Speaker 1: Fremantle captain Alex Pierce before the AFL Tribunal, facing a
Speaker 1: three match ban for a collision that raises questions about
Speaker 1: going back with the Flights.
Speaker 2: Leading the ladder and restocking with the big guns. Collingwood's
Speaker 2: Party of five returns for a Friday night showdown with
Speaker 2: the Hawks and Superstar.
Speaker 1: Tuesday champions and captains Lion Lockingeel and Giant Toby Green
Speaker 1: joined us song players Nights.
Speaker 3: We talked about his step into it, debrace all.
Speaker 1: Of it in the room and Rent it's unedifying for
Speaker 1: a senior coach to do that.
Speaker 4: They're on the side of Courtia with the brain kape,
Speaker 4: the man on.
Speaker 1: They played the best footy I've ever seen at the
Speaker 1: start of the season, and in said president left the
Speaker 1: couple older said he, of course they do.
Speaker 4: Is the stuff that legends are made of.
Speaker 1: What is holding the ball?
Speaker 3: I don't think I could answer it clearly right now
Speaker 3: that I can do something.
Speaker 1: Wrong, you know, And I need the game and the board,
Speaker 1: sex meet.
Speaker 5: The fans, lover and with no fans, no through sixty
Speaker 5: year old.
Speaker 1: The players dominate our agenda tonight, gas is Toby the
Speaker 1: greatest Giant.
Speaker 2: Were a little quick spitball about that. I think he
Speaker 2: probably is Jeremy Camerck. He's not the games record hold.
Speaker 2: He told me that's cal Ward. He's got kel covered
Speaker 2: with all due respects, so I think he is straight
Speaker 2: back at you. He's locky near the best line.
Speaker 1: In the Brisbane era. Yes, probably not because Michael Voss
Speaker 1: falls into Let me.
Speaker 4: Just reel off for a bit.
Speaker 2: Two Brown Lows Premiership Captain AFL Poyers Association AFL Coach
Speaker 2: station player, the four All Australians two doing medals form
Speaker 2: Merrit Murray's three Ross Glennings and two Marcus Ashcrofts.
Speaker 1: And could have been enormous with metalists and he might not.
Speaker 2: Be done with good CV, isn't it That is one
Speaker 2: of footy's great sev Yeah.
Speaker 1: Water player, all right, they are with us tonight, so
Speaker 1: we're stacked. Toby Green Lockey Neil. We're going to pose
Speaker 1: the question, shall we just scrap the free kicks in
Speaker 1: the ruck on Razor's edge.
Speaker 2: We're taking Andrew mcqualter's League Fix. If your head didn't
Speaker 2: come away from your body play on.
Speaker 1: David Zita is watching the Tribune as we go to
Speaker 1: air right now Tomorrow nights it's well actually following us
Speaker 1: the midweek tackle Lauren Wood with John Ralph and Corbyn
Speaker 1: middle Mass on all the news that's unfolded across the
Speaker 1: day and as we look towards the next round. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: night is mid season draft night, so we'll keep an
Speaker 1: eye there. John Longmeyer and Adam Simpson on the on
Speaker 1: the demands of the senior coach in the modern era,
Speaker 1: and Beckdanna her it's always a pleasure to have her
Speaker 1: at the desk. Our Tuesdays start with just an out
Speaker 1: and out favorite.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as you said yesterday, around eleven people get grumpy,
Speaker 2: big mouth starts shooting off everywhere, so it's just relax
Speaker 2: and enjoy this moment. As one of the most refreshing
Speaker 2: things I've seen in footy for a long long time.
Speaker 4: It's the Angus and Stuart Clark show.
Speaker 6: At the time, you bought some calves off and Grandfather
Speaker 6: KP and you didn't have the you had to put
Speaker 6: them in the back of the car and you put
Speaker 6: them in spot bags to get them back to South Australia.
Speaker 3: That's correct, half a dozen in the back of a barna.
Speaker 5: When he left time to come to Melbourne, I was
Speaker 5: I had a tears side.
Speaker 3: It's it's changed me a bit. I think he lost
Speaker 3: to work and that's why.
