Speaker 1: Coming up the next hour Steve Grumpy Collins. There's a
Speaker 1: famous name.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk travel.
Speaker 1: I think we're going to somewhere rather interesting, a place
Speaker 1: that I'm not familiar with. He's going to spend more
Speaker 1: time in the South Pacific Islands. We'll do that with
Speaker 1: Steve Grumpy Collins coming up for the next hour. It's
Speaker 1: a massive round of footy as we know. It started
Speaker 1: last night with the Doggies getting up No, I beg
Speaker 1: your pardon was Hawks getting up over the Doggies in
Speaker 1: the end by.
Speaker 2: Twenty two points.
Speaker 1: So I thought it was a fair bid to talk
Speaker 1: about across this fantastic weekend of footy. What an opportunity
Speaker 1: to talk to the great Adam Papalia. Now, for those
Speaker 1: that may not know across our network, Adam Papalia is
Speaker 1: sports director at six PR Perth. Is also a highly
Speaker 1: regarded wonderful commentator on Fox Footy Paps.
Speaker 3: Hello and good morning, hello team mate, Good morning to you.
Speaker 2: Did you look at that game last night?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely, we were doing that once for six PR
Speaker 3: and it was, yeah, a good fight back from the
Speaker 3: Hawks who had had a couple of down weeks or
Speaker 3: be it against some of the better teams in the camp,
Speaker 3: but I think it was more about the way they
Speaker 3: went about it that I think would have pleased their
Speaker 3: fans a bit more, a lot more tackles, a lot
Speaker 3: more pressure, a lot more intensity, and they got it done.
Speaker 1: Damian Tardio on the program yesterday morning. On this program
Speaker 1: he went for doggies. I said, I reckon Hawks are
Speaker 1: going to do this. He said, nah, anyway, So I
Speaker 1: can't wait for him to wander in here later this morning.
Speaker 2: It was really good for those that don't know.
Speaker 1: You're a very capable, wonderful part of the younger set
Speaker 1: broadcasters around Australia. As soon as I spoke to people
Speaker 1: and said Adam Papale is going to come on this
Speaker 1: program and have a bit of chat about footy nationally,
Speaker 1: people said, oh, he's fantastic on Fox Footing.
Speaker 3: Well, that's very kind, thank you, Tony.
Speaker 1: And I think the difference is you really seem to
Speaker 1: be enjoying what you do. It's not as if you've
Speaker 1: only been doing it for twelve months, by the way,
Speaker 1: but you've moved into that and it seems almost effortless
Speaker 1: in many many ways.
Speaker 2: It's not. It seems that way and that's the sign
Speaker 2: of great work, I reckon.
Speaker 3: Thanks mate, I appreciate it. Yeah, no, we certainly put
Speaker 3: a fair bit to work into each and every week,
Speaker 3: but no, we enjoy doing it. I travel quite as
Speaker 3: much as they're used to in terms of getting around
Speaker 3: the country and seeing a few of the other teams
Speaker 3: all the other venues. But we do pretty much every
Speaker 3: week over here in Perth at the ground for Fox
Speaker 3: and then call a few of the other games for
Speaker 3: six PR as well. And yeah, mate, I love it
Speaker 3: of doing sort of three or four games a weekend
Speaker 3: at the moment and right across everything and bring on
Speaker 3: more footy, I reckon, Can you believe halfway through the season.
Speaker 2: That's just quickly at them?
Speaker 3: It's flying so quickly?
Speaker 2: What's that about past?
Speaker 3: It does every year? And then then we hit the
Speaker 3: buy rounds and everyone complains for a couple of weeks
Speaker 3: that it's going slow now and you know, there's not
Speaker 3: enough games being played and the buy round should be
Speaker 3: over quicker than they are rather than spread across. But
Speaker 3: once you get through the buy rounds, I reckon, that
Speaker 3: lasts six to eight weeks. That is when it absolutely flies,
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden you're at the finals
Speaker 3: and then it ramps up for a big September.
Speaker 2: A big September and looking forward to that. Can I
Speaker 2: talk to you without notice?
Speaker 1: It's been fascinating to watch, and no doubt you would
Speaker 1: have been doing a lot of talk on this in
Speaker 1: the program.
Speaker 2: Anyway, with young corns and the umpires.
Speaker 1: Now, I have a bit of a special place for
Speaker 1: umpires because without umpires, we don't have a game, So
Speaker 1: the respect that they deserve should always be there. Not
Speaker 1: everybody necessarily sees it in that light at them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't really comment on that specific thing too
Speaker 3: much because I'm not sort of across it as much.
