Speaker 1: It's one of the first things I remember when I
Speaker 1: first came into Like I did two days in the
Speaker 1: Matilda's camp, just cover for the doctor at the time.
Speaker 1: I walked into the meal room and I was like,
Speaker 1: mind blown by the buffet. Like you said to people
Speaker 1: sort of get starstruck by the players. I was starstruck
Speaker 1: by the buffet. So like, we'll strap them for training,
Speaker 1: but then when we know the media is going to
Speaker 1: be there, we'll make them wear long pants, for instance,
Speaker 1: or we'll take the strapping off for me. Like, you
Speaker 1: absolutely cannot give anything away that will compromise the health
Speaker 1: or welfare of the player by the opposition knowing something
Speaker 1: about that player.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Sees the Yay Podcast. Busy and happy
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Speaker 3: Hello, lovely neighborhood.
Speaker 2: I hope you're having a wonderful week and of course
Speaker 2: us seizing your yea. I believe most of us listening
Speaker 2: probably had a long weekend of some form over the weekend,
Speaker 2: so I hope you all enjoyed the wonderful time off
Speaker 2: and made some time to playta. We are so lucky
Speaker 2: to have doctor Brandy Cole back on the show this
Speaker 2: week after her incredible episode last week. So this is
Speaker 2: the follow one from that, or Part two or chapter two,
Speaker 2: or whatever you want to call it. If you have
Speaker 2: listened to that, you will know that it absolutely got
Speaker 2: out of control. We were having so much fun, Andrew
Speaker 2: were just fangirling her so hard, but also getting so
Speaker 2: deep into her incredible pathway from all the way back
Speaker 2: to childhood, as we usually do. But there's been so
Speaker 2: much that doctor Brandy has done in so many different
Speaker 2: areas before we even got up to the chapter that
Speaker 2: she's in currently, which many of you will know her from.
Speaker 2: Of course, most of you will know whether or not
Speaker 2: you've listened to the episode that doctor Brandy is the
Speaker 2: team doctor for the Matildas, which in itself is so
Speaker 2: fascinating and has so many facets, particularly with the recently
Speaker 2: passed Fever World Cup, so of course we wanted to
Speaker 2: get into Tilly's fever and everything behind the scenes. But
Speaker 2: doctor Brandy has so many achievements before that, including being
Speaker 2: an elite athlete herself. She's done a million degrees, she
Speaker 2: has her own practice, so Angre and I got really
Speaker 2: distracted going through all of those chapters and didn't actually
Speaker 2: make it to the Tilli's chapter until fifty five minutes
Speaker 2: in or something like that. But we had so much fun,
Speaker 2: and it seems doctor Brandy enjoyed herself as well, which
Speaker 2: we're very grateful for. So she agreed to jump back
Speaker 2: on for a part two, and this segment of the
Speaker 2: interview will focus on the behind the scenes of pretty
Speaker 2: much being the glue that holds the matildas together. So
Speaker 2: another wonderfully enjoyable, completely fascinating episode. We learned so much
Speaker 2: like so many interesting things about what life was like
Speaker 2: not only in the FEF World Cup but in the
Speaker 2: Olympic village. And also just how intense the job of
Speaker 2: the support staff is. And I'm sure you guys will hear.
Speaker 2: We're just as obsessed with doctor Brandy as we were
Speaker 2: last time. I hope you all enjoy and love her
Speaker 2: as much as we have. Maybe we'll get her back
Speaker 2: for part three. She's got a lot coming up, so
Speaker 2: I hope you guys enjoy this one as much as
Speaker 2: we did.
Speaker 3: Doctor Brandy, Welcome back.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Feels like I never left.
Speaker 2: You can't get rid of us now. We are so
Speaker 2: excited to have you back. Last episode was.
Speaker 3: So much fun.
Speaker 2: We spoke for longer than we do in most episodes,
Speaker 2: but it felt like ten minutes, and I feel like
Speaker 2: we barely scratch the surface of your incredible life. So
Speaker 2: we are so grateful that you agreed to jump back
Speaker 2: on to keep going and just chatting shit with us.
Speaker 1: Ninety minutes episode and about three hours of talking condensed
Speaker 1: into it.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I think we all speak very quickly
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 1: Usually when I'm talking to people like cut in because
Speaker 1: I know what you're gonna say you're being too slowry up,
Speaker 1: I'll answer, just not a good habit to have. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to work on it. I actually had a friend
Speaker 1: text me after she listened to the episode and said,
Speaker 1: I'd love to know how many words do you say permanent?
Speaker 1: So maybe I'll have to record it for or whatever.
Speaker 2: Well, I feel like a lot of people listen to
Speaker 2: podcasts on one and a half speed just because they
Speaker 2: find slow talkers, whereas if they did that with our episode,
Speaker 2: they wouldn't understand anything that's exactly right.
Speaker 1: I'm guilty of listening at one point five speed, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't need to for my own episode, so that's good.
Speaker 2: Before we get into part two, exploring the wonderful world
Speaker 2: of Doctor Brandy, it's so interesting to me that you
Speaker 2: don't usually listen back to your chats, and you did
Speaker 2: for this one.
Speaker 3: What did you think?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I usually can't stand what my voice sounds like
Speaker 1: or what I say, but I actually wanted to know
Speaker 1: what I said because I had so much fun. I
Speaker 1: didn't really know what I knew what we talked about,
Speaker 1: but I was like, I don't actually know what I said.
Speaker 1: I better listen back because I feel like this is
Speaker 1: one that people are going to start talking to me
Speaker 1: about or and quite rightly, like I got messaged as
Speaker 1: my friends were listening to it. I was just like
Speaker 1: getting updates. Like everyone was just outraged that I read
Speaker 1: the dictionary, like and I'm like, you don't tell people that.
Speaker 1: It's like I got about that.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: It's like most people knew most things. But that's one
Speaker 1: thing that just I probably hadn't told anyone because it
Speaker 1: maybe just don't go around dropping that into conversation every
Speaker 1: so often. But when I did listen back, I listened back.
Speaker 1: I got into bed, and I usually listened to a
Speaker 1: podcast or something before I go to sleep, just to
Speaker 1: wind down because I work quite late into the night
Speaker 1: and I can't go straight from doing the work letters
Speaker 1: to sleeping. And my husband had to get up and
Speaker 1: put ear plugs in because I was giggling. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize I was doing it because I had my noise
Speaker 1: canceling earphones on. And so you said you were doing
Speaker 1: those like deep breathing that would get quicker and quicker,
Speaker 1: and then you would just giggle and then you'll.
Speaker 3: Get so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I was laughing at your jokes.
Speaker 2: Glad you found it funny the second time around as well,
Speaker 2: because you never know, like it might not land the
Speaker 2: second time when you've got perspective.
Speaker 1: And that was one of the things my sister texts
Speaker 1: me about. She said, I've heard you being called a
Speaker 1: lot of things, but hilarious is not one of them.
Speaker 3: We've unlocked a new side of you.
Speaker 1: I thought it was always there, but apparently not.
Speaker 3: I love that so many people listened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was good. And another thing one of my girlfriends,
Speaker 1: actually Victoria, who was a physio with me in it's
Speaker 1: actually ex Matilda, and I worked with her at the
Speaker 1: junior Matilda's. She was disappointed that she didn't get mentioned,
Speaker 1: and also she is quite a big part of my
Speaker 1: life when I still catch up with the frequently. She's
Speaker 1: from Adelaide, so whenever I'm in Adelaide, I head down there.
Speaker 1: But she also wanted to make a point of when
Speaker 1: you asked me about my skincare routine, she said it's
Speaker 1: clearly because of her, because when we used to travel
Speaker 1: away for the juniors, she'd take me into at the
Speaker 1: airport in the international airport before we go ay. She
Speaker 1: takes me into like the cosmetic secon and like I
Speaker 1: just would not. I don't, I don't know, And she'd
Speaker 1: show me all the face creams and she's like, this
Speaker 1: one's worth five hundred dollars, you should put this on,
Speaker 1: and like all the testers. So every time, it's why
Speaker 1: she'd get me, like the best testers to put on
Speaker 1: my face to help me with the you know, the
Speaker 1: dehydration of air travel.
Speaker 3: So that's a good friend.
Speaker 1: Anyone's to credit for anything to do with my skin,
Speaker 1: it's definitely her. So there you go, Vick.
Speaker 3: Oh, well she's got a shout out.
Speaker 4: It's got sounds like Vick now has got a whole segment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, doctor Brandy's skin with Victoria. But it's actually so
Speaker 2: nice because we often, like we don't often I don't
Speaker 2: think we've ever done a two parter straight after and
Speaker 2: got to actually hear from our guest what the feedback
Speaker 2: is at their end, because of course, like we get
Speaker 2: lovely messages and we get like, you know, Tilly's fans
Speaker 2: from everywhere who sort of didn't know about everything in
Speaker 2: your life up until the Tillies chapter. But it's so
Speaker 2: nice to hear as well from your end that you
Speaker 2: had friends who didn't know things about you that came
Speaker 2: out like that's just so lovely.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I also had a good friends and work colleague
Speaker 1: write me a text to apologize that he'd six months
Speaker 1: ago half jokingly, half seriously asked me if he could
Speaker 1: get World Cup tickets. He said, I felt the second
Speaker 1: I asked that, I felt really bad, and now I
Speaker 1: want to formally apologize. After listening to the podcast, I said, no,
Speaker 1: that's fine, I get And the ironic thing is I
Speaker 1: actually tried to give him a ticket to one of
Speaker 1: the Sydney games because I knew he was a big fan.
Speaker 1: I had a spare ticket, but he was already going
Speaker 1: or he couldn't make it, so I was like, no,
Speaker 1: that's fine, Like that's not what I was talking about.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, it's not you.
Speaker 1: It's good to know who wants tickets. If I get
Speaker 1: given tickets, I can give it to them. It's more
Speaker 1: about access to the girls and things from them that
Speaker 1: it's hard. Yeah. I thought that was lovely and not
Speaker 1: necessary and not needed apology.
