Speaker 1: Two more years.
Speaker 2: The Western Bulldogs and Luke Beveridge renew their vowels and
Speaker 2: commit to each other until the end of twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3: Max Gorne and Steven may work their way through the
Speaker 3: frustrations of a close loss at the MCG the captain
Speaker 3: conceding his reaction was poor.
Speaker 2: And inside footy's most intimate evening, more than seventy members
Speaker 2: of the Hall of Fame gather to welcome a new.
Speaker 1: Set of inductees.
Speaker 3: You talked about his step into it, embrace all.
Speaker 2: Of it in the room and Pat it's unedifying for
Speaker 2: a senior coach to do that.
Speaker 3: They're on the side of Cautia with the brain, keep
Speaker 3: the man on.
Speaker 1: They played the best footy I've ever seen at the
Speaker 1: start of the season. And in his said President left
Speaker 1: the couple Ler said, of course they do.
Speaker 3: It is the stuff that legends are made of. What
Speaker 3: is holding them ball? I don't think I could answer
Speaker 3: it clearly right now that I could do something.
Speaker 4: Wrong, you know, and I need to gain from the
Speaker 4: board sectary, the fans lover and with no fans no
Speaker 4: through sixty year old.
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome inside the Palladium at Crown Casino
Speaker 2: for what many regard as the football.
Speaker 1: Function off the season.
Speaker 2: In a few minutes time, the doors will swing open
Speaker 2: and Gary Lyne, nothing less than football royalty, will come
Speaker 2: pouring into this grand stage.
Speaker 3: Jared, first time here, had to come here to host
Speaker 3: that they get an experience kid candy store for me.
Speaker 3: Some of the biggest names in the game just waiting
Speaker 3: to come in here and enjoy. What I'm told from
Speaker 3: everyone else is the best night on the footy calendar.
Speaker 3: So I can't wait to sit back and experience at all.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a great night.
Speaker 2: There are seventy one members' presence who have been previously inducted,
Speaker 2: including five legends, and they are the names that your
Speaker 2: dad would have told you about. They're the names that
Speaker 2: have captured your imagination through the years, and they're the names.
Speaker 1: That you'll pass on to your kids.
Speaker 2: It is the absolute fabric of the game from every
Speaker 2: heartlands that there is.
Speaker 3: So it took me through the night. How does it
Speaker 3: all work? I mean, having seventy one Hall of Famers
Speaker 3: in the one room is a magnificent start. And then family,
Speaker 3: friends and everyone else of the inductees are here.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: So eight inductees six are presents. There'll be the elevation
Speaker 2: of a deceased legend that's going to break with formality
Speaker 2: and happen at the start of the night, an exalted
Speaker 2: figure from the past. The dynamic of the night is
Speaker 2: those who have previously become members are here to welcome
Speaker 2: the new breed into the killed, as it were, and
Speaker 2: the sharing of stories and the reliving of highlights which
Speaker 2: have been beautifully put together.
Speaker 1: So in our.
Speaker 2: Inductees tonight that the Heartland States have represented, there are
Speaker 2: stories that will take us back more than a century.
Speaker 2: And I had to look at the seating plan. If
Speaker 2: you glance around on one table, you will see this
Speaker 2: starting midfield, Andrew McLeod, Chris Jard and Michael Voss, and
Speaker 2: think about how fast they might move the salt and
Speaker 2: pepper shakers. So thereforwards Stephen Kernerhoud and Jonathan Brown.
Speaker 1: That's the sort of night that it is.
Speaker 3: That's the kind of night, kind of table that might
Speaker 3: get a little bit rowdy as well, one would think.
Speaker 3: So it is superb when you look around and you
Speaker 3: see some of these faces and some familiar faces there
Speaker 3: to be had. And I would imagine for the inductees.
Speaker 3: It's it's enormous, but for their families it's equally as big.
Speaker 3: And you've got the honored job of trying to get
Speaker 3: the most out of these guys. Haworth.
Speaker 2: No, No, it's not, and it's just pointed in the
Speaker 2: right direction to share the essence of your story. You
Speaker 2: mentioned Rowdy, Rick Davies, Robert Dippy, at Amenica and Shane Crawford.
Speaker 3: That might that might have that might have that other
Speaker 3: group covered.
Speaker 1: You know who's on that table. No, Jason Dudstall.
Speaker 3: If he won't get a word it all night, you'll
Speaker 3: be thriving in the middle. Look at these Durmott, the
Speaker 3: Great Man Dermott, Brereton and Rodney Grinches in there. He's
Speaker 3: not coming in.
