Speaker 1: The Wizard, Just a start, get a wizard?
Speaker 2: Nikkis okay, it's back for twenty twenty six. Nick the Wizard,
Speaker 2: Watson morning, where's good morning?
Speaker 3: Good morning.
Speaker 4: It's nice to see you a while, hasn't it.
Speaker 5: We haven't seen you this year.
Speaker 2: I was worried when we had your boy Jack van
Speaker 2: in that you might have gone on the Lad's trip.
Speaker 2: We might not have seen you again D's trip just
Speaker 2: in the middle of before the season, before Jack Jack
Speaker 2: was away.
Speaker 4: Stay far from it.
Speaker 5: We loved having Guinean, but we love you more.
Speaker 4: Are going to tell you.
Speaker 6: Favorite to play, you know, maybe become our over correspondent.
Speaker 2: Off the air, he was like, you know, you're back
Speaker 2: at the wrong horse with love.
Speaker 6: So let's start from the start. What did you do
Speaker 6: post season last year? Did you get up to any mischief?
Speaker 3: I didn't go anywhere far. I didn't go overseas at all.
Speaker 3: I got a puppy.
Speaker 1: Got a puppy. Oh my god, what's the puppies name?
Speaker 4: Kobe?
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool?
Speaker 2: This brutal? Is this a shared puppy with the missa?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: No, just mine mine by myself.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 3: He's actually growing pretty big now, so he's keep me
Speaker 3: on my toes, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: How you take this right way? How are you going
Speaker 2: with the responsibility of keeping something alive.
Speaker 3: I've actually be better than what you think to be honest,
Speaker 3: it's he's like my best mate.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: I just hang out with him, game with him.
Speaker 3: I've actually been off the gaming a lot, which which
Speaker 3: I'm sure many people would.
Speaker 4: Be busy having a puppy core. Yeah, it's time.
Speaker 5: Does he wake you up in the night.
Speaker 4: No, not anymore. At the start he was pretty full on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I kept him off my bed in the crate
Speaker 3: and then that didn't last because then once he came
Speaker 3: to my bed he slept the whole night.
Speaker 4: So perfect. Yeah, it was a game.
Speaker 2: You sleep with him each night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't feel any at my toes. He's nice
Speaker 4: and small, you know what.
Speaker 5: Everyone says, He's not going to be an on the
Speaker 5: bed dog, and then it's once they're on the bed
Speaker 5: hard to get up.
Speaker 3: Well, he doesn't shed, so that was the one thing
Speaker 3: for me. If he shed, he wouldn't be on.
Speaker 2: My about when you got company over, he's still on
Speaker 2: the end of the bit, Yeah, because dog sticks around
Speaker 2: for the show as well. PEPs normally in the room
Speaker 2: if you know.
Speaker 1: It's usually one man this one before.
Speaker 6: Okay, So so now you're into the season proper you
Speaker 6: played in changing the subject you played in opening round.
Speaker 6: Things didn't quite go to plan against the Giants. What
Speaker 6: happened wid.
Speaker 3: They played good foot Yeah, they did play good footy.
Speaker 3: They're a quality side. We just weren't at our best
Speaker 3: and we know that, and we put our heads down
Speaker 3: this week and head on to Essendon which will be
Speaker 3: a good, good match and good rivals for the fans.
Speaker 4: I reckon does.
Speaker 5: It like it's one game, right, but it's every game
Speaker 5: I imagine is important, but especially being the first round, the
Speaker 5: first it's not round one? What is it?
Speaker 4: Opening round?
Speaker 5: Is it a bit like okay, we're dusting off the
Speaker 5: cob webs, let's just move.
Speaker 3: It was a bit like that, like we did play
Speaker 3: not our best footing and we know that, which is
Speaker 3: annoying because we did that sort of in the practice
Speaker 3: match as well. So we're two games basically off for loss,
Speaker 3: and yeah, we we know we need to be better
Speaker 3: and there's some things that we need to tidy up,
Speaker 3: and but yeah we'll be if you put.
Speaker 2: Your finger on it. What those things are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we got that yesterday.
Speaker 5: Did you change numbers this season?
Speaker 4: I did number five? Big number.
