Speaker 1: Here at Two Good Sports, we would like to acknowledge
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Speaker 2: Well. Hi there, I'm Georgia Tani.
Speaker 1: You're listening to two Good sports and sports news told
Speaker 1: differently and jelm me on a level of one to unhinged.
Speaker 2: Where are we this week? I mean we're really off
Speaker 2: the scale.
Speaker 3: You don't want to know how the chat's been going
Speaker 3: before we've gone to wear We've cried, we've laughed, Georgie.
Speaker 2: On my spell off her chair.
Speaker 3: But I'm so excited to bring to you my good
Speaker 3: sport of the week. Because excited, My good sport of
Speaker 3: the week is Tom Cruise. Because, dear listener, if you
Speaker 3: happen to miss this, I don't know where you've been.
Speaker 2: You've been under a rock.
Speaker 3: But Georgie flew to Japan to interview Tom Cruise, Yes,
Speaker 3: and somehow made it about sport because she showed the
Speaker 3: greatest action actor of the modern era, nay of all time,
Speaker 3: a video of herself running.
Speaker 2: Where did your brain? Where does your brain go?
Speaker 1: I actually thought that he would be impressed, but there
Speaker 1: was part of me that I was like, this is
Speaker 1: going to do so well. It's funny, it's carefree, it's nonchalant.
Speaker 1: And then I started filming myself running and I thought,
Speaker 1: wait a second, have I been gaslighting myself my whole life?
Speaker 2: You know? Maybe I'm okay at running.
Speaker 3: So to set up the scene, Georgie's taken down the
Speaker 3: footpath in Elwood and has got her fiance Rob to
Speaker 3: jog along to get the action at the arms. It's
Speaker 3: very iconic, Tom Cruise, That's all I had to do.
Speaker 3: So this is what Tom had to say to said
Speaker 3: video ready, nicely done.
Speaker 1: Actually don't I saw recently Glenn Power, one of your
Speaker 1: custmates and friends from Top Gun. That's right, so that
Speaker 1: you gave him advice that you've got to film yourself
Speaker 1: when you're running because you're never as cool as you
Speaker 1: think you're not.
Speaker 2: My training has begun, mister. The last of the audience
Speaker 2: seeing about ut.
Speaker 1: Very nice and stuff.
Speaker 2: How do we run? Like Tom Cruise? What do I
Speaker 2: what do we need to do? What's the process?
Speaker 3: Really, he's got the expression I'm just I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: leave it there. You'll have to go and watch the
Speaker 3: cliff to find out how to run like Tom Cruise,
Speaker 3: but for somebody who can tell has done a lot
Speaker 3: of media in his life.
Speaker 2: I reckon.
Speaker 3: He was like, this, isn't you a girl in a
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift top and some faded.
Speaker 2: Bike shorts showing me what's up?
Speaker 1: I remember when I was a full disclosure team, when
Speaker 1: I was heading over to Japan, I had told Jelmy
Speaker 1: my plans to film myself running and I said, what
Speaker 1: do you think he's going to make of this incredible
Speaker 1: vision of me essentially just recreating Usain Bolt's career, You know, like,
Speaker 1: what do you think he's going to think? And Gelmy goes,
Speaker 1: you could have at least want a.
Speaker 2: Matching at leisure. What were you doing?
Speaker 3: I think Lemon would support your quests, that's all, or
Speaker 3: you should support your own quest and body parts wearing
Speaker 3: something appropriate. But it was also I didn't even have
Speaker 3: to see that you're wearing a Tailor Swift shirt to
Speaker 3: know that's what you would have been wearing.
Speaker 2: In terms of oh, how good was how good was
Speaker 2: the review? Though? Oh yeah, look at you with the arms,
Speaker 2: with the stepping like no one's ever run before.
Speaker 3: But again, I wonder if Matt Shervington, I E one
Speaker 3: of the fastest men our countries ever produced, who went
Speaker 3: for Sunrise decided to show a video of himself running.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I think we all know who would
Speaker 1: be more impressive.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the video that would be most memorable this guy,
Speaker 2: this guy.
Speaker 3: But also you now have what I would call a
Speaker 3: friendship now with Tom Cruise. You've got met several times
Speaker 3: and he's like, hey, George, you nice to see you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's very, very lovely.
Speaker 1: He remembered who I was, of course he did, And
Speaker 1: I think that that now allows me to say he's
Speaker 1: a friend of the pod, friend of the pod.
Speaker 3: Sports love sport, he's a good sport. Next time we
Speaker 3: could probably get him to say that. But sure, it
Speaker 3: was on the intro for the rest of the time.
Speaker 2: I think it was implied. I think it was implied.
Speaker 1: Look, it was one of those pinch me moments of
Speaker 1: your career that you're just like.
Speaker 2: Wow, I'm doing what in Japan? In Japan?
Speaker 1: In Japan, And it was very very it was a
Speaker 1: wonderful chat. We got ten minutes. You know how junkets work,
Speaker 1: and it's literally I'm talking to Tom Cruise.
Speaker 2: But I've also got.
Speaker 1: One eye on the fifteen stuff that are just off
Speaker 1: into the corner that are there giving me Dicky Wilson's.
Speaker 3: About to bust through the door and ask the same question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to be like, let me in, let me in.