Speaker 3: It was more I think a lot of going gone
Speaker 3: that week about the incident that happened and the miscommunication
Speaker 3: that happened at a few different levels, and then where
Speaker 3: the blame was placed around that. But yeah, I'm probably
Speaker 3: one of the ones and people get frustrated with the
Speaker 3: umpires a fair bit. But I sort of deliberately what
Speaker 3: I'm calling the footage, not because I don't think they're important,
Speaker 3: but sort of don't don't sort of mention the umpires
Speaker 3: by name too much as a deliberate thing, because I
Speaker 3: think it's then allows people individually to sort of target
Speaker 3: thinking that umpires against us today and they deliberately didn't
Speaker 3: pay us that free kick and so on and so forth,
Speaker 3: which I don't think happens in foot yer. There's no
Speaker 3: umpire out there that has a bias against a particular
Speaker 3: team or not. They're just calling it as they see it,
Speaker 3: and sometimes it goes for your team and sometimes it
Speaker 3: goes against your team. So I'm a bit with you
Speaker 3: in that regard that I don't really buy into that
Speaker 3: side of things.
Speaker 1: You and I could go to any football ground around
Speaker 1: Australia historically sit there and quite often part of the
Speaker 1: entertainment seemed to be having a real crack at the
Speaker 1: umpires often referred to as things as white mongrels. All
Speaker 1: those years ago. It was a bit of a footy pastime,
Speaker 1: a great part of the game, which is no longer
Speaker 1: quite to that degree anymore. I don't think or is
Speaker 1: it where we do need these young people to be
Speaker 1: a part of the game, young people encouraged to be
Speaker 1: part of the game, which presumably would be the AFL's.
Speaker 3: Consumed young people is in their fans coming through.
Speaker 2: To become umpires.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, No, it's a big, absolutely big concern and
Speaker 3: you want to you want to attract the best people
Speaker 3: to be able to come in and do it. And
Speaker 3: it's a bit of a thankfulest task, isn't it. Whether
Speaker 3: you're umpiring at junior footy or amateur leagues or even
Speaker 3: at the AFL. There's a lot of scrutiny around, particularly
Speaker 3: at the top level, around everything and it's a very
Speaker 3: difficult game to umpire, And for me, I think that
Speaker 3: the hardest thing is the interpretation of the rules mostly
Speaker 3: is what contributes to a lot of the frustration from
Speaker 3: fans as to whether it is a free kick or
Speaker 3: it isn't a free kick. It just depends sometimes which
Speaker 3: side you're barracking for as to whether you think it
Speaker 3: should be a free kick or not. It's part of
Speaker 3: why we love it, but it's also the source of
Speaker 3: frustration too. But no, we need to give the umpires
Speaker 3: as much support as we can because they without them,
Speaker 3: we don't have a game.
Speaker 1: Tell us about the West Coast Eagles, you're part of
Speaker 1: the world up against North Melbourne.
Speaker 2: What's incredible about this? I think?
Speaker 1: Tell me if I'm wrong about this is the first
Speaker 1: game to be played in Bumbrey in Western Australia coming
Speaker 1: up on Sunday, that is.
Speaker 3: Correct, So the first game for Premiership points to be
Speaker 3: played at that ground hands over in Bumbary. It is
Speaker 3: called which sounds a strange name for a footy ground,
Speaker 3: but I think I've been trying to find out. I'm
Speaker 3: pretty sure it's named after the first mayor of Bumbrey
Speaker 3: way back in the day or something like that. But yes,
Speaker 3: it hands over in Bumbury. So this is part of
Speaker 3: North Melbourne who have sold a couple of their home
Speaker 3: games to the West Australian teams to get some cash
Speaker 3: in the bank basically and to try and forage for
Speaker 3: some new supporters and new members on this side of
Speaker 3: the country, which I think there's quite a fair few
Speaker 3: North Melbourne fans out west, as you know, Tony, just
Speaker 3: because of I think the amount of sort of star
Speaker 3: WA players that went across to play for North Melbourne
Speaker 3: at certain times just before the formation of the AFL,
Speaker 3: so there's always been a bit of a strong link
Speaker 3: there and quite a few people that have followed the
Speaker 3: Kangaroos in North Melbourne. But yeah, the first game coming
Speaker 3: up in Bumbury on Sunday afternoon. It's going to be
Speaker 3: really great occasion. I grew up just down the road
Speaker 3: from there, about thirty minutes further south from Bumbury, in
Speaker 3: a town called Bustledon, which people might know from the
Speaker 3: Long Jetty if they've ever seen it on TV before.
Speaker 3: But it's great for the region, that southwest area, all
Speaker 3: the way down to Margaret River and Dunsborough and beyond.
