Speaker 1: Five doublea football post match callers.
Speaker 2: So a massive win for Geelong tonight.
Speaker 3: They absolutely smashed Port Adelaide by eighty four points twenty
Speaker 3: goals eighteen one thirty eight to seven.
Speaker 2: Twelve fifty four.
Speaker 3: The Cats advance to a prelim final off the back
Speaker 3: of what was Treaders quite simply a clinical performance twenty
Speaker 3: goals eighteen thirty eight scoring shots to nineteen, so exactly double.
Speaker 3: They have advanced and not rated by a lot of people.
Speaker 3: But we'd love to get your cause Port fans, because
Speaker 3: that is the biggest finals loss under Ken Hinckley. It
Speaker 3: was a finals failure of the highest magnitude and it's
Speaker 3: hard to comprehend how badly it went wrong for Port
Speaker 3: Adelaide tonight.
Speaker 4: Treaders, well, I don't think you're can escape it as
Speaker 4: a club because we haven't performed. Who got beaten up
Speaker 4: by a team that we were deemed to be favorites over,
Speaker 4: who had beaten early in the season by a goal,
Speaker 4: and we will taught a lesson of desperation.
Speaker 5: Team football, an execution simple as that.
Speaker 3: After the game, thanks to as transport solutions, Geelong through
Speaker 3: to a Premium final and for Port Adelaide. The prospect is,
Speaker 3: Timmy said in the final core of Hawthorne, all the
Speaker 3: dogs who will play tomorrow night. The winner will advance,
Speaker 3: the loser. It will be season over. Give us a
Speaker 3: calls port fans eight, double two three double double A
Speaker 3: is the number. Let's get to Jace, who wants to
Speaker 3: kick things off for us.
Speaker 6: Hello, Jace, Hello, what an absolute stinker.
Speaker 5: I just can't believe it. After all we've been.
Speaker 7: Through with Thinkley the season to come and serve this
Speaker 7: that week one in front of a home crowd.
Speaker 8: Treadors.
Speaker 9: It's not acceptable.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, it's not. It was you can copy when you
Speaker 5: go down fighting.
Speaker 4: But that's the I suspect we're going to get a
Speaker 4: few more calls like that, ununderstandably.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was twenty points at halftime and we said,
Speaker 3: you know, we're probably lucky, lucky to be to be
Speaker 3: that class, still that close.
Speaker 2: And then it was just a one.
Speaker 10: Way it went right from the beginning, yep, right from
Speaker 10: the beginning of news.
Speaker 5: This is looking bad. Yep.
Speaker 2: Let's get to Michael out at high Bright.
Speaker 11: Hi, Michael, Yeah, guys, I'm just walking out of the
Speaker 11: open now now. One thing I'm not going to say
Speaker 11: I'm not going to blame because end of the day
Speaker 11: King good on me full Premiership player. Roger James not
Speaker 11: and he said all years when the going gets cut,
Speaker 11: half of this team goes missing. You can't blame Ken
Speaker 11: Hinckley's pet. There's no hot there's no soul in this
Speaker 11: twenty two footballs. I'll give you one football at there's
Speaker 11: twenty one years ago Jason word for us as we
Speaker 11: have eighteen of them. We don't lose, but we've got
Speaker 11: players out there. They go missing when they go and
Speaker 11: get tough. And Roger said that in two thousand and one,
Speaker 11: two and three, yet we lost two thousand and four.
Speaker 11: We put all together this team under Ken, I'm my
Speaker 11: blooming They are mentally week and they'll be out on straight.
Speaker 11: Thet can't lose his job, and he shouldn't because he's
Speaker 11: one of the best coaches in the NFL. He didn't
Speaker 11: give a team there, but guess what this team has
Speaker 11: to do the job, and it didn't tonight and it
Speaker 11: won't do it next week. Don't mean who to play,
Speaker 11: they got to be playing Affleson's a grade team. You
Speaker 11: don't recover from a eighty odd point lost in a final.
Speaker 11: But don't blame. I don't want anybody to come on
Speaker 11: blaming ten hundreds. Kenny gone there. This team, the twenty
Speaker 11: three players out there tonight, they's got a good look
Speaker 11: at and so when a joint tough, yes, what you've
Speaker 11: got to start putting your body on your line. And
Speaker 11: none of them did to night. So please everybody reads
Speaker 11: him hearing, listen to what I'm saying. Bloi simisry back
Speaker 11: because he got him there. He can't help him to
Speaker 11: miss a position I can'get from fifteen meters year or thirty.
Speaker 11: That's still here. That's under pressure. They couldn't handle them yet,
Speaker 11: that's above the stling. Everybody knows. President, you know, ninety
Speaker 11: percent of wins and losses are above the solars right now.
Speaker 11: This team, they can't get above it.
Speaker 3: Thanks to a call, Michael. Yeah, they were a long
Speaker 3: way off it tonight. We'll keep on rolling through some calls.
Speaker 3: Let's get to Nick. Who wants to have you say
Speaker 3: Hi Nick.
Speaker 6: Hi, guys.
Speaker 7: Yeah, look just absolutely obviously echoing previous callers, but defending Henckley.
Speaker 7: I don't know he's got to go like that.
Speaker 5: That back club is.
Speaker 12: You know where we're meant to absolutely mentally soft.
Speaker 7: I mean to have the midfield that we do, a
Speaker 7: really solid midfield and put.
Speaker 5: In the performance like that.
Speaker 7: It just seems to be big big games just go
Speaker 7: going absolutely missing.
Speaker 13: I mean showdowns the side.
Speaker 7: Yeah, one's last showdown, great, but showdowns before that.
Speaker 6: The writing is on the wall.
Speaker 7: Big games going missing, absolute disgrace. We're a laughing stocket
Speaker 7: of the competition.
Speaker 12: Will be out of the straight sets.
Speaker 7: And that comes and that comes from the top down,
Speaker 7: and I know that we're people defended Hinckley saying, you know,
Speaker 7: shouldn't shouldn't have been booed off and this and that.
Speaker 14: And the other.
Speaker 15: But I mean it's the buck's got to stop somewhere.
Speaker 15: The buck has got to stop somewhere.
Speaker 16: It's miss a joke.
Speaker 3: Sorry, guys, thanks to col Nick give us call. This
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Speaker 3: and Sam's on the line.
Speaker 2: Get a Sam.
Speaker 5: Well to me.
Speaker 17: I'm just I'm just ashamed, I'm embarrassed, I'm emotional.
Speaker 12: I just don't want to leave the house.
Speaker 18: Timmy, what's your what's that overweight? Fellow going to say tomorrow,
Speaker 18: who's just next to you on the radio, Timmy, it's
Speaker 18: just wonful and you can't blame Ken Higley.
Speaker 17: The players on there just brush aside flat footed second
Speaker 17: of a contest and we are a laughing stock because unfortunately,
Speaker 17: who can we get to the club in them September circumstances, Timmy,
Speaker 17: it's just embarrassing.
Speaker 5: I agree with you.
Speaker 2: I think you're right.
Speaker 10: I feel ashamed. I feel exactly like you do. And
Speaker 10: it's like, you know, we've got to live with it
Speaker 10: and cop it.
Speaker 2: We have to copy.
Speaker 5: We walk the streets.
Speaker 10: We're the ones that you know, face people after the
Speaker 10: game has been lost by eighty four points and you
Speaker 10: haven't put up a yelp and you've been up so destroyed.
Speaker 10: I got to say, when I saw Zurke thatcher Ducky's
Speaker 10: head twice in the first quarter, I nearly lost my
Speaker 10: sense of mind. That is not how you play finals.
Speaker 10: That is not how you win finals games. That is
Speaker 10: not the precedent that I want to see set. It's
Speaker 10: got to Melbourne. Good a, Gretta, now, hello, hello Greta.
Speaker 2: We need a bit of a positive voice.
Speaker 19: It was really disappointing. It was really bad. They were
Speaker 19: at work and their field kicking was absolutely woeful.
Speaker 2: They didn't handle the pressure. Greta didn't handle the pressure,
Speaker 2: and that's what finals is. It's pressu horrible.
Speaker 19: My three to two one. I've given three votes to
Speaker 19: Miles it was really good, two votes to Jordan's sweet
Speaker 19: and one vote to Jason Horn Francis, all.