Speaker 1: There was a lovely Japanese man who was on the
Speaker 1: floor with a card that just said times up, trying
Speaker 1: to like get in, and I was like, yeah, noticed it,
Speaker 1: but Tom was still talking, so I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: not wrapping Tom Cruise, and then like Tom, No, one
Speaker 1: one raps Tom Cruise. So then Tom Cruise is talking
Speaker 1: for another like five minutes, and then the poor man
Speaker 1: just extends the arm even further, times up, times up again,
Speaker 1: and then in something that will actually live rent free
Speaker 1: in my mind for the rest of my life, Tom
Speaker 1: Cruise goes, No, don't worry about that.
Speaker 2: We'll just keep going Tom.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Friend of the Pod, this one's weekly. If you
Speaker 2: want to come on for five, we can discuss more
Speaker 2: running techniques.
Speaker 1: We so can, we so can very kind of you
Speaker 1: to put me as your good sport jelmy bad technique.
Speaker 1: Potentially we will let the listeners go find the video
Speaker 1: and decide whether I'm not you on the good sport.
Speaker 1: I'm getting an insight into why I thought that he
Speaker 1: would be impressed with me.
Speaker 2: I was like, so wonderful to be the good sport
Speaker 2: you weren't. What What's I not?
Speaker 3: No, you are, and it's the reason why they are
Speaker 3: so lucky to have you and they send you on
Speaker 3: those junkers because your brain just goes to places that
Speaker 3: genuinely can get an ernest shocked response out of the
Speaker 3: biggest stars in the world because no one else thinks
Speaker 3: to do things that way. And that's why we absolutely
Speaker 3: love you. But of course it had to be my
Speaker 3: good sport hit me.
Speaker 1: I have a good sport as well, and it comes
Speaker 1: from our other friends of the pod, the Daily Os. Oh,
Speaker 1: they have just released a story. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a mixture of a good sport and a bad sport.
Speaker 1: Bad sport the number of ACL injuries that we are
Speaker 1: seeing from our female athletes, in particular Sam Kerk Mary Fowler,
Speaker 1: which have.
Speaker 2: Personally affected us.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know, wake up multiple days of our lives
Speaker 1: get these injuries. So what the Daily Os is reporting
Speaker 1: is that there is going to be a new study
Speaker 1: conducted at a university in London that is going to
Speaker 1: help determine whether or not a menstrual cycle is a
Speaker 1: contributing factor to ACL injuries. What when it comes to
Speaker 1: female athletes?
Speaker 2: What yeah, yeah, so at.
Speaker 1: The moment, research shows that women are up to eight
Speaker 1: times more likely to sustain an ACL injury than men.
Speaker 2: Isn't that wild? And so they're trying to figure out
Speaker 2: exactly what to do. Is getting your period? That's what
Speaker 2: they're going to find out, according to them, and that
Speaker 2: just that men are conditioned Like let's like, don'm me wrong.
Speaker 3: We women's sport as much as the next podcast i e.
Speaker 3: A lot more than the next pot color, but men
Speaker 3: are physically more conditioned to endure more stress on their
Speaker 3: bodies than what women.
Speaker 1: Are generally and have we then therefore caterd a women's
Speaker 1: training program to be different enough for that to be
Speaker 1: able to compensate for that, I'm not sure. So obviously
Speaker 1: that's going to be part of it. But then there's
Speaker 1: just so many, the sheer volume of acls that we're seeing,
Speaker 1: everything needs to be investigated.
Speaker 2: The researcher going to do like.
Speaker 3: Have a week, hope everyone sinks, and not roster a
Speaker 3: game for a week.
Speaker 2: They can analyze everything. Well, the researcher.
Speaker 1: The head researcher, doctor Simon Augusta, said, we know hormones.
Speaker 2: This is legit, This is legit.
Speaker 1: We know hormones fluctuate during different phases of the cycle. Yes,
Speaker 1: but we don't yet know how much of an influence
Speaker 1: that may have on the risk of injury. So it
Speaker 1: all could be linked, is what I'm saying. So my
Speaker 1: good sport, because it's nice that there is an actual
Speaker 1: interest in women's health.
Speaker 2: And if we find this to be the case, what
Speaker 2: are you meant to do about it?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, but it could be a different
Speaker 1: It could be a case of you know how people
Speaker 1: taper and loading and that kind of thing. It may
Speaker 1: be just tweaking training regimes around that time. I'm not
Speaker 1: exactly sure how it will help in terms of a
Speaker 1: game situation.
Speaker 3: You look at the date of the Olympics and you're like, God,
Speaker 3: damn it, damn it.
Speaker 2: Again, damn it again.
Speaker 1: But there'll be ways in which you could maybe alter
Speaker 1: what you have been doing so you can avoid such
Speaker 1: a serious injury.
Speaker 3: We have seen an incredible uptick of acls and particularly
Speaker 3: women's sports, but that can also be put down to
Speaker 3: the fact that there a lot of them are semi
Speaker 3: professional athletes as well. Yes, because they're not paid enough
Speaker 3: that they can't have the same training. They also don't
Speaker 3: have the same recovery available to them in terms of
Speaker 3: physio massage and cool downs and all those sort of
Speaker 3: things that we know that the male athletes have. Yes,
Speaker 3: and for a lot of the times, these male athletes
Speaker 3: have been training at quite an elite level from their
Speaker 3: late teens, whereas the women, they've ducked in and ducked
Speaker 3: out and gone and got degrees.
Speaker 2: And because we have to write, yeah, you can't. It's
Speaker 2: not enough.
Speaker 1: It's not enough just to want to be a full
Speaker 1: time athlete.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, for so many of our I also good sport.
Speaker 2: On the back of your good sport, Sam, curse a mom.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, we should have led with this, so sorry,
Speaker 1: get on the bench.
Speaker 2: Dagam ewers Kerr is here. I know.
