Speaker 1: Essendon search for an urgent response in dream time after
Speaker 1: a bulldog belting.
Speaker 2: Captain Zach Merrits is with us.
Speaker 3: As is Mitch Duncan, who becomes the seventh Geelong player
Speaker 3: to reach the story three hundred gay milestone in a
Speaker 3: career spanning a remarkable error and when to correct the
Speaker 3: howler should footy consider intervention from a higher power?
Speaker 2: Will take it to Razor's edge.
Speaker 4: You talked about his step into it, embrace all of it.
Speaker 1: Hit in the room and Rent it's unedifying for a
Speaker 1: senior coach to do that.
Speaker 5: They're on the side of Courtia with the brain tape.
Speaker 6: The man on it. They played the best footy I've.
Speaker 2: Ever seen at the start of the season, and Andy
Speaker 2: said president left. The couple older said, of course they do.
Speaker 6: It is the stuff that legends are made of. What
Speaker 6: is holding the ball?
Speaker 7: I don't think I could answer it clearly right now
Speaker 7: that I could do something.
Speaker 2: Wrong, you know, and I need to go on the board.
Speaker 7: Sacks, meet the fans, Lover and with no fans, no
Speaker 7: through sixty year old.
Speaker 2: What winning percentage are you aiming for in life?
Speaker 3: Gas win more than you lose, I say, Jared. Through
Speaker 3: life we having one more than you've lost, You've done well.
Speaker 2: Let's just have it.
Speaker 1: Mitch Duncan is going to join us, so he is.
Speaker 1: He's the spanning figure from the twenty eleven premierships through
Speaker 1: to now seventy point nine.
Speaker 6: Thank god for that. Fifty six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a highly respectable.
Speaker 3: Where you get drafted and at what time, isn't it
Speaker 3: And then if you're Joel Sellwood and you go to
Speaker 3: Gelong at the right time. I think it was Mitch
Speaker 3: Thorpe who went to Hawthorne next.
Speaker 6: So he's a start. Mitch Duncan.
Speaker 3: I'm rapped that he's on tonight, and I'm wrapped that
Speaker 3: he's made to three hundred games.
Speaker 1: Here's what we have lined up for you on three sixty.
Speaker 1: In fact, it's a big night here on Fox Footy
Speaker 1: Zach Merritt, Mitch Duncan, Ray Chamberlain. We've got one real
Speaker 1: overreaction because it is the defining question of the day.
Speaker 2: Then we will make way.
Speaker 1: We'll hand over to the midweek Tackle Lauren Wood, Glenn
Speaker 1: McFarland and Scott Gullan with plenty of news bouncing around
Speaker 1: and a special edition of On the Couch, a retro
Speaker 1: a tribute to Robert Wall So, Mike Shean and Jared
Speaker 1: Heally have come together and then there's been this collection
Speaker 1: of memories.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the one that springs straight to mind is
Speaker 3: the Kevin Sheedy. I haven't seen this obviously. I'm looking
Speaker 3: forward to watching it tonight. In fact, i'll watch it tomorrow.
Speaker 3: It's a bit late for me, but I'm sure it'll
Speaker 3: be in there. And that was compelling television. I remember
Speaker 3: watching that.
Speaker 1: Its unbelievable, all right, So that's a special tonight and
Speaker 1: then tomorrow night, John longmy Adam Simpson, Simon Gridlin is
Speaker 1: here at the desk, and all week we've looked forward
Speaker 1: to the appearance of Steph and Michael, who'll be in
Speaker 1: town and here at the desk. A Tuesday favorite to
Speaker 1: get us underweight?
Speaker 6: Well, what is my Tuesday favorite? It was Oscar Allen.
Speaker 3: I thought handled himself with great dignity and class in
Speaker 3: the face of what was the emotional turmoil surrounding the
Speaker 3: whole Adam Soawood situation.
Speaker 6: I thought he was fuller class.
