Speaker 1: Hey, legends, Welcome back to the Mason Cock Show. Big
Speaker 1: week of footy this week, Carlton's back, big big win
Speaker 1: over the weekend port of one eleven straight. They're on fire.
Speaker 1: We've got Dema watching Kochi's three hundred. That's a big milestone.
Speaker 1: But there's a great, great story in here, and that
Speaker 1: is I went to Bali with Harry Shechezel's mom. Yes,
Speaker 1: we'll get into that in plenty more of this episode,
Speaker 1: so tune in. All right, let's get into it the
Speaker 1: footy fix. What do we have for the clanger of
Speaker 1: the week? Brandon d D da da da big Charlton win.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that. That's not the clanger of the weeks.
Speaker 1: That's very well done by Vossi and the boys, but
Speaker 1: we'll get to it later in the show. Clanger of
Speaker 1: the week off the very top. Now this one, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you missed this because you're in Bali.
Speaker 1: You're on the lounge chair by the pool. You don't
Speaker 1: have time to be checking in. Well, the stand rule dead.
Speaker 1: It's dead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gone, mane Yep, you don't need to stand anymore. Well,
Speaker 2: you know Baker didn't stand anyway, Jump into that story.
Speaker 2: So Baker's on the mark and he comes off the
Speaker 2: mark and then smothers the ball, kicks the goal, kicks
Speaker 2: the that's it. That whistle's nothing, no, nothing, no, I
Speaker 2: tell you the stand rule is dead. So stand comes
Speaker 2: off his stand, smothers the ball, gets the ball, kicks
Speaker 2: the goal.
Speaker 1: Stan roll dead. Ah. Was it a pivotal moment in
Speaker 1: the game. You'd say it was.
Speaker 2: Richmond was fifty five and Saints for forty four five
Speaker 2: minutes left in the second, So really it was not
Speaker 2: a lot in it that put him up by another
Speaker 2: couple of goals going in a half time. It's probably
Speaker 2: not even like important, is it.
Speaker 1: I love the Saint Kilder player's reaction of like hands up,
Speaker 1: like yo, what are you doing.
Speaker 2: I just don't get the point of the stand rule
Speaker 2: if you can just not stand. So yeah, a bit
Speaker 2: of a weird one. I'm gonna say, just a temporary Uh,
Speaker 2: that's a clanger on the umpires. I'm given on double
Speaker 2: barrels casis bread two weeks in a row. But I'm
Speaker 2: sure the AFL will come out clear it all up.
Speaker 2: I'll have a reason behind it, and I'll give it
Speaker 2: the green tick. So stand by on the stand Rod Dead,
Speaker 2: stand by on the stand rule because I'm sure it's
Speaker 2: not because you probably give away fifty next week. So
Speaker 2: I don't want to be given you bad advice.
Speaker 1: I'm not taking your football advice. I hate to break
Speaker 1: it to your braid. If the club it's like, what
Speaker 1: the fuck? I got this advice from Brandon on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Here's the clip, temporary question marks around.
Speaker 2: A question marks on the standard.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll go into my clanger. Everyone just settle in.
Speaker 1: This is me trying to explain cricket. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be a golden nugget. You best believe trying. You're a
Speaker 1: big cricket fan, huge cricket guy, huge stumps and bats
Speaker 1: and raise the things. Anyway, So over the weekend there's
Speaker 1: you know a bit of a match going on called
Speaker 1: the Ashes. Everyone knows and it's essentially a competition for
Speaker 1: the tiniest cup possible for a championship trophy urn sorry
Speaker 1: the urn, Yes, the miniature earn of literally two inches tall. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we move on the bowler, Allie Robinson from England, number
Speaker 1: fifty seven. Here. Number is not a big thing in cricket.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of them. So I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: number fifty seven. He's bowling. He gets usman Kauwaja out Now,
Speaker 1: who'sman quadja what I've been told decent little knock right.
Speaker 1: One hundred and forty four, one hundred and forty one
Speaker 1: runs at this time. That's pretty good. That's a plus
Speaker 1: century plus. You raised the bat at that point. He's
Speaker 1: had a good outing, as they say. Now after he
Speaker 1: gets them out right, he keeps running at pace right
Speaker 1: past old Kauwaja and gives them a little bit of
Speaker 1: lip He says, you best believe I'm gonna let you
Speaker 1: know what just happened. And maybe there was some lip reading.
Speaker 1: That might have been some obscenities. I'm not here to
Speaker 1: divulge into the details, brain, and that's not what I'm
Speaker 1: good at.
Speaker 2: It'skay, two very clear words, one starting with F one
Speaker 2: starting with.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, gough. And so I was like clanger of
Speaker 1: the week. But it's a little bit ironic coming from
Speaker 1: someone that does that every single week. I was just
Speaker 1: blown away that Twitter and everyone else lost their shit
Speaker 1: that this man talked a bit of trash in the
Speaker 1: old nice fancy game at cricket.
Speaker 2: So you're on Ali Robinson's son.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. I'm all for it. I hate
Speaker 1: to say it, Australia.
Speaker 2: That's not good.
Speaker 1: The trash talks don't need in this world anyway. So
Speaker 1: I'm not only saying that's a clanger of the week.
Speaker 1: I'm doubling down on the cricket clanger of the week
Speaker 1: this week Mowen Allie fine twenty five percent of his
Speaker 1: match fee for putting drying agents on his hand. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take you back here, Bryden. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know a lot about cricket or the history of cricket.
Speaker 1: Australia had a little bit of issue, just one, a
Speaker 1: little bit of an issue, just one. Just shine in
Speaker 1: a ball with a little bit extra sand, all right,
Speaker 1: let's just say that. And the ironic thing about this
Speaker 1: ron so England essentially cheated Ron, Australia's cheated, England's cheated.
Speaker 1: We're all cheats. And the saying of the English fans
Speaker 1: ron that they say, and they chant this, they go say,
Speaker 1: old Assi is always cheating. Bit rich, I'd say, bit rich.
Speaker 1: Whenever you're just putting a bit of drying ages on
Speaker 1: your hands, just get a little bit more spinish speed
Speaker 1: on that ball, just saying cricket fans.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I know a bit about cricket.
Speaker 1: You probably don't know as much as me.
Speaker 2: Though I'm not suggesting there I suggest No, I'm just saying,
Speaker 2: not a lot happens in cricket long game. So I
Speaker 2: don't know how they're thinking they're getting away with this
Speaker 2: stuff when there's a million people watching and there's a
Speaker 2: million cameras on them, and they're all super slow motion,
Speaker 2: different angles of you rubbing sandpaper on the ball or
Speaker 2: spraying shit on your hands or licking a lolly, and
Speaker 2: like rubbing it on the ball. That happened, as you
Speaker 2: would very well know, Mace, it happens.