Speaker 3: Right, great stuff, thanks for that, Greta. Yeah, they they
Speaker 3: will try pretty hard. I think William Drew Timmy you
Speaker 3: said a few times, you know, was really first off
Speaker 3: good tonight, Well good, I say that.
Speaker 2: Relatively only only midfielder to touch it. Yeah, keept running,
Speaker 2: didn't he working?
Speaker 5: How's this? Boys?
Speaker 4: Just to break it up, We've got a lot of
Speaker 4: calls to get to, no doubt our insurance stats right
Speaker 4: eight minute mark of the second quarter. So macontiss just
Speaker 4: kicked one for Paul, put them in front, yep, And
Speaker 4: from that moment Cats have kicked sixteen goals eleven to
Speaker 4: two seven. They've had two hundred and fifty disposals to
Speaker 4: one hundred and eighty six contested disposals eighty nine to
Speaker 4: seventy two ground balls, sixty three forty eight uncontested disposals,
Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty seven to one hundred and three,
Speaker 4: and they won the clearances by four and transpancing for.
Speaker 2: The seventh time in nine years. The Cats are threat
Speaker 2: to a prelim talk about elite, that's what they are.
Speaker 4: I should have I think I've tipped them about seven
Speaker 4: years ago to fall off a cliff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 5: I think you're not along though, treatise.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people thought they look at
Speaker 3: the least and age and yep, all of that profile,
Speaker 3: and they just defy the odds.
Speaker 2: They are so well drilled, so well coached, amazing. Let's
Speaker 2: get out to know it.
Speaker 13: Get a John Oh, guys one Timmy fort Adelaide, we're
Speaker 13: lagging all night Geelong, We're running in twos and threes.
Speaker 13: You've got to give them a credit and danger for
Speaker 13: what he's thirty four years of age. He made them
Speaker 13: look ordinary tonight and coaching stars Geelong. Their line coaches
Speaker 13: were all over Fort Adelaide line coaches all night. What
Speaker 13: do you think.
Speaker 10: I don't think there was a facet that was even
Speaker 10: close to winning, no matter what it was, John, they
Speaker 10: were completely destroyed and everything all facets of the game
Speaker 10: on and off the field.
Speaker 5: It just smelled even pro game.
Speaker 4: I said, well, and I was in one of the
Speaker 4: rooms beforehand. My concern was you had one team who
Speaker 4: was ever and saying I'm going to win by so
Speaker 4: far and it'll be easy, and the bookies are even saying.
Speaker 5: It'll be easy, and ever on the media is saying
Speaker 5: is easy. It's never a reason.
Speaker 4: No, it was set up for a decent sucker punch
Speaker 4: against the quality outfit who's a really, really proud club,
Speaker 4: and they showed what finals foot he's about.
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Speaker 3: Davies on the line, Hi, Dave to me, there.
Speaker 8: You go, mate, No, no good. I'm going to say
Speaker 8: a few things and I've said it before, they just
Speaker 8: didn't say it because of today's game. Let me say
Speaker 8: we're going to say, okay, b be Green, would you
Speaker 8: start on the bench? Cripsy from Carlton, would you start
Speaker 8: on the bench?
Speaker 20: Neil?
Speaker 8: Would he start on the bench. Bontapelli, would he start
Speaker 8: on the bench. Our best player is Horned France as
Speaker 8: he starts him to play on the bench. When we
Speaker 8: need to start early and go good hard early. He's
Speaker 8: on the bench. He's the only one who wants to
Speaker 8: get the ball. I'll tell you one thing I told
Speaker 8: you before I make this up.
Speaker 13: Rose.
Speaker 8: He's not a captain. He's got no guts. He never
Speaker 8: gets the hard ball, and he does. He's not a leader.
Speaker 8: He likes to receive and gets the easy ball. He's
Speaker 8: never indeed, he can't tell someone to get the ball
Speaker 8: when he doesn't want to get it himself. Burne Jones
Speaker 8: sooner I've seen him defense. Forget about it, mate, He's
Speaker 8: moved out of defense because his ball use out of
Speaker 8: defense is atrocious. I want you to look at the
Speaker 8: game and call me an idiot if you want to,
Speaker 8: and you tell me which man is he got. He
Speaker 8: wanders around twenty fingers. He's never on a man yet, Dixon.
Speaker 8: Forget about him, mate. He's not fit. He's his little
Speaker 8: lover boy or Italy and always what ball gone? He
Speaker 8: gets the second for the ball, he runs back twenty meters,
Speaker 8: waits to say the kickstill contest. If you're on your own,
Speaker 8: turn around and create a loose man and go. You
Speaker 8: know what I mean. I just don't understand it no more.
Speaker 8: You know mcintee, what's he done? Same players again, I'll
Speaker 8: let you down the fires. What's he done? Tell me?
Speaker 8: You know, he's just a joke. And they say, don't
Speaker 8: play game. You know, you just don't play your leave
Speaker 8: your best player on the freaking bench in the first minute.
Speaker 8: He's the only one who wants to win the ball,
Speaker 8: you know, Butler's gone. Who if Rose is going to
Speaker 8: win your ball?
Speaker 1: You shun me.
Speaker 8: You go to look at Rosie when he's done today
Speaker 8: Cornsy had to go at him at the football showed
Speaker 8: the other week. Shot at the contest one handed tackles
Speaker 8: this and that, you know, and he's our leader. Come
Speaker 8: on mate, all.
Speaker 3: Right, well thanks for the call, Dave. We're going to
Speaker 3: go to the rooms. Sunny Daddo is down there at
Speaker 3: the moment. Sunny paid the picture. Obviously pretty somber in
Speaker 3: the port rooms right now.
Speaker 5: That's a right. So many things mate down here in
Speaker 5: the rooms. Ollie Wins has joined us postgame. Ollie simply
Speaker 5: what went wrong tonight?
Speaker 16: A look, I'm a bit show shop right now to
Speaker 16: put something on it. I think you know, in most
Speaker 16: fastests of the game, they were just able to punish us.
Speaker 16: Whether it was their ability to be more efficient from stoppage,
Speaker 16: you know, taking our turnovers back to score, getting out
Speaker 16: the back on us. It's, you know that a variety
Speaker 16: of ways to score and prevent us from scoring. So
Speaker 16: we've got twenty four hours now to do some soul
Speaker 16: searching figure out what's next.
Speaker 5: But you know, we've got an opportunity next week to
Speaker 5: go again. We've hurt that and we'll have to work
Speaker 5: out what went wrong and correct it pretty quickly. Oh,
Speaker 5: we weren't tread Dray. What did can say? Have you
Speaker 5: had a chance to speak to him?
Speaker 16: Yeah, we have, and you know, we sort of spoke
Speaker 16: about the emotions we're feeling right now, and you know,
Speaker 16: we've got ourselves to blame for that. That's reality, and
Speaker 16: the reality is we just got blown away. So we've
Speaker 16: got to look at what went wrong and we've got
Speaker 16: to have some hard conversations. But you know there's a
Speaker 16: balance to it because we do have an opportunity next
Speaker 16: week to go again. But before we do that, we've
Speaker 16: we've got to look at tonight and assess it, and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look to see what went wrong.
Speaker 4: I always worry when everyone says we're clear, favorite everyone says,
Speaker 4: you know, and I'm not saying inside the club, I'm
Speaker 4: saying all the fans are expecting an easy win.
Speaker 5: Do you think that potentially sort of softened us a little?
Speaker 21: Nah?
Speaker 5: I don't think so.
Speaker 16: I think our preparation internally was really solid going into
Speaker 16: the game.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 16: I wouldn't have thought that it's an excuse. They're a
Speaker 16: brilliant team. They've earned the right to finish top four
Speaker 16: as well, So I don't think that's so much it.
Speaker 16: I think, you know, we're off our game a lot
Speaker 16: today and they are on. There's credits to them. They
Speaker 16: turned up and blew us away.
Speaker 10: What they do around stoppage, especially centers square. We seem
Speaker 10: to get the knock, but we didn't clear it. What
Speaker 10: were they doing that was so good to you know,
Speaker 10: perhaps feed off of Jordan Sweet.
