Speaker 1: Friday on my mind. I think Friday at Night is
Speaker 1: on every footy fans mind. Visit the first prelim final
Speaker 1: tonight SCG Port, Adelaide and the Swans. We understand the
Speaker 1: Adelaide airport was Hayden Nelson told us early you need
Speaker 1: earbuds in because it's Port fans singing and celebrating on
Speaker 1: the road to what they hope is prelim final glory. Tonight.
Speaker 1: You can listen to the call on five Double A
Speaker 1: or watch it on seven Years with the coverage anchored
Speaker 1: by the greatest to ever do it. Our next guest,
Speaker 1: Bruce mcavani.
Speaker 2: Bruce, good morning to.
Speaker 3: You, Good morning Will and you too, David. A very
Speaker 3: exciting night.
Speaker 2: A certainly is, and particularly here in Adelaide. Bruce. It's
Speaker 2: you know, after that Geelong game, a lot of people
Speaker 2: were riding Port off, but there was tenacious win last week.
Speaker 2: How do you see it playing out tonight.
Speaker 3: It's hard to pick, David, isn't it Because if you
Speaker 3: can forgive Port that one match against Gelong, their form
Speaker 3: has been so strong in the back half of the
Speaker 3: year and they've got this crazy record against Sydney where
Speaker 3: they haven't lost them for for eight seasons, so Sydney
Speaker 3: have been the top team all years, but they also
Speaker 3: had a very bad patch and it was in a
Speaker 3: Round twenty one that Port ham of them. So look
Speaker 3: the obvious the Swans, They've had the week off, they're
Speaker 3: playing at home, but I'm thinking very close. So Port
Speaker 3: have to bring that pressure. They have to start well
Speaker 3: and if they do that then I think it's a
Speaker 3: fifty to fifty match.
Speaker 1: Do you recall too many years, Bruce, like this one
Speaker 1: where for much of the year and you Si mentioned
Speaker 1: Sydney had been the form side early but for much
Speaker 1: of the second half of the year, you could have
Speaker 1: named any one of a half dozen sides that would
Speaker 1: win the premiership and people would believe you could make
Speaker 1: a credible case. It's been incredibly even.
Speaker 3: I agree Will. I can't remember a season so unpredictable.
Speaker 3: I can't remember a season where you haven't been able
Speaker 3: to trust clubs like there's no club even in the
Speaker 3: top four that you've been able to trust all year. Now.
Speaker 3: I know Brisbane have had a good back half, they
Speaker 3: had an awful start. Geelonga had some woeful performances at times.
Speaker 3: They had the big losing run after winning their first seven.
Speaker 3: The Swans were talked about and Port have had some
Speaker 3: horrible moment and that early match against the Crows where
Speaker 3: it's semed all us. So you haven't been able to
Speaker 3: trust or dismiss anyone this season. So it's been weird, wonderful,
Speaker 3: and I agree with you, it's been so unpredictable. And
Speaker 3: that's why I'm thinking in these two. I mean, the
Speaker 3: obvious things that will happen this weekend is a Geelong
Speaker 3: and Sydney women playing the Grand Final. But there's been
Speaker 3: nothing obvious about this season, so why should there be
Speaker 3: right here and now? So I think both these matches
Speaker 3: are probably fifty to fifty matches.
Speaker 2: So Brice, you you sort of retired from commentary in
Speaker 2: what twenty twenty one was about three years ago, but
Speaker 2: it's so good that you're going to be back as
Speaker 2: part of the coverage, sort of hosting the preliums and
Speaker 2: the Granny as well. You've just had the thing I
Speaker 2: reckon people love about you, mate, is just You're just
Speaker 2: Oo's love for the national game. Has it been hard
Speaker 2: to fully sabotize with it?
Speaker 3: It has, David. The last time I actually worked was
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty. It was the grand final of a game.
Speaker 3: Be so it's a long long time, nearly four years ago.
Speaker 3: It has. It's been. It's very different watching and not working.
Speaker 3: You know, I'll do last a game. I crew up
Speaker 3: with a game, right you guys, did you know living
Speaker 3: in Adelaide, You've got it, don't you. It's part and parcel.
