Speaker 1: Tom Lynch awaits his penalty, pleading guilty and apologizing but
Speaker 1: arguing he did not throw a closed fist in anger.
Speaker 2: We take you inside the chaos, said Carts and Harry McKay,
Speaker 2: forced to watch on in difficult times. He's with us
Speaker 2: at the death tonight on Players Night.
Speaker 1: And dorm she bows out of the game, having conjured
Speaker 1: the iconic moments of a West Coast premiership.
Speaker 3: We've talked about. Is this step into it, embrace all
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 4: Hit in the room and pat it. It's unedifying for
Speaker 4: a senior coach to do that. They're on the side
Speaker 4: of Courtia with the brain tape.
Speaker 1: The man on they played the best footy I've ever
Speaker 1: seen at the start of the season, and injury said
Speaker 1: the president left the couple over said, of course they do.
Speaker 1: It is the stuff that legends are made of. What
Speaker 1: is holding the ball?
Speaker 3: I don't think I could answer it clearly right now
Speaker 3: that I can do something wrong, you know, and I
Speaker 3: need to get on the board sexually.
Speaker 2: The fans lover and with no fans, no through. Sixty
Speaker 2: year old.
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis back to Players Night where it all started.
Speaker 4: Nice to have you here.
Speaker 2: It was probably eleven years ago, Jared Long fourteen.
Speaker 4: When you were young, and now I haven't chets. This
Speaker 4: might have been an error. Do you and Raise they
Speaker 4: have history? No, we're good, okay, yeah, we both will.
Speaker 4: Do you agree with that? It's funny?
Speaker 2: Actually, Steve mcbernie by my young boy Freddie about a
Speaker 2: month ago, and the runner went past Steve and said,
Speaker 2: that's Jordy Lewis's little boy, and he said, funny that
Speaker 2: he hasn't.
Speaker 4: Argued with me yet. Noser.
Speaker 2: I like Razor because he could give as much as
Speaker 2: he could take, which for a player that's competitive.
Speaker 4: It actually settled you.
Speaker 2: Down a lot more when they gave it back to you.
Speaker 2: I think the thing that I'm interested to ask him,
Speaker 2: the thing that ruined it for the umpires was the mix. Yeah,
Speaker 2: then they couldn't Then there couldn't be any any banter had.
Speaker 4: To be very clean, all right.
Speaker 1: So we have a loaded agenda for you tonight, as
Speaker 1: the day is developed quite remarkably on a few if
Speaker 1: for in front, so Harry McKay is.
Speaker 4: With us and Nick Blakey.
Speaker 1: The SCG has evidently been ticked off for play already
Speaker 1: on Sunday, despite the rain bomb that's hit the Harburt City.
Speaker 1: Ray Chamberlain has been deep at work on what happened
Speaker 1: with Tom Lynch on Sunday and David Zita's sitting through
Speaker 1: the tribunal as we speak. Midweek Tackle follows us so
Speaker 1: stacks of news. Lauren would to guide you through that
Speaker 1: with Corbyn and Ralphie and then tomorrow night it's a
Speaker 1: special edition with the centenary of the Kangaroo's being celebrated.
Speaker 1: John Longmire and Adam Simpson they've been going through their
Speaker 1: own records of what they've got from the Dennis Pagan
Speaker 1: premiership years, so we'll see and Dyson Daniels, this is
Speaker 1: my son's special requests, right, Dyson Daniels.
Speaker 4: Joins us is he coming in? He is, He will
Speaker 4: be here make an appearance.
Speaker 1: Then we know that he's a Tiger's nuts and he
Speaker 1: has told us previously on his program. When he finishes
Speaker 1: the NBA, he wants to see if he can just
Speaker 1: sneak in for one year at Roigers.
Speaker 4: And this is just in the OUTDT. This is how
Speaker 4: much he loves his Tiger's Sunday to the g Do
Speaker 4: you know what Joe I think it was?
Speaker 2: It was last year it was a Giants game at
Speaker 2: Enji Stadium. I'm not even too sure where the rich
Speaker 2: one were playing, and we had the ISO cam on
Speaker 2: him and he walked probably two laps around the oval unnoticed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no one even looks sideways.
Speaker 2: I don't think you were having those same luxuries now
Speaker 2: since coming back after a stellar season.
Speaker 4: A total superstar. So be great to have him at the.
Speaker 1: Desk to talk some footy as well as basketball tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into it at the top of
Speaker 1: the agenda. Right now, Tom Lynch is awaiting his fate.