Speaker 4: But I reckon everyone that's ever asking for anything feels
Speaker 4: like it was a direct person or.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to not even shame the exact people I'm
Speaker 1: talking about Vitoria.
Speaker 3: We love Victoria. Oh well, we are so lucky to
Speaker 3: have you back.
Speaker 2: Because for anyone who hasn't caught up on the first episode,
Speaker 2: this is definitely sequential. So go back and listen to
Speaker 2: our most recent episode because that follows Doctor Brand's entire
Speaker 2: path yay, pretty much from school all the way through
Speaker 2: UNI and lots of twist and turns and amazing, amazing
Speaker 2: chapters that were so incredible and diverse that we didn't even.
Speaker 3: Really get to the Tilli's until the end of the episode.
Speaker 2: So this is the Tilli's time for us to dive
Speaker 2: into what it's been like as the Matilda's team. Doctor
Speaker 2: and we had some We've got lots of questions submitted
Speaker 2: here for you, and I'm sure we also have plenty
Speaker 2: of our own to throwing, so and do you want
Speaker 2: to kick off?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 4: Were My My first thing actually was that we don't
Speaker 4: even know what a day to day for you whatever
Speaker 4: even look like. I think I don't know if you've
Speaker 4: ever had to talk about it anywhere in the past,
Speaker 4: but were you both like it? Like, how do they
Speaker 4: set you're just a human like or you're a human
Speaker 4: being that each like does things they were like, what
Speaker 4: does it even like, we couldn't even just start to
Speaker 4: I think what the girls is probably a bit easier
Speaker 4: to forget what they do from a go to training,
Speaker 4: Like they eat together as a group and there's a
Speaker 4: lot of videos around that. You see it on all
Speaker 4: their socials and then the rest of the team. We're
Speaker 4: like like, what do they do? Like where do you go?
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, we don't eat or sleep or do anything, you.
Speaker 1: Know, stop.
Speaker 4: All the funding goes to the place.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not far from it, but no, just kidding.
Speaker 3: Brandy sets up a tent nearby and.
Speaker 4: She came, she wraps and then she yeah.
Speaker 2: She eats like ready to eat, like two minute noodles
Speaker 2: and no.
Speaker 1: No, that's definitely not what I Yeah, so what's a
Speaker 1: day in the life for you? So, yeah, good question.
Speaker 1: So I try and get up at six am because
Speaker 1: I'm sort of starting my work day by seven. So
Speaker 1: for meals, we have what we call windows, So there's
Speaker 1: a breakfast window, a lunch window, and then a dinner window.
Speaker 1: Usually dinners are fixed, so you have to be there
Speaker 1: at seven pm, for instance, But we tried to make
Speaker 1: it a little bit more relaxed in the world cup
Speaker 1: because being in camp for ten weeks you sort of
Speaker 1: feel a little bit institutionalized anyway, So it was a
Speaker 1: little bit There was certain days that you had to
Speaker 1: be there on time and in other days that it
Speaker 1: was also a window. So what I mean by window
Speaker 1: is breakfast is available from seven point thirty until nine.
Speaker 1: And so we travel with our own chef, Vinnie, one
Speaker 1: of my closest friends, one of the best humans in
Speaker 1: the world, so he and then at the major tournaments
Speaker 1: we have a second chef with us, so we still
Speaker 1: wherever we're staying, they like the hotel staff are doing
Speaker 1: majority of the cooking, but they're overseeing the menu well
Speaker 1: in advance with our dietitian and then they're managing the
Speaker 1: actual food and like, honestly, I live my best food
Speaker 1: life in camp like that is one of the highlights
Speaker 1: of my job. I also eat for the whole of
Speaker 1: Australia in Camp. I have got very strict rules at
Speaker 1: the buffet, like, oh, it's a buffet, like to the
Speaker 1: point where I cannot ever go to a buffet in
Speaker 1: the rest of the world ever, because it just does
Speaker 1: not lift up to the standard of the Matilda's buffet.
Speaker 1: It's one of the first things I remember when I
Speaker 1: first came into like I did two days. This is
Speaker 1: years ago in the Matilda's camp, just cover for the
Speaker 1: doctor at the time, and I was I walked into
Speaker 1: the meal room and I was like mind blown by
Speaker 1: the buffet, like it was by far the biggest thing
Speaker 1: that's stuck it. Like you said to people sort of
Speaker 1: get starstruck by the players. I was star struck by
Speaker 1: the buffet most amazing. I've got some priorities, honestly, food.
Speaker 1: I told you, I get angry, like it's a very
Speaker 1: real thing. So I'll put up on my social some
Speaker 1: of the videos and things I took of the buffet
Speaker 1: because it's just phenomenal. So I have some rules, but
Speaker 1: I've self imposed, so I mainly allowed one plate permeal.
Speaker 1: So you should see how the plates pretty big. You
Speaker 1: should see how heats that they are. But then I
Speaker 1: can go back for fruit and yogat. That's my kind
Speaker 1: of dessert because there's a whole treats thing. I am
Speaker 1: not allowed treats in camp because it's just like too amazing,
Speaker 1: to the point where when it was my birthday, so
Speaker 1: we do birthday cake for each person's birthday who it
Speaker 1: is and we seen to them. And so when I
Speaker 1: started this at the Asian Cup January twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: and there was like eight birthdays in the space of
Speaker 1: a month, and I was like, oh, maybe I'll have
Speaker 1: to make my allowance and I'm allowed birthday cake for
Speaker 1: the next camp because I just missed out on all
Speaker 1: the birthday cakes. But it was to the point where
Speaker 1: when it was my birthday at the very beginning of
Speaker 1: the World Cup, Vinny actually thought I didn't like cake
Speaker 1: because I don't eat the dessert, so he gave me
Speaker 1: a cheese plate for my birthday crate. She was awesome.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love cheese. I have cheese and nuts
Speaker 1: on every meal, like I probably ate. I don't know,
Speaker 1: like one hundred dollars of macadamias a day in the
Speaker 1: for the whole World Cup, I reckon, like just yeah.
Speaker 2: Like it's just so that's where the Tilly's budget goes.
Speaker 2: Your Macadamie is kind of acent.
Speaker 1: You come home and you try and replicate this food
Speaker 1: and you have no money to spend on any rest
Speaker 1: of your life because you're just throwing produced because it's
Speaker 1: just amazing.
Speaker 2: Anyway, So I got your kids living on like in
Speaker 2: lcm's and lists snacks.
Speaker 1: No, my kids ate the lai eate. That's why we
Speaker 1: have no money. So breakfast, so I have to be ready,
Speaker 1: like I try and be at breakfast at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the window and just be there. So a lot
Speaker 1: of the time my job is incidental, like the girls
Speaker 1: will just be passing and go, oh, you got this?
Speaker 1: Can I talk to about this? So I just kind
Speaker 1: of be around hanging out and that's sort of easier
Speaker 1: to catch up first thing with the girls se if
Speaker 1: there's anything that they need, So I just kind of
Speaker 1: hang out in the Tillies Cafe or morning until the
Speaker 1: end of the breakfast window. Then we've got We've made
Speaker 1: it quite routine. In terms of our training sessions have
Speaker 1: been fairly standard. So it's the eleven am training session,
Speaker 1: which means they have a meeting anywhere between ten and
Speaker 1: ten thirty in the morning, depending on how long the
Speaker 1: travel is to training, and so whatever their meeting time is,
Speaker 1: we have an our window prior to that meeting, so
Speaker 1: it might be from nine thirty to ten thirty, for instance,
Speaker 1: where they can come to the medical room for strapping,
Speaker 1: so they either come in and struct themselves or all
Speaker 1: the physios are there. I'm not always there for that
Speaker 1: whole hour because i might be doing something with one
Speaker 1: of the players, for instance, but I'll wander in and out,
Speaker 1: and I'm always obviously on I'm on call twenty four
Speaker 1: seven anyway. Then we travel to training. In the World Cut,
Speaker 1: the training venues were quite close, which is nice, but
Speaker 1: travel to training is the time that the medical team
Speaker 1: catch up on our sleep. So we like to sleep
Speaker 1: on the bus. Well that's will we listen to our
Speaker 1: podcasts or music, So we didn't get much of that
Speaker 1: in the World Cup because the venues were so close.
Speaker 1: And then training will go for a couple hours, so
Speaker 1: it's very pre planned and we know exactly what's happening
Speaker 1: at every minute of the entire training session. They'll do
Speaker 1: a prehab which is ten minutes where they're doing like
Speaker 1: their activation work. Then they'll do the warm up with
Speaker 1: a sports scientist. Then they'll do all the different training drills.
Speaker 1: Then they'll do their recovery afterwards, so they've got their nutrition,
Speaker 1: their shakes, everything there. There's a big table set up.
Speaker 1: They do ice bars at the field. If we can't
Speaker 1: get them there, then we take them home to do
Speaker 1: the ice bars at the hotel, but it's better if
Speaker 1: it's right at the field straight afterwards, then they shower, change,
Speaker 1: we get back on the bus. We go back for lunch,
Speaker 1: so then it's a lunch window. So if someone's been
Speaker 1: injured at training, for instance, we might grab them before
Speaker 1: the lunch or otherwise it's just when it suits. The
Speaker 1: girls go straight to lunch because their fields. We usually
Speaker 1: sort of do a bit of a tidy up or
Speaker 1: whatever we need to do and then head to lunch.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We shower, I met tighty up of
Speaker 1: the medical management, none of ourselves, and then the afternoon
Speaker 1: so the heavy Jackie will send out a message while
Speaker 1: we're on the bus traveling back. Usually that says who
Speaker 1: wants a massage, who wants treatment, and then she'll do
Speaker 1: this like matrix of times for who's booked in for what,
Speaker 1: which then usually goes all afternoon. Sometimes the afternoon they
Speaker 1: might have gym, so on match day minus two and
Speaker 1: match day minus four they'll have a gym session in
Speaker 1: the afternoon. Sometimes that's back to back at the field
Speaker 1: if the gym's at the field. Sometimes it's after lunch,
Speaker 1: so when we're in camp, we don't know the date
Speaker 1: or the date. We just refer to everything as coming
Speaker 1: up to the next match, so we just say, oh,
Speaker 1: it's match day one's five, it's match the minus four,
Speaker 1: and it becomes matched on minus one match day and
Speaker 1: then match day plus one match days plus two. So
Speaker 1: in the World Cup you kind of have the pluses
Speaker 1: and then they turn into the minuses again, so you
Speaker 1: might have a plus three and then a minus three.
