Speaker 1: The AFL gets its man, one of the games most
Speaker 1: respected and trusted administrators, leaves the reigning premier to answer
Speaker 1: the call of GD.
Speaker 2: The plight of the Swan's laid bare in an unacceptable
Speaker 2: home capitulation, or the Hawks are showing to be miles
Speaker 2: off in another exposing loss.
Speaker 1: And privileged access.
Speaker 3: On Coaches Nights, Matthew Nicks.
Speaker 1: And Chris Fagan come together ahead of their high powered
Speaker 1: clash on a feature Friday Nights.
Speaker 4: We talked about is a step into it, embrace all.
Speaker 5: Of it in the room and rentin.
Speaker 3: It's unedifying for a senior coach to do that.
Speaker 5: They're on the side of Courtia with the brain tape.
Speaker 1: The man on they played the best footy I've ever
Speaker 1: seen at the start of the season, and said the
Speaker 1: president left the couple order said he, of course they do.
Speaker 5: Is the stuff that legends are made of. What is
Speaker 5: holding the ball? I don't think I could answer it
Speaker 5: clearly right now that I can do something.
Speaker 6: Wrong, you know, And I need to get and the
Speaker 6: board SEXU the fans lover and with no fans no
Speaker 6: through sixty year old.
Speaker 1: It's winter and round twelve has us halfway through the
Speaker 1: home and away season games.
Speaker 2: Right, Jo, it occurred to me having way too much
Speaker 2: funny with you. I had a lot of fun on
Speaker 2: the weekend, some good games if we need to talk about.
Speaker 2: And there's a couple just under the pump.
Speaker 1: You said there was seven games, so the spotlight was
Speaker 1: a bit narrower and you didn't want to be as
Speaker 1: it turned out, Sydney or hawthor exactly.
Speaker 5: And we got a much better game than.
Speaker 2: We thought we were going to get Thursday night, so
Speaker 2: up until then Brisbane would take care of incident. But
Speaker 2: that was a magnificent match, and then we saw Friday night,
Speaker 2: and we're about to talk about.
Speaker 3: It all right, we'll delve deep.
Speaker 1: Here's what we've got lined up for you tonight and
Speaker 1: for the remainder of the week. So Chris Fagan and
Speaker 1: Matthew next join us as we look back on the
Speaker 1: events of round twelve and then Jack revolted guide the
Speaker 1: Couch team through Howard all unfolded and what it means
Speaker 1: for what's to come. Jordan Lewis, Jonathan Brown and Nathan
Speaker 1: Buckley Tomorrow night. We're super excited to bring this pairing
Speaker 1: to players night. Darcy and Harry McKay here at the
Speaker 1: desk together for all.
Speaker 3: Their life experiences.
Speaker 1: The president of the Players Association for Harry's journey this year,
Speaker 1: so it'll be splendid to have.
Speaker 2: It's a colectic group there with Rags bringing up the
Speaker 2: rear and.
Speaker 1: He's bringing the chicken wings tomorrow night too, and only
Speaker 1: Premiership coaches need to apply. On Wednesday night, John Longmire
Speaker 1: and Adam Simpson together Simon Goodwin ahead of the King's
Speaker 1: Birthday encounter and we will reveal our slider for Big
Speaker 1: Freeze Slider number eight SCAZ. Every Monday night starts with
Speaker 1: the ording of the GVPS the most valuable players from
Speaker 1: the previous round in the estimation of just one man,
Speaker 1: Gary Lyon, and the prize is the most sought after
Speaker 1: and the richest end footing ninety three thousand dollars worth
Speaker 1: of automobile. The Ford Mustang GT Fastback, iconic design, unreal
Speaker 1: performance fively that the a engine and it goes like
Speaker 1: a dream around Albert.
Speaker 5: Park, goes like the Clappitts Jared, that's what he say.
Speaker 2: I had some engagement with some current day players about
Speaker 2: this car, and I'm not suggesting that they're looking for
Speaker 2: any favorable treatment but it is very very well much
Speaker 2: after so to Bailey Smith and Marcus Windhager and Alex
Speaker 2: Neil Bullen and Shoe Bolton, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I couldn't get him into it.
Speaker 3: That's a high bar.