Speaker 16: Yeah, they're really good at negating our hit outs to advantage.
Speaker 16: So Sweety did a really good job winning the ball.
Speaker 16: But you know, credit to their pressure, and it's been
Speaker 16: highlighted the game over the last six weeks.
Speaker 5: They've really lifted in that area.
Speaker 16: And we felt that tonight and we weren't able to
Speaker 16: sort of hold up in that pressure and go forward
Speaker 16: with the ball. We got pushed back a lot and
Speaker 16: ended up sort of kicking from a negative position from stoppage,
Speaker 16: which isn't sort of what we like to do. So
Speaker 16: I think they were just able to get after us
Speaker 16: at stoppage and force us into dirty exits and then
Speaker 16: you know, use their interceptors to market and come back
Speaker 16: at us.
Speaker 10: We certainly paid the price for that going into Forward fifty,
Speaker 10: but eventually a lot of a lot of high long balls.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly right. They defended us really well.
Speaker 16: They we couldn't get the ball going, you know that
Speaker 16: corridor link up, run and chain game through the corridor,
Speaker 16: and we end up kicking a lot, and they were
Speaker 16: able to sort of subdue our tools and not let
Speaker 16: us win a lot of contestant marks and then clear
Speaker 16: that area which we like to drop the ball.
Speaker 5: In from that contest.
Speaker 16: So again we'll have to assess that, and you know,
Speaker 16: if teams are going to our ball movement off us,
Speaker 16: we've got.
Speaker 5: To play different ways to win.
Speaker 3: And Olie, I know it's still sinking in the loss
Speaker 3: and the result and everything, but Zack obviously came off
Speaker 3: early second half subbed out with the ribs. Have you
Speaker 3: managed to see him and you know, was it a
Speaker 3: serious knock or hopefully he'll be all right for next week.
Speaker 5: I'm not too sure of the severity of it.
Speaker 16: I think, as you mentioned, it's a ribs knock, So
Speaker 16: whether it's bruised or cracked or something like.
Speaker 5: That, I think you'll be assessed.
Speaker 16: We'll probably play next Friday now, so we'll get nine days,
Speaker 16: so I'm sure that'll be looked out over the last
Speaker 16: next couple of days and we'll assess it from there.
Speaker 4: Ollie, what's the first piece of the puzzle to get
Speaker 4: yourself back up for a big performance next week?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: This is you know?
Speaker 16: This The next twenty four forty eight hours a really crucial.
Speaker 16: I think we've got to look at what went wrong
Speaker 16: and the areas where we went up to stand it,
Speaker 16: and we've.
Speaker 5: Got to have those hard conversations.
Speaker 16: But then once we've done that, we've got to get
Speaker 16: the energy back in the joint at Alburna and we've
Speaker 16: got to get up and about for that opportunity. You know,
Speaker 16: if we had a said this was the last round
Speaker 16: and we had a loss, but we've got a chance
Speaker 16: to play finals next week, We've have been buzzing so
Speaker 16: we've got that opportunity to go again. We'll cap what
Speaker 16: comes after this and we've got to get the energy
Speaker 16: back in place.
Speaker 5: Will you watch the game.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow because that's who you play, either the Dogs or
Speaker 4: Hawthorne as a team.
Speaker 5: Is that a thought possibly?
Speaker 16: Yeah, that might be something that you know, we come
Speaker 16: into Alburta and we do our review and perhaps watch that.
Speaker 5: So I'm sure the.
Speaker 16: Boys Connor and Zach and they're very innovative with what
Speaker 16: they've been able to do with us this year, so
Speaker 16: I'm sure that'll be a thought of theirs.
Speaker 4: Stay close, mate, tough losses, stay close. It's the way
Speaker 4: to turn it around.
Speaker 3: Thanks mate, Jeers, guys, thanks Ellie, appreciate your time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's always tough to front up. We appreciate Allly doing that.
Speaker 3: Don't really know what to say.
Speaker 4: Do you pull credit to him? He's a senior player,
Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty game player. Didn't have his biggest night.
Speaker 4: No one really did. From Port probably two or three
Speaker 4: playza you go probably won their spot. And that's how
Speaker 4: I reckon it's important get the boys together, get some pizzas,
Speaker 4: watch your game of footy.
Speaker 5: You got eight day break and you got a double
Speaker 5: chants you can go again, and.
Speaker 4: You've got to reset, review it hard and then don't
Speaker 4: stand for Yeah, the standards we saw tonight which weren't.
Speaker 3: Good enough after the game thanks to as transport solutions.
Speaker 3: We'll get back to the course. Let's go to hall
Speaker 3: at Kyve. Lewis is on the line.
Speaker 13: Good evening, guys.
Speaker 22: Just draw out WM.
Speaker 23: Some that's that's crazy.
Speaker 22: Just draw part of that, l all. And the only
Speaker 22: thing I don't understand is to both of you, we
Speaker 22: played an amazing game against Freemanto, pumped up, ready to go.
Speaker 22: Two weeks off for everything is obviously rusing couple of
Speaker 22: the players in hell and then a performance like that.
Speaker 22: I just want to ask you Ball the week we
Speaker 22: had off, do you think it made a difference.
Speaker 5: I think everyone had a week off, didn't they Well
Speaker 5: so for me that to know, yeah, they all did.
Speaker 10: Lewis, I think I spoke to check Corn's today and
Speaker 10: he said it was actually good because it was shorter
Speaker 10: because Thursday night they only had about a day and
Speaker 10: a half off as in purely off, so they were
Speaker 10: actually back in really quickly not to sort of lose
Speaker 10: momentum of what they've built because they won six straight.
Speaker 5: So I actually they trained hard Saturday and hard Monday.
Speaker 2: Well, I actually felt good about that.
Speaker 5: I didn't see it tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And to be fair, if we isolate the Freeo win,
Speaker 4: I didn't think Frio was a really great performance. I
Speaker 4: thought it was solid early on they were all free
Speaker 4: I missed a lot of shots.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have taken a solid performance tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, But I'm just saying, really, well, I don't
Speaker 4: think the Perth win was a really really good performance.
Speaker 5: I think it was a solid performance.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But yeah today, well they mailed when Well, if.
Speaker 2: That was solid, that's dull area.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's go to Peter from Croydon.
Speaker 23: Hey, boys, I'm not going to sit here and state
Speaker 23: the obvious of how bad they work.
Speaker 24: As we know they were right.
Speaker 23: One of the callers, probably about three callers ago, stole
Speaker 23: the thunder. Horn Francis did not come on until the
Speaker 23: seven minute mark of the first quarter, when we were
Speaker 23: about I think about twenty points down. He comes on, right,
Speaker 23: we go into quarter time three points down. Second quarter,
Speaker 23: Horn Francis doesn't come onto the sixth minute mark. Now,
Speaker 23: every single week Horn Francis, Zach Butters and Connor Rosie
Speaker 23: do not start the game. One of them is always
Speaker 23: on the bench, and today it was Horn Francis. I'm sorry, guys,
Speaker 23: but these are where we've got to talk tactics here, right,
Speaker 23: Let's pull the emotion out of this, right. I'm not
Speaker 23: going to ring up and say how bad we were,
Speaker 23: because the fact is we were right. We're just going
Speaker 23: to start. That's what everyone's talking about. Butt's let's talk
Speaker 23: proper football tactics, traders, what they is going on?
Speaker 8: Seven?
Speaker 23: Who Francis came on seven minutes and thirty five seconds
Speaker 23: into that game.
Speaker 5: And you.
Speaker 23: Come on and no one was coming off?
Speaker 25: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that that can happen if plays on the
Speaker 4: outer side. I've asked this question as a commentator, and
Speaker 4: I've asked this question. So they have a set rotation,
Speaker 4: so it's a different person every time. And the argument
Speaker 4: is can you argument against And I'm not here either way,
Speaker 4: but there's a discussion of do you spread your best
Speaker 4: players right? And because of your match up, because Drew
Speaker 4: was going to dangerfield, then you're only left with two
Speaker 4: other mids and a ruckman, so you go, all right,
Speaker 4: which one do we pick?
Speaker 5: Do we go?