Speaker 1: But in the Olympics it's literally like game two days
Speaker 1: and game today, So our match day plus one is
Speaker 1: our match day minus two on the same day. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of like it's just chockers because you've got
Speaker 1: to do like the recovery plus the prep or the
Speaker 1: same day. And so then sometimes like if we're lucky,
Speaker 1: we were lucky enough to have three physios at the
Speaker 1: World Cup, so the tree would finish at sort of
Speaker 1: more reasonable time, so we could often then have all
Speaker 1: our meetings pre dinner or around dinner, which is ideal
Speaker 1: because then we get a little bit of time to
Speaker 1: sort of plan after dinner. But if there's only two
Speaker 1: treating physios, we often they treat quite late and then
Speaker 1: we have to have a meeting. So every evening the
Speaker 1: whole medical team get together for a meeting, so that
Speaker 1: time is determined by the last player being treated, So
Speaker 1: then there'll be a group message that goes out Medical
Speaker 1: meeting at say eight pm, and so then we discuss
Speaker 1: every player from top to bottom in alphabetical order. So
Speaker 1: we always start with Mecca. It's just a running joke
Speaker 1: that we'll all be chatting. We'll all be chatting away
Speaker 1: and then someone just be like, so maccap and then
Speaker 1: that means like, hurry up and start the meeting.
Speaker 3: Get to work.
Speaker 1: She's McKenzie Arnold obviously, So we talk about every player
Speaker 1: in terms of any injuries, their management, where they're at,
Speaker 1: from sports science, from physiotherapy, from medical point of view,
Speaker 1: and then after that the head sports scientist, the head
Speaker 1: physio and myself. We then go and meet with the
Speaker 1: coaches when they're ready, and then we go through the
Speaker 1: whole list to get with the coaches. Then the oll
Speaker 1: plan what they think is the session for the next day,
Speaker 1: so they'll go through with us the session. From the
Speaker 1: sports science point of view, they've got to look at
Speaker 1: if there's anyone that needs modified loading in terms of
Speaker 1: volume of running or kicking volume or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Then from an injury point of view, we might say, okay,
Speaker 1: so this player has a bit of a quad strain,
Speaker 1: so we don't want them to do any long kicks
Speaker 1: on their right leg, for instance. So sometimes that won't
Speaker 1: that'll be easy. Sometimes if they're the person who normally,
Speaker 1: like says, if it's Steph for instance, who normally does
Speaker 1: the kicking in for the set pieces, then we have
Speaker 1: to get someone to take a spot. So it's more
Speaker 1: of a sort of a manager how we got to
Speaker 1: manage training. Sometimes often we'll manage around what the coaches
Speaker 1: want to do. Sometimes they'll say, well, is there a
Speaker 1: drill that you want to sort of swap in because
Speaker 1: that's going to be better for these players anyway. So
Speaker 1: it's a big meeting about that, and then we leave
Speaker 1: and the sports scientist stays there to sort of finalize
Speaker 1: the training session, and then sometimes we then have to
Speaker 1: meet again afterwards with him if things have changed. And
Speaker 1: then in the morning we get sent that plan with
Speaker 1: who's in, so like it's like a PDA document and
Speaker 1: it's like every drill, the timing of the drill, the
Speaker 1: players like who's in where that we check over to
Speaker 1: make sure. Sometimes we have to check the next morning,
Speaker 1: so we might say, like that's a two week confirmed,
Speaker 1: so this person is going to be in for these
Speaker 1: three drills and then come out. But we've got to
Speaker 1: confirm that with in the morning, so then we'll get
Speaker 1: those the physios will check in with those players first
Speaker 1: thing before breakfast, and then just send the messages to
Speaker 1: the coaches. Yep, this person is in these drills. I
Speaker 1: was expected all sorry, this person's pulled up. We were
Speaker 1: a bit more worried about then we want to pull
Speaker 1: them out of this session. So it's just an ongoing
Speaker 1: itery process that is day after day after day. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so our day, my day might end like ten thirty
Speaker 1: eleven PM officially, I mean if I'm in bed before midnight,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. Yeah, and you've worked all day, so I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess in the World Cup, I was averaging midnight
Speaker 1: to one am to go to bed and get up
Speaker 1: at six. But after the games, so that penalty shootout
Speaker 1: game that started at five pm, so that was it
Speaker 1: was lucky. It was an early game. I think I
Speaker 1: finished work at one am and then we were moving
Speaker 1: at seven am, like we had to get the guys
Speaker 1: and everything on the freight to fly, because after every
Speaker 1: game in the World Cup, we flew the next day,
Speaker 1: the next month.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: But an eight o'clock game, we might I might finish
Speaker 1: at like three am by the time we've sort of
Speaker 1: scot all the kit back because we don't like the
Speaker 1: staff for the people, like we're the porters as well,
Speaker 1: like we're organizing. There was one time where like it
Speaker 1: was a bit different in the World Cup because a
Speaker 1: lot of it was we were moving back and forward
Speaker 1: for every game, and it was so we normally get
Speaker 1: like the gear now I'm talking kit like, we'd have
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty kit backs like to fly with.
Speaker 1: So I guess start if we break it down, there's
Speaker 1: twenty three girls in camp in the World Cup. Obviously
Speaker 1: the World Cup is a little bit different atur home
Speaker 1: World Cup. It was above and beyond. So this is
Speaker 1: not the norm when I'm talking about the World Cup.
Speaker 1: This is the bells and whistles version. It's not oh
Speaker 1: my god. We normally have about the same number of staff,
Speaker 1: so about twenty two. So usually I'm looking after about
Speaker 1: fifty five people as the doctor. I think in the
Speaker 1: World Cup, we had like thirty staff at what point.
Speaker 1: So we had the first like the round game. So
Speaker 1: the first three games it was what we call a
Speaker 1: base camp model, so we were based in Brisbane, so
Speaker 1: we were staying in Brisbane for the two weeks or
Speaker 1: whatever it was for those three games. But then we
Speaker 1: were flying in and out of the games. So we
Speaker 1: had a friendly in Melbourne, and then the day after
Speaker 1: that friendly in Melbourne, which I think was like the
Speaker 1: fourteenth of July, Friday the fourteenth, maybe that Saturday, the fifteenth,
Speaker 1: we flew to Brisbane and went into our base camp
Speaker 1: for the World Cup, so officially the World Cup started.
Speaker 1: Then we'd already been in camp for four or five
Speaker 1: weeks prior to that day and then when we got
Speaker 1: to Brisbane, so that was we got to Britan on
Speaker 1: the Saturday. Our first game was in Sydney on the Thursday,
Speaker 1: so then on the Wednesday we flew back to Sydney,
Speaker 1: so we actually like went Melbourne, Brisbane Sydney between two games.
Speaker 1: And so when you're moving everything, like you're moving the
Speaker 1: entire of your apparatus, like the gym, you know, the buffet,
Speaker 1: the everything.
Speaker 3: So then all the sports gear.
Speaker 1: That's why we have two chefs, because one has to
Speaker 1: go ahead and set it up. Like actually, actually, so
Speaker 1: when we traveled for the first three games, the Sydney game,
Speaker 1: the Melbourne game, the Brisbane the Brisban's in between. So
Speaker 1: we did Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne. We only had to travel
Speaker 1: with like an overnight bag because we traveled in the
Speaker 1: night before the game, we played the game, and then
Speaker 1: d after the game we traveled back, so we still
Speaker 1: had a hotel room in Brisbane. So it was very
Speaker 1: you know, upper class. I had two hotel rooms simultaneously,
Speaker 1: one in Sydney and we stopping both of them. I fancy, yeah, fancy,
Speaker 1: that's where the budget goes. I guess. Yeah. So the
Speaker 1: Sydney game, the first Sydney game, so we trained in
Speaker 1: Brisbane in the morning and then we flew to Sydney
Speaker 1: and then we had to go straight from the airport
Speaker 1: to do a familiarization session that's called that was part
Speaker 1: of a FIFA requirement because we were supposed to do.
Speaker 1: The FIFA requirements were that you train the day before
Speaker 1: the match at a specific venue for FIFA that all
Speaker 1: the media would be at. But wh you wanted to
Speaker 1: train in the morning and then travel because it's much
Speaker 1: better for the girls to train than travel, rather than
Speaker 1: traveling and their training, so we negotiated that we would
Speaker 1: go to the pitch and do a familiarization, so we
Speaker 1: would just walk around the pitch and then the media
Speaker 1: would be there. So we went straight from the airport
Speaker 1: to home Bush which is in western Sydney for those
Speaker 1: who aren't from Sydney, and then our hotel was in
Speaker 1: Double Bay, which is in eastern Sydney, so we kind
Speaker 1: of went and did this big thing and then the
Speaker 1: press conference was at Homebush, and then that happened to
Speaker 1: be the day that Sam got injured, so then from
Speaker 1: there I then had arranged to get an MRI for her,
Speaker 1: so then I took her to get the MRI before
Speaker 1: we got back to the hotel. So that's like a
Speaker 1: big day, and that's the day before the match. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so then match day, I mean, it's my favorite day
Speaker 1: for so many reasons obvious because we're playing a game,
Speaker 1: but it's pretty relaxed in the morning. So match day
Speaker 1: is probably the one day that I have a bit
Speaker 1: of a time that I might have some spare time
Speaker 1: to myself because the girls are pretty self sufficient. The
Speaker 1: day of the match, We've done everything that it like.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I'm on call. They might need something
Speaker 1: if something comes up, if one of them wakes up sick,
Speaker 1: something like that, but they like to sort of do
Speaker 1: their own thing in the morning. So often I'll actually
Speaker 1: get out and go to a cafe with Jackie and
Speaker 1: I they had physio. We like to sort of go
Speaker 1: to a cafe in the area that we're in just
Speaker 1: to kind of see the locally othere. You literally never
Speaker 1: see anything other than the hotel and the field.