Speaker 1: I remember you remember that time.
Speaker 2: It happens often where they have like a little mint
Speaker 2: in their mouth and they let their hands and rubbing
Speaker 2: on the ball to give it a bit more shine. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't know, turn it up on all of them,
Speaker 2: because if you're gonna cheat, get good at cheating.
Speaker 1: Cheat, well, be good at it. Cheating ten k Like.
Speaker 2: If you're all gonna cheat, get creative with it. I
Speaker 2: mean Australia's was pretty creative, just poor execution.
Speaker 1: Why choose the color yellow. Choose white. Choose the same
Speaker 1: as your pants.
Speaker 2: It's smart. Come on, if you're gonna cheat, Mo and Alley. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't know because they've almost the race to every
Speaker 2: piece of footage, just the place place of the earth
Speaker 2: at this thing. But he's down there with the bloody
Speaker 2: spraying cannon, Glenn twenty just playing it on mate. We're
Speaker 2: going to see so I don't know.
Speaker 1: Ten k resolution dude batting away with it.
Speaker 2: If you gotta cheat, get good. I don't know what
Speaker 2: their bloody doing, but they're not very good cheaters.
Speaker 1: Not fairy good. Choose. I want to ask you this.
Speaker 1: Do you all have wizard sticks? Here s wizard sticks,
Speaker 1: and you like drink cans and you like duct taping
Speaker 1: together and make a big stick of it, and you
Speaker 1: go and you essentially joust each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, But it's different at the cricket here
Speaker 2: because you've got the plastic cups. So they just it's
Speaker 2: a community based thing because Aussie's you know, we are
Speaker 2: one all in, but we are many, as the song suggests,
Speaker 2: And they put all the cups together and create one
Speaker 2: gigantic snake out of plastic cups. Snake, and then security
Speaker 2: comes across and they're just like, wow, you know the
Speaker 2: big DeBie down. I was like, you got to give
Speaker 2: us your snake cup back and then it all starts again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, because whenever you tell someone not to
Speaker 1: do something, especially after a few beers, what's the first
Speaker 1: thing they do exactly what you told them not to do.
Speaker 2: I went to the very first cricket game after they
Speaker 2: banned the Mexican Wave in Australia, which makes nice.
Speaker 1: They were literally enticing people to do the Mexican Wave
Speaker 1: with our last game.
Speaker 2: It's the dumbest thing they can do. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: went to this game and.
Speaker 1: Shit was on.
Speaker 2: There was mayhem. They were throwing, people were throwing all
Speaker 2: kinds of cook stuff up into the air. It was
Speaker 2: like people were going and buying stuff like sandwiches and
Speaker 2: like chips and stuff and just throwing it up in
Speaker 2: the air. We got covered in like orange juice and
Speaker 2: like beers and everything. But it was you know, it
Speaker 2: was on for young and old and it went forever.
Speaker 2: I think it only stopped when someone scored like a
Speaker 2: fifty and everyone stopped the clap, like everyone's brains to
Speaker 2: everyone's attention span was like a second this was before
Speaker 2: mobile phones. But I digress. We're going to old schools,
Speaker 2: So who's who's your clanger?
Speaker 1: Clanger's essentially just a bit of just push fans and
Speaker 1: I'll go with the media on the Cowaga and Robinson
Speaker 1: deal because your team only.
Speaker 2: Robinson, which is that's going to go down great? Well,
Speaker 2: let's jump into the footy mace.
Speaker 1: First game after less after Batport versus Geelong. This was
Speaker 1: going to be a juicy game, Geelong right on the
Speaker 1: cusp of the eight. Port very high up there, number
Speaker 1: one on later at the moment.
Speaker 2: Because Geelong, if they had have just won this, then
Speaker 2: they've just they've managed to put themselves into the position
Speaker 2: of winning the premiership the year before and then completely
Speaker 2: flying under the raidar because if they won this, there's
Speaker 2: a period of time. I don't know if they would
Speaker 2: have finished in there, but they would have been in
Speaker 2: the eight.
Speaker 1: Not probably the start that a lodge long fans probably
Speaker 1: thought after winning a Grand Final, but I think they'll
Speaker 1: definitely be in the top eight by the end of
Speaker 1: the year.
Speaker 2: Well, they always have that advantage. They play a stringer
Speaker 2: home games in Geelong and it's pretty damn hard to
Speaker 2: beat them down. There, so they're definitely thereabouts. Now let's
Speaker 2: pull this one apart, because there's plenty that happened in
Speaker 2: this game, and in particular, there's got to be the
Speaker 2: biggest talking point out of the whole thing. Patrick Dangerfield
Speaker 2: comes back off a hamstring injury. What happens first game, Well,
Speaker 2: he pretty much dies. Cops had partially collapsed lung and
Speaker 2: cracked ribs in a marking incident where I don't know,
Speaker 2: probably could have put him in the clangers. Gary Rohan
Speaker 2: teammate Gary Rahan just pushes a blog into the skip.
Speaker 2: Hey mate, take a punctured lung and some broken ribs.
Speaker 2: That's probably not what you want from a teammate, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it looks like he's probably going to be out for
Speaker 2: an extended period of time and actually have to drive
Speaker 2: back from Adelaide to Geely.
Speaker 1: As soon it was the cabin pressure. Maybe in the
Speaker 1: flight because of this collapse. Long you're afraid something worse
Speaker 1: is gonna happen, but gosh, that would suck. You imagine
Speaker 1: it a game and then be like, ah, we're all
Speaker 1: getting on the flight. You stay on the bus. You're
Speaker 1: gonna go another six to eight hours back to Melbourne
Speaker 1: and enjoy We'll see you in the morning. Another thing
Speaker 1: out of this Finlayson fins up ends up, kicks four
Speaker 1: and he's been playing damn good over the last few weeks. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like ever since that good news with his
Speaker 1: wife and the health concerns I'd had, he's been he's
Speaker 1: been playing real well footy.
Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, he's probably gone to another level. I
Speaker 2: reckon he's had a good eighteen months. He's been good
Speaker 2: since he went to Port and kind of started playing
Speaker 2: that Rockford role. Yeah, he's been very good, but lately
Speaker 2: just kicking goals.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Another couple of big shining stars Quinton Arkle and
Speaker 1: also Sam pal Pepper and I Quintin Arkle pretty funny
Speaker 1: playing his old side kick two snags that would have
Speaker 1: felt oh, would have felt real good, just to stick
Speaker 1: the dagger and then get the w and say yes,
Speaker 1: shouldn't have dropped me?
Speaker 2: Have ledy good and the game that he like returns
Speaker 2: just being against his old side is just like, it's
Speaker 2: poetic in the way that it comes about him and
Speaker 2: pow Pepper. I love watching power Pepper play.