Speaker 5: I've only got three to give.
Speaker 2: So Jamie Ellett continues on his merry way and I
Speaker 2: put a bit of a rating on the game Friday
Speaker 2: Night Footy at the mcg Hawthorne, big build up.
Speaker 5: And he's kicked five again.
Speaker 2: So he's gone five to five, one sixth in his
Speaker 2: last month in an era of footy or a time
Speaker 2: of football where key Fords don't kick bags are five
Speaker 2: and six and he's done it three in the last
Speaker 2: four weeks.
Speaker 5: Thod He is just magnificent.
Speaker 2: Got the whole Collingwood Football Club with magnificent and he's
Speaker 2: finishing off their good work. So he's had a fantastic
Speaker 2: month Jamie Ellett. So this is just he's going to
Speaker 2: go right. When he went left, Jack Scrimshaw bought it
Speaker 2: and he turned around his flomer.
Speaker 1: So his career numbers, he's going to smash his career
Speaker 1: bests in the season that he's putting together.
Speaker 3: So what a.
Speaker 2: Time Australian Blazer awaits two votes to Hugh mclugg each
Speaker 2: first time I've given you votes. This is how hard
Speaker 2: it is to get votes in this magnificent award. But
Speaker 2: he couldn't deny him and I ended up having forty touches.
Speaker 2: I didn't look at that until this morning actually, but
Speaker 2: he just his influence on the game as it unfolded
Speaker 2: and it got a bit.
Speaker 5: Of Harry Yes.
Speaker 2: So for the reigning premiers, they needed someone to step up,
Speaker 2: and he's doing this more and more regularly.
Speaker 5: Jaredy does it.
Speaker 2: You know, we talk about Australia and if Jamie Elliot's
Speaker 2: in the right there and then this man surely he's
Speaker 2: right there. He's having an outstanding season. He's so reliable,
Speaker 2: so dependable, so clean and consistent.
Speaker 5: I love the way it goes about.
Speaker 3: It shining all right.
Speaker 1: So we've got a Ford, a midfielder.
Speaker 5: And Tellum rookie. There he goes.
Speaker 2: So this is what was half Marcus Windhage because the
Speaker 2: job he didn't pick it was outstanding. But by the
Speaker 2: end of the game you just couldn't go past cal Wilkie.
Speaker 2: And then people have been lauding him for a long time.
Speaker 2: You got recognized as an Australian, which outstanding. We talked
Speaker 2: about it at the start of the year with Spud's
Speaker 2: game and how dependent he dependable he's become.
Speaker 5: Well. In the end he was so good the Melbourne
Speaker 5: just kicking it to him. He just drew Melbourne's kicks
Speaker 5: to it. And this is all in the.
Speaker 2: Last quarterby when he was half a smith. He just
Speaker 2: said nap, not on my watch. And he's a joy
Speaker 2: to watch. I love the way he plays. He doesn't
Speaker 2: get beaten. He plays on whoever comes his way, and
Speaker 2: he is worthy thirty one touches and fifty marks.
Speaker 5: So there they are, all right.
Speaker 3: So this is how looks at the moment.
Speaker 1: Patrick Dangerfield nine votes, Toby Green sixty side, the chasing Brigade,
Speaker 1: steel Side, Waterman, Cozy Pickets and then the cluster at three.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into a top of the agenda,
Speaker 1: the first of two plumb rolls that the AFL has
Speaker 1: been filled the league bringing home Brisbane Lions chief executive
Speaker 1: Greg swan to lead footing.
Speaker 7: Been a CEO for twenty six years, so I won't Yeah,
Speaker 7: I'm going probably the mothership, I've said into the AFL.
Speaker 5: After all this time.
Speaker 7: So, but you're looking forward to that heading back to
Speaker 7: Melbourne obviously probably.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a few reasons for it.
Speaker 7: There's little bit of family reasons, but yeah, it's probably
Speaker 7: a great, a good challenge for me at this stage
Speaker 7: of my career.
Speaker 8: Look, we had a number of conversations, but I knew
Speaker 8: that Greg's achieved so much at Brisbane and he was
Speaker 8: and I knew there was a longing to be home
Speaker 8: at Melbourne at some stage, so the time he was right.
