WEBVTT - #54 | Jacob Preston 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:02.960 Thanks guys, thanks so much. 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:04.440 No, we love you. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:06.080 I had nothing to do. 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:07.680 With that, mate, No, who cares. 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:10.480 Hey, Jacob, thanks for coming over me. No worries, mate, 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:12.119 thank you going me on and finally got out of you. 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:16.959 Yeah, yeah, that's yeah, it's a big talking point. Presto. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.480 My message Pressto reckoned a month ago, just before his suspension. 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:23.600 He was like, yeah, bloody, he only lives up the road. 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:23.880 Bloody. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:27.560 I THO keenurs come on? And then and I was like, 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:29.520 he's keen to go on. Sometimes you get the vibe 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.959 where someone's not yea, Presto, mate, let's get over, let's 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:35.519 get in there. And then boss, it was like the 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.240 earth had just ended and Presto had gone underground. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:39.280 Or suspensions do that? 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.879 Yeah, well I don't know if they do. And then 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.200 he he must be you must be a hard blow 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:45.640 to date. 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.159 Yeah. I think I text my misses a bit better 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:50.320 than I've got back to you. 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:54.280 So I was gonna say, if you're better than doing that, 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.080 because she would have left you pretty. 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.440 Quick if I tear what YouTube blokes in the same room. Wow, 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:03.000 I mean I remember the day Bo, what you was 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:07.679 that made both for manly you and yeah. 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:13.040 Yeah, Brook, you over your bulldog's day. Mark. Yeah, he 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.000 come on off the bench and you sub someone off 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:17.919 quite quickly too. They must have blown out of steam. 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.480 Joey Simpson, Nah, I think Ray might have gone to 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:21.759 the middle. 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:23.319 And then I moved into the. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.720 Of course, and your parents were sitting next to me. 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:28.920 That was a weird thing. Yeah, I'm in there watching 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:32.279 and then I heard him. Your mum must have mentioned 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:34.560 your name and I looked over and someone told me, oh, 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:38.600 that's Jacobs. Yeah, played well too. He did play well. 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:39.759 He played really really good. 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:41.080 Didn't didn't break any tackles. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.120 It was a tough day, but you guys prettle bit 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:45.640 of a score on us. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.120 But isn't it funny how far the club has come. 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.840 I remember that that first day it was like Ciro's. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.320 It was Siro's first game. He charged with all this 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.480 hope and I thought you guys were strong in the 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.560 first twenty minutes, but you just sue the combination. They 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.880 hadn't form like Berdo and Villi Army were oil and water. 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.920 They couldn't get their combination going. But usually come a 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:07.680 long way to see them. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.040 Jacob, Yeah, definitely. I think the obviously we didn't start 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.359 too well in twenty The first game wasn't too good, 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.280 but I think the first five rounds of twenty twenty 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.000 three after that we actually played some half decent footy. 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:19.160 We beat Melbourne and Melbourne and that. 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:19.960 But yeah, that's right. 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.280 Then the year kind of went downhill from there, But 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:24.639 twenty twenty four and onwards it's, yeah, it's definitely gone 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:24.960 up here. 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:28.880 You can see like it takes people sometimes when they 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.360 get like a star player overt all club or like 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.000 a new coach and they want instant success. It's like, 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:36.400 we've got this boat, now we're going to kill it. 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:38.080 That was a bit like that year with the Dogs, 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.680 where it was like you guys had Foxy come over, 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.359 Birdo kickout and everyone was like that, they're going to 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.440 make an instant impact. But it takes. It takes at 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.959 least a couple of years to get like combinations people. 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.840 I think people underestimate how long it takes to actually 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.200 get a group to understand each other as players. 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.320 Yeah, definitely, I think that twenty twenty three year it 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.240 was a lot of kind of learning new systems. Obviously 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:00.880 some of the boys had you've been under zero at 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.360 Panriff but for a lot of the boys at the club, 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.359 there's a lot of learning the system and some kind 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.520 of I guess couldn't really get their heads around it. 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.400 But yeah, another year on twenty twenty four, it kind 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.240 of started to click. And now this year it's got 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:13.720 even better. