, Jay Gunston Hawthorne. He was magnificent. 63 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 3: God he was. 64 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 4: I think he could be the story of the year 65 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 4: when all this said and done. He's up to seventy 66 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,399 Speaker 4: odd goals. He kicked five. He kicked the first goal 67 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 4: of the game, Jared, he kicked the first goal the 68 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 4: third quarter. He kicked the first goal of the fourth quarter. 69 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,799 Speaker 4: He's got five on the board and he didn't look 70 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 4: like missing. And we took to in postgame and looked 71 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 4: like you wouldn't blow a candle out. So it is 72 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 4: quite an extraordinary story, a prelim final again for this 73 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 4: great footballer who's done it all before and his finals 74 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 4: record is unbelievable back in those Healthyon days Grand Finals especially, 75 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,799 Speaker 4: So he's a worthy one voter, which means that there's 76 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,959 Speaker 4: a couple that had extraordinary performances to go ahead of him, 77 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 4: and he's teammate two votes. Jay Newcombe Hawthorn just magnificent. 78 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 4: He's just he is the finals performer of the modern 79 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 4: era or the last two years. So the game started 80 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 4: and we're all looking at the center bounds gone, this 81 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 4: boke's going to be a factor in the blink of 82 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 4: an eye, Jared he had four center bounds clearances, they 83 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,119 Speaker 4: had three goals on the board and. 84 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 3: It was just deja vu all over again. So what 85 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 3: a player? 86 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 4: What twenty eight touches, six and contested ten score involvements, 87 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 4: eight clearances, six center bounds. I think he had five 88 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 4: in the first quarter, five centivan's clearances, so he could 89 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 4: have easily got three, but I just went for Jay 90 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 4: Dunkley of the Brisbane lines because of the opposition. Our 91 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,119 Speaker 4: leader was the opposition. I'm talking about Matthew. 92 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 3: Row and I love that. We'll talk to Chris Fagan 93 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 3: about it. 94 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 4: I'd love it when players go to coaches and say 95 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:19,039 Speaker 4: give me him. 96 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:21,039 Speaker 3: I want the job on him. Now. 97 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 4: I heard folks talk about it. We need more information 98 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 4: and just how hard he banged the table because raw 99 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 4: got his number when they did a number on the 100 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 4: whole Brisbane lines. And for someone like Josh Dunkley, I 101 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 4: reckon that sits right in his guts, no matter how 102 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 4: well he's going, he just can't have that hanging over 103 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 4: his head until he fixes it. 104 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 3: And he fixed it. 105 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 4: He had eighteen tackles, twenty touches, four clearances and kept 106 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 4: Matthew row to reasonable output. So apologist to Leviy ashbrook 107 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 4: Croft and Harris Andrews, I thought route standing. 108 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 3: So we've got a two vote leader. 109 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 2: Maddie Rowl, who's a sitting shot now Dangerfields. 110 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: He is sidebottom. 111 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 3: He could go Bailey, he get tired up Das Anyway, 112 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 3: That's how it's it's right now. 113 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 2: Some big responsibility is it's been so much fun to 114 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 2: what you try to deal with it? All right, let's 115 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 2: get to the agenda. Ad It is loaded, but it 116 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:14,479 Speaker 2: must start with the foot of itself. A pair of 117 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 2: powerhouse performances in the semi finals, as two teams book 118 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 2: their passage to bigger things. 119 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 3: The sharpness of winning and losing just comes. 120 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 4: More to the four when you get into the knockout stage, 121 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:33,359 Speaker 4: which it is now all sixteens, the agony the X Now, guys, 122 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 4: we'll go away with a scar there. 123 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 3: That's that's a pretty big one. It'll heal, but it 124 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 3: hurts at the moment I said here, this is exact 125 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 3: tapeful this. 126 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 5: Time last year. You know, heartbroken by the by the 127 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 5: loss and the missed opportunity of what could have been. 128 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 5: And I think everyone had a level of pain and 129 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 5: understanding that getting that far is really difficult. 130 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 6: It's hard, I reckon moment you sort of look at 131 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 6: the game, you're just so incredibly disappointed. 132 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:06,040 Speaker 3: You know, a whole heap of fans here, a. 133 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 5: Whole lot of support, and you sort of feel like 134 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 5: you've disappointed them. 135 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 6: There was a great response after the last week. 136 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 3: They keep responding to this group. 