WEBVTT - POST MATCH CALLS & ANALYSIS: Port Adelaide v Essendon - Round 3, 2025 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:01.760 Let's go to Highbury first game. 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:05.880 Michael, Yeah, guys are I have to say, first of all, 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:06.720 is probably one of the. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:11.719 Worst games I've ever had to watch on TV. Secondly, 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:13.640 I'm not going to go down to Ken Hinckley Josh 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:15.960 because I think Josh cars coaching and Ken you do 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:18.760 what he has to do. But this team right now 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.040 in a bar injuries. I said that less than after 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.320 the Crows, when we've only got the Crows to beat Nobody. 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:27.040 Every Hey's saying thatsen are bottom sorce side. That makes 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.440 us a bottom four side. The sad part is they've 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:35.559 got a game plan of handballing out from from the 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:39.599 defense through. This team has not got the skill to 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:39.879 do it. 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:41.800 You're Western Bulldogs. 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:43.680 You've got Hawthorne and they do it. But they know 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.080 how to do it because they've got players that are skillful. 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:46.440 Ugh to it. 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:51.320 Our team for years of Obblist radio stations for years, 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.840 there is no elite legs and now can's change the 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:56.720 game plan. If you want to handble out of defense, 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.600 one too many handlers they turn the ball over Like 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.600 my god. Well, this team right now, in this club 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.679 is an absolute rebble. You've got to bottom out well, 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.640 guess what they are going to bottom out this year 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.800 because there's going to be some horrific defeats. This team 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.360 will finish in the between eighteen and sixteen and no higher. 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.199 Beget about your injuries. There's no endeavor. There's nothing there. 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.840 And I put this down and I've said it two 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.120 years ago when David Koch said we won't make your 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.640 decision on ken Heaton until August, he should have kept 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.840 his mouth shut, made the decision where we got knocked 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.759 down Straights this and we wouldn't be in this predicament 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.640 right now. I've had a gust for this club. They 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:40.800 are doing me no favors and I've been supporting this 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.560 club from the age of twelve years of age. I've 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:48.280 had a gustbel they are going nowhere because they have 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.920 got weak leadership and it starts from Kosche down. 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.320 Thank you, Michael, Let's head up to Queensland. 0:01:55.400 --> 0:02:00.680 Hi, Trevor Good you can't agree with what the guy 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:02.840 just said. Then the thing annoyed meant it was a 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:07.800 fascical game. The realities are it didn't surprise what it's 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.560 getting beaten. I'm disappointing we got beaten, but you know 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.680 what it didn't surprise me at all. I just can't 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:21.200 understand how our club can be so farcical in the 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.000 way we've a way we've gone over the last several years, 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.080 I can't understand. I've thought about it quite a bit 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.760 and I thought, well, name one other organization in the world, 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.440 but let's a bloke have a season to say goodbye, 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:37.120 not one game, but a season ends under no pressure 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.520 at all this year apart from pride, and to be honest, 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.520 I don't think you've got a lot because if you had, 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.799 you would have he would have walked. But sadly, our 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.080 club is going to go nowhere this year, and this 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:48.799 year is going to be a total way of the year, 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:50.720 and at the end of the year we're going to 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.080 see several players go, you know what, I'm out of here. 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.639 And it disappoints me because it shouldn't be this way. 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.640 It's it's just disappointing. The lack of the ever tonight, 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:02.919 and the other thing I thought I was the lack 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:07.120 of fitness. Who is our fitness coach? Seriously, our blokes 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:11.160 look flat ladders packed fair enough, they had one game 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.840 one day less to recover than the Bombers. 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:15.880 For probably hours. 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:20.200 Yeah, and you go, really they look terrible, and the 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.960 amount of handballs and kicking that just never got anywhere 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.520 near not a meter awake, but two and three meters 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:28.840 a time. Some players, you go, that's a joke, but 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.760 really these boys getting paid elite money to be amateurs. 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:34.000 Thanks Trevor. 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.680 You guys always talk about effor it's the first thing 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.640 you pack, and you sort of spoke to that a 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:40.320 little bit at times. 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.640 The intent of the game today from the power. 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.160 I'm not certainly not giving it out is a hot, 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.960 humid or humid night tonight. But both teams had that, 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:51.080 that's right. Both teams had really poor skills. Both teams 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.560 missed multiple opportunities. But I think it comes down. 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:54.800 To the end. 