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Speaker 2: welcome back to the jam Or and Dylan Show. Today
Speaker 2: we have a very special guest, one of my favorite
Speaker 2: AFL players. Welcome to the show, Jordan Clark.
Speaker 3: Thanks, Hamy lad. It's a bit of a privilege.
Speaker 4: Oh thanks for making the time, bro. We really appreciate it.
Speaker 4: We've had time on a Sunday come on the show.
Speaker 5: Especially after a big game last night.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: No, it was a decent game. Don't really like the
Speaker 6: web myself, but it's good to get through and have
Speaker 6: a nice win.
Speaker 4: Sound. Team's going all right, great season, haven't you so far?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we've Yeah, we've had a few games.
Speaker 6: We've been a little bit inconsistent and certainly reflected the scoreboard.
Speaker 6: I think against West Coast and the Doggie sort of
Speaker 6: stands out a little bit. But no, yeah, we're going
Speaker 6: pretty well and I think we're building nicely towards the
Speaker 6: back end of the year.
Speaker 2: Dylan and I were actually in the car before talking
Speaker 2: about the season so far and I'm a Doctors supporter,
Speaker 2: deal with actually an Adelade supporter.
Speaker 4: I'm a crazy man. So it's a pointing season this
Speaker 4: year majorly.
Speaker 2: But we were talking about that West Coast game in particular,
Speaker 2: and obviously it would have been a tough game for
Speaker 2: you guys because you just shocked. Really, what were your
Speaker 2: thoughts on that game and how have you and the
Speaker 2: boys turned it around from that moment?
Speaker 4: Only if you had a tough three weeks. You had
Speaker 4: the Carlton loss, the Port loss, then the West Coast loss,
Speaker 4: so that could derail the season pretty easily. What, yeah,
Speaker 4: what kept it together? How did you turn it around
Speaker 4: in the club?
Speaker 6: I suppose going back to that, looking at the Port
Speaker 6: and the Carlton lost, there are probably two at the time,
Speaker 6: two of the best teams in the colm. Obviously would
Speaker 6: have had their struggles a bit of late, but they're
Speaker 6: still very very talented side and very good side and
Speaker 6: Carlton sort of speak for himselfs So you know, we
Speaker 6: challenged them right up until within one kick I suppose,
Speaker 6: and could have gone either way.
Speaker 3: And yeah, West Coast game, we just got a lot wrong.
Speaker 3: And take no credit off there. I suppose that they
Speaker 3: have a very good team.
Speaker 6: They had quite a lot of their players in from
Speaker 6: that flag they won, and you know, they have some
Speaker 6: very good experienced players around some really high talented young kids,
Speaker 6: so when they get it right, they're a very good
Speaker 6: team as well.
Speaker 2: Definitely some exciting players too. Harley Reed's set the tournament
Speaker 2: on light.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, he's been good so far this season for
Speaker 4: a first year as well, one of the most impressive
Speaker 4: and he's adapted really well, it seems to AFL.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, he's certainly a freak.
Speaker 6: He tore us apart that night, and it's good to
Speaker 6: see a young kid like that going well. And I
Speaker 6: suppose it's quite a lot of pressure on him and
Speaker 6: it's good to see him performing and handling that.
Speaker 5: Just on that.
Speaker 2: So obviously you went to Geelong pick fifteen twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: I just want to talk about your time over there
Speaker 2: and what pressure you felt being a top twenty pick,
Speaker 2: Like was there a bit of expectation or.
Speaker 5: Was you along pretty good with how they treated you?
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, there's not really any pressure. I suppose the
Speaker 6: biggest pressure is the pressure you put on yourself, true,
Speaker 6: and as a young fellow trying to work that out,
Speaker 6: I suppose there's the pressure of coming in you want
Speaker 6: to play straight away. You think that it just happened
Speaker 6: straight away, and it's probably the worst. One of the
Speaker 6: worst things that did happen to me is I come
Speaker 6: straight in. I didn't really have a pre season. I
Speaker 6: had Glensla fever. I'd played a lot of cricket in
Speaker 6: my junior years and never done a pre season and
Speaker 6: just sort of came in, slided in, and I thought
Speaker 6: that was pretty easy and didn't really probably get the
Speaker 6: memo of you know, I have to really earn my
Speaker 6: spot and work really hard and work out what I
Speaker 6: need to you know, put in front of other things
Speaker 6: and what the value. And then when those setbacks came
Speaker 6: sort of pretty they're pretty tough to handle because you
Speaker 6: start putting all the pressure on yourself. I'd never been
Speaker 6: dropped before at the time, I'm living on the other
Speaker 6: side of the country and it was, yeah, come back
Speaker 6: to all the pressure that I was putting on myself, thinking,
Speaker 6: you know, my family and my friends judged.
Speaker 3: Me because I'm.
Speaker 6: I think once I got my head around that my
Speaker 6: family and my friends don't actually care that I play
Speaker 6: footy's I'm just Jordan I'm still my dad's son and
Speaker 6: my brother's brother and mum's son and that sort of thing,
Speaker 6: my sister's brother, and and that's all they see me as.
Speaker 6: And I made those little setbacks quite easy to handle.
Speaker 5: That's awesome, that's sick.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: We hear a lot of that, like separating footy from life,
Speaker 2: Like people make footy their whole life, and I guess
Speaker 2: that's not the way to go about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I certainly have never been one to live
Speaker 6: and breathe it as such as particularly early in my
Speaker 6: AFL career, I've you know, I was pretty blase and
Speaker 6: didn't really value the preparation side of things and quite raw.
Speaker 6: Suppose not through ignorance or anything like that, it's.
Speaker 3: Probably quite raw.
Speaker 6: And played a lot of cricket, and you know that
Speaker 6: sort of culture of a cricketer is not lazy, but
Speaker 6: pretty laid back, and you can get away with a
Speaker 6: bit more of you can just yeah, I suppose back
Speaker 6: in your brought talent a bit more on the cricket
Speaker 6: over than you can on a footy over, because you know,
Speaker 6: you need to cover a lot more ground out on
Speaker 6: the oval, your body needs to be right or and
Speaker 6: that sort of thing, but and your weight and that
Speaker 6: sort of thing. So yeah, it wasn't through ignorance. It
Speaker 6: was probably through just being quite raw and not knowing
Speaker 6: what I do know now. So yeah, it was an
Speaker 6: interesting period for.
Speaker 5: Me, definitely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just want to touch on that cricket stuff
Speaker 2: in a bit more depth in a little bit, but
Speaker 2: let's go back to where you're born, growing up in
Speaker 2: alban and what your family dynamic is. And I know
Speaker 2: you've got a few brothers, so yeah, what's that being
Speaker 2: like and give us a little bit about your upbringing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so actually I was born in Mandra, Yeah, and
Speaker 6: I'm one of one of five, so I've got an
Speaker 6: older brother, two younger brothers and a younger sister.
Speaker 4: Competitive household, I'm assuming growing up.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we are competitive beasts in the household and it's
Speaker 6: very highly strung at times when the games come out.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I sort of lived Inmandra right up.
Speaker 6: Until I was thirteen, and footy had been a large
Speaker 6: part of my life. Dad worked at the Greyhounds when
Speaker 6: I was quite younger. So again, just sort of trying
Speaker 6: to pick winners against your brother and stuff like that
Speaker 6: at a very young age and always wanting to beat
Speaker 6: each other in running races and that sort of thing.
Speaker 6: And then yeah, Dad sort of moved on to the
Speaker 6: job at pill Thunder and was the CEO there for
Speaker 6: probably I think about five or six years, and that
Speaker 6: sort of wrapped up and funny thing, Dad actually wrote
Speaker 6: the alignment between Peel and fre and sort of Dad
Speaker 6: left there and we moved to Albany.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it was in that period.
Speaker 6: You know, I told Dad and AFL clubs, I'm just
Speaker 6: jumping a bit forty that I'd never play a game
Speaker 6: for free.
Speaker 3: I'd never ever.
Speaker 4: Wanted to go. Oh, so did you not go for them?
Speaker 4: Growing up?
Speaker 6: I was a massive West Coast fan and yeah, so
Speaker 6: then did my time in Albany.
Speaker 3: I did about two years there.
Speaker 5: And what was the move down there due to just.
Speaker 3: To change it up.
Speaker 6: Dad Mum wanted to get out Amander or get out
Speaker 6: of Perth as such and go to a regional sort
Speaker 6: of town and Dad got a pretty nice job down there,
Speaker 6: and so we sort of moved down there for a
Speaker 6: couple of years. And yeah, it was a great time
Speaker 6: down there, but long term probably our family didn't see
Speaker 6: ourselves down there, that's for sure, And I ended up
Speaker 6: coming back to Guildford in year eleven on a scholarship,
Speaker 6: and then in the year twelve Mum and Dad moved
Speaker 6: the rest of the family sort of back up to
Speaker 6: Perth and we've been here ever since.
Speaker 4: Did you enjoy your time in high school?
Speaker 5: Do you have fun?
Speaker 4: Was it fun being a footy prospect as well growing up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it was funny.
Speaker 6: Actually when I was in year ten at Albany Senior
Speaker 6: High School, I wasn't actually a footy Prospero's probably more
Speaker 6: of a creating prospect. And I missed I was in
Speaker 6: the State footage so that's a bit of a lie.