Speaker 1: One of the great names in the NFL. It just
Speaker 1: rolls off the tongue. You just love to say it.
Speaker 2: He just attacks it such ferocity.
Speaker 1: A few more jigs for Hangley. He's getting to dance up.
Speaker 1: His caves are getting a wark.
Speaker 2: I think he want a few more zeros on his contracts.
Speaker 1: How have they not signed him? Say this every week?
Speaker 1: Can you sign the man Ken Hinckley already?
Speaker 2: I just have flashbacks of Rossline incident where they didn't
Speaker 2: sign him up, and then he's got you know, mortgage
Speaker 2: to pay, family to feed. It's like, well, someone, It
Speaker 2: just leaves the door open for someone to knock on
Speaker 2: it and go, hey mate, we've got a big, juicy
Speaker 2: five year or ten year afore you and a couple
Speaker 2: of zeros. How about you come over to our club.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. I don't know why clubs leave it.
Speaker 1: A few interim coaches going around them.
Speaker 2: Plenty of positions going around. It's like lockdown your.
Speaker 1: Boy, Yeah exactly, Well we've got to say this a watch.
Speaker 1: What's what's the update? What's the update? Brad?
Speaker 2: I don't know if you want it. Mace, I don't
Speaker 2: know if you want it. Because our boy didn't get
Speaker 2: too many numbers. I don't know if he was subbed
Speaker 2: oubt of this game because he got one goal, ten
Speaker 2: disposals and a mark am one one Mark yeah one
Speaker 2: Mark Okaki okay, okay, yep. I think we go back
Speaker 2: to the drawing board, have a look. We reassess he'll
Speaker 2: bounce back from this.
Speaker 1: He's better bounce back because I've got him winning the Coln.
Speaker 1: I need him to bounce back. Well.
Speaker 2: Somehow, he's still second in the Coleman after a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks that he's produced, and he's got Charlie Kurno
Speaker 2: who's kind of dipping off too. So they got out
Speaker 2: of the gate early.
Speaker 1: Say there's a chance.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's one of those it's one of
Speaker 2: those common races. They burst out of the gates and
Speaker 2: then they just they're just cruising. Now they're just cruising
Speaker 2: midyear and then I'll come home strong and Jess will
Speaker 2: really lift coming out of this. Now they got Melbourne
Speaker 2: next week GMHBA. So back at the home home ground advantage.
Speaker 2: He knows how to play the ground. He'll probably kick
Speaker 2: ten or twenty, so he'll be back next week. He's
Speaker 2: back up and running.
Speaker 1: We've put a lot of faith.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we put a lot of faith.
Speaker 1: We put a lot of faith and we'll move on
Speaker 1: to the next one. Brisbane versus Sydney. Now, big old
Speaker 1: Oscar McNary, number forty six had a day out. Man
Speaker 1: had forty six hit outs, eighteen disposals and a goal.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't against you know, the second rock of
Speaker 1: Sydney's choice. This was against Tom Hickey, who's their first rock.
Speaker 1: So the man had a good game of football. You
Speaker 1: would say, now it's forty six, that's a lot. That's
Speaker 1: a lot. Fifty is like absurd. You had fifty hit outs.
Speaker 1: You've just dominated someone.
Speaker 2: What did we say earlier in the year, he's a plumber,
Speaker 2: because you've got more taps than a plumber.
Speaker 1: So we liked that. Brisbane the all fun fact about
Speaker 1: then they haven't lost a home yet. They have a
Speaker 1: bit of a fortress up there at the moment. And
Speaker 1: I mean like they beat us up there. They've now
Speaker 1: knocked off Sydney up there and a few others. It's
Speaker 1: it's a sign up like I think it's maybe a
Speaker 1: bit of the I always say it's a bit of
Speaker 1: the like you know, humidity and the dampness and the
Speaker 1: wet ball and then being used to playing up there
Speaker 1: more than the other team, and they it's it's tough.
Speaker 1: It's tough to go one up there. But they also
Speaker 1: weren't so great in front of goals after halftime six
Speaker 1: fourteen not adel do you.
Speaker 2: Wish you had a fortress? So obviously you're good at
Speaker 2: the G, but you share the G. It's like you've
Speaker 2: got housemates. You got there's a few keys cut, you know.
Speaker 2: They all imagine if you if you had one ground
Speaker 2: there at Vicki Park and you all rocked up to
Speaker 2: the fortress and you just lock it down and you
Speaker 2: maybe don't spit on players and stuff like you used
Speaker 2: to do and pour cups a year and on them
Speaker 2: like back in the day.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe dal it back just a bit a fortress.
Speaker 2: It'd be cool just to have your own place.
Speaker 1: It would be cool to have like a proper home
Speaker 1: ground eventage rather than like other people playing in the
Speaker 1: same ground. No complaining about the G now we love
Speaker 1: the GGS is the best place to maybe kick the
Speaker 1: others in set. But I do kind of think it's
Speaker 1: cool whenever you've got like port Adelaide play really well
Speaker 1: on that deck. Adelaide also plays really well on that deck.
Speaker 1: GMHBA plays really well. But I always found this interesting
Speaker 1: because AFL does not have like a regular you know,
Speaker 1: regulatory size ground. Every ground is different, which I that
Speaker 1: baffles me, Like, how do you not think that like
Speaker 1: there's you know, one hundred and fifty meters from one
Speaker 1: side to the other or like two hundremeters long and
Speaker 1: then be able to make the oval from there. So
Speaker 1: it's weird to think that they've made different sized ovals
Speaker 1: for different home grounds and some play like some people
Speaker 1: play it a lot better. You think of adelaide a
Speaker 1: lot of those teams up and down the grounds not
Speaker 1: as much with so able to play that ground and
Speaker 1: have a bit of a game style that suits it. Well.
Speaker 2: It's a pretty big ground size, so you got to
Speaker 2: you know, clear some land and stuff. And if there's
Speaker 2: a few people's houses in there, how you kind of
Speaker 2: just say we need to knock down your house because
Speaker 2: we need another ten meters. So we're the same as
Speaker 2: the G. So I don't know, and it throws in
Speaker 2: you know a bit of randomness to it. So you know,
Speaker 2: they've been talking about how Brisbane's not very good at
Speaker 2: the G and the ground dimensions are different and you've
Speaker 2: got to play it different. You guys with you what
Speaker 2: was it the other year Sydney fiasco where you're training
Speaker 2: and you've got the cones and you've got to stretch
Speaker 2: out the training ground. It just gets in players heads,
Speaker 2: gets in teams heads. They overthink it, they underthink it,
Speaker 2: they think it, they think it, they definitely think it now.