Speaker 4: Okay, if it's a bigger body, Ollie, then it might
Speaker 4: just be Zack and kind of plays forward. I don't
Speaker 4: think you can pick your best free in the spot
Speaker 4: when you're trying to do a tag and all that,
Speaker 4: and they'll argue that you get a better spread. For example,
Speaker 4: say you do a seven minute rotation, your seven minute
Speaker 4: rotation if you play your A team, then you could
Speaker 4: be exposed with your play your B team against their
Speaker 4: A team. So they try and spread it and do it,
Speaker 4: and there's a bit more science to that. There's fitness
Speaker 4: is all that. But I understand your point. Horn Francis
Speaker 4: probably is our most dynamic mid with Butters. Butters clearly
Speaker 4: was sore. Either he got a knock or he saw
Speaker 4: last week. I'm not sure the full detail of it,
Speaker 4: but I do understand the frustration. There was a few
Speaker 4: years ago people questioned, and I think I was at
Speaker 4: the time when liber got off the chain. The Bulldogs dominated,
Speaker 4: But four or five weeks earlier, Drew had done a
Speaker 4: really good defensive job, and that's the coach's job. So
Speaker 4: for me, he goes, yeah, maybe next time need to
Speaker 4: start it. That's a discussion, or at least it's a
Speaker 4: discussion but if the fans are certainly picking up from
Speaker 4: it and going and this is happening, he's our best
Speaker 4: mid and we need someone to win the footy, maybe
Speaker 4: there's maybe there's something in it.
Speaker 5: I think that these things need to be added to discuss.
Speaker 3: I think it's absolutely a legitimate question. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: in a big final argument.
Speaker 4: But if you're playing against a team and you want
Speaker 4: to play your a guys all the time, they can't
Speaker 4: play full time mid yeah, mid midfield, so there needs
Speaker 4: to be a spread. There needs to be a rotation
Speaker 4: with someone goes forward, all that sort of stuff. But yeah,
Speaker 4: the concern for me on the main issue is is.
Speaker 5: That going to come up in absolutely? And if he does,
Speaker 5: at what level?
Speaker 4: And what other ribs? Is it knock last week? Is
Speaker 4: it something new in a game? Is it a break
Speaker 4: is it not? Is it bruising?
Speaker 5: Is it not? Can you play with it? Can you not?
Speaker 5: These are all the discussions that need to happen.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean, you know, then you've obviously got
Speaker 3: a big target on your back and on your ribs,
Speaker 3: don't you for opposition players who will go you extra hard.
Speaker 3: Let's go to Frank at Monopar up, Hi there, Frank,
Speaker 3: Hey going boys.
Speaker 14: Now, Look, I'll ring up most weeks, and I was
Speaker 14: at the game tonight. I'll tell you what the problem is.
Speaker 14: The players do not understand what it means to us fans.
Speaker 14: I was in the locker room and I seen the
Speaker 14: boys come down at the end of the game. Well,
Speaker 14: I've been carrying on thinking, oh yeah, it's all right mate.
Speaker 14: That performance night was how can you go from six
Speaker 14: to seven weeks playing good football? So that crap tonight?
Speaker 14: Absolute gutless and then to go in. I understand all
Speaker 14: their families and all that are in the rooms at
Speaker 14: the end of the game, laughing carry it made. They
Speaker 14: don't even worry about coming out next week. What they
Speaker 14: served up tonight was absolute crap, gutless. I'm sick and
Speaker 14: tired of coming here were year after year, and and
Speaker 14: Whitney seeing this stuff.
Speaker 13: Prothetic.
Speaker 14: Who's going to be accountable for this? I was supposed
Speaker 14: to some room and they said, oh, I want to
Speaker 14: in the room in the locker room and they said, oh.
Speaker 11: Oh, but they haven't won a final since so forth?
Speaker 11: Do we want to be like Esterdon?
Speaker 9: Just the way we're going?
Speaker 3: Oo, Mike, just dump that one thanks to that, Frank. So,
Speaker 3: what's Frank saying blokes are cheering and laughing. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't know if we in the change, I didn't see.
Speaker 2: Any of that.
Speaker 5: Now we.
Speaker 2: Overhead, it looked like a pretty some of the move
Speaker 2: from what we saw.
Speaker 4: Didn't sound like it was no and I'll get the frustration, Frank,
Speaker 4: don't get me role Yep, Yeah, it's the sentiment.
Speaker 2: Look, it was straight s.
Speaker 3: It's last season and you know, six in a row
Speaker 3: and eight of the last nine. The signs are all
Speaker 3: so positive and it's tough to take it, really is.
Speaker 3: It's difficult for fans out there. Let's go to Josh
Speaker 3: at Athleston, Hi, Josh, gooday, guys.
Speaker 26: I just think it's a bit of context here that
Speaker 26: So in the last five years paul Aadelaide, I've had
Speaker 26: four top four finishes, three home qualifying finals. The Adelaide
Speaker 26: football club haven't played finals for seven years and they've
Speaker 26: still won more finals in the last decade than Port Adelaide.
Speaker 26: And I think Port's problem is they're too caught up
Speaker 26: in the prison bars and trying to stay relevant and
Speaker 26: never tear us apart. No one actually focuses on the
Speaker 26: on field performances at the end of the season. And
Speaker 26: I think that's where they're going wrong. They're too worried
Speaker 26: about trying to be relevant and trying to form an
Speaker 26: identity based out of some claimed history that's not even real,
Speaker 26: rather than actually focusing on what matters.
Speaker 5: Not even real.
Speaker 2: You're not real, Josh, he's gonna have arrest. Man, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have a rest. Let's go to Henley Beach. Sue
Speaker 2: has been waiting patiently, high suit.
Speaker 25: Oh hi, guys, Look, I've got different take on tonight's game.
Speaker 25: Geelong have had a finals experience. They are a perfectly
Speaker 25: balanced team. The execution is excellent. They are bigger players
Speaker 25: than the Port Adelaide players, and some of our players
Speaker 25: young ladies who haven't played many games, and this would
Speaker 25: have shocked them. That's the standard you have to bere
Speaker 25: in finals. So I sort of thought, well, I mean,
Speaker 25: I didn't like it, of course, but I just thought
Speaker 25: to myself, this is a big lesson for the young players,
Speaker 25: a huge lesson about finals. And also I'd have Marshall
Speaker 25: back in that team, and I'd have him at the
Speaker 25: back so that I think of that young lad's name,
Speaker 25: he's been playing in the forward.
Speaker 2: Line Darcy Burne Jones.
Speaker 25: Yeah, I've had his back in the forward line and
Speaker 25: I've seen Marshall play sort of at the back and
Speaker 25: it's fantastic with his kicks and that sort of thing.
Speaker 25: So I think that could be a bit of thought
Speaker 25: put into that. But you know, we've got next week.
Speaker 25: But I'll be honest, I don't have high hopes unfortunately.
Speaker 3: I don't think many people do have tonight unfortunately, So
Speaker 3: thanks so much for you called tready's Marshall. I mean
Speaker 3: it's probably more likely for Dixon is that's obviously one
Speaker 3: trigger they can paul this week Timmy as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, does that solve any problems what I saw.
Speaker 5: Dixon Dixon for Marshall. Marsh hasn't played for how many weeks?
Speaker 27: No?
Speaker 2: Five? It's not solving anything that well. I saw tonight.
Speaker 2: We've completely outplayed on every front. So let's keep on moving.
Speaker 2: We're going to head the Queensland.
Speaker 3: Trevor is on the line high Trevyll.
Speaker 12: You know what the disappointing part is, I was before
Speaker 12: the game. I was hopeful. I thought we've seen a
Speaker 12: difference in the last five to six weeks with attitude
Speaker 12: and I thought, you know what, we looked different this year,
Speaker 12: but sadly no, we saw the same stuff. That's the
Speaker 12: disappointing part is the downhill Skiers came out again and
Speaker 12: you go, I was really before the game, I was
Speaker 12: really keen. I thought, you know what, we're going to
Speaker 12: do it right tonight, and then to see that turn
Speaker 12: out tonight, I thought that was shattering shattering. You know,
Speaker 12: as I said a number of times in the past,
Speaker 12: I can get accept getting beaten by a better camp
Speaker 12: and Geelong were great tonight. They everything they did turned
Speaker 12: out well.
Speaker 28: But the part of frustrating me is the lack of pressure.
