Speaker 1: You are on the air with Jason Lauren Clint here
Speaker 1: as well. It has just gone seventeen past eight and
Speaker 1: in the lead up to Opening Round and next week,
Speaker 1: we're catching up with your favorite footy clubs, the stars
Speaker 1: behind them and offloading club memberships.
Speaker 2: Today, our next guest is the senior coach for the
Speaker 2: Carlton Football Club.
Speaker 1: Here's one premiership.
Speaker 2: He's received a Brownlow medal and he's recently started conducting
Speaker 2: citizens arrests around Melbourne.
Speaker 1: AFL legend Michael Voss, the former citizens.
Speaker 3: Arrest Well he's morning coffee.
Speaker 2: Somebody get this man of Cape players. Welcome to the show, legend, Michaelay, morning.
Speaker 4: Good morning. We're just talking off their I am actually
Speaker 4: farming out.
Speaker 3: My services to different coffee shops at the moment around security.
Speaker 4: So yeah, just let you know, goodness names.
Speaker 5: People are now employing private security for their street, so
Speaker 5: you could be roaming the street ready to do citizens
Speaker 5: arrests at any time.
Speaker 4: Still you're looking good, poss. What are you still hitting
Speaker 4: the gym a fair bit?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: I try to, but yeah, getting early example for the
Speaker 3: call through early and then get more work done. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: when I turn up for work though, I don't get
Speaker 3: another chance to do anything else, so unlet's's done before,
Speaker 3: doesn't happen.
Speaker 5: Do you get in the gym with the players, because
Speaker 5: I feel like they'd be quite competitive.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I do, but they're slightly different athletes the way
Speaker 3: I'm built, so they're a little bit more greyhoundish, even
Speaker 3: though they do have some size about them, but a
Speaker 3: little bit different. But I don't mind it, Like it's
Speaker 3: about the only thing I actually do nowadays. I certainly
Speaker 3: can't run with them, so they beat me up anything
Speaker 3: out of a out of a phone box, so I
Speaker 3: tend to stay away from that.
Speaker 5: I mean, the game is different to when you played.
Speaker 5: Would you have preferred to be a player when you
Speaker 5: played or now?
Speaker 4: Oh? I wouldn't mind what they get paid now.
Speaker 3: Maybe they certainly get looked after very very well, and
Speaker 3: it'll only become better, I'm sure. But look, I love
Speaker 3: the ear. I can't complain. I think any area you're
Speaker 3: playing you don't take for granted. But yeah, it's certainly
Speaker 3: special what they have now because the way the game
Speaker 3: is advertised, the participation, the crowds that you're playing in
Speaker 3: front of, how they build up every event, it does
Speaker 3: make it seem that little bit extra special.
Speaker 1: Talking about the game being different thoughts on opening round.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 3: I haven't been a great fan of it. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 3: you know, we have a huge shout out to people
Speaker 3: in Queensland at the moment. There about got my family
Speaker 3: out there as well at the moment. So hope Mum
Speaker 3: and Dad and my uncles and cousins and the like
Speaker 3: are all are all okay. But so obviously your thoughts
Speaker 3: go to them straight away. But look, I tend to
Speaker 3: think it's, you know, something that makes us a little
Speaker 3: bit different is you know that we've got a national game,
Speaker 3: and I don't see why we don't advertise it in
Speaker 3: every launch, it in every single state, and everyone's got
Speaker 3: their own concept. I guess my concept is probably to
Speaker 3: you know, if we were to play a game in
Speaker 3: every state, you know, w A, there's two games we
Speaker 3: can play there, you know, two games we can play
Speaker 3: in South Australia, two games we get to play in
Speaker 3: queens the New South Wales and also launching in Victoria.
Speaker 4: And we've got eight ten Victorian teams.
Speaker 3: Eight could go travel to every single state and we
Speaker 3: could have two games in every state.
Speaker 4: I don't. I think it's very.
Speaker 3: Unique for us in the national game that we can
Speaker 3: launch it Australia wide.
Speaker 2: And starting with a bang here in Victoria. There's none
Speaker 2: more traditional or bigger or better than the Tags and
Speaker 2: the Blues, which is by the way round one.
Speaker 4: It comes around quickly, doesn't it?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: It does.
Speaker 3: And look we we always obviously we took a position
Speaker 3: that we loved participating what we did last year, but
Speaker 3: that's how that's our game. We want to be able
Speaker 3: to launch. It's something really special. When I came here
Speaker 3: three years ago, all I was spoken about as a
Speaker 3: Carlton coach was you have to win.
Speaker 1: Round Michael had one years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's been ten years before we'd actually won
Speaker 3: against the type I think that round one game.
Speaker 6: So I'm a Richmond fan, so I was like.
Speaker 4: We don't care what you do. We don't care what
Speaker 4: you do.
Speaker 3: You've got to just win round one. And so we
Speaker 3: won round one and they've got the round two and
Speaker 3: we had to win the flag.
Speaker 4: It changed very very quickly.