Speaker 7: How many family members around you?
Speaker 3: Uh, there's twelve of us here. We got twelve, and
Speaker 3: I think he had a few for his mates.
Speaker 8: I know you're gonna be a ten to fifty of
Speaker 8: your mates, half.
Speaker 1: A tent and aller.
Speaker 3: We didn't bring him.
Speaker 1: We brought me, GiB.
Speaker 2: You a wood chopper, angus, Did I hear that right
Speaker 2: or not?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I'm a wood chopper, but yeah, definitely sharing a
Speaker 1: shape him coming out handy on the on the footy field,
Speaker 1: that's for sure.
Speaker 4: What sort of would you chop?
Speaker 3: A bit of yellow box?
Speaker 1: No, a bit of stringy bark? Mate?
Speaker 4: Can you get gas coming into a cold winter?
Speaker 1: I'll double the price now.
Speaker 4: That doesn't make yet. That was on a Friday night.
Speaker 1: He likes the work.
Speaker 4: That's why that's not going to be up there with
Speaker 4: quote of the year.
Speaker 1: I did google the Brena just to see how now
Speaker 1: discontinued Brownie. She would have been a busy Brena.
Speaker 4: Six coats with goats or she's six lambs.
Speaker 1: I think he said.
Speaker 2: Brownie reeled off about eight ways that he was connected
Speaker 2: to Stuart Clark, he worked on his uncle's carrot farm.
Speaker 1: That was the first thing he came out with. So
Speaker 1: they were magnanimously to a double act on Rising Star
Speaker 1: Night too. Now Faigus is the two hundredth game of
Speaker 1: Chris Fading. We couldn't love Faigs anymore, could we? The
Speaker 1: way that this is all unfolding. They called him back
Speaker 1: out just for a moment. They're going to cheer him off. No,
Speaker 1: don't chew down. Just the connection between player and coach,
Speaker 1: a Turndreth game, Premiership coach, elder statesman. The players joke
Speaker 1: about him being the granddad, yet he can get the
Speaker 1: message through when it's required. So this is the sweet
Speaker 1: spuddy I'm sure of. You asked him, he'd just tell
Speaker 1: you that he's an old dog doing his best. But
Speaker 1: he's a marvel. He's an absolute marvel with the way
Speaker 1: he is at the moment now.
Speaker 2: He Cameron referred to him as the old man twice.
Speaker 1: In that was around the song and he was belting
Speaker 1: it out. I do think the one thing he could
Speaker 1: improve on probably is his television craft. As we saw
Speaker 1: in the danes auco interview.
Speaker 8: These competition is really really difficult phase just.
Speaker 1: Is his time?
Speaker 3: Is it? What are you doing?
Speaker 5: Come on mate, he's looking at me laughing.
Speaker 4: That's that adds to the chart, it does.
Speaker 1: It's so great. I'm lucky the old John Shortley top
Speaker 1: of the agenda. One of those tripial cases that has
Speaker 1: set the footy debates are lights at stake? Is the
Speaker 1: short term future of Fremantle's captain Alex Peace as we
Speaker 1: come to decision.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's interesting when I've been trying to sort out
Speaker 6: in my head is who has the right to that space?
Speaker 6: Is it a guy coming at the ball and the
Speaker 6: guy going back from the slight gutifool to.
Speaker 5: Go back inside fifty.
Speaker 1: On it into black Pierce going for the footing.
Speaker 5: But burn Giants took a heavy hit.
Speaker 6: I just see that as a footy act and sympathy
Speaker 6: for Burne Jones. You never like to see players gets
Speaker 6: up out of the game with concussion. But I'm not
Speaker 6: sure there's a lot of two hundred centimeters go running
Speaker 6: at full pacing. He's going to take a chest mark.
Speaker 5: In the wet he is able.
Speaker 6: To do in that situation.
Speaker 1: Pierce's eyes, what are his eyes doing? And I think it.
Speaker 3: Looked like to me his.
Speaker 1: Eyes on the ball the whole way, and then the last.
Speaker 3: Second his eyes realized that there's going.
Speaker 6: To be a collision and he kind.
