Speaker 1: You are on the air with Jason Lauren Clints here
Speaker 1: as well, and so how's this guy?
Speaker 2: Our next guesst as a towering defender for the Weston Bulldogs.
Speaker 3: Want to pretty effort for a big man.
Speaker 2: Please welcome to the show.
Speaker 4: Roy, Hello, good morning.
Speaker 2: Good morning. How you I'm going?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 4: How's the hamstring?
Speaker 2: Really good?
Speaker 3: Actually we were down by so much that a little
Speaker 3: bit of tightness in it. And yeah, they just figured
Speaker 3: they'll take me off just to make sure we're ready
Speaker 3: for this week.
Speaker 4: All right, wait, just mid question and the desk has
Speaker 4: started going up to get power.
Speaker 1: Windows. Just got to raise the desk because he's so
Speaker 1: bloody talk.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, it was.
Speaker 5: Jeez, it was a toyrit old night there at Kiddineia Park,
Speaker 5: wasn't it? For the Don's house? How is Sammy Darcy?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean I've given him a couple of texts and
Speaker 3: you know, you don't you don't want to send too
Speaker 3: much because he's obviously going to get bombarded by a
Speaker 3: lot of messages.
Speaker 2: But yeah, very.
Speaker 3: Disappointing for him. You know, he's such an important part
Speaker 3: of our team and I'm sure he will go away
Speaker 3: and you know, attack, he's rehab. Is a very driven
Speaker 3: player and you know we're going to miss him, but
Speaker 3: it's a great opportunity for other places.
Speaker 2: Up.
Speaker 5: What did he actually did so he didn't sorry earlier.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's done.
Speaker 3: He's done his AC I don't know how much how
Speaker 3: many other things he's done around it, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's obviously really disappointed.
Speaker 5: He's had a few knee issues sort of back end
Speaker 5: of last year as well.
Speaker 4: When you see that happened to someone on the football field,
Speaker 4: I hate it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not the best part of our game. And
Speaker 3: you know we're always at risk going out there, and
Speaker 3: you know, just see it happened to one of your
Speaker 3: good mates is always disappointing. But I mean we put
Speaker 3: ourselves at risk every time we go out to see.
Speaker 5: What was interesting was a lot of the commentary post
Speaker 5: that injury and a lot of people riding off the
Speaker 5: dogs already. I mean, do you sit back and just
Speaker 5: sort of have a chuckle at that? I mean, what
Speaker 5: are around round six?
Speaker 3: I mean we've had a disappointing couple of weeks and
Speaker 3: a few injuries that we've got now, but you know,
Speaker 3: we've got guys that are coming through that are ready
Speaker 3: to come into the team and play their role. And
Speaker 3: you see teams that win games that have really good
Speaker 3: role players. So we just got to have guys step
Speaker 3: up and play their role. But yeah, I mean you're
Speaker 3: losing Dark. You can't really replace him, but we've got
Speaker 3: young guys that can come in and you know, compete.
Speaker 4: The Cats are so good down in Geelong, aren't they?
Speaker 4: And then you see someone like Jeremy Cameron who kicks
Speaker 4: ten goals? What do you do do you just like,
Speaker 4: how do you address that at three quarter time? When
Speaker 4: you're like, how do we stop someone like him? At home?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I'm really good friends with Jazz.
Speaker 3: The first time I played against him, I think I
Speaker 3: kept him to one goal, and it hasn't.
Speaker 2: Gone the same way the last couple of times. I
Speaker 2: think I checked him a little bit too much that
Speaker 2: first time, I got the wood over him.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it doesn't help when we're not
Speaker 3: playing well as a team, and you know, the ball
Speaker 3: when it's coming out the front and coming in quickly,
Speaker 3: it's really hard to stop someone like that. And he's
Speaker 3: obviously a very good player. He's been a very good
Speaker 3: player for a long time, long period of time. I
Speaker 3: think he's kicking nearly.
Speaker 4: He's a freak.