Speaker 1: The tribunal jury is deliberating. He has pleaded guilty, apologize,
Speaker 1: but he's arguing the toss over the semantics of it.
Speaker 1: The difference here is between three and five weeks on
Speaker 1: the sidelines.
Speaker 4: I remember, he's lost, Mam, he's lost. He's lost his
Speaker 4: did a lot of trouble. Get the boy, Get the boy.
Speaker 4: He sense he had the red mist going.
Speaker 5: He was right at the fine line, a fine line.
Speaker 4: We're not vigil Andy's here. You don't take it into
Speaker 4: your own hands and break the law back the other way,
Speaker 4: and that's what Lynch has done.
Speaker 5: Lench's gone. This is exactly what we can't have in
Speaker 5: our game at.
Speaker 1: Any level if he allowed.
Speaker 4: This at AFL level to be a tool of three
Speaker 4: week penalty. You watch it to seek through the competitions.
Speaker 5: Through the competitions, it is the look and community standards
Speaker 5: out absolutely, So, yeah, that's an issue.
Speaker 4: They're trying to send a message other.
Speaker 5: You're reported at the striking.
Speaker 1: I wonder where there was a frustration about his own
Speaker 1: for how he was playing.
Speaker 4: I think whether there was a sense of embarrassment.
Speaker 1: And frustration that he couldn't touch the footy and it
Speaker 1: just got too much for him and he lashed out,
Speaker 1: and he washed out, and think you cry the level
Speaker 1: of accountability being called to front the tributal and then
Speaker 1: the necessary penalty both as a punishment and to terrence.
Speaker 1: David Zita has sat through the case, David, welcome, Hello.
Speaker 2: Jerry and Geordie.
Speaker 4: How has it unfolded?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so deliberating at the moment, so we should have
Speaker 2: a verdict before the end of the show. Very confident
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: The AFL wants a five match penalty and Richmond wants
Speaker 2: a three match band, so they say this should be
Speaker 2: high impact rather than severe impact. That's where the majority
Speaker 2: of this is boiled down to they have pleaded guilty
Speaker 2: to the other aspects of the charge. So Tom Lynch
Speaker 2: gave evidence. He said that he was contesting the ball.
Speaker 2: He was trying to get the mark Jordan Batz was
Speaker 2: holding onto him. He wanted to get him, get him
Speaker 2: off him as quickly as possible.
Speaker 4: He got it wrong.
Speaker 2: But the little things they always become big things in
Speaker 2: these cases. And the big thing here was the dispute
Speaker 2: over whether this was a closed fist or an open hand.
Speaker 2: So Tom Lynch says he has a fused joint in
Speaker 2: his middle finger on the right hand that prevents him
Speaker 2: from being able to close his fist entirely, even demonstrated
Speaker 2: to the tribunal. Now the AFL almost called his bluff.
Speaker 2: They brought up two still images and said, well, look,
Speaker 2: you may not be able to close your fist fully,
Speaker 2: but you can still spoil the ball and you can
Speaker 2: still perform actions that require.
Speaker 4: A closed fist. For one of a better terms.
Speaker 2: So look, as this is one of the still images here,
Speaker 2: you can see now right the middle finger is still
Speaker 2: out slightly, but he's still spoiling the ball, or attempting
Speaker 2: to spoil the ball. He can perform pretty much close
Speaker 2: to a closed fist. So he does admit that he
Speaker 2: got it wrong, and again lots of chat about the
Speaker 2: finger and the closed fist and whether it was He
Speaker 2: was adamant this was a swipe rather than a punch.
Speaker 2: He was adding for the upper back of Jordan Butts.
Speaker 2: He knows he got it wrong. He told Jordan Butts
Speaker 2: that after the game, and Butts accepted it and they
Speaker 2: moved on. But again the AFL says, this is very simple.
Speaker 2: It is a blatant, forceful, swinging arm. It is the
Speaker 2: type of action of a bygone era and there is
Speaker 2: no place for it in the game. The Tigers had
Speaker 2: six reasons, as they often do these days at the
Speaker 2: defense hearings. They said that there was no injury here.