137 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 4: We always get a regency buys what happened last weekend. 138 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 4: He's always such a big, big issue, but it has 139 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 4: little to do with what's going to happen next weekend. 140 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 3: Or gas no breaks. 141 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: It's running a bit light on Mighty used to all 142 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: their guests last week. 143 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 3: It looks that. 144 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 7: Way, doesn't it. 145 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: Absolutely nowhere is in front of big sticks. If the 146 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: pots a round, honey John, Now. 147 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 5: Brisbane are still the Kings of Queensland football. 148 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 6: I did to yet another preliminary file. 149 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 3: I'm definitely proud of the group. 150 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: And it's hard to make finals. 151 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 4: After you win a premiership lit I getting back to 152 00:06:57,839 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 4: a preliminary final. 153 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: Is so abrupt. 154 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:02,799 Speaker 3: The finish is so abrupt. 155 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 1: I am nowhere near ready for the season to be over. 156 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 4: Thirty three points out against a Siders keep thirty one 157 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 4: points for the game. 158 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 3: It sits about out of control. 159 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 6: To seal un famous block finals victorin. 160 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 2: And then on it's to lay blockbuster preliminary final against 161 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 2: talk about ancient crimes. 162 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 5: It's a pretty pretty exciting time to be a Hawks fan, 163 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 5: own to be the Hawks coach or Hawks player or 164 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 5: Hawse staff member. And I think everyone goes into work 165 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 5: Monday pretty pretty optimistic and hopeful of what we can achieve. 166 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 3: But the prelim weekend is not the aim. You know, 167 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 3: we just were just playing match plays right now. No, 168 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 3: we don't know who are next match plays against. But 169 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 3: I know one thing that next time we play, there's 170 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 3: only fourteenths left. Fourteen. 171 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 2: The billing has taken share the Brisbane lines and the 172 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 2: Hawks to be a part of that. So Geelong and 173 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 2: Hawthorne on Friday night at the mcg story Rivalry and 174 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 2: then the protagonists from one of the great Grand Finals 175 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 2: two years ago meets again. The Lions first talk about 176 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 2: marking your territory, which. 177 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 3: Is what they did on saturdays of those four teams. 178 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 4: God, they're being great free sides over a long journey 179 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 4: and that sort of sums up what we're about. You 180 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 4: hear us talk has commentators about it looks like a 181 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 4: sort of a game, you know. And as this game started, 182 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 4: after the first two goals that went Gold Coastway, it 183 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 4: just looked like a Brisbane Lions kind of game. And 184 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 4: that's to the credit of the whole team and that 185 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,079 Speaker 4: man there, Chris Fagan, and their role players within it. So, 186 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 4: I mean, I can look through the numbers, one hundred 187 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 4: plus marks for Brisbane as a benchmarks. They took ninety 188 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:49,079 Speaker 4: against Geelong loss, they back to one hundred and fifty marks. 189 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 4: Their clearance domination was there, the plus eight and clearance 190 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 4: plus six cent a bounds and then all the names 191 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 4: you taken off, Rainer, Ashcroft, Mcluggy just back to the 192 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 4: mcluggy should be doing. Barry was great, So King kicked 193 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 4: the first two goals of the game, and then they 194 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 4: roll Harris over him, and just that was the end 195 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 4: of the story from that. 196 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 3: Point of view. 197 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 4: And then Josh Dunkley goes around does his jobs, Alko 198 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 4: starts picking off kicks through the middle of the ground 199 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 4: that no one even thinks about. 200 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 3: Lett alone attempts, and they they. 201 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 4: Were just over the fingernails, and then it was and 202 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 4: then they're away, and it just kind of it was 203 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 4: like a puzzle that was slowly coming together and they 204 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 4: just went clunk and by that stage, fifty three points later, 205 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 4: game over. 206 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 3: No shame in it. 207 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 4: From a gold Co soun's point of view, they'd come 208 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 4: to the end of a fantastic journey for them, whereas 209 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 4: this team they're not near the end. They're just sort 210 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 4: of getting back into business. And it just reminded us 211 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 4: how much depth there is through the middle of the ground, Jared, 212 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 4: which is going to be their strength, and they're going 213 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 4: to need a little bit luck up forward and Loman 214 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 4: looked dangerous again, and rain And looked at his imposing best. 215 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 4: They're back half solid enough, So that's the way I 216 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:53,079 Speaker 4: read it. 217 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 3: What about you. 218 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: Heart, fight and pride. 