Speaker 1: What's the mood looking like going into twenty twenty five?
Speaker 1: Is the Blues.
Speaker 3: Yearly really positive? Now we've got high hopes. Lock Boat clubs.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's it's the season of hope at what
Speaker 3: preseason is designed to do. And you would have had
Speaker 3: a lot of AFL people and players and coaches sitting
Speaker 3: here and say we've had a positive preseason. But it's
Speaker 3: in the doing now, Like you know, sort of the
Speaker 3: talk and speculation about where you're going to finish and
Speaker 3: what you're going to do, it a sort.
Speaker 6: Of finishes a lot of excitement around Culton.
Speaker 5: Like I feel like for the last few years the
Speaker 5: Blues fans have really been up and about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been peak interest, yeah, and it has its
Speaker 3: good and bad, But I don't think we'll ever complain
Speaker 3: about having eighty five thousand people.
Speaker 4: In the stands.
Speaker 6: It's amazing.
Speaker 3: They energize the stadium nothing else. And in the last
Speaker 3: three years have been a coach of this club of
Speaker 3: participated in two or three games that have just been
Speaker 3: the loudest.
Speaker 4: I ever heard and Mountain Full four and just for
Speaker 4: a moment, you.
Speaker 3: Take a second and you're at the MCG and it's
Speaker 3: the best stadium in the world, and you can look
Speaker 3: around and the stadium's absolutely.
Speaker 4: Pas and you've got this noise. It's just reverberating the ground.
Speaker 4: How can you not love mate?
Speaker 1: We were there yesterday and it was empty, and we felt.
Speaker 5: That we walked out on the field, which you don't
Speaker 5: get to do very often unless you are an elite athlete,
Speaker 5: or a football player or a rock star. That's not us, no,
Speaker 5: nor none of the above. But standing in the middle
Speaker 5: of the mcg and looking at that stadium, there is
Speaker 5: no place like it.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: When I was younger, my first seventeen and stood there
Speaker 3: for the first time when it was empty, and I have.
Speaker 4: Felt the same. It's the same sort of aura and
Speaker 4: sort of thoughts.
Speaker 3: She's one day I want to be here Grand Final
Speaker 3: day and I've been able to play, and I was
Speaker 3: lucky enough to be able.
Speaker 1: We've got to do it. A couple of times I
Speaker 1: was sorry, we've got We've got to take a quick break.
Speaker 1: But when we come back, we've got memberships to offload.
Speaker 1: The countdown is on for Carlton's first bounce of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. He can become a member today from as
Speaker 1: little as twelve bucks a month. I visit membership dot
Speaker 1: Carlton Footy Club at dot com dot au. But we've
Speaker 1: got some memberships to offload plus how good is this
Speaker 1: a v IP game experience on field experience you can
Speaker 1: and sick one day or something you can take over
Speaker 1: No whor thirteen twenty four to ten to score those.
Speaker 1: We're on the air with Vossy this morning. We'll continue
Speaker 1: our chat next This morning it's Blue Bagger's day. The
Speaker 1: coach of Vossi is with us this morning.
Speaker 2: Vossi, we were just talking before the break about Carlton,
Speaker 2: the energy, the passion that exudes from carlt and supporters.
Speaker 2: They are the genuine soap opera club in many respects.
Speaker 2: A couple of great players that we love watching. Sam Walsh.
Speaker 2: Has he to be okay to play next week?
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, so he'll train over the next couple of sessions,
Speaker 3: But no, he's well and truly ready to go fantastic.
Speaker 2: And then Big Charlie Kerner is another one that's on
Speaker 2: a bit of a fitness cloud.
Speaker 4: Is he okay?
Speaker 3: No, he has a couple of pretty important sessions to
Speaker 3: get through before we decide what we do there. So yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll wait and give him every single chance. So I'd
Speaker 3: still say that he's more unlikely than likely and more
Speaker 3: ready to go for round two but yeah, we haven't
Speaker 3: made that call yet. Who knows he comes out today
Speaker 3: and trains really well over the next couple of days,
Speaker 3: than he could be right to go.
Speaker 4: He's a crowd favorite. Also, Harry McKay.
Speaker 5: We have one of your team members joining us on
Speaker 5: the show.
Speaker 6: Very Harry McKay.
Speaker 1: Give us all the what do we need to know?
Speaker 3: He's maintenance, look after him, go easy on him. You've
Speaker 3: got a good one there, You've got a really good
Speaker 3: one there.
Speaker 6: We can hit him with all the hard hitting questions.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Get he's got a beautiful little doll and the small dog.
Speaker 3: I know it sort of doesn't suit that well, but
Speaker 3: at the same time, it's a it's a pretty cute dog.
Speaker 3: So my my kids absolutely love being able to nurse
Speaker 3: it and see it and talk about it all the time.
Speaker 4: So that must be cute. I haven't seen it, but.
Speaker 6: We need we need some little tidbits to chat about.
Speaker 5: Chat you just chat read the credit.
