Speaker 1: She's stronger at the top. Let's hit down to the
Speaker 1: Crows winning rooms. Mitch Hinge joins us. Now, Mitch, thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us on five double a footy mate. That
Speaker 1: must have been a whole lot of fun boys. It was.
Speaker 2: It was a great win. It was a really really
Speaker 2: good win. We've been doing for one of those. So
Speaker 2: we'll put that one under our arm and we'll go
Speaker 2: again next week.
Speaker 3: Hingy, it was just great for round one to see
Speaker 3: you improve on the areas as a team you've been
Speaker 3: working on in that one hundred days. The d F
Speaker 3: fifty fast football just score from I thought was outstanding.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: I think our work inside was really really good today
Speaker 4: where our contest was good and it was good all
Speaker 4: across the ground, which is very very pleasing.
Speaker 2: And you know, we had four or so boys.
Speaker 4: That played their first games to the club and I
Speaker 4: think each one paid. We had a really big contribution today,
Speaker 4: so it was really good and I think it was
Speaker 4: just one really good team effort. So you know, as
Speaker 4: I said, it's good fun. It was good fun out
Speaker 4: there and we'll go again. Done there.
Speaker 2: I'm Mitch Campo here.
Speaker 5: It looked really outstanding before, so I was really impressed.
Speaker 5: I mean you talk about it was a way to
Speaker 5: numbers performance. You go from Matt Crouch if we went
Speaker 5: disposals wise, all the way down to Dan Curtin all
Speaker 5: the way through.
Speaker 2: Everyone played their bit and it.
Speaker 5: Just looks like a really even and you're all look
Speaker 5: like you're on the same page.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 4: I mean, as you just touched on, we had a
Speaker 4: few things to work on over the summer, and coming
Speaker 4: into these games you never really know how you're going
Speaker 4: to go.
Speaker 2: So that was that was what was really pleasing today.
Speaker 4: And I mean, I know we can't get ahead of
Speaker 4: ourselves and we've got a long season ahead, but it
Speaker 4: was a really nice one to, you know, to put
Speaker 4: a show out for the fans and have a good day.
Speaker 1: When it comes down to the talk of the club,
Speaker 1: in the last few weeks, it's been about how the
Speaker 1: club and the team have matured a lot more. What
Speaker 1: do you put that down to Minch in terms of
Speaker 1: how you have matured.
Speaker 4: I think we've just got to keep learning, learning along
Speaker 4: the way. Obviously, we've got a few more mature bodies
Speaker 4: in over the summer. We've got a few in the
Speaker 4: coaching group and we've got a few in the players
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 2: And also I think we've.
Speaker 4: Just learned from you know, the areas where we've had
Speaker 4: to had to learn from him previous years.
Speaker 2: Like it hasn't just been a one summer build up.
Speaker 4: We've obviously been building for three or four years and
Speaker 4: last year didn't necessarily go as well as what we
Speaker 4: would have liked. So the boys are on edge today
Speaker 4: and you know, we're just really really excited to put
Speaker 4: our best, best footy and best foot forwards for the
Speaker 4: year to come.
Speaker 3: Did you hear the raw when Sid drape it did
Speaker 3: a warm up? And then did you hear the raw
Speaker 3: when he ran out there? And did you hear the
Speaker 3: rule when he got his first posssion?
Speaker 4: I definitely And geeez, I love what I saw as well.
Speaker 4: He was he was incredible, how his footwork work around
Speaker 4: the stoppages, he's worked rate around the ground, and jeez,
Speaker 4: he had some good contests as well, which we'd love
Speaker 4: to see from the younger boys. Son, he's gonna he's
Speaker 4: going to be very exciting for the future and hopefully
Speaker 4: it plays a big part in what Yeah It twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five comes well.
Speaker 3: From the new to the old We just love what
Speaker 3: Matt Crouch did, his numbers as far as contestant, all
Speaker 3: the win, he does, the work he does in close
Speaker 3: and it was up against an absolute gun in McCrae.
Speaker 3: He's super important to this group, isn't he he is.
Speaker 4: I think he goes underappreciated times, definitely externally. I think
Speaker 4: inside we know how important he is, how strong he.
Speaker 2: Is in the contest.
Speaker 4: He's you know, he's a premium mid and and we're very,
Speaker 4: very lucky to have him on our side. So as
Speaker 4: I said, I think he's what he's able to do
Speaker 4: is also you know, bring up with you know, Sligo's
Speaker 4: and Dawson and help these boys out as well. And
Speaker 4: that's what it is going to take if we want to,
Speaker 4: you know, if we want to do anything this year.
Speaker 5: Mitch, I was really impressed and you spoke about the
Speaker 5: maturity and I guess learning from things at the start
Speaker 5: of that second quarter. We knew that, you know, Saint
Speaker 5: Kilda probably didn't have their best first quarter and Ross
Speaker 5: was always going to give him a bit of a
Speaker 5: lick at quarter time. But I thought your maturity in
Speaker 5: that first five or six minutes when they got the
Speaker 5: ball inside there forward half. You guys were really patient.
Speaker 5: He didn't give away any free kicks, and then you
Speaker 5: work the ball down up the wing this side and
Speaker 5: ended up being where.
Speaker 2: Joshua Kelly josh Rah Shelley kicked that.
Speaker 5: Really nice goal snap over the shoulder, and I thought
Speaker 5: that was a real up in the right direction because
Speaker 5: I reckon previously there might have been a sloppy free
Speaker 5: kick or a forward fifty easy goal against. But I
Speaker 5: thought that was a pivotal moment in the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I think so.
Speaker 4: It's obviously been the focused point and something we've talked about.
Speaker 4: And if you want to be a good side, you've
Speaker 4: got to, you know, when there I guess when it's
Speaker 4: going against you a little bit, you've just got to
Speaker 4: weather the storm for as long as possible and try
Speaker 4: not to get too many goals scored on you.
Speaker 2: So yeah, they did. They came out in that second.
Speaker 4: Quarter and they were really strong and it was really
Speaker 4: pleasing for the group. You know that we stood up
Speaker 4: and we probably still didn't play our best footy and
Speaker 4: I think there's still areas we can improve in that
Speaker 4: in that spot. But you're right, we just showed a
Speaker 4: little bit of maturity there. We were held up strong
Speaker 4: and then we were finally able to break the game open,
Speaker 4: which was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Well done, Mitchie. Just before we do let you go.
Speaker 3: Were you under an injury cloud before you come on in?
Speaker 4: Were you no?
Speaker 2: Not at all?
Speaker 4: Boys fresh as the days in? It was, it was good,
Speaker 4: It was beautiful.
Speaker 3: Well done mate, We love you out there. Great work.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the win.
Speaker 3: Round one done, it's the next week and settle up again. Michie.
Speaker 2: Thanks for your time, beautiful, thanks man, have a good one.