Speaker 2: There was no swinging, clenched fist. There was the front
Speaker 2: part of Lynch's hand that made contact, which is less
Speaker 2: likely to cause significant injury. It was more of a
Speaker 2: swipe than a punch, as Lynch said, it was close
Speaker 2: to the ball rather than an off the ball hit,
Speaker 2: and the potential for injury was not greater than what
Speaker 2: was realized. So the tribute on now deliberating Geelong Essendon
Speaker 2: West Coast, Collingwood, Gold Coast. That is what awaits Tom
Speaker 2: Lynch on the sidelines. He won't play those games if
Speaker 2: he is found guilty on the AFL's front, which is
Speaker 2: five matches. If he's able to get what Richmond wants,
Speaker 2: he'll be free to face Collingwood and Gold Coast.
Speaker 1: David, thank you, will be back with you shortly. So
Speaker 1: a bit of law and order.
Speaker 2: I think they got the Do you think they got
Speaker 2: the inside word on the defense?
Speaker 4: It could have been able to rebut that so quickly
Speaker 4: bangs straight away. I sort of have a bit of sympathy.
Speaker 4: I mean, I sort of can't close my fist either.
Speaker 2: But I think it was important, knowing that this was
Speaker 2: coming up tonight, to go back and watch. So I
Speaker 2: watched the first three quarters from behind the goals. For me,
Speaker 2: it was a pattern of behavior, So I don't buy
Speaker 2: into the fact that this was a one off. He
Speaker 2: was frustrated four minutes into the game. He was, so
Speaker 2: this is this is behind the ball. This was four
Speaker 2: minutes into the game. Yep, Jared, So he was. He
Speaker 2: was in the combatitive and combative mood anyway, So you know,
Speaker 2: was he frustrated right from the start. I think he
Speaker 2: was watching watching that vision, so this is unacceptable. And
Speaker 2: I think the when I was watching the vision, he
Speaker 2: really wanted backspace, but Jordan Buts did a really good
Speaker 2: job on keeping him in front, which then I think
Speaker 2: fueled his frustration because he couldn't get the position that
Speaker 2: he wanted. But I reckon there was four or five
Speaker 2: times where you could have said Tom Lynch could have
Speaker 2: been fined in the first half, and he went to
Speaker 2: the umpire and complained about not getting free kicks. I
Speaker 2: saw one that wasn't paid. Everything else to me looked fair,
Speaker 2: So this was this was unnecessary.
Speaker 1: You can't have a rogue force, you can't have a
Speaker 1: loose cannon out on the field. And Bucks's use of
Speaker 1: the vigilante justice was pretty apps last night. So the
Speaker 1: AFL is right to ask for five that the steps
Speaker 1: in the legal system are interesting to get tested tonight,
Speaker 1: because this is literally medium impact and then the potential
Speaker 1: to cause injury raises it to high and then the
Speaker 1: stretch target is to take it two categories. I do
Speaker 1: recall a case about three years ago which was the
Speaker 1: one time they tried two categories and the tribune or
Speaker 1: knock them back, and so you can only have the
Speaker 1: next one.
Speaker 4: You can only have high.
Speaker 1: So Richmond had nowhere to argue other than that tonight.
Speaker 1: And then Lynch gets to say his piece, which includes
Speaker 1: accepting responsibility and apologizing whilst arguing the semantics.
Speaker 4: Which you are forced to do.
Speaker 1: So the AFL will be well served with a five
Speaker 1: week suspension. Even if they got rolled at three or four.
Speaker 1: The fact that they pushed so hard for it serves
Speaker 1: the code well, So we'll put raised to work on
Speaker 1: this is he has gone right through the first half.
Speaker 1: There are fifteen different incidents involving the forward and the
Speaker 1: defenders and the methods that were used against him, just
Speaker 1: to see how he was unpired on the day, and
Speaker 1: then the question about how do the umpires handle a
Speaker 1: player who is totally out of control.
Speaker 4: So that discussion, that's exactly what it looked like to me.
Speaker 2: He was out of control, and I thought, magine, if
Speaker 2: I was in Butts's position, I would have felt relatively
Speaker 2: unsafe because he was erratic and he was arguing with
Speaker 2: the umpires, he was throwing his fist.
Speaker 4: Back once again.
Speaker 2: Fallants into the game, they sort of nearly came blow
Speaker 2: to blow.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I thought, and.
Speaker 2: Jonathan Brown said last night it could have been an
Speaker 2: opportunity for the coaches to get him off early, really
Speaker 2: early and settling down if they had have seen those behaviors.
Speaker 1: So out of headquarters today regarding the umpire contact to
Speaker 1: the implications of this, which have been a fairly minimal fine,
Speaker 1: but they have had no impact in curtailing player behavior.
