Speaker 1: You're on the air with Jason Lauren Clint here as well,
Speaker 1: and let's say hello to our ex Yes, our.
Speaker 2: Next guest players forward for the Melbourne Demons and has
Speaker 2: been with them since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: He's also quite the amateur boxer.
Speaker 2: So watch out sweeping through Jackie Melxham.
Speaker 3: That's looking good plays. Welcome to the studio, Jake Melksham.
Speaker 4: Morning morning, Jake, amateur boxer.
Speaker 5: I'm told you didn't tell me that was going to
Speaker 5: be part of the intro, Clint.
Speaker 3: I didn't know it was how much true sometime junior boxer?
Speaker 5: No, it's not true. I did it when I was
Speaker 5: in grade six for a little bit.
Speaker 4: We said to it going to be our trust ep.
Speaker 4: You speak boxer and he said, yeah, very successful.
Speaker 5: It's not the tag you want. I don't think I.
Speaker 6: Will have you say in the commentary that often referred
Speaker 6: to Melchiam as people are going to get all watch out.
Speaker 6: He's a boxer. And we found footage and photos on
Speaker 6: the Internet of you in blo If I'm not mistaken
Speaker 6: when you're in your six, can you not the.
Speaker 1: Guest He's asked not to be referred to as a boxer.
Speaker 5: I grew up in a little bit of a rough
Speaker 5: area and my dad thought it'd be yourself in case
Speaker 5: he bumped into.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: Jake Melksham is one of Now my dad works the
Speaker 2: Melbourneooty Club and dad often says that Jake Melksham, he's
Speaker 2: a good boy.
Speaker 3: He's a good boy. He's one of his favorites.
Speaker 1: Although your dad has a complaint about the jewelry and
Speaker 1: some of.
Speaker 2: A lot of the boys are now wearing bracelets necklaces,
Speaker 2: and he's like, you know, because I've got to take
Speaker 2: them up.
Speaker 4: What do you mean take them up? Do you play
Speaker 4: in them?
Speaker 5: You guys that have got those bracelets that you can't
Speaker 5: get them molded?
Speaker 3: What soldered?
Speaker 5: Friend or whatnot?
Speaker 7: And it's girl friends are like, I'm going to put
Speaker 7: this on and you can never take it off like
Speaker 7: a hand.
Speaker 5: Can't like that? Yeah, that's a hard do that mind
Speaker 5: clips off.
Speaker 4: Not your wife just.
Speaker 5: She's there forever speaking convicture. She three kids in the
Speaker 5: car in the garage listening to the show because they're.
Speaker 4: Big time kid. What are the kids' names?
Speaker 5: We got Frankie, Teddy and Alfie and your beautiful wife
Speaker 5: and my wife Stacy, Stacy Morning guys just did.
Speaker 1: A Campa van trip over Chrissy. Everyone's still getting along.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we survived that one. That was the one worry
Speaker 5: was my wife. We thought she was going to fly
Speaker 5: home halfway through the trip.
Speaker 4: Got on your Stacy, get on the Virgin because.
Speaker 5: Her sister was there and her kids a little bit r.
Speaker 4: I left them there too.
Speaker 3: It's fun camp. What is a camper van?
Speaker 5: What is it an RV?
Speaker 3: Exactly that?
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm not.
Speaker 1: Do you sound like one with the people? Does have
Speaker 1: an infinity pool?
Speaker 3: Does it?
Speaker 7: Let's talk foody obviously, what was it called? Opening Round
Speaker 7: has kicked off with only two games. You guys are
Speaker 7: launching your season this weekend. How the D's feeling going
Speaker 7: into a big twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: We're feeling very excited. Obviously, the split round to start
Speaker 5: the year delays things a little bit, so you know,
Speaker 5: by the end of January you're more than ready to
Speaker 5: get stuck into it. But this weekend we've got Jim's
Speaker 5: inaugurl game, so it's Jim's Round. We're launching that this
Speaker 5: week and we're raising funds for Jim's foundation, so he's done.
Speaker 2: Jim Steins, you know, his legacy lives on in so
Speaker 2: many ways throughout Melbourne, but also at the Melbourne Footy
Speaker 2: Club as well.
Speaker 5: Yes, so we're looking forward to that and paying tribute
Speaker 5: to Jim and raising some funds for his foundation.
Speaker 7: It's on the eve of Saint Patrick's Day, Yes, luck
Speaker 7: of the Iris Patty's Day Monday?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 5: How good?
Speaker 4: We're a touch of green for the special occasion.
Speaker 5: Yestfully we win and the pubs are full nights.
Speaker 1: How's team feeling going into a new season and like,
Speaker 1: looking back, can you pinpoint why things didn't work compared
Speaker 1: to other years when they have?
