Speaker 1: We are celebrating your favorite Victorian teams in the lead
Speaker 1: up to Opening Round, or we're catching up with some of
Speaker 1: your favorite footy players offloading club memberships. And today we're
Speaker 1: celebrating the Mighty Tags.
Speaker 2: Our next guest has played defender for the mating Richmond
Speaker 2: Tigers since twenty twenty one. He comes from good footy stock,
Speaker 2: as his dad played for Geelong and his sister plays
Speaker 2: afl W for the Bulldogs.
Speaker 3: Brown good fight from Tom Brown.
Speaker 1: Please rocking the show, Tom Brown, Tom Brown, Good.
Speaker 4: Morning to morning.
Speaker 3: How are you guys going?
Speaker 5: This is my team? I'm a Richmond fan. Yes, I
Speaker 5: was forced to be a Richmond fan thanks to my dad.
Speaker 3: Ready for a lecture from so you get the first question?
Speaker 6: Well, I was going to say, what is it like
Speaker 6: being part of such a big footy family. Your dad
Speaker 6: played for the Cats, your sister also plays in the
Speaker 6: afl W. Are you guys all competitive with one another?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: One hundred percent. I reckon. As a kid, my sister Millie,
Speaker 4: she used to beat me up, did she? Then as
Speaker 4: soon as I hit puberty and started getting a bit stronger,
Speaker 4: was the other day around. But it's always been footy
Speaker 4: since day one. With the family.
Speaker 7: What's it like playing at a big, big club like
Speaker 7: the Richmond footy club, Like.
Speaker 3: It's a bit of a pinch me moment, isn't what
Speaker 3: I mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah it is, But I mean I've never played another club,
Speaker 4: so I don't really know any different. But the Tiger
Speaker 4: Army is there absolutely nuts around one last year.
Speaker 3: They're crazy. They're so loud.
Speaker 5: I mean we are we are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but no, I love it. Look, yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't know much different, but they're enormous.
Speaker 6: Who did you grow up barracking for Geelong because dad
Speaker 6: played no choice? So then when you get drafted to
Speaker 6: a team like Richmond, because you're still you're twenty.
Speaker 4: One, yeah, twenty one.
Speaker 6: He is still only so young when you get drafted,
Speaker 6: what is it like when you're like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 6: I'm going to one of the biggest clubs in the AFL.
Speaker 4: OH I don't really know, to be honest. I was
Speaker 4: sitting at home and I wasn't really I hadn't spoken
Speaker 4: to Richmond at all during like the sort of build
Speaker 4: up to the draft, so I was sitting there, I
Speaker 4: wasn't really looking at TV. I was on my phone
Speaker 4: and I heard my name get called now and shit.
Speaker 5: Like posters down.
Speaker 4: And because Richmond be Gelong in the twenty twenty Grand Finals,
Speaker 4: so I was kind of I was off and already that.
Speaker 6: Was the one that was up in Brisbane cover grown.
Speaker 4: I was Geelong hard that day. But then I mean,
Speaker 4: as soon as you get picked up and get around
Speaker 4: the club, there's like you see such a part of it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so then you run onto the mcg and suddenly
Speaker 7: surrounded by blokes you've been watching on the television. I mean,
Speaker 7: who's a player that you played on that you're just
Speaker 7: like that sort of takes my breath away.
Speaker 4: Being a Geelong fan. My first sort of AFL experience,
Speaker 4: I was versing Geelong in like a practice match and
Speaker 4: I was next to Joel Sale and he's like, you're
Speaker 4: in the wrong colors, mate, and I look, I.
Speaker 3: Didn't say anything. I know, I didn't.
Speaker 4: He actually rattled me and I was like ship and
Speaker 4: so it kind of switched me on though, which is good.
Speaker 6: But that's like kind of getting a little sledge from johels.
Speaker 1: Also nice sledge because it's ever going to be grubbing
Speaker 1: from me.
Speaker 5: How are the Tigers feeling going into this year?