Speaker 8: And I think Greg will be a great addition to
Speaker 8: the AFL footy department and to the AFL executive too well.
Speaker 8: I think what Greek does bring his amazing experience within
Speaker 8: the AFL and he'll have a lot of autonomy to
Speaker 8: make changes that he sees fit and he'll be able
Speaker 8: to draw on all of his experience when he's doing that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, since we've been in this premises, we've played in
Speaker 7: five Grand finals in a row. You know, it's been
Speaker 7: amazing what's happened in this in the last little bit.
Speaker 7: And just really proud of the footy program and then
Speaker 7: everybody else that supports it.
Speaker 2: Huge announcement. Greg'swan a very experienced man. Ben Big clubs
Speaker 2: Collingwood and Carlton, ben at in the state clubs when
Speaker 2: they've been on the bottom and taken them to the top.
Speaker 5: Jared, So I don't play in this space.
Speaker 2: It was a surprise when I heard his name mentioned
Speaker 2: as the nominee to be Did they get it right
Speaker 2: with you?
Speaker 5: Surprised?
Speaker 3: This has widely been viewed across the foot or world.
Speaker 3: Is a coup and a coup it is.
Speaker 1: This is a job that needed experience and needed some
Speaker 1: heft and he brings that just in the very announcement
Speaker 1: of his name. So what he is the classic. What
Speaker 1: he doesn't know about footall is not worth knowing. You
Speaker 1: rightly point out the vast array of experience. So if
Speaker 1: there has been a disconnect between headquarters and clubland, well
Speaker 1: nobody represents continuity and clubland like Greg swan is Carlton
Speaker 1: and Collingwood, so two of the big clubs in Melbourne
Speaker 1: and then the Brisbane lines. It's worth recounting his journey
Speaker 1: at Brisbane. So was the AFL that asked him to
Speaker 1: go in twenty fourteen when the northern outpost was hemorrhaging
Speaker 1: and in every way financially on the field, player attention
Speaker 1: so he went and stabilized it. Then the biggest appointment
Speaker 1: that he makes is Chris Fagin and the true genius
Speaker 1: of that player attention he rectifies and then makes them
Speaker 1: attractive to go to.
Speaker 3: So he starts to attract players up there.
Speaker 1: They become financially sound and then affluent. He plays a
Speaker 1: huge role in securing the future for the lines at
Speaker 1: Victoria Park, wrangling throughout the Olympics, the need to get
Speaker 1: out of the Gabba, which had reached its use by date,
Speaker 1: and before he finishes his won premierships in the men's
Speaker 1: and the women's.
Speaker 3: Like that is a job spectacular.
Speaker 1: They're done, and now the AFL asks him to come
Speaker 1: home at a time of need. A time of need
Speaker 1: around umpiring, around the judicial system, around the laws of
Speaker 1: the game, the day to day operations are footing in
Speaker 1: the relationships with clubs. So it is his wheelhouse when
Speaker 1: his name was floated together. Okay, so the triumvirate is
Speaker 1: going to look like Andrew Dillon a chief executive, Greg's
Speaker 1: won and another chief executive. They will either be Tom
Speaker 1: Harley and Meat Bains or Simon Garley. What a powerful
Speaker 1: triangle that is to drive the game.
Speaker 2: For Yeah, and clubs have been screaming out for experience
Speaker 2: in an AFL house. So the other thing he's got
Speaker 2: is he's got an undeniably good relationship with media. Now
Speaker 2: how big a fact that that is. It's down the list,
Speaker 2: but he has developed great relationships within powerful media figures,
Speaker 2: and I think it's going to help sell this this
Speaker 2: next phase for the AFL.
Speaker 1: He's a straight talker, Yeah, he will answer the question.
Speaker 5: He's a real good bloke.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if the good bloke factor comes
Speaker 2: into it, but I guess at age sixty three, I.
Speaker 5: Thought, well, he's up there. I'm not starting.
Speaker 2: It's a cushy job because what you just pointed out
Speaker 2: is an outstanding role call of what he's done. But
Speaker 2: to get up and come back, and I know he's
Speaker 2: got family and grandchildren to come and bring back and
Speaker 2: throw himself into a big, big job.