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.040 Well, if you look at Esson and you're a fan, 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:58.280 you kick nine to eighteen, and they go, we if 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.160 we kickstraight, the game would have been over earlier. Their 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:05.000 argument could be, But you know, you certainly can't disagree 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:06.600 with some of the sentiment of the callers. 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:07.800 I get that. I hear that. 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.560 The frustrating bit in the worry I had come in 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.040 to the game was got to bring the effort against 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:15.960 a team who's had their backs against the wall all 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:17.440 week after a really poor performance. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:21.200 Didn't put them away early. They're a proud club. They 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:21.760 busted it. 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.080 At times Port looked like they were a level above 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.039 if you look at Georgia Yardisford to center. But then 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.600 those opportunities out and really they just outworked us at 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.599 the end in terms of fitness, same fitness set up 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.080 has been for the last four or five years. So 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.800 is it mental? Is it willing to hang in there 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.560 long enough? All those things need to be discussed and 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:42.400 get to the bottom of it all. But the reality 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.120 is you go in the last quarter when you're almost 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:48.120 conceding double disposals, contested, uncontested shots on go inside fifties, 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.000 You're not going to win a game of footy. And 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:52.680 that was the worry at three quarter time. You've got 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.719 to finish yourself and work through it. We thought the 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.800 cream would rise to the top. Will Lessenons certainly did. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.520 Eight double two to three double O double O. You 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.200 can join us the conversation if you want to have. 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.400 You say, put Adelaide fans on a tough night, Bombers 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:04.920 by twelve. Sam's at Marion. 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:10.120 Yeah, Timmy, my man, I'm just gathered. I'm sick and 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.320 you can blame ten for one thing. 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:15.200 Tonight only I'm talking about. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:20.520 If you're gonna debut a player, do not leave him 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.080 as a sub for three quarters. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:27.840 Please, I'm big on the sub to them. 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.240 That's embarrassing. And he can't do a finger. Poor fella. 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.479 He's been sitting down for three and a half barter 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.680 three quarters on the bench players. I'm going to name him. 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:38.440 I'm sorry. 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:45.600 Both still lets us down at crucial times, not once, 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:50.680 not twice, not one year, not two year. In crucial times. 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:55.360 They don't want to work. They're flat rosy, just ring 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:59.640 your ring, your ring, your ring, horn Francis dropping marks 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:07.200 even three kicks away. If you're gonna recruit someone, I 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.479 don't care if he's fifteen, if he's twenty five, if 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:15.560 he can't kick a set shot from inside twenty five meters, 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.320 three rounds in a row. When you're going to pull 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.960 him off and let him know why you pull him off, Timmy. 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.520 Yeah, it's not a good night, Sam, not a good night, 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.520 thank you. Let's got to know what hijiant skills report 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:29.479 that hi Warran. 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.920 Yeah, pretty disappointed with this. There's one thing I like, 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:40.240 there's a young more right, yep, flyer. Yeah, he can 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:44.480 hold his head off. I think over twenty five twenty 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:48.880 five touches, I think, but here's a scenior players. I'll 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.280 tell you what, don't want to have a good look 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.200 at himself. They let the club down really bad, and 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.760 not this scene you play. I think Wanes could hold 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.520 his head high. But the other and they clue to captain. 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.520 They went listening when the game was in the balance. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.680 That's all you're going to say. But the young fellow, 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:08.719 I think he's going to be a huge player for 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:09.120 the club. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.560 Young Morales, what do you think? 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:11.840 Line? 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.960 Yeah, I can't disagree with what you're saying. I did 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.000 say it had had you know, Connor had been quiet 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.000 and he had a wonderful start at the season. Jason 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:20.880 had been quiet. Then he kicks a beautiful goal. But 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.720 it's few and far between, you know. I thought, you know, 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.640 the key senior players, where they did they win their positions? 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:28.320 I thought it. 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:35.120 Merit and goys, brain's going really well. Now I'm struggling here. 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.760 I thought des will work through it. I thought Shield 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.880 was big, Caldwell had a couple of big moments. You're 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.080 looking for midfielders who dominated for port Ollie Wants probably 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:48.280 had the most five clearances. Morales was good twenty seven. 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.080 Bergen I thought it was great. Bergman was great. Connor 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.520 has twenty two, but it wasn't to the level or 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.400 Horn France. It's both at twenty two, but you wouldn't 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.000 say they had a real effect on the game. There 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.000 were moments they had, Yeah, that a quarter a half. 