Speaker 1: You are on the air with Jase and Lauren today
Speaker 1: tops of twenty four we are going for it is
Speaker 1: eighteen at the moment, and some shocking news came through.
Speaker 2: Yesterday, Yes, some very sad news out of the AFL
Speaker 2: with the passing of Troy Sellward. He was a great
Speaker 2: football player. More importantly, he was a twin brother to Adam,
Speaker 2: brother to Scott, and brother to Joel Selward, and the
Speaker 2: son of Marie and Bryce Solwood. The Sewards are a
Speaker 2: magnificent family. They're lovely, kind, beautiful people and our hearts
Speaker 2: are very much with them this morning. Our hearts with
Speaker 2: the Geelong community and Bendigo where he grew up and
Speaker 2: everyone affected by this, including his great mate Jonathan Brown,
Speaker 2: who joins us this morning. Morning. Brownie, Hey, guys.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me on the Betters circumstance. But yeah, very
Speaker 3: sad day, of course.
Speaker 2: It's a sad day for the AFL and it's a
Speaker 2: sad day for his family and friends. You guys were
Speaker 2: great mates.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, we had many great times.
Speaker 4: Memory also to Collie last night.
Speaker 3: It tells you you get reflective day when close ones
Speaker 3: passed away, and you know he came to our wedding,
Speaker 3: and unfortunately the footy world when we all step right
Speaker 3: and we you know, we don't play with each other,
Speaker 3: we don't get to spend as much time as we
Speaker 3: lock together. But he's just such a wonderful, wonderful human.
Speaker 3: He had a beautiful soul about him, and including the wedding,
Speaker 3: I think he might have nearly got kicked out of
Speaker 3: our wedding along with it was a great bite because
Speaker 3: the boys are getting to be carried away on the
Speaker 3: dance floor. They thought they'd put a trial of Crown
Speaker 3: lagers on the dance floor to make a slipping slot,
Speaker 3: which the venue Yeah, the venue operator wasn't too keen
Speaker 3: on he can't kick some of me best mates out
Speaker 3: of my own wedding. But yeah, you know, he just
Speaker 3: he's just we loved life. He had a great small
Speaker 3: and it was a very empathetic bloke as well.
Speaker 4: So that's what I tell you.
Speaker 3: Much loved him, and well everyone in the footy cub
Speaker 3: loved him, and everyone involved that he met loved him
Speaker 3: so really tough.
Speaker 4: I knew he'd been going through some struggles unfortunately, but.
Speaker 3: It never quite prepares you for the shock of announcement
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: That's right, Brownie.
Speaker 5: The heart hurts this morning and our thoughts go out
Speaker 5: to the entire AFL community as well as a Cellward family.
Speaker 5: He was a guy who I get the impression from
Speaker 5: the outside looking in any way, he loved to help.
Speaker 5: He loved to mentor, especially young footballers. He played that
Speaker 5: role at Geelong. Was he like that at Brisbane?
Speaker 3: Absolutely did? He was well end up. He finished his
Speaker 3: career as the captain of the Geelong VFL team when
Speaker 3: he was really starting off his post footy career as
Speaker 3: an administrator down there. He started learning, yeah, cutting his
Speaker 3: teeth under Stephen Hocking and Neil Balm there, two of
Speaker 3: the great football administrators. And he was still playing there
Speaker 3: because they wanted to mentor of the younger Gelong players
Speaker 3: coming through. And he was able to win a premiership
Speaker 3: back in twenty eleven or twenty twelve, I think so.
Speaker 3: And you know, you don't just put anyone in those
Speaker 3: sorts of roles, do you, you know? And obviously he
Speaker 3: had great empathy. He was such a positive character around
Speaker 3: younger fellas and obviously had a real interesting developing younger
Speaker 3: men as it was. And he did that and he
Speaker 3: did a fantastic job helping Stephen Wells and that recruiting
Speaker 3: department down Geelong draft the next crop of premiership players
Speaker 3: that we saw in twenty twenty two for the Mighty Cats.
Speaker 3: And he was continuing on that good work at Geelong
Speaker 3: Grammar recently up until he's passing yesterday, so you know,
Speaker 3: so you know, those jobs don't get handed out lightly
Speaker 3: unless you've shown in the path that you're very good
Speaker 3: at that.
Speaker 1: He Brandie, You guys are good mates. How are you doing?
Speaker 1: You would have been not for six?
Speaker 3: I think it's sort of you go through the reflections
Speaker 3: of it, of guardee, yet you wish you might have
Speaker 3: been able to catch up a bit more Often these
Speaker 3: sorts of things. I suppose it's it's times like this,
Speaker 3: isn't it when you appreciate the ones classes to you.
Speaker 4: But you also.
Speaker 3: You can't take for granted the friendships and how people
Speaker 3: are actually going. So I suppose just to just to
Speaker 3: be able to always get on the front foot and
Speaker 3: stay connected with people and be able to reach out
Speaker 3: to mate if you know they are struggling and have
Speaker 3: a chat to them.
Speaker 1: So sometimes you also don't know what people are going
Speaker 1: for it Sometimes.
Speaker 3: You don't do it, you know, and that's a really
Speaker 3: that's a really difficult thing. So but you know, you
Speaker 3: sort of look at it, you look at the good times. Well,
Speaker 3: I remember when he first come to the footy Cup
Speaker 3: and yeah, the people asking you what his nickname is?
Speaker 3: You know, the four Cellard Boys, a famous family.
Speaker 4: I think you got Scoter. I'm not sure Joel's probably
Speaker 4: going the greatest of all time. I'm sure.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what Adam was West Coast, but yeah,
Speaker 3: Troy's was Bonner and uh and yeah, people ask me
Speaker 3: how to get Banner, and he goes, well, you know
Speaker 3: a great thing about footy cubs, they'll give you nicknames.
Speaker 3: Craig McCray one of the funniest characters I'll play with there, Collingwood,
Speaker 3: couch table, Troy Talwood. He needs he needs a nickname
Speaker 3: sal Wood. Where do you where do you sell Wood? Bunnings.
Speaker 3: So that's how we got Bunner.
Speaker 4: The rest.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what he was. It as hard as
Speaker 3: a piece of for me two as well. That's the
Speaker 3: way he played. And I think Michael Voss spoke about
Speaker 3: the herold Son this morning, about his courage and his
Speaker 3: ability to put his body on the line over and
Speaker 3: over again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's it is times like this where you
Speaker 2: reflect on great stories about your great friend JB. We're
Speaker 2: very sorry for your loss and we appreciate you joining
Speaker 2: us this morning.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me on and sharing our memories. Thanks.
Speaker 5: And look, I think Brownie just touched on it like
Speaker 5: that vulnerability and with blokes, tough blokes. Football's right that
Speaker 5: there is nothing wrong with being vulnerable. Please reach out
Speaker 5: to your mate.
Speaker 1: When that brought you say, it was just like I said,
Speaker 1: you don't know what you're made are going through.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got a lot of friends deeply affected by
Speaker 2: the passing of Troy Seward and my thoughts and I
Speaker 2: know that the whole team that we're thinking of you
Speaker 2: this morning. Joel Seward's friend of the show, his brother
Speaker 2: Adam and Scott, and his beautiful parents Marie Bryce, who
Speaker 2: are just wonderful people. They are a magnificent family. The
Speaker 2: Bendigo community, the Geelong community, we are thinking of you
Speaker 2: and you're very much in our hearts and our thoughts
Speaker 2: this morning.
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