Speaker 2: Something that was very interesting that came out of this
Speaker 2: is reported throughout the week that Daniel Rich and Jack
Speaker 2: Gunston might have put up the hand and said, hey mate,
Speaker 2: been a bit under what the standard is?
Speaker 1: Very interesting.
Speaker 2: Would you be one to be putting your hand up
Speaker 2: and say, hey, fly ah, not really getting it done?
Speaker 2: What do you reckon? Weake in the two.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave that decision up to the coach rather
Speaker 1: than myself probably that's my personal opinion. But yet it
Speaker 1: was interesting. Whenever I read that, I was kind of
Speaker 1: a bit like, oh, okay, maybe there's something going on
Speaker 1: here that we don't know the full information to who knows,
Speaker 1: But you know, for them, if they're sitting there saying like,
Speaker 1: we want the best team out there, and if they
Speaker 1: think they're not part of that best team, and they're
Speaker 1: going to be better without them, then I guess it's understandable.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't really probably give as a personally like myself,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't give someone else the opportunity to play better
Speaker 1: than me on the week, if that makes sense, you know,
Speaker 1: like I don't want someone else who's going to come
Speaker 1: out there and you know, be able to give that
Speaker 1: opportunity to someone to outshine me, like I'm hopefully going
Speaker 1: to go out there and play my best every single week.
Speaker 1: So that was an interesting one from my perspective. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure because you're backing yourself in, yeah you would, Yeah,
Speaker 1: always every week you back yourself in. That's why you
Speaker 1: play football, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can be commendable though, if you're like, look, this
Speaker 2: is what they're asking me to do and I can't
Speaker 2: do it, like I know in myself if.
Speaker 1: You can injury or something. Right, let's say you're carrying
Speaker 1: an injury like something that's a niggle that's like, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe restricting you from being you know, ninety two hundred percent.
Speaker 1: You never played one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: They like, Mace, we need you to get down the line.
Speaker 2: Why aren't you making it there? And you're like, it's
Speaker 2: because I've got an issue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, then that's that's understandable. But I think that would
Speaker 1: be probably released as more of a medical thing than
Speaker 1: someone just raising their hands saying, you know, I'm going
Speaker 1: to sit out this one. So it was a very unique.
Speaker 1: I've never heard the scenario happen in AFL before. It's
Speaker 1: very unique. But yeah, we'll see if that changes over
Speaker 1: the next few weeks.
Speaker 2: Brisbane got the w over Sydney, so who knows. It
Speaker 2: might have been a good result, but yeah, as you said,
Speaker 2: they're very good up there, so we wait and see. Now,
Speaker 2: another incident out of this one I showed you. I've
Speaker 2: recently shown you the vision, so you might be able
Speaker 2: to talk on it a bit. Semi Wicks, what are
Speaker 2: you doing? What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Right as soon as he did it, he realized it too.
Speaker 1: He goes off.
Speaker 2: So, for those who haven't seen it, Sammy Wicks on
Speaker 2: a Brisbane opponent I think it was Lester. He kicks
Speaker 2: the ball and Semi Wicks just runs up, leaves the ground,
Speaker 2: raises the elbow and hits him in the head.
Speaker 1: He essentially combined everything people have been getting suspended for
Speaker 1: into one action, decided to do it over the weekend.
Speaker 1: As soon as he did it, he put the arms
Speaker 1: up and he goes, no, don't man, another bye week.
Speaker 2: It's real shocker. But you know, I think, you know
Speaker 2: it's one of those ones where it's good as an
Speaker 2: industry that we're like, that's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a bit more clear cut now, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent now GWS Freemantle big loss for Freo.
Speaker 2: I would say that's that's the big thing coming out
Speaker 2: of this now good win by GWS, GWS up and
Speaker 2: about they're there about.
Speaker 1: You've been on the GWS train for a long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like we'll see where they land come finals.
Speaker 2: But Freo were on a winning streak and then they
Speaker 2: really stuffed it up last week by losing to Richmond
Speaker 2: at home. And now they go to GWS with another opportunity,
Speaker 2: and boy, oh boy, was it. It was a stinker,
Speaker 2: to say the least.
Speaker 1: Never really look close.
Speaker 2: It was such a low score in the end.
Speaker 1: JA grabcardy, Ricky Bobby kicked five, kicked a bag.
Speaker 2: I liked rickar and Dry.
Speaker 1: I like Ricky Bobby. We'll let the fans decide that one.
Speaker 1: Toby Green kick four and Kelly kick three so the
Speaker 1: big names all kicking big goals, which was always good.
Speaker 1: Now Jesse Holgan's late withdrawal had calf tpness. He's been
Speaker 1: playing really well too also, So even without some of
Speaker 1: the better players like Jesse and the team, they still
Speaker 1: were able to get a massive win over Frio and
Speaker 1: it's their biggest win gwos's biggest win under Kingsley, but
Speaker 1: it's also biggest Freemantle loss under a long mirror in
Speaker 1: three and a half years he's been coaching.
Speaker 2: There was one weird stat that came out of it
Speaker 2: of the Frio like really slow starts. Yeah, like, what
Speaker 2: do we do about that? Opening terms? They've lost twelve
Speaker 2: of thirteen this year, So we got any ideas that
Speaker 2: we can get around ideas, maybe a bit of hype.
Speaker 2: Hype Now, I don't know if it's if music's going
Speaker 2: to do the job. You're coming out there, you lose
Speaker 2: them by seventy points. You need a defibrillator to give
Speaker 2: them the hype that they need to win this one.
Speaker 2: But we just need maybe a bit of spark, early.
Speaker 1: Bit of spice. I think a hype video right before
Speaker 1: you go out, money right on cute right, and then
Speaker 1: maybe be like, I don't know, maybe it's something just
Speaker 1: to get the boys railed up, you know, and give
Speaker 1: him like a give him a target, give him someone
Speaker 1: on the whiteboard. You can absolutely smash my target.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: And you're going to give him something to really get
Speaker 1: amped up about. They can all get around. It's like
Speaker 1: something in the game. Whenever it happens, everyone's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we're in something like that. Then just get everyone to go,
Speaker 1: let's go. Today's our day. Let's do this thing.
Speaker 2: What about ultimatums. It's like, hey, boys, all right, fiffy,
Speaker 2: you love him, your door him. Yeah, well, we're going
Speaker 2: to cut him if we lose this game.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a bit of circ If.
Speaker 2: We don't, if we don't win this first quarter, we're
Speaker 2: going to cut him there on the spot. He's going
Speaker 2: to be subbed out. Quarter two. We're going to drag him.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, my favorite players, no, no, you need
Speaker 1: a specky On the weekend, I think it was spectacular.
Speaker 1: I must say.