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:03.560 But if you look, you made fourteen midfielder pow Pepper fourteen, 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:04.640 Drew fifteen. 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:06.880 Yeah, you're just not getting. 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.680 Enough footy out of those guys, and particularly full to center, 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.200 when the majority of your guys defenders getting the footy 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.760 that tells you where you're positioning is so I thought 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.600 credit to Essen and as I said in the call, 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.960 that we needed a big last quarter and particularly your 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.440 senior players had to stand up, and I thought essenence 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:25.920 players did that instead of our Sadly, it's. 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:27.760 At the glen Elk South Hi Brant. 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:34.120 Yeah, how are you going? Hey, Brian, look really really disappointing, 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:40.160 really disappointed. I just I just don't get what he's 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:45.080 going on with the senior players. Connor Rosy, he's our captain. 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.640 There were a number of efforts tonight which is not 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.640 Port Adelaide. Mate. You've got to tackle people, you've got 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:55.480 to pressure people, going to put your body on the line. 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.760 I love Travis Folks. I respect what he's done for 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.440 the club, but I've got this horrible feeling he's getting 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:06.720 played to get to four hundred because he was woeful tonight. 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:12.360 He turns the ball over late in the second quarter. 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.240 There was a contest in the middle of the ground. 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:16.680 All he needed to do was get position the ball 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:21.000 or topoke it forward, but he stopped, went down and 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:26.080 luckily Radigalia and defended Ko and it was the point 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:31.120 right enough enough, he's too slow, he turns the ball. 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.720 What about running into the forward line all on his own? 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.320 George yass kick it over the top to him. 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:38.880 But what did he do? 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:44.080 Kicks it straight to well enough enough. I respect the guy. 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.080 He's been a terrific servant for the footy club, but 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.199 the game has passed him by. 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:51.520 Well. 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.599 I think in answering that, Brian, and you know he 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:56.959 entitled your opinion on that, I think the whole plan 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.719 for both was that there were no promises this year. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.640 But I think what's happened, not just from both, from 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.319 other players. We're seeing right now. And I never used 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.400 injury as an excuse. But if you look at the 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:14.000 likes of Butters, Burton, Marshall not you know, Zerk Thatcher Lacocious, 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.240 they're probably five who you go there straight in the 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:16.840 team great? 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:17.480 Is that fair. 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:23.240 That the first toy Thwart's best twenty two eighteen. Then 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.319 you've got Jones and a bit of Lord or Finlayson 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.520 who's out of the team on form. So that's five 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.839 players if you rever. But everyone has injuries, right So 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:31.640 I'm not trying to make this excuse, but the reality 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.840 is players like Boka was going to be a bit 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:38.640 part player going forward because agent playing a role and 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.680 no guarantees could play half samdful, half whatever now on 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.520 a stage where a lot of guys are getting that. 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.080 But that then puts more pressure on your current players 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.360 to deliver their best footing. And if you sit back 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.160 and go who's playing career best form this year? I 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.120 think Rosies had a really good start today. He was 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.760 down that level. Jason hasn't been to the level he 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.520 was last year. I think Sins improved, Bergolin's improved, Farrell 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.640 around the Mark, pow Pepper slow to come back off 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.080 that knee. At the moment, Barry is a kid. Soldo 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.480 Bergman I think has been great. Reality's sort of here 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.560 and there. Georgi Ardis is as good as last year. No, 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:15.480 but he's been their main forward. I think right now 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.480 you're dealing with a little bit of player availability, bit 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:23.040 of confidence, and the competition's probably got a little bit 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:27.240 more competitive and on the on and probably exposed Port 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.880 right now with the injuries they've got. And that's no 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:33.000 excuse because at three quarter time this game was there 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.520 to be one, absolutely and it's and it's judged on 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:39.520 effort and endeavor. Away from home, that game was there 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:41.440 to be one. You kick the first goal. If you've 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:43.120 got the next one, I reckon the sales go. The 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:44.680 win comes out of the sales at essenon. But to 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:46.760 Essen's credit, they kicked the last four and dominate the 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.200 game double disposed. There was double clearances inside fifties, kicked 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:51.320 four forward to one four. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:52.600 It's the game. 