Speaker 5: It surprised me a bit, but I'm really excited.
Speaker 3: What a servant of the game.
Speaker 1: So we already had the life membership and now probably
Speaker 1: his last job in the industry is going to be
Speaker 1: an immense one inside the Mothership.
Speaker 5: When will the other announcement be made.
Speaker 1: By probably in a week inside a week. I think
Speaker 1: the determination is to have it all done before the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame dinner, which is next Tuesday night, and
Speaker 1: the meetings that happen around that.
Speaker 5: And you have a leaning, you have a suspicion.
Speaker 1: No, I don't want to say that. I do as
Speaker 1: there's clearly a push for Tom Harley. I don't think
Speaker 1: they can miss. I think they're three excellent candidates, Harley,
Speaker 1: Bans and Garlic. So whatever suits Dylan as his right
Speaker 1: hand man. It feels like this one is a very
Speaker 1: personal choice and then these three can drive.
Speaker 5: In a big five or six days.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: And the response I think, I think it has most
Speaker 2: people in footage just nodding their head saying, okay, now
Speaker 2: we're getting where we need.
Speaker 1: Them, desperately needed and decisive, decisive in a way that
Speaker 1: hadn't been coming out of the headquarters for a while.
Speaker 1: On the field, it was impossible to miss the horror
Speaker 1: show that was the Sydney Swans on Saturday nights, and
Speaker 1: in that just how far a powerhouse of a team
Speaker 1: has fallen.
Speaker 4: The home team have been absolutely slows.
Speaker 2: We're now starting to see holes everywhere.
Speaker 4: The real Swan, the real Swans, they played in the
Speaker 4: Grand Final last year.
Speaker 5: I understand the grand final team. I'm telling you there,
Speaker 5: but look at bottom four team. They are at bottom
Speaker 5: four team, bottom four teable, They're not well well.
Speaker 6: It was unacceptable and embarrassing. Embarrassing.
Speaker 4: Humiliation lies with the home team.
Speaker 6: I have so many questions to answer in the season.
Speaker 6: I didn't expect that. You know, I'm such a massive
Speaker 6: night for the footy club. When you have a twenty
Speaker 6: year reunion, you know, for a team that played desperate, uncompromising,
Speaker 6: ruthless football, and that was that far from it. So
Speaker 6: when it is, drew it back and get to work
Speaker 6: real quick. Everyone.
Speaker 5: I hate seeing a coach like that.
Speaker 9: Just down and his answers are obvious.
Speaker 5: We're not working out enough.
Speaker 8: Don't underestimate the fallout of the two Grand final losses.
Speaker 5: I think that one hundred sent there with his scars.
Speaker 6: Well, are going to fight our way through this, the
Speaker 6: everyone that's involved at the footy club, and there's going
Speaker 6: to be no easy way through it. So I said
Speaker 6: to them, we expect, expect some tough sessions that'll happen.
Speaker 3: You were there for the full gory show. Just how
Speaker 3: shocking was it.
Speaker 5: It was a galling night to what it was.
Speaker 2: So they kicked the first goal of the game and
Speaker 2: it went into sort of arm wrestle phase for about
Speaker 2: ten minutes, and I said, okay, both teams are up
Speaker 2: for it. And then they the Adelai Crows, kicked another two.
Speaker 2: And then you realize that this Sydney Swans team can't
Speaker 2: score and this Satelade team defends so well, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, the four goals just was gaping, and
Speaker 2: almost as it occurred to ours as a commentary, I
Speaker 2: think it occurred to the playing group as it unfollowed.
Speaker 2: They thought this side that hard to score against, and
Speaker 2: we're already four down, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 2: it was twelve hours the goals and I'm down on
Speaker 2: the ground, you know, to get ready to do the
Speaker 2: halftime and the two thousand and five premiership team have
Speaker 2: been presented, and it just occurred to us. There was
Speaker 2: a time Jared in the second quarter where Sydney kicked
Speaker 2: the point and the crowd started clapping, and how don't
Speaker 2: I look at each other and John oh, is that
Speaker 2: a special acknowledgment maybe of this, but it was just
Speaker 2: them getting little bronxed. I guess it's the best way
Speaker 2: to describe it. So it was a really dark night
Speaker 2: for the footy club on the back of all the
Speaker 2: things the boys had just talked about there as a premiers,
Speaker 2: as a Grand Final team, they've dropped right away. So
Speaker 2: it doesn't look modern, and the makeup of the team
Speaker 2: doesn't look modern, and it was just a procession in
Speaker 2: the end.