Speaker 8: I know it's great to do any game of footy,
Speaker 8: but we've lost the legend of our club and I
Speaker 8: just want to say all love and support to the
Speaker 8: Cellwood family. Mental health is such a massive th year
Speaker 8: society at the moment. I struggled with the own mental
Speaker 8: battles this year, and I've been so fortunate to have
Speaker 8: such a great support crew around me to have my
Speaker 8: back throughout everything we've gone through. I just urge anyone
Speaker 8: out there as struggling with.
Speaker 4: Anything, please reach out.
Speaker 8: Helplines, friends, reach out to each other, because we're heartbroken
Speaker 8: and we just want to offer all the love and
Speaker 8: support we come to the Cellwood family.
Speaker 3: And this time, well done, well said, And he may
Speaker 3: have just helped one person, he may have helped plenty
Speaker 3: along the way.
Speaker 6: But if he's helped us one, well done.
Speaker 1: Spoke beautifully yep, right from the heart. So I thought
Speaker 1: something uplifting, literally uplifting?
Speaker 2: Is it possible?
Speaker 1: The Gold Coast Sons have all three steps of the
Speaker 1: podium for.
Speaker 2: Mark of the year so far.
Speaker 1: I felt like that was the clubhouse leader through the
Speaker 1: early rounds, Ben King the quintessential one on one, and then.
Speaker 2: Jed Walter did this.
Speaker 3: I nearly went for this myself, but I think you
Speaker 3: got in earlier. I love this from this big, strong, strapping.
Speaker 1: Man, So I think that's gold and silver thus far.
Speaker 1: And I reckon bronze.
Speaker 2: Might be ned Long.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a great mark.
Speaker 3: Look at this is when it gets there, right at
Speaker 3: the peak of it. Ben Long, when he's he's perpendicular
Speaker 3: to the ground.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're three great marks.
Speaker 1: I have three great marks, and I think they're the
Speaker 1: best that we've had so far.
Speaker 6: Nice, I like it. Good start.
Speaker 1: Top of the agenda is a stunning and sobering story
Speaker 1: out of the West tonights. The career of decorated West
Speaker 1: Coast defender Jeremy McGovern sits in the balance as he's
Speaker 1: been referred to an AFL concussion panel. He hasn't recovered
Speaker 1: from his latest concussion suffered against Melbourne in round eights.
Speaker 1: This was the statement the club has released tonight. Jeremy's
Speaker 1: health and well being is our number one priority and
Speaker 1: he's not currently advanced through the concussion protocols due to
Speaker 1: ongoing symptoms. Jeremy has suffered multiple concussions over his career,
Speaker 1: which adds complexity to his situation and his recovery. So
Speaker 1: independent assessments and then a pathway forward or not, which
Speaker 1: we are becoming more used to as the years have
Speaker 1: gone on. He's a five time All Australian, including last
Speaker 1: year set a half back in the Team of the Year,
Speaker 1: and he's the reigning Best and Fairest West Coast as
Speaker 1: well as been a premiership player.
Speaker 3: It would be the biggest name to be struck down
Speaker 3: Angus Brasier was a big premiership player coming off his
Speaker 3: best year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is where we're at in footye.
Speaker 3: So he goes into the independent assessment and it can
Speaker 3: come back a number of different ways.
Speaker 6: He come back and say.
Speaker 3: You're clear to play again, you need a prolonged absence
Speaker 3: from the game, or they can pull they can call
Speaker 3: time on.
Speaker 2: His career, they can medically retire him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's a lot Well, clearly there's a
Speaker 3: lot of things they take into consideration and the number
Speaker 3: I do know with Paddy mccarton when it came down to,
Speaker 3: one of the things that really weighed heavily on the
Speaker 3: decision was how easy he became can cast.
Speaker 6: I think everyone will recall that last concussion that it
Speaker 6: went to you.
Speaker 3: There wasn't much in that, so that'll be taking into
Speaker 3: consideration as really's history and it's almost it's unthinkable three
Speaker 3: four five years ago that would be losing players to
Speaker 3: concussion their careers.
Speaker 6: We're talking about not just games.
Speaker 3: In fact, it was unthinkable to think you'd lose a game,
Speaker 3: but now we're talking about careers, and as harsh as
Speaker 3: it is, the game is better for it.