Speaker 12: From some of our players. We looked extremely slow, apprehensive,
Speaker 12: We couldn't tackle properly, the amount of times that they
Speaker 12: just broke through tackles, and how blokes look like b
Speaker 12: Gravers tonight. Now we know they can play, but it
Speaker 12: was it was really disappointing. And that's the part I'm
Speaker 12: really shattered with, not just could be lost, but how
Speaker 12: we lost that was that was demoralizing, totally demoralizing, you know,
Speaker 12: and for people to say that it's not Teflon's fault,
Speaker 12: you go, hang on, We've seen this before. We're expecting
Speaker 12: something different, but dejo vert, we've got the same thing again.
Speaker 12: Please tell me how we're going to change this. I
Speaker 12: really don't know, you know, like we've changed personnel, we've
Speaker 12: changed as system coaches, but we're seeing the same thing
Speaker 12: time after time. You go, how long do we have
Speaker 12: to wait to see something different?
Speaker 9: You know, as much the.
Speaker 12: Light to see them do well next week? The realities are,
Speaker 12: if we roll up with that sort of lack of
Speaker 12: intensity again, we will get the same thing next week.
Speaker 12: And you know, you think, how many years in the
Speaker 12: row is that. I just I just don't know how
Speaker 12: we're going to improve. It's it's like I said, it's
Speaker 12: deja vu, and you go for people to say, oh,
Speaker 12: you know, it's you know, it's not that's just not acceptable.
Speaker 12: That's totally not acceptable. And I really don't know what
Speaker 12: that club's going to do.
Speaker 5: It's thanks to the call.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the call, Trevor. Yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately it's a track we've seen too many times. We
Speaker 3: saw it last year, you know.
Speaker 2: With the straight sets loss.
Speaker 3: Losses to the Giants was the second one, and it's
Speaker 3: a theme that poor fans have had to endure time
Speaker 3: and again.
Speaker 2: Let's get out to Ross. Trevor nick Is on the line. Hi, Nick,
Speaker 2: go fellas.
Speaker 29: I'm sort of quickly talk about legacy. So let us
Speaker 29: you've got the legacy appremiceship Captain Timmy.
Speaker 11: We don't need to talk about yours. But I want
Speaker 11: to know what David Kostia's legacy is going to be.
Speaker 29: He's reappointed a serial loser who's thrown up the same
Speaker 29: garbage again, under prepared side the finals and embarrassed on
Speaker 29: a national stage at home capacity crowd. Where's the stop?
Speaker 15: Well?
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, the finals record has been appalling.
Speaker 3: The only thing I would say is that, like we
Speaker 3: had a call of it said they at least making
Speaker 3: the finals footy decision.
Speaker 5: And I know this now from being inside the walls.
Speaker 4: He's not a president's call, so it's a footy committee's call,
Speaker 4: and a footy committee makes a recommendation and the recommendation
Speaker 4: is either vetoed or discarded by the board. So I
Speaker 4: don't think that's fair on Koshi. What I will say
Speaker 4: on Koshi is Kosh He's a footy fan. He loves
Speaker 4: his club. But his strong point is not dicks of football.
Speaker 4: But what his strong point is finances, and he's done
Speaker 4: media for a long period of time and been bloody good.
Speaker 4: And when we were struggling three fifths, yep, challenging. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's exposed to twenty thousand season ticket older members. We're
Speaker 4: now got forty or fifty, We're now got seventy thousand members,
Speaker 4: we're now financial record profits.
Speaker 5: That is his legacy for effectively helping save a club.
Speaker 2: He can't do that out.
Speaker 5: He can't kick the ball for you. And I get
Speaker 5: he's the front man and get you know.
Speaker 4: He says some stuff that some people don't like and
Speaker 4: create some headlines, but he doesn't out laugh, doesn't do
Speaker 4: it out of hate.
Speaker 3: Yeap, let's go to Clemsic get a Sebastian.
Speaker 24: How are you guys?
Speaker 7: No, I just want to add I've been to every
Speaker 7: single game this year and tonight was the worst game
Speaker 7: I've seen all year.
Speaker 8: Tops the Brisbane pops everything.
Speaker 23: How as a club can we have a captain.
Speaker 4: Who puts up performance like that?
Speaker 8: Our best player is a twenty one year old harn Francis.
Speaker 5: Our captain.
Speaker 23: How can you prove performance like that?
Speaker 19: I don't blame the fans for walking out because as
Speaker 19: a spectator.
Speaker 11: Who wants to watch their team lose year in year
Speaker 11: in finals constantly, constantly, constantly.
Speaker 20: It's it's beyond the joke.
Speaker 14: Now Ackley sits.
Speaker 23: There with him drinking his Pepsi max on the bench.
Speaker 8: How can we keep doing that.
Speaker 23: Year in year out performance like that?
Speaker 13: It's as us support us are frustrated.
Speaker 10: Fair enough to Sebastian, it's very frustrating. You pay your
Speaker 10: ard earned to come every year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, seeing every game and then get that delivered.
Speaker 10: When and I was I think it was with Trevor
Speaker 10: from Queensland saying I think we all walked into night
Speaker 10: Filion a quiet confidence of the opportunity to break that
Speaker 10: horrible tag of a non finals performer yep, which felt
Speaker 10: like you know, I might be able to just sort
Speaker 10: of stand up against the next Yeah, some real experienced
Speaker 10: players in that in that geelongside. But a game that
Speaker 10: at home you should be able to win.
Speaker 5: Yea.
Speaker 2: And that monkey didn't even look like it Like Geelong,
Speaker 2: we're just so superior in every field.
Speaker 3: That monkey on the back now turns into a gorilla,
Speaker 3: doesn't it. Let's go to strath Albin.
Speaker 2: Sean is on the line, Hi Sean, how are you Fellaws?
Speaker 23: It was quite disappointing to.
Speaker 11: Just from the first moment when.
Speaker 18: We fumbled the first ball and then we had, like
Speaker 18: Timmy said, we had zerk Thatcher dropping the head.
Speaker 11: You knew from the start that it wasn't going to
Speaker 11: be pretty. But is this going to be Was that Charlie.
Speaker 9: Dixon's farewell game?
Speaker 29: Or do you think he's going to play again?
Speaker 3: Well, they're going to have to make a decision, aren't
Speaker 3: they that selects And we just talked about, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe Todd Marshall.
Speaker 2: He's the only one, tim I think that could maybe
Speaker 2: come in for Charlie. They might try Byzantine.
Speaker 10: I mean, it wasn't embarrassing it against Frio was so
Speaker 10: did a couple of things.
Speaker 2: He certainly wasn't you know. It didn't lower his colors
Speaker 2: that day. But it's definitely a call for selection, isn't
Speaker 2: it this week?
Speaker 5: Well that's it's a discussion.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'll argue that our forward line didn't lose us the game. Yeah, no,
Speaker 5: I agree. Around the ball being everywhere.
Speaker 4: Tends around the ball, the pressure glong put on us us.
Speaker 4: I'm not able to deal with it. Dumping the ball
Speaker 4: high and long. Predictable football that's what beat us in
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 5: Yep. Yeah, Charlie didn't look like he's twenty one, but
Speaker 5: he's not. We know he's banged up.
Speaker 4: And the service was poor. Wow, service was horrific. Dump
Speaker 4: it on their heads because the pressure from Geelong was immense. Yeah,
Speaker 4: let's go to Ross Trevor again.
Speaker 2: Ryan is out there?
Speaker 5: Hello, Ryan, gentleman. How are.
Speaker 2: Yeah pretty flat?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 20: Oh well join the club mate. So yeah, look, obviously
Speaker 20: extremely disappointing tonight. But I'd go as far as to
Speaker 20: say the effort and intent just wasn't there. Did we
Speaker 20: catch anyone holding the ball tonight? I don't know what
Speaker 20: were the stats there, how many how many tackles were
Speaker 20: there tonight? We were second to the footy all night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the one area we won, buddy, fifty four
Speaker 5: to forty seven. But when you changing.
Speaker 20: Second all night, you're gonna have to Yeah, yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 20: But looking at the one, our one would clear out missfield.