Speaker 1: So there's the mechanics, and then there's the intangibles. Where
Speaker 1: are you inclined to lean at the moment?
Speaker 2: It's all of it, mechanics, intangibles and personnel, and the
Speaker 2: personnel that's missing is that the personnel they can least
Speaker 2: afford to miss. And I'm talking about Papley and Golden
Speaker 2: as being spirit and energy tights, but also class.
Speaker 5: But the rest of it's just dropped away.
Speaker 2: The intangibles is the spirit, it's the commitment, it's the heart,
Speaker 2: is walking off the ground with looking at each other.
Speaker 2: And then you know you have the situation where in
Speaker 2: opposition play. I have no problem with Waye Miller saying
Speaker 2: that they were a rebel, because they were. We'll talk
Speaker 2: about that further when Matthew Nix joins us. So all
Speaker 2: those things are real, and then You've got the other thing,
Speaker 2: which we put on your gender last week, that we've
Speaker 2: been generous and kind to Sydney in terms of the
Speaker 2: succession plan because they've had good success, great success, premiership
Speaker 2: success with it. So we go, okay, they know what
Speaker 2: they're doing. But now to justifiably Dean Cox's rolling all
Speaker 2: this will be questioned. And that's the big That's what
Speaker 2: happens when you're sitting in the big chair. And now
Speaker 2: Coxy would be feeling that right now. It's not sitting
Speaker 2: next to the horse and letting him front up. He's
Speaker 2: got to front up and find a way. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure bringing the mouthguard is going to fix it.
Speaker 1: So he's been hard and uncompromising. He has been blunts
Speaker 1: at each stage where they've had these performances, and that
Speaker 1: was the.
Speaker 3: Worst of it. What if that's not what's required at
Speaker 3: the moment.
Speaker 1: If it is the emotional exp bows are all healing,
Speaker 1: and that this is the one moment in time where
Speaker 1: working harder is not going to be the answer.
Speaker 2: It would be the bravest of brave twelve game coaches
Speaker 2: who then sat down and just threw his arms and
Speaker 2: throat and started the love in and if that's the
Speaker 2: alternative you're talking about, is it the mouthguards? You know,
Speaker 2: let's get some pain and work our way through it,
Speaker 2: or now let's sit down and talk about our feelings.
Speaker 2: And that might be what's theyd jo, But she used
Speaker 2: to be a brave path to take for Dean Cox.
Speaker 2: I suspect it's more than that. I suspect it's more
Speaker 2: than that. And yeah, there's a whole little undercurrency this.
Speaker 2: As I was watching that unfolded and in the coach's box,
Speaker 2: callerm Mills are sitting in the back row as the
Speaker 2: captain of this football club come back for a week
Speaker 2: and got himself reported and sat out and had to
Speaker 2: watch that again. It's a pretty hard he would be
Speaker 2: feeling guilty, I would imagine right now. Call Mills. So,
Speaker 2: we love this footy club. We've all admired them, but
Speaker 2: they are, excuse me, like lots of clubs have been
Speaker 2: in the last ten twenty years. They're in a deep
Speaker 2: hole and it was embarrassing and it is embarrassing and
Speaker 2: now it's up to them to do something about it.
Speaker 1: All right, not as deep a hole, but a bit
Speaker 1: of the varnish coming off the Hawks, who were one
Speaker 1: of the spruit teams coming into the season thrilling last
Speaker 1: year and now living the journey.
Speaker 3: Of the high Riser that then meets the plateau.
Speaker 10: So what's the message to the players after that one?
Speaker 9: How's more just ask them actually just have a bit
Speaker 9: of a discussion around let it all out. What's going
Speaker 9: on and where you're at, and where are we're at
Speaker 9: and what do you think? And I think it was
Speaker 9: pretty clear to everyone that was here and knows watching
Speaker 9: it home that you know.
