Speaker 1: I think you know what's happening here.
Speaker 2: I think I know. So this is not how I
Speaker 2: pictured it in my head.
Speaker 3: I pictured it in my head tipped one from the
Speaker 3: Thunderbirds was going to come in coming off the back
Speaker 3: of another massive victory.
Speaker 2: However, here we are, Chipper welcome.
Speaker 1: So good morning, oh dear.
Speaker 2: Just a bit of a nightmare and it's Collingwood on
Speaker 2: the weekend. What happened?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a bit of a battle out there.
Speaker 4: They're pretty physical, so we probably didn't come as prepared
Speaker 4: we'd like to. And they had nothing to lose this weekend.
Speaker 4: That's on us.
Speaker 3: That's how I justified it to Hazy when I said, oh, well, calling,
Speaker 3: what are about fold? Basically as a club, so they've
Speaker 3: come out with absolutely nothing to lose.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I really feel for the girls. You know,
Speaker 4: they were really emotional after the game, so it was
Speaker 4: kind of a happy ending for them.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And so what happens to those girls now?
Speaker 1: Do you know?
Speaker 2: Do they just all split up and go to separate clubs?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Pretty much. I think they'll be scrounging around right now
Speaker 4: trying to find and see what they're doing. But most
Speaker 4: of us girls don't really know what's happening next year either,
Speaker 4: So it's pretty stressful for everyone so to be.
Speaker 1: You know when you guys come together at the end
Speaker 1: and you will lock arms and you all sort of
Speaker 1: get around each other.
Speaker 2: Where are you going with this?
Speaker 1: Is it always? Is it always like amicable? Or is
Speaker 1: there sometimes? Because you guys are so physical on the court,
Speaker 1: and I'd imagine you guys are such competitive beasts, you
Speaker 1: come together arm and arm towards the end. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: just kind of I'm kind of surprised that there hasn't
Speaker 1: been some sort of fight at some stage, like because
Speaker 1: you're all so competitive, do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: I feel like you put up a good front for
Speaker 1: the cameras sometimes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe I think when we go back to the
Speaker 4: chain rooms were a bit more sad. But nah, all
Speaker 4: the girls all leave it out on court, which is good.
Speaker 4: We're all pretty good friends.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's real. Nice vibes about NETBA, wasn't it. Can
Speaker 3: we talk about Shimia Stirling? I've got a massive girl
Speaker 3: crush on her.
Speaker 2: Want me too?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Is she as cool in real life as she appears
Speaker 2: to be?
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's pretty cool. She's just got that Jamaican vibe
Speaker 4: about her, really relaxed but has a good time too,
Speaker 4: and she knows.
Speaker 1: How to dance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she can dance, I was saying to Hazey.
Speaker 3: I went to a game a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 3: and she was the last one left on court, signing
Speaker 3: every single last little girl's autograph, and I just thought
Speaker 3: that was the colest I know.
Speaker 4: She's so humble too, so she's always going to do
Speaker 4: that for her fans. And she loves being in Adelaide too,
Speaker 4: so it's pretty nice to see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to be serio, you're reasonably new, but I mean,
Speaker 1: there were some really tough times a couple of seasons ago,
Speaker 1: and you guys are going so well, it must be
Speaker 1: really nice to see just this huge amount of support,
Speaker 1: because not just right now when you guys are up
Speaker 1: and about, but all those fans, they were there through
Speaker 1: the tough times as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, especially, and you can just see that through Hunter Petty.
Speaker 4: She's been there for pretty much all of it. And
Speaker 4: ten years later we're in finals. Like, how amazing is that?
Speaker 4: It's pretty good for Adelaide and the Thunderbirds.
Speaker 3: I'm going to ask you this question, and I mean
Speaker 3: your reaction, I'll either cry or I'll laugh.
Speaker 2: Is a joy? Can you win it?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: For sure?