219 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 2: They weren't ready to fold their premiership defense, so they've 220 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 2: had every reason across a couple of months just to 221 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 2: start to have the back broken, and each time they 222 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 2: have been challenged by it, they we're not done yet. 223 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: So now to the mc big stages. They're doing it 224 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: with that. 225 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 2: It's a little bit makeshift as well as the depth 226 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 2: that you've mentioned, but not to concede to the crosstown 227 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 2: rival and not to fold what is a big premisship. 228 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,599 Speaker 3: They're not folding anything Brisbane. We can Sadday night or 229 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 3: Saturday twilight. 230 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:34,079 Speaker 2: Unbelievably anticipatated Hawthorne just compelling and complete what they have 231 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:35,079 Speaker 2: going on at the moment. 232 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, I just got consistently know what we're going to 233 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 4: get from them. And when you get to that stage 234 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 4: as a team, you know you've got a Boddy good 235 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 4: footy side and so you can trust them to come 236 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 4: out and serve up what they served up. And so 237 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 4: from the middle of the ground to Gunstan who consistently 238 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 4: doing it. 239 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 3: Mc Newcomb's consistently do it with support cast by the way, 240 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 3: and that's the other thing. 241 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 7: You know. 242 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 4: They're tough, they're in tune, they know what each other 243 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 4: is required out of each other at any given time. 244 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 4: They're balanced in an even and they're playing their role. 245 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 4: So you know, you go to Ward in the middle 246 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,199 Speaker 4: of the ground, so you go, Okay, are they a 247 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 4: bit skinning, a bit light on through the middle of 248 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 4: the ground. Well, no, because Ward comes in and plays 249 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 4: arguably one of his best games. Their back halfs really 250 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 4: really settled. It's going to be hard to score against them, 251 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 4: and they're doing stuff in the front that you just 252 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 4: wouldn't have expected at the start of the year. 253 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 3: So they're in a good place. 254 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 4: When you get to that stage is the footy club 255 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 4: and you go, I don't know, we're not lose, but 256 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 4: I know what I'm going to. 257 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 3: Get from them. That's where they're at. 258 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: The Hawthorn footage that back seven. So Barris and Battle 259 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,599 Speaker 1: are doing exactly what they brought them in to do. 260 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: So they're the additions. 261 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 2: Scrimshaw and Sicily are still intercepting everything hard where it's 262 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 2: just impossible to get past aim And and Impia are 263 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 2: running like few others. And then you've got Weddal who's 264 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 2: doing all sorts of bits and pieces. What a wild 265 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 2: card he has been to add Lake to the puzzle. 266 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, Hang just gets better and better. 267 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 4: There's a little recipe there that if he he's only 268 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 4: had two games back now, but if he starts to 269 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:57,839 Speaker 4: look a little bit weird, he're just throwing forward. It 270 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 4: didn't do dangerous thing down There is a damn dangerous 271 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 4: wingman when he's in the goal square. 272 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 2: And they have shared fourteen of the past twenty four 273 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 2: premishas these fourteen. 274 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 3: He plays on Oli Dempsey, they'll both be in the 275 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:07,560 Speaker 3: goals square. 276 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 1: I I rather like that. 277 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 2: So the losers and that they were totally different in character. 278 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 2: Adelaide have gone out in straight sets. They played both 279 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 2: finals at home, they didn't win a single quarter. 280 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 4: Great home and Awa team, terrible finals team, and they 281 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 4: could live with That's that's just the reality of life. 282 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 4: Finish on top of the ladder. It says your great 283 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 4: home and a team, you go out in straight sets 284 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 4: and you don't win a quarter. It says you're a 285 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 4: horrible finals team. You know, I was over there a 286 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 4: little bit earlier than you and say, reading paper, talking 287 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 4: to people, I thought, this is not within the Adelaide walls, 288 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 4: but the town itself, to me, were preparing for failure. 