Speaker 6: I was in the state footage program that time too,
Speaker 6: but I missed like a significant amount of school. And obviously,
Speaker 6: for people that don't know, Album is about four hours
Speaker 6: away from Perth, and I to get to training at
Speaker 6: the Whacker some nights and I had to be there
Speaker 6: and sort of thing. So Mum and Dad either or
Speaker 6: would drive me to the Whacker drive me back up
Speaker 6: sometimes three times a week around trips, and I was
Speaker 6: missing days and days of school and I think I
Speaker 6: missed over one hundred days of school in year ten,
Speaker 6: So yeah, I kind of did enjoy that part, so
Speaker 6: I wasn't really hitting the books that hard and never
Speaker 6: really had the endeavor.
Speaker 3: To do that, but yeah, it was sort of sport
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 6: But yeah, year eleven and twelve when I moved to
Speaker 6: Guildford on a scholarship with my mates in boarding that
Speaker 6: my mates now, but at the time I had no
Speaker 6: idea about anyone there, apart from my best mate, one
Speaker 6: of my best mates who I played a lot of
Speaker 6: cricket with. He was from Bustleton and we sort of
Speaker 6: connected through regional tours and that sort of thing, played
Speaker 6: in the state team and the Assie team together, and
Speaker 6: he said he's going to Guildford on an academic scholarship.
Speaker 6: So he was quite smart and he ended up being
Speaker 6: the only factor why I went to Guildford because I
Speaker 6: said to Dad, I don't know anyone. I don't leave
Speaker 6: the family. I was pretty family Orientated'd love being around home,
Speaker 6: my brothers, my siblings and all that sort of thing,
Speaker 6: and so yeah, and the end went to Guildford and
Speaker 6: absolutely loved it, like it was the best time in life.
Speaker 6: Boarding house just all boys at that time, and yeah,
Speaker 6: it was a great culture, great fun.
Speaker 3: Didn't do a lot of school work.
Speaker 5: But a lot of fun though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we always say the PSA schools look like a
Speaker 4: lot of fun, don't they. Even the way they treat
Speaker 4: sport is a sort of a next level to how
Speaker 4: our school did. It. Always kind of envious of that culture.
Speaker 4: We went to, like a low level private school. They
Speaker 4: focused more on like drama and arts our school. So
Speaker 4: this warding was a little bit on the on the
Speaker 4: back ped We.
Speaker 2: Were playing year twelve footy and we played the same
Speaker 2: school twice.
Speaker 5: That was our season. Yeah, that's all we got. It's
Speaker 5: not even like a regional school or anything. I expect
Speaker 5: that where they just didn't care to know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the footy program was awful, if there even
Speaker 2: was one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, liturgical dance was killer, wasn't it. Yeah, they love that.
Speaker 2: Even though cricket we had a specialist cricket class. There
Speaker 2: was maybe like eight people in there. It was just
Speaker 2: so bad. I love my cricket and I played heaps
Speaker 2: growing up, but like at school, there was just no pathway.
Speaker 2: I guess on the weekends there's obviously district cricket and whatnot,
Speaker 2: but I didn't get very far.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't have said Guildford really prioritize their sport as well.
Speaker 6: Amount of one hundred point beltings I played in at
Speaker 6: Guildford was yeah, it's probably more than ten.
Speaker 4: So yeah.
Speaker 6: But cricket, yeah, we actually were very good in our
Speaker 6: year twelve year we took that out and that was
Speaker 6: quite fun and it is quite competitive. There is a
Speaker 6: bit of an aura around PSA sport, yeah, I must say.
Speaker 6: But yeah, didn't say it's any different to cults for
Speaker 6: footy or district cricket.
Speaker 3: Or anything like that.
Speaker 6: It's just, yeah, I think the fact that you're a
Speaker 6: private school and they you know, it's sort of they
Speaker 6: just want to beat each other, the rivalries and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah probably makes it a little yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's not putting any disrespect on the PSA schools
Speaker 6: or anything like that, but yeah, it is.
Speaker 3: It is beat up a fair bit.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: I've seen that in YouTube on YouTube as well.
Speaker 2: A lot of the Victorian PSA schools have all their
Speaker 2: videos filmed as they do here as well, but they've
Speaker 2: got highlight packages for every single player. It's shot like
Speaker 2: in four K really well, and it's like this real
Speaker 2: tribal feeling around sport. In like year eleven and twelve
Speaker 2: whereas ours was just more casualty that was around like
Speaker 2: liturgical dance. Yeah yeah, yeah, just crazy different.
Speaker 4: I guess that's the way it goes.
Speaker 5: And we always say.
Speaker 2: Like if we could turn back time, like not that
Speaker 2: we have regrets because obviously we didn't pick where we
Speaker 2: wanted to go to school, but like we would like
Speaker 2: to have gone to like a Pso.
Speaker 4: The culture, I think, yeah, yeah, I guess the Bondsi mate.
Speaker 4: This seems like good makeship happens as well, which is cool.
Speaker 2: Because I've got a few mates from Guildford and they
Speaker 2: love their time.
Speaker 5: So where the you above you at school?
Speaker 2: So yeah, a couple of those boys you'd probably know,
Speaker 2: but yeah, they had a great time and I've heard
Speaker 2: a lot of stories and yeah they love their sport.
Speaker 4: So when did it click for you that I could
Speaker 4: probably be an AFL player?
Speaker 6: Yeah, sort of didn't click for me for a while.
Speaker 6: Probably cricket clicked for me first. And I loved my
Speaker 6: sport growing up. And I was never like super quick
Speaker 6: bowl or anything when I was young, And there is
Speaker 6: like a moment where I just decided bowl fast, Like
Speaker 6: it was like I remember the moment clear as day.
Speaker 6: How I would have been about fourteen fifteen around now,
Speaker 6: and I won't like name him or anything like that,
Speaker 6: but there's a kid who down the other und it
Speaker 6: was quite talented, and he was just like taking the piss, like.
Speaker 3: Just put me wherever he wanted to.
Speaker 2: Is it a name we'd know, No, not really okay
Speaker 2: yet nobody.
Speaker 3: Talented at the time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and sort of hitting me to all parts and
Speaker 6: not letting me know, but just you know, a bit
Speaker 6: cocky about I just got this like competitive.
Speaker 3: Edge about me.
Speaker 6: I hate getting beaten. It's like you know, and you
Speaker 6: just try harder and harder and harder, just thinking it's
Speaker 6: going to be faster. It was one of those moments.
Speaker 6: So I just went right, I'm going to run in
Speaker 6: as fast as I can and I'm just going to
Speaker 6: try and knock.
Speaker 3: His head off. And then I let it rip, and
Speaker 3: I was like, I can actually felt pretty.
Speaker 4: Quick if I try, so you'd never tried that.
Speaker 3: I just sort of wandered in and just rolled it over.
Speaker 6: And you know, I always wanted to be a wicked
Speaker 6: keeper in a batter, and I was not quite a
Speaker 6: batter and not quite a wicked keeper, And yeah, it's
Speaker 6: sort of happened. Quite quickly and then footy back to
Speaker 6: the footy one. It didn't really click for me.
Speaker 3: I was you're always.
Speaker 6: There thereabouts, like you know, but you're making the squads
Speaker 6: in Albany and Country and stuff, and it's not quite
Speaker 6: the same as you're in Perth. You don't really know
Speaker 6: the pull of talent up he is so much bigger
Speaker 6: and more depth and that sort of thing. And probably
Speaker 6: wasn't until I played State sixteens, but I was probably average,
Speaker 6: probably in the bottom six players I suppose.
Speaker 5: And what position were you playing in State sixteen It's like.
Speaker 6: A wing, yeah, wing, high, half forward, not really getting
Speaker 6: near it to be fair.
Speaker 5: So no defense time as a junior.
Speaker 6: No. My first defense game was at Clemont, my first
Speaker 6: Colts game. I told Dad they Clemont sort of said, oh,
Speaker 6: we want you to come and try and play in.
Speaker 3: The Colts when you get a chance.
Speaker 6: So I did that and got my first game and
Speaker 6: got told us playing at half back, and I remember
Speaker 6: getting in the car to Dad and got on the
Speaker 6: phone or too. Daddy might have picked me up and said,
Speaker 6: I don't even want to play. I'm playing in the
Speaker 6: back line. Who wants to play in defense? And that
Speaker 6: was pretty much the move that nailed my spot in
Speaker 6: the back line, but yeah, probably wasn't until halfway through
Speaker 6: the State adeens where we played against Austra in the
Speaker 6: first game and I was on the wing and we
Speaker 6: got towed up, absolutely belted.
Speaker 5: Who were some of their players in that.
Speaker 6: Drunken, lacocious rosy Like okay, Frederick's like, yeah they were handed.
Speaker 5: That's a pretty stacked team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And.
Speaker 6: Yeah, got belted, played on the wing, didn't see it,
Speaker 6: and I actually thought my career is done. Yeah, like
Speaker 6: I thought I was spoken to an AFL club, So
Speaker 6: I thought, you know, I'm probably I really want to push.
Speaker 3: My case it might be a rookie chance. Yeah this stage.
Speaker 6: And then the next game we had an injury or
Speaker 6: something in the back line and I got moved back
Speaker 6: and I was like, this is good and the confidence
Speaker 6: in me just sort of come out because I've played
Speaker 6: here for the last two years.
Speaker 3: This is ideal spot.
Speaker 4: And then it all started.
Speaker 6: Yeah, without being a standout gamer, and I think it
Speaker 6: was a solid game and didn't get a heap of
Speaker 6: the ball, but it was all right.
