Speaker 1: Political upheaval has Tasmania on the brink amid grave concerns
Speaker 1: for the Devils. Brendan Gale joins us from an island divided.
Speaker 2: Hawthorne makes its changes ahead of a high stakes showdown
Speaker 2: with a rested Western Bulldogs. Our coaches go deep and
Speaker 2: the countdown to the Big Freeze. Simon Goodwin is here
Speaker 2: and we'll reveal slider number eight, a long time favorite
Speaker 2: of Neil Danaher.
Speaker 3: We've talked about is this step into it, embrace.
Speaker 1: All of it in the room and Britain it's unedifying
Speaker 1: for a senior coach to do that. They're on the
Speaker 1: side of Courtia with the brain tape, the man on
Speaker 1: they played the best footy I've ever seen at the
Speaker 1: start of the season, and Andrew said, president left. The
Speaker 1: couple older said.
Speaker 2: He, of course they do.
Speaker 3: It is the stuff that legends are made of. What
Speaker 3: is holding the ball? I don't think I could answer
Speaker 3: it clearly right now.
Speaker 4: I can do something wrong, you know, and I need
Speaker 4: to go and the boards.
Speaker 5: Actually the fans lover and with no fans, no through
Speaker 5: sixty year old.
Speaker 1: There's plenty of footy. But if only it was as
Speaker 1: simple as the foota to night Gas. It has been
Speaker 1: a day of political intrigue and.
Speaker 2: Maneuvering, as indeed Jared and I'm not making a light
Speaker 2: of it in my Tasmanian Green, but solidarity is a
Speaker 2: keyword here and Brendon Gale is going to join us,
Speaker 2: fellow Tasmanian and this is big. It is a really
Speaker 2: big I've seen some of the grabs and the emotion
Speaker 2: is real and it's at a very very interesting stage.
Speaker 1: Should have brought my cards membership card that night. That's
Speaker 1: it as we all stand with him right. The premiere
Speaker 1: of Tasmania is tonight facing a no confidence motion. Should
Speaker 1: he fail to stay that off, and he wouldn't appear
Speaker 1: to have the numbers, it's likely Tasmania would be pushed
Speaker 1: to a snap election and once again the Macquarie Points
Speaker 1: Stadium and the nineteenth license to enter the League would
Speaker 1: be placed at jeopardy, perhaps like never before.
Speaker 6: The deal and the way the dealer is constructed is
Speaker 6: to set this club up for success. And I've said repeatedly,
Speaker 6: and I know Brendan and Grant have also said repeatedly,
Speaker 6: is when Tasmania finally take that stage, when we finally
Speaker 6: get that opportunity. We want to be good, we want
Speaker 6: to be sustainable, and we want to represent this state
Speaker 6: with pride will into the future. In order to do that,
Speaker 6: we need the infrastructure to set us up for that success.
Speaker 6: The work that this club is doing. Can I just
Speaker 6: see this club is powered by our future generations, by
Speaker 6: our kids and by our grandkids. It's an opportunity to
Speaker 6: bring this state together. It's an opportunity to create pathways,
Speaker 6: and they're real. They're happening now.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: I've got fifty students out here in my siteline. They
Speaker 6: power us every single day and they will keep doing that.
Speaker 6: And we're going to play on and we want to
Speaker 6: see this team, this club become reality because our young
Speaker 6: people deserve it.
Speaker 5: Look, I think it'd be a big opportunity lost. These
Speaker 5: things don't come around very often, and who's to say
Speaker 5: it might come around ever again if this is not
Speaker 5: the time for it, but it would be extremely disappointing.
Speaker 1: The parliamentary debate might be dry, but the emotions are raw.
Speaker 1: And Kath McCann has been on the ground from day one.
Speaker 1: She's the longest servant employee of the Devils, and she
Speaker 1: gave us a pretty good insight into the feeling on
Speaker 1: the island right now. So the day began with a
Speaker 1: note of great concern from the Devils, and at the
Speaker 1: close of it, Brendan Gale, the Chief Executive, is with us. Brendan,
Speaker 1: it's great to be with us on three sixty. Thanks
Speaker 1: for your.
Speaker 3: Time, gould to be with you, Jared.
Speaker 1: How precariously placed is the dream of the Tazzy Devils
Speaker 1: as we talk tonight, Well.