289 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 4: There was a preparedness for it. There was excuse my eye, 290 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 4: we finished on top. Even if we go out, it'll 291 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 4: be a good effort there. Oh but we haven't got 292 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:51,079 Speaker 4: to as that rank and he's going to and I'm 293 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 4: just thinking, gee, that's not the attitude you want. 294 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 3: You know, there was you think is there going to 295 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 3: be a response? 296 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 4: And then I watched this, so we set ourselves down 297 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:01,439 Speaker 4: for the first first passage of the player of player 298 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 4: of the game. What's the response, Get inside the jumper, 299 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:07,840 Speaker 4: be ferocious, don't concede anything. And then Keen just let 300 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 4: gunstant go. Jason Cordon, look at him, this is the 301 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 4: first player of the game, Jared, that is horrible. And 302 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 4: that's sum that Mark Keane's back half or back few games. 303 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:19,679 Speaker 3: I think he got ahead of himself. 304 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 4: Mark Kean forgot to do what made him one of 305 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 4: the best defenders in it. So all week you're living 306 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,319 Speaker 4: We're not you know the criticism that come at you. 307 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 4: We're not finals ready, we're not our intensity isn't right. 308 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 4: That's what you're living. And the very first play Mark 309 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 4: Mark Kean just let's jack guns and wander up and 310 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 4: just stands in the goals square doing nothing. 311 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 3: Horrible sign. And from that they did gather them. So 312 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 3: they gave up the three goals. They got three back, 313 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 3: but then it was just chasing tail. So they weren't 314 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:48,199 Speaker 3: ready for finals footing. 315 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:50,679 Speaker 4: They just the That's what the other all those other 316 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:55,319 Speaker 4: teams you talked about Brisbane and Hawthorne intensity, Collingwood intensity, Geelong. 317 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 3: They pressured the hell out of Brisbane in that first final. 318 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 4: They were a mile off at the Crows. So that's 319 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 4: what they've got to live with over summer. And if 320 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 4: you reckon that's harsh bad luck. You can't do anything 321 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 4: about it until next September. 322 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 2: It's an interesting introspective pieces eighteen wins. So how do 323 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 2: you rationalize that big failure at the ends they became 324 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 2: very unbalanced I think on the field, in the coach's 325 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 2: box and the club more broadly. 326 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: Clearly, the Isaac Rankin moment is. 327 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 2: A flashpoint to be reflected upon and all the actions 328 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 2: that came afterwards, and only they'll know internally when they 329 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 2: think about it all, but what to do? 330 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 1: So how do you find your proportional response? 331 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 2: Will it be different next year if they make their 332 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 2: necessary improvement present again for the assignments or not. 333 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: These are difficult ones. 334 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 2: There's a couple of glaring holes in their list which 335 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 2: were probably suspected and they get flushed out completely in September. 336 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 2: How do you go about filling those? Do you have 337 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 2: internal pieces that you can train up to that. Do 338 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 2: you have to bring something in and not the easiest 339 00:14:58,480 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 2: post mortem to run? 340 00:14:59,640 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: I don't. 341 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 4: I think they'll get another shot at it because they 342 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 4: are a very good home and away team and that 343 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 4: is they'll put paid to most of the bottom half 344 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 4: of the oppositions, which should allow them to get another 345 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 4: crack at it. 346 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 3: But it's going to be a long summer, long summer 347 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 3: Gold Coasts. 348 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 2: So the coming of age moments that they had, they've 349 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 2: paid their right of passage through the past few weeks. 350 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 3: Easy for us to shrug and not our head and 351 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 3: go yeah, great effort. 352 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 4: But I suspect that Damion Harwick will take a much 353 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 4: sterner line than that with this group, that if any 354 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 4: of them have a sense that we've had a successful year, 355 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 4: I reckon, you tramp on that and tread on that 356 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 4: really aggressively because you know we can say it, but 357 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 4: I don't reckon. The club need to stand for that, 358 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 4: no reason to pat themselves on the back. They've got 359 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 4: to get some support up in the front half. Ethan 360 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 4: Reid at are really disappointed, didn't score in two finals, 361 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 4: were subbed off in the second. 