Speaker 10: Where at this point miles off it, where do you
Speaker 10: think the players are at? And like you ask them
Speaker 10: what's going on? Like, where do you think they're at?
Speaker 9: I don't understand the question. Where do I think they're at?
Speaker 9: We just got beaten by ten goals, so that's where
Speaker 9: they are up with sandwich just a bad night. I mean,
Speaker 9: I think you're always assessing where you're at and what
Speaker 9: we what we've known is we're not We're not the
Speaker 9: best in it, and that's what we want to be.
Speaker 9: That was a that was a pretty big reality check
Speaker 9: for what the best looked like at this stage of
Speaker 9: the season.
Speaker 3: Seven and five.
Speaker 1: Two big clashes to come. How did you leave Friday Nights.
Speaker 5: Oh no, they got a belting.
Speaker 2: I think the team that belted them are very very good,
Speaker 2: but they've got a belting. And it's the reality is
Speaker 2: they haven't achieved anything this side, and now we sit
Speaker 2: there and go, okay, do you understand that as a
Speaker 2: playing group, because I know the coach does.
Speaker 5: I absolutely do, But I don't.
Speaker 2: They enjoyed this, as I said, a ten to finish
Speaker 2: to the year, won the first final, just got mudded, right,
Speaker 2: So they spent a summer of heaped praise and then
Speaker 2: they won their first four games of this year. So
Speaker 2: I got no doubt in their mindset that they are
Speaker 2: here we go sort of thing, as opposed to here
Speaker 2: we go and let's let's get to work.
Speaker 5: But I think it was more here we go, you understand.
Speaker 2: So when the pressure came, I just thought the club
Speaker 2: itself didn't. They just seemed edgy unnecessarily in the lead
Speaker 2: up to that game on Friday night. Maybe I'm reading
Speaker 2: a bit into it, but as I said to you,
Speaker 2: there were seven games Brisbane Esident. Every Yeah, the game
Speaker 2: was great as it turned out, but everyone's going, oh well,
Speaker 2: Essident injured, and so the focus rightly went on that
Speaker 2: game and the criticism. So then they get critiqued. When
Speaker 2: you're a big game like that, you get pulled apart.
Speaker 2: And then some of it's positive, some of its negative.
Speaker 2: James Sisley, you know this rubbish about there's been a
Speaker 2: pile on James Sisley.
Speaker 5: Turn it up. So and then the footy.
Speaker 2: Manage that comes out, right, Rob McCarthy, I don't actually
Speaker 2: wear did you give this the you might give relpie
Speaker 2: on Friday Night? So the quote was I think we've
Speaker 2: got the quote there. Ye, I was going to have
Speaker 2: to put my glasses on. I will, He says, there
Speaker 2: it is. I can't be more emphatic. This is about
Speaker 2: some of the criticism veiled or not of James. Is
Speaker 2: there anyone would question is? Of course his leadership can
Speaker 2: be questioned. That's footy, right, It couldn't be further from
Speaker 2: the truth. That's okay too, that's your opinion. You're the manager.
Speaker 2: You'ren't going to say anything else. But then to say
Speaker 2: his leadership is in question, that is bullshit. And you
Speaker 2: can quote me on that. When I read that, they
Speaker 2: get unnecessarily wound up here and you know, when they're
Speaker 2: going beautifully and that tend to win and they're four
Speaker 2: zip and the love's been the media is no one,
Speaker 2: no gm of the foot.
Speaker 5: He's coming out and go yeah, yay, you blugs, come on.
Speaker 5: Back off our boys a bit.
Speaker 2: You know, they're not that good, but when a little
Speaker 2: bit of heat and pressure comes on, So that was
Speaker 2: to me, that was kind of the mindset going in.
Speaker 2: And then they got punched in the nose and they
Speaker 2: couldn't you know. Sam was a bit his press conference,
Speaker 2: this is what And then they didn't tackle the week before,
Speaker 2: so all of sudden, we think this is just going
Speaker 2: to be a tackle fest and they got more of
Speaker 2: the same. So yeah, they're going to get more heat
Speaker 2: and they'll probably get crankier, but that's not going to
Speaker 2: do you any good.