Speaker 3: Yes, if ever, you've backed your kidd in to be
Speaker 3: a rock star. Jack of ewers Kurve, it's a pretty
Speaker 3: good name.
Speaker 2: Who's he playing for? Oh oh yeah.
Speaker 1: J yeah. Because of course Sam's partner wife fiance is
Speaker 1: an American representative.
Speaker 2: Who played literally in the Olympics. Yeah, yeah, we claim Yeah,
Speaker 2: it has to be Australia, so sorry to be.
Speaker 3: Whichever parent has finished higher in the ballon door gets
Speaker 3: to claim the child for they.
Speaker 2: We thank goodness for that. There we go.
Speaker 1: Also, you know what we're solving on this episode today, Jelmy,
Speaker 1: we are going to be with the power given to
Speaker 1: our authoritative voice by ourselves. We are going to be
Speaker 1: grading the expansion clubs are codes because you may know,
Speaker 1: dear listener, we talk about it at length on this podcast.
Speaker 1: There's a few different teams that are going to be
Speaker 1: coming in and maybe out of the competition. So many competitions,
Speaker 1: not only in Australia but overseas, so we are going
Speaker 1: to drill down into who's doing things well, who's doing
Speaker 1: things terribly, who may not survive?
Speaker 2: Welcome to the report card.
Speaker 1: Well, dear listeners, you may remember in very recent podcasts
Speaker 1: we were talking about the Perth Bears and their introduction
Speaker 1: to the NRL competition in a few years time, whether
Speaker 1: or not they will be a success.
Speaker 2: The jury is still out.
Speaker 1: But luckily Gellmy and I we are judge jury executioner
Speaker 1: today because we are going to go through who was
Speaker 1: doing well, who was doing shitterly in the overall report
Speaker 1: card for expansion clubs in this country.
Speaker 2: Where should we begin?
Speaker 3: They've said, twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight, We don't know. Yes,
Speaker 3: it's like I love they announced these big expansions that
Speaker 3: we saw with the Tazzy Devils that we'll get to
Speaker 3: that they've got one hundred thousand members, but they don't
Speaker 3: have a stadium. So there's so many caveats when there
Speaker 3: are expansion clubs that come into different leagues in But
Speaker 3: we wanted to talk about the ones we've loved, give
Speaker 3: a little bit of a riff about how they're doing.
Speaker 2: So, Oh, I'll hang on before we begin.
Speaker 1: I think it is important for us to let the
Speaker 1: listeners know exactly what criteria we will be judging them on.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: Now, I have two thoughts on this overall mark. I
Speaker 1: think we need to give a mark for just performance
Speaker 1: overall where they are at as a club. And then
Speaker 1: I think we have to have an even more important
Speaker 1: mark of their jerseys. Oh and song and song and
Speaker 1: where that sits. Okay, now that we are clear on
Speaker 1: the criteria, let us begin.
Speaker 3: My childhood club, the Frio Dockers, the worst song, the
Speaker 3: worst song in you try to say heave ho with
Speaker 3: any sort of gusto.
Speaker 2: It is the Can you please give us a two lines? Please?
Speaker 2: For people who maybe I don't know, heave ho.
Speaker 3: Hit them real hard, send them down below. Oh free,
Speaker 3: Oh give them the old heave ho. We are the
Speaker 3: Frio Dockers. Where the rollers, where the rockers? We're the
Speaker 3: mighty Frio Dockers. I'm sorry someone has penned that and
Speaker 3: gone fucking nailed it.
Speaker 2: Better give that to the new club.
Speaker 1: And I tell you what, there was a theme that
Speaker 1: was already there. Heave Ho, heave Ho, It's off to
Speaker 1: work we go.
Speaker 2: Why isn't that the theme song? Come on free? Oh
Speaker 2: I'm given this away free. I have many reasons.
Speaker 3: It's not the color purple sensational that is great performances.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is.
Speaker 3: Why I'm no longer a Freemantle supporter. It is to
Speaker 3: be a Freemantle supporter is to be in a semi
Speaker 3: abusive relationship.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it is. They show promise and then they
Speaker 2: never really deliver.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I would say, Daniel Gorange, we love you, but you
Speaker 2: don't know heartache.
Speaker 1: Doers no like you never want a flag never want
Speaker 1: a flag.
Speaker 3: You can't swim between the flags in Fremantle because there
Speaker 3: isn't an do what ship has never docked in Fremantle?
Speaker 2: The premiership I have heard them all. Honestly, my childhood
Speaker 2: was semi abuse. This is how you're raised.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there, and I tried to stick it out and
Speaker 3: then you move into state and you're like, hang on,
Speaker 3: I don't need to support a West Australian team anymore.
Speaker 2: Is this what this feels like? Success? I know what is?
Speaker 2: I must admit I've missed the success of the Richmond
Speaker 2: I'm ready joined late. I'm really bad with the bad
Speaker 2: wagon jump, I'm really bad. But no.
Speaker 3: The Prio's best ever finished was twenty thirteen Grand Final.
Speaker 2: Let's not talk about it.
Speaker 1: But I was going for them, just randomly that I
Speaker 1: was going for them in that Grand Final.
Speaker 2: You and I didn't even know twenty thirteen, twenty three,
Speaker 2: We didn't know each other. Then, what is how old
Speaker 2: are we? Twenty three twenty two ish? Yeah, you'd round
Speaker 2: up with you, babe, join me, round up? You will
Speaker 2: not aige me premiature.
Speaker 3: Oh god, it was a time any who overall, but overall, Mark,
Speaker 3: let's do an actual letter grading Freeo doccers.