Speaker 3: Of he turns his head and causes his eyes.
Speaker 5: To absorb it.
Speaker 1: Even though the players can cast, Peace doesn't deserve three
Speaker 1: weeks for that because it is involved in the play
Speaker 1: of a great gun.
Speaker 6: I just know that the captain of the football club
Speaker 6: pulls out of that contest early and Burn Jones goes
Speaker 6: back in March's uncontested. I feel, Pierce, you'd get through
Speaker 6: the side for that.
Speaker 8: This is a contact game. We're not going to be
Speaker 8: able to legislate contact out. If a bloke gets can cast,
Speaker 8: does the other guy need to get through? If Alex
Speaker 8: Peace had can cast himself or Burnjo's had to can
Speaker 8: caust Pierce, would Burn James have got three weeks?
Speaker 1: I mean, where's this going to handle in the short term?
Speaker 1: Will end in the next ninety minutes or so before
Speaker 1: the AFL champion or David Ziza is watching this case, David, Welcome, Hello,
Speaker 1: Jared Hallo, Gary, what have we seen so far? Well,
Speaker 1: very little, to be honest, Jared.
Speaker 7: But Alex Pierce has been called to give evidence, so
Speaker 7: as we expected he will try.
Speaker 1: And make his case.
Speaker 7: Now the doctors are arguing this was not a reportable offense.
Speaker 7: They're saying that this was a conduct that wasn't unreasonable
Speaker 7: in the circumstances. He was reasonable at all times and
Speaker 7: at no point sought to commit a reportable offense and
Speaker 7: did everything he could to avoid it. So Pierce giving
Speaker 7: evidence now, and we expect him to walk us through
Speaker 7: this incident. And really the fact that Pierce does feel
Speaker 7: like he's hard done by. You heard Justin Longman will
Speaker 7: say last night, who has the right to that space?
Speaker 7: That's the real key incident here. Patrick Danmesvill gave evidence
Speaker 7: of course in a Sam Welsh case laughter and that
Speaker 7: worked a great effect. Given how Eliq when he is
Speaker 7: Alex Piace also can certainly make his case. So he
Speaker 7: has to commit to the tribunal he didn't commit a
Speaker 7: reportable offense. This is going to be three weeks or zero.
Speaker 7: That's just how it's going to play out. You can
Speaker 7: have your misgivings and how the system works, but it's
Speaker 7: three or zero. The impact virtually no chance of getting downgraded.
Speaker 7: So they're going to talk through how this worked.
Speaker 1: Now. I just think a.
Speaker 7: Really interesting case from last year was Toby Green and
Speaker 7: Jordan Boyd. Now in that case it was relatively similar.
Speaker 7: The tribunal found that if a player has ceased to
Speaker 7: attempt to mark prior to impact, and he's bracing for
Speaker 7: impact in circumstances such as this, then that player is
Speaker 7: not contesting the ball. So that's an interesting case. When
Speaker 7: it comes to this one. Alex Pierce could argue he
Speaker 7: didn't brace at any point, he didn't attempt to break
Speaker 7: at any sense, So this is the interest he can
Speaker 7: see and talking through how it's a bit different to
Speaker 7: this one.
Speaker 1: Now Peace will.
Speaker 7: Argue he didn't attempt to turn his body and all
Speaker 7: he did was realize there was going to be contact
Speaker 7: at the last second and almost open himself up to
Speaker 7: the contact in a bid to avoid any more significant
Speaker 7: injury to Darcy Burne Jones.
Speaker 1: We know, of course he did suffer a.
Speaker 7: Concussion, but stimately that's what the case the Peace will
Speaker 7: try and make. It might be a lengthy hearing given
Speaker 7: the AFL's givings. They say this was a reportable offense
Speaker 7: and it wasn't reasonable.
Speaker 1: In the circumstances.
Speaker 7: Again, it all comes down to what is reasonable and
Speaker 7: what is a player expected to do in Alex Pierce's
Speaker 7: situation and potentially in Darcy burn Jones's situation.
Speaker 1: We'll have a bit more.