Speaker 1: Can you clear up a rumor for me? There was
Speaker 1: there was a rumor floating around that when they were
Speaker 1: signing you on that you flew in and you got
Speaker 1: shoved in the boot of a car and it to
Speaker 1: be snappy in the stadium or the class to.
Speaker 4: Set past media. Yeah, yes, that is true.
Speaker 3: When I first arrived into the airport, you know, with
Speaker 3: the media, obviously they find out that you're coming in.
Speaker 3: I nearly lost a camera guy because he's going backwards
Speaker 3: and the escalators were going down, and he stepped onto
Speaker 3: the escalator and tripped backwards and.
Speaker 4: Then fell down the stairs.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, I'm doing this interview and I'm checking
Speaker 3: on the on the guy.
Speaker 4: So it was it was quite comical.
Speaker 3: And then as I jumped into the car, obviously the
Speaker 3: media chasing me to find out where the interview was
Speaker 3: going to be and so and then on the day,
Speaker 3: so they chased me all the way there. Then on
Speaker 3: the day brad Leydster said, look, you know it's Carlton
Speaker 3: and you know you quite new here and there'll be
Speaker 3: people out the front. Mate, like, I've got a really
Speaker 3: unusual request. Can you jump in the back of the boot?
Speaker 3: They put you in the boot.
Speaker 4: So I jumped at.
Speaker 3: The boot and at the back of Carlton there's these
Speaker 3: speed humps.
Speaker 4: And so I was I was not prepared.
Speaker 3: So I'm sort of sitting there driving, sort of thinking,
Speaker 3: and then Brad's gone over the first but I've hit
Speaker 3: my head on the on the top. I think I've
Speaker 3: half knocked myself out with concussion, so I.
Speaker 4: Can't remember I got the job or not. I just
Speaker 4: turned up on I just turned up on Tuesday.
Speaker 6: To give you the job.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 6: To us sneaking in here.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 2: Actually what's it like as senior coach of the cart
Speaker 2: And Footy Club? Though must be a great honor.
Speaker 4: It's an incredible ho her.
Speaker 3: It's being a supporter as a young kid of Carlton
Speaker 3: and being able to sort of see the legends of
Speaker 3: the game. And then I got a met I've had
Speaker 3: kid like, you know, sort of moments where I've sort
Speaker 3: of seen Wayte Johnson and Wayne Harms and Kenny Hunter,
Speaker 3: and I've married for CARLD and my pot was huge
Speaker 3: cart fan, so that's how I end up CARLT and supporter,
Speaker 3: and I just love watching.
Speaker 4: All of them, so they're my idols.
Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, I'm sort of within
Speaker 3: the club and trying to be this professional coach and
Speaker 3: sort of you know, acting all serious and saying I've
Speaker 3: got a message, and then.
Speaker 4: My heroes are walking through with the door.
Speaker 3: It's like and then I got the one photo want
Speaker 3: which I was in between Wayne Johnson and Kenny Hunter,
Speaker 3: and I was like, right, no matter what happens from here,
Speaker 3: a nice moment.
Speaker 4: It's pretty special for me.
Speaker 5: I'd love to see the Blues and I'd also love
Speaker 5: to be at that party online on straight.
Speaker 6: Win the Premiership is here.
Speaker 1: Hey, we'll get a lot of calls, some blue bags.
Speaker 1: Jenny and her Son are on the line morning Jenny. Hello,
Speaker 1: you're on the line with any thoughts.
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Is Charlie Turner going to play the first round?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Everyone keeps asking me that question. I'll let you know
Speaker 3: in about three days, so don't keep down.
Speaker 4: I can't tell you right now.
Speaker 2: So maybe yeah, it's Charlie Kurner, your favorite player, my favorite.
Speaker 5: Please Adam sad Charlie.
Speaker 1: He just quickly on injuries and whether you're playing or not.
Speaker 1: Has the mood changed after sort of what happened with
Speaker 1: track for Traca last year when he went back out
Speaker 1: and played n that was that day. Was very surprised.
Speaker 3: No, I think it's such an unusual situation how that unfolded,
Speaker 3: So it's certainly not the norm. And you know, I
Speaker 3: think even if Melbourne looked back on. There's a heap
Speaker 3: of things they would do different, clearly, but but no,
Speaker 3: we're you know, we're really lucky. I think from a
Speaker 3: football wide, a FL wide, we have access to some
Speaker 3: of the best best doctors and best medical practice in
Speaker 3: the world, so, you know, and we're making decisions all
Speaker 3: the time about players and their you know, their health
Speaker 3: and can they can playing on and can't they and
Speaker 3: you know, so they're making thousands of decisions all the time.
Speaker 3: So I don't suppose we're going to get one hundred
Speaker 3: percent of them right, But but I think our players
Speaker 3: are in great hands, really good hands.
Speaker 1: Well, make good luck for the year ahead. Thank you, and.
Speaker 6: We can't wait to have Harry in here.
Speaker 4: Dog. Thanks again.
Speaker 6: Up feeling good on Nober one hundred. Jason Lauren on
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