362 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 3: Parah was paid ahead of Walter for reasons that we know. 363 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 3: But he's not a goal scorer. So you sit on 364 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 3: King and you do a number on King, you sit 365 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 3: on Row, you do a number on one. I'll either 366 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 3: here you are and then you're halfway there, I reckon. 367 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 4: So they need some well they might say Read and 368 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 4: Walter with natural development will be that support for King, 369 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 4: but they need some numbers through the midfield. 370 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 3: They need them support through the middle of the ground. 371 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 4: So big step, big, big step for the gold Co Suns. 372 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 4: We can say and I think that's a successful year, 373 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 4: But I don't reckon. Damien Harweck can be treading that line. 374 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: So I'm a bit like you. 375 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 2: What does their forward line look like when they are 376 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 2: ready to contend? Is that next year? Is Jamie Elliott? 377 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 2: Part of it is Charlie Kerno part of it. Those 378 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 2: the questions were right they asked the press conference in 379 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 2: the aftermath, and I think in the days thereafter you 380 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 2: began so natural progress, which I think, or do we 381 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 2: hypercharge it and try to rush into it next year? 382 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 4: Yeah? 383 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 3: Get aggressive, Get aggressive. 384 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 4: They've got plenty of picks to work with and they've 385 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 4: got some talent that might be expendable, So go get 386 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 4: aggressive all. 387 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 2: Right away from the final series itself, those who are 388 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 2: plotting to be there in future, Melbourne is at the 389 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 2: front of that list. Stephen King was unveiled as the 390 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 2: coach today, having one his way through to become the 391 00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 2: D's new mentor. 392 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 7: Without sounding full of myself or anything like that, I 393 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 7: just feel like I bring a unique experience and skill 394 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 7: set that people want to be around. I want my 395 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 7: players to drive to work every day, to be with 396 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:11,440 Speaker 7: a massive smile on their face, knowing they're going to 397 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 7: be stimulated, have a lot of fun, but be challenged 398 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 7: as well. And I honestly believe I want to play 399 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 7: Brandon footy that's uniquely Melbourne, and I feel like I 400 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 7: can adapt that to the skill set that our players 401 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 7: have got. 402 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 3: I feel like every staff member. 403 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 7: Every player I should expect to play finals next year, 404 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:31,360 Speaker 7: and I hope I'd be really disappointed if that wasn't 405 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 7: an expectation. I think the experience that we've got here, 406 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 7: I want to try and keep those experienced players here 407 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 7: for as long as possible, because Premiership players don't grow 408 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:41,360 Speaker 7: on trees, and to have them on your side while 409 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 7: you're bringing in the youth of tomorrow and today, that's 410 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:44,879 Speaker 7: going to be a really important part of the way 411 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 7: I want our team to. 412 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,640 Speaker 1: Play, reinvigorate. 413 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 2: What's there was the message that the club has been 414 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,639 Speaker 2: speaking about for six weeks and their new coach very 415 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 2: much in tune with that. 416 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: The most farer. 417 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 2: Grounding than pedigree you could get through the assistant coaching 418 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 2: system with a little taste of it at Gold What 419 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:03,400 Speaker 2: did you censors? You're watching as inaugural prescott. 420 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 4: So all we could ask for at the start was 421 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 4: to go and run the process and that was what 422 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:11,119 Speaker 4: I hope they did, and I think a lot of 423 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:14,119 Speaker 4: people did, and it will. You will arrive at your 424 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 4: best candidate. And this is the man that they've come 425 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 4: up with, Stephen King. So that's great and it's exciting 426 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 4: and I wish him all the best and there's a 427 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 4: buzz around the joint. 428 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 3: And there's all excitement that comes with being a new coach. 