Speaker 1: In fact, even more so the crackdown that came, clubs
Speaker 1: were written to, fines were handed out, and instances are
Speaker 1: continuing to rise. So this year sixty three instances through
Speaker 1: sixteen rounds of fines frompire contact. Last year it was
Speaker 1: fifty six across the whole year, and in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three it was twenty. So the AFL is clamping right
Speaker 1: down on this. Once you reach four times, you will
Speaker 1: now be referred directly to the tribunal. Now the likelihood
Speaker 1: is that becomes a more severe fine, but there's also
Speaker 1: the possibility of suspension for that.
Speaker 4: So who are the players?
Speaker 1: This runs over a two year period, so this dates
Speaker 1: back now to a rolling two year cycle. So from
Speaker 1: round seventeen, twenty twenty three to this weekend is your
Speaker 1: two year cycle. I've done this from the start of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, so this is incomplete, but these are
Speaker 1: the six players who are immediately in jeopardy. Matt Row's
Speaker 1: on four, George Hewitt's on four, Jack McCrae with four,
Speaker 1: and Harley Read, Adam Cherrah and Willem Drew with three
Speaker 1: a piece. There's a bunch of players on two, which
Speaker 1: may well be three. Clubs have been notified tonight on
Speaker 1: the standing of their players. It's to where they sit
Speaker 1: in this sliding scale. But if Matt Row, George sure,
Speaker 1: if any of these six players do it again on
Speaker 1: the weekend, they are bound for the tribunal and then
Speaker 1: we're in the margins. Is that the complete discretion of
Speaker 1: the tribunal as to whether they hike up the fines
Speaker 1: or whether they say, no, you're not treating this seriously.
Speaker 4: You can sit for a week.
Speaker 2: So as you're understanding that they go through every single
Speaker 2: umpire contact that that player has been guilty of and
Speaker 2: see whether it's their fault or someone else's fault, the
Speaker 2: umpire's fault.
Speaker 4: So that's unjudged on so far.
Speaker 1: So the ones that you get fined for are your fault,
Speaker 1: and that stands and you accept your fine and you pay,
Speaker 1: so you are guilty on that front. No contest there
Speaker 1: the fourth or the fifth one that will now see
Speaker 1: you before the tribunal, do they consider it? Your whole
Speaker 1: body of work is do you keep doing the same thing?
Speaker 1: Are you a recidivist or are you unlucky? And is
Speaker 1: it going to be up with the fines or are
Speaker 1: you going to you can have a week because you
Speaker 1: keep using the umpire as a shield or you have
Speaker 1: no regard for the space that's designated for the umpire.
Speaker 1: So very gray, but clearly necessary. The players, if you
Speaker 1: just look at the raw numbers, the players aren't treating
Speaker 1: this seriously.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's say Matt Row players have just got
Speaker 2: the information today. Is my understanding that an accumulation of
Speaker 2: umpire contact will then either ask for a bigger suspension
Speaker 2: or a or a suspension play a bigger fight. Players
Speaker 2: haven't known that, So does matt Raw go back to zero?
Speaker 2: This is a rolling two year cycle.
Speaker 4: That's I think that's unfair, and it's not.
Speaker 1: A demerit points system. So if you get suspended, it
Speaker 1: doesn't clear you hold. So every time Matt Row's date two,
Speaker 1: round eleven, twenty twenty seven, so he's going to be
Speaker 1: on this short leash right now all the way through
Speaker 1: to round eleven, twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2: So matt ral has found out round seventeen on the
Speaker 2: verge of playing their first final series. If he runs
Speaker 2: into the umpire in the last game of the season,
Speaker 2: he could potentially miss the first final. Yes, and he
Speaker 2: hasn't had any idea whatsoever that an accumulation of umpire
Speaker 2: contact could end up in him being suspended.
Speaker 1: Nobody does an offense and has known through his four
Speaker 1: that this is prohibited behavior.
Speaker 4: But never know and that will come to a suspension.
Speaker 2: No, until now, that's I think that's unfair.
Speaker 4: I really do.
Speaker 2: I think if players were aware of that being the case,
Speaker 2: and you are a recidivist and you have got multiple
Speaker 2: instances where you are having unpie contact, absolutely that is
Speaker 2: the rules.
Speaker 4: You have to abide by the rules. But for a
Speaker 4: player or players.
Speaker 2: To be notified at round seventeen that that could potentially
Speaker 2: happen before the finals in a prelim final that you
Speaker 2: might miss the Grand Final and not know eight weeks out,
Speaker 2: I think that's really unfair.