Speaker 2: He's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: And yeah, the way that he just sort of moves,
Speaker 3: it's really hard, especially when the ball is in space.
Speaker 3: If we're able to slope down a little bit more,
Speaker 3: might have helped you guys like Buku and James Donald
Speaker 3: to not get goals. I mean I think I had
Speaker 3: one or two kicked on me from him as well,
Speaker 3: So it is difficult, but I mean it's just you
Speaker 3: need to you need to play a little bit better
Speaker 3: as a team and put a live a bit more
Speaker 3: pressure on the ball.
Speaker 5: So better to have him as a teammate than an opponent,
Speaker 5: as what you're saying.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've had him as a teammate for five
Speaker 3: years and it was always good watching.
Speaker 2: I can sort of do my thing, but yeah, it
Speaker 2: is definitely better having teammate.
Speaker 1: Do you watch much footing apart from like when you're
Speaker 1: not playing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I watch pretty much every game we go to
Speaker 3: a game. No, I don't think so. I mean I
Speaker 3: stand out a little bit too much. You're sitting in
Speaker 3: the crowd, even just sitting in those seats, they're pretty
Speaker 3: small for me.
Speaker 2: I haven't gone to us.
Speaker 1: Just sitting there for two hours and watch it.
Speaker 2: Leads are pretty much around my head. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: like to sit on the couch and watch the game. Hey.
Speaker 5: The other big issue of the weekend revolves around the
Speaker 5: Carlton Footy Club, who've got a few issues on and
Speaker 5: off the field. Bailey Smith spoke post match post the
Speaker 5: Geelong win around the issue of He highlighted men's mental
Speaker 5: health in the wake of the Elijah Holland Holland's situation.
Speaker 5: Let's see it from Bailey first and then get your
Speaker 5: opinion on it.
Speaker 6: There's one thing I want to touch on, which is
Speaker 6: maybe out of pocket, but just I just wanted out
Speaker 6: at Dawson Family this week and Elijah Hollands last night.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm out.
Speaker 6: Of pocket saying it, but I think it's about time
Speaker 6: af I'll get amen's mental health round.
Speaker 1: It just makes you feel.
Speaker 6: Sick during the week and hopefully the AFL community wraps
Speaker 6: arms around them and we can do something. So yeah,
Speaker 6: let's put a danner on the week, I suppose, but yes,
Speaker 6: so there.
Speaker 5: Is an active investigation both at the cart And Footy
Speaker 5: Club and also at the AFL HQ, who are awaiting
Speaker 5: a bit of report from the Blues as to what
Speaker 5: the hell was going on with Elijah Hollands.
Speaker 4: It was hard to watch.
Speaker 5: It was so hard to watch.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: We send him and his family our best thoughts on
Speaker 5: Bailey's comments and also what you did see. As someone
Speaker 5: who watches a lot of foot you would have seen
Speaker 5: that distressing footage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I only watched the first half of
Speaker 3: that game. Yeah, I saw a couple of little things
Speaker 3: on TV. But then the next day when I went
Speaker 3: on TikTok, there was just so many videos of a
Speaker 3: larger and it is disappointing in a way where you know,
Speaker 3: people don't know what he's going through. We're under a
Speaker 3: lot of scrutiny every week, and you know, some people
Speaker 3: don't realize that we are human beings. And I agree
Speaker 3: with Baz in the sense that we do need a
Speaker 3: men's mental health round. I mean, I think we're at
Speaker 3: that stage where it'd be really good for the game
Speaker 3: and you know, drawing awareness to it. I mean, there's
Speaker 3: so many passionate fans, but they have direct access to
Speaker 3: us now and in our social media. As I've said
Speaker 3: with myself and others, and you know, it's really hard
Speaker 3: for some players, like young players to handle the scrutiny.
Speaker 3: And yeah, we don't know what's going on with the
Speaker 3: larger but you know, I'm hoping that the club's getting
Speaker 3: his arms around him.
Speaker 1: You spot on with you don't know what's going on,
Speaker 1: and like you said, we're waiting for the club to
Speaker 1: hand down the report and stuff. But it was amazing
Speaker 1: watching the narrative change over the weekend.