Speaker 3: And then the next two games I just sort of
Speaker 3: came into.
Speaker 6: My own where I was just like so confident and
Speaker 6: I'm not trying to put myself up here. It's just
Speaker 6: like that was probably the moment for me where I thought, oh,
Speaker 6: I can actually, you know, match it with some of
Speaker 6: these kids, because I did fear a lot of kids
Speaker 6: at that age where you know how they beat up
Speaker 6: Victorian players.
Speaker 3: You're coming up against Sam.
Speaker 6: Walsh, Yeah, yeah, yeah, so you've got Bailey Smith and
Speaker 6: there's kind of Rosie and you're just like, I've never
Speaker 6: heard of these kids and they're talking like Gary, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Very good players.
Speaker 6: And so at the time I sort of feared that,
Speaker 6: like and then there was probably those moments when you
Speaker 6: start getting your hands on the ball and getting involved
Speaker 6: and just like maybe I am quite up to the level.
Speaker 6: I don't know, And yeah, it sort of took a
Speaker 6: couple of games, I suppose.
Speaker 3: To really realize the moment.
Speaker 6: It's actually funny asked that question. I was thinking about
Speaker 6: it on the way here to got a bit off
Speaker 6: track in the car. I was thinking about It's funny
Speaker 6: how you always have a moment, But like, what if
Speaker 6: you missed that moment?
Speaker 4: Yeah, how quick it came out, how different you laugh
Speaker 4: at it? Yeah, like if you you said what it
Speaker 4: was an injury? Did I imagine if that never happened,
Speaker 4: you know what happens? Do you get rookie drafted? You
Speaker 4: don't you go to different clubs or you never know
Speaker 4: what could happen?
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, So it's actually funny because I was thinking
Speaker 6: literally about that in the car, like if that injury
Speaker 6: never happened.
Speaker 4: Yeah, probably knows right time and place.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what about the choice.
Speaker 2: Was it like a conscious choice for you to go,
Speaker 2: I'm going to go, I've got more opportunity in the
Speaker 2: AFL path pathway or was it like you weren't getting
Speaker 2: selected for cricket teams or did the love die or
Speaker 2: what happened with cricket?
Speaker 6: Yeah, cricket was sort of a weird one. I was
Speaker 6: always going to play footy. I always loved footy. Dad
Speaker 6: obviously pill Thunder grew up around footy, my brothers and
Speaker 6: that we always played footy. And I'm a terrible basketballer.
Speaker 6: And I played one year of basketball and it was
Speaker 6: the worst year of I.
Speaker 5: Just hate basketball of your life? Do you reckon?
Speaker 6: I didn't enjoy it. I don't find the fun in basketball. Thankfully,
Speaker 6: halfway through that season, my brother tackled me out the
Speaker 6: over at pill thunder broke arm. So I missed the
Speaker 6: last half of basketball, and I.
Speaker 3: Was like, thank God, thankful, how good? And I am terrible.
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to say, oh I'm shocking.
Speaker 4: Like, oh, yeah, I've never And then unfortunately, and so
Speaker 4: I just.
Speaker 6: Was like I needed to play a summer sport, and
Speaker 6: I wanted to play cricket.
Speaker 3: And I don't know why. As a little kid, I
Speaker 3: had an obsession with the helmets.
Speaker 6: I just always wanted a helmet. While you're wearing a helmet,
Speaker 6: go to the Jim Kidd.
Speaker 3: Or revel sport, and I just wanted the cricket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because I was more of like I wanted
Speaker 2: the bat, but he wanted to help helmet.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I don't know, there's something about it. And
Speaker 6: that got me into cricket. And yeah, I just sort
Speaker 6: of played it as a summer sport. I was always
Speaker 6: knowing that I was going to give footy crack if
Speaker 6: it sort of not fell my way, but if I
Speaker 6: could make it happen sort of thing.
Speaker 5: And then with cricket, did that take you to a
Speaker 5: Junior World Cup?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 6: So I didn't quite play in the World Cup stuff.
Speaker 6: We just had a one off series Pakistani to buy
Speaker 6: and I played three one days and three twenty twenties.
Speaker 5: There was a hat trick there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a.
Speaker 6: Hat trick in the game there. Yeah, I got quite
Speaker 6: lucky that day. But other than that, there wasn't too
Speaker 6: much charave of home about that.
Speaker 2: I remember what I remember when you got drafted, Like
Speaker 2: I did a bit of background research, as I do
Speaker 2: most a bit of a sicko when it comes to footage,
Speaker 2: and I saw that you're taking a hat trick in cricket,
Speaker 2: and I was like, what a pretty talented bloke here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't get quite lucky that day.
Speaker 6: Like I said, the Pakistani boys were next level. The
Speaker 6: funny story is that the same shar that sixteen year
Speaker 6: old he was playing against us back then in under sixteen.
Speaker 3: So that was like for me, it's probably at.
Speaker 6: The time he debuted in Test cricket as a sixteen
Speaker 6: year old and we're going hang on out.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was just weird. Like as I faced
Speaker 3: one ball, it was a fastball, I over faced.
Speaker 5: One was that from him?
Speaker 3: From him?
Speaker 6: I never even at the time fastball overface and just
Speaker 6: like wow, that's quick and never thought much of it,
Speaker 6: you know, and sort of kept an eye out on
Speaker 6: those boys to see that, you know, if any of
Speaker 6: them would go on progression to make it, and he
Speaker 6: was the only one.
Speaker 4: Oh really Yeah, So.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I think good on him. He's yeah, he's
Speaker 6: obviously was a lot younger than we thought at the time.
Speaker 4: Just a yeah. I guess some people just have the
Speaker 4: natural ability and the talent freak out and the hard
Speaker 4: work too.
Speaker 2: So were there any boys that you played with that
Speaker 2: have gone on to play the even state cricket.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, there's quite a few, like Mackenzie Harvey, Liam Scott,
Speaker 6: Ollie Davies, played a bit with Toddy Murphy.
Speaker 3: He actually missed out in that.
Speaker 4: Team, really didn't make it, played cricket.
Speaker 3: On further and all of us. And then there was like.
Speaker 6: The kids below that we played a bit with McGirk,
Speaker 6: those types of players.
Speaker 4: TV Sanger's going to make a lot of money, isn't he.
Speaker 6: He's going to make a lot of money. He's a
Speaker 6: very good cricket of that kid. Definitely good on him too.
Speaker 6: The way he's sort of gone about it, I suppose
Speaker 6: stuck stuck fat with his his mindset and how he
Speaker 6: plays a game, and a lot of people probably frown
Speaker 6: upon that, but.
Speaker 3: He go to one hundred real.
Speaker 2: Quick when he gets going. It's pretty impressive. I just
Speaker 2: want to talk about your draft year again. So obviously
Speaker 2: you named a few of those essay boys that were
Speaker 2: really good. I was just having a look at like
Speaker 2: the top twenty five. There's some superstars in the draft,
Speaker 2: wasn't it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: It was?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it was crazy. We talked of it.
Speaker 6: I don't know why it came up, but Sam Sturt
Speaker 6: and myself were taking a couple of picks apart. We're
Speaker 6: talking about our top ten the other day, and I
Speaker 6: was just saying, how is the top ten in our
Speaker 6: draft probably one of the best top tens ever probably
Speaker 6: going around?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because most.
Speaker 4: Of them are also playing regular footy, and you know
Speaker 4: a lot of there's some other top tens where there's
Speaker 4: obvious stars in one, but then you know some pick
Speaker 4: sixes or sevens might not be playing anymore, like a
Speaker 4: Dan Orange.
Speaker 6: Yep. Yeah, so yeah, I think what did it go?
Speaker 6: It went Walsh Lacosis rankin or vice versa.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure that way.
Speaker 2: Walshchus Rankin, King, Rosie Ben King, Bailey Smith, Taron Thomas,
Speaker 2: Chase Shows, Nick Blakey and he got Butters at.
Speaker 5: Twelve like that.
Speaker 4: Whole Top fifteen is pretty much playing every week.
Speaker 2: You always get like Bobby Hill was twenty four. He's
Speaker 2: come really good. I really love the stories like a
Speaker 2: Locky Neil who was picked quite late who's gone on
Speaker 2: to do great things. I love those stories too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been awesome. I love Luke Ryan's story to
Speaker 3: be fair.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, how good's happened.
Speaker 6: He played VFL footage, he mumbled him a dog and
Speaker 6: he wanted a dog and then sort of turned himself
Speaker 6: into a really really good player.
Speaker 3: And what a player is in a great season.
Speaker 4: Speaking of great seasons, you yourself have definitely taken it
Speaker 4: to the next level this season. What do you think
Speaker 4: has contributed to your individual performances coming together as they
Speaker 4: have in the consistency as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was probably always been a big one. My
Speaker 6: consistency had sort of been a little bit of an issue,
Speaker 6: I suppose, and sometimes can muddle up the valuing the
Speaker 6: right things in my role in that. And you know,
Speaker 6: j L's and body at the club been really good
Speaker 6: and helped me base my game off a couple of
Speaker 6: key pillars in the contests and starting positions for me
Speaker 6: and then bring my strengths sort of comes into it.