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, it's it was. It's been hard to
Speaker 3: see with the side. It's a weird thing. If you'd
Speaker 3: asked me months ago that I'd be in Sydney tonight
Speaker 3: involved in this telecast, I would have said, no, I'm
Speaker 3: not happy. This has come out of the blue. It's
Speaker 3: circumstantial in many ways. I'm not sure what this means
Speaker 3: for going forward, in terms of I'm seventy one years
Speaker 3: of page God blind me. I don't think I wouldn't
Speaker 3: be a high draft pick for anyone. But that said,
Speaker 3: that said, I'm hoping that it's been a good year
Speaker 3: for small forwards that I can get a kick over
Speaker 3: the next two weeks.
Speaker 1: Maybe not a draft pick. Bro's you're the one that
Speaker 1: you've paid clubs bringing to, you know, put you over
Speaker 1: the top and win the premiership this season. Experience in class.
Speaker 1: So speaking of that, I mean you still do forul
Speaker 1: job covering the horse racing and working for seven as
Speaker 1: part of that, is there a particular rich that calling
Speaker 1: footy though, is impossible to scratch with calling and talking
Speaker 1: about anything else or can you sort of satiate that
Speaker 1: in other ways?
Speaker 3: Look, it's about as good as a guests. Well, I mean,
Speaker 3: they're all different, you know. I've always said that one
Speaker 3: hundred meter final the Olympics, it was probably about as
Speaker 3: good as a guest. But with footy, there's nothing quite
Speaker 3: a scud. As you like calling football, you work with
Speaker 3: a team, as you guys do every morning with one another.
Speaker 3: You work as a team, and I love that relationship.
Speaker 3: And you know, it's not a going to walk in
Speaker 3: there and catch up with some people that I haven't
Speaker 3: worked with for a long long time. So that part
Speaker 3: of it I just absolutely adore. I love the game
Speaker 3: and I love what it does for me personally when
Speaker 3: I'm calling now. I'm not calling obviously over the next
Speaker 3: few weeks, but I think the first five minutes of
Speaker 3: a Grand final and then hopefully the last five minutes.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it does and something about as you know, as
Speaker 3: wonderful as a guess a broadcaster. It's a wonderful game
Speaker 3: to call. It's so flowing and brilliant and a lot
Speaker 3: of rid of about it. But I've missed it. I've
Speaker 3: missed it a lot. I don't think I'll ever go
Speaker 3: back to calling it. Who knows, but you know I
Speaker 3: have missus. Has been hard to say for those tires,
Speaker 3: but look, this is a bit of a gift for
Speaker 3: me to be involved in these two weeks at the
Speaker 3: really pointy end of the season. In the season has
Speaker 3: been like very few others.
Speaker 2: You should have got your old mate Dennis Comedy back
Speaker 2: as well. Bruce put the toe.
Speaker 3: I've reached out with him this week and he said,
Speaker 3: I don't feel like getting on the plane.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, jes we all have and there was so
Speaker 1: many lovely messages coming through Bruce and our text line
Speaker 1: at the moment because you've provided so many great memories
Speaker 1: for people over the journey. I hate to do this
Speaker 1: because it's just the most predictable thing, but I think
Speaker 1: everyone's interested. You've mentioned you expect Sidney probably tonight, orbit
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be surprised either way. What would you WA's
Speaker 1: your grand final tip? And who do you think wins.
Speaker 3: It and Sitney in Geelong after I'm going the obvious
Speaker 3: and then the Cats so and I wouldn't have said
Speaker 3: that two weeks ago. I thought the footage along played
Speaker 3: against Port two weeks ago is the best after theme
Speaker 3: this year. And if they can reproduce that, I think
Speaker 3: timing might be just right for them for Chris Scott
Speaker 3: to get a third flag. But honestly, it's a flip
Speaker 3: of the coin. Flip of the coin.
Speaker 1: Certainly is well. We've delighted you're part of the coverage, bros.
Speaker 1: And everyone's going to be tuning in tonight in Adelaide,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Thank you so much for joining us
Speaker 1: this morning on five Double Breakfast.
Speaker 2: Get on your broce.
Speaker 3: It's a pleasure boy, it's all the best.
Speaker 1: Frust Makovny be hosting Channel seven's AFL coverage. It starts
Speaker 1: six point fifty tonight immediately after the separate the six
Speaker 1: oct News on Channel seven. You'll see the teams run out,
Speaker 1: you hear the song all the build up, and then
Speaker 1: the first bounce is at seven ten tonight. David Penberthy
Speaker 1: and Will Goodings six to line five Double A Breakfast