Speaker 20: But I think one of the gentlemen you had on
Speaker 20: earlier sums it up. There was just a bunch of
Speaker 20: front running. You look at like Connor Rosie at his best,
Speaker 20: he's arguably the best player in the competition and where's
Speaker 20: he been? But where was he to night? That wasn't
Speaker 20: the captain's game. Yes, he kicked the nice goal for
Speaker 20: a half time, he didn't stand up. But do we
Speaker 20: have any news on the Zach Budd's injury because no, jeez,
Speaker 20: that would have to be if that's not. Obviously you
Speaker 20: never hope for anyone to be you know, badly hurt,
Speaker 20: but jeez, you'd want that to be as serious problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brian.
Speaker 10: The rumor I got at half time was he actually
Speaker 10: hurt his ribs against Freo just before the siren, so
Speaker 10: it was like carried over from that and obviously didn't
Speaker 10: come up well enough for the game.
Speaker 3: Which is a concern because Tim, it's only going to
Speaker 3: be a one week break now, isn't it. They're not
Speaker 3: going to get the week off. Let's go out to Perth.
Speaker 3: Pascal is waiting patiently. Can a piscal Yeah.
Speaker 27: Guys, thanks Solio. I was listening to your call an
Speaker 27: afl app so it was good. Just the it's a
Speaker 27: mystery to me, like from AFAR and then Ports got
Speaker 27: such an unbelievable list of players. It's a mystery the
Speaker 27: under treatment there. But my point of is that I'm
Speaker 27: a West Coast Eaguals supporter, and the media has been
Speaker 27: all Ken Inkley, Kenny Inkley, Ken Inkley is going to
Speaker 27: be the fund rawner for the coach and all that
Speaker 27: sort of thing. But tonight's performance, I only listen to radio.
Speaker 27: Do you put it down to the coach or do
Speaker 27: you put it down mainly to the players, because from
Speaker 27: the West Coast Eagles point of view, with the Hinkley
Speaker 27: being a fund runner as a coach, what what's your.
Speaker 7: Thoughts on that?
Speaker 10: Yeah, well, I wasn't sure that he was in that mix.
Speaker 10: Obviously that's been reported over there, certainly not here.
Speaker 5: Ken's contracted for twenty twenty five report.
Speaker 10: And then yeah, I think the old saying, guys that
Speaker 10: good plers help the coach, and a good coach helps
Speaker 10: good pliers. So it's a combo, there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 10: And everybody's got to take the blame for Pascal as
Speaker 10: simple as that. You lose like that, everybody's contributed. When
Speaker 10: you win like they did against Sydney, everybody's contributed.
Speaker 2: Yep, thanks for the.
Speaker 5: Core, Pascal.
Speaker 2: Let's get out to dominic Hi, dominic Hey.
Speaker 18: Guys, away, good evening.
Speaker 15: Don well, I just want to quickly say what the
Speaker 15: actual game plan is because if you look at the
Speaker 15: into our fifty count do we have four different into
Speaker 15: our fifty to them? So if we're getting the ball,
Speaker 15: like for example, Rosy ports Rup, they're just bombing it in,
Speaker 15: We've got no impact, We've got nothing in there, and
Speaker 15: which is bombing in and to the best offensive side
Speaker 15: in the league. They're known for their interest that mark
Speaker 15: and you've got college asby cleaning up everything, and that's
Speaker 15: without the Cone and Stewart. So I'm just confused what
Speaker 15: the actual game plan really is.
Speaker 9: I'm so lost.
Speaker 15: I don't know where to go from that.
Speaker 4: Game style is you can say, I think we get
Speaker 4: caught a lot of the game style. I want to
Speaker 4: win contest. I want to play hard and fast, tackle
Speaker 4: and pressure and chase. Like we said in the last
Speaker 4: eight out of the previous nine weeks, as you say,
Speaker 4: when you're beating the footy, then it turns it on
Speaker 4: its head pretty quick, and an ability to get that
Speaker 4: pressure back to turn the ball over back off the
Speaker 4: Cats who weren't able to do that.
Speaker 5: So that's the big bit.
Speaker 2: Let's head down to the rooms.
Speaker 3: We'll take some of the press conference with Ken Hickley,
Speaker 3: the coach from Port Adelaide.
Speaker 30: Yes, no, as far as what we saw coming and
Speaker 30: what we expected to come, So you would never go
Speaker 30: into it and thinking that was poor preparation or you
Speaker 30: would change it at that moment. So you get your
Speaker 30: proof after the event, and then you have to deep
Speaker 30: dive into or what was potentially leading to that type
Speaker 30: of performance. And I think that's that's a fair question
Speaker 30: to ask me, how's that you got back in the
Speaker 30: in the ribs And obviously he couldn't go on, so
Speaker 30: that's a pretty pretty clear indication he's pretty sore at
Speaker 30: the moment. But hopeful we'll wait and see what's so,
Speaker 30: what happens with scans and bits and pieces tomorrow and
Speaker 30: and hope that he's okay.
Speaker 21: It would be worrying to even.
Speaker 2: That so tough when Zach can't play the.
Speaker 30: Pretty and he's rated the toughest player in the AFL
Speaker 30: by these peers and you couldn't go out there again
Speaker 30: and play, it makes you do. It does tend to
Speaker 30: a point of whom must be reasonably sore for as
Speaker 30: Zach to be like that. But I don't have the
Speaker 30: evidence to or don't have any information to give you
Speaker 30: other than we'll give that as soon as we know.
Speaker 21: It, and then through the industry. Obviously the coach tops it. Yeah,
Speaker 21: they come on you. How do you, I guess, reflect
Speaker 21: on how you've prepared the team and how do you
Speaker 21: move forward.
Speaker 5: It's a group.
Speaker 30: It's about our coaching group, and it's about our playing
Speaker 30: It's about our playing group, and it's about our footed club.
Speaker 30: It's not I know, and I get that it falls
Speaker 30: back to the head coach in some ways. But the
Speaker 30: reality is we've always said this is all of us
Speaker 30: doing this. This is all of us trying to achieve
Speaker 30: something together. It's not one individual, but there's a figurehead.
Speaker 30: And for me, I sit in that spot, which you
Speaker 30: know I've been really.
Speaker 11: Clear or you me.
Speaker 30: I work really hard to give the best results we
Speaker 30: can possibly get, and my team of coaches and my
Speaker 30: team of people in the footy department do everything they
Speaker 30: can not to have that result. We had that result tonight,
Speaker 30: but as I said, the season suggests that we've been
Speaker 30: better than that.
Speaker 31: Consistently. We have not turned up in a fire and
Speaker 31: played the way we want to. That's fat the players
Speaker 31: to get many feedback in brief chats. Yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 31: we talked around how they felt about it. You know,
Speaker 31: they we talk about being disappointed, and I'm learning a
Speaker 31: bit down on the way they played and the way
Speaker 31: we played as a collective group. So we'll help them
Speaker 31: answer some of those challenges. But I also ask them
Speaker 31: to think about, well, you've got a chance to play
Speaker 31: again next week.
Speaker 30: What do we need to do about that? And the
Speaker 30: response that is that we have to move on really
Speaker 30: quickly and we have to get ready for next week.
Speaker 21: I a message to supporters that they stick with you, and.
Speaker 30: I think no one would turn up tonight wanted to
Speaker 30: see the performance we had tonight. I don't probably need
Speaker 30: to spend too much time talking around what our supporters
Speaker 30: would shouldn't do. They should be double here. They'll try
Speaker 30: and do their best to help support the team, and
Speaker 30: that's all they can ever do. And I asked them
Speaker 30: to keep supporting the team when.
Speaker 20: It's such a big loss, Like fact, do you need
Speaker 20: to resist the urge not to get super creative selection
Speaker 20: or do you need to sort of just throw.
Speaker 30: Throw caution to the win next We've got to we've
Speaker 30: got to go back to what we think is more
Speaker 30: like us, and we get it. Tonight was nothing like
Speaker 30: what and I think that's what we've got to be
Speaker 30: able to reflect on our last five or six weeks.
Speaker 30: We haven't been like that tonight, but we were showed
Speaker 30: up in that area. Not maybe we just didn't handle
Speaker 30: the occasion as well as we needed to, clearly, but
Speaker 30: the group's been pretty consistent with what they've been able
Speaker 30: to do, and I'm going to trust that they can
Speaker 30: be as consistent again straight away next week.
