1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: We we know it's been a big weekend and footy. Your 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: team had a win, the Eyes, my team didn't, Lawren's 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 1: team didn't, the D's and the Tigers. 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 2: I always have a win. 5 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: But there were so many highlights out of the weekend. 6 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: But probably the most memorable highlight didn't come from the 7 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 1: AFL but Jace Lauren. It came from the Eastern Footy 8 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:23,080 Speaker 1: League in the match between Blackburn and Balwyn. 9 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 3: I saw this on the news last night. 10 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: He's a suburban high flyer who just sawed into almost 11 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: everybody's social media feed. Daniel Wood is his name, and 12 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: today the twenty nine year old reflected on that extraordinary hangar. 13 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 4: It's pretty surreal waking up to all the attention this morning. 14 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 5: I mean I was just. 15 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 4: Going out there trying to try to take a grab. 16 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 4: Somehow I came down with it and yeah, ros and 17 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 4: blah blah, bl like, this is pretty surreal. I know 18 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 4: it was pretty good because I had the skipper of 19 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 4: the opposition come up and shake my hand as I 20 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 4: was going back lining up for goalers go. 21 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: It was an enormous hangar. It could well be mark 22 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 1: of the year. 23 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 3: And he joins us now. Daniel good morning. 24 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 5: Good morning, Good morning guys. 25 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:10,839 Speaker 3: How are were good? 26 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 2: How many free beers did you get on the weekend? 27 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 2: How many people shouted you? 28 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 5: I didn't have five yesterday to need to go out 29 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 5: and have anything, but maybe sometimes this weekend. 30 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 1: Daniel, you are on media Street. Now, what's it like? 31 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 3: Now? 32 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: I passed your number? I hope you don't mind. By 33 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 1: the way, onto the my friends at the Today Show. 34 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: I believe you're doing a Today Show live cross very shortly. 35 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: What's it been like a bit of a whirlwind. 36 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 5: It's been absolutely, absolutely ridiculous, mate. I've simply got a 37 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 5: couple of hundred followers on Instagram and the only people 38 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 5: I talked to the missus of your parents and a 39 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 5: couple of mates. And it's not absolutely insane. 40 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 2: I'm just looking at your Instagram now and you've got 41 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 2: like Fox Footy doing collabs with you on their posts. Now. 42 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought I saw that. I was like, this 43 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 5: has to be a miss pick or something like that, 44 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 5: but yeah, all real, so on the Fox Footy website. 45 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 2: Sorry, I was going to say, it's like Nick Watson, 46 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 2: then it goes to one of the de Coss boys 47 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 2: and then there's you. 48 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mentioned in the same sentence. 49 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: But uh so. 50 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 3: Not professional league. You're twenty nine, you're playing a club match. 51 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:26,799 Speaker 3: Have you ever thought about going pro? 52 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 2: Was? 53 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 3: Was it ever on the car? 54 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 5: Oh No, not really, mate. I stopped playing footy for 55 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:35,079 Speaker 5: a fair bit during my juniors and just came back 56 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 5: to play sort of with a couple of mates a 57 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:40,839 Speaker 5: few years ago, and then yeah, I ended up sort 58 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 5: I'm playing at box Hill at the moment. I'm signed 59 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 5: at box Hill so Hawthorne second, but I'm not playing 60 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 5: there at the moment. I'm just playing at local level 61 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 5: and honestly it's so much fun, mate, just running around 62 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 5: there with a great bunch of ads. That's all I 63 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 5: really want. 64 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: That's that's a VFL pretty nothing to be sneezed out 65 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: on their list. But playing in the AFEL. Now, let's 66 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: let's chat about the mark because you were you were 67 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 1: higher than a buddy astronaut. Yeah, just just just tell 68 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: us about that perch you had and the ride you 69 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: had and the and the landing you had as well. 70 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 5: Okay, now, going up, I sort of thought that like, oh, 71 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 5: this this, this could either be really really good or 72 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 5: it could be really really bad. And yeah, somehow I 73 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 5: got the lifts, I saying that I've never had before, 74 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 5: and then oh my god, I had so much time 75 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 5: up there that I sort of got to realize, like, 76 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 5: I'm going to come back down now, and this is 77 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 5: a bloody k there's no play on landing on my feet, 78 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 5: so it didn't quite stick the landing, but I'll take 79 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 5: hanging on to it any day. 80 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 3: Mate. Watch that back and I get it streamed on 81 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 3: the TV's at the pub this weekend. 82 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 2: Literally, it is posted on the Fox Footy instagram with 83 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 2: is this the greatest mark of all time written on it? Geez, 84 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 2: that's amazing. 85 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 5: I don't know if it's quite up there. I reckon 86 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 5: meet in the golf We're back in ninety four, hurragon 87 00:03:59,360 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 5: that one. 88 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: But yeah, hey, Daniel, just quickly tell the guys about 89 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: what happened maybe a few weeks early when you tried 90 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: to take a hanger. 91 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 3: Yeah. 92 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 5: So, because I don't mind trying to do this sort 93 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 5: of stuff every now and again. I played pretty because 94 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 5: I love it, and you know, I love doing the 95 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 5: exciting things. But I got it wrong a few weeks 96 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 5: ago and I managed to knock myself out and break. 97 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 3: My name, you know yourself and broke your nose. 98 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 5: Bloody. I ended up. I fell on I fell on 99 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 5: my back, and then because my legs are above me, 100 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 5: my knees come down and broke it. And so it 101 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 5: was only my second game back from that. But yeah, 102 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 5: I was sort of like I could. 103 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: Sound like that kid on the end. My legs went 104 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: that way and my head was that way. 105 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 3: Wow. Well, Daniel Ward joining us on the air from 106 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 3: Blackburn forty Club mark of the year. Don't look in 107 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:52,840 Speaker 3: the past, just focus on what. 108 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: I made, well done and enjoyed. 109 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, legendary stuff at the pub. 110 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 3: Right knocked himself out on it few weeks earlier. What 111 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 3: a turnaround. 112 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. But after doing after 113 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 2: landing on your face and breaking your nose, it takes 114 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 2: balls to try and do it again. 115 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 3: Absolutely, it is just going thirteen to seven. This is 116 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 3: number one hundred. 117 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 2: Jason Lauren Lauren wake up feeling good following them on 118 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 2: the Socials.