Speaker 4: People assumed and then people got concerned. It definitely changed.
Speaker 4: But do you think do you think clubs in the
Speaker 4: AFL do do enough to help you as players and
Speaker 4: people involved in the AFL manage their mental health.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have a we have a full time site
Speaker 3: that's in every week. But then you know, it's just
Speaker 3: it is on the player to go on.
Speaker 1: Is it? You know what I mean? Like we work
Speaker 1: for companies where they're like here's the free you know.
Speaker 4: Or he is right, it is up to the play
Speaker 4: to go on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I mean me personally, I don't speak to
Speaker 3: him at all. And you know, I'll see him passing
Speaker 3: in the hallway and I'll say how you're going and
Speaker 3: just have a general chat. But I mean I don't
Speaker 3: go seek out and see him because I feel like
Speaker 3: I'm always in a good mental space. I mean, I
Speaker 3: feel like if I wasn't, i'd probably go and talk
Speaker 3: to him. But some players, you know, probably feel the
Speaker 3: same like I just want to blow it off. So
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's always hard. You don't know, like
Speaker 3: if they want to speak to someone or they want
Speaker 3: to seek someone else, and sometimes they feel more comfortable
Speaker 3: speaking to family and friends, and yeah, it's it's a
Speaker 3: hard one to sort of grasp on what you could do.
Speaker 4: And there is a lot of support for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, there's definitely you know, where you can sight
Speaker 3: outside of the football club if you want as well.
Speaker 5: And I'm match day Rory just on that. You know,
Speaker 5: do you spend a lot of time chatting to your
Speaker 5: to your teammates in the lead up to a game,
Speaker 5: because I guess there's a lot of commentary about whether
Speaker 5: you have more people around the footy club, around the
Speaker 5: change room at the Blues could have or should have
Speaker 5: picked up on his state of mind. You know, do
Speaker 5: you what do you do personally? Do you spend you
Speaker 5: a sort of a more spend time alone or do
Speaker 5: you sort of immerse yourself with everyone.
Speaker 3: Well that's the thing, Like everyone goes about it differently.
Speaker 3: You know, there's guys that will sit in the corner
Speaker 3: and just sort of visualize, Like I'll do that sometimes,
Speaker 3: but you know, I'm more of that sort of joke
Speaker 3: around and have a good time before we sort of
Speaker 3: switch on that last thirty minutes and you know, start
Speaker 3: getting around each other. But yeah, I mean I don't
Speaker 3: know if anyone sort of knows the pre game, but
Speaker 3: like I said, there's guys that sort of zone in
Speaker 3: and like really focus and don't speak to many people, which, yeah,
Speaker 3: I've seen lots of people go about it that way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, did you see the MCG yesterday?
Speaker 2: Did you enjoy the Irish jig? Actually didn't get a
Speaker 2: chance to see this.
Speaker 1: Every time there was a goal, they're getting into it.
Speaker 1: Look at if the m c c stuffs Ginness, you
Speaker 1: would about to roll out the Green Hair Brother.
Speaker 5: The affair of goal songs songs after I mean.
Speaker 2: I don't think I have one.
Speaker 1: About you know how like the whole to a young team,
Speaker 1: they've all got their little celebration move, they'll do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I did say if I do kick
Speaker 3: a goal, again as a backman. I was going to
Speaker 3: throw the Kobe Bryant Iso play and I said to
Speaker 3: the boys, I've actually kicked a goal of the back.
Speaker 3: I'll do that, and so because I'm running back to
Speaker 3: the goals, which.
Speaker 2: Is pretty funny.
Speaker 4: I love it. I think it's that stuff going on.
Speaker 5: You're all right, thank you for coming in, no thanks
Speaker 5: having it's always a pleasure.
Speaker 1: How you got on this week?
Speaker 2: We have Sydney on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Sydney yeah, yeah, because on the sheet Alde alright, well
Speaker 1: good lucky to say no thank yous and
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