Speaker 2: I just feel like you need some more threats in
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 1: Threats, Like he's not a threat guy. I feel like
Speaker 1: he's such like a calm, collective, very like, very methodical
Speaker 1: of making decisions.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite post game like or mid game like
Speaker 2: snack you get on the snakes? Do you get the
Speaker 2: gummy snakes?
Speaker 1: The gummy snakes you don't do like the vix you know,
Speaker 1: vapor up and you get the little like the little snuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, you know, they should do smelling salts
Speaker 1: everyone before they leave the room, do the smelling salts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that will wake your ass up, like no one's fucking business.
Speaker 2: That was the weirdest thing to me. That So it's
Speaker 2: like vix in, like hot water in a bottle with
Speaker 2: face mask and when I first.
Speaker 1: You get on a plane and it drops down.
Speaker 2: When I first got to the club, I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be investigated for sure. Though the boys lined
Speaker 2: up at the door. You just got like some volunteer
Speaker 2: on here, sniff on this thing, brought it from home.
Speaker 1: We don't do it anymore. But yeah, that was that
Speaker 1: would wake us up. Oh my god, some beauty. Now
Speaker 1: move on to the next game. Richmond versus Saint killed
Speaker 1: a big one. Everyone, everyone I'm sure is aware of.
Speaker 1: That's Catch three hundred, three hundred games, absolute legend, and
Speaker 1: it was awesome. To see he had two goals in
Speaker 1: the game, he got chaired off. Him and his kids
Speaker 1: all got cheered off by people, which is a very
Speaker 1: very lovely site. The whole family is involved, and you know,
Speaker 1: even before the game, he runs up, he's first out
Speaker 1: there and he turns around and he high fives every
Speaker 1: single player and then you know, Jack and Reewat and
Speaker 1: him just kind of go arm and arm. They run
Speaker 1: out together. It was a very kind of beautiful moment,
Speaker 1: a feel good moment from the weekend.
Speaker 2: I felt like crazy career to make it to three hundred,
Speaker 2: but like when you join the club, the condition that
Speaker 2: it's in to where you finish and the legacy that
Speaker 2: he leaves is massive.
Speaker 1: Wild.
Speaker 2: You got to love him. And the best part about
Speaker 2: it was during the broadcast, they kept cutting to a
Speaker 2: bloke that most Richmond supporters know and love, Damien Hardwick,
Speaker 2: sitting up in the crowd, and every time the camera
Speaker 2: would go to him and the cheer would go up
Speaker 2: and he's just lapping it up at the moment, which
Speaker 2: is so good to see. He's doing the fist pump
Speaker 2: and the crowd, yeah, they you know, got right around him,
Speaker 2: and it's got to be pointed out that they went
Speaker 2: through that journe need together the whole way through, so
Speaker 2: it's you know, it was great to see him there
Speaker 2: celebrating clutches three hundredth and Jesus. They saw the low
Speaker 2: times together, which made the success all the more sweeter,
Speaker 2: I imagine.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, and it was. It was awesome to see
Speaker 1: him at the game. And I think we mentioned this
Speaker 1: before we got on the podcast, was not many coaches
Speaker 1: leave the game and people love them, you know, everyone
Speaker 1: hates them there because they're fired because they weren't doing
Speaker 1: well or they didn't have the enough wins on the board. Whoever.
Speaker 1: It was like Demon went out and was like, look, guys,
Speaker 1: I've got new three premierships over four years, Like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna live on as a legacy for this club for ever.
Speaker 1: And yeah, mentally, I just want to, you know, I
Speaker 1: need to take a break. And everyone was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, take a break, dude, Like your life you've
Speaker 1: lived literally given us so much success, Like we can't
Speaker 1: ask anything more of you, Like, you know, we obviously
Speaker 1: would love to win more premierships and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff, but if you need that, like you've given
Speaker 1: so much dies it's like, okay, like if you need this,
Speaker 1: you know, we're willing to you know, let you have it.
Speaker 1: And it was awesome. It was awesome to see him
Speaker 1: get like the love and affection at the MCG all
Speaker 1: the different fans you cheer him on, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: he would have enjoyed that deep down to know that, like,
Speaker 1: you know, he's loved by all the Richmond supporters are there.
Speaker 2: It would be a real head scratcher for me to
Speaker 2: think of. Like a coach leaves a club and then
Speaker 2: they pan to him in the crowd watching the team
Speaker 2: and everyone's like, yeah, gold buddy. It's very rare. Normally
Speaker 2: it's like get out of our club. You ruined it.
Speaker 2: And most of the time coaches are gone full loopy
Speaker 2: by the time they're finished, so they're normally half loopy
Speaker 2: by the time they leave.
Speaker 1: I will say this bit of room for improvement for
Speaker 1: demmer chug a beer next time. Oh how good we
Speaker 1: that he goes on? He goes first one double fist pump.
Speaker 1: The second time they go to him, chokes it down
Speaker 1: Bob Hawk style. How good would that be?
Speaker 2: And he starts the snake and.
Speaker 1: Then he starts the Mexican Wave.
Speaker 2: It's all happening, a shining light out of this game.
Speaker 2: As a young kid, he's a bit of a battler, buddy.
Speaker 2: He just tries. Every week. He goes out there, ties
Speaker 2: his boot lacers up, he pulls his socks up, and
Speaker 2: he tries to have a crack. But maybe sometimes it
Speaker 2: doesn't work for him. He's probably around the one fifty
Speaker 2: one fifty one market players.
Speaker 1: In the camp.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this kid's name and fifty what's his name?
Speaker 1: Tim Taranto, Tim Tarana, Tim Taranto, the guy that won
Speaker 1: the Ian Stewart Medal for Best on Ground over the weekend.
Speaker 2: The one goal that he kicked, you know, it was
Speaker 2: a bit of a cheapie, no such thing, you know,
Speaker 2: in the wet across the body to win the game.
Speaker 2: It was okay, I'll put it in the okay basket. Wow, Wow,
Speaker 2: he'll get better.
Speaker 1: It was absolutely killing earth Melon and start who played
Speaker 1: up a little bit please, But it is another win
Speaker 1: for Andrew mc McWalter. I think that's how he says
Speaker 1: last name.
Speaker 2: I remember the name now. First week I was like,
Speaker 2: what's this? Who is this clerk?
Speaker 1: And I almost want to say McAllister for.
Speaker 2: Everyone in the industry seems to know him very well,
Speaker 2: so I've been living in under a rock. But he
Speaker 2: is well, one knows his name now because he's he's
Speaker 2: probably going to drag him back to the finals.
Speaker 1: It is a real, it's real.
Speaker 2: They could be playing finals at the end of this year.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a bye week, firstmen coming up, so they'll
Speaker 1: take a little bit downtime after the big win on
Speaker 1: the weekend. And it was an The mcg might be
Speaker 1: absolutely screwed after that game too, because it was a
Speaker 1: puddle of mud. The whole thing was just drenched.