Speaker 5: No you can, you can't really pinpoint it. To answer
Speaker 5: your first question, excited to get stuck in because it's
Speaker 5: been a long off season for our club that's been
Speaker 5: widely spoken about. We've had some things go on, but
Speaker 5: now we're ready for the footy to start and actually
Speaker 5: do what we're what we're paid to do. Get out there,
Speaker 5: play well and win some games and.
Speaker 2: Get the reset, a reset the club needed in many respects. Yeah,
Speaker 2: is that fair to say?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I think by the end of the season last
Speaker 5: year we were ready for the season to just be over.
Speaker 5: Once the season once we couldn't make finals. You know,
Speaker 5: we're still playing hard and whatnot, but sometimes you just
Speaker 5: need a spell and that was what was really good
Speaker 5: for us.
Speaker 4: How's Christian Petrarca going.
Speaker 7: Obviously it was awful watching him get injured last year,
Speaker 7: but he seems like he's running around well. Is he
Speaker 7: chomping at the bit to get back out there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's going really well. He played a couple of
Speaker 5: weeks ago in mandra over in Perth, played really well,
Speaker 5: looked like he hadn't missed a beat and he's super
Speaker 5: fit at the moment. He had a little bit of
Speaker 5: a niggle during the preseason again where he spent some
Speaker 5: time in rehab and just got fitter and fitters as
Speaker 5: he did his time in and he looked like he
Speaker 5: didn't miss a beat last week.
Speaker 1: I wonder who works harder in the off season. Petruk
Speaker 1: are over at the Red Bull camp or you in
Speaker 1: a camper van dealing with three kids.
Speaker 5: Definitely me.
Speaker 1: Hard, agree, I reckon that's the cheaper, cheap.
Speaker 4: What's bogie too?
Speaker 1: We got the Boogie one. Yeah, the shower on board.
Speaker 1: You didn't use the tinier showers.
Speaker 5: We have the shower.
Speaker 2: What's a preseason like for a thirty three year old
Speaker 2: these days, Jake, it would be.
Speaker 3: One of the elder statesmen of the footy club.
Speaker 5: Now, yeah, I'm the oldest.
Speaker 3: You're the oldest.
Speaker 5: Yeah, three thirty three. That's that's old in footy term,
Speaker 5: in the footy world. Yeah. Our good friend Max is
Speaker 5: a couple when he's younger, a couple of months younger.
Speaker 5: But if you looked at my preseason this year, I
Speaker 5: haven't been out there that much. I've been injured.
Speaker 4: But do you get more time The older you get,
Speaker 4: you get more time off?
Speaker 3: Is that true?
Speaker 5: You get a few weeks extra? Is that for as
Speaker 5: just to catch up to start the pre season? Yeah?
Speaker 4: The game at thirty three.
Speaker 5: So yeah, we're we're doing what we need to in
Speaker 5: our season with that extra couple of weeks to just
Speaker 5: free group and come back refresh.
Speaker 1: So you were saying injured, are you good to play?
Speaker 5: I'll be back around three. I've had a few soft
Speaker 5: tissue injuries. Getting older. People keep telling me if I
Speaker 5: had a dollar for every time someone told me that
Speaker 5: we weren't going to bring it up, I wouldn't be here.
Speaker 5: I'd be in an RV trip somewhere.
Speaker 7: Ye're so annoying because we're actually saying you're so young.
Speaker 4: I want to be thirty three again?
Speaker 3: Is that why we need to just call you old?
Speaker 1: What we walked in and goes, do you want to
Speaker 1: sit or stand? You're like, oh, take the seat, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're going to go to a break. When we come back.
Speaker 1: I would like to challenge you boys this morning.
Speaker 5: Oh here we go.
Speaker 1: I want to know fitness test. No, definitely not a
Speaker 1: fitness test, not on this show. Who knows more about
Speaker 1: the D's out of you two?
Speaker 2: We've got some got some calls as well. A couple
Speaker 2: of big Melbourne fans. Let's kick things off with Deb.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hi, Hey, you going good? Out of jakeh Hello.
Speaker 5: Jake, morning Deb? How are you very good?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to change there?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 3: You're a massive D's fan. Who's your favorite?
Speaker 8: To be honest, I've got quite a few. But we
Speaker 8: do love track. We often see lots of the boys
Speaker 8: down in Mornington. So we have walked past leave us
Speaker 8: before in the morning in central and my son has
Speaker 8: been so star struck with mom.
Speaker 2: Jake sort the Melbourne heartland in that way, it's.
Speaker 1: Not where my pie is holiday. Hey, dad, we're going
Speaker 1: to hook you up with the day's membership for fun. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you so much, no worries.
Speaker 3: And we've got Jamie as well. Who's got a question
Speaker 3: for Jake.
Speaker 5: What is it? Jamie?
Speaker 3: Hey Malgie, I just wanted to say, mate, big fan
Speaker 3: of the way you and he came over and he's
Speaker 3: still some great values in our footy club.
Speaker 5: My question for you is who's the next big star
Speaker 5: down at.