Speaker 3: Get out of the institution for a moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. And then there's like a big build up
Speaker 1: to the game. So we have what we call an
Speaker 1: advanced crew, so they go ahead. So they might go
Speaker 1: like four or five hours earlier than us to set
Speaker 1: up everything. So they set up the Chaine room. I mean,
Speaker 1: they just hang out there. I guess they've got plenty
Speaker 1: of time, but they want to be late, so they Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're very lucky to they've sort of set everything up.
Speaker 1: So by the time that we come in the stuff
Speaker 1: and as a travel with the girls, which are basically
Speaker 1: the coaches and the physios and myself because we're still
Speaker 1: sort of available for treatment all day. Then we kind
Speaker 1: of walk in and everything's done and we just walk
Speaker 1: in and we arrive ninety minutes before kick off and
Speaker 1: then we have like a very set routine and it's
Speaker 1: like to the minute. So FIFA are very strict with everything.
Speaker 1: It's I always used to find these things funny when
Speaker 1: I first started working in the sport, like it might
Speaker 1: be like seven oh three is the start of the
Speaker 1: warm up and like just very specific. But now it's
Speaker 1: just normal to me. It's just that's just football. Like
Speaker 1: a lot of our games were eight pm at the
Speaker 1: World Cup, so I think that on average, So after
Speaker 1: the game, we'd sort of go through make sure that
Speaker 1: there was no injuries to the players or sort of
Speaker 1: a sort out if we need to do anything that evening.
Speaker 1: Like there's not a lot of things that you have
Speaker 1: to do that evening. Most of it can be done
Speaker 1: the next day. But often I'll organize scans and things
Speaker 1: at the back end of the day for the next
Speaker 1: day so it's all prepared, and then when we get
Speaker 1: back we have a very I mean, game day has
Speaker 1: about four hundred meals because there's the breakfast, lunch, and
Speaker 1: dinner window but then we have a pre match meal.
Speaker 1: So often we'll do lunch and then pre match meal,
Speaker 1: which is three or four I should know this. I
Speaker 1: think it's four hours before kickoff is when the girls
Speaker 1: have their last meal, so sometimes that kind of merges
Speaker 1: into lunch. If it's like the five o'clock game is
Speaker 1: a bit tricky. With the eight o'clock game, it was
Speaker 1: quite easy because it was just more basically like a
Speaker 1: lunch and then an afternoon tea, and their pre match
Speaker 1: meal is pretty much like a breakfast and an afternoon
Speaker 1: tea put in together, so that's what things are served
Speaker 1: at that particular meal. So a lot of them will
Speaker 1: have like cereals, there's a live spaghetti bleonnaise station, so
Speaker 1: they that's what the girls eat. So basically they have
Speaker 1: live pasta station every dinner and they'll line up and
Speaker 1: they'll get their pasta cooked for them, like to all
Speaker 1: I kind of thing. So that's why we need some
Speaker 1: chefs as well.
Speaker 2: That was one of my questions was like what do
Speaker 2: you eat? And I'm too nervous before like local games
Speaker 2: that I play with literally Andrew Nick in the backyard,
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, I can't eat, like I've got a game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, spaghetti bolonnaise is a big like Tillyes thing, so
Speaker 1: they all are, like I think majority of the girls have.
Speaker 1: That's the meal they have the night before the game.
Speaker 1: There's always spaghetti billonnaise. You'd think it would be hard
Speaker 1: to get variety of meals for ten weeks, but like, honestly,
Speaker 1: it's just the best variety.
Speaker 2: The common theme of the highlight of this role is
Speaker 2: the food.
Speaker 1: You tell me actually in my voice when I talk
Speaker 1: about the food.
Speaker 2: And then the chefs move all the gear ahead of
Speaker 2: time before the girls.
Speaker 4: Mainly the buffet, and then there's and then there's why.
Speaker 1: So she we had a barista at the World Cup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so she would literally know everyone's order, so when you
Speaker 1: walked in the door, she'd have ready by the time
Speaker 1: you got to the counter, like the coffee counter. That
Speaker 1: is a dreary Alexia her name is. She was wonderful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't drink coffee, but she had my
Speaker 1: tea just ready to go. One time she gave me
Speaker 1: old Gray instead of English breakfast. I nearly killed her
Speaker 1: for that, but that.
Speaker 3: Was, oh my god, I disappointing. You can't get on
Speaker 3: these days. I mean.
Speaker 1: I'd actually done the same thing myself. It was in
Speaker 1: it was in Sydney when we stayed at the Socatel
Speaker 1: and the Earl Gray and the English Breakfast with the
Speaker 1: same color, Like who makes the same color for both
Speaker 1: tea types?
Speaker 3: I'm going to write a letter about that.
Speaker 2: There's a rule that English Breakfast is red, yeah, and
Speaker 2: Earl Gray is gray or like blue or purple.
Speaker 1: Exactly, and I think they were both black. So it
Speaker 1: was just very confusing. Yeah, So after the eight o'clock games,
Speaker 1: I usually finish up about three am, the time I've
Speaker 1: seen all the girls because I'm the last one to
Speaker 1: go to bed because I have to make until everyone's
Speaker 1: gone to bed, and some of the girls it's very
Speaker 1: hard to sort of have the hype of a game
Speaker 1: and then just go to bed and go to sleep.
Speaker 1: But then we were always so the next day we
Speaker 1: were always moving, so we had to pack up everything
Speaker 1: to move. So after those three initial rounds, so after
Speaker 1: our Canada game when we won, and we went to
Speaker 1: the quarter final, which was against Denmark back in Sydney,
Speaker 1: so our Canada game was Melbourne, and so then we
Speaker 1: flew from Melbourne back to Brisbane and then I think
Speaker 1: Denmark was in Sydney, which was the quarterfinal, sorry, the
Speaker 1: round of sixteen, round of sixteen. The quarterfinal was against France,
Speaker 1: which is the penalty shoot at once. So yeah, the
Speaker 1: round of sixteen. So we went from Melbourne to Brisbane
Speaker 1: and said a few days and trained in Brisbane and
Speaker 1: then we had to move to Sydney for the Round
Speaker 1: of sixteen game. But that was we had to pack
Speaker 1: up the whole of the base camp for that move.
Speaker 1: So from that point on, so from the round of
Speaker 1: sixteen to the quarter final, the semifinal, in the final,
Speaker 1: it changed and it wasn't a base camp model. It
Speaker 1: was you move and follow your game. So we literally
Speaker 1: the whole entourage had to go Sydney, Brisbane, Sydney Brisbane time.
Speaker 1: So I think I did like seventeen flights in the
Speaker 1: World Cup. I think I Canada. And so one of
Speaker 1: the games where we were coming from Sydney back to Brisbane,
Speaker 1: all our kit usually goes on freight, which is a
Speaker 1: truck and it goes like a day ahead, So we
Speaker 1: leave from training the day before and sort of the
Speaker 1: truck drives wherever we're going and then it gets there
Speaker 1: when we get there. But because it was such short turnaround,
Speaker 1: it had to go by air freight. And so when
Speaker 1: we arrived back in Brisbane, yeah, before the quarter final games.
Speaker 1: So before the France game, we arrived back and I said, oh,
Speaker 1: the freight's not here yet. It actually the plane that
Speaker 1: was meant to come on. I don't know how that
Speaker 1: engineering problems or something. So they had to fly all
Speaker 1: our gear in seven different ways and then they had
Speaker 1: to so then they got a truck. And then when
Speaker 1: the truck arrives, like the truck people don't bring it
Speaker 1: into the hotel for us, like that's our job as
Speaker 1: the staff. So I think the freight arrived at like
Speaker 1: hop us twelve after midnight. The staff were so we've
Speaker 1: been up to like three for that game. So the
Speaker 1: Denmark game that was a Sydney game, so I would
Speaker 1: have finished at three am, flown up at seven am
Speaker 1: in the walk up. We didn't have training that day,
Speaker 1: but I think once the girl started getting the concussion,
Speaker 1: I had to do a training session every day to
Speaker 1: get them on their protocol. So I would have been
Speaker 1: at training that day with one of them. So then
Speaker 1: at twelve thirty pm or am the next night, we
Speaker 1: all had to go down to the lobby and get
Speaker 1: all these bags off. It's one of my favorite jobs. Actually,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a workout. So I get in
Speaker 1: the truck, usually with the with the I usually get
Speaker 1: in the truck with the courier. People like shove the
Speaker 1: bags down and like, I'm like, hurry up, guys.
Speaker 3: But it doesn't matter. But you've got incidental wasts going on.
Speaker 1: But then we're at commercial hotels, right, So we just
Speaker 1: got the normal lifts that you have in a normal
Speaker 1: hotel and we have to take everything up.
Speaker 5: So our kit room was on the twelfth floor at Ridges,
Speaker 5: for instance, So all of these bags have to go
Speaker 5: into the lifts and then up to the twelve floor.
Speaker 1: But the girls this particular night, yeah, we were tenth,
Speaker 1: eleventh and twelfth four the girls were. And this is
Speaker 1: also their actual luggage as well, because we had moved
Speaker 1: completely and we'd move back, so the girls were all
Speaker 1: asleep and so we had to like move it quietly
Speaker 1: to their doors. So you know, the girls travel with
Speaker 1: at least two maybe three suitcases each, So we're talking
Speaker 1: like sixty six guys just for the girls, and then
Speaker 1: you know the staff bags and then all of like
Speaker 1: it's like a full on removalless truck that you're loading
Speaker 1: and unloading every time we move around.
Speaker 3: The logistics of this is loads of.
Speaker 4: The forget that needs to happen in the back end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, We've got it down pat now. But it
Speaker 1: was like and everyone's helping, like them, you know, the
Speaker 1: photographers and the videographer, all the medical teams, sometimes some
Speaker 1: of the coaches. Usually the goalkeeper coach is an absolute legend.