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.800 Timmy talked about, you need to be clean when the 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.960 game needs to be one. I think Port Adelai just 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.320 won't clean, not just excellent. 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.920 Yeah, and Port weren't clean all game apart from Essen's 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:03.480 last quarter. The super Queen. 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.520 That's exactly where it was to be one they were 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.840 cleaner and that was so. But I hear what the 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:09.040 Port fans are saying. 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:14.360 Right now, Yeah were you one and two and was 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.400 supposed to be a soft start with a really tough 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.800 period going. The questions are being asked and for as 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.040 a club, in the playing group and the coaching group 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.319 and everyone involved in the footy club, you need to 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.520 bunk it down and get some results because the fans 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:28.040 demand them. 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.720 Home games against and Kilda next week and then Hawthorne 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:32.839 and gather around to come for Port Adelaide after the 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:33.600 one and two start. 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.000 Let's head to no longer? Hi, Andrew? 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:36.200 Oh Hi? 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.480 My comment is how can a team go from playing 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.960 Prelium finals last year to where they are today? I understand, 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.200 Butter's is out, You've got the statues out and we 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:52.760 lost Houston. But yeah, what what was the catalyst for this? 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:57.280 Over the What do you think it was? Andrew? What's 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:57.640 your gut? 0:12:59.720 --> 0:12:59.920 Look? 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.679 Yeah, I'm not sure. I'm speechless. I think I get 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.560 the sense that maybe the players has checked out already surely, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.040 and then yeah, I think we need some sort of 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:14.280 change sooner than later. 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.440 Is it fair treaders to potentially ask, thank you Andrew, 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.560 that the Dan Houston loss in the off season was 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.800 a huge catalyst in the game plan Stone. 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:25.719 I know you don't like talking about game plan, but. 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.960 That that style of kickoff half back and execute really 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.079 well off half back via kicking, and he was a 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.240 huge part of that. His loss made them think about 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.160 how they differently distribute the ball from half back from 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:41.120 now and we've seen a much more handballly focused game 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:42.959 from there, and we've seen a lot of turnover from that, 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.240 and it's caused some issues. It's put them under pressure, 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:49.120 it's made them make rushed, hard, trickier decisions that they 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:50.000 maybe can't pull off. 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.400 Is that to ask such a big component the first bit, 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.000 you're not going to replace Dan Houston. No, but the 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.240 club made a decision they wanted to get into the 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.120 draft the kid they really like by I think, yeah, 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.000 apart from missing a couple of shots, I think he's 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.080 he's going to be a very good player. So I 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.240 get it and I hear it. But you've got to 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:11.760 make this decision with Tazzy coming in, where your list 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:16.200 is at, you know, with transition, with coaching. Okay, do 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.840 we need to get into this draft. They're talking about 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.280 year go and we had to be in it, right. 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.840 So I've only been inside the walls for twelve months 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.640 to see how that works. But the club made the 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.000 decision we need to do this, and Dan was wanting 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.040 to go. Dan was out, He had a four year contract. 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:33.560 You could have held. 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:34.840 You would have had an unhappy player. 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.560 Yeah, but whether that's the right decision or not, people 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:41.680 will be judged on that, right, and you've got to 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.320 back your footy program to make those decisions. Like as 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.240 a board, you sit there and go, well, what do 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:47.520 you think is the best thing for the club. We 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.880 want to get into this draft. You've got this player 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:54.600 who is a buddy gun player but wanted to go 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.640 for life after footy stuff. So you've got to make 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.360 this decision. And some will say no, it should have 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.760 kept him. Should have and I hear that. Other piers 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:03.160 say you've got to move forward and you don't keep 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:03.640 it unhappy. 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:04.200 I hear that. 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.840 So the club made a call, right, which is never 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.000 easy because you're not going to replace him. See he 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.680 wasn't And this is the chat that Andrew just said. 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:14.280 He didn't play in the prelim last year, but he's 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:19.120 an Australian. He didn't play the finals, so you've just 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:22.400 got to make a tough decision as to what you 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.920 think is the best system. You're not going to replace him, 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.240 but I think forward a center. Our setup is actually 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:33.000 better with albeit Lakosius who's now injured. Yep, right, You've 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.360 got Berry, You've got Richards who are two half forwards 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:36.920 get up and down the ground compared to what we 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:38.720 had last year the people was out injured. 