Speaker 2: I was pretty courageous. I walked down to the bottle
Speaker 2: shop in that weather. You do it me complaining about it?
Speaker 2: Just get the jump done? Beautiful week, No your old
Speaker 2: player on.
Speaker 1: It was thirty in bowie. Anyway, next game we got
Speaker 1: Carlton versus the Cold Coast signs your boys are back.
Speaker 1: What's the Navy Blue song?
Speaker 2: Blues? I don't know. It's been freaking ages since I
Speaker 2: heard it, so it's hard to remember. Let's break it
Speaker 2: down because they didn't really burst out of the blocks,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure every Carlton sweat fan was sweating because
Speaker 2: this was d day for him. It's like you got
Speaker 2: to show something against Gold Coast Coast at home. In
Speaker 2: the second quarter, Carlton came out and blew them out
Speaker 2: of the water. At one stage they were going at
Speaker 2: one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: They were nine to three. They kicked to Gold Coast
Speaker 1: zero three and thirty minutes of play, twelve scores from
Speaker 1: fifteen entries. That's insane. Everyone was like, oh, Carlton can't
Speaker 1: kick goals. They're struggling to get into the four lines.
Speaker 1: They come out here and do this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and most of them were coming straight out of
Speaker 2: the sand bounce. Now, it's good when you get one
Speaker 2: or two, but they were getting numbers up, so I
Speaker 2: don't know it was as much as as good as
Speaker 2: it is for Carlton. Just feel for Stewey Due because
Speaker 2: we love him. We do love them, and they were
Speaker 2: coming off back to back good performances up there, not
Speaker 2: in cans which is.
Speaker 1: In Queensland, in Northern Territory.
Speaker 2: I went in the Northern Territory. There was a couple
Speaker 2: of ex Blues that were turning it on, but in
Speaker 2: particular Levi Kasbod, who kicked his two hundredth career goal
Speaker 2: which is great, that's good. But there was one goal
Speaker 2: that he kicked in the pocket.
Speaker 1: Fifty seconds left in the game.
Speaker 2: The game's over, but a fight broke out at a
Speaker 2: ball up situation. Levi switched on nominates about thirty meters
Speaker 2: away from this thing and comes barreling in like a
Speaker 2: big locomotive, snatches the ball out of the ruck, kicks
Speaker 2: it on his right, snap across the body from the
Speaker 2: boundary line, and it goes through the the one foot
Speaker 2: gap there would have been to fit this ball through.
Speaker 2: This incredible goal. The TV director he missed it because
Speaker 2: he's like, they're all looking at the fight.
Speaker 1: He's locking up the door on the way out already.
Speaker 2: Everyone bloody missed it. And it cuts back and everyone's like,
Speaker 2: what just happened, And it's like Levi kicked the goal,
Speaker 2: a miraculous goal from the pocket, which is insane.
Speaker 1: It was insane. I love the rock goal out of
Speaker 1: the rucke. It's a real disrespectful thing, real disrespectful thing,
Speaker 1: Like time he could got two kicked on him in
Speaker 1: the Grand Final last year against Tom Hawkins kicks on
Speaker 1: him and it was flating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's flating. It's always a big key forward
Speaker 2: that's like just a big boy. They're like one ten, one,
Speaker 2: twenty kegs and they're just not moving three trunks. Hawkins
Speaker 2: is great at it. You get someone like Charlie Dixon,
Speaker 2: Big Charlie.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is a great feeling at the Crimes and
Speaker 1: Football Club this week. Everyone is down. They're back on board.
Speaker 1: They've pulled their memberships, you know, back into their pocket
Speaker 1: and they're back in the back on they're cheering their
Speaker 1: team off again. Yeah, we'd love to see that. We
Speaker 1: love to see that.
Speaker 2: Is it a good time to get the buy or
Speaker 2: is it a bad time to get the buy? Do
Speaker 2: they want to carry the momentum to go straight into
Speaker 2: the next one and have another crack or you just
Speaker 2: you're just happy to be happy going into the buy,
Speaker 2: reset and start again.
Speaker 1: Either one's good, I think, But if I had to choose,
Speaker 1: I'll probably choose momentum. I think they would probably would
Speaker 1: love to have the same bye week as us. Come back,
Speaker 1: played this game this week and then continued on with
Speaker 1: us right this experience and being like, hey came back,
Speaker 1: we freshened up from the by you know, we had
Speaker 1: a big winners our first game back and we're going
Speaker 1: to continue the momentum through the back end of the year.
Speaker 1: That would be the ideal scenario. Yes, they're getting to
Speaker 1: go on a bye week, which has been a very
Speaker 1: stressful time of the Carlson Football Club. They're getting a
Speaker 1: bit of a release from that pressure, obviously from playing
Speaker 1: well over the weekend, but also a week off. Therefore
Speaker 1: they're not having to get as much media around them,
Speaker 1: so they can all get away from it all, go
Speaker 1: up to ball your Queensland, wherever it is you want
Speaker 1: to go, to get some sign and just detox from
Speaker 1: all the craziness that's been happening. And that's I think
Speaker 1: something they'll put them in good stead. And the real
Speaker 1: question will be the next game they play if they
Speaker 1: can continue on this trajectory of being able to convert
Speaker 1: goals inside fifty.
Speaker 2: Now I hope that they went and just got on
Speaker 2: the piss after the game. Now, I was trying to
Speaker 2: think of a way to put that more eloquently that
Speaker 2: day to be a beer, But like I just hope
Speaker 2: that they use this opportunity to come together as a group,
Speaker 2: have a few beers and go like boys, the things
Speaker 2: that we can do and the pressure not like that
Speaker 2: Gold Coast didn't bring any pressure, but when the it
Speaker 2: was like they the floodgates open there in the second
Speaker 2: and they just started running and playing free flowing footy
Speaker 2: and it was good to see and it was just
Speaker 2: it just reminded you of what you saw from Carlton
Speaker 2: last year. So it's hopefully they can just reset go like,
Speaker 2: let's dump all the pressure and let's just have a
Speaker 2: crack at the second half of the year.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of love for Crowton right now on
Speaker 1: this podcast.
Speaker 2: No, because I would like to see them up so
Speaker 2: they can get knocked back down.
Speaker 1: But last year would have been your favorite year. I
Speaker 1: feel like it.
Speaker 2: Was pretty amazing. I did like Melbourne losing it the
Speaker 2: death with the Lynden Dunn high ten in the crowd
Speaker 2: to like, there's just moments where I feel like as
Speaker 2: a spectator, and I don't care if it's Carlton or
Speaker 2: someone else, but I feel like there needs to be
Speaker 2: a team with tons of expectation that performs really poorly.