Speaker 2: Rich Oh and Couder and Flee and Boomer and Bluey
Speaker 2: and Jacko and Goody and Mitch and Plow and Aka
Speaker 2: and Chocko and the Flash. They've all been inducted previously
Speaker 2: and they're all here tonight.
Speaker 3: Absolutely superb. I literally can't wait to sit back and listen.
Speaker 3: It's going to be outstanding and all covered course on
Speaker 3: Fox Footy. So we've got you covered.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So from seven point thirty where will have the
Speaker 2: beginning of the induction so many three sixty followed by
Speaker 2: the midweek tackle to bring you up to speed. Corbyn
Speaker 2: Middlemiss is in control tonight. On all the footy that's happening,
Speaker 2: all the news that's happening in footy right now going around.
Speaker 1: Let's get into our agenda, shall we.
Speaker 2: And at the top of it's the Western Bulldogs and
Speaker 2: Luke Beveridge are going to continue on. Already the longest
Speaker 2: serving coach in the club's history, two more years have
Speaker 2: been added through to the end of twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: I'm extremely proud.
Speaker 4: I don't take lightly the responsibility of the position.
Speaker 1: That I'm in and I've never been.
Speaker 4: More enthusiastic and excited by what we can do from
Speaker 4: here on in. We feel like we've established a degree
Speaker 4: of stability within the football club that everyone who's worked
Speaker 4: with us and now in the new facility and the
Speaker 4: health of the system and the health of the club
Speaker 4: gives us a bit of a warm and fuzzy feeling
Speaker 4: inside and that's a good way to emotionally exist when
Speaker 4: you come into work and the players we believe a
Speaker 4: feeling that way, and so as we move into the future,
Speaker 4: there's that sustainability piece of maintaining something but then building
Speaker 4: on it and growing and really pushing towards our next success.
Speaker 2: Club and coach took time to contemplate what it looked
Speaker 2: like together, and I suspect what it looked like a pass.
Speaker 2: And then once they got into the season, I reckon
Speaker 2: two things happened.
Speaker 1: One Lup Beveridge showed that he was.
Speaker 2: Reinventing, he was bringing the next iteration of the Bulldogs
Speaker 2: to life. And two he still had the group absolutely
Speaker 2: and that's been the evidence of what we've seen on field.
Speaker 1: How do you read it.
Speaker 3: We've louded this process. I feel like we've been with
Speaker 3: it from the start of the year and commended them
Speaker 3: with the mature approach to it, where both coach and
Speaker 3: club sat back and said, no, now's not the time.
Speaker 3: And I love that approach. They weren't spooked by anyone,
Speaker 3: including the media, and they said we'll do this at
Speaker 3: our own time. Until such time as they both arrived
Speaker 3: at the same conclusion. I think they held out and
Speaker 3: I reckon that's fair enough too. But there was a
Speaker 3: period there three or four weeks where I think Luke
Speaker 3: worked out that this is a job that he wanted
Speaker 3: to do, and then when one decides, the pressures on
Speaker 3: the other. I don't know that to be a fact,
Speaker 3: but that's the way I'm routing it. That Luke's sort
Speaker 3: of yeah, I'm all in, and then are you coming
Speaker 3: with me? And they said, damn straight, we are. So
Speaker 3: we celebrate the two year extension, which puts him in
Speaker 3: rare air as a Western Bulldog, all time great premiership coach.
Speaker 3: Of course, he has his own unique personality that I love.
Speaker 3: I've known him for a long long time. His coaching,
Speaker 3: I think is at the very very sharpest of ends
Speaker 3: and they are absolutely certain they got there right.
Speaker 1: Man. I love it what he does.
Speaker 2: This the legacy piece is really significant and already the
Speaker 2: longest serving coach in the history of the club. He's
Speaker 2: one of only two premiership coaches and on he goes.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I think with our coaching positions, we're just too
Speaker 2: casual and it's a global phenomenon to treat coaches as transient,
Speaker 2: to tip them out to debate their futures. Here's in
Speaker 2: a handful of the most significant figures in the history
Speaker 2: of that football club.
Speaker 3: No, no question, absolutely no question about that. And now
Speaker 3: he's got the chance to elevate himself even higher over
Speaker 3: the next couple of years if he was able to
Speaker 3: add to the premiership glory that he's had. So there's
Speaker 3: a challenging amongst this too. It's not ridiculous. It's not
Speaker 3: four years, it's not five or six, it's two. So
Speaker 3: I think there's a general cautiousness about the way they
Speaker 3: went about it the club and I think from Luke
Speaker 3: as well. But they both can side, hey, we're going
Speaker 3: full bottle for another premiership in the next two years
Speaker 3: and they think they can.