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.680 This is before you get to cinta. This is the 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.520 half back line. This is how you distribute it out 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:42.960 of the fence. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:43.800 I get that. 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.680 But you've got Burton who's injured tonight. Burton can use 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.080 it well, yep right, Lucky Jones, Yes, he's learning his way. 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.600 He's been sort of bit up and down. You've got 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.840 Farrell who can kick it really well, so you're probably thinking, 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:56.880 then you've got some other kids. You go, I think 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:58.920 we can cover the half back if our midfield we 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.120 think is going to keep going better well, and midfield 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.720 hasn't dominated probably like the competition would expect just yet. 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:06.960 Now we've got touch up against Colling We've got to 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.560 touch up in the last quarter tonight and dominated Richmond. 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.040 So it's still an early pitcher. But I hear that. 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.360 I hear it all, and it's not straight science. You're 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.080 always going to have a lag off half back when 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:18.760 you lose. I think the best half back in the 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:20.480 game are up there with I just think it's quite 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.200 sick and you've made it tough. Yeah it is, and 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.640 I'm not denying that, but I think fundamentally your half 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.600 facts aren't exposed if your midfield's dominating and we haven't 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.320 got our midfield going. That's true and I think that's 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.600 the bit we've got to get right as a club still, 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.800 to get our midfield dominated. Because you think Butter's comes 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:40.200 back in right. Rosie's a superstar All Australian player, but 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.520 not know he's had two really two games in a 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.440 quiet game you've had nothing from But as he hasn't played, 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.240 Horn Francis Is probably hasn't been to the level expected 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:52.800 last year. Willem drew Olli's probably playing that role Travis. 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.680 We probably weren't ex club's probably not expecting and he's 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.440 probably not expecting to play every week. You're playing the 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.280 kids like it's a it's it's a it's a challenge. 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.160 Let's get to Mount Barker High, Luke. 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:12.359 I agree, it's what you're saying. Warren esident had a 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.960 lot of injuries too, so true. 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:20.119 I don't, I don't. I don't subscribe to that excuse. 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.800 No, no, hang on, I want to say this right, Luke. 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.400 I'm not making excuse. I talked about what the parameters 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.200 are and I have constantly said tonight injuries aren't an 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.399 excuse for a reality. And I'm judging it on the 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.080 last quarter's performance endeavor. So I want that to be clear. 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:38.520 So okay, well, Badge, you clean that up. But today 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:42.400 I liked a few things. I like Marius. I liked 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:46.080 that I watched Burgoyne done. I think you know he's 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:51.159 developing well. I'm impressed with Minch, George yardists in his 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:55.639 first half, and I was happy with radically here on 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.679 his first game. I thought that was I thought that 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:03.080 was bravery and he wasn't bad, he wasn't great. But 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:07.480 I'm just just. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.280 Look, might have lost your leader, Luke. Sorry about that. 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.639 You were getting through the things you were positive about. 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.040 Just in regards to georgi ARD's Timmy, were you happy 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:18.920 with the way he went about it, and Christian Marius 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.040 I agree. I think he showed some good glimpses tonight too. 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.480 Georgiadis was the only sort of thing up for that 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:30.840 looked dangerous in saying that his too too in the 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.280 first term. In the first term, that was it. So 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:37.159 that either means that he wasn't presenting enough or they 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.160 weren't hitting him or whatever it was happening. 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:43.320 It didn't happen second quartery miss too. 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.160 It must have been out in the full months. Yeah, 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.359 but he missed him, Yes, you're right, he didn't. 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:49.399 He didn't score. 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:53.600 Score, so yeah, he he looked dangerous early, but that 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:57.960 was about it. So again the whole it was a 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:01.720 worry of the game. And you knew the bombers were 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.680 you know, that'd been attacked all week in their home town, 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.720 so they had to lift. And I thought that the 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:12.560 standard was appalling from both sides as a spectacle. It 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:16.679 was horrendous and the mistakes made were horrible, and in 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.000 the end it was just one team wanted it more 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.120 than the others and overran them in the last term. 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:22.880 So happened after the game. 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.320 Leaky roof, total roof frustration, do it right with right 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:27.920