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.000 Jacobs and guys. It's not just even like understanding each 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:21.320 other's games, understanding the angles to run, how you like 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.000 to receive the ball, all those things. It's as very 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:28.400 simple sometimes as just catching another person's pass. I always 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:32.040 say a pass every playmaker's pass has. It's like a 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.280 thumb print. Everyone's just slightly different. And I remember playing 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:36.640 for it with Andrew for a long time and then 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:38.560 go to a different halt for inormation and the ball 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.760 just dips a little bit different. Other people throw at 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.880 a certain angle. All those kinds of things you've got 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.280 to get used to, you know, Hence the importance of 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.640 your school works relentlessly over and over and over. 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:52.600 Yeah, even some hearts like catching a little bit wider 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.200 or closer to the rock. So just been tough sitting 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:56.880 on the sidelines. 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.520 I imagine I'm telling you they're missing you that that last game, 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.520 you know, forty four forty four to six, you have 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.560 that Dolphins game. I can see they're really missing you 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.960 out there. Mate. For you, what do you? What do 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.600 you do as far as when you're suspended and you're 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.360 able to run and do everything? What's it? What's the 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:16.919 typical week for you at the moment. 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:18.880 Yeah, and I'm definitely missing being out there and I 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:20.720 can't wait to get back when you got one more 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.360 game now. But yeah, because it's quite a long stint. 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.280 I didn't think they gave you enough suspension. 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:31.679 Anyway. 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:33.520 Yeah, the eye gouging. 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.200 Because it was quite a long stin kind of been 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.359 like a little mini preseason, I guess. So the boys 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.480 got a couple of days off during the by round 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.560 last week, but I've been in most days training hard 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:48.719 and Travy Tumar. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:53.720 Oh it's bloody tough, isn't it. Rehab rehab trainings is 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.640 a lot harder. I mean, sorry, suspension training overheal training. 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.080 When you're not trained with the main group a lot 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.240 of the time because they're playing, it is to they 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:00.800 flogged out. 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:02.880 They might match them, so like it's pretty much like 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.720 planning getting the same columber as you're doing the game. 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:05.560 But you're just doing like. 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.640 Aimless running and I put it up a little bit 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:14.400 closer to the Yeah there, I'm really on the bit. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.640 My radio sensibility is kicking a big game against Paramounta 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.680 two traditional rivals up against each other. You know a 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.599 lot about the history of these two clubs up against 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:25.200 each other. 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:25.880 In the eighties. 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.560 Yeah, a huge and the massive battle the including. 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:32.280 The fact that when Paramuter won the first premiership in 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:36.640 nine to eighty one, the fans burnt the old Cumberland 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.839 Oval green Sea into the ground. So that's when they 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.800 had to build so where Paramount of Stadium was now 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.599 it's so combank. Yeah there used to that used to 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.120 be a ground called Cumberland Oval, had a green sea 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.120 in there and it was it was run down, it 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.400 was like decrepit and when they won them their first 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.719 ever competition, the fans just burnt it to the ground. 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:56.920 Hence they had to build a new ground which which 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:00.880 would become Paramouter Stadium and now Combink. But in that 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:05.000 about five I think it was six years, they had 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:08.040 to share the ground more over with the Bulldogs. Yeah, 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.920 so you had the two powerhouse sides playing out of belmore. 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:13.440 So it's like what it's like Penrith and Power this 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.800 year right come back? Yeah, Wow, Wow. Who would you 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.000 say is the biggest rivalry, like, because it feels like 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:20.800 Bulldogs have a rivalry like everyone. 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.159 Yeah, a lot of clubs, but I'd say probably Big Power. 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:24.599 Yeah. 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.479 And then obviously Good Friday was always a big game. 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.040 That's a big it's a Jacob. It's such a great club. 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.119 And I'm saying that because you're here, say the people, 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.800 it's such a great club. When the Newcastle Knights coming 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.480 in ninety eight, we stole your players, we stole your coaches, 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.279 We tried to steal your culture, everything about it, like 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:46.200 the Newcastle Knights, the foundations of that club. You know, 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.080 we're if you had an architecture looking after but we 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:50.839 had the same architect as you, Blake, So we tried 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.479 to copy that culture and it's it. And there's certain 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.159 there's certain things I always find about a Bulldogs player, 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.560 like toughness, you know, not really think about playing around 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:05.840 and opposition more play through short ball, playing all those 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.159 little things that I think have just stayed in the 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.840 culture of the club for such a long time. And 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:14.680 bellmore oval Man I tear in the nineties playing a 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.080 Bill Moore oval. It was, it was it was wild. 