Speaker 1: He's just always there. Our sister video aln Shana, she's
Speaker 1: just always there as well. And I said to Naaria vieographer, said,
Speaker 1: you should not be helping, you should be videoing this,
Speaker 1: Like we need this is we need content, no matter
Speaker 1: about behind the scenes the girls, Like where's the behind
Speaker 1: the scenes with the stuff?
Speaker 2: We found that so interesting, Like that's why we were
Speaker 2: like we have so many questions, like there's the documentary.
Speaker 2: You can find out so much about behind the scenes
Speaker 2: of the girls' lives and what they eat and how
Speaker 2: they sleep, and like it's so interesting to see that
Speaker 2: there's a whole team of like third twenty two to
Speaker 2: thirty people who were moving at the same time with
Speaker 2: all the stuff supporting the girls, and even the fact
Speaker 2: that for you, when you're in camp mode, like your breaks,
Speaker 2: which are meal breaks, are actually when the girls are
Speaker 2: going to come and consult with you, so that's your
Speaker 2: downtime is actually a work session.
Speaker 3: So there's just no downtime. It's like you're just.
Speaker 1: There's no downtime. But it's still a less hectic life
Speaker 1: than my normal life outside of camp. So I'm always
Speaker 1: quoted to say in my real life blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: like that's not the real life. But honestly, like I
Speaker 1: just love it because I only have those people to
Speaker 1: look after and they're right in front of me, compared
Speaker 1: to when I'm at home and I'm trying to consult
Speaker 1: in my private clinic, I'm looking after my kids, I'm
Speaker 1: doing all this, and I'm still looking after the tillies
Speaker 1: girls from Europe in a totally different time zone. So
Speaker 1: it's like it's so much harder when I want to
Speaker 1: help them and I'm like, I need your knee in
Speaker 1: front of me to be able to help you. It's
Speaker 1: like I can do so much by zoom. But so
Speaker 1: I actually, yeah, it doesn't feel like there's not downtime
Speaker 1: to me. It's like it's great there. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just one big family just hanging.
Speaker 3: Out and eating at the buffet.
Speaker 1: In the meal rooms, there's like staff tables, player tables.
Speaker 1: When it was COVID, we had to sit exactly in
Speaker 1: the same place at the time with the same people.
Speaker 1: It was like there was very very strict rules. But
Speaker 1: generally it's just sit their round tables, sit wherever you want.
Speaker 1: It's a running joke that you try and get the
Speaker 1: call table. I don't know who the call table is,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to claim that it's always a family.
Speaker 2: It's where the past the station is, that's where the
Speaker 2: call table is.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then the thing about the fixed meal time,
Speaker 1: So I find that really hard because the etiquette is
Speaker 1: that you turn up so say it's seven pm. Everyone
Speaker 1: has to be eaten by seven pm. And that's one
Speaker 1: of the things like if there's a time called, if
Speaker 1: you're ten seconds late, you're late and the door shut
Speaker 1: you not in. So being on time is very important
Speaker 1: to our head coach. And so when there's things that
Speaker 1: you have to be on time for. So then because
Speaker 1: it might be like a staff meeting, if the manager
Speaker 1: needs to speak to the whole sort of group, and
Speaker 1: then it's always the girls will eat first and then
Speaker 1: the staff elide after that, and I just find it
Speaker 1: incredibly hard to sit there in amongst the food for
Speaker 1: half an hour until I'm all had to eat, Like
Speaker 1: that is definitely the hardest half hour of my life.
Speaker 2: So the highs and the lows are all food related, basically.
Speaker 4: I was just going to say, it's still about it.
Speaker 2: But one thing I'd love to know, given how structured
Speaker 2: the camp model is time wise, and that you're all
Speaker 2: kind of operating as this well olled machine for the
Speaker 2: ultimate performance of the girls. One thing I've read a
Speaker 2: lot about and that we've been thinking about so much
Speaker 2: is unfortunately, for women, we have to deal with a
Speaker 2: cycle like it's a biological fact of life that if
Speaker 2: you're not an elite athlete, probably doesn't actually affect your
Speaker 2: life that much. But if you are, like the timing
Speaker 2: of that, and then the fact that the girls end
Speaker 2: up sinking, but then that you're also managing their hormone
Speaker 2: levels and energy levels and fatigue and symptoms and stuff
Speaker 2: while you're all living together and also trying to be
Speaker 2: you know, perform as elite athletes at the same time,
Speaker 2: how do you manage cycles and like how quickly do
Speaker 2: they sink when they get back together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know whether you saw an article. I
Speaker 1: was actually interviewed right at the very beginning of the
Speaker 1: World Cup by the Sydney Morning Herald, I think it was,
Speaker 1: And I did this entire interview based on like menstrual health,
Speaker 1: and it was all about like relative energy deficiency and
Speaker 1: endometriosis and all of the things that you just asked about.
Speaker 1: And then right at the end, I said, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's interesting because there's no scientific evidence behind like the
Speaker 1: sinking of the men's recycle, but it's definitely a thing
Speaker 1: that I noticed in camp. And then the entire article
Speaker 1: they wrote was about the girls sinking their cycles and
Speaker 1: like nothing else about it. I'm like, oh my god. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's like, well, yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool guys, thanks thanks for the headline. But I
Speaker 2: think even for a non athlete, learning about planning your
Speaker 2: life activity levels around your cycle is like one of
Speaker 2: the most important steps in understanding your health that you
Speaker 2: can make, because I used to just expect my body
Speaker 2: to perform the same all four weeks at different hormone
Speaker 2: levels and never understand, like, don't plan your biggest pitch
Speaker 2: that you've got in your lowest energy, crampy, hormonal time.
Speaker 2: It's just if you have the choice, like you don't
Speaker 2: do that. But obviously the World Cup doesn't move if
Speaker 2: the girls have their period, So how do you guys
Speaker 2: work their training and injuries? Like does that change around cycles?
Speaker 1: So, I mean there's a little bit of low level
Speaker 1: evidence about injury in the cycle. I'm sure we'll get more,
Speaker 1: you know, as we get more data in the future,
Speaker 1: we'll sort of look into that more. But at this
Speaker 1: point in time, we do monitor their cycles. So they
Speaker 1: have a daily check in when they're in camp. It's
Speaker 1: like a wellness check in. And one of the questions
Speaker 1: on that is like, are you on your mental cycle?
Speaker 1: And so we can kind of so I can monitor
Speaker 1: that and the girls. It's good for the girls to
Speaker 1: monitor their own cycles as well. They get very used
Speaker 1: to what the impact of their own cycle is. So
Speaker 1: some girls will feel at their worst in a few
Speaker 1: days prior to having their period, and then some girls
Speaker 1: will feel worse when they've got their period. So it's
Speaker 1: quite varied per individual, but they obviously get to know
Speaker 1: and like, these girls are professional athletes that are training
Speaker 1: and playing day and day out the whole year, so
Speaker 1: they are used to the fact that they have to
Speaker 1: train and perform at any one point in their cycle
Speaker 1: for the whole year at all times. We've got probably
Speaker 1: a very low rate of contraceptive use across the Matudas
Speaker 1: for you know, no particular reason, but I think it's
Speaker 1: like ten to twelve percent of the girls, whereas the
Speaker 1: average in athletes are like thirty to forty percent. And
Speaker 1: the reason that I know that they do get in
Speaker 1: sync obviously other than the fact that we monitor it,
Speaker 1: but it's not like I've got this big spreadsheet going, oh,
Speaker 1: look at this is because one of them. One of
Speaker 1: them will come and ask me for some n aprogesic,
Speaker 1: which they find is good for their pre menstal symptoms.
Speaker 1: And then the next minute I've got half the team
Speaker 1: asking me for n aprogeesic. I'm like, oh, okay, well
Speaker 1: that's so cool. So that's that's more how I know.
Speaker 1: It's like when they need more sort of medical assistance
Speaker 1: in terms of symptom management. And yeah, it was interesting
Speaker 1: in the World Cup because it was such a long camp.
Speaker 1: We had like two or three cycles within that time frame.
Speaker 1: I was like, what again, it's been four weeks, okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm sure when I put in my medic like
Speaker 1: I put in an order, usually I put in i've
Speaker 1: got a medical kit, which is basically like I take
Speaker 1: a little mini hospital in a big suitcase. So normally
Speaker 1: I would make sure it's stopped before I go, and
Speaker 1: then I'll just restock at the end of the window.
Speaker 1: But I had to restock at like two or three
Speaker 1: times through the World Cup because it was such a
Speaker 1: long thing. I'm sure that someone fa thinks that I'm
Speaker 1: like having a you know, black market of drug selling
Speaker 1: on the side because I have to order so many
Speaker 1: anti inflammatories. But it really like if you got twenty
Speaker 1: three girls and two to three menstrual cycles each, like
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's a lot of pain. That's that's
Speaker 1: a lot of information. So that's one thing that's very
Speaker 1: different compared to the to the men's side, and in
Speaker 1: terms of the anti inflammatories, like they all have their
Speaker 1: kind of individual medication that they find work. So I
Speaker 1: always ask any any patient, I always ask what works
Speaker 1: for you? Because it's not me to say to someone
Speaker 1: what's going to help them. I can give them advice,
Speaker 1: so I stock. I know exactly what the antifometry of
Speaker 1: choice for every of the players is and for different things.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they might be used to using one type and
Speaker 1: I'll give them I'll say, well, look that's probably good
Speaker 1: for this, but for this in this case, you might
Speaker 1: want to try this for this reason. And late they
Speaker 1: trust me, so they'll always sort of go with my advice.
Speaker 1: But I try not to change too much because I'm
Speaker 1: in their world, so I'm just there to support them
Speaker 1: to perform the best they can.