Speaker 7: There's some uncertainty around the leadership of government, and you
Speaker 7: said in your introductory comments is a voter no confidence
Speaker 7: in the premiere, But as as far as we concern,
Speaker 7: it's business as usual. You know, we're getting all the
Speaker 7: business we have to building an organization and building teams. Clearly,
Speaker 7: our existence is conditioned upon the deliver of a stadium,
Speaker 7: and that's an agreement between the AFILM and the state government,
Speaker 7: and that stadium needs to clear the passage of both
Speaker 7: houses of Parliament. I mean that process is underway at
Speaker 7: the moment, so that process we run its course. That
Speaker 7: hasn't changed, and there's some uncertainly around leadership and maybe
Speaker 7: the composition of parliament, but that really hasn't changed, and
Speaker 7: we're just going to get on with the job and
Speaker 7: controlling things we can control.
Speaker 1: If Jeremy Rockcliffe does get rolled, Brendan, do you lose
Speaker 1: Does the team lose its shepherd, its greatest advocate.
Speaker 7: Look, he's been a very strong leader, but you know
Speaker 7: so as the government, and the government has got the
Speaker 7: unequivalent support of the opposition and a number of independents
Speaker 7: as well. So, I mean, Jeremy's been a very strident
Speaker 7: advocate for the team and but the relationship, the agreement
Speaker 7: is between the AFL and the government of the day,
Speaker 7: and you know that's a that's an agreement that sort
Speaker 7: of sits outside our control. We've got to get on
Speaker 7: with the business of building our club and we've got
Speaker 7: a lot to do, and it's it's a huge responsibility,
Speaker 7: but a great opportunity as well, and we strongly believe
Speaker 7: in the power of this team. It's not about football,
Speaker 7: it's about the potential to lick this whole state and
Speaker 7: we believe in that. You just saw the response of
Speaker 7: Kathmic Cann. It's a responsibility that sits heavily with us.
Speaker 2: I think that is the thing that hits home most.
Speaker 3: Spending.
Speaker 2: There's so much that it's hard to understand for the
Speaker 2: average person sitting at home watching this. It is politics
Speaker 2: and bipartisan support. What does that mean the Graads independence.
Speaker 2: Then you see a Kathmic can sit down and break down.
Speaker 3: It's hard to watch.
Speaker 2: It talks about the very core and essence of what
Speaker 2: this is all about when it was first put on
Speaker 2: the agenda. It is connecting the Tasmanian people who have
Speaker 2: been such great football lovers and supporters to the a
Speaker 2: f L which they've long held out hope for. And
Speaker 2: you see the emotion come out in Kathmiccanna. I mean
Speaker 2: this would be extrapolated right across the state. I'd imagine
Speaker 2: if we can't get this up.
Speaker 7: Yeah, indeed, Gary, I mean, this is a team already
Speaker 7: like no other. We're a team that represents an entire
Speaker 7: state and now no other team can claim that we're
Speaker 7: a team by Tasmania. We're a team for Tasmania, and
Speaker 7: we're a team that we absolutely believe can live Tasmania
Speaker 7: and for Tasmania be as good as it can be.
Speaker 7: And so yeah, we see the power of this football
Speaker 7: club to transform the state that has some challenges and
Speaker 7: put it on a.
Speaker 3: Really positivejector rejectory.
Speaker 7: It's a great opportunity for our football club and for
Speaker 7: the state, but it's a huge responsibility and we're all
Speaker 7: so invested in this and manifest and what you saw
Speaker 7: from caat this morning.
Speaker 1: Two things happened across the course of the day. So
Speaker 1: the opposition leader who has brought the motion, Dean Winter,
Speaker 1: wrote to Andrew Dillan to reaffirm his support for the
Speaker 1: team in the stadium, and the Greens opportunistically tried to
Speaker 1: have the handling of Macquarie point added to the no
Speaker 1: confidence motion and that got voted down. Is there any
Speaker 1: comfort in that that the numbers still reside with the
Speaker 1: stadium and the team.
Speaker 7: Well, I think this broad based political support, and certainly
Speaker 7: in the lower House. I don't engage in party politics,
Speaker 7: but in the lower House there's broad based political support.
Speaker 7: The Upper House does rely on support of a number
Speaker 7: of independents. Now recent events might add create some more uncertainty,
Speaker 7: but no, I think Parliament is very supportive broad based support.
Speaker 7: And I guess even this motion that's been brought in
Speaker 7: the last twenty four hours wasn't about football, about the stadium,
Speaker 7: was about some budgetary concerns.
Speaker 3: But I guess it's this chain of reaction.
Speaker 7: So I think there's broad based political support and I'm
Speaker 7: confident Jered that the more people in the community understand
Speaker 7: the importance of the stadium, how it's critical to meet
Speaker 7: the commercial financial requirements of a team in this in
Speaker 7: the biggest boarding competion in Australia.