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:21.120 Yeah, Bellmore was incredible. I've played a couple of games, 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:22.800 been lucky enough to play a couple of games there now, 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.120 and it just seems every time we like every game, 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.200 next time we play at Belmo, it gets bigger and bigger. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:30.680 There was a game there against Camber last year and look, 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:32.720 it was crazy at the stadium, but then on the 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.760 streets that the main street of it was going off 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:35.320 like crazy. 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.680 Yeah, do you find that, Like you're a kid from 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.560 the northern beaches, Like you see the scenes over in 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.640 Belmore after you guys win and it's just like DJ's 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.880 in the streets, like Belmore is basically shut down. It's 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:48.880 like every week's a Grand Final like it basically it 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.520 looks like how Liverpool is at the moment when they 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.640 when they win the football, like they shut the streets down. 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.120 There's like flares going off, like it's insane. Is that 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.120 like just crazy for you being out there? 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.600 It is, It's crazy. It's definitely different what I've kind 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.640 of grown up. But then go on and get and 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.120 be part of it. It's so special and I say 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:06.240 it all the time, but we have the best fans 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.640 in the game and to make them happy. It's unreally, 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:09.000 they are. 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.680 A loyal fan. Like someone was telling me the other 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.400 day one of the boys who went to the Bulldogs 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.480 and then a few years later ended up leaving. He said, 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.160 when he went to and this is a very modern 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:19.640 take on this, when he went to the Dogs, he 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:23.880 gained like twenty thousand social media followers straight away and 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:27.520 he said when he left, they all unfollowed him. Yeah, 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.640 it shows how loyal these fans are, like to get 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.560 around their players, like the boys that are there. The 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.080 fans just get around you and build you up so much. 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.439 They support you no matter what. Yeah, they're very loyal. 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.800 But yeah they give your stuff, They give your presents 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.760 and stuff at fans honey stuff. I got given a 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:44.600 shirt the other day, like just at a fan signy. 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:45.199 Think it's crazy. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.520 That's good. So that area defined by the football team 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.280 in a lot of ways, you know, and vice versa 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:54.120 is the fans and the people of that community they draw, 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.640 they draw a steam soff esteem by how the football 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.640 side's going. It's just it's just insane and do you 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.840 know what pressure There's been a lot of tough years 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:06.880 with the Bulldogs and it's not nice going, you know, 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:08.199 when you've got the foot in your throat all the 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.280 time and you're scrapping away. But it's not bad sometimes 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.160 for a club to experience that, to experience a little 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.200 bit of time down there, because then when you rise again, 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.680 like new blokes have done, everyone appreciates the more you know, 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.520 and it just sends a certain buzz through the community. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.680 Yeah, definitely for sure. Like like I was saying in 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:27.959 twenty twenty three, it's kind of the opposite end of 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.440 the spectrum. It was very very much as struggle towards 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.319 the back end there. We had a game against Newcastle 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.440 sixty six nil and that was definitely tough times. But 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.679 to see where we've come come from and who we're 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.560 at now, and then the crowds and stuff slowly built 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:42.560 up along the way, it's very special. 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.040 You see. Like those young blokes who like the Boys, 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.160 are the young fellows that went into that Penricide who 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:52.160 started winning comp like Burdo Critter, they come into a 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.400 team where you almost expect every year it's going to 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.120 come kind of easy and you're going to win a 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.720 Grand Final every year, Like a lot of you guys 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:01.880 at the Dogs have come in at a time where 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.719 you understand how hard it is to not just make 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.600 the top eight, but to like get to a Grand final, 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.439 like to get to finals. Now, I imagine you boys, 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.160 it's something that will stop you boys being complacent, Like 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.240 even though he's are at the top end of the ladder, 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.360 you're not taking it for granted like a lot of 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:18.720 his teams can do sometimes. 