Speaker 6: I think if I get that right and you know,
Speaker 6: win contests when or have the contest, repeat efforts and
Speaker 6: my positioning, it usually puts me in good spots to
Speaker 6: win the ball anyway, and that will allow my strengths
Speaker 6: to sort of come into the game. So yeah, working
Speaker 6: on that and getting the process right, and when I
Speaker 6: first come to pray, probably just getting that confidence back
Speaker 6: that you know, I've been dropped probably fifteen times or
Speaker 6: so in the last two years, hadn't played a lot
Speaker 6: of AFL footage, So yeah, getting that confidence back and
Speaker 6: believing yourself and knowing that you are capable of playing
Speaker 6: at the level again was probably a bit of a
Speaker 6: hurdle for me for a while. And yeah, I think
Speaker 6: this offseason just wanting to you know, take it to
Speaker 6: the next take it to the next stage again, Like
Speaker 6: pretty proud person, very competitive and just always want to
Speaker 6: try and just get better. Yeah, and yeah, like I'm
Speaker 6: always finding ways to just try and better myself. And yeah,
Speaker 6: I hate playing stink because I hate playing shit games. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and we copy it, but like no one tries to so.
Speaker 6: And I think wrapping my head around that part as well,
Speaker 6: that you know, sometimes it's not going to go your
Speaker 6: way and you are going to have a bad day
Speaker 6: and stuff like that, and or a bad quarter, and
Speaker 6: it's just about trying to not let a bad quarter
Speaker 6: turn into three bad quarters and ruin your whole game.
Speaker 4: I suppose, definitely.
Speaker 2: And one thing that I wanted to ask was the
Speaker 2: mental side of the game is obviously something that you know,
Speaker 2: it's getting talked about a lot more now, I guess. Yeah,
Speaker 2: even in the nineties, like it wouldn't have been discussed
Speaker 2: that much about where people are out mentally.
Speaker 4: Two thousands even, I've noticed a change in the way
Speaker 4: that AFL sort of treats, you know, maybe players who
Speaker 4: have some issues, issues like sort of the way Ben
Speaker 4: Cousins has treated versus House It's treated these days. It
Speaker 4: seems a bit more support in that aspect as well,
Speaker 4: and a mental health of players being more aware as well.
Speaker 2: And one thing I wanted to ask was what is
Speaker 2: the a mental health person at the club that can
Speaker 2: help it.
Speaker 5: Was it like a counselor or something like that.
Speaker 6: No, the resources, You're right, there is like a wealth
Speaker 6: of resources at the club and in the AFL that
Speaker 6: you can use, and I think that it is such
Speaker 6: an important area at the moment, mental health stuff. But
Speaker 6: the mental side of the game is admittedly I probably
Speaker 6: still don't do enough of it seemingly, you know, when
Speaker 6: you look at some of the blokes who do get
Speaker 6: it right in the clubs for wrongs that five so
Speaker 6: and look what, it sort of holds them, Yeah, instead
Speaker 6: it holds them in. But yeah, admittedly I probably don't
Speaker 6: do enough of it because I'm sort of yeah, I'm
Speaker 6: sort of pretty lay back and don't like to have
Speaker 6: extra meetings and extra time people, and it's sort of
Speaker 6: something I'm still trying to really built into my I
Speaker 6: suppose my week and my preparation for games and that,
Speaker 6: and you know, you're never going to get everything right,
Speaker 6: but yeah, it's probably one that I am gradually working
Speaker 6: on and trying and build into my weekly preparations. But yeah,
Speaker 6: I think at the club there is Yeah, we've got
Speaker 6: a psych We've got a couple of player development managers
Speaker 6: who sort of like counselors, a guest you could say,
Speaker 6: and wealth and health and well being. We've actually a
Speaker 6: wellbeing dog at the club, so.
Speaker 3: We've got everything there. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's sort of just it's not ever forced upon
Speaker 6: you though, it's on the individual.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Nice, just on that. I wanted to know and not
Speaker 2: to get deep. But what has been the lowest point
Speaker 2: in your career so far? Was there a moment where
Speaker 2: you were just thinking, like I want to throw it
Speaker 2: all the way or was there any thoughts like that
Speaker 2: that have crept in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was.
Speaker 6: There was a really hard time for me in my
Speaker 6: second year. I sort of straw everyun sort of it's
Speaker 6: hard because you know, you come in, you play a
Speaker 6: few games and that sort of thing. And for my
Speaker 6: form wasn't great in my second and third year, but
Speaker 6: particularly the end of my second year I kind of
Speaker 6: was homesick a bit and wanted to come home, wanted
Speaker 6: to be around my family and my friends and that
Speaker 6: sort of thing and play footy at Frere're pretty keen
Speaker 6: to get a trade done in that and Geelong sort
Speaker 6: of stood firm and in the end it sort of
Speaker 6: led to my decision and say, oh, well, let's not
Speaker 6: even bother that's old. Just give it another crack. And
Speaker 6: things probably didn't get any better for me. It just
Speaker 6: got a bit harder. I was sort of struggling and
Speaker 6: wanted to be back at home. I wasn't playing We're
Speaker 6: in the hubs at the time, oh yeah, playing twelve
Speaker 6: on twelve scratch matches. Got injured in my shoulder, and
Speaker 6: it just wasn't getting a whole lot better for me.
Speaker 6: And that was probably the time where I realized that,
Speaker 6: like it's sort of I've done it. I've played AFL
Speaker 6: footy and maybe this season't for me. Like I'm pretty
Speaker 6: laid back and that sort of thing at home, and.
Speaker 3: It's quite tough.
Speaker 6: It's quite strenuous, like you put yourself out there for
Speaker 6: the public to you know, beraate you at times. Absolutely
Speaker 6: some Blazer line up and just cop it, get abused
Speaker 6: and abused and abused. And I think people at that
Speaker 6: point it was hard for me. You could come in
Speaker 6: and play a bad one and get dropped and then
Speaker 6: you're just getting lined up into and you know, if
Speaker 6: I think people forget that at the end of the day,
Speaker 6: some of these kids are running around only eighteen nineteen
Speaker 6: years ago for sure, and they are someone's son, there're
Speaker 6: someone's brother, and that's the thing I hate about the
Speaker 6: game is the gambling side of it and and that
Speaker 6: sort of thing, because you know, no one ever goes
Speaker 6: out there, like, for example, the person that sends you a message,
Speaker 6: I guarantee you they've had a bad day work throughout
Speaker 6: the year. Yeah, but they didn't try and have a
Speaker 6: bad day at work. And I haven't gone out there
Speaker 6: to play a stinker. I'll trib me best. And it
Speaker 6: just didn't go away today.
Speaker 5: You're not playing for people's multis.
Speaker 3: If you can't afford to loser money, you don't put
Speaker 3: the multi on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, and so yeah, that was probably the hardest
Speaker 6: bit for me, was trying to like block all that
Speaker 6: out and not really value their opinions because if opinions,
Speaker 6: don't really know and it sort of took me a
Speaker 6: long time to realize that, and so that was probably
Speaker 6: the hardest part. So then trade week was sort of
Speaker 6: coming around and my managers. It was before that I
Speaker 6: had to sit down with a plate of a manager
Speaker 6: at Geelong and his name was Mark Worthington. I sort
Speaker 6: of said, mate, I don't know about cricket, about footing,
Speaker 6: I wouldn't mind. This was really missing cricket at this stage.
Speaker 6: Just because it was so laid back, it wasn't as
Speaker 6: high intensity and that sort of thing. But then there
Speaker 6: was a part of me saying, that's sort of the
Speaker 6: easy way out.
Speaker 5: That's that competitive dog inside you.
Speaker 6: And he just said, no, mate, there's there's one option here,
Speaker 6: and it's you're going to fore and you're going to
Speaker 6: give it a crack. And then that sort of was
Speaker 6: the moment I went, yeah, he's dead right giving up
Speaker 6: on this, there's no way and sort of yeah, came
Speaker 6: home and been around mum and dad and my family,
Speaker 6: my brother's, my sister and my closest mates sort of.
Speaker 3: Just give me that you know, I don't know, like
Speaker 3: a bit of regrowth.
Speaker 6: I suppose find a bit more enjoyment. Yeah, she really
Speaker 6: enjoyed going in and like wanting to do the hard
Speaker 6: stuff and you know, run laps in the forty degree.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's hard.
Speaker 6: But no, it was probably just that environment that I
Speaker 6: was around coming back home really made it easy for me,
Speaker 6: because I know a lot people want to label your
Speaker 6: silk for leaving and that sort of thing, but I
Speaker 6: look at, you know, the Geelong's list and how many
Speaker 6: players they've brought back to Geelong and yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 6: But as soon as I wanted to leave, I was
Speaker 6: called a silk Yeah, yeah, Mummy's boy and that sort
Speaker 6: of thing, And that's fine. Like I like, looking back
Speaker 6: on it, it's just words and doesn't really bother me
Speaker 6: these days.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't change it for.
Speaker 6: The world that I you know, I've made a great
Speaker 6: decision for me personally, not just footy park footy aside,
Speaker 6: but for my happiness and outside of footy.
Speaker 3: I've made the best decision possible.
Speaker 4: So for sure it's worked out, hasn't it in the end,
Speaker 4: Not yet.
Speaker 3: Ultimately, i'd love to getting, you know, a flag with.
Speaker 4: The boys, but I love to hear that.
Speaker 6: That's when I could say it's worked out. But yeah,
Speaker 6: at the moment, it's it's been a great three years.
Speaker 2: Just on the messages you received and like in the media,
Speaker 2: Like I remember it was Mummy's boy, Like those things
Speaker 2: were said about you at the time when you were
Speaker 2: a bit younger.
