Speaker 1: Twenty four after eight gather Around brings the biggest names
Speaker 1: in the AFL industry to town. Eddie McGuire is in
Speaker 1: the five Double a breakfast studio with us. Eddie, good
Speaker 1: morning to you. You were just telling us a bit
Speaker 1: of a story that we're going to start not with
Speaker 1: Gather Around, but it's too good a story not to
Speaker 1: miss for our audience to miss out on. Your car
Speaker 1: featured in The Castle, one of the most beloved movies
Speaker 1: in Australian film history.
Speaker 2: So I believe I had a cameo role. Okay, So,
Speaker 2: Jane Kennedy and Rob Sitch are very close friends of mine.
Speaker 2: In fact, I used to work with them on the
Speaker 2: D Generation. That was when I first started on radio
Speaker 2: back in Melbourne, back in the days, as they say,
Speaker 2: about nineteen eighty seven. I reckon it was. Anyway, I
Speaker 2: get a phone call when the footageh I'd kicked off
Speaker 2: and so nine I'd give me a new car. I
Speaker 2: had the BMW Convertible, the new black model, and anyway,
Speaker 2: Jane rings up one day and says, can we borrow
Speaker 2: your cars? What do you want the car for? So
Speaker 2: I was just shooting a movie. I said, we're dinner
Speaker 2: last week. I didn't mention anything about a movie. No, no,
Speaker 2: we're just doing it. It's going to take nine days
Speaker 2: and oh, no worries. Anyway, it became the Castle. So
Speaker 2: when Dennis Denudo the lawyer, finally gets the vibe and
Speaker 2: wins the court and he gets his new car and
Speaker 2: it pulls up and it's mine, it's your car, and
Speaker 2: they shot it in they shut it in Fitzroy and
Speaker 2: it came back and somebody had taken the stickers off
Speaker 2: the ben w stickers off the wheel.
Speaker 3: In the credits.
Speaker 2: No, no, I should have got a car ring or something.
Speaker 2: So well, that's where it all started back in those days.
Speaker 2: And haven't they been fantastic working dog still Channel ten.
Speaker 3: I can remember I was anyone when the DJ started
Speaker 3: at show, you know, Graham and the Colonel and world.
Speaker 3: It's just so funny. They were just great. So I
Speaker 3: was looking away with a bit of it.
Speaker 2: Now I know, Well, you don't get away with anything imagined.
Speaker 2: The footy show would be off here in about ten
Speaker 2: seconds these days. For twenty five years, it last about
Speaker 2: five minutes there. Well we go on YouTube into your
Speaker 2: sensation one or the other these days, But no, it's
Speaker 2: a great and with that, the tradition continues tonight because
Speaker 2: we're going to be doing the show from the Brossa Valley,
Speaker 2: which is a combination of sort of footy classified meets
Speaker 2: gather around meets the old footy show tradition.
Speaker 3: And I must have twisted your arm to get you
Speaker 3: to go and do the show in the bross Valley.
Speaker 2: I've pushed that for three years. Well, so we actually
Speaker 2: are sitting in the vines. We're going to record a
Speaker 2: little bit early so we get golden hour, So we're
Speaker 2: going to shoot it about half us five and so
Speaker 2: the players can get back so they're all coming in.
Speaker 2: Isaac Rankin is going to sing again. We are doing it.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you exactly where we're doing it, David, as
Speaker 2: I look for my phone and get it right for you.
Speaker 2: We are in where we're in the Brussa Valley estate.
Speaker 2: We're just up from Sernsville there and we're going to
Speaker 2: go for dinner afterwards and do the whole thing. But
Speaker 2: I love it up there. It's just magnificent. I love
Speaker 2: McLaren Vale. Now there are Molly Doka wines up there
Speaker 2: with Sarah Marquis is a good friend, and so it's
Speaker 2: going to be a wonderful night. The premier is going
Speaker 2: to be there Collingwood and no no, the premier of
Speaker 2: Sorry Turner mellen Askus will be there, and we're going
Speaker 2: to get Jack Innovan on as well. Who's a favor.
Speaker 2: I thought I might come out an umpire's uniform just
Speaker 2: to make things happy as well. Jeez, they're a bit
Speaker 2: stifferent on the weekend.
Speaker 3: Don't get it.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a markdo It wasn't a mark.
Speaker 3: It was a free though. It was a freak. It
Speaker 3: was in the back.
Speaker 1: We put it to a jury before eight o'clock about
Speaker 1: the coaches challenge or something similar about that. In the AFL,
Speaker 1: fan of it.
Speaker 2: No, I think what we have to do is just
Speaker 2: get the umpires in the right position. I think late
Speaker 2: in the game, because they're running up and down, it's
Speaker 2: become too much of an athletic feat. I think they're
Speaker 2: at a position and they're tired, and I would rather
Speaker 2: the ball come to the umpires. I'd rather they be positioned.
Speaker 2: I've actually petitioned this to the af L for a
Speaker 2: number of years for this very reason, because late in
Speaker 2: the games, everyone's out in their feet. You know, ranking
Speaker 2: doesn't hold a chess mark. The ball goes to the ground.