Speaker 1: No, the critique has been reasonable, and as it turns out,
Speaker 1: it's been accurate.
Speaker 5: Well that's the other thing.
Speaker 2: Well, all of the build up to it, you know,
Speaker 2: it was really no one was saying what did Sam say?
Speaker 5: And every one thinks we can't play We're going to
Speaker 5: win again.
Speaker 2: So I know that, yeah, it's in the margins, but
Speaker 2: I did get a mindset that they felt like they
Speaker 2: were under siege when they weren't under siege. They're just
Speaker 2: getting good old fashioned critique.
Speaker 1: What's happening on the ground is fascinating. So hot boar
Speaker 1: was a fad, and it was last year's fad, and
Speaker 1: our teams are not simply not allowing them to play
Speaker 1: in that way anymore. They've been scouted and respected as
Speaker 1: a top team. They haven't made the adjustment to that,
Speaker 1: and we haven't seen what they're going to be next.
Speaker 1: So they're not what they were and they're not what
Speaker 1: they're going to be. And this is the most painful
Speaker 1: period where you don't look like anything at the moment.
Speaker 2: It's a great point, Jared, And you know what they're
Speaker 2: not prepared to do on the basis of the last
Speaker 2: two weeks is get their hands dirty and put their
Speaker 2: head the hull and go and tackle someone. So that's
Speaker 2: a pretty clear message. Sam's already said at once the
Speaker 2: response was negligible, So you're right, we don't know what
Speaker 2: the response is, but right now the response is not
Speaker 2: get to work and work hard. So let's see their
Speaker 2: flud lines all over the shop. They've introduced two prize
Speaker 2: recruits into their back half, but you wonder whether it's
Speaker 2: starming some of the run and there and all that
Speaker 2: sort of stuff.
Speaker 5: So it's pretty good. It makes for a great Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the Dogs and Adelaide their next to the
Speaker 1: biggest winner of the weekend felt like Fremantle. So I
Speaker 1: was watching this with your words ringing in my ears
Speaker 1: after the Security loss. You laid out the idea of
Speaker 1: footy broke. When you invest in your performance, you win,
Speaker 1: and you take it all out and then you come
Speaker 1: to the next one rather than reinvesting and rolling and
Speaker 1: going from one to the next to the next. Each
Speaker 1: game is not an isolated incident, and each win is not.
Speaker 1: They've had four good weeks and now three good wins,
Speaker 1: two of those on the roads, and they were.
Speaker 3: Just all in.
Speaker 1: From the Bolton tackle to long Ear in the box,
Speaker 1: they were all in and it just felt to me
Speaker 1: like they've had the epiphany.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the people from week to week to week.
Speaker 2: And the post game looked like it as well. He
Speaker 2: was the animated Justin Longo. So yeah, the winning, the story,
Speaker 2: this is what I loved here. So the wins are
Speaker 2: just an investment on where you want to get to.
Speaker 2: You don't go and cash out, just you leave it
Speaker 2: in and it becomes compounding interest.
Speaker 5: That was the phrase I couldn't get out last time.
Speaker 2: Talking about this, So let a compound and they've done
Speaker 2: exactly that. They've lost against Collingwood competitively, and then they
Speaker 2: beat the Giants, but they didn't take all the money
Speaker 2: out here and they just said not let it go.
Speaker 2: Got some interest with Port, got some more interests with
Speaker 2: the Sons, and now they're looking at a nice solid investment.
Speaker 2: So I loved it. I love their leaders. Their leaders
Speaker 2: were the best players.
Speaker 5: Again.
Speaker 2: Five comes back in Clark. Clark keeps having a fantastic year.
Speaker 2: So they've got not the double looking this far ahead
Speaker 2: by the way, they've got the bar. And then they
Speaker 2: got North on North home game, which happens to be
Speaker 2: in Perth and Essen and Kilda. That's for us to
Speaker 2: look at and say, that's three winnable games for them.
Speaker 2: It's North and nothing else.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 1: So get to your ten wins and they don't fumble
Speaker 1: it like last year.
Speaker 5: Exactly right.