Speaker 4: Not to take topic, but kind of on the topic
Speaker 4: of talking about metro cycles and injuries, I said, there's
Speaker 4: lot little evidence, but it seemed like we had actually
Speaker 4: a question from Instagram talking about the injury and I'm
Speaker 4: not actually sure about the injury rape truly, but obviously
Speaker 4: everyone was very well where every time someone got injured
Speaker 4: in this to these teams because everyone was following very
Speaker 4: very closely. But it seemed like people were getting injured
Speaker 4: more so in training that ruled them out then in
Speaker 4: the games. The question was actually were these do you
Speaker 4: think like there's freak accidents or was it you training
Speaker 4: such high intensity or like, is that a common thing
Speaker 4: for people to be ruled out? Meant a lot of
Speaker 4: them from training sessions. I think Mary and Sam are
Speaker 4: from training, and then I'm not sure even about what
Speaker 4: Alana's was in the end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's a good question. I think that that,
Speaker 1: like the answer is multifactorial. I think that definitely, because
Speaker 1: people were following us so closely, and because the media,
Speaker 1: we're obviously reporting on everything, and the injury is such
Speaker 1: a big impact to any sport, so you're going to
Speaker 1: hear about all of that, So it was probably it
Speaker 1: seemed a lot bigger to you guys on the outside
Speaker 1: because it was being reported on, probably more than when
Speaker 1: we play at other times. It was probably quite consistent
Speaker 1: in terms of injury rates. So we have a traffic
Speaker 1: light system, so at the end of every that meeting,
Speaker 1: at the end of every evening, we have the girls
Speaker 1: highlighted green or or red. So green is available no problems,
Speaker 1: Orange is modified or needs to be reviewed before the
Speaker 1: next day, and then read is unavailable for the next day.
Speaker 1: And so we actually are monitoring very closely and we
Speaker 1: can see the trends. Like because it's a big color
Speaker 1: thing in our we sent it out to all the
Speaker 1: coaches every night, so like one of our little things
Speaker 1: is oh we get all green. It's amazing, and that's
Speaker 1: you know what we're amy for. We amy for all green.
Speaker 1: By the time the first game starts, this particular camp,
Speaker 1: we bought in a lot of players who were actually
Speaker 1: quite significantly injured coming into a camp, which is very
Speaker 1: unusual because normally, if you're just doing a friendly game,
Speaker 1: you don't bring players in that are injured. You just
Speaker 1: leave them out. So I think that when we started,
Speaker 1: and it was a staggered start, So we assembled on
Speaker 1: the twurth of June, but the girls didn't necessarily have
Speaker 1: to be released by their club until the tenth of July,
Speaker 1: so they came in and droops and jobs as the
Speaker 1: clubs allowed them to come in, depending on whether they
Speaker 1: were at the end of their season or in the
Speaker 1: middle of the season. Because the girls that played in
Speaker 1: London and Fresh City, the European girls were at the
Speaker 1: end of their season, so they were available earlier, but
Speaker 1: they had to have a mandatory break before they came in.
Speaker 1: That's what FIFA sort of determined. And then our girls,
Speaker 1: a lot of them playing in the US or Sweden
Speaker 1: and they were mid season, so some of them didn't
Speaker 1: come in until just before, like two days before that
Speaker 1: first friendly game, so it was a big difference. So
Speaker 1: we had I think eight players who came in in
Speaker 1: that kind of first four weeks that we were in
Speaker 1: full rehab so weren't participating in the training at all.
Speaker 1: So we were as a medical team designing their training
Speaker 1: each day individualized for those eight players, and I think
Speaker 1: four or five of them were of our starting eleven,
Speaker 1: So we're talking about like top players who hadn't played
Speaker 1: a game for the months because they were injured. So
Speaker 1: to even kind of bring all that together to have
Speaker 1: most of them available for the first game, it's, you know,
Speaker 1: it's actually a huge tribute to both our sports scientists
Speaker 1: and our physiotherapists who just work behind the scenes, day in,
Speaker 1: day out to sort of bring that all together. And
Speaker 1: so then in terms of injuries, once you're in there
Speaker 1: and you're sort of everyone's fit and you're ready to go,
Speaker 1: then your injuries are rather contact or non contact. So
Speaker 1: contact injuries electraumas, you can't really prep or plan for those,
Speaker 1: so if they happen, it's just part of sport. It's
Speaker 1: the non contact injuries that you're trying to do everything
Speaker 1: you can to avoid it, So they're the ones that
Speaker 1: all things going well. You know, in an ideal world,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have any non contact injuries because should manage
Speaker 1: everything so perfectly that you don't. But the reality is
Speaker 1: you do get them. And so you know, of our
Speaker 1: obviously the concussions, we had two concussions in training. So
Speaker 1: the first two were Mary and Ivy. They were both
Speaker 1: just contact concussions. So it's just unavoidable. I mean it
Speaker 1: was they were both with the ball. So it's oh,
Speaker 1: it's actually interesting because I don't know, like the balls
Speaker 1: have a very specific PSI that they're pumped up to,
Speaker 1: but these balls were a different brand to balls that
Speaker 1: we normally use in games. I don't know whether that
Speaker 1: was anything like if the ball was harder, like the
Speaker 1: actual make of the ball. I mean, it's just very
Speaker 1: unusual that we had so many concussions based on heading
Speaker 1: the ball, that we all being or being hit in
Speaker 1: the head with the ball that we haven't had in
Speaker 1: the past. And then obviously Sam's injury was a calf injury,
Speaker 1: so that was a non contact injury, you know, was
Speaker 1: just something that happened. There was no sort of preemptive
Speaker 1: sort of moment to that it's just an acute injury
Speaker 1: that happened. But other than that, So Charlie's happened in
Speaker 1: the game. Her concussion. Alana's probably happened in that game,
Speaker 1: but we weren't sure. It wasn't evident until afterwards. Wasn't
Speaker 1: about her concussions. She kind of had like sort of
Speaker 1: a bit of a delay of onset symptoms or a
Speaker 1: bit of It was kind of a tricky one to diagnose.
Speaker 1: But I can't really think of any other sort of
Speaker 1: big injuries that resulted in people being ruled out of games.
Speaker 1: There was a few that we were managing soft tissue
Speaker 1: things throughout, so we might not have trained them so
Speaker 1: that they could play. So the idea is if someone's
Speaker 1: pulled up saw, you don't put them back into training
Speaker 1: and really make that injury worse. So that's the fine
Speaker 1: line between doing enough and then not doing too much.
Speaker 1: So obviously people will say, well, just don't train them,
Speaker 1: but not training someone and then underloading them into a
Speaker 1: game is a big risk as well. So balancing the
Speaker 1: risk of overloading and causing a worse injury or underloading
Speaker 1: and causing a worse injury. And we debate about every
Speaker 1: evening about it. I know that our coach is quite
Speaker 1: he's so respectful of our medical team. I mean, you've
Speaker 1: probably heard him talk in the media like it's very
Speaker 1: genuine that he trusts us fully and we'll do, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever we advise. But sometimes he was worried that we
Speaker 1: were making like he didn't want the girls to train
Speaker 1: in a certain training session as much as we were
Speaker 1: trying to get them to train, because he was just
Speaker 1: worried about them getting injured. But it's like, well, we're
Speaker 1: worried about next week if you don't do this this
Speaker 1: week sort of thing. So it's just that balance. And
Speaker 1: I guess on the field, you probably don't see the
Speaker 1: little injuries because we just sub the player and you
Speaker 1: just think it's a sub. So we've got a lot
Speaker 1: of corks in those games, like like a lot like
Speaker 1: just I mean, it's the same girls that often get them.
Speaker 1: They're just the you know, the tenacious ones on the field.
Speaker 1: But so sometimes it's quite evident when they cool down
Speaker 1: the next day, like they might have to miss two
Speaker 1: or three training sessions to recover from that. That's an
Speaker 1: injury that sustained in the game. But we just don't
Speaker 1: make a deal about it. We don't sort of you
Speaker 1: don't see it because they're back playing by the next game,
Speaker 1: so they're the ones that you don't notice.
Speaker 3: There's no press release about it or anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which keep some things under wraps so everyone will
Speaker 1: know who to run out because they go, oh, that
Speaker 1: girl got a cork in her quad last game. We're
Speaker 1: just going to aim at her cord, so things like that.
Speaker 1: So like we'll strap them for training, but then when
Speaker 1: we know the media is going to be there, we'll
Speaker 1: make them wear long pants for instance, or we'll take
Speaker 1: the strapping off for me. Like you don't want to
Speaker 1: give you like, you absolutely cannot give anything away that
Speaker 1: will compromise the health or welfare of the player by
Speaker 1: the opposition knowing something about that player.
Speaker 4: I always just like in my brain, I'm just like,
Speaker 4: I'm I feel like personally, I'm i'd say I'm a
Speaker 4: fair player to never want to hurt someone more as
Speaker 4: a means of like exporting the injury or something. But
Speaker 4: obviously this is like elite professional, most important cup of
Speaker 4: the year, so they'll do whatever they can. And then
Speaker 4: in my brain also sometimes they watch it, I'm like
Speaker 4: what is this. Is this a pretend, meticule time out
Speaker 4: that's happening on the field, that's all strategy, or they
Speaker 4: really sore on the well.
Speaker 1: It's actually the opposite, where most of the time the
Speaker 1: girls won't go down and let us come on the field,
Speaker 1: and we're like, just let us come on.
Speaker 4: Not the tillies.
Speaker 1: Like I think in the sport there's definitely, you know,
Speaker 1: tactical injuries, but for us, mainly the reason they try
Speaker 1: and get on with it, for us not to come
Speaker 1: on the field is because if we come on the
Speaker 1: field when the play restarts, they have to go off
Speaker 1: the field and so then we're playing short and you're
Speaker 1: not allowed back on the field until the ref lets
Speaker 1: you back on. So they try like super super hard
Speaker 1: to not have That's why if you watch closely, you
Speaker 1: often see a game where Jackie and I will stand
Speaker 1: up and walk to the sideline and we're just standing
Speaker 1: there ready to go on. But then they're trying not
Speaker 1: to call us on, and they're like, Okay, I can
Speaker 1: recover myself, I can do this, and then they'll they'll
Speaker 1: play on. But sometimes I say to them, like, you
Speaker 1: really should have called us on for that one, like you,
Speaker 1: you probably needed a bit of help or a bit
Speaker 1: of assessment. But the I mean our girls octually, these
Speaker 1: girls are very very tough.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Well I realize somehow we have suddenly already talked for
Speaker 2: an hour again, just like this time just goes so quickly.
