Speaker 1: Good morning, Melbourne. We are alive from Adelaide. Overall, this
Speaker 1: is number one hundred. You're on the air with Jason
Speaker 1: Lauren Cleats here as well. We're doing to thanks so
Speaker 1: mates at Shall already express and fresh from a lime scooter.
Speaker 2: Let's say hi to our next guest, Our.
Speaker 3: Next gatheround guest is three time premiership.
Speaker 4: Player for the Jeelo footy club, legend Tom Hawkins.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: You can catch him in action on Fox Footy available
Speaker 1: on KO Sports.
Speaker 4: Tom Hawkins, good morning, good morning, in one piece, Good morning,
Speaker 4: I'm here in one piece.
Speaker 5: You text me on the way in and it was
Speaker 5: a part of you in an e scooter.
Speaker 4: I was, Yeah, I love traveling into state and traveling
Speaker 4: via scooter.
Speaker 6: It's a great way to see her.
Speaker 7: All the rage.
Speaker 2: Why were you a bit of a shambles this morning?
Speaker 2: Late night?
Speaker 4: Well, close game that's down, came back and won and
Speaker 4: I think I just got carried away.
Speaker 5: Yes, well that's right, cause how do you go. We
Speaker 5: know you so well as a footballer, and.
Speaker 8: I can't imagine you being particularly calm as a spectator.
Speaker 4: I get nervous and anxious, and I was around sixty
Speaker 4: or seventy Geelong people.
Speaker 6: So I think I got caught.
Speaker 5: Up in excitement exactly, went.
Speaker 6: Into the city for a drink and then hone to bed.
Speaker 6: I was home.
Speaker 2: Fine me, I'm just asking and I was just telling you.
Speaker 1: You sound like me on the phone of my wife,
Speaker 1: darlu We just flewid were very tight.
Speaker 7: Or how cool is this? This place? Just it's magic, right.
Speaker 4: It is so good and it's it's nice that you
Speaker 4: guys are I'm not sure if this is your first
Speaker 4: gather around, but he.
Speaker 7: Came last year. I don't remember much of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, queens didn't do what you did last night.
Speaker 5: Last year.
Speaker 4: I got a little carried, which is easy to do
Speaker 4: because it's the people of Adelaide. I mean, the beautiful people,
Speaker 4: very welcoming, everyone's so excited. The thing I think I
Speaker 4: love the most about it when I was a player
Speaker 4: and even now as a commentator and football person, is
Speaker 4: that every one is just happy to see you down
Speaker 4: the street, whether you're barrack for Collingwood, where you're barrack
Speaker 4: for sin Kilda or Geelong, they're just so happy to
Speaker 4: be here and talk footy and let's and watch.
Speaker 1: Let's hold onto that vibe until until the port game
Speaker 1: on Sunday.
Speaker 2: If it's the same the rules, you do.
Speaker 3: A cop grief from Port fans because they are a
Speaker 3: little rough around the edges. Let's just let's just say, look,
Speaker 3: they're passionate. I not not so much on the field.
Speaker 4: I think the noise when you're on field sort of
Speaker 4: amalgamates into this sort of buzzing sound.
Speaker 6: So not specifically.
Speaker 4: I have had some heckles over the fence from supporter
Speaker 4: bases in the past.
Speaker 7: Talk to us anything anything memorable, feel quite well?
Speaker 2: Liked you, ad executive producer. He's a Port fan. Did
Speaker 2: you have a spit on Tom packing the don I.
Speaker 7: Should apologize Tom, it was it was a heat of passion.
Speaker 6: It was you.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: You're so big, you stand out too. Like imagine walking
Speaker 1: around the crowds here, you know you can spot Yeah.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, And I've got a massive set of years as well.
Speaker 4: But the one one thing, Emma and I got married
Speaker 4: in two thousand and some year.
Speaker 5: I was there some year.
Speaker 7: And sixteen and we got.
Speaker 4: Just before the start of the season. Anyway, we got
Speaker 4: our car, stole them out the front of our house
Speaker 4: that had wedding dresses and one one game at Collingwood
Speaker 4: from the Collingwood Cheers Squad. One of the cheers squad
Speaker 4: members at one stage throughout the game said that he
Speaker 4: had our wedding dress, wedding dress which is always stuck
Speaker 4: with me, which I was like, I was laughing inside
Speaker 4: because it was.
Speaker 2: It's a good chance they did have it.
Speaker 5: So hey, and now Tom, you've hung up the boots.
Speaker 5: You're obviously on the other side of it now.
Speaker 8: But you are putting the boots back on over Easter.
Speaker 8: I am heading up to what you play for the
Speaker 8: town you grew up in.
Speaker 4: I am Lozzi. I actually went for the first time.
Speaker 4: I bought my boots over together.