Speaker 7: Clarity in the coming hours as to what you can
Speaker 7: and can't do on a football field.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get the details of that before our
Speaker 1: show has done. David, thank you. Have you been pondering
Speaker 1: the justin Longmuller questions, who has right to that space
Speaker 1: when players are coming from polar opposite direction.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think whoever gets there first. It's basically my answer.
Speaker 2: I don't want to take out the ability of someone
Speaker 2: under You call it running with the fly. It's just
Speaker 2: trying to win the footing with eyes on it, and
Speaker 2: it's whoever gets there first has the right and then
Speaker 2: whoever's next test to make. And this is where this
Speaker 2: is such a split second thing. It's a couple of
Speaker 2: points there. I think Adam Kingsley's points reasonable his eyes
Speaker 2: on that contra and so your proof of vision says, yeah,
Speaker 2: I know he's there, I can see him coming, but
Speaker 2: I'm watching the footy because I'm legitimate about taking the mark,
Speaker 2: and that didn't become apparent. His actions then were different
Speaker 2: to Toby's where Toby cover it up. And you know,
Speaker 2: I think once he cover it up, then that could
Speaker 2: be deemed to be unreasonable.
Speaker 4: And I do take it not exception.
Speaker 2: I don't agree with Justin who said that he would
Speaker 2: be crucified if he pulled out of that. I think
Speaker 2: the comment tear it, which is us and the broader
Speaker 2: football public have got to that conclusion now where no, no,
Speaker 2: we don't. We're not going to crucify a play if
Speaker 2: he decides the discretion is the better part of valid.
Speaker 2: Now if you pull out, you know, in the old
Speaker 2: fashioned sense, then yeah, you'll be still pretty harshly judged,
Speaker 2: but not in the when we now know with the
Speaker 2: guy the head over the footy where it used to
Speaker 2: be open.
Speaker 4: So the charge in the player will just stop.
Speaker 2: And hover and we don't condemn them for that, Jared,
Speaker 2: So I will take a little bit of exception.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the game demands that in the last three
Speaker 1: steps you modify your approach if you're going to be
Speaker 1: second to the ball, and a lot of that will
Speaker 1: get tested again tonight.
Speaker 4: I was do you think that was unreasonable?
Speaker 1: But Alex peer my gut feeling, I know why he's
Speaker 1: been charged because at the moment of contact, he's not
Speaker 1: contesting the ball. Did he fulfill his duty of care?
Speaker 1: I actually think at the end he does fulfill his
Speaker 1: duty of care. So as opposed to he goes lacks
Speaker 1: as best as he possibly can to minimize the impact
Speaker 1: that's going to happen. So is that you know in
Speaker 1: the dangerous table, if you're released one arm at the
Speaker 1: last second, that's enough to fulfill your duty of care.
Speaker 1: That's where if Pierce is compelling in the evidence that
Speaker 1: he gives, that's the chance that he's got he's going
Speaker 1: to miss on the was he contesting the ball and
Speaker 1: the moment of impact?
Speaker 2: And there is this as David just told us, there's
Speaker 2: no there's no leeway.
Speaker 4: It's three or nothing. That's the other part of this witch.
Speaker 1: Wace in this In this instance, I think that's okay.
Speaker 1: This is either guilty or not guilty.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's I don't think it is.
Speaker 2: I think you can still be partially guilty of being
Speaker 2: unreasonable not to the three game. I mean, if if it's.
Speaker 4: A week, there'd be outcry, but there'd be half an acceptance.
Speaker 4: Three or nothing. It's got to be leeway.
Speaker 1: Colin Woods, they sit top of the table. They held
Speaker 1: the forts with the matcher. Next man up.
Speaker 4: I'm excited about this because I've done a lot of.
Speaker 1: Homework and remember the next five come back. Here's your checklist. Pemblebury, Sidebottom, More,
Speaker 1: Hill and Schultz.
Speaker 3: All good to go. And we're excited for that. And
Speaker 3: you know, we stand here with a great performance on
Speaker 3: the weekend through guys coming and doing the job. And
Speaker 3: then you know, the excitement is that you wake up
Speaker 3: in the morning with some really important magnet's ready to
Speaker 3: come back. How's Bobby going to the great Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I won't go into the details. He wasn't here yesterday.