429 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:27,959 Speaker 4: I suspect it's a really difficult one because he's got 430 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 4: another team that are playing for premiership here, so I 431 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:32,880 Speaker 4: can't imagine what's going through his mind at the moment 432 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:35,400 Speaker 4: like he has and he will commit to Geelong because 433 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 4: he's that sort of person. But in the other in 434 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 4: any spare moment that he's got, it will turn to 435 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,160 Speaker 4: Melbourne and what I need, And he talked about list 436 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 4: and style and all that sort of stuff. He needs 437 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:46,640 Speaker 4: to get his feet under that desk and work it out, 438 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 4: work out exactly what that is and exactly where that 439 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 4: sits with some of the players on that list. But 440 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 4: good on them for running it, and good on Stephen 441 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 4: forgetting the opportunity to be the coach of the most 442 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 4: traditional footy club in the comp Is. 443 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 2: It the right to if they can hold it all together, 444 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 2: change the game plan and see what it amounts to. 445 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 3: I suspect that that's going to be totally up to him. 446 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 4: I think that the game plan was beginning to evolve anyway, 447 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 4: as we've talked about a lot. 448 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 3: I like the way he spoke today about. 449 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 4: What sort of what the modern game demands, and so 450 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 4: you get a whole new lens over that, and that 451 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 4: can invigorate players. You know, they might be pigeonholed in 452 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 4: certain areas on a style of footy that's been played 453 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:28,120 Speaker 4: for a long time. 454 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 3: So no, I think he'll work. 455 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 4: Through all that, and then you talk about players and 456 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 4: game plan. I suspect it's going to be a bit 457 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 4: of both. I would suspect there'll be some change, and 458 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 4: that's a good thing too. 459 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 2: So those who work the trade beat and Tom Morris 460 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 2: and John Ralph, just the gentle whispers around Christian Petrarca 461 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 2: that perhaps the club and player willing to both have 462 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 2: a look if they can find the right circumstance this 463 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 2: time around. Not gone to head stuff, not absolutely essential 464 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:57,159 Speaker 2: that it happens, but both gently open to the idea. 465 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, I suspect there's one of three ways. There's the 466 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 4: essendence no no, no, which was the line they took 467 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 4: last year. Then if it's moved again, that's no no 468 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 4: unless and that is something that can turn your head. 469 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 4: And it's going to be a win for the football 470 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 4: club because they control where Christian can go by virtue 471 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:18,159 Speaker 4: of the long term contract or the. 472 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:20,360 Speaker 3: YEP, get your best deal in let's talk. 473 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,920 Speaker 4: I suspect it's probably somewhere between one and two, not 474 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 4: under any circumstances unless you can turn our head. And 475 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 4: if they can turn their head, maybe they can get 476 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,200 Speaker 4: a deal that is good for Christian and good for 477 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 4: the footy club. But I also want Stephen King to 478 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:33,920 Speaker 4: get in there and have a good sit down with 479 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:36,720 Speaker 4: Christian Petraka. I mean it's all good and will journalists talking, 480 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 4: the players talking, and talk to that bike there who's 481 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 4: between us. He's the one that holds the key to 482 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 4: Christian Petraka. And I would imagine if I'm a new coach, 483 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:46,639 Speaker 4: he'd be one of the first blogs I want to 484 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 4: sit down to and go right, where are we at here? 485 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 4: I know you can play, I know you can change games. 486 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:53,120 Speaker 4: What's going on in your head might be a five 487 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 4: minute conversation where they both fall in love with each 488 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,880 Speaker 4: other and away they go. So don't worry about anyone 489 00:20:57,920 --> 00:20:59,880 Speaker 4: anyone else is saying, or what other players are saying. 490 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 3: Worried about what that boat right there? Things? 491 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's been a tendency to run Patraka down, which 492 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:05,959 Speaker 2: I found odd the whole way through. He led their 493 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:09,159 Speaker 2: Brown Low voting last year despite the horrific injury that 494 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,359 Speaker 2: he suffered just beyond the halfway point of the season, 495 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 2: and he's just run second in the Best and Fairest 496 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 2: behind Maxican. 497 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 1: You're not going that terribly, No, not in Melbourne's eyes anyway. 498 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:18,239 Speaker 3: No, that's right. 