Speaker 2: We have so much fun with you. But one of
Speaker 2: the things that we wanted to ask just in terms
Speaker 2: of like the things that you learn about people only
Speaker 2: when you get to travel with them or live with them,
Speaker 2: Like are there any Raphael Nadal style superstition rituals that
Speaker 2: people do before they go in the field. Are you
Speaker 2: guys superstitious about anything? Like do you do rituals before?
Speaker 2: Are their dates and times? Or like what are some
Speaker 2: of the coo or do you all have to travel
Speaker 2: with like peanut butter and a jar? Like what are
Speaker 2: the things about the team including you guys that only
Speaker 2: people who are in the team would know that are
Speaker 2: like just quirks about you guys.
Speaker 1: The girls are very superstitious, like very very so. Macca
Speaker 1: didn't like the pink goalkeeper uniform. So the goalkeepers have
Speaker 1: three uniforms, black, purple, and pink, so that like that
Speaker 1: was their world Cup kit and she had played in
Speaker 1: the pink I think when we lost to Scotland in
Speaker 1: the lead up, and so she didn't like her performance,
Speaker 1: so then she just attributed to the pink kit and
Speaker 1: then she we played in the pink when we lost
Speaker 1: to Nigeria. I think hopefully that I've got that correct.
Speaker 1: I think that was the game we played in the
Speaker 1: other kit too, like the blue kit, not the yellow kit,
Speaker 1: And like I'm not superstitious at all, but I get
Speaker 1: so worried about because it's such a mindset thing. So
Speaker 1: then for every game, so we get told as you
Speaker 1: get towards the game, there's like a match commissioner meeting
Speaker 1: and they tell you like, this is the kit you're
Speaker 1: playing in, and this is the kit the goal keeps
Speaker 1: playing so it's not in our control. So like FIFA
Speaker 1: tell you no choice. Yes, So every game I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Like I was trying to find out
Speaker 1: for the manager as soon as possible whether it's going
Speaker 1: to be the pink kit for that Cup because I
Speaker 1: just really needed to prepare.
Speaker 3: Don't be picked, don't because if.
Speaker 1: It was, I need to prep I was actually I
Speaker 1: was dead going to make her train in it. One
Speaker 1: day if she was going to have to play in it,
Speaker 1: because like they have a training kit. But I was
Speaker 1: just getting very worried about this, and like, luckily she
Speaker 1: wore the black for the rest of the tournament and
Speaker 1: played like an absolute swipstar. And I know she would
Speaker 1: have played well on the peak as well. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so that was one thing.
Speaker 3: WHOA, that's so fascinating.
Speaker 1: A lot of them have like lucky undies, lucky sports
Speaker 1: car I mean, Sam Sam has I don't think she's
Speaker 1: got it anymore. I think I think she's moved on.
Speaker 1: But at the Olympics, Sam had a lucky sports bra.
Speaker 1: It was like the oldest thing I've ever seen, and
Speaker 1: it was like she had to wear it for every game.
Speaker 1: And the laundry at the Olympics it was like this
Speaker 1: big because you're in the we're in the village, so
Speaker 1: it was like the whole of the village having the
Speaker 1: laundry yet and it's in COVID right, so so literally
Speaker 1: you'd have to line up for an hour to submit
Speaker 1: your laundry and then you'd get it back at a
Speaker 1: certain time in the evening. And this lucky sports bra
Speaker 1: went missing. So half of the team and the coaching
Speaker 1: staff and the medical staff just waltzed into this laundry
Speaker 1: like this big facility in Japan and went behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: And we're just searching people's laundry bags to find her
Speaker 1: lucky sports bra because like we couldn't. We just didn't
Speaker 1: want her to have to play without it. Like we
Speaker 1: found it, but like, oh thank god.
Speaker 3: Where's the video footage of that? You go searching through
Speaker 3: people's undies like I've got.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I've got some photos. I was trying
Speaker 1: to search mountain find some photos. That's pretty funny. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there's lots of things, like you know the girls that
Speaker 1: like we know them so well, we know what's going
Speaker 1: to make them on edge or whatever, so we just
Speaker 1: kind of work to that, Like it's just it just
Speaker 1: becomes second nature the stuff. Like some I don't know,
Speaker 1: sometimes we start to get superstitious, like oh, well I
Speaker 1: wore my hair like that, and then you wore this,
Speaker 1: and that's what we did, so we'll do that again.
Speaker 1: But we're only really mucking around, like we're not actually serious,
Speaker 1: Like it'd be fine, like we'd be fine to I
Speaker 1: go out of my way to make sure that I
Speaker 1: don't create superstitions. So I just keep changing things up
Speaker 1: so that I don't create an attachment to something, because
Speaker 1: otherwise then you're just relying on something that's out of
Speaker 1: your control potentially. So yeah, I am.
Speaker 4: I am incredibly superstitious. Like the first game that we won,
Speaker 4: I wore this one outfit anyway, So I wore the
Speaker 4: same outfit every time we play, to the socks, to
Speaker 4: the undies, to everything. And then by the end of
Speaker 4: that people because literally like I had to wash it
Speaker 4: in like like fast because it was kind of raining
Speaker 4: down here. And then I was like, oh, I gotta
Speaker 4: get it ready. And then I think we the game
Speaker 4: that we lost against Nigeria, I was like, I want
Speaker 4: different socks or something, and I was like, I was like,
Speaker 4: why did I wear these socks?
Speaker 3: And my fault, Well, you mean while you were watching
Speaker 3: the World Cup. Not while you're playing footy.
Speaker 4: No, No, when I was watching the Tilly thought, not when
Speaker 4: I'm playing personally, I like, when I played footy, I like,
Speaker 4: I have nothing, God, you just.
Speaker 3: Mean watching TV. Obviously we lost because no, genuinely, I
Speaker 3: hold you.
Speaker 4: I should have won that that song if only.
Speaker 1: The girls knew it was because of you and not them,
Speaker 1: that would.
Speaker 4: Be like, honestly, I was. I've never been so intensely following,
Speaker 4: Like I love Carton and I love my teams, but
Speaker 4: I have never felt so attached to a team in
Speaker 4: my life where I was like after we won against France,
Speaker 4: I had consumed every piece of media that you possibly
Speaker 4: could find from now until the day I was born,
Speaker 4: about the Tillies, the recar podcasts.
Speaker 2: You made me watch the doco that day when you
Speaker 2: came over and we watched like five episodes in a row.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was cooked. I'm surprised that you don't have
Speaker 4: any superstitions.
Speaker 1: I have not seen like a piece of media. I
Speaker 1: haven't read anything. I didn't see anything. I don't know
Speaker 1: what went on, Like I never knew Like people were like, oh,
Speaker 1: you've got some screen time. I'm like, oh that's good.
Speaker 1: Did I Like we watched the game back, but it
Speaker 1: was like it was the raw footage, so we never
Speaker 1: saw like the commercial footage. So I just one day
Speaker 1: I'll sit down and watch it. Yeah. So I'm the opposite,
Speaker 1: like I'm inside this bubble and I have no idea
Speaker 1: what went on outside in terms of you looking in,
Speaker 1: Like I just don't know what people know, what people saw.
Speaker 1: It's so cool.
Speaker 2: They probably know so much about you, and you have
Speaker 2: no idea that everyone knows all this stuff about you,
Speaker 2: and then you walk out. You're just like super famous
Speaker 2: and everyone knows anything about your life.
Speaker 3: They know you're reditionary.
Speaker 1: Now. The only thing that I did get was like
Speaker 1: hundreds of people, not hundreds, but people were texting me
Speaker 1: going they called you the physio and the game like
Speaker 1: being an extended I'm like, that's fine. And then the
Speaker 1: next game and I'm like, they still called you the physio,
Speaker 1: to the point where I went to our minimander and
Speaker 1: I said, look, I've got some friends that are watching
Speaker 1: on like the coverage, and they're getting very upset that
Speaker 1: they are calling me the physio and not the doctor,
Speaker 1: Like can you just talk to the commentators and let
Speaker 1: them know that I'm the one with the ribbons in
Speaker 1: my hair, I'm the doctor, and Jackie is the physio,
Speaker 1: and she's the other one on the field. And because
Speaker 1: we look quite similar, like over the years going on
Speaker 1: the field, people make a joke and say like we're
Speaker 1: sisters and we're running on the field, and some of
Speaker 1: her friends apparently called her up and said, so do
Speaker 1: you guys just like sciss a paper rock? Who does
Speaker 1: what on the field when you run around, because like
Speaker 1: sometimes like it's Brandy doing it and sometimes it's you.
Speaker 3: Doing it and looks interchangeable, like you know.
Speaker 1: There was one point that my daughter rang me it
Speaker 1: sometimes through well I rang her and she said like, oh,
Speaker 1: can you come home from the day And I was like,
Speaker 1: oh no, like I've got a you know, I'm still
Speaker 1: working with Matilda's. And she's like, why can't Jack into it?
Speaker 1: Like you can take over, can't. She's so cute?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what they like watching you on TV?
Speaker 1: Well, they like she's a bit older now, she's five
Speaker 1: and a half. But like throughout the last like because
Speaker 1: of COVID, especially when I was traveling, I would go
Speaker 1: away for a long period of time and then I'd
Speaker 1: be two weeks in quarantine. I wouldn't see them for
Speaker 1: a long time, and so they would watch me on
Speaker 1: the TV and that was like a nice thing. And
Speaker 1: they have a game called Spotto Brandy with it, like
Speaker 1: my whole family play where they try and catch me
Speaker 1: in the background and then they send me screenshots of
Speaker 1: the TV. So literally, like all my friends catch on mouse,
Speaker 1: so I'll be in a game overseas and then my
Speaker 1: watch will just be going off with photos of screenshots
Speaker 1: of TV I've been on. But anyway, and so my
Speaker 1: daughter's at school now. But a few years ago she
Speaker 1: went to Kindy and that was like, what do you
Speaker 1: want to do when you grow up? And she said, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to work on the TV like my mum's
Speaker 1: and so like she thought my job was on the
Speaker 1: TV because that's all she got to cv at work.