Speaker 6: I know you guys sit out for we don't even
Speaker 6: know what it's called zero round round, opening round, and
Speaker 6: you guys get your first game against Carlton in round one.
Speaker 4: Yeah. No, we're really excited, like we've got such a
Speaker 4: young group, was it eight draftees? Got a lot of
Speaker 4: older players leaving, But that's just part of it. And
Speaker 4: we're excited because we don't really know what it looks
Speaker 4: like for us. We don't know how quick we're going
Speaker 4: to develop and what would happen. I wish we're playing
Speaker 4: around zero over, but got the.
Speaker 5: Ass they pick who doesn't doesn't?
Speaker 3: Do you know what it's like? The glamor teams, the competition?
Speaker 5: What's wrong with my.
Speaker 3: Last season? Wasn't great? Hawthorne a sort of the Hollywood.
Speaker 7: This blakes a bit of a cult hero at Tigerland
Speaker 7: at punt really a lot of a lot of people
Speaker 7: online sort to celebrate how clean you are?
Speaker 5: What do you mean clean?
Speaker 3: Mean clean? Clean?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you've got cult status at the footy club?
Speaker 3: Do you feel it?
Speaker 6: Not?
Speaker 3: Really? To be honest, you are selling yourself. Sure.
Speaker 4: Now you walk in there and all the boys just
Speaker 4: on your back hand, and yes, they bring you back
Speaker 4: down to earth pretty quickly. But no, I mean I
Speaker 4: read stuff online. People send me things, which is pretty funny,
Speaker 4: but it's nothing TikTok.
Speaker 6: I was going to say, if you're a twenty one
Speaker 6: year old AFL player, are.
Speaker 5: You on TikTok?
Speaker 4: Under what do you put on your TikTok?
Speaker 3: Actually?
Speaker 4: I put one video on my TikTok. It's a video
Speaker 4: of me playing the guitar, singing as well, Eric or something? Noah, can't.
Speaker 5: I don't even know who know a car? Is you do?
Speaker 3: Season? Sorry I'm not singing. Well, let's let's let Tom
Speaker 3: sing it.
Speaker 4: No, I can't love her mom. It's a season of
Speaker 4: the Sticks, you know?
Speaker 5: Can you put it on?
Speaker 6: You know it?
Speaker 5: Six seasons?
Speaker 3: Save it for your guitar.
Speaker 5: Do you sing as well? Because anyone used this guitar?
Speaker 3: Tom, you reckon?
Speaker 4: This will be on air right now down at the club.
Speaker 3: You're going to be joy.
Speaker 1: Come on, nohka when you're ready.
Speaker 5: No need to change all the guitars out.
Speaker 3: Okay, oh ship that's.
Speaker 4: I'll play something else.
Speaker 3: Left from time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's shocking. I was feeling it.
Speaker 3: Yeah you a single le Tom?
Speaker 4: Yes I am no Ana.
Speaker 5: Can play the guitar and can think you've.
Speaker 3: Got a guitar and you you've got a guitar in
Speaker 3: my bedroom. Yeah.
Speaker 7: The ladies in the corner of the rooms.
Speaker 1: Also got a giant mirror that looks over his bad
Speaker 1: Do you have one of those as well?
Speaker 6: Done?
Speaker 5: Answer that, Tom, that's a trick question.
Speaker 3: It works. What yah, One day you'll see someone else
Speaker 3: in it.
Speaker 6: Now. I am a proud paid up Richmond member for
Speaker 6: the year thirteen twenty four to ten.
Speaker 5: We have some Richmond memberships to go as well.
Speaker 6: These are the hardest tickets in town to get the
Speaker 6: biggest team in the AFL, most popular team in the
Speaker 6: AFL go tags this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tommy, good luck for the season ahead, mate, Thank you.
Speaker 3: I'm excited.
Speaker 6: Jason Lauren Jason Lauren wake up feeling good on over
Speaker 6: one hundreds Lauren Hollybom on socials.