Speaker 5: Did that affect you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well yeah, it's funny everyone says, you know, I
Speaker 6: don't read that stuff like it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: It's hard not to hard not to read, you.
Speaker 6: Know, when someone sends you a death threat or like
Speaker 6: I said, some of the answer and stuff, some people
Speaker 6: actually can stoop that low. And you know, I'm not
Speaker 6: trying to cry poor mey or anything, but there is
Speaker 6: a line that needs to be drawn because I think
Speaker 6: if I went out of my way to have a
Speaker 6: crack at someone.
Speaker 3: Allowed to be plasted all over. Yeah, probably penal. It's
Speaker 3: always you know, you just blocked that out. You've got
Speaker 3: to block that out. And so there's a point of
Speaker 3: that where it's like, no, you got to draw the
Speaker 3: line a bit.
Speaker 5: You can't just easy said than done.
Speaker 4: Do you also pay attention to criticism from the AFL media,
Speaker 4: so past players and presenters. Does that creep into the
Speaker 4: to you or the club or anything, or do you
Speaker 4: guys block that out?
Speaker 6: Usually No, I think some some boys it does. It's
Speaker 6: sort of now I've literally turned off everything. Yeah, unless
Speaker 6: I follow someone, they actually can't even send me a
Speaker 6: message request. Yeah, No one can actually comment on my staff.
Speaker 6: No one can get to me, because I just found
Speaker 6: that was the easiest way. You know, the people that
Speaker 6: the closest to me, the ones that actually matter. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and then apart from j L. Body and my teammates,
Speaker 6: everyone else's opinion of my game and how I play
Speaker 6: it doesn't actually matter. So sure, yeah, you know, they're
Speaker 6: not picking the team. I don't have to play with
Speaker 6: those guys right in the paper or the headlines or
Speaker 6: that sort of thing. So I just got to, you know,
Speaker 6: get my suppose, my feedback and what I've done right,
Speaker 6: what I haven't done well, off the coaches, off my teammates,
Speaker 6: and yeah, and that's what I value. So yeah, I
Speaker 6: think that's the simplest way I've been able to, you know,
Speaker 6: put that stuff aside and not worry about it. But
Speaker 6: the hard ones, you know, walking down the streets, someone
Speaker 6: always wants to say something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that must be annoying.
Speaker 3: Smart, it's just part of it.
Speaker 2: Like even we get that every day, and then just
Speaker 2: for things that have been said in the podcast or
Speaker 2: just like our opinion might be different to theirs.
Speaker 5: And yeah, they take time out of their day to
Speaker 5: have a crack. It's interesting annoying.
Speaker 4: When they hit you with the good one too.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Does it get intense from the particularly away crowds. I'm
Speaker 4: assuming on the sidelines they throw in a lot of.
Speaker 6: Yeah they do, but it's a lot of the times
Speaker 6: it's like pretty harmless stuck.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's more in the spirit of the game.
Speaker 3: And it's probably more than messages and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: People a bit more brave.
Speaker 6: Yeah, brave on the keyboard. Yeah yeah, yeah, that's definitely
Speaker 6: that that happens. Yeah, it's a thing and that sort
Speaker 6: of thing, and Multis is a big driver behind this.
Speaker 4: And yeah, because you didn't get twenty five touches, they
Speaker 4: hope you die or something crazy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, something like that. Or you cost me thirteen grand.
Speaker 6: You put five bucks on the bed, so buck Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: ridiculous stuff like that. And I don't mind a bit
Speaker 6: of harmless banter. Yeah, I'm actually quite a.
Speaker 3: You know, I like to have a bit of fun
Speaker 3: and bit of banter.
Speaker 6: But you know, when it gets personal and stuff like that,
Speaker 6: that's when it's stuck coming.
Speaker 3: It's a bit of a line.
Speaker 5: Here, Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: How about some of the best sledges that you've received
Speaker 2: on the field and even in cricket as well, Like
Speaker 2: there's some that have stuck and something you can talk
Speaker 2: about if you don't want it, you don't have to.
Speaker 2: But and who are the best in the AFL at talking?
Speaker 6: Lathan Vandermre is pretty relentless but we had some good
Speaker 6: back and forth, no real like sledges or anything like that.
Speaker 6: But fIF he actually had a good one the other day.
Speaker 4: I heard.
Speaker 6: Said something about obviously name because you know, someone come
Speaker 6: in and he just goesy such and such, come and
Speaker 6: get your dog, and that was like, that was a
Speaker 6: pretty good one. I didn't swear, didn't like get personal.
Speaker 6: It was just pretty funny and and that sort of thing.
Speaker 6: And Alex Pierce caught a funny one in gathering some
Speaker 6: bloke from Blues to your squad out you look like
Speaker 6: two backers are.
Speaker 4: Did you hear that one?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I didn't quite hear it, but I remember him telling
Speaker 6: the boys and I was just like, that's like it's
Speaker 6: pretty funny. But even he laughed like yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 6: actually not bad.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like I haven't really copped any sort of well
Speaker 6: I'll probably have, but you wouldn't. I'm always too busy
Speaker 6: talking myself. Yeah, but no, it's all funny games sort
Speaker 6: of thing. I'm like the one not just sort of
Speaker 6: you know, I take it personally once the sirn goes,
Speaker 6: you know, just it's eight en blokes or on the
Speaker 6: field trying to win the game and be as competitive
Speaker 6: as they can, and you know once the sirn goes
Speaker 6: and it's like you can calm down and just relax,
Speaker 6: take a deep breath, and you're back to being your
Speaker 6: normal self.
Speaker 3: I suppose.
Speaker 2: So just on you growing up supporting the West Coast
Speaker 2: Eagules and you said that you'd never play for Freo.
Speaker 2: How was it when you first went to Freo? Were
Speaker 2: you like excited about the opportunity or were you a
Speaker 2: bit like.
Speaker 5: Fuck, I wish it was West Coast?
Speaker 6: No. Well, it's actually funny because like with the trade
Speaker 6: and that you sort of have contact with Freo and
Speaker 6: right up at the draft Frew wanted to pick me
Speaker 6: in the draft, but Geelong sort I hadn't heard from
Speaker 6: Gelong and Geelong jumped in and grabbed me pretty much
Speaker 6: straight or two picks before Freer.
Speaker 5: So did you have no contact with them?
Speaker 3: Not until draft day? It was like six months before
Speaker 3: the draft.
Speaker 4: And were you nervous to move over and that whole
Speaker 4: aspect of it or was it just pure excitement?
Speaker 3: And then you know you look at their list back then.
Speaker 4: Because I was going to ask about that walking into
Speaker 4: the change room, right they had ablet crazy?
Speaker 6: What was that like, yeah, it was awesome. Yeah, so
Speaker 6: Tommy Hawks, Yeah, because everyone Tommy Stewart like, that's a
Speaker 6: crazy locker room to walk into.
Speaker 4: It.
Speaker 3: Very thankful for my time.
Speaker 6: They're an opportunity obviously, and getting to witness those players
Speaker 6: definitely makes you a better player yourself because you get
Speaker 6: to learn from certainly the best and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it was pretty cool.
Speaker 6: And then come back to Frio, Yeah, I sort of
Speaker 6: had contact with him for a couple of years, and
Speaker 6: funny enough, it was a massive Eagles fan growing up,
Speaker 6: but never had any contact from West Coast that period.
Speaker 6: So my decision was pretty easy, Like it was whoever
Speaker 6: wants they.
Speaker 4: Want me sounds good. Yeah, when you start playing AFS,
Speaker 4: obviously you go for West Coast your whole life. You
Speaker 4: get drafted at Geelong, So do you still like have
Speaker 4: a soft spot for them in that initial few years
Speaker 4: or not at all? Does it completely switch off because
Speaker 4: you're playing for Geelong now or how does that work?
Speaker 4: And now that you play for Freo, Like, do you
Speaker 4: still have a soft spot for Geelong since you played
Speaker 4: there or how does that work? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I sort of not. I didn't have a soft
Speaker 6: spot for West Coast. Ye see, but I sort of
Speaker 6: coming back to Freo, yeah and watching the boys. I
Speaker 6: love beating Geelong Yeah yeah, yeah, no Touchwood. We've beat
Speaker 6: them every time we've played them since I've been home. Yeah,
Speaker 6: they've obviously won a flag so they're in front. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but I definitely have a soft spot for all the
Speaker 6: teammates I've played.
Speaker 4: But yeah, and I guess the relationships you've been because
Speaker 4: they still did a lot for you as a club
Speaker 4: in a way.
Speaker 3: No, exactly to see them going well and that's nice.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's good to you know, watch them play well
Speaker 6: and those boys, you know, dominating some of them, so
Speaker 6: it's good to see.
Speaker 2: But it's just on your time at Geelong. Who are
Speaker 2: your best mates from Geelong and who do you still
Speaker 2: keep in touch with? And then who are your best
Speaker 2: mates at Frio as well?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so at Geelong obviously it's a little bit different
Speaker 6: at Geelong because I didn't there's no one out of school,
Speaker 6: you know, you're just friends with your teammates and that.
Speaker 6: And I came in with quite a big draft crop,
Speaker 6: as ten of us drafted, so like very good friends
Speaker 6: with obviously, like the younger boys, like a Charlie cuntsball year,
Speaker 6: older Blake Schlends, those sorts of guys who run around
Speaker 6: the waffle now and Coop Stevens, Frankie Evans who's at
Speaker 6: port at Hawthorne.