Speaker 3: The more they.
Speaker 7: Understand how will unlock a whole range of other financial, economic,
Speaker 7: social cultural benefits, the more people are open to sort
Speaker 7: of changing their minds and supporting of it. And so no,
Speaker 7: there's some uncertainty at the moment, but we're very very
Speaker 7: optimistic about the future.
Speaker 2: So Ben I read Chris Fagan's comments must have been
Speaker 2: recently about the fact that in his mind that he
Speaker 2: doesn't want this to fall over clearly, and that he
Speaker 2: thinks that it can exist a new team and play
Speaker 2: at Loncessin and Hobart at existing facilities and in time
Speaker 2: build a stadium.
Speaker 3: Has it been too ambitious?
Speaker 2: Has it been too big a stumbling block that's been
Speaker 2: put there in front of this new team to have
Speaker 2: a no team, no stadium policy.
Speaker 7: Now, look, I think it's just been that difficult concept
Speaker 7: to explain Gary. And look, firstly, there's no good time
Speaker 7: to build a stadium around the world. They're always big,
Speaker 7: and they're expensive, and there's always a whole range of
Speaker 7: other priorities, so they're difficult things.
Speaker 3: And whether it's Adelaide or per.
Speaker 7: Stadium, they're difficult to get through and get popular support.
Speaker 3: I guess that's compounded by the fact.
Speaker 7: That people in Tasmania think, well, we've got two perfectly
Speaker 7: good stadiums in Hobart and ln System, why can't we
Speaker 7: just have those? And they're regional stadiums and they've been
Speaker 7: fit for purpose, but they're not fit for the purpose
Speaker 7: of providing sustainable commercial business model to underpin eighteen in
Speaker 7: the Big League on a sustainable basis, And it's hard
Speaker 7: to explain in seven or ten seconds. But once you
Speaker 7: do have the time and space to explain why it
Speaker 7: is important and then also the whole range of other
Speaker 7: benefits that will that will be created and will be unlocked.
Speaker 3: You know, people tend to come around, but it's not easy.
Speaker 1: Well, did you feel any level of unease Brendon when
Speaker 1: last week the budget got revised up to nine hundred
Speaker 1: and forty five million dollars to construct, adding one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy million to what had been put forth previously.
Speaker 3: Well not really.
Speaker 7: Sorry, it's a sidnimiant amount of money, but I was aware.
Speaker 7: I had line of sight and to be fair, you
Speaker 7: know when I saw the original quote, you know, three
Speaker 7: years ago. I mean, anyone who's anyone who's involved any
Speaker 7: form of construction of development would be aware of escalation
Speaker 7: rates for the last three or four years. So that
Speaker 7: number was always skiddy and always going to be a
Speaker 7: bigger number. It's a big cost, but it's a huge investment.
Speaker 7: It's a really important investment. It's an investment the Government
Speaker 7: of deemed to be worth making, and it's an investment
Speaker 7: in a really important sporting social infrastructure that's been worth
Speaker 7: making and re benefits around the world, around the world,
Speaker 7: and you know we need as a state to continue
Speaker 7: and invest for growth.
Speaker 2: How quickly do you need it resolved, Benny? You've got
Speaker 2: a footy club to build. There so many decisions to
Speaker 2: be made. How quickly do you need a resolution on this?
Speaker 3: Well, at the moment it's on track area. It's in
Speaker 3: parliament now.
Speaker 7: The legislation which enables the whole development is in parliament
Speaker 7: and it's been debated and scrutinized.
Speaker 3: It all need to clear the.
Speaker 7: Lower House and enter the Upper House in late late July,
Speaker 7: and if it's clear, the government walks away with a
Speaker 7: set of a planning approvals. Really, so in that respect,
Speaker 7: were that to take place, it's probably.
Speaker 3: It's probably ahead of course.
Speaker 7: Now, it may not be ready by around one twenty
Speaker 7: twenty eighties, but there's a process to accommodate that as well,
Speaker 7: so you know, as soon as possible is best for
Speaker 7: us and the AFL and the Tasman community. But it's
Speaker 7: on track.
Speaker 3: Gary.
Speaker 1: So just as we close, Brendan in the hours ahead
Speaker 1: or the days ahead, if the Premier does get rolled,
Speaker 1: do you remain confident that the stadium will be built
Speaker 1: and the Devils will taboo in the AFL in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight.
Speaker 3: Well it's speculation, sorry, Jared.