Speaker 2: Very successful club.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not successful in terms of they haven't achieved the
Speaker 3: ultimate prize, but they're always up there thereabouts. I feel
Speaker 3: like they're not necessarily ever that part of the football conversation.
Speaker 3: Don't you think they're one of those clubs that sort
Speaker 3: of fades into the background a little bit, especially when
Speaker 3: you're here in Victoria.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and my prediction is that they will lose a
Speaker 1: coach by the end of the season.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Wow, Yeah, I think so so.
Speaker 3: Because he was a role in contract, which was very
Speaker 3: controversial because they don't usually do that.
Speaker 1: I don't think their performance is just not there, especially
Speaker 1: this season. There was high hopes for them, high hopes,
Speaker 1: high hopes, but there was not.
Speaker 2: Okay, so good Jersey, good Jersey, terrible song, horrendous song.
Speaker 1: Okay, ish is where we're at. So I think that
Speaker 1: is a C plus.
Speaker 2: If we're talking like unigrades, is that a credit, that's
Speaker 2: a credit? Okay, I'll give them a credit. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: a credit. It's a credit. Okay, So free O C
Speaker 2: plus congratulations. Yeah, welcome Gold Coast Sons.
Speaker 1: Whenever we're talking expansion clubs, we've got to mention the
Speaker 1: Gold Coast. We'll get to the Titans in the NRL.
Speaker 1: But with the Suns, I have to say I'm going
Speaker 1: to put them.
Speaker 2: In at I think they're failing. I reckon they're a
Speaker 2: d I know they're good this year. I know they're
Speaker 2: good this year, but what have they done? Their best
Speaker 2: finish was twelfth? Okay twelfth.
Speaker 1: They've been active since twenty eleven, they've been in this competition.
Speaker 3: Cane Corns has said if they don't make the finals
Speaker 3: this year, he's going to shave his head like Rory Lobb.
Speaker 2: Oh and put a pattern on the back. Oh, that's
Speaker 2: how confident he is that they're going to make it.
Speaker 3: They've been leading the ladder at some stage during this season.
Speaker 3: And if you've got the master chef that is Damien Harwick,
Speaker 3: you've got to let the man cook. You've got to
Speaker 3: let it cook. That and they've gone from in their
Speaker 3: history having dollars as literally what they used to work
Speaker 3: out of. So the players will be cooking in these shelters. Yes,
Speaker 3: because the club is his do a doma is Oh,
Speaker 3: it's the West Australian coming out of Antable. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: a temporary demountable that you live out of if you
Speaker 3: do playing play outwork.
Speaker 2: Oh so sorry, I thought it a stroke. No, it
Speaker 2: looks like.
Speaker 1: I was like, I could let it go, and then
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, I have no idea what you're talking.
Speaker 3: No, it's like a temporary shelter, right, yeah, okay and Mack,
Speaker 3: So they would throw all of these money at and
Speaker 3: they got a lot of like top end draft picks.
Speaker 2: Yes, and then the draft picks would be like, this
Speaker 2: isn't Melbourne. Why am I like? And so they'd play
Speaker 2: a few seasons and then go home. Yes.
Speaker 1: And that talks to a wider issue of the Gold
Speaker 1: Coast itself as being a hub of sports. I'm going
Speaker 1: to get to that more on the NRL times when
Speaker 1: we talked about them.
Speaker 3: But I think if you want to play out of
Speaker 3: the limelight and in the walls, oh what a time.
Speaker 1: It's a wonderful place. It really is a wonderful place.
Speaker 1: I think the structures and the systems that they're building
Speaker 1: now could see them do very very well, and they
Speaker 1: actually might grow to a B. But right now they
Speaker 1: are a D. Even though wait, it's the Giants Jersey.
Speaker 2: That you like, isn't it no, they've got the salmon.
Speaker 1: Salmon, the salmon, even though their jersey has improved, because
Speaker 1: we do like that.
Speaker 3: That is two good sports I'm going to give. I'm
Speaker 3: going to give them see a c Okay, they're very young.
Speaker 1: Also, your social media is really good, so please don't
Speaker 1: come for me. Gold Coast Sun, I do, I do
Speaker 1: applaud you. It's very good, very good. We can't talk
Speaker 1: about the Gold Coast Suns without talking about the GW
Speaker 1: West Giants. And I say this because I didn't look
Speaker 1: at this. So the Gold Coast Suns introduced them to
Speaker 1: the competition twenty eleven. The Giants twenty twelve. In my
Speaker 1: mind they were so far apart, so far apart, I
Speaker 1: know what.
Speaker 2: And also to try to make it in Western Sydney,
Speaker 2: that is so just rugby Lee Central a huge, huge task.
Speaker 2: They are a fantastic club.
Speaker 3: They're great to deal with, made it to the twenty
Speaker 3: nineteen Grand Final, didn't rock up in the twenty nineteen
Speaker 3: Grand fi procession.
Speaker 2: Allegedly we're there, but I don't remember. And they have
Speaker 2: strikingly orange jerseys. So cratous song in Australian sport. Agreed, agreed,
Speaker 2: come out of me plus.
Speaker 3: But I will randomly be walking down the street and go,
Speaker 3: it's a big, big sound from the West side.
Speaker 2: It's the sound of it. It is exception.
Speaker 1: I have absolutely no notes when it comes to their songs.
Speaker 1: So their song a triple plus as a club, so
Speaker 1: I think that they are.
Speaker 2: A bt okay. It's a solid expansion. I don't think
Speaker 2: you can be higher than a bee without having a flag.