Speaker 3: And then the older.
Speaker 6: Boys meets you, Duncan, Tommy Stewart, Brad Close, Joel Sellid
Speaker 6: is probably one of my closest mates.
Speaker 3: We catch up regularly.
Speaker 4: It's a good contact to He's.
Speaker 6: Been awesome for me, sort of always looked out for
Speaker 6: me in a way nice and always there's been there
Speaker 6: not to just put me up give you some hard
Speaker 6: truths as well, which is you know, it's why he
Speaker 6: was such a great leader. Yeah, because he knows how
Speaker 6: to get the best out of everyone around him. So yeah,
Speaker 6: he's been a great resource for me.
Speaker 4: But Tom Stewart what another great footy story, Like we
Speaker 4: were talking about earlier with a few of the boys.
Speaker 5: How good is that.
Speaker 6: He's awesome Stewie And he's an ultimate pro and yeah
Speaker 6: he's an absolute gun.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And the best mates at Freo.
Speaker 6: Ah yeah, and that free Obviously it's a different sort
Speaker 6: of dynamic because like I said, I got a lot
Speaker 6: of friends. Oh, my best mates are outside of the
Speaker 6: club and that sort of thing. And sort of the
Speaker 6: biggest thing I found when I came home was when
Speaker 6: foot he's done at the club, of disconnect from footy
Speaker 6: and try not to, you know, make my whole life
Speaker 6: around footy because you spent a lot of time at
Speaker 6: the club with these boys, you know, And do.
Speaker 4: You watch a lot of footy?
Speaker 5: Sorry?
Speaker 4: Do you watch a lot of foot in your spare
Speaker 4: time or not? Really?
Speaker 6: I have done more so this year, okay, And I
Speaker 6: don't know why, but it's sort of a thing now
Speaker 6: that I'm just doing because I'm picking up on I
Speaker 6: like to just pick up on the trends of the game,
Speaker 6: just watch for little things that you know, just you
Speaker 6: can sort of pick up.
Speaker 4: And see, as you were saying, watching a bit more
Speaker 4: footy now in your spare time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, just pick up on a few little trends
Speaker 6: of the game and just yeah, just get a real
Speaker 6: feel for I suppose like just lock myself in a
Speaker 6: little bit. And yeah, it's sort of a part of
Speaker 6: my preparation now. A big thing at our club and
Speaker 6: j L has sort of en grained in us, is
Speaker 6: you know, getting down the funnel. We suppose is like
Speaker 6: close to the game, really narrowing in your focus and
Speaker 6: nailing your preparation.
Speaker 4: Closest I guess people at the club for you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, closest people at the club for me is
Speaker 6: obviously like get along with all the boys, and like
Speaker 6: I was saying, the dynamics pretty different. But yeah, in
Speaker 6: terms of, you know, the amount of youth at our club,
Speaker 6: everyone sort of gets on and but yeah, I'm very
Speaker 6: close with Obviously the boys in the back line, we're
Speaker 6: like a little unit in there. And looky Ryan Coxy,
Speaker 6: those sorts boys, Brandon Walker, Chappie and all that, and
Speaker 6: then obviously Janie and Bray Shaw's sarongs, Jeremy Sharp and
Speaker 6: Luke Jackson, Like it's pretty much the whole team, you know.
Speaker 5: All right, jump back in.
Speaker 2: Sorry, guys, we've had a few problems technical difficulties with
Speaker 2: the cameras, but we'll keep pushing on and if we
Speaker 2: can't get the full video out, we'll just have to
Speaker 2: use the audio.
Speaker 5: For this one.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just wanted to ask you who are
Speaker 2: some of the toughest players you have to play on
Speaker 2: and who are some of the nastiest players.
Speaker 6: Yeah, some of the toughest players I've had to play
Speaker 6: ons when you I suppose James Jordan got measure earlier
Speaker 6: in the year and only played on him last weekend
Speaker 6: and and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: He's a very good tiger.
Speaker 6: And then you know, when Brandon Walker was out at
Speaker 6: the back end last year, I think I had five
Speaker 6: weeks Charlie Cameron, Tom Papley, Willie Rioli, Tyson Stengel, and
Speaker 6: Dylan Moore. So I had the dangerous forward matchup yep,
Speaker 6: And yeah, I didn't sleep too well before games. So
Speaker 6: those sorts of roles that you have to do on
Speaker 6: those types of players are very scary.
Speaker 2: A few of those players are so unpredictable as well
Speaker 2: with what they do. So like with matchups that you
Speaker 2: prepare for during the week, are you looking at vision
Speaker 2: of what they do right or what they do wrong?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we obviously look at their strengths because at
Speaker 6: the end of the day, we are the defender and
Speaker 6: they are the forward, and you know, you've got to
Speaker 6: stop them from kicking goals and that sort of thing.
Speaker 6: But it's also a lot about you know, how can
Speaker 6: I make them go the other way and make them defend?
Speaker 6: How can I drag them out of you know, where
Speaker 6: they want to be. Like, if they're a deep, sort
Speaker 6: of small work to play, deep and isolated, well, how
Speaker 6: can I get up and get involved and try and
Speaker 6: drag them up the ground and you know, somewhere where
Speaker 6: they don't really want to be and potentially somewhere further
Speaker 6: away from goals that I know when they get the ball,
Speaker 6: they're not potentially as damaging as they can't you know,
Speaker 6: kick a goal from eighty meters away.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of little things like that that
Speaker 3: goes into it.
Speaker 6: But all the time it's you know, they have very
Speaker 6: good players, and I'm just focused on trying to beat
Speaker 6: them and not getting six kicked on me.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's a good challenge.
Speaker 2: Most what are some of your favorite stadiums to play out?
Speaker 3: Optus is really good. I love Optus just on Optus
Speaker 3: X shocking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because the stadium is unreal.
Speaker 2: It really is, because watching and like I've noticed it,
Speaker 2: it's been all year, right, like all seasons been pretty poor.
Speaker 5: Right. You know how they talk about wearing metal studs
Speaker 5: or whatever.
Speaker 3: You're not allowed to wear metal studs. Okay, so you
Speaker 3: get fined.
Speaker 6: I think the club gets fined, like forty grand to
Speaker 6: get caught wearing metal studs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's not actually a whole lot you can do.
Speaker 6: But yeah, the deck is not its greatest for whatever reason,
Speaker 6: I'm not sure, but you know, it's probably a tough
Speaker 6: surface to probably get right when it has the amount
Speaker 6: of traffic it has on it. I think I think
Speaker 6: you've got to take your hats off to the blokes
Speaker 6: who are the curators. I suppose that they're trying their
Speaker 6: best and that's all you can ask of them. I
Speaker 6: suppose you know, they can't really stop a Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3: Concert with undred yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I think, you know, you just got to
Speaker 6: just be grateful that it's got a bit of grass
Speaker 6: on it, and it's got goalposts at each end and
Speaker 6: we get to play a game of foot in front
Speaker 6: of forty at it. Yeah, I think that I'm not
Speaker 6: going to be too fussy about it, to be fair.
Speaker 6: But yeah, back on the favorite stadiums, when I definitely
Speaker 6: played at Gelong, gm HbA is like a fortress, just
Speaker 6: couldn't beaten there. Yeah, so playing four Geelong at gm HbA.
Speaker 5: Was pretty special.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And then obviously the g just like a childhood dream,
Speaker 6: just want to play on the G.
Speaker 2: Is there a bit of an aura around the G
Speaker 2: like or is it just any like any other ground
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 6: No, there is a bit of an aura, just a
Speaker 6: home of footy and that sort of thing, and how
Speaker 6: big it is, and yeah, there's just there's always going
Speaker 6: to be something about the MC.
Speaker 5: Yeah, your boys have had a pretty good record there
Speaker 5: of late though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we have.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we don't get a lot of opportunity to play there,
Speaker 6: but no, we do defend and play that ground pretty well.
Speaker 5: Well. Touchwood in September might be there.
Speaker 3: Yes, touch Wood.
Speaker 4: Obviously. You get to match up against some of the
Speaker 4: best players in the league every week. Who do you think,
Speaker 4: within you know, saying five years time, who do you
Speaker 4: think will be sort of the dominant players in the
Speaker 4: comp top five? Or maybe you can name some from
Speaker 4: each position, or who do you maybe someone who's going
Speaker 4: to you really think will break out as well?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll definitely Yeah, also a couple from each position. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's fine.
Speaker 6: I'll start with a four big Sam Darcy, Yep, no doubt.
Speaker 6: Josh Tracy, Yeah, he's already having a great he is
Speaker 6: having a good year.
Speaker 3: He counts.
Speaker 5: Yeah, twenty one though, that's so young.
Speaker 6: Still midfield is obvious. Nick Dacos, Yeah, yeah, yeah, an
Speaker 6: absolute chewing Chaddy Warner's are shoeing.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, unreal season, but yeah, like Tom Green, yeah.
Speaker 6: GWS, I think he'll be really good. And then in
Speaker 6: the back line, I think someone like an illegally from
Speaker 6: g WS. Yeah, leaves some bounds when he's played. And
Speaker 6: then I've really liked the way mac Andrew's sort of played.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he has been good, hasn't he as well? This season? Especially?