Speaker 3: Thirty four wasn't the best number. I didn't really like it.
Speaker 3: But obviously we take numbers very seriously at the club.
Speaker 3: So number five.
Speaker 6: But what about if you play ship and you have
Speaker 6: to go back?
Speaker 2: Would you couldn't go back?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: They're going back?
Speaker 1: Like what you superstitious at all?
Speaker 4: Nah?
Speaker 1: So did you play with number five during June?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I played five fair bits so and obviously having Sam
Speaker 3: as a coach whereber.
Speaker 4: Five was his number?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so so he's picked his favorite.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Maybe was someone number five last season? James Warple
Speaker 4: he went to Geelong. I see you mate?
Speaker 2: How does that work? Is there a little ballot to
Speaker 2: get the number?
Speaker 3: Or as I said before, we take numbers at the
Speaker 3: club pretty seriously. So it's like we've got such a
Speaker 3: rich history in numbers and the number five is obviously
Speaker 3: one of the biggest ones at the club. So you
Speaker 3: sort of sending an email to the coach of why
Speaker 3: you want it, and yeah, it sort of goes from
Speaker 3: there and they choose from there.
Speaker 5: So did other people try and get it?
Speaker 4: I don't know, I assume so he sort of keeps
Speaker 4: it close to your chest.
Speaker 2: But I sit down to write a big D and
Speaker 2: M email to the car.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say big, but like a couple of paragraphs
Speaker 3: saying like why you want it and put.
Speaker 5: Your pitch in.
Speaker 2: You've changed and emotional.
Speaker 3: It was just chat, just a few clues off chat
Speaker 3: GPT even. Yeah, I'm sure many people did.
Speaker 6: Speaking of numbers, Zach Merritt wears the number seven for
Speaker 6: the Bombers right now. Last year Zach tried to get
Speaker 6: to the Hawks. He was he's no longer the captain.
Speaker 6: Andy McGrath's now the captain, so he still still he's
Speaker 6: had to go. He's had to go back tail between
Speaker 6: the legs. And this week the Hawks play the Bombers.
Speaker 2: Do you reckon?
Speaker 3: That's a bit awkward for it, I'd be, I'd be,
Speaker 3: it'd be funny at the start. I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 3: the fans will be loving it this game coming up.
Speaker 4: I'm sure that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone's going to be probably ninety plus thousand at
Speaker 3: the gym. It's a great rival game and always is
Speaker 3: every year, to be honest, but it's just got to
Speaker 3: be the extra tension on it now because.
Speaker 2: You bring it up. Okay, the one next year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It'll be funny what happens. I'm sure there'll be a
Speaker 3: big gun on field.
Speaker 6: Can you imagine that if you made a player to
Speaker 6: get to another radio station for instance.
Speaker 2: I mean we would never do that ever.
Speaker 1: But then it gets tony spots available, it gets to night.
Speaker 4: You've got to walk back with your tail between lads.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is probably the worst possible outcome.
Speaker 2: And also, God love you boys. You're the team that's
Speaker 2: going to bring it up.
Speaker 4: It should be good.
Speaker 5: Boss just walked in and her say, it's a few openings.
Speaker 5: She's just shaking it, so I believe.
Speaker 2: Well, look, it's going to be a big night at
Speaker 2: the g Bombers take on the Hawks. Make sure you
Speaker 2: get your memberships for Hawthorne this year as well. I
Speaker 2: was good to have you back on board, mate.
Speaker 4: I'm seeing you guys in. Can you bring the puppy in?
Speaker 2: Puppy friendly clins pissed on the floor around.
Speaker 4: We love puppy.
Speaker 3: We're one time for sure. I just got to get
Speaker 3: him tolet trains out of my place a bit better.
Speaker 3: When he goes out the houses.
Speaker 4: You'll don't worry.
Speaker 5: We're dog people.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You watch the girls in sales when he rolls
Speaker 2: in with a puppy. Bring him in, all right, Nick?
Speaker 2: It was it Watson number five, but the Hawks joined
Speaker 2: us on the air this morning. Good to see Wiz,
Speaker 2: Good see Jason, Lauren.
Speaker 5: Lauren wake up feeling good following them on the socials.