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.800 Nah, for sure, we know we've done nothing yet, like 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.839 kind of learned a lot from last year. We kind 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:25.280 of went on a bit of a run there and 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.280 got to the finals and we kind of burnt out. 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:28.600 I guess a little bit. It wasn't really how we 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.679 wanted to end the year and to kind of put 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.720 a fire under our belly to go bigger and better 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.800 this year. And I think it's pretty evident with how 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.319 we're training and you're not getting complacent at all. 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.680 This is going to be a mega game against Earls 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.560 because Eels are really starting to form. You can see that, Rosies, 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:45.839 all the stuff that Rosey tried to put in those 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.560 early rounds with Mitchell Moses coming back in the side, 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.560 you can see that, you know, all the things like 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:53.840 something last week, you know, Jacob looking at some of 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.559 their little attacking sequences and players were very very classy. 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.600 Yonge's starting to really pick up and find himself. It's 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.760 going to be a cracking game. What sort of crowd 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:03.760 are we expecting. 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.720 They're trying to beat the Good Friday crowd, which was 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.000 sixty five thousand. That's their goal. Well, they're doing the 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.880 ten dollar tickets again did on Good Friday. That's their 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.320 goal wherever they get there, and I'm not too sure, 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:16.319 but it would be pretty crazy to see that was 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:17.880 the biggest regular season crowd ever? 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.400 Is that at a call, wasn't it? 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:20.720 Yeah? 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.640 Yeah, you don't get like they get it at Origin 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.000 and Finals, but you'd always see when you watch a 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.400 cor on TV and you see like half one side's full, 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.160 the camera goes the other side, it's just completely empty. 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.360 That game when you just played Good Friday, that was 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:35.760 chaos A like, yeah, it was. 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.520 It was incredible. We kind of we kind of walked 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.320 out of the hotel as well as before the game, 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.959 we stayed at the Pullman and the Bulldogs kind of 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.120 organized a fan get together like, so we walked out 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.160 the hotel when the scenes were incredible, it was like 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.000 see your people one hundred meters worth of people just 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.360 fully bulldogs, kid it up, cheering us on. And it 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.199 was very cool experience as well. And we're told you 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:57.600 kind of just. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.880 Embrace it the call walk. So what happen on day game? 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.120 Do you boys stay at the hotel near Homebush the 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:04.720 night before? 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:05.200 Yeah? 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.440 Okay, and then so that you're starting that tradition where 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.920 you walkers turning through the fans to the stadium. 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.320 Yeah, yeah, Well that was for Good Friday. We don't 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.560 do that every week, okay, but yeah, that was obviously 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.760 a big occasion and we wanted to embrace the big 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.719 crowd and kind of get a taste of it. So yeah, 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.240 that was very special. And but yeah we do we 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:23.840 stay out there before games as well. 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.400 Ye right, yeah, it's a good policy. I just love 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.439 staying away the nothing. It's YouTube and I love you. 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.040 I think it gets you a good night's sleep. Do 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:33.800 you have a roomy? Do you guys do roomy? Still? 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:34.120 Yeah? 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.360 I haven't had a roomy, kind of swapped and changed 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:36.880 a couple, but. 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:38.920 I've had who's been this year? 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.160 Harry Hayes is how interesting character, but he's a great. 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:44.959 So Harry Hayes, He's he's not the one who only 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:46.040 debuted this year, right. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:47.960 He debuted last year, but he's been in the team 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.040 ever since. Yeah, yeah, he's been going really well. Actually 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:51.560 he's actually living at Baga. 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:53.200 So you see other the Northern Meachs as well. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.160 Yeah, he's a Central Coast boy, but he's he's moved 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:57.440 down to here and moved to Canal for a bit, 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:58.720 but he's living Baga. 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:00.920 Now what's he what's we about him? He's got any 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:02.800 weird superstitions, No, no superstitions. 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:04.160 He's just an interesting. 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:05.680 Humor. 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.560 Yeah said humor, but is talking about weird sense of humors? 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:13.360 Max King one of the great How he is so 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:17.040 undercover funny, Like he's so funny for a bloke who 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.760 kind of like seems unassuming and very quiet, and then 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.679 once he gets comfortable in a group, you can't stop 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:24.240 him from talking. 