Speaker 2: The counter argument will be you should have run the
Speaker 2: distance and seen where it was going to be. They're
Speaker 2: currently six and six and they are outside the eight now.
Speaker 2: A little bit of that is circumstance, and they they've
Speaker 2: had their one bad loss of the year. The rest
Speaker 2: of it I think has been perfectly fine. Is there
Speaker 2: any legitimacy to you should have seen it through, find
Speaker 2: out whether you're going to make top four, find out
Speaker 2: whether you're going to win a final, and actually improve
Speaker 2: year on you.
Speaker 3: I think there is the argument can be made, and
Speaker 3: I think that was the way that they were looking
Speaker 3: at it, and until such time as they both agreed
Speaker 3: that yes, we want to go on now. If for
Speaker 3: whatever reason it was Luke that held out and said no, no, no,
Speaker 3: around fourteen we've lost our last two, I'm not sure
Speaker 3: then I think they would have held off, but I
Speaker 3: think they arrived at the point Jared, now, this will
Speaker 3: be Judgey in time, but they've arrived at the point.
Speaker 3: They've taken their time, and both coach and club have
Speaker 3: arrived at the same point. I think that's a great
Speaker 3: launching pad for the next couple of years.
Speaker 2: And this is the launching pad. So there's six and six.
Speaker 2: At the start of the season, when you looked at
Speaker 2: their fixture, you would have gone just be fifty to
Speaker 2: fifty as you hit the second half of the season.
Speaker 2: Now it's a little disappointing that they're fifty to fifty
Speaker 2: because of the footy that they have played, but there's
Speaker 2: no excuses not to get on and get moving now.
Speaker 2: And I don't know what the top four machinations are
Speaker 2: going to be, but they look like there are places
Speaker 2: up the grabs.
Speaker 1: Get on with it.
Speaker 2: The best footy we've seen from them has been somewhere
Speaker 2: around the best footy there is in the competition, so
Speaker 2: I'm full of optimism. I'm full of admiration for the
Speaker 2: way that they've gone about it and sometimes sticking with
Speaker 2: your guy. It pushes against the modern fad to want
Speaker 2: something new, as I like this.
Speaker 3: That's right. It flies in the face of those who
Speaker 3: think there's something better. When you think you've got something
Speaker 3: better in your hand, hold on to him. They were
Speaker 3: massive names out at the start of this season, and
Speaker 3: he coached well to get them and keep them close
Speaker 3: enough to wait for the cavalry to arrive. The last
Speaker 3: two loss have been disappointed. They've got a boat called
Speaker 3: Darcy who's about to re enter the fray. And you
Speaker 3: look at those full games, you look at who's coming
Speaker 3: back then I think there were some bulldogs. Fans should
Speaker 3: be excited about what's coming.
Speaker 2: All right, the doors are about to open here, so
Speaker 2: we're going to see some action.
Speaker 1: In the background.
Speaker 2: It's been a big day of business for the AFL
Speaker 2: with everybody coming together. There were three phases as far
Speaker 2: as I can tell. There was a commission meeting. Then
Speaker 2: there was the commission with the president, so none of
Speaker 2: the executive president that which was an interesting distinction. And
Speaker 2: then the executive of the AFL and the Chief Executive
Speaker 2: U tam to get it usually happened.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: But and the centerpiece of this is clearly Tasmania. So
Speaker 2: we're waiting on an election date out of Tasmania tonight
Speaker 2: and that's about to be formalized.
Speaker 1: Did they blink No. So here's how I understand it.
Speaker 2: The vocal presidents, of which there are a few, the agitators,
Speaker 2: the saber rattlers, they were going. The deal is the
Speaker 2: deal to which the commission went. The deal is the deal.
Speaker 2: The AFL is not budging from its position. No stadium,
Speaker 2: no team. Now whether they should or they shouldn't is
Speaker 2: a different debate.
Speaker 1: But there, whilst a bit agitated with each.
Speaker 2: Other, they're actually all in the furious agreement to see
Speaker 2: it through, at least through the period of political uncertainty,
Speaker 2: to see where it lands through in an election.
Speaker 3: So with the election in the offing, a date has
Speaker 3: been said, it's coming, so it'll probably be known later tonight.