Speaker 5: Around want to have a practice?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yesterday? Yesterday?
Speaker 7: You're so tragic.
Speaker 5: You don't want to pull a hammy.
Speaker 8: So you're playing for Finley, I am, and which is
Speaker 8: sort of on the border.
Speaker 5: Of New South Wales or on Good Friday it.
Speaker 4: Is, Yeah, And I've always wanted to play for Finley
Speaker 4: when I retire, and I haven't done a hell of
Speaker 4: a lot of conditioning, so that will be interesting.
Speaker 2: To take you down to the park the hour we
Speaker 2: can do a little kick around. Is that what I did?
Speaker 4: I did mone yet I've got my mouth guard in
Speaker 4: the son Well, hang on.
Speaker 2: No, no, I asked, I've asked.
Speaker 7: What about the full back like lining up on tom Hawks?
Speaker 5: I know, are you playing for forward? Where are you
Speaker 5: going to play?
Speaker 6: Well? I hope goal square.
Speaker 7: Surely I'm just just one out operating out of the fifty.
Speaker 2: What is the capacity at the stadium.
Speaker 5: Standing room only?
Speaker 2: Assume I just looked on ticket tech. I can't find it.
Speaker 5: There will be there'll be so many people.
Speaker 6: I select.
Speaker 4: We chose that game to play as one off because
Speaker 4: Emma is a Deniloquent girl. We played Deniliquin and it's
Speaker 4: sort of a big rivalry and Easter weekend and they.
Speaker 2: Do it Banner club matches like that.
Speaker 5: We get the cheers got on Milestone game.
Speaker 6: Maybe maybe I don't think there'll be any banners, right.
Speaker 5: I'm sure.
Speaker 8: I'm sure just as many people turn up to watch
Speaker 8: Finley every other week as they will on Good Friday
Speaker 8: to see.
Speaker 3: Can we talk about Super Saturday in your role as
Speaker 3: a commentator for Fox Footy, Big day tomorrow, Big day
Speaker 3: for the Carlton Footy Club, because Carlton play West Coast. Now,
Speaker 3: the issue here is if Carlton lose. Now, I'm a
Speaker 3: Melbourne supporter by saying, yeah, I'll preface this by saying Melbourne,
Speaker 3: so you know, winless isn't a great spot to be.
Speaker 3: But for Carleton, there's a bit of bit of pressure
Speaker 3: on the old Blue Baggers tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Yeah there is, Like if look, they should take care
Speaker 4: of were that's the issue. But if things get a
Speaker 4: bit tricky and desperate, yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 7: But he thinks if the Blues lose loss, he's gone.
Speaker 7: That's his male.
Speaker 2: They're already calling for his head.
Speaker 4: The last couple of weeks, I think they'll be okay,
Speaker 4: they'll find their way through. It's really sometimes the start
Speaker 4: of the season is it's a lot more heightened than
Speaker 4: other periods of the year, particularly when you have it one.
Speaker 4: They've got some really talented players that have been kind
Speaker 4: of in and out. Kerno hasn't sort of been there
Speaker 4: and playing the whole start of the season. So they
Speaker 4: will find their groove. It's a bit like Melbourne. I
Speaker 4: don't you know, I don't necessarily think that they're they're
Speaker 4: as bad as what they're.
Speaker 7: Actually.
Speaker 3: You forget about Finley, you want to play full forward
Speaker 3: for the D's. There's not there watching that I could,
Speaker 3: I could lace the boots up and play in today's footy.
Speaker 6: It just it surpasses you so quickly.
Speaker 2: Hey, just quickly. Prize wants tonight?
Speaker 6: Do you reckon up Pies?
Speaker 4: I think the Pies are a genuine chance of winning
Speaker 4: the premiership. They might pick at the start of the
Speaker 4: year along with the Gold Coast Sons and the and
Speaker 4: the wild Cats.
Speaker 6: But I think I just think they've got a great makeup.
Speaker 4: They're mature and and Sydney. We like maturity and that yeah,
Speaker 4: won't be it won't be an easy game, but I
Speaker 4: think I think Colin would are set really well.
Speaker 1: Hey man, I know you've got to get to the Barossa,
Speaker 1: but we appreciate you jumping on this morning, nice and early.
Speaker 5: Good luck for a good Friday.
Speaker 7: Tom.
Speaker 5: I'll I'll take a sign and the banner burns.
Speaker 2: To the winery today and go down the street.
Speaker 6: You should get with.
Speaker 7: I think those lime scooters will.
Speaker 5: Go for Tom Hawkins. Plotting around adelaide On, I think.
Speaker 2: The worst place is to be stuck, mate. Tom Hawks
Speaker 2: joined us on the air.
Speaker 1: As we're not live from adelaide O, will for gather around.
Speaker 1: It is just going eight thirty.
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