Speaker 4: I think you know. When we have our strong team
Speaker 4: of ten in there. You see it saw last week
Speaker 4: against Fever and we can beat the top teams of
Speaker 4: Premiers last year, we can do anything, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 3: And don't you think there's a belief now about this
Speaker 3: side because those games against the Fever you've beaten them
Speaker 3: twice in clutch games.
Speaker 2: Those games in the past you would have lost. It's
Speaker 2: like you know how to win now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, even last year, I think Eleanor Carbo has been
Speaker 4: really big for us. She knows how to win. She's
Speaker 4: come from a team last year that her team won
Speaker 4: in England, so she's really brought that over and she
Speaker 4: knows how to win. So she's given that to us
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to pile a pressure on you,
Speaker 1: tip up, but look, so Joy's very important in these
Speaker 1: parts in terms of over and what she brings to
Speaker 1: the table and just how up and about she is.
Speaker 1: I can one hundred percent tell you that if the
Speaker 1: Thunderbirds don't do well or they lose, then there is
Speaker 1: a chance that the vibe for the whole week changes
Speaker 1: based on the Thunderbirds performance. But that's not a pressure situation,
Speaker 1: just just sort.
Speaker 3: Of put tragic about the whole thing. To be honest
Speaker 3: with you, the biggest support. Yeah, now you've held off
Speaker 3: this long, you can ask about football now, all right.
Speaker 1: So your part of this is an unbelievably professional sporting partnership.
Speaker 1: Your partner Josh Donugley, of course, players for the Brisbane
Speaker 1: lines and there was a time where he was some
Speaker 1: in Port adelaid we're in the mix to potentially sign him.
Speaker 1: So he came down there, had a bit of a
Speaker 1: look and caught up with a few people and as
Speaker 1: we do in the news room at Channel seven and everyone,
Speaker 1: we were trying to get hold of Josh and he
Speaker 1: was as elusive off the field out. We couldn't get
Speaker 1: hold of him anywhere. And then one morning we saw
Speaker 1: Travis Bok at the airport who told us go home, guys.
Speaker 1: He's already come through nice and early gone. He's been
Speaker 1: and gone, which was fine, was good for us. We've
Speaker 1: got to go back to the office and then I
Speaker 1: recommended two weeks later, I've gone to my local coffee shop,
Speaker 1: which is in West Croydon on Queen Street and I'm
Speaker 1: going Josh doing here, And this was after he'd signed
Speaker 1: with Brisbon. It was all signed and seal, so I Buggert,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go and speak to him. So I
Speaker 1: just tapped him on the shoulder and so, Josh, you
Speaker 1: have no idea how hard we were trying to find
Speaker 1: you over the lasted a few weeks, and he just
Speaker 1: had a bit of a giggle lot it and sort
Speaker 1: of moved on. But yeah, different world.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know how he slipped in and out.
Speaker 4: I think we came from Kansas something, so that was
Speaker 4: probably a bit random.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, well that would have been good to know, Tip,
Speaker 2: that's a kid.
Speaker 1: But I think it was early too. It was definitely
Speaker 1: early when he left.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so. I think he went to Melbourne
Speaker 4: or something really early.
Speaker 2: How do you go with the long distance you two?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty hard sometimes, but we both get it,
Speaker 4: I think, both being professional athletes, like we get when
Speaker 4: we need time. That's our jobs. So but we see
Speaker 4: each other quite a bit, probably every two weeks, so
Speaker 4: it's not too bad.
Speaker 1: Okay, beautiful, nice Tip, appreciate you coming in here as well.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about the weekend's looking really really good.
Speaker 3: Well, we've already moved on, haven't we, Tipper. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: we're looking forward out, No point looking in the rear
Speaker 3: vision mirror.
Speaker 1: We've just got one foot in front of the other.
Speaker 2: All of that.
Speaker 1: TI, Thanks you, Tom, Thanks
Speaker 3: So much to you.