Speaker 1: Jude he had signed in February a contract extension to
Speaker 1: take in next year, so in the elders that are
Speaker 1: required during a rebuild, he's been one of the cornerstones
Speaker 1: for it. And there are a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: where people were theorizing, well, maybe they should move him out,
Speaker 1: but he's been so important, just a whole part of
Speaker 1: the ground together for him. So if he's not there
Speaker 1: for either a long period of time or through a
Speaker 1: forced retirement, that that is going to leave a big hole.
Speaker 3: It will, and they've got suikap implications as well. So
Speaker 3: this is a mechanism whereby you signed players on extended careers,
Speaker 3: long careers, then you run the risk of something this
Speaker 3: taking place, and you've got to carry the majority of
Speaker 3: that way through your sory cap as well. So those
Speaker 3: are all things the consideration, the health being the primary
Speaker 3: concern here for Jeremy, so let's hope that he gets
Speaker 3: a positive result.
Speaker 6: But I'm sure they'll make the right decision.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll wait to see when that panel is
Speaker 1: going to be convened and when the decision is handed down.
Speaker 1: The AFL last night's care officials met with four of
Speaker 1: the long term serving coaches here in Victoria to thrash
Speaker 1: out some of the issues, the big picture and the
Speaker 1: tension pieces that have existed for some time between the
Speaker 1: coaches and headquarters.
Speaker 6: Right, how's the last night?
Speaker 9: Yeah, lampshold was solid. It was probably the best AFL
Speaker 9: meeting I can recall. I think it was. You know,
Speaker 9: there are clearly a lot of things to talk about,
Speaker 9: and I really felt that Andrew Dialing in particular with
Speaker 9: his staff, really listened to all the gender items that
Speaker 9: the coaches had and probably important to notice an annual event,
Speaker 9: it's not a specially called meeting, we do it every year.
Speaker 9: But I felt that there was really productive discussion. So
Speaker 9: no doubt everyone got their their sort of thoughts out
Speaker 9: on the table. And I suppose the challenge from here is,
Speaker 9: you know what action has taken from this point, But
Speaker 9: in terms of Andrew in particular, but the AFL's willingness
Speaker 9: to listen and.
Speaker 6: For the coach's voices to be heard. I thought it
Speaker 6: was really positive.
Speaker 2: What do you make of it?
Speaker 3: I think fixed at Jered was the impetus for the message. Well,
Speaker 3: what I make of it is it's interesting that we
Speaker 3: make such a big deal about the executive gut and
Speaker 3: sitting down with a few of the most important men
Speaker 3: in footy. Now we understand this environment, it becomes a
Speaker 3: bit bigger.
Speaker 6: So I had a really good thing about today and
Speaker 6: I like it.
Speaker 3: I think Mandrew Dion's been under a lot of pressure
Speaker 3: and that's okay, but it's I think we've also got
Speaker 3: a identify and understand and accept that he's a much
Speaker 3: different leader than the one we've had over the last
Speaker 3: however many periods we've had, you know, Andrew Demitriel and
Speaker 3: Gil mcgloch and who I've really enjoyed their leadership style.
Speaker 6: I really like the way they got about it.
Speaker 3: But they are strong, alpha, confident, ego driven, stronger he goes,
Speaker 3: both of them opinionated, comfortable in the media spotlight, some
Speaker 3: would say crave it over the time. They love holding
Speaker 3: court and they can charm and or intimidate a media group.
Speaker 3: That's who they were and that's they wore that with
Speaker 3: a badge of honor, and we've you know, I think
Speaker 3: we've been blessed with their leadership style. If Andrew Don's
Speaker 3: going to be his authentic self, he's much calmer. He's
Speaker 3: the complete opposite of those guys. In actual fact, he
Speaker 3: is measured, low key, low profile. He's not a polished
Speaker 3: media performer. And I not being harsh, but he'll get better.
Speaker 3: But he's not and he looks to be empower he's executive.