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.559 Can't he spin a yarn? But like, honestly, I was 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.080 quickly say I want to give a massive shout out 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.520 to Maxie because he's origin Deaby. Was so good to 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:34.880 see Bloody on real and yeah, so happy for him. 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.319 Got it wrapped for him too when Laurie put him on, 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.240 like the first was first change. Yeah, he came on. 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.240 Of course I didn't kick off to Spencer, kicked off 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.240 the Max. He says, I don't know what it says 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:49.400 more about Spencer Max but less. But he's terrific. 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.440 Oh man, he's such good and we were at Melbourne together. 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.760 But he when he heard his achilles, it was like 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:58.280 borderline retirement, like king, he was. He was so like 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.760 low mentally he was. He do like nine months of rehab, 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:05.160 come back first run and he just gets so much 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.079 pain in it again that he couldn't even like they 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:08.560 just couldn't. They just had him on a what bike 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.079 for so long and he was like so the physios 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:12.680 didn't even know what to do. They were like, we 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.280 don't know how to fix this. It's so it's actually 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.040 a miracle that he's even back on the field playing. 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:17.280 You know. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.840 The other thing about Max is and everybody's different, everyone 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.680 has their different bullies. But he is a man of faith. 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.600 He says that all the time. For him to go 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.360 through a really difficult period like that, there must have 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.040 been times that he was questioning going, oh like you 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:29.520 know what I mean? 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.320 Yeah, to help me or what yeah, yeah, I know 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:33.520 what you mean, I know what you mean. He's a 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.800 big believer. I think he gives a lot of Well 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.360 I've seen his partner come out even when he made 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.000 his day Bill and was like, obviously they're very into 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:44.960 their faith and they gave a lot of that sort 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:46.200 of gratitude back to God. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:48.560 Good on him. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:53.000 Since you've been to church, me in school, probably since school. 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.800 We impressed. They went the same school. It was a 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:56.840 Catholical Christian. 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.600 Ridden right yeah, okay, well okay, what were. 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.920 You doing rest? They can't read all right? 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:02.600 Catholic school. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:04.360 Yeah, you're a few years younger than me because I 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:05.520 was in your brother's year. 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:06.560 Dana was in your ye. 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:08.600 Yeah, actually saw your old man at seven eleven the 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.000 other day. Yeah, but your you have a youngest brother 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:11.280 as well. 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:12.720 Yes, it would have been my stepdad. 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.720 Yeah but yeah, yeah, yeah he would have come up. 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:15.800 I was young in him for ages. 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:16.680 Yeah he's a good fellaw. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.480 Yeah, yeah, I was for you. Hey, what's ages for you? 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.320 The chat? Yeah, we sat there probably forty five minutes 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.160 in the seven eleven minutes are. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.760 Forty five minutes and the seven eleven Yeah, we're there 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:31.240 for mate. 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.960 We were there for ages. We were literally spinning yards 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.320 for so long like that with people because we just 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.400 filled up and there was cars like banking up behind 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.080 where our cars were filling up and just like waiting 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:42.640 for us to leave. 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.920 Okay, let's the conversation, can you. 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:45.160 Yeah. 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.800 A lot of it was about Jacob, and then we 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.760 started talking about Dane, who I went to school with. 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.280 He was in my age. And then we started talking 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.000 to your youngest and he was telling me how much 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:58.880 you love footy. He had like footy he had. I 0:15:58.880 --> 0:15:59.920 think he had bulldog shorts on. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.360 Actually he actually last year was the ball boy for 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.360 the dogs. But was he He actually tackled at Streaker, 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.200 but yeah, it was funny. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.240 Streaker like he's like eight or nine? Though? 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:14.720 Is he he's fifteen? 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.280 Now fifteen? She's not a bad judge of I cannot 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.960 pick kids age anymore. I was watching these kids trained 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.120 down at Cholera the other day and I was watching 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.040 train for ages and I was like, how good are 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.040 these guys going? Like I thought they were under seventies 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.280 because they look quite big. They were like under eleven's 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:31.000 The kids are getting bigger and bigger. 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.080