Speaker 6: So I think you know that that will be some interesting,
Speaker 6: interesting sort of players to look forward to the future. Yeah,
Speaker 6: very athletic, those boys in the back line, so they
Speaker 6: read the ball really well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and also with Frio. So the difference between last
Speaker 4: year and this year, what are you guys doing different
Speaker 4: or doing better? That is, you know, putting you in
Speaker 4: the top four right now and most likely going to
Speaker 4: be I would assume a home finals for sure. So
Speaker 4: what's the what's been the big difference you think this
Speaker 4: season at the club.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's been.
Speaker 6: Obviously three years ago we played very good season, played
Speaker 6: too and then.
Speaker 4: You what fifty and now you're back up there.
Speaker 6: And probably the expectation last year we were we still
Speaker 6: are a very young group and the expectation we didn't
Speaker 6: manage well at all. Okay, and we touched on them
Speaker 6: before but with my game, but the inconsistency between our
Speaker 6: whole probably was a bit off. I think Caleb was
Speaker 6: probably the only one that could probably hold his head
Speaker 6: up eye last year and that sort of thing, and
Speaker 6: so there this year is just sort of going back
Speaker 6: to the world with what makes us a good team?
Speaker 6: Getting that full buy and you know everyone's role, Yeah,
Speaker 6: is it counts to a very good team performance, and
Speaker 6: you know, you don't have to go over and above.
Speaker 6: You know, from the outside looking in, people think, you know,
Speaker 6: as for example, a Jeremy Sharp on a wing or
Speaker 6: he had four touches today, It's like, yeah, but he
Speaker 6: see amount of times he held that with or defended
Speaker 6: close that exit.
Speaker 5: Yeah you see hiun sixteen k goal or like you know, he.
Speaker 6: Runs such a selfless patterns at times which you often
Speaker 6: don't get the ball. But like within our group, like
Speaker 6: that is those things are highly rated. Yeah, So that's
Speaker 6: that kind of touches on what you said, how the
Speaker 6: outside criticism from media and stuff could be.
Speaker 4: He's had a horrific game. But then you know you're
Speaker 4: in the club and everyone's going, what a great cell
Speaker 4: team game you play?
Speaker 6: Yeah, So like, yeah, it's just little things like role
Speaker 6: based you know, and yeah, you know you don't have
Speaker 6: to go outside of your role to have an impact
Speaker 6: on the game.
Speaker 3: And yeah, and that's all that we sort of ask
Speaker 3: of each other, is it.
Speaker 6: You know, when you get an opportunity over a ball
Speaker 6: or get a player on the ball, you make you
Speaker 6: play back yourself in and accept that sometimes you're going
Speaker 6: to make mistakes. It's about who can move on from
Speaker 6: the quickest. So you know there's namely a good player
Speaker 6: in the competition hasn't made it she load of mistakes
Speaker 6: in the game before.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think we're a group on the rise.
Speaker 6: But it's yeah, it's just that maturity, I suppose, and
Speaker 6: consistency and buying of playing our role and understanding what
Speaker 6: makes us a good team.
Speaker 3: That's instead.
Speaker 4: One thing I've noticed I think is a big important thing,
Speaker 4: which you guys did last week, is winning close games.
Speaker 4: I feel like obviously Collingwood were really good at it
Speaker 4: for well, they've been good at this year, but obviously
Speaker 4: the year before they won the flag. Any year they
Speaker 4: won the flag, they were the masters of it. Really,
Speaker 4: how important is it for the I guess morale to
Speaker 4: win those close games that are within a goal?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's certainly really important. And I think that
Speaker 6: sometimes it's you just got to be fortunate to be
Speaker 6: in a good position to be in those sorts of games,
Speaker 6: so you can practice them when you look at training
Speaker 6: and you're practice at training, like, it's such a fortunate
Speaker 6: position to be in to train that, like it's better
Speaker 6: than going back to the well and going out boys.
Speaker 6: Our team defense is shocked and we just have to
Speaker 6: train this because we're getting belted. So yeah, we've been
Speaker 6: able to train those for those moments in games when
Speaker 6: we've been behind or we're in front, so how do
Speaker 6: we save the game or win the game? Like things
Speaker 6: like that, and and not to forget that we lost
Speaker 6: a couple started, Yeah exactly. You know, you learn from
Speaker 6: them and you always go, well, what did I do
Speaker 6: that time?
Speaker 3: What can I do differently? How do I keep a
Speaker 3: cool head?
Speaker 6: How do I you know, not sort of squeeze the
Speaker 6: fish a bit and remain relaxed in those situations and no,
Speaker 6: trust the process that we have.
Speaker 2: I think that's why me as a Freo supporter, I
Speaker 2: was so proud of you guys for the way you
Speaker 2: got that job done against Sydney. And it was a
Speaker 2: bit fortunate with missing that goal, but just after the
Speaker 2: two heartbreaking losses earlier, just to come back like it
Speaker 2: showed a bit of fight and resilience even in that
Speaker 2: Collingwood game too, to get the draw, like it seemed
Speaker 2: like you're going to get nothing from it at one stage.
Speaker 6: So yeah, no, exactly right, And I think that's sort of,
Speaker 6: you know, the sign of our group and you know,
Speaker 6: we never say die. Sort of we have let ourselves
Speaker 6: down in a couple of games this year, and but
Speaker 6: you know what comes with that is good learning opportunities.
Speaker 6: So yeah, to be able to you know, learn from
Speaker 6: those and been able to put it into practice. Like
Speaker 6: you said, the Syney game was very fortunate, but the
Speaker 6: way you know, the boys sort of held on a
Speaker 6: bit undermanned in defense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and if you put yourself in the position to
Speaker 4: win and it gets there at the end and you
Speaker 4: deserve it. Yeah, right, that's as you were saying, it's
Speaker 4: good to be in those spots. Speaking of the draw,
Speaker 4: every time there's a draw, you know, there's always a
Speaker 4: debate should there be extra time in normal season? Do
Speaker 4: you like the draw in normal because I actually think
Speaker 4: there's value in the draw, particularly it gives you a
Speaker 4: bit of an edge for like a top four or
Speaker 4: a top eight you need to Well, Sydney made the
Speaker 4: eight last year because they had the draw. Obviously you
Speaker 4: have the loss, and I'm going to get there. I
Speaker 4: think there can be value in it and it makes
Speaker 4: your points a little bit different.
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, I'm big on leave the drawer in the game. Yeah,
Speaker 6: because I agree the AFL is probably one of the
Speaker 6: only sports in the world that changes its rules every year. Yeah. Well, particularly,
Speaker 6: and that's not having or anything, but like there's got
Speaker 6: to be some sort of tradition. I feel out in
Speaker 6: the game and I love the drawer. Like I'm on
Speaker 6: the same side as you. Yeah, it can make or
Speaker 6: break season, I think, Yeah, there is some bad I
Speaker 6: think that. You know, it's pretty cool that our game
Speaker 6: can come down to literally one Yeah, like if it
Speaker 6: goes one side of the post or into the post,
Speaker 6: that can decide a top eight or body eight side.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: And but yeah, I'm sort of of the leave leave
Speaker 6: the game alone.
Speaker 3: Obviously, I get I've got to protect the head and
Speaker 3: all that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, which that's fine that stuff, but let's let's just
Speaker 6: leave the rules the same for a bit because I
Speaker 6: think it is creating a little bit of confusion at
Speaker 6: the moment.
Speaker 4: We did have a few other questions about some of
Speaker 4: the rules of the game, just what your opinion or interpreting.
Speaker 4: So firstly, obviously they change the interpretation of holding the ball,
Speaker 4: like do you like the new interpretation? Do you think
Speaker 4: there's still some tweaking? And then yeah, again talking about
Speaker 4: protecting the head or the sling tackles, do you think
Speaker 4: is that difficult? Do you think the punishment's fair for
Speaker 4: some of the sling tackles that happened, Like just your
Speaker 4: interpretation of both of those, And yeah, I think it's
Speaker 4: difficult to adapt.
Speaker 3: I think these days, as a player, you're just going
Speaker 3: to have to weigh up. It's not risk management. In
Speaker 3: a split second.
Speaker 6: I think you're asking a lot of players who are
Speaker 6: so competitive trying to win a game.
Speaker 4: And everything looks easier and slow does.
Speaker 3: It always gets played in slow motion? Looks really easy?
Speaker 6: But yeah, for example, the other day, when I think
Speaker 6: it was the debate from the essenon Geelong game and
Speaker 6: Ridley got done holding the ball, yes, and you know
Speaker 6: he just got the ball, but one arm was pin
Speaker 6: he's doing circles and I think someone said, what if
Speaker 6: he throws a boot at that missus lens and hits
Speaker 6: his head stangle gets two weeks. He's slung him to
Speaker 6: the and he's trying to dispose of it because he
Speaker 6: doesn't get done hold on the ball. So it's like
Speaker 6: it's one or the other, and it's really tough to adjudicate.
Speaker 6: Like AFL was really hard game to umpire at that,
Speaker 6: but yeah, I think that, you know, like they always say,
Speaker 6: if one arm is free and you've got the ball
Speaker 6: with one arm, then you've got to try and dispose
Speaker 6: of it. And it's like if someone's holding my other arm, mate,
Speaker 6: there's no way I can handle all the ball.
Speaker 5: And there's an imbalance and then that's where your head goes.
Speaker 6: Brings the head injuries into it, because yeah, and some
Speaker 6: players have probably played for those free kicks issues trying
Speaker 6: to drive their head into the yeah sort of thing.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, we haven't seen it with a few.