Speaker 3: Now what happens then is when he's executive, let him down,
Speaker 3: which I think they have in recent times, and then
Speaker 3: he's got to become the strong.
Speaker 6: Leader that we are all craving.
Speaker 3: But I think his style of getting together with four
Speaker 3: coaches as opposed to Gills, come to my ass, bring
Speaker 3: your best ball of red wine and let's yeah, that
Speaker 3: sort of is what we're talking about here. I think
Speaker 3: he's looked at that and gone, this is my most
Speaker 3: effective way of leading.
Speaker 6: I'll get with four at a time, I'll sit.
Speaker 3: Down, get it all out on the table, and as
Speaker 3: Brad says, it's the best that he's come across. So
Speaker 3: then i'd imagine he's going to do it with every
Speaker 3: single coach, and I'm prepared that I'm prepared to give
Speaker 3: him a chance.
Speaker 6: I would.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got a this is a really good moment
Speaker 3: for him, though he's got to become the strong leader
Speaker 3: that we will hope he will be. But I also
Speaker 3: accept that he's a different leader to what we've had.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so consultative to a fault and an excellent listener.
Speaker 1: All the question is does that parley into action?
Speaker 3: And he's only he's new to the job to which
Speaker 3: I'm prepared. You know, I've been critical as you have strongly,
Speaker 3: and I've enjoyed that, and I think they understand that.
Speaker 3: But it's a really defining time for them, for this
Speaker 3: leadership group now, and I think that's a really positive step.
Speaker 6: That's the way I looked at it.
Speaker 1: The centerpiece for the co which remains the softcap and
Speaker 1: so what do you think twenty nineteen, So it became
Speaker 1: a period of austerity, which then morphed into a period
Speaker 1: of competitive balance, and that has led to a widespread
Speaker 1: resentment and the AFL I think pretended to a degree
Speaker 1: that they didn't realize the level that this is built to,
Speaker 1: and now they're hearing it firsthand.
Speaker 2: I think they'd heard it over.
Speaker 1: A period of time, So what will that look like
Speaker 1: when they reconsider the softcap specifically, what will it look
Speaker 1: like for the coaching cohort? Not just the senior coaches,
Speaker 1: but the coaching cohort. Is there a mechanism to be
Speaker 1: found that allows an increase in wage whilst not blowing
Speaker 1: out the softcap. One potential mechanism is removing a huge
Speaker 1: chunk of the senior coaches wage from the softcap, potentially
Speaker 1: the whole thing, but a bigger measure than its currently done.
Speaker 1: So some of it targeted towards assistant coaches to lift
Speaker 1: the level of the coaching cohort. Have told us in
Speaker 1: a clear voice that they feel undervalue devalued by the
Speaker 1: AFL in particular in the industry in general for the
Speaker 1: work that they do. Are they prepared to see that
Speaker 1: and then move on it. They're hearing it, They've been
Speaker 1: hearing it for a long period of time. It's fully
Speaker 1: illustrated against CPI. What's happened since twenty nineteen to the
Speaker 1: profession to now are they prepared to act?
Speaker 6: You think? And your answer, well, they should.
Speaker 1: They should. There's no votes in it, but it's good policy.
Speaker 1: Just get there is a problem in that profession at
Speaker 1: the moment, which is not to be trivialized or dismissed.
Speaker 2: It's actually to be addressed.
Speaker 3: It's hard to imagine them arriving at any other decision, Jared,
Speaker 3: And if they do arrive in another decision that says
Speaker 3: they won't be adhering to the request, then the explanation
Speaker 3: will be insightful.
Speaker 1: The Bomber's on field, so Brad Scott's got a bit
Speaker 1: to deal with this week after the belting at the
Speaker 1: hands of the Bulldogs.
Speaker 9: It's very frustrating and disappointing to have poor losses, but
Speaker 9: from a coaching perspective, I often find that you learn
Speaker 9: more from those games than you do from the games
Speaker 9: where you win and get a bit of positive reinforcement.
Speaker 9: So you know, we'll and that's really what we're looking
Speaker 9: to do. We're looking to build this team to be
Speaker 9: capable of competing against the best teams on a regular basis.