Speaker 1: What excuves you the conference that they can and the
Speaker 1: occasion when they are so often in this reason.
Speaker 30: So I try to look at things in a more
Speaker 30: positive way as best I can. And you know your
Speaker 30: glass are full.
Speaker 17: You go.
Speaker 30: Every experience you get you have to learn from and
Speaker 30: you have to deal with. And we've had another experience
Speaker 30: that we certainly don't like and we want to be
Speaker 30: better than that. But the next chance is our chance
Speaker 30: to show that we're actually trying to get better at
Speaker 30: that again. And I'm going to back them in to
Speaker 30: say that I think that they'll deliver a much better
Speaker 30: result than that the next opportunity they get to play.
Speaker 30: That have been able to do that for a good
Speaker 30: period of time, bar as you're going to ask me,
Speaker 30: barring fins.
Speaker 2: Charlie thinks in ahead of to Marshall the right tonight.
Speaker 30: Yeah, on again on reflection on the pieces of that.
Speaker 30: We can't forget Todd's played one game and half a
Speaker 30: game in eight weeks. We didn't have Todd fit and
Speaker 30: firing and playing lots of football. We just didn't really
Speaker 30: have all the choices that you want in that space.
Speaker 30: But you know, it's a wonderful thing after the event
Speaker 30: is in hindsight you look back and reflect and gow
Speaker 30: we could Todd have done a bit better.
Speaker 5: Than Let's not just talk about Charlie. Let's talk about it.
Speaker 30: Probably eighteen of our players out there that we wish
Speaker 30: they had played better. But when you get when you
Speaker 30: get a team that plays as poor as we did,
Speaker 30: it's hard for any player to play well.
Speaker 20: How much hasn't played for a while despite the fact
Speaker 20: is he Uni Biue or is he likely to come
Speaker 20: in next week or.
Speaker 30: We'll go and we'll sit back and reflect on this
Speaker 30: piece and then we'll look at what's going forward and
Speaker 30: what we need to do. We can't make wholesale changes
Speaker 30: at this time of the year. We just don't.
Speaker 5: We don't have the.
Speaker 30: Personnel available to make those times, and we've got some
Speaker 30: people who are out of the team. You know, if
Speaker 30: you go through the players that we don't have, it
Speaker 30: lailable can't do much about them. We can only do
Speaker 30: with what we've got. We've got some players so we
Speaker 30: think can certainly step up and help us get better
Speaker 30: if if that's what we choose to do.
Speaker 16: How much your concern is the key for at the moment,
Speaker 16: given I think we're going three goals in the last
Speaker 16: twelve quarters of footy or something like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously it seems like Anish.
Speaker 30: Foot Clearly we would much rather a better return from them,
Speaker 30: but they need they're going to survive. But the way
Speaker 30: we use the ball and we moved the ball and
Speaker 30: we didn't give me a chance tonight. You know, we
Speaker 30: banged in there a bit too much. We didn't change
Speaker 30: angles enough at times. But maybe that was a pressure
Speaker 30: that you a long put on us. I think we
Speaker 30: have to reflect on that.
Speaker 3: Charne Dison was getting brons chin by his own fans
Speaker 3: later in that game.
Speaker 21: What's your message? You can have a home final next week.
Speaker 21: I must we clash.
Speaker 20: What's your message to the fans that might be feeling
Speaker 20: this frustration and a feeling of days up Verite.
Speaker 30: They won't feel it any worse than us. They definitely won't.
Speaker 30: They won't feel any worse than us. They've just got
Speaker 30: to for us. We need him to stick with us
Speaker 30: and come along and be here to help and support
Speaker 30: us and believe in the team. The team have been
Speaker 30: a team that they've been trying their asses off all
Speaker 30: through this year to get to this point.
Speaker 21: We failed tonight.
Speaker 30: I'm going to spend another second in We didn't deliver
Speaker 30: what we needed to deliver it. We didn't deliver it
Speaker 30: in the final that we wanted to deliver it in.
Speaker 30: But we're going to learn from it and we're going
Speaker 30: to work really hard to break through that barrier and
Speaker 30: give ourselves another chance.
Speaker 3: Well there whereas the coach Ken Hinckley in the press conference,
Speaker 3: and in fact it's just wrapped up his walking out
Speaker 3: of it, and I think probably the biggest takeaway, there's
Speaker 3: not much you can say. I don't think tread but
Speaker 3: Zach Butters it sounds like he's mighty soware And even
Speaker 3: if he does play next week, you have to wonder
Speaker 3: at what level you know if it's cracked ribs, he.
Speaker 2: Knew he wasn't out himself. I couldn't.
Speaker 10: I couldn't understand why he wasn't playing well, But he
Speaker 10: obviously went into this game and he wasn't fit, probably
Speaker 10: more reason to the caller's points and many a person
Speaker 10: that's questioned whether horn France should have started or not.
Speaker 10: If he knew that about Butters, maybe he was the
Speaker 10: one to start off for the first six or seven
Speaker 10: when the hate was on, Yeah, and allow Home Francis
Speaker 10: to start.
Speaker 2: But would that have changed the game?
Speaker 10: I think Geelong would just two good in all facets
Speaker 10: in all areas, and I reckon that we had probably
Speaker 10: those three guys that probably won their spot.
Speaker 3: Yeah about it their hands tonight Timmy was so good.
Speaker 3: Let's get to Alan from Enfield, get a Allen.
Speaker 30: How are you?
Speaker 16: Yeah?
Speaker 28: The other game is very disappointed. I think some positivity
Speaker 28: needs to be taken out of it. I think, Incle
Speaker 28: he's actually overall a great coach. He's got the record
Speaker 28: to show it. I think we should start teasing him
Speaker 28: about his weight and it looks and in the fact
Speaker 28: that he drinks papped him out nothing to do with it,
Speaker 28: you know, he's got the club back from the brink.
Speaker 29: Really and you know he.
Speaker 28: Played a game in China. How many other clubs have
Speaker 28: done that?
Speaker 17: Hey?
Speaker 28: So you know tonight with the learning experience that he
Speaker 28: just said, and we have to I think embrace that.
Speaker 28: Probably more disappointed than maybe the leaders of the club.
Speaker 28: You know, today was his birthday or the birthday and
Speaker 28: imagine how he's feeling being let down so much too.
Speaker 28: But like people like Dixon and you know, we're rady redical. Yeah,
Speaker 28: and you know the crash and Dan Houston started.
Speaker 8: There's guys, you know, lead.
Speaker 5: How long do you realize? Do you realize this? Folks
Speaker 5: doing his comedy act? Thanks for that, Nick?
Speaker 3: All right, let's sorry Ellen, Rather, let's get to Nick
Speaker 3: at this part bloody boardering and try.
Speaker 5: And be funny.
Speaker 17: Guys.
Speaker 9: I know you've got it just like me. But and
Speaker 9: you will football people for our ken. He's a football man.
Speaker 9: He's just he's got the football smart But forget the
Speaker 9: coaching side of things. Yeah, our list selection, where are
Speaker 9: we going? Where I reckon? We've got probably and we've
Speaker 9: got the cattle to push forward in the next three years.
Speaker 9: We've got some stars. But do we play out some people, Well,
Speaker 9: do we go backwards to go forward?
Speaker 12: Because I don't think we've got the cattle?
Speaker 5: What do you think what are we missing.
Speaker 8: Forward?
Speaker 5: What do you think we're missing.
Speaker 9: A couple of decent boards? What was fine rather earlier?
Speaker 9: It's a big, big, giant of a man.
Speaker 13: Charlie.
Speaker 9: What's he done before?
Speaker 5: Bloke?