Speaker 3: So the message is clear from the AFL and their constituents.
Speaker 3: You can go to an election or we want. We
Speaker 3: ain't changing anything.
Speaker 2: So vote on the basis whether you want the stadium
Speaker 2: and the team or not. And then if that goes south,
Speaker 2: then there's the well, are we going to renegotiate or not?
Speaker 2: That is I do conceive that's a conversation for a
Speaker 2: different day. I think we're getting very close to we're
Speaker 2: going to renegotiate or not.
Speaker 3: So does the politic politics Independence and Greens. Are they
Speaker 3: sitting there and saying I know what they're saying, hold
Speaker 3: our line here and they will come back to the table.
Speaker 2: So I think everyone will take their position to the election.
Speaker 2: So the Greens who are vigorously opposed, and the set
Speaker 2: of independents and they will hope to regain their seats
Speaker 2: on the basis of being opposed to the stadium. And
Speaker 2: then there will be those who run for it and
Speaker 2: we will get a read from the people of Tasmania.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of assumptions from the mainland made around
Speaker 2: what the opinions are. Well, it's actually going to get
Speaker 2: tested at an election.
Speaker 3: And the people at Tasmania they've got a chance. They've
Speaker 3: got a chance.
Speaker 2: So the alternate today would have been to come up
Speaker 2: with this team is happening no matter what, and we
Speaker 2: will work with in the varying circumstances that they present
Speaker 2: that hasn't happened.
Speaker 1: It is the deal. Is the deal.
Speaker 3: Well, let's see what unfollows over the next coming rooms.
Speaker 2: The second element was the AFL has given ground on
Speaker 2: the softcap, so there is good yees and this has
Speaker 2: been a concerted campaign from the coaches and the Coaches Association.
Speaker 2: So seven hundred and fifty thousands next year, three hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty thousand the.
Speaker 1: Year after, So it ends up being about a twenty.
Speaker 2: Million dollar boost. It's come with a couple of caveats
Speaker 2: for clubs who feel.
Speaker 1: Like they can't afford it.
Speaker 2: The AFL has taken that on board and we'll make
Speaker 2: provision around that.
Speaker 3: How do they do that?
Speaker 2: I probably don't know the exact mechanisms of it. But
Speaker 2: for the five or six clubs who didn't think this
Speaker 2: was a good idea because they don't feel like they
Speaker 2: have the money to be able to put into the softcap,
Speaker 2: that I expect will come through through distribution.
Speaker 1: Evid end, Yeah, through the distribution.
Speaker 3: So they can paign now outside the cap for their assistance.
Speaker 2: So there's the same as with the senior coach, for
Speaker 2: the senior assistant coach, there's a twenty percent provision made
Speaker 2: and there's an additional marketing component for the senior coaches,
Speaker 2: so as well as the twenty percent.
Speaker 1: There's kind of what it is. It's acknowledging this was
Speaker 1: too low.
Speaker 2: We have heard you, and we are going to take action,
Speaker 2: and it's not piecemeal.
Speaker 1: This actually is a substantial chunk of their money. But
Speaker 1: that's a win.
Speaker 3: I mean, they have been strong and when Chris Fagan's
Speaker 3: at the front of the queueho's not a sensationalist. There's
Speaker 3: not a Mark Raaker, he's not a trouble maker. But
Speaker 3: when he's been the one who's his passionate as anyone
Speaker 3: driving the charge, then you'll get a result I think
Speaker 3: most times. And this seems to me to be a
Speaker 3: pretty good result.
Speaker 2: And while there might have been a push from at
Speaker 2: least one of the broadcasters around having the Grand Finals
Speaker 2: slide a little closer to primetime, that won't be happening.
Speaker 1: It's going to stay at two thirty PM.
Speaker 3: After doing two thirty further foreseeable future, they put a
Speaker 3: time on us for the year, so we'll have this
Speaker 3: debate again.
Speaker 2: Will He's a bit absurd that it takes until June to.
Speaker 3: Get ANND Well, can't they say to listen for the
Speaker 3: next five is just lock it in the two thirty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that will be popular in some quarters and profoundly unpopular, and.
Speaker 3: I know that, But they keep arriving a tooth.
Speaker 1: They do what they do.
Speaker 3: What's the difference?
Speaker 2: So I think once Andrew Dylan on Night one declared
Speaker 2: himself an afternoon Grand Final man, it would be a
Speaker 2: big shift to make on his watch. I suspect it
Speaker 2: doesn't happen while he's in charge. The lobbying will continue, Yeah, nonetheless,
Speaker 2: and one day it will move further back toward prime
Speaker 2: time because the basic reality is you get a bigger.