Speaker 1: There's still work to do because every time if you
Speaker 1: ask a random person, imagine it's like, who do you support?
Speaker 1: And they go the Giants and it's like this organic
Speaker 1: thing where they just follow the Giants as a football team.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what, Like, it still seems like an odd choice.
Speaker 3: It is difficult for them to get fans to go
Speaker 3: to games, especially when they're like with opening round that
Speaker 3: they've introduced, like I've been lucky enough to be there,
Speaker 3: not this year, but the year prior, and watching the
Speaker 3: lack of fans yes that come out, like they get
Speaker 3: about fourteen or fifteen thousand, which, to be fair, no
Speaker 3: one wants to drive out to the showgrounds. No, no,
Speaker 3: unless you live around the showgrounds, no one wants to try.
Speaker 1: To get to the stadium. It's really cool. I was
Speaker 1: there for that prelium final with the Bulldogs, yeah, and
Speaker 1: it was one of the greatest.
Speaker 3: But even like the Sydney Kings when they had Bogat
Speaker 3: playing and like all these stars, you couldn't get people
Speaker 3: to go and pack out the stadium because of how
Speaker 3: hard it is to get there. In Sydney, they're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: bring your wallet, conrry one hundred bucks for the uber
Speaker 3: from the city.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think.
Speaker 1: I think for the Giants, they again are building, building building,
Speaker 1: but they have been building building building for the best
Speaker 1: part of the last five years.
Speaker 2: The best social media in the country one hundred percent percent.
Speaker 2: So they are a bee from me, a very very
Speaker 2: solid bee. Tazzy Devil's coming in hot, coming in. Really,
Speaker 2: they've got stickers on people's cars already. Without a stadium,
Speaker 2: they do.
Speaker 3: There's still a caveat that you don't get a team
Speaker 3: until the government can agree on a stadium. And the
Speaker 3: AFL's gone, by the way, we need a roof, yes, yes,
Speaker 3: and the local government's like we have other problems, yeah,
Speaker 3: And people are rioting about where it's going to be
Speaker 3: and whether there's infrastructure to allow people to get in
Speaker 3: and out because that's the thing. You need roads, you
Speaker 3: need whole systems and networks and buses that.
Speaker 2: They simply don't have. George.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't know about like building a house
Speaker 3: at the moment takes two years.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, How the hell are you sing six month
Speaker 1: build is going to take six years?
Speaker 2: How are you supposing that you're going to have a stadium.
Speaker 1: Oh and how are you supposing that that stadium is
Speaker 1: going to come within budget?
Speaker 2: Like it's just surely it cannot. They do have some
Speaker 2: exceptional leaders at the club.
Speaker 3: They've got Brendan Gale leading the charge, who's obviously such
Speaker 3: a good operator.
Speaker 2: They do. They have now got a.
Speaker 3: List manager, so they're starting to get those people in
Speaker 3: place that you feel like there's going to be momentum growing.
Speaker 3: And if you get good people around a club, good
Speaker 3: things tend to happen. And there is that unbelievable groundswell
Speaker 3: of support with one hundred thousand people signing up to
Speaker 3: be members already.
Speaker 1: Yes, well that's the thing, and I'm so excited for
Speaker 1: there to be, you know, finally a football team in Tazzi.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, my thoughts on the jersey. I'm not a massive fan, No,
Speaker 1: it's not a massive.
Speaker 2: If they can build a whole stadium, they can change
Speaker 2: the Jersey. Yes, yes, but this is my argument.
Speaker 1: Then I'm going to give them a C minus because
Speaker 1: if the potential there is gigantic, and that's how big
Speaker 1: it is. Considering how many detractors there are.
Speaker 3: Right now, I'm going, na, Na, you're not even grading
Speaker 3: George doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh great, you need to agree you're
Speaker 2: on a stadium plan. It's true they don't. They don't
Speaker 2: have like a beginning of the plan. So we're discrediting them.
Speaker 2: They're not there yet. They're not there yet. They're not
Speaker 2: there there, Okay, not they I.
Speaker 3: Love them in concept, yes, but show me something like
Speaker 3: a brick getting put in the ground going.
Speaker 2: That's where that's going to be.
Speaker 3: Let's move on, NRL talk to me Melbourne Storm. To
Speaker 3: quote our dear dear friend of the Pod Harry Grant,
Speaker 3: we had to be good, Yeah, we had to be
Speaker 3: good because in order to cut through in such a
Speaker 3: especially where Amy Park is, it's like the epicenter of sport. Yes,
Speaker 3: as in you can like throw a stone to the demons.
Speaker 3: There's also Collingwood, there's Richmond, just there. Oh what, there's
Speaker 3: oz opens.
Speaker 2: On high everything.
Speaker 3: There's a bit of union going on when the Rebels
Speaker 3: were there, bless them them. And then also like Melbourne
Speaker 3: victory as well, yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, literally oh and the basketball but literally everything happened.
Speaker 1: They're fighting for any space and by airspace I mean
Speaker 1: a croak. They're fighting for a croak of whatever is happening.
Speaker 1: The attention here in Melbourne, the sporting capital of the world.
Speaker 1: But obviously I can't see them anywhere. I can't grade
Speaker 1: them anywhere under an A yes, and it's a borderline.
Speaker 1: Plus they are what happen to be plus solid. This
Speaker 1: team outperforms every other team almost in every single code,
Speaker 1: not only in this country but the world. Their professionalism,
Speaker 1: their coach, their structures, the players, and I know that
Speaker 1: they have had issues with salary cap.
Speaker 2: We're not going to get into that.