Speaker 9: And we learn a harsh lesson on the weekend, and
Speaker 9: to the opposition's credit, you know, they did a good
Speaker 9: job in teaching us that lesson. As disappointed as we
Speaker 9: were in our own performance, I was equally impressed by
Speaker 9: the Bulldog's performance.
Speaker 6: So the lesson we learn.
Speaker 9: In that is that there's a big gap between where
Speaker 9: they are right now and where we want to be.
Speaker 1: We see them on Friday night, so I know you're
Speaker 1: deep at work on the Bombers. What was the significant
Speaker 1: part of the failure on Saturday night?
Speaker 6: Brad talks about the lesson they learned.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a lesson that's been well looned and well delivered.
Speaker 3: So they and this is a consistent thing around Usendon,
Speaker 3: is that they've got to defend better.
Speaker 6: And what does that mean?
Speaker 3: While it's laid and it's nuanced that the bottom line
Speaker 3: is they played against sides that are inside the eight.
Speaker 3: They've lost by twenty six points to Hawthorne, gave up
Speaker 3: seventeen goals. They lost the Adelaide by sixty one points,
Speaker 3: gave up twenty five, lost to Collingwood bye forty one
Speaker 3: on Anzac Day, gave up sixteen goals, and then of
Speaker 3: course what we just saw on the weekend and ninety
Speaker 3: one point loss.
Speaker 6: Gave up aden goals.
Speaker 3: That's an average of nine en goals in those losses
Speaker 3: that you're giving up. So the message is clear again
Speaker 3: defend better. The numbers would suggest they're defending better, but
Speaker 3: not against the sides where it matters most. The numbers
Speaker 3: suggest they're defending better against sides that have struggled and
Speaker 3: are inferior to the teams that we've just mentioned. So
Speaker 3: it remains a great challenge for them still, and I
Speaker 3: don't think there's the person would understand that better than
Speaker 3: anyone's Brad Scott. So he's got to step up in
Speaker 3: front of the media and sell the message and try
Speaker 3: and not calm his supporter base but continue to sell
Speaker 3: what he wants to sell to them, but that the.
Speaker 6: Bottom line is that this is still their number one.
Speaker 3: Issue is and measure yourselves against the best. So I
Speaker 3: could see them defending no disrespect to Richmond, but they're
Speaker 3: not where Adelaide and.
Speaker 6: Hawthorne and Collingwood and the Western Bulldogs are at.
Speaker 3: So fifty six percent against those sides, that's where the
Speaker 3: Yes and footy clubs at right now, and they know
Speaker 3: it and they're going to work at it all right.
Speaker 2: Zach Merritt will be with us shortly.
Speaker 1: The Bullgog side of the equation, we see them on
Speaker 1: Thursday night. They're six and four they're fifth.
Speaker 2: On the ladder.
Speaker 1: They're going to be the darlings of prime time for
Speaker 1: the remainder of the year. They've got the Cats and
Speaker 1: then the buy, and it feels like the buy has
Speaker 1: been designated as a period to address the coach's contract.
Speaker 6: We're sort of morphing into this.
Speaker 7: I suppose partnership again, where we're looking at sustainability and thinking, okay,
Speaker 7: out of the say the perty Jackson review, how healthy
Speaker 7: are we off the field as far as our operational
Speaker 7: resources go and the club's vision of what's ahead. And
Speaker 7: I think we're reasonably contemp.
Speaker 6: We're on the right path. So yeah, I.
Speaker 7: Mean as far as formalizing something goes it may not
Speaker 7: be too far away.
Speaker 2: It's the buye a good time to get to that.
Speaker 7: Possibly, but we haven't really talked any terms and conditions.
Speaker 1: You've been full of praise for the way the Bulldogs
Speaker 1: have handled this throughout the year. They might become the
Speaker 1: templates for it. Would you move next week?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I think why it has worked so well
Speaker 3: and why it has been brilliant is that both of
Speaker 3: them have been on the same page.
Speaker 6: Both coach and club have been old judge you.