Speaker 7: But at the end of the day, they are like
Speaker 7: the arrangements, the undertakings are as between the AFL and
Speaker 7: the Government of Tasmania and you know that that won't change.
Speaker 1: Brendan. Great to have you with us, Thanks a lot,
Speaker 1: good luck for what's to come.
Speaker 3: Good luck, thanks for the time, Jess.
Speaker 1: Good morning, So conditional license with the Devils and a
Speaker 1: lot of political machinations to play out.
Speaker 2: And I think great defiance from the boss there who's
Speaker 2: saying this is this is on track still, So let's
Speaker 2: wait and see and keep everything cross that this comes
Speaker 2: to fruition, Jared.
Speaker 3: That's what I hope anyway.
Speaker 1: All right, this is what we've got lined up for
Speaker 1: you tonight. Some good Win is going to be at
Speaker 1: the desk. John Longmye and Adam Simpson make us smarter.
Speaker 1: They've got a particular eye towards tomorrow night's start to
Speaker 1: the round. There's plenty and that's like a number eight
Speaker 1: is going to be revealed. Matt Tilley and Hannah Monday
Speaker 1: from the Vixens is busy show. That's a busy show.
Speaker 1: It's a lot to work through. And then following us
Speaker 1: first crack going deep into the events of Round thirteen,
Speaker 1: Ben Dixon, David King and Lee Montana. And on Monday night,
Speaker 1: we're going to be at the mcg in the aftermath
Speaker 1: of the huge King's Birthday encounter, and we will have
Speaker 1: both coaches with us, Craig McCrae and Simon Goodwin on
Speaker 1: either side of its. And then we'll hand over to
Speaker 1: on the couch and Lee Matthews is going to be
Speaker 1: part of It's a that's a great all right, thanks
Speaker 1: to Ozzie Broadband. Who is it D Day four?
Speaker 2: So let's get into it. I'm looking at the Adelaide Crows.
Speaker 2: I want to be a fan. I want to be
Speaker 2: a believer. They've had eight wins. Seven of the teams
Speaker 2: they've beaten are outside the eight yard. So they beat
Speaker 2: the Sorry, they beat the Giants seven goals to four.
Speaker 2: That's their one win from a They played four teams
Speaker 2: outside the eight and lost them all. So the Collingwood
Speaker 2: game a couple of weeks ago at the MCG kind
Speaker 2: of sums them up.
Speaker 3: They're close, they're not far.
Speaker 2: Away, but they just can't get it done against the contenders.
Speaker 2: And this is a contender they're coming up against. They're
Speaker 2: in great form. The defensive side of the games come together.
Speaker 2: Their offensive side has always been there. They've got players
Speaker 2: in form. They're at home, they're against the Brisbane lines.
Speaker 2: This is the time to say, hey, they are about
Speaker 2: those other four. We're there and we're going to be
Speaker 2: there in the whips are cracking?
Speaker 1: What you like that a lot? Carlton only be the
Speaker 1: last one to extinguish my candle on the Blues. Will
Speaker 1: we see a rejuvenated lineup after the buye. Everyone knows
Speaker 1: the problem. We know it, they know it.
Speaker 3: They can't move the ball.
Speaker 1: So they will have channeled all of their efforts into that.
Speaker 1: Jacob Weinering told me today they had their best training
Speaker 1: session of the year. They moved the ball. Let's see
Speaker 1: that on Sunday night against and get them on a roll.
Speaker 1: They could win the next four or they could disappear
Speaker 1: into oblivion.
Speaker 2: Can they fix your kicking in the space of Ford
Speaker 2: age year, That's the question.
Speaker 3: Find a way.
Speaker 1: So anyway, D Day is coming for the Blues on
Speaker 1: Sunday night. It's a terrific round the heads and the
Speaker 1: starting point of it is Thursday Night footy where Hawthorne
Speaker 1: and the Western Bulldogs mate. The Dogs are curiously outside
Speaker 1: the eight by the vagaries of the Bye and the Hawks.
Speaker 1: They are the center of attention after a set of
Speaker 1: losses to contenders.
Speaker 8: Just think it's pressure. I mean, it's obviously you guys,
Speaker 8: and rightly so. Have have talked about it a lot.
Speaker 8: We can't get away with tackles in the thirties and
Speaker 8: the opposition having tackles in the seventies or the eighties
Speaker 8: that's not going to stand up in the long term.
Speaker 8: Is obviously a talented coach, so he's got them humming
Speaker 8: along really nicely and going to be a huge challenge.