499 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 4: So if Stephen King wants Christian Petrarca as part of 500 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 4: his plans going forward, then the number five will. 501 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:26,439 Speaker 3: Be there in round one. 502 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 1: Not drink the boss. 503 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,400 Speaker 2: Andrew Dillon got his Passion Project up. He's wanted State 504 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 2: of Origin to allow the best to play with and 505 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 2: against the best in a showpiece of the game that 506 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 2: we used to know, reinvented for the modern era. 507 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 1: It will happen in February and. 508 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 5: Perth like the All Stars Game earlier this year, when 509 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,159 Speaker 5: the players buy in, the clubs buy in, and then 510 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 5: the fans buy So we're really looking forward to it. 511 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 6: Alisa, Origin is the pinnacle of my footy Korea. I 512 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,200 Speaker 6: played in a couple of Grand finals, but it's in 513 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 6: my top two or three because I grew up on it. 514 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 3: It was in my DNA. 515 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 6: It was certainly something that that I'm still very proud of, 516 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,440 Speaker 6: and I feel that they're missing something in their football 517 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 6: careers that they don't have that opportunity. 518 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 3: Now they do. 519 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,399 Speaker 1: And this has been your passion project as well. Right, 520 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 1: it's there. How does it work? Yeah? 521 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 3: Over the players, Now it's over to you. 522 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 4: You've said all year, We've spoke to every player we interviewed, 523 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 4: we've talked to and said you want to start of origin. 524 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 3: Pretty overwhelming we overwhelmingly wanted. 525 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,919 Speaker 4: Darcy Moore of the Players Association Presidence says, we all 526 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 4: want the foot. 527 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:27,679 Speaker 3: Well here's your opportunity. 528 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 4: So put your money where you or put your mouth 529 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 4: where your money is. 530 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 3: Really put your hand up. 531 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 4: I think it's going to be sensational, Jared, and the 532 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 4: bottom line, to make it work, it's got to mean 533 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 4: something and it's got to matter. It's got a matter 534 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 4: who wins and who loses in these state games, and 535 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 4: that's what we've got to build. And West Australia Victoria 536 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:47,919 Speaker 4: get the first crack out at South Australia as shirty 537 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 4: as all hell. 538 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 3: I can already hear the. 539 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 4: South Australian's over there going what about us, You'll get 540 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 4: your chance. I suspect the winner will place South Australia. 541 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 4: So we're down the track. 542 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 3: Let's work out who is the best footy state going around. 543 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 4: Make it matter and give these the opportunity for Patrick 544 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:05,359 Speaker 4: Cripps and Zach Butters and Nick Deakos to finish their 545 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,719 Speaker 4: careers as Victorian and West Australian players. I think it's 546 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 4: absolutely magnificent. But over to the players, the coaches, you know, 547 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 4: we'll have the coaches here. They'll probably be lukewarm on it. 548 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:14,880 Speaker 3: That's okay. 549 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,480 Speaker 4: I understand exactly where they're coming from. But you said 550 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 4: you wanted it all along. The AFL have now backed 551 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 4: you up. Let's make this thing enormous on the fourteenth 552 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,120 Speaker 4: of February, West Australian Victoria. 553 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 2: All right, that's a good catchment of players to be 554 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:31,439 Speaker 2: choosing from right there, So let's see. And our final 555 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,399 Speaker 2: note in the agenda is South Australia has endured the 556 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 2: loss of its greatest ever player at Barry Robber in 557 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 2: a couple of months ago, and now at Max Bashier, 558 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,400 Speaker 2: who it's said is nobody did more for South Australian 559 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 2: footy post the war years than Max. He served in 560 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 2: every position imaginable in South Australian footy through to the 561 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 2: ESA NFL. He is a member of the Australian Football 562 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:53,879 Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. He was the president of the local 563 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 2: league for twenty five years from nineteen seventy eight to 564 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,399 Speaker 2: two thousand and three. He was the driving figure behind 565 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 2: established Football Park as a base. 566 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 1: He played critical roles in the. 567 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 2: Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide, becoming part of the AFL, 568 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 2: whilst also protecting what was going on in his home state. 569 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 2: His name is emblazoned on one of the stands at 570 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,879 Speaker 2: Adelaide Oval. He passed away aged ninety eight and he 571 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,159 Speaker 2: is a levithe and legend of South Australian football. 572 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 1: Salute to Max Bashier. 573 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,880 Speaker 2: All right, let's bring in our coaches as we look 574 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,160 Speaker 2: towards these preliminary finals and review what has just transpired. 575 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 2: Winner stays on, Sam Mitchell joins us. Winner joins in 576 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 2: Chris Fagan. So they know each other so well, intertwined 577 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,439 Speaker 2: through many a final series in the past. 578 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 1: Mitchell and Fagan next, just looking at me