Speaker 3: Everyone's really pumped up for the game, and the ground
Speaker 3: only holds fifteen thousand, but it's sold out extremely quickly
Speaker 3: and it's difficult ticket to get. They're putting in all
Speaker 3: these temporary grand stands around to lift the capacity, which
Speaker 3: when there's nothing else there, I think the capacity is
Speaker 3: only at about four or five thousand. But with the
Speaker 3: temporary grandstands that they're going to put in and the
Speaker 3: amount of work and redevelopment they've done at that ground,
Speaker 3: they're going to hold an AFL game there, So it's
Speaker 3: going to be brilliant on Sunday. The Kangaroos now with
Speaker 3: you can get direct flights from Melbourne straight into Bustleton
Speaker 3: which is right near Margaret River, as I said, and
Speaker 3: so they don't need to fly to Perth and then
Speaker 3: drive to two hours down to Bumbrey. They can fly
Speaker 3: straight into Bustleton and then it's only a twenty minute
Speaker 3: bus ride up to Bumbrey to play the game. And
Speaker 3: they based themselves in wa for the week and then
Speaker 3: play Freemattle of the Stadium as a North Melbourne home
Speaker 3: game the week after.
Speaker 1: The week after for that one, I'm sort of a
Speaker 1: little out of the loop, I guess from a distance
Speaker 1: these days. But given I bet it's been intense, and
Speaker 1: I know historically it's in the tents in the media
Speaker 1: because you guys covered the West Australian covers at Channel
Speaker 1: seven in Perth would cover it. Where the Eagles are
Speaker 1: sitting in the competition, it would be unsatisfactory to many.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it has been particularly over the last well three
Speaker 3: four years really, particularly when they've really been uncompetitive in games.
Speaker 3: They've actually had a pretty good, sort of thick week
Speaker 3: stretch where they've been playing a little bit better footy
Speaker 3: and a lot more competitive and showing some more positive
Speaker 3: signs sort of after gather around. They had a couple
Speaker 3: of poor performances through there and you're sort of thinking, oh, wow,
Speaker 3: here we go again. Where when's it going to turn
Speaker 3: for West Coast and when are they going to get
Speaker 3: back to being, you know, the type of club that
Speaker 3: has been the envy of a lot right through the
Speaker 3: competition for a fair period of their existence. But they
Speaker 3: seem it still, you know, a fair way off it.
Speaker 3: They took it up to Geelong last week for three quarters,
Speaker 3: three and a half quarters or so, but there are
Speaker 3: a chance of certainly being very competitive against North and
Speaker 3: trying to get the four points on the weekend. The
Speaker 3: Kangaroos have be trying to do the same, but at
Speaker 3: least with West Coast, we're starting to see them actually
Speaker 3: compete in games for a little bit longer and a
Speaker 3: few less of those big blowouts that we've particularly seen
Speaker 3: over the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: Doggers are having a bit of a season.
Speaker 3: They are a roller coaster, you could call it that
Speaker 3: they've had some bad losses on the way through, but
Speaker 3: they've won their last three and the things are looking
Speaker 3: up for Freo right now when you look at their
Speaker 3: run into the back half. I'd sort of always been
Speaker 3: pretty confident on them pre season that they were going
Speaker 3: to be one of those sides contending for a spot
Speaker 3: in the finals, and if everything went right, maybe a
Speaker 3: spot in the top four because they've kind of their list,
Speaker 3: they've got all the pieces of the puzzle that they
Speaker 3: kind of need. But they're still a very very young
Speaker 3: team when you look at their team on paper for
Speaker 3: both age and experience as well. But for the last
Speaker 3: three weeks, after a couple of bad losses when they
Speaker 3: lost US and Kilda and then Collingwood, last three weeks
Speaker 3: they've gone away to beat the Giants over at the
Speaker 3: Giants Stadium, They've beat Port at home and then away.
Speaker 3: They beat the Suns up at Metre Con in the
Speaker 3: wet last week and it's really just put them right
Speaker 3: back right on the very edge of the eight, but
Speaker 3: with a really good run to come. So with that
Speaker 3: North Melbourne away game, which will be a home game
Speaker 3: for them next week coming off by they've got three
Speaker 3: of the next four at home. Then they've got seven
Speaker 3: of their last eleven in Western Australia as well, which
Speaker 3: you know, the sides over this side of the country
Speaker 3: is such a big boost for them, just because they
Speaker 3: don't have to jump on a plane as much. It
Speaker 3: can make a really big difference in the run home.
Speaker 3: So they from this point they would certainly be expecting
Speaker 3: to play finals, so they'll be trying to keep a
Speaker 3: bit of a lid on it after some pretty big
Speaker 3: preseason expectations.