Speaker 1: But as a football team, you cannot do much better
Speaker 1: than the Melbourne Storm.
Speaker 3: So far, we're like nah, Premiership, no, no, runner up,
Speaker 3: run up Premiers nineteen ninety nine, twenty twelve, twenty seventeen,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: And then that's not mentioning whether we're thereabouts. That's right. Oh,
Speaker 2: they have been so long single finals campaign.
Speaker 1: I can't even remember the last time that they weren't
Speaker 1: and also fun fact, fun fact, so they came into
Speaker 1: the competition in ninety ninety seven. My very first game
Speaker 1: of rugby league that I watched was the nine to
Speaker 1: nine Grand Final of Storm versus the cent George La
Speaker 1: Wawa Dragons, and that was my introduction to rugby league
Speaker 1: and I was like, what is this game? So they
Speaker 1: did enough on that day. Marcus Bye was a superstar
Speaker 1: on the ring. You still remember it?
Speaker 2: You didn't do what I did?
Speaker 1: And go, oh the purple one, No, no, but great jersey,
Speaker 1: great jersey, you're right, purple fantastic jersey.
Speaker 2: With NRL, there's a song. There's not really songs. There's
Speaker 2: not really songs. It's not the same thing as AFL.
Speaker 2: They have one.
Speaker 1: I couldn't harm you a word, And I have been
Speaker 1: in the sheds when they sing.
Speaker 2: It very violent with their songs.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh yes, there's a weally being someonela in the
Speaker 1: there's like beer flying everywhere, like that's your typical NRL
Speaker 1: post game celebration.
Speaker 3: It's very if you're in the rooms, you're like, I
Speaker 3: shouldn't be here, Like I don't feel safe.
Speaker 2: What is why? Why is that been getting assaulted?
Speaker 3: I just don't know what's happening, but it is. It's
Speaker 3: very like tribal Oh yes, it.
Speaker 2: Really really is.
Speaker 1: It seems like a really nice seguey for me because
Speaker 1: great teams. We're going to talk to my greatest team
Speaker 1: and the greatest love of my life of Brisbane Broncos.
Speaker 2: Sorry Rob, sorry Bab, but.
Speaker 1: They at the moment, I mean, technically they are an
Speaker 1: expansion team.
Speaker 2: I know. I'm just doing a quick little mention here
Speaker 2: because when I'm.
Speaker 3: Getting through all of that, they were born before the
Speaker 3: two of us. They're not an expansion Hey, hey.
Speaker 2: They technically are? They technically are.
Speaker 1: I'm giving them a B minus right now because it
Speaker 1: has been nearly twenty years since I've won a premiership.
Speaker 2: Come on, was I in the Grand Final a few
Speaker 2: years ago? Yeah, but let's not talk about that. No,
Speaker 2: you weren't there. I was. I was. I do have
Speaker 2: a bone to pick with them, though the Grand Funnel
Speaker 2: wasn't a thing.
Speaker 1: Our jerseys a horrific anyway, be minus be miness to
Speaker 1: the Broncos BBBBB Gold Coast Titans, introduced into the competition
Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven, the best that they have
Speaker 1: done prelim finalists in twenty ten, that was fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2: That's got to be a C.
Speaker 1: It's at least a C minus. I maybe what did
Speaker 1: I give the Suns a D? It's it's a D plus. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's a D plus for me.
Speaker 2: Just plus is offensive, just because I just believe it
Speaker 2: as a D and call it a day. There's no
Speaker 2: such thing as you can't put a positive on a deep.
Speaker 1: But just because I want them to do so well,
Speaker 1: and every time that there is a team added to
Speaker 1: the Gold Cos I want them to do so well
Speaker 1: because I love the Gold Coast. It's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite places on this planet. Legitimately, it's just such a
Speaker 1: tricky one because it is a transient population. It's people
Speaker 1: that are coming in from interstate. You don't have the
Speaker 1: rusted on Gold Coast mentality, at least not in gigantic numbers,
Speaker 1: and that is tricky when you are trying to build
Speaker 1: all of these teams here and sustain them.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like the same feeling as the Gold
Speaker 3: Coast Suns in that other teams are getting added and
Speaker 3: you're like, wait, this one's still growing up. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: we still need to help this one.
Speaker 2: What do you mean when getting this one in?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have fantastic facilities. It's an incredible way of
Speaker 1: life if you're a player. I feel that it is
Speaker 1: wonderful to be there.
Speaker 2: But no one moves to the Gold Coast and goes
Speaker 2: are terrible the worst.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but it's just it is such a different
Speaker 1: vibe to the rest of the competition.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I want them to I want them to
Speaker 2: do so well.
Speaker 1: I've got friends that work there, and I just I
Speaker 1: want them to do really, really well. But lass at
Speaker 1: the moment, results speak for themselves, not doing great.
Speaker 2: Dolphins sensational name was still available the Dolphins and also
Speaker 2: their jerseys.
Speaker 1: I'm giving them a B plus great jerseys, B plus introduction.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give them a bee because they're best
Speaker 1: finish they came in twenty twenty three. The best finish
Speaker 1: is only thirteenth. But in terms of what they have
Speaker 1: offered people in Queensland who do not go for the Titans,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys of the Broncos and mainly the Broncos, giving
Speaker 1: them that second option of a team to follow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: has been really really, actually quite magical.
Speaker 2: To watch. So I love them. I love the coast.
Speaker 2: I don't love the broncos I know, so it gives
Speaker 2: them another option.