Speaker 1: They're big players on that list too, and it's a
Speaker 1: longer list than that. All right, the injury front has
Speaker 1: been pretty severe today. Nothing causes trepidation. I don't think
Speaker 1: like stress fractures in the back. You know that through cricket.
Speaker 1: So the bone stress that is being felt by Josh
Speaker 1: Weddle has him.
Speaker 4: Now out of business.
Speaker 1: And while there's there's the veneer of hope for the
Speaker 1: end of the season. Knowing the way these things go
Speaker 1: is his twenty five campaigns in significant jeopardy and what
Speaker 1: a piece that is for Hawthorne to be missing.
Speaker 4: It's it's wretched luck for him.
Speaker 2: It's a huge blow, no doubt about it. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's one of the most exciting players in the competition.
Speaker 2: I think the frustrating thing for this type of injury
Speaker 2: is it just it doesn't creep up on you, it
Speaker 2: just hits you. And he only complained of minus outing
Speaker 2: his backstortus of recent time. So they said, let's go
Speaker 2: and get it, let's go and get it scanned, and
Speaker 2: then then you get the diagnosis. So it's shouting for
Speaker 2: the young lad. He's so athletic, he's good to watch.
Speaker 2: He brings kids through the through the turnstiles. He's played
Speaker 2: nearly every game this year. He's hit the scoreboard is
Speaker 2: exactly what you want to see come finals, how they perform,
Speaker 2: and that might be taken out of his hands through injury.
Speaker 2: I think Jared, if there's one position that they're over
Speaker 2: indexed in and take away his talent, it probably is
Speaker 2: this position. If you look at Scrimshaw to come back,
Speaker 2: James Sisley to come back, to handy replacements, it is
Speaker 2: the position that they could feel.
Speaker 4: But you feel for it, you do it, there's no
Speaker 4: doubt you.
Speaker 1: Do It will be a conservative approach for sure and
Speaker 1: certain because you can't muck around with these Now he's
Speaker 1: played virtually every game Jordan to go. He just cannot
Speaker 1: get a run at it this year. He wasn't on
Speaker 1: the cusp of returning. The Achilles has him on the
Speaker 1: long term program. But then he gets concussied to walk
Speaker 1: under a ladder or something. This is his coach, Greig McGray.
Speaker 3: Already got a got a concussion in the in the fundamentals,
Speaker 3: so he's he left the track. So it's a bit
Speaker 3: of said, my majority is just starting to get there
Speaker 3: and he's obviously going to be the protocols for ten
Speaker 3: to fourty days.
Speaker 1: What it looks like five games hasn't been seen since
Speaker 1: the Geelong game. In round eight, Channel seven news cameras
Speaker 1: captured the exact moment that Brainard Brandon Maynard got him
Speaker 1: head over the ball.
Speaker 4: That's not a great moment of training, isn't. What is
Speaker 4: Maynard doing? What I saw? What is he doing?
Speaker 2: There is just no need for that to happen in
Speaker 2: a training session.
Speaker 4: I just so he rotten luck.
Speaker 2: Was he's the X factor that can come back into
Speaker 2: this side and as good as they've been, Jordan goalie
Speaker 2: back in that side makes them two god better side.
Speaker 2: So he might be in Cotton Woolling terms, he might
Speaker 2: get the work done but keep away from everyone until
Speaker 2: it's a chance to play. But yeah, he's having a
Speaker 2: rotten season with injuries and now concussion. But this is
Speaker 2: this is the strength of the squad. You know, they've
Speaker 2: missed a big chunk of their players sporadically throughout the season,
Speaker 2: and even last week six or seven of their starting
Speaker 2: eighteen missed that game against West Coast. So you can
Speaker 2: look at it optimistically. They're playing great football, they're still winning,
Speaker 2: they sit three games on top of the AFL Ladder
Speaker 2: and they can welcome back these these players who are
Speaker 2: who are in their best twenty two. You look at
Speaker 2: the names there, Goey, frankmu Cruz, Shieltz.
Speaker 4: They are starters.
Speaker 2: So manager lists accordingly knowing that these kids or these
Speaker 2: players will come back and give you a real job
Speaker 2: on the EVA finals.