Speaker 2: That's just another level of excitement because if you come
Speaker 2: out and it's like North don't win many games or
Speaker 2: Hawthorne don't win many games, they delisted half their side,
Speaker 2: so it's like you're expecting it. So to have a
Speaker 2: team that you don't barrack for, have all this negative
Speaker 2: attention and like they're going through it all. It is
Speaker 2: a bit fun to watch tea sippy, a bit bit
Speaker 2: of gossip, bit of you know, stuff going on for
Speaker 2: with you and it takes it away from your team,
Speaker 2: which is always good as well.
Speaker 1: Gold Coast they are I could have been the top eight.
Speaker 1: They're won this so it's a very I mean I
Speaker 1: said it last week. I said Gold Coast to finish
Speaker 1: in the top eight this year. Yeah, and this one
Speaker 1: was one of those games you need to you need
Speaker 1: to get a dub on the board.
Speaker 2: At least be super competitive because at this stage in
Speaker 2: the round they could have gone inside the top eight,
Speaker 2: inside the top eight, which is insane. The last time
Speaker 2: they were good was pre Gary Ablett doing his shoulder
Speaker 2: against Collingwood.
Speaker 1: Brent McCaffer shout out little he was on my flight
Speaker 1: to BALI actually only shout out to CAF. Yeah he
Speaker 1: was him, his wife and his kids, very lovely.
Speaker 2: Great bloke. He was tagging Gary Ablett and just smashed
Speaker 2: his shoulder to pieces and that was kind of the
Speaker 2: demise of Gold Coast Sons, but they they were so close,
Speaker 2: but I hate to say it, it was the most
Speaker 2: Gold Coast Sons thing ever, just to it's like, we
Speaker 2: all want to see some success there.
Speaker 1: We all do. We want Queensland footy to be a success.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's just like, just win it. I want
Speaker 2: to see you win it. I want to see you
Speaker 2: in the eighth. I want to see you be successful.
Speaker 2: I want to see some of that. And it was
Speaker 2: just so gold Coasty to see this happen. It was like,
Speaker 2: just break the mold, come out, get three like good
Speaker 2: wins on the trot and set up the second half
Speaker 2: of your season. And they just not only could they
Speaker 2: just not do it. It was just a real deflating letdown.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure I'm not the only one feeling I'm
Speaker 2: sure they would feel it more than anyone.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I've still got them in the eighth. I've
Speaker 1: still got faith in them. Like Jessic Cameron, it went
Speaker 1: in the common Metal.
Speaker 2: The problem with the eight mace, I don't know if
Speaker 2: you know this.
Speaker 1: There's only eight slots, so you think I've put about
Speaker 1: fourteen teams into the eighth. This year.
Speaker 2: It's just there's so many years, you know. I just
Speaker 2: love love love Love is good. Not that I not
Speaker 2: that I know that much about it. But let's just
Speaker 2: er podcast. Let's jump into the North Bulldogs game, and
Speaker 2: this was North is a good team to watch.
Speaker 1: Keep saying it every week.
Speaker 2: There. I think both of these pseudo tazzy teams lifting
Speaker 2: because we've got the Hawks they're playing some up and
Speaker 2: about good foot and then we got North. I reckon
Speaker 2: both of them. But Cody Weightman, big plugger Cody Weightman
Speaker 2: up there, playing his fiftieth game, kicked five goals in
Speaker 2: two quarters, finished with six for the game.
Speaker 1: Oh what about stat line? Probably weight Man.
Speaker 2: It was not that you want to be on this
Speaker 2: end of things. But Griffin low was on a poster
Speaker 2: just the it was a beauty. The photographer must have
Speaker 2: just you know, was Stratton into the office to drop
Speaker 2: that SD card on your boss's desk because Griffin Loan's
Speaker 2: all stretched out.
Speaker 1: On the back of the Specky just clunks it.
Speaker 2: It's rough.
Speaker 1: Oh man, it was a beautiful mark. Mark of the
Speaker 1: Year contender. I'm not sure if it's number one for
Speaker 1: the year, but as of right now, it definitely makes
Speaker 1: top five.
Speaker 2: But you say, why is he up there? Mace, Why
Speaker 2: is Cody Weightman playing the big key forward? Good question
Speaker 2: where you look around the ground and it's because the
Speaker 2: big key ford, Aaron Norton's playing playing back. We got
Speaker 2: to we're shifting the magnets around.
Speaker 1: It was a big going on. Liam Jones broke his
Speaker 1: arm and that was not looking good the way he
Speaker 1: came up holding it. I was like, oh, no, you
Speaker 1: can tell right away something's happened. Yeah, something serious has happened.
Speaker 2: Well, being kicked in the arm. We'll do that, we'll
Speaker 2: do it. Apparently he fractured one of the bones. Has
Speaker 2: got to get a played in there. But it's bizarre
Speaker 2: how these things work in footy because I don't know
Speaker 2: what's the difference between most of these. But you know,
Speaker 2: if I break an arm, I'm done for the bed ridden.
Speaker 2: Bring me some soup. I'm struggling. But you know these
Speaker 2: players would be like, oh, he'll be back in two weeks,
Speaker 2: it's nice and just cut me open chucks and plates
Speaker 2: in there, and we're called good. Get her going. So
Speaker 2: we see how that goes. Does Norton stay back and
Speaker 2: Josh Bruce comes in and plays forward. Josh Bruce obviously
Speaker 2: got dropped after the game against Port Charlie had a
Speaker 2: big nine out against him. Do you bring it back in?
Speaker 2: And it's just status quo. Do you bring back Josh Bruce,
Speaker 2: you go straight back in the back line, you bring
Speaker 2: Norton back into the forward line, and it's just, you know,
Speaker 2: we play as usual. It's a at least they've got
Speaker 2: players that can slot into these slots.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've got both of these teams have a bye
Speaker 1: week coming up, so they've got a little bit of
Speaker 1: time to make this decision. But I think you move
Speaker 1: Josh Bruce back to back as a defender fall back,
Speaker 1: and then you move not And back forward. He's too
Speaker 1: important in their forward structure not to not have him there.
Speaker 1: Notton's too important to the structure not and have him
Speaker 1: in the forward line.
Speaker 2: A lot of people, a lot of people because Norton
Speaker 2: played like his junior footy back, a lot of people
Speaker 2: people reckon that he's a gun defender. So it's like
Speaker 2: potentially the whole Darcy Moore situation, are you playing a
Speaker 2: Darcy Moore up forward when he could be you know,
Speaker 2: all Australian captain down back so you could flip him.
Speaker 2: And then we know Josh Bruce can do freakish things.