Speaker 1: It's rude, but yeah, no, lots of people and to
Speaker 1: be and I will support them in their love for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. It's greater Brisbane technically Redcliffe, but you know,
Speaker 1: the whole culture that they've built, and I love seeing
Speaker 1: the stands packed and they're doing the fins up with
Speaker 1: their hands and they've got the hats and it's just.
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. So yeah, yeah, the Dolphins,
Speaker 2: I'm a fan of you.
Speaker 3: You're a beat the Perth Bears speaking, is then one
Speaker 3: ticket hold off?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, I feel like we'll wait and see because again
Speaker 3: they're like in twenty twenty seven or twenty twenty eight, whatems,
Speaker 3: We'll just see.
Speaker 2: How this club goes.
Speaker 3: I query how it's going to go. Having a Sydney
Speaker 3: team in Perth. Yes, like it's different than having you know,
Speaker 3: the Brisbane Bears.
Speaker 2: Yes, so to speak, but is there enough?
Speaker 1: What I think know is that there is enough support
Speaker 1: though in the North Sydney element.
Speaker 3: So whenever the abdormance fan base where they're like, bang,
Speaker 3: let's let's go and watch, but I wonder how connected
Speaker 3: you as someone who's family on the other type of country,
Speaker 3: it is very hard to feel connected with the time
Speaker 3: difference with also just it is really really difficult and
Speaker 3: unaffordable to be able to travel over there.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to give them what did I give
Speaker 1: as main devils that didn't exists?
Speaker 2: Why did they skip Adelaide? Oh well, why wouldn't they
Speaker 2: put a team in Adelaide?
Speaker 1: Do you know what? Though? I actually think because the
Speaker 1: literacy when it comes to rugby as just a concept,
Speaker 1: this is rugby league obviously, I think.
Speaker 2: It's even less in Adelaide because it Perth.
Speaker 1: You've had the Western Force, so they've had It's a
Speaker 1: different code, don't get me wrong, but at least they
Speaker 1: are kind of aware that rugby union exists and rugby
Speaker 1: league is a variation of So in Adelaide they'd be like,
Speaker 1: what is an oval?
Speaker 2: But what? Oh what is this? I'm trying desperately not
Speaker 2: to swear, so they give zero. Oh yeah, they don't care.
Speaker 2: They don't care.
Speaker 1: I'd love to see it, but they've started doing exhibition matches.
Speaker 1: They're like the odd state of origin.
Speaker 2: Adelaide.
Speaker 1: It does well, but I can't see it. That's there's
Speaker 1: still some there's still some years off.
Speaker 2: Skip, let's not hide. But now we are National National, National,
Speaker 2: is Perth, National is Perth.
Speaker 3: The greatest expansion team to ever be in Australia.
Speaker 2: What we're calling it, well.
Speaker 3: The Tazzy jack Jumping Yeah, yeah, I'm with the jack Jumpers.
Speaker 3: I hope that whoever suggested that name sat back and
Speaker 3: put their hands behind their head and was like, you
Speaker 3: don't pay me enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't pay me enough. The Tazzy jack Jumpers.
Speaker 3: And if you want to deal listeners, you may remember
Speaker 3: we did a whole episode yes on their success and
Speaker 3: so back and have a listen, because my goodness did
Speaker 3: they capture the hearts and minds of the Apple Issle
Speaker 3: And it was just the magic of what it can
Speaker 3: create when you get a team that starts and everyone
Speaker 3: jumps on the buy in.
Speaker 2: Buying the buy in is important, but also it was
Speaker 2: a proof of concept, to be honest for the Tazzy Devils.
Speaker 2: I it helped them completely. And I also think you
Speaker 2: need to have strong leadership.
Speaker 3: Yes, strong coaches and someone that will attract good talent,
Speaker 3: but you also need seeing your players that buy in,
Speaker 3: and I think that's the thing that we've seen, particularly
Speaker 3: with clubs like the Gold Coast in both parts. You
Speaker 3: can't have star players that have one foot in the door.
Speaker 3: You've got to be all in and saying this is
Speaker 3: what's important to us. Allah Like obviously it's not expansion team,
Speaker 3: but something like the Boomers.
Speaker 2: We see what Paddi Mills has done.
Speaker 3: Seeing like this means something because so many players were
Speaker 3: opting out because they just didn't see it as important.
Speaker 2: And you're changing hearts and minds.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's the thing, and that is what the Tasmanian
Speaker 1: jack Jumpers themselves stars.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, they've built themselves on that.
Speaker 1: They came in twenty twenty one into the competition, the
Speaker 1: NBL the best result, runners up twenty twenty two, winners
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't have a better report card than.
Speaker 1: That, really, really, you cannot be they are They are
Speaker 1: a plus.
Speaker 2: They are the blueprint. Yeah, and we're gonna talk about
Speaker 2: blueprint also. Jerseys immaculate, yep, everything about them. Immaculate. Auckland
Speaker 2: FC in the A League, now, let's be honest, the
Speaker 2: A leagu's a little bit off.
Speaker 3: Greed in terms of making general sporting news. So this
Speaker 3: should be something that everyone in Australia knows. They have
Speaker 3: entered the competition and won the Premier's Plate in their
Speaker 3: very first season.
Speaker 2: Which is unheard of.
Speaker 1: What code you follow, whatever sport you follow, there is
Speaker 1: some level of understanding there for you just how astronomical
Speaker 1: that is.
Speaker 3: So essentially they get tens of thousands of people to
Speaker 3: the stadium. It isn't one of the highest attendant oh
Speaker 3: A league. For sure, it's packed, it's buying. They're playing
Speaker 3: out of their skins and they look like they can
Speaker 3: go on and actually win the Grand Final, because we
Speaker 3: know that obviously with the A League they do have
Speaker 3: a final series as opposed to the Premier League where
Speaker 3: they don't.