Speaker 1: Big game here of course, as you know, Monday, it's amazing,
Speaker 1: the Kings, the King's Birthday holiday, it's going to be fantastic.
Speaker 1: The Mighty D's. I don't know much about those ds.
Speaker 1: How do you think it will go, Adam?
Speaker 3: I thought they would win last week and they didn't
Speaker 3: do that. Just when you thought that they're getting their
Speaker 3: season back on track, it doesn't quite work out. It's
Speaker 3: going to be tough for them. I think Tony given
Speaker 3: there up against Colling would have been in ripping form lately.
Speaker 3: So I think, yeah, the Pie's big crowd, good occasion,
Speaker 3: as it always is on the King's Birthday as it
Speaker 3: is now. I think Colin will be a little bit
Speaker 3: too strong, but Melbourne will be able to mix it
Speaker 3: with him for a while.
Speaker 2: I hope you're right.
Speaker 1: Did you have one eye on the outcome of Australia
Speaker 1: in the footy last night?
Speaker 3: Yes, certainly did. The soccer rus you're talking about up
Speaker 3: against Japan, it was incredible. It was almost fifty seven
Speaker 3: thousand off the stadium, which is a terrific crowd, the
Speaker 3: highest for a game of football like that for the
Speaker 3: Soccer Rus in Wa, and it was from all reports
Speaker 3: because we were doing the AFL at the same time
Speaker 3: and sort of keeping an eye on it. From all reports,
Speaker 3: it was a pretty dull affair, pretty difficult affair to watch,
Speaker 3: and the soccer Rus were certain outplayed at times and
Speaker 3: not really playing with much attacking flare for most of
Speaker 3: the game. And the possession stats for I think sort
Speaker 3: of sixty nine thirty one something like that in favor
Speaker 3: of Japan. That's it doesn't matter because as long as
Speaker 3: you're in front when it comes to the final whistle,
Speaker 3: that's all it is. So a gold was his bait.
Speaker 3: I think it was his first goal in thirteen years
Speaker 3: for the Soccer Us and it puts us right on
Speaker 3: the very brink of qualification for the World Cup. But
Speaker 3: it have to be an absolute disaster from here for
Speaker 3: us not to automatically qualify, so that could happen with
Speaker 3: other results going before you even have to kick another ball.
Speaker 3: But a great result.
Speaker 1: Text from Jason who says, Adam, would you rather call
Speaker 1: for footy or call for radio? What are the distinctions
Speaker 1: call for TV or for radio TV radio.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to be honest, I really don't have a preference
Speaker 3: for either. I enjoy doing both very different skill even
Speaker 3: though it doesn't seem like it's too much, I guess,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I enjoy trying to craft passage of play
Speaker 3: when you can watch it along as well. But then
Speaker 3: you can be more descriptive on radio two. So I
Speaker 3: can't give you an answer on which one I prefer,
Speaker 3: because I just enjoy both. It's kind of whichever one
Speaker 3: I'm doing. It can be a little bit a little
Speaker 3: bit looser on radio, I reckon and have a little
Speaker 3: bit more fun with you.
Speaker 2: That's probably true.
Speaker 3: So that's that's quite fun.
Speaker 1: Lots of text what you've been talking and I love this,
Speaker 1: lots of people saying on many levels. The miror of
Speaker 1: Bumbray from twenty eight through to thirty three.
Speaker 3: I'm putting my hand up for that. I'm actually I'm
Speaker 3: actually going for president of the third Team in Western Australia,
Speaker 3: which I think I'll be heading down that way to
Speaker 3: take up that position once it gets introduced for the
Speaker 3: twentieth license.
Speaker 1: I think that person was the mayor of Bumbrey the
Speaker 1: year hand I think is the comment that may be
Speaker 1: twenty eighth three to thirty three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, only what you're talking about. I'm just saying that
Speaker 3: I'm putting my hand up. Good on you.
Speaker 1: This is not one who says Jay he Hands Memorial
Speaker 1: Park down there.
Speaker 2: It's called the J. E. Hands Memorial Path.
Speaker 3: It is. But we just we just the locals down
Speaker 3: that way. We just call it hands over.
Speaker 1: Oh there you go, hands over for the locals. It's
Speaker 1: always good to talk to you, Adam.
Speaker 3: Pappalia, Thanks Tony, good to chat to you, mate.
Speaker 1: Good work, good on youre bye, Adam Papaleer six pr
Speaker 1: in Perth and from Fox Footy.
Speaker 2: What a morning. It is a stranger overnight. Hello to you.