Speaker 1: Audience than the later that it is in the day.
Speaker 2: But we do hold to one of the most cherished
Speaker 2: traditions that the game has.
Speaker 3: Well, the tchech's been written regardless, so they can hold
Speaker 3: at eleven o'clock in the morning if they.
Speaker 1: Want, all right, the furnace.
Speaker 2: The furnace comes out of yesterday's events at the MCG.
Speaker 3: This is what happens when you invest in a game
Speaker 3: at footy for two hours and it comes down to moments.
Speaker 5: I thought, I'm just going to try and kick this
Speaker 5: as high as I can to cause the little bit
Speaker 5: of chaos and it ended up beanging. There wasn't a
Speaker 5: Melbourn player within twenty.
Speaker 1: O old Max.
Speaker 2: He was terrific in the last quarter, but he's made
Speaker 2: that final kick when off decided his But.
Speaker 1: He's not feeling good about the world. So anything that
Speaker 1: someone else is going to say to you, he's.
Speaker 3: Going to sort of probably rub you up the wrong way.
Speaker 1: I think it says a bit of both of us.
Speaker 5: We were both extremely disappointed in that last thirty seconds. I
Speaker 5: thought my reaction was really poor. I had a teammateer
Speaker 5: showing care. His version of care as we know from
Speaker 5: a long history of Stephen.
Speaker 1: May Is, is he strong with his care.
Speaker 6: Obviously, both winners, both passionate about winning. Obviously you don't
Speaker 6: want to have that look on field, but that's the.
Speaker 5: Way they operate.
Speaker 6: You know, they're pretty strong with one another and they
Speaker 6: move on and they get better. The way I read
Speaker 6: that is it not just about what happened at the moment,
Speaker 6: that there might have been a build up and that
Speaker 6: Max has just had enough of that.
Speaker 5: Now I'm here to defend Steve a little bit here.
Speaker 5: He's copped it a little bit in the media for
Speaker 5: the last twenty four hours. I think if he had
Speaker 5: his time again, he might not do it on the
Speaker 5: final side and thinking there's a camera there, but that's
Speaker 5: him throughout the whole game, that's both of us throughout
Speaker 5: the whole game. And unfortunately he's been caught on camera
Speaker 5: and I sort of make it a bigger thing by
Speaker 5: pushing them away. So I'm slightly disappointed in how it's
Speaker 5: played out.
Speaker 2: Have you spoken to either of them about what transpired?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Look, spoke to both and they're passionate. You know,
Speaker 6: it had a little bit of feedback to one another
Speaker 6: and obviously you know that they're talking about it now.
Speaker 6: They're fine, they've moved on.
Speaker 3: That's live sport. That's what I love.
Speaker 1: Probably two aspects of this.
Speaker 2: One is the damage control in the public domain while
Speaker 2: everyone debates what they think they saw. The second is
Speaker 2: what this looks like between the two players in the
Speaker 2: locker room, and the second is far more important than
Speaker 2: the first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the issue is not on Melbourne side here
Speaker 3: because of the fact that they've had a really unsettled
Speaker 3: period of time over the past couple of years. Had
Speaker 3: this been at Geelong, for instance, it's probably lauded as
Speaker 3: the professionalism of a hard nosed outfit. So I accept that.
Speaker 3: So I accept that people have got doubts about culture
Speaker 3: and all that sort of thing. Beyond that, I've got
Speaker 3: no concern in the wide world, Jared. These two bugs
Speaker 3: have sorted out of that. I'm absolutely certain what it
Speaker 3: looks to the outside can look to the outside. They
Speaker 3: need to resolve it internally. I thought Max was self
Speaker 3: deprecating and taking some heat out of it this morning,
Speaker 3: like a good leadersh wood and taking a bit of
Speaker 3: the heat and trying to deflect off Stephen May. But
Speaker 3: I don't have a problem. This will be resolved. And
Speaker 3: this is a bit of an example of you know,
Speaker 3: he buck say it's a build up, it may possibly
Speaker 3: be to build I think it was a build up
Speaker 3: of the day, and this is the problem. A build
Speaker 3: up of the day is absolutely fine because that's what
Speaker 3: sport is. And a build up of six months or
Speaker 3: twelve months, that's what they're having to deal with. And
Speaker 3: I don't buy that. I just think it's tough frustration,
Speaker 3: what great look. They need to resolve over the group
Speaker 3: and it will be done and dusted.