Speaker 3: It was good to see him around the place today
Speaker 3: and train well and moving some stuff that he needed
Speaker 3: to move. So delicate situation, but we're wrapped to have
Speaker 3: him backt the club.
Speaker 1: You know, already to be of album playing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's fitting vilable to play.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was Actually he got an injury that potentially
Speaker 3: helps him. You know that he's had this plan of
Speaker 3: fashion thing that's been grumbling for a long time over
Speaker 3: twelve months, and he's pretty much snapped all that now,
Speaker 3: so then he's pain free. He's got a little bit
Speaker 3: of Scotish that may require a week to rest, maybe
Speaker 3: two at max and just tating m yes, they can't
Speaker 3: believe the difference in his pain.
Speaker 1: Friday Night footy does shape as a beauty. Gary Lyon,
Speaker 1: I have the pie is brought back.
Speaker 2: You would have been you would have done this, but
Speaker 2: I beat you to it. This is five payers back in.
Speaker 2: Has there been a better five?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Eleven hundred and forty eight games comes back in seven Premierships,
Speaker 2: two Norm Smith medals, nine All Australian Blazers, seven Copeland Trophies,
Speaker 2: five an Zac Day Medals and I think there's a
Speaker 2: leading goalkicker in there as well. That's I don't know
Speaker 2: if there's been a better five that come back in.
Speaker 2: And that with the due respect to Lockeye Schiltz, who
Speaker 2: he didn't add to that all that much. When he's
Speaker 2: going to be a great addition. That is an imposing addition.
Speaker 2: Now it doesn't guarantee anything, of course, but to their
Speaker 2: way they've been playing. And this is a beauty of
Speaker 2: this football side is that they can see us he
Speaker 2: reintroduced players of that ILK but also go to their
Speaker 2: secondary and still get the job.
Speaker 1: So the inverse is they won without all of that,
Speaker 1: which is pretty remarkable in its.
Speaker 2: Own Right now, they're in great they're in such a
Speaker 2: great place right now, and sometimes, you know, not often
Speaker 2: in your football life, you just experience where everything's like
Speaker 2: it's all coming together beautifully and that's where they're that,
Speaker 2: that's where they're there. This time last year Sydney were
Speaker 2: there too. So it doesn't it doesn't guarantee you anything,
Speaker 2: but it guarantees it's a great Friday night against the
Speaker 2: Hawthorne side who got a bit.
Speaker 1: To prove age and experience. Their profile will change a
Speaker 1: bit from one week to the other. Dan McStay is
Speaker 1: edging closer, so he injured the knee and Anzac Day.
Speaker 1: We left that night wondering what his future was be
Speaker 1: It was a mid term injury that's going to cost
Speaker 1: him a big chunk in the middle. But he has
Speaker 1: taken aim at the King's Birthday encounter.
Speaker 4: That doesn't that loom as well.
Speaker 1: So it's a good recoverer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well some players are like that.
Speaker 2: J There are players who got remarkable powers of recuperation
Speaker 2: and others would take a bit longer it. In his absence, again,
Speaker 2: Tim Memory continues to do a job that maybe even
Speaker 2: a surprising Collingwood who went and picked him up with
Speaker 2: the thought I would think that he's going to be
Speaker 2: great backup. We're going to use him through the home
Speaker 2: and away. But he's had to be more than that,
Speaker 2: and he's done a great job. So it'll be interesting
Speaker 2: to see how they structure up with mixed. They are
Speaker 2: not too far away.
Speaker 1: Reference mid season draft tomorrow night. If Craig McCrae had
Speaker 1: his way, we would be heading towards the mid season
Speaker 1: trade period at the halfway mark.