Speaker 11: You know he's carrying some lady jury.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it's probably fair that Charlie's near father time
Speaker 4: in't he like Bokey forwards the end near the end,
Speaker 4: and those obviously decisions will be made. What happens, that's
Speaker 4: list managers. So I think to be fair, I reckon
Speaker 4: our list managers done a phenomenal job. Yeah, you think
Speaker 4: about getting Bergmann in, you get horn Francis in. They're
Speaker 4: in the running for some free agents for this year
Speaker 4: that managed a salary cap pretty well, and then the
Speaker 4: Dan Houston. But you need a replacement for Dixon. Lord
Speaker 4: probably hasn't come on. I had the preseason we expected
Speaker 4: from him. Todd Marshall's had multiple injuries. Defense looks I
Speaker 4: think for tonight number one ranked defense in the last
Speaker 4: six weeks. So in the midfield looks dynamic and the
Speaker 4: list is very young, considering some guys are at the
Speaker 4: high thirty in So let's get out to Gaula, get
Speaker 4: a Paul gay Jim.
Speaker 24: It's cav how I'm feeling your paying brother, Thank Cam,
Speaker 24: But boys or to put aside tonight and yes it
Speaker 24: was a bad performance and it's done right. We've got
Speaker 24: another chance. I got to tell you what I get
Speaker 24: sick of. I'm getting sick of listening to these so
Speaker 24: called supporters ringing up and winging like our throats been cut.
Speaker 24: Yes we played bad, but may I've been following this club.
Speaker 24: I'm fifty six since I was eight years old with
Speaker 24: my old man who's just turned eighty, And I tell
Speaker 24: you we've had a good time this year. I've been
Speaker 24: there in the tops. I've been there when we've been
Speaker 24: on our knees and tread has brought it up earlier.
Speaker 24: What course he's done for the club financially is is unbelievable.
Speaker 24: So I think some people have just got to sit back,
Speaker 24: have a look at the bigger picture. We're in a
Speaker 24: good place. Wait the saying hard times. So yeah, that's
Speaker 24: that's my thought.
Speaker 3: Like a bit of positivity, Cab. It's nice to get
Speaker 3: some after what's been a really difficult night.
Speaker 2: Good stuff.
Speaker 5: Really appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Morphet Vale. Patrick has been waiting. Hello Patrick,
Speaker 2: Hey boys, how you doing?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Bit bit flat? Patrick?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, bit fight as well?
Speaker 6: You know it's good quiet and AFLU horrendous, embarrassing, absolutely embarrassing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks Patrick, it was it was that kind of night.
Speaker 3: Wasn't it worst ever loss under Ken Hinckley and it's
Speaker 3: it's the overwhelming feeling, isn't it from fans? Eighty four
Speaker 3: points on your home deck? Everyone watching? Let's go to
Speaker 3: Salisbury Down's Andrew.
Speaker 5: Hello Andrew, Okay fellows.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I know we're all fulling crappy, but.
Speaker 28: Let's get over it.
Speaker 11: What time?
Speaker 9: And I know we'll be playing Hawthorn or West Bulldogs
Speaker 9: next week.
Speaker 20: Let's go on with that.
Speaker 28: Let's finish this crap of that today over and done.
Speaker 9: Let's go on with next week.
Speaker 20: Now try on that.
Speaker 3: We have to do good stuff, Andrew. Likely to be
Speaker 3: a Friday night. I think treaders will wait for the
Speaker 3: AFL to work it all out. But we'll go to
Speaker 3: Anthony who is at Putum, maybe out last call and
Speaker 3: then we'll get into the awards.
Speaker 6: Good I Anthony, Look, I've got to laugh at some
Speaker 6: of these people saying, get on with it. You know,
Speaker 6: let's let's move forward.
Speaker 12: How long do we.
Speaker 6: Have to put up with the same sort of thing?
Speaker 17: Like?
Speaker 6: So, you know, we've got a captain Rose who who
Speaker 6: did he stand up today?
Speaker 17: No?
Speaker 6: Jason, he's our man. You know, we've got a coach
Speaker 6: in ken who How many years do we have to
Speaker 6: go through this? You know what I'm saying, Like, it's
Speaker 6: it's the same. It's like like wint and repeat into repeat.
Speaker 6: Where do we draw the light? So, yeah, we've got
Speaker 6: a chance next week. Great, we we we've we've put
Speaker 6: ourselves in a position for that. But okay, so how
Speaker 6: are we going to turn How are we going to
Speaker 6: turn around?
Speaker 8: What do you think?
Speaker 25: What do you think?
Speaker 3: That's Well they're going to have to, aren't they. I
Speaker 3: mean it's it's hard, but they're going to have to
Speaker 3: find a way. And you know, as bad as they
Speaker 3: were last week.
Speaker 5: It's contests and effort based. Simple.
Speaker 4: Once you get contest and effort right, you need execution.
Speaker 4: Didn't have the contest right, didn't have the effort right.
Speaker 4: Opposition were too good, jumped us and couldn't get ourselves.
Speaker 5: Back in the game.
Speaker 10: I'd like to see that Fox pressure coach game. Yeah,
Speaker 10: I don't think it was post two hundred like it
Speaker 10: has been recent weeks.
Speaker 2: Now let's get to a break.
Speaker 3: We've got the awards to get to the other side.
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Speaker 2: Now there it is siren sounds. Geelong through to prelimp final.
Speaker 2: Port Adelaide will return.
Speaker 10: Here next week to take on either poored Ons or Hownthorne.
Speaker 10: In the end, it was twenty goals eight eight, one
Speaker 10: hundred and thirty eight Geelong to Port adelade seven twelve
Speaker 10: to fifty four.
Speaker 2: It is an eighty four point thrashing.
Speaker 21: This is faith Double A.
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Speaker 3: Thanks so much for tuning in that. We are going
Speaker 3: to get into the awards. An annihilation tonight and it
Speaker 3: was Geelong inflicting all of the damage. They were magnificent
Speaker 3: and Port Adelaide was dreadful injury report trust Cavalry Adelaide
Speaker 3: Emergency Department for Personalized Professional Care twenty four to seven treaders.
Speaker 3: The real concerns act butters those bruised or crack ribs.
Speaker 3: We're not sure scanned tomorrow. Hopefully he'll be okay for
Speaker 3: next week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's absolutely the case. So the challenge for port
Speaker 4: Adelaide what happens then, you know, I mean there would
Speaker 4: be subject to how's how he recovers and what the
Speaker 4: scheme looks like, and then it'll be the management from
Speaker 4: that course forward.
Speaker 3: Goal of the day thanks to Beechwood Homes Real Custom
Speaker 3: home Builders, just the seven for the home side tonight treaders.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well the goal of the day I reckon horn
Speaker 4: Francis's snap under pressure.
Speaker 5: That was just phenomenal, just to you know, when port
Speaker 5: looked like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they just had to sort of accumulate some pressure
Speaker 4: to give himself some hope. He was just unbelievable in
Speaker 4: that space.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was in that first quarter. That was the
Speaker 2: final goal of that first term.
Speaker 3: It was a ripper mark of the day thanks to
Speaker 3: McGain real Estate. If you're selling they have the buyers
Speaker 3: ready to go.
Speaker 4: I reckon Miles Bergman saved him numerous times in contestant
Speaker 4: mark situations.
Speaker 5: He was great.
Speaker 3: He took three or four rippers, didn't he Treaders and
Speaker 3: the match winner well, unfortunately they didn't win the match,
Speaker 3: but all thanks to unique home style foods. You have
Speaker 3: three two one treaders go one vote to Horn Francis.
Speaker 3: He kept having a crack.
Speaker 4: Our listeners thought exactly the same to Williem Drew thought
Speaker 4: he was their best mid team that got absolutely belted.
Speaker 4: And I thought Miles Bergmann was best. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 4: he was just under the pump the whole time. To
Speaker 4: have nine in disposals, even have a couple of score
Speaker 4: involvements from defense.
Speaker 5: I thought he was. We didn't have him, it would
Speaker 5: have been a lot ugly.
Speaker 3: He tried his guts out all night, fellas, thank you.
Speaker 3: Not the night at all for Port Adelaide. But they
Speaker 3: do have another chance. They've got eight days to back
Speaker 3: up and try and come again. Timmy, thanks so much
Speaker 3: to you treaders, Lindon tug Us back in the studio,
Speaker 3: Sammy Daddo as well, and to all the listeners.
Speaker 2: Really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: A horror eighty four point last make sure you tune
Speaker 3: into the Sports show tomorrow the fall out. I'm done,
Speaker 3: taking your bat and your ball going on home. It
Speaker 3: was Geelong magnificent, winning by eighty four points in tonight's
Speaker 3: qualifying final.
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