Speaker 8: The footy club?
Speaker 5: Are young? Thank you for your kind words, Jamie. The
Speaker 5: next big star I'm going to go with Caleb windsor So.
Speaker 5: He had his first year at the club last year.
Speaker 5: He's probably one of the quickest guys in the competition.
Speaker 5: How old is he? He's only nineteen oh fifteen years
Speaker 5: of footy ahead of him and he's going to be
Speaker 5: one of the competitions yet.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 5: Appreciate you, Molkie.
Speaker 1: Hey Jamie, we're going to hook you up with the
Speaker 1: club membership as well. It is bang on eight o'clock.
Speaker 1: We'll call it a challenge of the d's Nuffies coming
Speaker 1: up next here on over.
Speaker 3: It's a battle of des nuffs.
Speaker 1: Nuts, des nufs nuts.
Speaker 4: It's not these nuts.
Speaker 7: Nuts, what's he's nuts.
Speaker 3: Mister, Yeah, he's nuts. It's a chocolate or something. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Jake melxims in the studio this morning for the Marty
Speaker 1: ds or we want to know how long you have
Speaker 1: been at the club now ten years, So it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to find out who is the biggest D's nuffy.
Speaker 1: Is it Jake a current player, or is it Clint
Speaker 1: the pest?
Speaker 4: But you know what, Clint pretends he knows more than
Speaker 4: he does.
Speaker 1: I reckon, Yeah, I agree, just I feel like you
Speaker 1: trade off your.
Speaker 7: Do you ever see him swinging around the club because
Speaker 7: once we went to the footy with him and he
Speaker 7: was like, come on, we'll take you down to the
Speaker 7: rooms and say.
Speaker 4: Hello, and they wouldn't let him, wouldn't let us in,
Speaker 4: wouldn't let us in because we were with him.
Speaker 5: I see him for the paid gigs. I don't see
Speaker 5: him on the weekdays.
Speaker 2: What do you mean it's all volunteer work, medication of
Speaker 2: the class.
Speaker 4: Memories. Well, he couldn't get into the rooms when he was.
Speaker 3: Trying an away game.
Speaker 5: It was they don't know there.
Speaker 1: He let him know. No way, all right, here names
Speaker 1: your buzzers.
Speaker 7: I don't think it was that clear okay, names your
Speaker 7: buzzers will start with an easy one.
Speaker 4: Heaven, I know this. What is the Melbourne Footy Club
Speaker 4: Best and Fairest Award called.
Speaker 5: Jake trus There it is, And give me the opportunity
Speaker 5: to go in before. This is a competition. Okay, go hard?
Speaker 4: Have you won one a competition? The Blue Trust?
Speaker 5: You're no bluies for me?
Speaker 1: Your eyes then were incredible.
Speaker 3: I give you a prize if you will.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: Question two? How many VFL a f L premierships?
Speaker 7: Demonst how many times have you said that one of
Speaker 7: those volunteer?
Speaker 3: Many?
Speaker 1: Spumber four?
Speaker 4: What year was the first Melbourne premiership?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know the way nineteen o five?
Speaker 4: And would you like to have a guest.
Speaker 5: I'll say my name first, Jake, Yes, Jay, sorry, nineteen
Speaker 5: oh four.
Speaker 7: Well you are closer to the mark because it is
Speaker 7: exactly nineteen hundred.
Speaker 4: Nineteen one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll say you've taken engratulation.
Speaker 7: Wait, I like this one because I know this too.
Speaker 7: Who's the last moment played to win a Brownlow medal?
Speaker 4: Clint he was so handsome.
Speaker 3: Shane will Wordy two thousand.
Speaker 5: His son plays with us. He's handsome as well.
Speaker 1: His sons hate people with good jeans. Yeah, hey Jake,
Speaker 1: we hope the injury clears up.
Speaker 8: Mate.
Speaker 1: We will see you in round three.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much, guys for having me.
Speaker 7: No word luck to the d's this weekend. Don't go
Speaker 7: watching the Grand Prix when you should be watching the fro.
Speaker 1: No, he wouldn't do that. I have my phone on
Speaker 1: me in the change himself. Who will catch up once
Speaker 1: the game's done. We've learned that the hard way by
Speaker 1: checking the way sit in stands for this weekend.
Speaker 3: No, no teape.
Speaker 7: First to get sandwiches and stuff down in the club rooms.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we get grilled.
Speaker 4: That into the room.
Speaker 5: Yeah. After after the half time burgers, you.
Speaker 4: Can have the Oscar Piastre burger.
Speaker 2: Should you should come and sit with me in the
Speaker 2: President's Club. I'm doing one of those volunteers.
Speaker 1: Just gone twelve fast date. Cheers the company, make good
Speaker 1: luck for the season, the Heggs guys.
Speaker 3: Cheers.
Speaker 4: Lauren Wake up feeling good on No. One hundred.
Speaker 3: Lauren on socials