Speaker 1: And you live through a campaign where nothing went smoothly,
Speaker 1: but you rode all the bumps and just got it
Speaker 1: all together at the end.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And the message really was that year, even when
Speaker 2: Alisa Clarkson went out with I'm not going to try
Speaker 2: and pronounce the honest, Gillian bar syndrome. Brendan Bolton came
Speaker 2: back in, and it was really about being reliable, not remarkable,
Speaker 2: And I think that would be the message around Collinwood
Speaker 2: at the moment with you see the star players that
Speaker 2: are out, whoever comes in, just be reliable. The system
Speaker 2: is for everybody to see. It's a really good system.
Speaker 2: It stacks up in big games. So come in and
Speaker 2: play your part, hopefully play well to force a selection issue.
Speaker 4: But when it all.
Speaker 2: Comes towards the end, I mean Cyril played one game
Speaker 2: VFL grand Filer came in for the and final. Sam
Speaker 2: Mitchell was out injured most of the season. Josh Gibson
Speaker 2: was out most of the season, but this is where
Speaker 2: the fitness stuff earned their money. Yes, it's to really
Speaker 2: time their run for these players to.
Speaker 4: Get back, all right. One player who won't get back
Speaker 4: is Dom Sheed.
Speaker 1: He is bowing out of the game as the golden
Speaker 1: ear at the Eagles take progressive curtain calls. I always
Speaker 1: think you want to leave the game with one iconic moments,
Speaker 1: and boy does he have his.
Speaker 5: We've got a young group now and it's time for
Speaker 5: the next wave of players to come through and that'll
Speaker 5: be without me and I get to sit in the
Speaker 5: stands with my mates now and watch the boys, so
Speaker 5: I'll always be connected to this footy club.
Speaker 4: I love this footy club what.
Speaker 5: Has done for me personally. Sheep from the boundary needs
Speaker 5: to be trap yes, right place, right time, and then
Speaker 5: to be able to execute an impact you know, on
Speaker 5: the biggest day in footy is something I think about
Speaker 5: every five minutes. I played one hundred and sixty odd games,
Speaker 5: I've won a premiership. I'm a life member, so I
Speaker 5: can't I can't leave the game disappointed at all. I'm
Speaker 5: one of the very, very lucky ones that get to
Speaker 5: leave the game with that thank you.
Speaker 1: You can't pick your own circumstances and the reconstruction man,
Speaker 1: you couldn't get out there this year, and there's a
Speaker 1: concession that there is just no way back but to
Speaker 1: leave the game with that, and remember that kick came
Speaker 1: on the sequence of eagles behind, so the whole even
Speaker 1: of his teammates, couldn't.
Speaker 4: Get it done and that was the most difficult shot
Speaker 4: and Jordan.
Speaker 1: Last week it was Jeremy mcgulln who started that chain
Speaker 1: and this week it's Dom Shed and last year it
Speaker 1: was Luke Surey who played one of the best ground
Speaker 1: finals we've seen. So it is the progressive bowing out
Speaker 1: of a golden era.
Speaker 2: How fitting with those two boys in particular retiring within
Speaker 2: weeks of each other. One started to play, one finish
Speaker 2: the play. I mean, if you ever want to go
Speaker 2: and watch the highlight, I think it's Nathan Vardy who
Speaker 2: has the QR code on his arm that you can
Speaker 2: just scan and watch the highlight. But I mean, even
Speaker 2: watching that now as a neutral supporter, you get goosebumps.
Speaker 4: It was a real Grand Final moment.
Speaker 2: You could in ten years Toyota will be calling up,
Speaker 2: so hey, we need to reach Lockett's been done. All
Speaker 2: these famous goals have been done, and he certainly provided
Speaker 2: that for the West Coast. Eagules supports such an iconic moment.
Speaker 2: And if you speak to anyone around the football footballing world,
Speaker 2: who's a guy you love to have a beer with,
Speaker 2: like really held in high respect and high regard for
Speaker 2: the way that he went about it, but certainly from
Speaker 2: his teammates as well, which is another accolade in.
Speaker 1: Itself, sixty nine career goals, one that stands above all others.
Speaker 1: So we salute Dom Sheed or was it round sixteen
Speaker 1: and July so early for retirement season, but they'll sprinkle
Speaker 1: in and for West Coast it just has illuminated what
Speaker 1: they haven't been able to get out there with the
Speaker 1: likes of Sheed and McGovern. All right, our current day
Speaker 1: players are about to join us, one here at the
Speaker 1: desk and one in the Harvest City. So Nick Blakey,
Speaker 1: who he battled to the SCG turf, I think it's
Speaker 1: fair to say I want what he's allowed to say.
Speaker 1: Harry McKay, who has been on my sidelines register a
Speaker 1: bit too much of this season