Speaker 8: But really, I mean really looking forward to what they're
Speaker 8: a good side for us to play at the short break,
Speaker 8: they're coming off to buy they're obviously playing for a
Speaker 8: lot in the game after a run of weeks that.
Speaker 3: We know we need to improve on.
Speaker 4: Healthy respect for them when they're at their best and
Speaker 4: what they've been able to do. And you're always wear
Speaker 4: when the club's been under the microscope a bit the
Speaker 4: way they galvanize and prepare for their next game. So
Speaker 4: we've got to be ready for their intensity in this
Speaker 4: game because it might be more explosive than which you sometimes.
Speaker 8: Used to every week. There's an ebb and a flow
Speaker 8: and like a bit more flow in our game and
Speaker 8: a little bit less air but at the moment, but
Speaker 8: the players have a good understanding of where we're at
Speaker 8: and White then as can we produce performances that are
Speaker 8: closer to our best.
Speaker 1: Six versus Knight doesn't quite do just as to what
Speaker 1: we'll transpire on Fox Footy tomorrow nights, and the way
Speaker 1: that the teams have landed gas. There are tales to
Speaker 1: tell here. So three changes each, but Hawthorne materially weaker.
Speaker 1: So here's what's happened at the Dogs. Gardner, Dolan and
Speaker 1: Trelore comes back. Johannison's going to miss through illness, Durey
Speaker 1: and Baker have been omitted, So not big stories there,
Speaker 1: but the Hawthorne side of things. The three Inns are
Speaker 1: playing their first games of the season. Seamus Mitchell who's
Speaker 1: played twenty four in all, Sam Butler's played nineteen and
Speaker 1: Max Ramsden has played five. Cecily is injured, Watson is ill,
Speaker 1: Scrimshaw has had to be managed.
Speaker 2: The big they're big outs, aren't they. So the captain
Speaker 2: who's been the story for a while now, but the
Speaker 2: Nick Watson illness comes at a really bad times. Been
Speaker 2: in he's been down as well, and Scrimshaw is so
Speaker 2: important across the back half. So they are substantial outs.
Speaker 2: But yeah, when you've had a couple of weeks like
Speaker 2: they've had, these sorts of things that brushed aside internally,
Speaker 2: have you we can speculate externally, but so Mitchell and
Speaker 2: Butler will be jumping out of their skin to get
Speaker 2: an opportunity Rams as well. So you talk about everyone
Speaker 2: knows the issue for Hawthorne has been really well documented
Speaker 2: over the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: So all you do now is.
Speaker 2: Sit back and see what sort of response they get
Speaker 2: against the Western bulldog side who you know. Sorry, that's nice.
Speaker 2: I was about to give a clip. So yeah, this
Speaker 2: is this is gonna be a great test for them.
Speaker 2: They were told no uncertain terms that they didn't get
Speaker 2: put the head in the whole and tackle hard enough
Speaker 2: two weeks ago, and they didn't do it again. So
Speaker 2: just all you can do is watch now, because if
Speaker 2: you don't bring that sort of game against this footy side,
Speaker 2: then you're going to be in some sort of trouble.
Speaker 1: So the dogs are interesting in their own right. There's
Speaker 1: six and five. Intuitively, they feel better than that they
Speaker 1: fall into night because they've they're a game behind the
Speaker 1: large group in front of them. If they would fall
Speaker 1: to six and six, you'd start to go They're not
Speaker 1: going to squander it, are they is? So much of
Speaker 1: their game is in order. They have been competitive against everyone.
Speaker 1: We view them as a top four team you've got
Speaker 1: to rack the wins up though, don't you, particularly against
Speaker 1: these teams.
Speaker 2: Yep, then you've got to win tomorrow night. I mean
Speaker 2: we can say but they should win tomorrow and night
Speaker 2: given on exposed form in recent times, but it doesn't
Speaker 2: always work like that.
Speaker 3: And footy so weak to week, Jared.
Speaker 2: I mean, if we're sitting here on Monday or at
Speaker 2: the MCG on Monday talking about Hawthorne rolling over the
Speaker 2: top of the West of Bulldogs and that landscape around
Speaker 2: these three teams changes dramatically, that's how important it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's intriguing. The whole round looks a bit like that,
Speaker 1: all right slides MMD. We've put our shoulder to the wheel.
Speaker 1: Simon Goodwin will take his team to the King's Birthday
Speaker 1: on Monday to a huge occasion, crowd records to be broken,
Speaker 1: credibility to be hads, disappointing loss in the Red center.
Speaker 1: Now come back to the heart of winter in Melbourne
Speaker 1: and put things right. It is at the
Speaker 7: Destinst heeds right shield