Speaker 2: But they have just set alight the competition. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: and they had it and I hope they win it.
Speaker 2: I hope they win the whole thing.
Speaker 1: They have been that dominant this season and also used
Speaker 1: to think about blueprints what they have done with that
Speaker 1: team again, just rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat with
Speaker 1: any other expansion club that is looking to enter whatever code.
Speaker 3: So it's high population, it's a great location, it's a
Speaker 3: stadium that has great facilities.
Speaker 2: Money, Yes, helps helps help billion a.
Speaker 3: Billionaire owner of helps and that, and then good leadership
Speaker 3: of what to do with that money and players that
Speaker 3: are board in.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's the.
Speaker 1: Science, and also local talent. So they have actually brought
Speaker 1: in so many players who have represented the All Whites.
Speaker 2: They called the All White I.
Speaker 1: Think they're called the All Whites. Give me uno momento
Speaker 1: while I google quickly picked behind the veil, he dear listeners. Yes,
Speaker 1: they are called the All Whites the New Zealand men's
Speaker 1: national football team.
Speaker 3: So they have brought in the all White, the all Whites,
Speaker 3: and everyone's just cool with that because of the.
Speaker 2: I know, I understand that's them.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: That's it. I was like, I'll wait for you to
Speaker 2: google it, find out that's wrong, and then we're doing it.
Speaker 1: That's the name, because of course you've got the all
Speaker 1: for all blacks, and then these are the all Whites.
Speaker 2: So the All Whites.
Speaker 1: They are now actually ranked one of their highest ranks
Speaker 1: in the FIFA official standings because so many of their
Speaker 1: players are part of this team.
Speaker 2: They have that bond and they have chemistry. They have
Speaker 2: that chemistry.
Speaker 1: But because you're basing it around that there's all. Then
Speaker 1: again it's the buy in from all of the locals
Speaker 1: who then go and attend the.
Speaker 2: Game basically onto a soccer game at the alley.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, And so that I think has been
Speaker 1: very very clever of them.
Speaker 2: Genius, genius.
Speaker 1: And they've brought back people who have been playing in
Speaker 1: like you know, EU Malta's and your Sweden's and that
Speaker 1: kind of thing, and they've brought them back to play
Speaker 1: in this competition. If you can attract international players to
Speaker 1: play in the A League men's well done. Hats off
Speaker 1: to you, Hats off to you. So I think them
Speaker 1: at the moment they're in A. They're in A and they.
Speaker 2: Could be an A plus now. Yet they have it
Speaker 2: won the whole champion. The standards are high.
Speaker 1: Jelmy.
Speaker 2: They've won the Premier's plate. Yeah in the first Yeah
Speaker 2: there a day there day is the A League trophy.
Speaker 2: Still that weird toilet, Yes, it is still a toilet. Okay,
Speaker 2: So they need to lift the toilet seat, yeh yeh,
Speaker 2: which they could do. They could do. They could do.
Speaker 1: Also shout out just before we wrap up our report card,
Speaker 1: shout out to the A League Women's Grand Final that
Speaker 1: is happening this weekend.
Speaker 2: Yes, victory up against the Central Coast Maritis. My money
Speaker 2: is on the victory.
Speaker 3: It's amazing that city bungled out because they were undefeated.
Speaker 2: Through the season. Yeah, incredible and also with the premiers.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll have more.
Speaker 1: We'll have more on that next episode. Yes, more on
Speaker 1: that next episode. But report cards, how did we go?
Speaker 1: We should grade ourselves?
Speaker 3: You've never got anything less than a plus in your life?
Speaker 3: When you would get a tick? Have you ever got
Speaker 3: anything less than they?
Speaker 2: Yes? When I got a bee once in maths?
Speaker 1: And then I was that was absolutely unacceptable myself in
Speaker 1: the teacher and I went to chewtoring because I was like,
Speaker 1: I cannot have that. That cannot stand.
Speaker 2: Do I use derivatives ever in daily life? No? So
Speaker 2: I'm glad I tried so hard. Fun fact. Fun fact,
Speaker 2: it's a quick one. You've got one. Race car is
Speaker 2: race card backwards. That's one of my favorite things. You
Speaker 2: know how I know that that wasn't mean that I
Speaker 2: chicken shop date. Oh Lando Norris talking to your mate Amelia.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, one of my favorite And he says
Speaker 3: to Lando, do you know that race car is race
Speaker 3: card backwards?
Speaker 2: And he dead panza and gives it absolutely nothing, and
Speaker 2: I went, well, that's a fun fact, isn't it.
Speaker 1: This is literally all my areas And just further proof, Amelia,
Speaker 1: if you ever go on holiday, hit me up, bab
Speaker 1: It's one of my Palindromes are honestly one of my
Speaker 1: favorite things.
Speaker 2: Hannah, the name Hannah. I've got so many rhoda R
Speaker 2: O T O R like.
Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm here anytime you need.
Speaker 2: Race Car is a real good one. Did you know
Speaker 2: race Car was one? Yeah, of course, we just talked
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 3: You didn't get a bale keeps me up at night?
Speaker 2: Oh well, that's our episode this week. Give us give
Speaker 2: us a report.
Speaker 3: Cards, the love of God, don't give Georgie anything less
Speaker 3: than a or she'll die.
Speaker 1: I mean it, so please only only positive report cards.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. You have been listening to two
Speaker 1: good sports. We'll be back next week until they get
Speaker 1: no