Speaker 2: You know it's tight, it's on it's desperation. The umpires
Speaker 2: have to be the coolest cats. Instead they're running up
Speaker 2: and down like here he gots. So I'd rather they
Speaker 2: be in position and to be perfect. This will make
Speaker 2: you fall off your chairs. But I'd rather actually have
Speaker 2: more umpires that can make decisions and less bound arroundpires
Speaker 2: who can't and go up Isaac cant and actually have
Speaker 2: trained guys in position. They can wear long pants. They
Speaker 2: could be seventy years of age if you need him
Speaker 2: to be. But people who can make the right decision
Speaker 2: at the right time. And let's go back to the
Speaker 2: old rules. If we actually focused on the fact that
Speaker 2: in the back is a rule that is in the
Speaker 2: absolute foundations of the game, that would have been a
Speaker 2: free kick because you go, no, you pushed him in
Speaker 2: the back. Yeah, you're allowed to hit within five minutes
Speaker 2: of the ball tick. You've got to hold a chess mark.
Speaker 2: Keep that one back in the game so that we
Speaker 2: don't have to argue did he have control? They hold
Speaker 2: a chess mank you can't hold a chess make you
Speaker 2: don't deserve it, okay, but the next part was in
Speaker 2: the back and Isaac Rankin should have got a free kick.
Speaker 3: You've been a big champion, have gathered around and known
Speaker 3: in the past.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sort of friendly Victoria Vsa pipe shines over all
Speaker 2: sorts of.
Speaker 3: Silly things, but you're still an advocate being part of
Speaker 3: the part of the calendar permanently.
Speaker 2: I think it has been the single biggest fillip for
Speaker 2: football in the last period of time. I think it
Speaker 2: is absolutely magnificent. I pushed for it beforehand when the
Speaker 2: lobbying was on because I was here in eighty eight
Speaker 2: for the Bison ten Nial Classics, the over the Grand
Speaker 2: Prix as well, and I just thought Adelaide it just
Speaker 2: does these things really really well. So when we came
Speaker 2: over and Peter Melanascus, he manifests what he wanted and
Speaker 2: then he made it happen and he seems to do
Speaker 2: that a fair bit, which is pretty good with that
Speaker 2: being political. He does a great job and all that,
Speaker 2: and then the AFL, there's no doubt the AFL were
Speaker 2: using Adelaide in the first instance a bit of a
Speaker 2: stalking horse. I remember speaking to Peter Melanisk and said,
Speaker 2: they'll take the skin off your hand grabbing the check.
Speaker 2: But you've got to you know, but make sure you
Speaker 2: know you've got to do the other things because once
Speaker 2: the ball's bounced, it could be anywhere. Really the game goes.
Speaker 2: The tight shots are in and they might put a
Speaker 2: soup up that you're in Adelaide.
Speaker 3: But that's about it.
Speaker 2: It's the accoutra months. If you like tonight's show, for example,
Speaker 2: you're getting really a two hour ad for South Australia
Speaker 2: nationally around the nine network at seven point thirty.
Speaker 3: It's prime prime time.
Speaker 2: It's not like even the footage Eastbound nineth that this
Speaker 2: is seven thirty, So you're probably making your money back
Speaker 2: alone on that show that's not even on the broadcasters seven.
Speaker 2: The front bars coming over.
Speaker 3: The keys that we'll get into it to you. Sydney
Speaker 3: wouldn't get into it. Brisbe won't get into you know, Sydney.
Speaker 2: The telegraph would be Valandis. I'd have them wound up
Speaker 2: that there was three seats empty here and.
Speaker 3: There what ping pong all that would from Sydney.
Speaker 2: And it's a bit like my old nightclub technique. They
Speaker 2: no points spending on night talking to a girl trying
Speaker 2: to convince somebody that hates you to hate your lips
Speaker 2: talk to somebody who likes you, and I like you more,
Speaker 2: and so why wouldn't you come to South Australia, great
Speaker 2: footballing state, And well it's paid off in spades.
Speaker 3: Gather around the Eddie McGuire nightclub technique exactly, that's true.
Speaker 2: A long time between drinks, I can tell that's my
Speaker 2: go to here was that how to join up in
Speaker 2: the corner there with the piano. That's my son for America.
Speaker 3: Someone someone's ready to tell your benches.
Speaker 2: A couple of big nights here with Taining Modron, have
Speaker 2: a quiet night with Jopplins and here jo Heaven was
Speaker 2: the other one. Yeah, a big time. We used to
Speaker 2: come back to the Jeans Ray Jeans was massive. That
Speaker 2: was in the Bison ten to a funny story. Ross
Speaker 2: Oakley and all the AFL crew came in and we
Speaker 2: were going out to a nightclub and they had their
Speaker 2: their AFL jackets on and they turned them inside out
Speaker 2: so they looked like the silk on the salt jackets.
Speaker 2: Like you're kidding under the cover of darkness with Big
Speaker 2: E J. Whitman curls. Not quite so incognito and Dermott
Speaker 2: Brown and myself bringing up the rear.
Speaker 3: It was unbelievable. Joined the Bross tonight
Speaker 2: See You Guys seven thirty on Channel nine for the
Speaker 2: gather Around spectacular