Speaker 3: I'm a big advocate for mid season draft and also
Speaker 3: for the trade Like I say it every year, and
Speaker 3: I think there's opportunities out there for the competition to
Speaker 3: keep growing. And you look at Essen and don't have
Speaker 3: Keith Fords or Keys at the moment. They could benefit
Speaker 3: from a trade period where someone's at another club, potential
Speaker 3: he's not going to any game. And I think the
Speaker 3: ifl continue to keep bringing up every year, hopefully we
Speaker 3: can make some PROGRESSI in that I think it will
Speaker 3: create urgency and energy for teams you know, maybe potentially
Speaker 3: aren't fighting at the top of the ladder or yeah,
Speaker 3: fans are like it. I gives you more stories to
Speaker 3: talk about, hopefully not too far away.
Speaker 1: There is an in principal agreement in the collective bargaining
Speaker 1: with the players to do this, but there was reticence
Speaker 1: from the clubs, particularly those clubs from outside Victoria. So
Speaker 1: the AFL has the right to pursue this, but hasn't
Speaker 1: chosen to yet. I haven't asked you if you were
Speaker 1: yes or a no.
Speaker 2: It doesn't make much sense to this and can find
Speaker 2: themselves in a parlor situation and have players who are
Speaker 2: there ready to go at another club not getting senior opportunity.
Speaker 2: Imagine Luke Jackson and if saw and Darcie and Luke
Speaker 2: Jackson were playing and they decided that Jackson was their
Speaker 2: man and Darcy became available, of a sudden, there'd be a.
Speaker 1: And you get more in season than you do post season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, particularly where you're at.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you haven't you're having a season, then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you think and windows just got
Speaker 2: wider for us.
Speaker 4: Let's make the most of it.
Speaker 2: Then you might pay over So that club who's on
Speaker 2: the who's on the other end of.
Speaker 4: It, says, yeah, we'll get extras and we'll benefit at
Speaker 4: the next So yeah, I like it. I think the
Speaker 4: mid season.
Speaker 2: Draft is sharply to focus Friday night. When that ball
Speaker 2: gets bounced on Friday night, ned Long's going to steer
Speaker 2: across at joint yugud.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: If that doesn't put it into focus, then nothing does.
Speaker 2: That's going to be awesome.
Speaker 1: And tomorrow night we'll hear stories about just how far
Speaker 1: back you can come from to be on a league
Speaker 1: list across two years, be playing second division in the
Speaker 1: suburbs and be the number one pick tomorrow and night
Speaker 1: is hope. There is hope the Tasmanian Front today. This
Speaker 1: is so interesting is the reassessment on the building of
Speaker 1: the Macquarie Point Stadium has been done. The financials and
Speaker 1: the figure nout is nine hundred and forty five million dollars,
Speaker 1: So that's up one hundred and seventy million on the
Speaker 1: first instance. This is significant because the state budget is
Speaker 1: later this week and the money has to be put
Speaker 1: into it. It's better to know now than to have
Speaker 1: the cost overrun. The skeptics will still tell you that
Speaker 1: this won't be built for less than one point two
Speaker 1: billion dollars, but the rise, the rise and the bill
Speaker 1: right now, so as matters stand, bipartisan support exists for
Speaker 1: the stadium. The draft legislation was published today, or go
Speaker 1: to the Lower House of Parliament in June, a month
Speaker 1: of debate and then the vote in July, where only
Speaker 1: the past or not bipartisan support would see it go through.
Speaker 1: Then to the Upper House where the stadium would need
Speaker 1: two of the independents who probably if the vote was
Speaker 1: held yesterday, you would probably be counting on those votes
Speaker 1: and it would pass through into law and construction would begin.
Speaker 1: So the rise to the price the rendering is the
Speaker 1: sort of the payoff is. It's shiny, it's beautiful, it's
Speaker 1: going to be fantastic, it is. But the number, the
Speaker 1: number is a big number.
Speaker 2: The bipartisan support before this latest blowout of one hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy to two hundred million. Anyone that's built a house,
Speaker 2: Jared will tell you that this it just keeps going
Speaker 2: up and up and up. So what's going to be acceptable.
Speaker 2: Is there a cut off here for full support of
Speaker 2: this stadium with an altern live sitting in the wings
Speaker 2: saying that we can do it for this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So this is the number that they will vote on.