Speaker 3: So that's what Luke's talking about last night, facility and
Speaker 3: all those things he spoke about. I'm going to make
Speaker 3: sure that that's there for the club to get better
Speaker 3: and then I can coach on that. And then the
Speaker 3: club are saying, well, yeah, we think we've got a
Speaker 3: list and we need to make sure that you can
Speaker 3: coach it. So they've both done it respectfully, but they've
Speaker 3: gone and sat back a bit when it gets to
Speaker 3: a point where both well, one of the two says okay,
Speaker 3: I've seen enough now I want to move. Well, then
Speaker 3: you've got to make a decision. And the timing's perfect.
Speaker 3: There couldn't be anymore perfect. They're playing the best footy,
Speaker 3: They've got players in the best form. Bevos now at
Speaker 3: the point where he goes, yeah, I want to coach
Speaker 3: this group, I think, and I think what we're going
Speaker 3: to find in the next week or two is the
Speaker 3: West of Bulldogs say damn straight, you're the right man
Speaker 3: to coach House.
Speaker 6: So you compare that to hate it.
Speaker 3: But Port Adelaide in the way that that coaching appointment
Speaker 3: was made and the pressure that came on there, it
Speaker 3: is the temp, well, the current template right now, and
Speaker 3: it gives it a great shot at maybe adding to
Speaker 3: that premiership.
Speaker 1: This is not the recommitment I reckon. It's the second marriage.
Speaker 1: They've each had a look.
Speaker 2: At what it might have looked like if this was
Speaker 2: coming to an end.
Speaker 6: They have time apart.
Speaker 1: Jared, No, they stayed together, but maybe in separate rooms
Speaker 1: from time to time. So I think Luke Beveridge did
Speaker 1: nothing less than Betty's job on reinventing this bulldog side
Speaker 1: in the middle of last year. He did it early
Speaker 1: with the senior players, which he conceded to you last night,
Speaker 1: and then at the trade periods they made, they exposed
Speaker 1: their depth by trading those senior players away, so he
Speaker 1: risked being more exposed and then had a whole sequence
Speaker 1: of events off field and injury wise present before him.
Speaker 2: But he has.
Speaker 1: He's reinvigorated them and the players that they've added. And
Speaker 1: then they're not read the list last night, they're not
Speaker 1: how sold names, they're not locks.
Speaker 2: At every club.
Speaker 1: He's integrated them perfectly into this setup, given them a
Speaker 1: style of play.
Speaker 2: They have now absorbed themselves from the who's missing. It
Speaker 2: doesn't matter who's missing.
Speaker 1: This is the way they go out and play, and
Speaker 1: they do it together. I'm full of admiration for the
Speaker 1: way both club and coach have done it, and I
Speaker 1: reckon it'll be it's a stirring success when next week
Speaker 1: they come out and they recommit for two or three
Speaker 1: more years.
Speaker 3: And you can't get to that stage until you, as
Speaker 3: the coach and the club are really honest about it
Speaker 3: all and how open it has Bevo saying you know, well,
Speaker 3: I might not be the man they might so when
Speaker 3: you get to that level of authenticity and truth telling
Speaker 3: with each other. So I don't know whether I want
Speaker 3: to coach beyond this year. Good because we don't know
Speaker 3: whether we want you to coach beyond this year.
Speaker 6: Let's work it out.
Speaker 3: Then you get a result like this and if it
Speaker 3: just it's gone pear shaped, heurit and it's not going
Speaker 3: to work. How respectfully they would have parted these yes,
Speaker 3: and I would have done it with great dignity. The
Speaker 3: bulldogs would have been and we hope you get another job,
Speaker 3: Luke and Luke could be saying, good, hope you get
Speaker 3: the right man to take lea group forward. And that's
Speaker 3: where clubs and coaching departures should be. We haven't seen
Speaker 3: that acrimonious departures have been the template, if you want
Speaker 3: to use that word, and maybe this is the changing
Speaker 3: of the guard.
Speaker 1: All right, the furnace the first time Tassy have been
Speaker 1: in the furnace. I reckon they're not in the comp yet, ye,
Speaker 1: but they are worthy of the furnace.