Speaker 2: It's also what the AFL is trying to get away
Speaker 2: from as well. So yeah, Yeah, there's so many blood
Speaker 2: lines at the moment, and like you said, it's probably
Speaker 2: the hardest sport in the world to umpire.
Speaker 6: So look, there is definitely a chop out for the
Speaker 6: umpires there and in that space. But yeah, I think
Speaker 6: it's my interpretation of holding the ball should be if
Speaker 6: you've had a chance to get rid of the ball
Speaker 6: and you haven't and hold the ball, yeah, or if
Speaker 6: you haven't hand bought it or kicked it, hold the ball.
Speaker 2: Even if the ball gets knocked out in the tackle,
Speaker 2: you reckon that's.
Speaker 6: Knocked out in the tackle depends like if you Yeah.
Speaker 6: The ones I don't like seeing is holding the man
Speaker 6: once where the blow just got the ball, tries to
Speaker 6: take you on knock the ball out.
Speaker 4: How frustrating is that, Oh he dropped the ball, man,
Speaker 4: and then you get done it because they're paying the
Speaker 4: free like aff they're paying the second free in a
Speaker 4: way in that sequence that I find that so frustrating
Speaker 4: as well. It happens so often.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and like, yeah, it's funny, like there's a little
Speaker 6: saying that we poke around the club at the moments,
Speaker 6: like ball securities, job security.
Speaker 3: I think it's an NFL sort of saying, OK.
Speaker 6: But it's like that's the thing like ball security, that
Speaker 6: you don't ever want to just have the ball knocked
Speaker 6: out in the tackle and yeah, spill it to the opposition.
Speaker 6: So I think that it's yeah, if you're tackled and
Speaker 6: the ball comes out and the tackle goes on, I
Speaker 6: think it should just be playing on.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair enough what I've noticed in the AFL.
Speaker 2: And like I could be wrong, but obviously in the
Speaker 2: Carlton game, you got done for descent, right, they haven't
Speaker 2: been paying many of those in the last couple of months.
Speaker 4: Seems like they've relaxed on it from what I can
Speaker 4: can see.
Speaker 5: Yeah, or I have the players gone more tightly.
Speaker 4: I still think even like obviously we don't know what
Speaker 4: players say on field, but I think earlier on in
Speaker 4: the year, any sort of it seemed like any reaction
Speaker 4: was getting a free kick paid. It seems like it's
Speaker 4: softened a little bit now compared to earlier in the year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, yeah, that was just Yeah.
Speaker 6: I've sort of spoken on this a couple of times,
Speaker 6: but my point of view in that game was like,
Speaker 6: if someone puts themselves in my shoes for just ten seconds, yeah,
Speaker 6: I literally I didn't know the ball was touched. I'm
Speaker 6: thinking that, you know, I've just lost my team of
Speaker 6: the game. Yes, kicked over my head for a goal.
Speaker 6: And I'm swearing and caring on like filthy out myself
Speaker 6: because I'm so so ultra competitive and arguably have And
Speaker 6: I will say I've probably said some things to umpires before, yeah,
Speaker 6: and that sort of thing like I'm not you know,
Speaker 6: quiet boyl I've been accused of that.
Speaker 3: There's no doubt about it. And yeah, it's.
Speaker 6: Obviously something I had to work on, and but yeah,
Speaker 6: in that moment, Yeah, it was obviously the umpire carded,
Speaker 6: and I think the frustrating thing was obviously the fallout
Speaker 6: from that, and yeah, but yeah, sort of moved on
Speaker 6: and sort of look back on it now, and yeah,
Speaker 6: it's sort.
Speaker 3: Of not something I like to talk about publicly because it's.
Speaker 4: Like, you know, it's there's no real sorry.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, there's no like wrong or right or wrong,
Speaker 6: and there's nothing you can really say.
Speaker 3: It's what's done is done.
Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure, It's probably just when you're in that
Speaker 6: situation next time, I've just got you know, cop that
Speaker 6: I've lost my team in the game.
Speaker 3: And not say anything.
Speaker 6: So but yeah, which is hard to do when we're
Speaker 6: playing such a competitive sport for such an ultimate sort
Speaker 6: of yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Just on the ultimate prize, Like I can tell just
Speaker 2: from this interview here, like you're so driven to win
Speaker 2: that flag and like you said, your move from Geelong
Speaker 2: back home, you won't be fulfilled until you have that feeling.
Speaker 5: Just a quick little story. I remember I was out.
Speaker 2: I was in free actually a few years ago, and
Speaker 2: I bumped into that five and I had a little
Speaker 2: chat with him. It was really good with his time.
Speaker 2: We're in a car park kicking a footy for ten minutes.
Speaker 2: Couldn't hit me on the chest, but that's right. But no,
Speaker 2: he had a chat with me and he looked me
Speaker 2: in the eyes and he said, like all he wants
Speaker 2: is to win a flag for the club and as
Speaker 2: a supporter since birth, like dad supported Frio.
Speaker 5: So I obviously had the beanie on when I came
Speaker 5: out of the wom and all that.
Speaker 2: So like it's just great to hear, and like I guess,
Speaker 2: it's so good that our team's so young and in
Speaker 2: a position to potentially fight for that potentially even this year.
Speaker 5: So yeah, no, just hats off to you boys and
Speaker 5: keep it up.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, it's certainly exciting.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's It gives you goosebumps when you
Speaker 6: talk about it. But it's a long way to go, definitely,
Speaker 6: and it's sort of one of those things that you
Speaker 6: know where we're probably you know, like Jay also said,
Speaker 6: we were seven out of ten last night.
Speaker 3: We still got to build on quite a bit of stuff.
Speaker 6: But you know, our footage is good enough and we
Speaker 6: can string our footage again. Other than yeah, there should
Speaker 6: be no no ceiling on us. I suppose a few
Speaker 6: words on j L.
Speaker 3: No, I love him. I love j L.
Speaker 6: And he's been really good for me, really good for
Speaker 6: my development and that sort of thing. And yeah, he's
Speaker 6: quite a quirky coach. He's quite funny, quite.
Speaker 3: Witty and very smart. So no, I really loved my
Speaker 3: time under j L.
Speaker 6: And you know, at the start of the years, kind
Speaker 6: of laughable when everyone was trying to give him the
Speaker 6: boot because I don't think there was a player at
Speaker 6: the club that wanted him to go. So we'll have
Speaker 6: him sign on for a couple more years, because yeah,
Speaker 6: we love him.
Speaker 2: That video of you guys reacting to him announcing that
Speaker 2: he had an extension. That was awesome because all you
Speaker 2: boys got around him like almost as though he was
Speaker 2: a player.
Speaker 5: So that was cool. Now we're going to stop with
Speaker 5: the footy stuff.
Speaker 2: We'll wrap up the show in a bit, but we
Speaker 2: want to know some of your favorite TV shows, favorite movie.
Speaker 4: What do you do outside of footy things like that,
Speaker 4: hobbies and that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so yeah, I obviously I live with my girlfriend
Speaker 6: and I played a faver Fortnite, but she's stamp at
Speaker 6: the foot now.
Speaker 3: A little bit, which is fair enough. So my Fortnoe
Speaker 3: career is done.
Speaker 5: Were you decent?
Speaker 6: Oh, I like to think I yeah, but just sort
Speaker 6: of loved it because it was with my mates and
Speaker 6: my little brother and that sort of thing, and it's
Speaker 6: a great time, you know, to burn a couple of hours.
Speaker 6: And but no, it must be a time I got.
Speaker 6: I got a Border Collie and she has a little
Speaker 6: sausage dog, so them down to the park and all
Speaker 6: that sort of thing. But no, she's obviously Page, her
Speaker 6: name is from out of town. She's got a farm,
Speaker 6: I mean, double young. So we get out there when
Speaker 6: we can and just get away from the city for
Speaker 6: a bit. And then obviously all my mates are. I
Speaker 6: love going to the pub with my mates and having a.
Speaker 4: Beer and bad favorite pubs.
Speaker 6: Well, I live in sort of Kensington, Como, so I'll
Speaker 6: go to Camo a lot. The Big Park Strip is nice.
Speaker 4: Brodny Hill.
Speaker 6: Just got to be careful every through the Eagles boys
Speaker 6: around there can't tread on their toes. But no, I
Speaker 6: love to just sort of, you know, try and treat
Speaker 6: my footage is like it's a game I play on
Speaker 6: the weekend as I did when I was a youngster
Speaker 6: and nice.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'll try and.
Speaker 6: Live, you know, my life within the rules of you know,
Speaker 6: being an AFL player and what our club expects of
Speaker 6: us from game to game.
Speaker 4: Think covered it.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty happy. So we'll wrap up it.
Speaker 2: Actually, we'll wrap up with the question we asked every
Speaker 2: guest we've ever had on the show, how would you
Speaker 2: like to be remembered?
Speaker 3: How would I like to be remembered? That's a great question. No,
Speaker 3: I always just want to be remembered as a guy.
Speaker 3: I never took life too serious, always had great fun,
Speaker 3: but just had a crack at everything.
Speaker 4: Just how to crack. I like that having a crack.
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
Speaker 5: Thanks Jordan Clark, it has been a great pleasure to
Speaker 5: have you one. We appreciate it very much.
Speaker 4: Episode I loved it.
Speaker 5: Good luck for the rest of the season, mate, Thanks.
Speaker 3: That's a privilege, so yeah, sick enjoy your whole for the.
Speaker 4: Rest of the season. No, thank you, We appreciate it.
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