Speaker 1: So that's the important part. There's no smoke and mirrors
Speaker 1: with this. We're not going to vote on a number
Speaker 1: that is outdated. So it's an eyes wide open for
Speaker 1: the leaders of that state to do and then for
Speaker 1: the sport involved. And obviously THEYSI rules is right at
Speaker 1: the front of that. This was Andrew Dillon just a
Speaker 1: short time ago.
Speaker 3: Are you losing faith in how much is going to
Speaker 3: cost and slipping away given what they need to deliver together?
Speaker 5: Team, Look, there's a lot of work that's gone into
Speaker 5: the planning process that's happening now, which will be going
Speaker 5: before both houses of Parliament towards the end of June
Speaker 5: and early July. We're really confident that the work's been
Speaker 5: done and that it's within an envelope that the Tasmanian government,
Speaker 5: with assistance from the Federal government and others, will be
Speaker 5: able to deliver what will be an incredible asset for
Speaker 5: all of Tasmania and a great place for the Tasmanian
Speaker 5: Devils to play the majority of their games. Cricketer, I've
Speaker 5: in oars about the roof for you at that you
Speaker 5: need a roof in that place. We might have to
Speaker 5: speak to the head of the Crickets Association on that,
Speaker 5: but Look, I know that that can all be worked through.
Speaker 5: The stadium needs to be fit for purpose, not just
Speaker 5: for football, but for other sports, and I know the
Speaker 5: report already refers to ways to mitigate that.
Speaker 3: So is that a softening on the need for a
Speaker 3: roof from your end?
Speaker 5: Absolutely not. It will be the requirement under the licenses
Speaker 5: for a roof stadium at Macquarie Point with a capacity
Speaker 5: of at least twenty three thousand and cricket's been plaid
Speaker 5: under a roof here and I'm sure we'll be able
Speaker 5: to make that work down in Tasmania.
Speaker 4: So Jared cut through this.
Speaker 2: For a lot of people seeing at home, they're not
Speaker 2: interested in the money of the figures. They're just wondering
Speaker 2: whether or not you're going to get a nine eighth
Speaker 2: team in Tasmania. The stance has been from day one,
Speaker 2: no stadium, no team. Benny Gale said so recently as
Speaker 2: last week that we might all be out of the
Speaker 2: job if.
Speaker 4: This doesn't pass. Tell us what's happening, tell us what
Speaker 4: will happen.
Speaker 1: This will either pass Parliament or not, and it will
Speaker 1: do so in the last week of July or the
Speaker 1: first week of August.
Speaker 2: If it doesn't passes at it superficially.
Speaker 1: Yes, everyone will say absolutely, that is it, and that's
Speaker 1: an unwavering stance. Bennie Gael couldn't have been clearer when
Speaker 1: he said, we'll all be out of jobs.
Speaker 2: So you pause then, But so you're saying if they
Speaker 2: blink that, they most still might come back to the table.
Speaker 1: In my heart of hearts, I do believe that would happen.
Speaker 1: It's nobody's preference to get there. But are we going
Speaker 1: to fold the whole idea and cut the state adrift
Speaker 1: forevermore and break all the hearts that have been given
Speaker 1: over to it?
Speaker 4: Will they move past them?
Speaker 2: Will the AFL just if they don't, If they can
Speaker 2: all come together and commit to this as a state
Speaker 2: and from a government point of view, will the AFL
Speaker 2: just move past them and say, hey, you had your chance.
Speaker 1: Every public statement is yes. In my heart I believe
Speaker 1: I believe.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: Well, they might just sit there and say what aperance
Speaker 4: is not true? No?
Speaker 1: Non, God, don't take my word. I don't want to
Speaker 1: cost you your team.
Speaker 2: But this might be their their attitude to say I
Speaker 2: think they're bluffing their we'll just call their bluff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be it would be a high stakes maneuver.
Speaker 4: Don't take.
Speaker 1: Cricket has no rights here. By the way, I'm a
Speaker 1: great cricket man. Cricket has no rights here. They wanted
Speaker 1: nothing to do with the stadium. Don't be putting demands
Speaker 1: on the roof now. Our players are about to join us.
Speaker 1: Toby Green and Locky Neil, two of the greats of
Speaker 1: the competition.