Speaker 2: With Nathan Buckley looming.
Speaker 5: Large, so the ball is basically in Nathan's court.
Speaker 4: But this has got.
Speaker 2: Big very quickly.
Speaker 4: I answered him in that in that meeting, the same
Speaker 4: events at the whole time, I don't know whether I'm
Speaker 4: going to find the right fit, but.
Speaker 5: It's for you still have the passion to coach?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I.
Speaker 4: Still love the idea of helping people along on their journey.
Speaker 4: And the Devil's opportunity, it probably is quite it's quite
Speaker 4: different to any other opportunity you're going to find yourself in.
Speaker 3: Have you done anything in your own world to you
Speaker 3: think to make you a better coach?
Speaker 4: And are you a more equipped coach going into potentially
Speaker 4: coaching again? Yeah, I know I'm more equipped. That's probably
Speaker 4: the reflection of your of your tenure and what you
Speaker 4: did well and what you did poorly, because there's yeah,
Speaker 4: I think in retrospect, do you actually get to understand that.
Speaker 4: I've sat with plenty of our players and gone through
Speaker 4: that and staff as well. I think they got there
Speaker 4: jacking me by the end.
Speaker 6: That's what I thought.
Speaker 4: Of course that's a never going process. But yeah, well,
Speaker 4: I've got no fears that I could do the job. Well,
Speaker 4: it's just whether I want to do it. Nice out
Speaker 4: at the Grand Final at the end of last year
Speaker 4: and when I saw Brisbane win, I thought, if you're
Speaker 4: going to do what you want to be there.
Speaker 6: We might be looking to feel the sack. I'm really company. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you've got company.
Speaker 5: Without Lady Lady's young bucks out of there, it was.
Speaker 2: A good ds of couch, that's for sure. All right.
Speaker 1: We always played one real we have a reel or overreaction,
Speaker 1: and it's just one. Nathan Buckley would be perfect for Tasmania.
Speaker 3: I'm going to give you the answer. I don't think
Speaker 3: you expect overreaction.
Speaker 2: This is all set up for real gas. I love this.
Speaker 2: I want this to happen.
Speaker 5: So much so it's got real answers written down even
Speaker 5: before I've given it, which is not the sad. Don't
Speaker 5: think you'd be fantastic, but with John Lym John Longmy
Speaker 5: comes in here tomorrow, sits himself down and takes off
Speaker 5: the smirking, jovial horse that we've seen and says, I've
Speaker 5: never been more passionate about getting back into coaching again,
Speaker 5: and I'm up for grabs. Well, guess what the ideal
Speaker 5: candidate is now, Nathan Buckley or John lonmye.
Speaker 3: So that's all I mean when I say overreaction, that's
Speaker 3: a pitch, by the way, from Nathan Buckley.
Speaker 6: That to me, that's a pitch.
Speaker 3: He's putting his hand high in there, which, as I
Speaker 3: said yesterday, I love. Don't play games. If you want
Speaker 3: to coach Tasmania, don't play games with it. So that's
Speaker 3: the way I watched that and read read that is
Speaker 3: that's him pitching. He says, I know I'll be a
Speaker 3: better you. That's not just around the edges. I know
Speaker 3: I'll be a better coach. So, Benny, if you're listening,
Speaker 3: I know I will be.
Speaker 6: So I loved it.
Speaker 3: If he's got the fire, which I think he has,
Speaker 3: go after a bucks and if you get the job,
Speaker 3: we all be supportive. But there might be a couple
Speaker 3: others that might also have their hand in the air,
Speaker 3: and that would be a great thing for Benny Gale,
Speaker 3: would all right?
Speaker 1: Our players next, Mitch Duncan is about to mark the
Speaker 1: great smilestone of longevity in the game, three hundred games
Speaker 1: spanning this incredible.
Speaker 2: Year at Geelong. And Zach Merris is with us in
Speaker 2: the studio.
Speaker 1: He's living on the highs and the lows with us
Speaker 1: on three point sixty throughout this season.