Speaker 1: And the emotionally wrought aspect of the weekend was what
Speaker 1: surrounded callum Wards, which was which was tough viewing and
Speaker 1: it's everything that was feared at the time, and in
Speaker 1: all likelihood the game's record holder at the Giants.
Speaker 5: His career is over.
Speaker 7: He's an athletic customer.
Speaker 3: The hands and backs that one.
Speaker 1: Ward get another look at that, but that doesn't look
Speaker 1: good the way that.
Speaker 5: He's holding that knee.
Speaker 3: Who gets gens in due course, but it doesn't great.
Speaker 1: So you obviously incredibly disappointing for a fooday club, such
Speaker 1: an important person, important player.
Speaker 4: When he goes for the tackle, he grabs the right knee,
Speaker 4: it doesn't look great. And when you hold it at
Speaker 4: the back, and I can tell you that's the feeling
Speaker 4: you get and I don't want to be the profit
Speaker 4: of the doom. That's where you grab when your acls.
Speaker 11: In all sorts, very emotional scenes and you obviously just
Speaker 11: seeing there Locky with two of you by hog water
Speaker 11: think he knows how are you feeling? What's the diagnosis
Speaker 11: at the moment.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure officially that but it feels like about
Speaker 1: it on like a c L initially probably be in
Speaker 1: shockground found out there's a lot worse going on the
Speaker 1: met is.
Speaker 11: It in the marketing contest or when the ball hit
Speaker 11: the ground ren for the tackle in the In the.
Speaker 5: Tackle there's just a change direction like a typical ACL.
Speaker 5: He's a fantastic clubman.
Speaker 3: He sees the game really.
Speaker 5: Well and there's no doubt that he'll add value in
Speaker 5: whatever he does. It's just won't be on the field, unfortunately.
Speaker 1: I couldn't but feel that little way that cal Warts
Speaker 1: giving the crowd maybe more symbolic than he's like.
Speaker 10: A you Joe.
Speaker 1: The coverage was raw and exceptional, from the wave of
Speaker 1: the crowd, the tears, the kiss from Locky Whitfield and
Speaker 1: then the three quarter time address. He's met with the
Speaker 1: surgeon today and is the ACL. So he committed himself
Speaker 1: to this being his last season. Had left the family
Speaker 1: back in Melbourne for one last tilt at it and
Speaker 1: his eighteenth season three hundred and twenty seven games four
Speaker 1: with the Dogs, where he was a much loved figure.
Speaker 3: He's been a cornerstone of what the Giants have been.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll leave it for him to make any announcement, obviously,
Speaker 2: but whatever happens he retire, well, when his time comes,
Speaker 2: he will be remembered as one of the most respected
Speaker 2: players of the last ten or twenty years. And I
Speaker 2: don't think there's anything better than the retire with that
Speaker 2: sort of monicat so all you want in add your
Speaker 2: career is to say I did everything I possibly could
Speaker 2: to get the best of myself and to get my
Speaker 2: team to be as good as they can be. And
Speaker 2: he's the embodiment and the epitome of that. So beyond that,
Speaker 2: I got no other words. I was heartbreaking like everyone else.
Speaker 2: So and what he.
Speaker 1: Meant to his teammates that was three quarter time, wasn't it.
Speaker 1: He speaks to them and they show it.
Speaker 2: It's everything that Sydney didn't do. So Sidney had their
Speaker 2: two thousand and five heroes in front of them, Jared
Speaker 2: and looked at them.
Speaker 5: And then went out on the ground and gave up
Speaker 5: twelve goals.
Speaker 2: They look at Callum wore at three quarter times staring
Speaker 2: down the barrel of the was it I don't know
Speaker 2: what the margin was? And they responded and walked off
Speaker 2: with a win. They're the two polar opposites. One's respecting
Speaker 2: your heroes and one's not.
Speaker 1: It was for the misty eyed sentimentalists, that's for sure,
Speaker 1: all right. Our coaches are about to join us, Chris
Speaker 1: Fagan and Matthew Knicks, so the Lions are.
Speaker 3: In the top two.
Speaker 1: Matthew Knicks has got his Crow's pair, And so when
Speaker 1: they meet they sit two and three on the ladder. Oh,
Speaker 1: come Friday nights, just looking at me.