Speaker 2: Actually, and Martin turning point here, So I was curious.
Speaker 2: So they have been texting each other back and forth.
Speaker 1: Clearly last night. It's a very modern way as well,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 2: Just to thrash it out? And I did, and I
Speaker 2: guess this is the responsibility of captain.
Speaker 1: Now you've lived this. Max absorbs it himself.
Speaker 2: So in the moment, I sort of first reaction this,
Speaker 2: don't go and rub his one mistake for the day
Speaker 2: in his face. Probably wasn't the intention, but that's how
Speaker 2: it looked. But Max goes, no, No, my reaction is poor.
Speaker 2: We've tried to build a culture where the feedback is
Speaker 2: instant and it's as aggressive as it needs to be,
Speaker 2: and it's never personal. So all the teams that tell
Speaker 2: you they go down this path, it can never be personal.
Speaker 2: And I do I admire Max today, who's gone with it. No,
Speaker 2: this is on me if I don't react poorly.
Speaker 1: This is not a big deal.
Speaker 3: It's a very noble way to take heat out of it. Jered.
Speaker 3: I don't know with too many would sympathize with Stephen
Speaker 3: on the back of a But I guess what Max
Speaker 3: is saying is if Stephen comes up and sees mate
Speaker 3: whatever he said and he went there fair enough, then
Speaker 3: we wouldn't be sitting here talking about it. So there
Speaker 3: is an element of truth to it. But because Max
Speaker 3: has been such a warrior and such a lebythan for
Speaker 3: this footy club, then the sympathy is always going to
Speaker 3: go to Max, as they should. And he handled it
Speaker 3: like a great leader that he is, and I think
Speaker 3: he is a great leader for this.
Speaker 2: It is a heightened environment these days with the intrusion
Speaker 2: of our broadcast, because you've said to me before, is
Speaker 2: the language out on the field is pretty strong.
Speaker 3: I spoke to someone tonight we were getting ready for
Speaker 3: this broadcast who just played in my error and just
Speaker 3: shook his head at this and said, can you believe
Speaker 3: the carry on? And because it was a different time,
Speaker 3: And I can tell you if some of the stuff
Speaker 3: that got out back in the day of which I
Speaker 3: look at it as a brutal feedback session, would make
Speaker 3: your hair cool. So his attitude to me, and he's
Speaker 3: a considered star of this competition, and he just said,
Speaker 3: what is the world coming to him? But these two
Speaker 3: can't disagree at the end of the game, so make
Speaker 3: of it what you will. We are in the modern
Speaker 3: era of footy where everything is dissected to an inch
Speaker 3: of its life. There's angles is behind the screen. He's
Speaker 3: come back for a second ago that was part of
Speaker 3: the narrative last night he went again as if he
Speaker 3: punched him in the mouth again. So I understand all that.
Speaker 3: I've been in this game long enough. I get all that,
Speaker 3: but I'm not concerned as a Melbourne supporter, not concerned
Speaker 3: one bit.
Speaker 2: I just saw a statement come through from the AFL
Speaker 2: regarding Carlton's handling of their Adam Cherr scenario, and they
Speaker 2: are satisfied They've had the medical examination, doctors talking to
Speaker 2: doctors and stepped through the process fully with Carlton. The
Speaker 2: overriding sentiment is the AFL encourages conservative treatment in this moment,
Speaker 2: but they do believe there was never a singular moment
Speaker 2: where it looked.
Speaker 3: Like there might have been a concussion well at risk
Speaker 3: in getting thrown out of this event. I couldn't disagree
Speaker 3: with them more and I'll argue this with him until
Speaker 3: the end of time. So no, I don't like it.
Speaker 3: I don't like that statement from the AFL in any way,
Speaker 3: shape or form. And as I said earlier, if we
Speaker 3: are taking more time and treating more seriously, a minor
Speaker 3: hamstring strain than a brain injury, then there's something wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So content with the findings and the actions that
Speaker 2: were taken on the night. So that's a debate that
Speaker 2: will continue to evolve.
Speaker 3: I suspect I still get dinner, hopefully So.
Speaker 2: Hall of Baby is coming, the Australian Football Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame inductees, and the elevation of a legend. It is
Speaker 2: all right here on fox Foot tonight, the most intimate
Speaker 2: evening of all, a night of nostalgia and revelry to
Speaker 2: honor those who have left their mark on the game.
Speaker 1: Coming up shortly