Speaker 1: Like she now understands, she's a massive Tillies fan. She
Speaker 1: knows I'm a sports doctor. And then when she left
Speaker 1: Kindy and they sort of did that KINDI graduation before
Speaker 1: she started school, she said that she wanted to be
Speaker 1: a sports doctor and that she was going to take
Speaker 1: over as the Matilda's doctor after me. And she said,
Speaker 1: she said, nom, so can you just stay there till
Speaker 1: I'm ready to have the job And I said, well absolutely,
Speaker 1: not six yet. And then she said, oh, and I
Speaker 1: might work in your clinic as well, but I want
Speaker 1: to be the boss, so I'm going to be the boss.
Speaker 1: I was like, of course, you are good on her.
Speaker 3: What an vicious little girl.
Speaker 1: She's got a whole life plan out.
Speaker 4: We had a lot of questions, but I feel like
Speaker 4: you've actually probably answered most of them. But we have
Speaker 4: one final question that came from Nick, who's Sarah's husband,
Speaker 4: and it's the most strange question. But I was like,
Speaker 4: I love strange questions. No, it's not even it's fairly
Speaker 4: a question.
Speaker 3: I think he was like, it's just a joke. It's
Speaker 3: really bad.
Speaker 4: The question was if they danced, would they be called
Speaker 4: waltzing Matilvers. That's part one, yes, no, yes or.
Speaker 1: No, yes they do dance, No, because they don't waltz.
Speaker 4: Wait, this is part two of the questions. Or if
Speaker 4: they waltzed to that song, would they be Matilda's waltzing?
Speaker 4: Waltzing Matilda.
Speaker 3: Lame?
Speaker 1: So our dancing song?
Speaker 3: Is is it the Nicky Webster song?
Speaker 1: No, so that's the the pre song, the song like
Speaker 1: the celebratory song is freed from desire?
Speaker 3: Oh you know who chooses that?
Speaker 1: Well, it just it was played over like at the
Speaker 1: end of every game, and so it just became the
Speaker 1: like the anthem that the girls would sort of they
Speaker 1: danced on the sideline. If you watched the there's footage
Speaker 1: on the I'm sure you'll be able to get some footage.
Speaker 1: It was the yeah, the penalty shootout game, so the
Speaker 1: quarter final game, and so they played it over a
Speaker 1: loud speaker and they did the dance like there's a dance.
Speaker 3: I think you should do it. Yeah, they do that song.
Speaker 1: It's like that song, but it's the remix. Oh, the
Speaker 1: remix the dance might be a day that sounds right
Speaker 1: hold on yeah yeah. And so then so when we
Speaker 1: were leaving the game in Brisbane, because after the game,
Speaker 1: like after a win, it's all hype on the bus obviously,
Speaker 1: and that's we do the team song on the bus.
Speaker 1: And so they put that song on and we're like
Speaker 1: singing and dancing to it as we were leaving, and
Speaker 1: then they do the team song for winning. So it's
Speaker 1: like a disco on the bus when we win a game.
Speaker 1: That's where all the singing and dancing and in the
Speaker 1: chain room like and for Prehab, I mean, there was
Speaker 1: so much about the music. So the music starts when
Speaker 1: we arrive and then the ten minutes of Prehab is
Speaker 1: very much music. It's such a mix. So you'll have
Speaker 1: Nicky Webster into some like Rapper into Seleen Dion into
Speaker 1: black Magic into Yeah, like it's such a diverse Kaya
Speaker 1: Simon is the main DJ, and then Lydia and Sam
Speaker 1: often if Guy's not there, So it's probably second to food.
Speaker 1: The music.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2: You need to at least the Hilly's like Spotify playlist
Speaker 2: that everyone can download and just get in the zone.
Speaker 1: It's basically just Kaias Simon's Spotify some of hers a
Speaker 1: public just single on one.
Speaker 2: If you guys lose, is it like a hallow darkness
Speaker 2: maled friend like quiet?
Speaker 3: No one wants a bar of music and dancing in COVID.
Speaker 1: When we're at the Agian Cup in India, we had
Speaker 1: to have two buses because you had to have like
Speaker 1: separation on the bus, and so the bus that I
Speaker 1: was on like they were calling it the cool bus,
Speaker 1: and I think we must have had m Yeah obviously
Speaker 1: not because I was on it. I was actually on
Speaker 1: the cool player bus. But I've got some footage of
Speaker 1: them doing I don't know what it is, like some
Speaker 1: like sing along love song. But they all had their phones.
Speaker 1: You know how you put the torch on your phone. Now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll dig that one up and put it back on
Speaker 1: the story too. It was like they're the moments that
Speaker 1: you remember more than the sport, like those are all
Speaker 1: behind the scene things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but not more than the food of course.
Speaker 2: No, I've learnt so much about your relationship with this
Speaker 2: last hour. Oh my gosh, well, doctor Brandy, thank you
Speaker 2: so much for jumping back on. That was so fascinating
Speaker 2: and I'm so glad we got to have this second
Speaker 2: chat because we would have missed out on learning like
Speaker 2: what your days actually look like. That blew my mind.
Speaker 2: I just can't believe our intense camp time must be
Speaker 2: for you guys, like working those incredible crazy hours but
Speaker 2: in such an exciting environment, Like are you spent when
Speaker 2: you get home?
Speaker 1: Oh? I was this time. I've never been. I don't
Speaker 1: think in my life I've ever been so emotionally, physically
Speaker 1: and mentally just broken, like literally broken. I had a
Speaker 1: patient the other day. It came in because I went
Speaker 1: straight back to work. I actually had people booked in
Speaker 1: the final and I was like, oh, so I moved
Speaker 1: them around. So I haven't actually had a break yet,
Speaker 1: Like tomorrow is the start of my holidays from the
Speaker 1: World Cup, Like I haven't had a holiday yet. I've recovered,
Speaker 1: but I still am a little bit You know, like
Speaker 1: I need a break. My patient said to me, Oh,
Speaker 1: like you look at ittle bit more now, like you're
Speaker 1: a bit dead behind the eyes. When I came in
Speaker 1: two weeks and I was like, yeah, I loves how
Speaker 1: I felt too.
Speaker 3: I've been dead behind my eyes.
Speaker 1: I could still do my job. My brain, my work
Speaker 1: brain was working fine. My medical brain it didn't it
Speaker 1: didn't falter, but everything else I was not capable of
Speaker 1: just making a simple life decision at all. Like my
Speaker 1: husband said to me, oh, we've been invited to this
Speaker 1: dinner in two weeks. I was like, oh, I don't
Speaker 1: know what I'm doing in ten minutes. Like I cannot
Speaker 1: answer a question about anything like that at the moment.
Speaker 1: But usually it's fine. Usually I come back refreshed because,
Speaker 1: as I said, my real life stressful comparantor I can't laugh.
Speaker 1: But we're going into We're going into camp in a
Speaker 1: month's time, four weeks time to Perth. We've got three
Speaker 1: qualified games for the Olympics. Yes, so I'll see if
Speaker 1: I can get some behind the scenes Freighton food footage
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 4: We might even finde into the DM of it. Was
Speaker 4: it Nari that you said?
Speaker 1: Was the video Nari yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're'll be like, stop loading things. Doctor Brandon needs
Speaker 4: to work out today, so you just take the videos.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Nari hasn't one of those microphones that as like
Speaker 1: it's like a karaokeing microphone and it alters your voice.
Speaker 1: And when the girls working cast and I had to
Speaker 1: go do separate training sessions for them, I got to
Speaker 1: go on the advance bus with the advanced crew and
Speaker 1: I is on the Advanced crew, and so I got
Speaker 1: welcomed to the advanced crew with the with the microphone.
Speaker 1: And that was the day that Charlie was doing her
Speaker 1: Charlotte Grant was doing her concussion rehab and she actually
Speaker 1: did a karaoke performance to a Marley Saras song for
Speaker 1: us as her like her welcome into the advanced group,
Speaker 1: My dream, my Dream Gift. I'm not on TikTok, but
Speaker 1: if you follow Charlie on TikTok, they often do like
Speaker 1: singing dancing TikTok to we're in camp. I always walk
Speaker 1: into them, see them making them. I had a cameo
Speaker 1: in one when we were over in London. They're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you got to do this. You gotta walk on in
Speaker 1: the background and do this.
Speaker 3: Okay, we have to find it.
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 4: I assume every piece of media I've seen it.
Speaker 3: You've probably seen it.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope you have the most amazing, very very
Speaker 2: well deserved break over the next little while with the fans.
Speaker 1: We have lots of the size Remember, lots of train
Speaker 1: I was going to say, lots of lots of swimming
Speaker 1: at the beach.
Speaker 4: I love so hard that your story the other day
Speaker 4: with the underwater weight running, and I was like, of course,
Speaker 4: of course that's what you want to do.
Speaker 1: Look like a challenge. I don't actually training her breathing
Speaker 1: ability as a swimmer, which I do not need. But
Speaker 1: maybe you'll take the dumb bells for a bushwalk instead,
Speaker 1: save them from getting rusty.
Speaker 3: You just now, all you need is a pasta station
Speaker 3: and then your set.
Speaker 1: Yeah I don't need pastas, so it's all right.
Speaker 3: Did that slip through?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm a fruit and ven salad, meat girl,
Speaker 1: nuts and cheese, just plenty of it. You have to
Speaker 1: wait too long for the pasta station.
Speaker 4: It's going to.
Speaker 3: The Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much for joining us twice now
Speaker 2: and we'll be following along very closely in Perth and
Speaker 2: will be of course, you know, like wearing her special
Speaker 2: undies and a special ox and.
Speaker 1: Well, if you want to come over, I'll probably get
Speaker 1: some tickets of the game I can give you.
Speaker 4: Foll No, I don't even In the minute the World
Speaker 4: Cup finished, I looked at flights and I was like,
Speaker 4: how do I work this?
Speaker 3: So I reckon, we could do it. Bin, Let's do
Speaker 3: a CCA trip to Perth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me know if you come over, I'll hook
Speaker 1: you up.
Speaker 4: Okay, leave it with us, leave it with us.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: This has just been absolutely delightful and we hope you
Speaker 2: have the best break.
Speaker 1: Thank you.