Speaker 2: He can kick backs, So I don't know he was
Speaker 2: before he got injured in twenty twenty one, I'm going
Speaker 2: to say before they went into the flag against Melbourne,
Speaker 2: he was second in the colemt. Yeah, he was killing.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely killing, insane. And then you know they've got
Speaker 2: almost a logjam of forwards up there with hugil Hagen,
Speaker 2: and then they brought lobbying over the off season, so
Speaker 2: he's like, yep, hand up, I'll go down back. People
Speaker 2: weren't dynamic, so she's he can play everywhere. But here's
Speaker 2: my advice to him. Right, I saw another fellow rolling
Speaker 2: around here on this game, Zoraha, rocking a bit of
Speaker 2: an accessory. We say a bit of a Travis k
Speaker 2: cloke about him. He was rocking the glove just to
Speaker 2: glo the glove, the old glove. I think Josh Bruce
Speaker 2: chunk that glove on. You might kick ten right throwing
Speaker 2: out there best idea. Now, I think that we're coming
Speaker 2: up on one of the old time stories of this podcast.
Speaker 1: This is a great one.
Speaker 2: As we know, you went off to Bali a bit
Speaker 2: of rest and relaxation. And you met someone on the
Speaker 2: plane over.
Speaker 1: Sitting next to me. And I must say this, the
Speaker 1: most lovely people sitting next to me, all around me.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just next to me. It was like I
Speaker 1: was aisle seat and these were two the right, one
Speaker 1: to the left, two behind me, two back to the
Speaker 1: life like it is surrounded by me right now. I'm
Speaker 1: just sitting there, got Darcy Moore and Jamie o. It's
Speaker 1: same flight. They're in business class front as you do.
Speaker 1: What is this fly the wild fly boyeve me? And
Speaker 1: then there's about eight women that are all there and
Speaker 1: they on their shirts, all have matching shirts. It was
Speaker 1: someone's fiftieth birthday. It was the Mini Pause fiftieth Birthday
Speaker 1: Extravaganza up in Bali. So I'm sitting in the middle
Speaker 1: list these women. They are hurting and hollering for like,
Speaker 1: get on the plane. I'm going this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a great experience.
Speaker 2: They have titled it the menopause.
Speaker 1: This is their words. This is their words. Everyone do
Speaker 1: not yeah, do you not put that on me? And
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there, I'm going, Okay, whoever gets to sit
Speaker 1: next to these women they'ren't getting the air full for
Speaker 1: the next six hours, right. Luckily enough, that person have
Speaker 1: to be yours truly. Well, the ladies goes that's Harry
Speaker 1: Sheezel's mom, and I was like, oh, hey, how are you.
Speaker 1: So we start having a conversation, right and in my
Speaker 1: mind I'm going, oh, Chezel, next time we play you,
Speaker 1: I've got six hours of dirt on you. So you
Speaker 1: best believe you should not be anywhere near me because
Speaker 1: I will be throwing the trash talk around the football
Speaker 1: field for the whole game.
Speaker 2: So you went to Bali with Harry Shechezel's mom.
Speaker 1: Essentially lovely ladies, great time in Bali. Six hours on
Speaker 1: that plane ride was didn't get a wink of sleep,
Speaker 1: I'll say that didn't get a sing a little bit asleep,
Speaker 1: but it was all good fun.
Speaker 2: Jeez, I feel bad for him next time you guys.
Speaker 1: Come up against him.
Speaker 2: The title of the episode mat she those seashells.
Speaker 1: We've lost it with this game. Yes, the game.
Speaker 2: There's one more odd thing that came out of this
Speaker 2: was Bailey Smith running laps post game.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting one. I don't know why. The thing.
Speaker 1: I think if I were to hear that, not hear
Speaker 1: his name, right, I would think that's the substitute. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be the person that didn't play a full game, right.
Speaker 1: But the fact they played a full game and they
Speaker 1: want to do I mean credit to them. It's business.
Speaker 1: You know, you're going really well and you want to
Speaker 1: be better, and I give you full credit to that.
Speaker 1: That's something I haven't really seen too often. I was
Speaker 1: kind of wondering what was going on.
Speaker 2: Od I think we'll have to wait to see what
Speaker 2: else comes out of this. Watch this space now someone
Speaker 2: we talk about every week, Big suit me Nick Larky
Speaker 2: signed on to twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 1: We love it.
Speaker 2: We love everything about North Melbourne, so we love the
Speaker 2: soove signing on. We love players sticking around and they've
Speaker 2: got a team to really build on. Let's jump into
Speaker 2: the game for next week.
Speaker 1: Net week, that's forecast.
Speaker 2: They're right on the edge of the ap so they
Speaker 2: got a lot to play for. You guys are up
Speaker 2: there Fairway could probably pull put your foot off the gas,
Speaker 2: just glide into finals.
Speaker 1: It's a big game, Brandon, start playing it down. It's
Speaker 1: a massive game. And Adelaide's one of those teams. Hey
Speaker 1: top eight I'd say this year. I know Top eight's
Speaker 1: getting expanded, but seriously, they've been playing really well. They're
Speaker 1: I mean, Textwalker kicked ten last time they played ten
Speaker 1: at Adelaide Oval. So that matchup versus Darcy Moore Box
Speaker 1: Office their forward line very potent, very good. But Darcy
Speaker 1: Moore playing on texts. He's a big boy. He's a
Speaker 1: big boy.
Speaker 2: So he's got He's gonna have to rely on a
Speaker 2: bit of speed and a bit of agility.
Speaker 1: Those are two things he has.
Speaker 2: So how do you see this game playing out? What
Speaker 2: do you who do you go up against?
Speaker 1: Big o Brian and Brian the big fella. Let's help
Speaker 1: his Twitter accounts? Okay this week he's actually like the
Speaker 1: nicest guy. I actually remember that happened with Nick Nad.
Speaker 1: I was like so confused because he's like a lovely human.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I feel bad now, Well.
Speaker 2: You got to g yourself up for games. Has there
Speaker 2: ever been a player that you're like, who's the most
Speaker 2: intimidating player you've ever come up against?
Speaker 1: Intimidating? Probably Nick nat I'll never forget once. The first
Speaker 1: time I played him was my third game ever playing
Speaker 1: and we're at what's the other not in the new
Speaker 1: optic stating the old one the walker or something like that.
Speaker 1: I think we were there, and I remember at one
Speaker 1: point Levi Greenwood and him got in a scuffle and
Speaker 1: like Nick NAT's over the top of him, like shove
Speaker 1: him into the ground. And I was kind of like
Speaker 1: ten meters away, and I see Levi look at me
Speaker 1: as he's getting his face pushed into the ground like
Speaker 1: help being I'm going And I had to like jog
Speaker 1: over there and be like, please get off, please get off.
Speaker 2: Of whenever you're ready.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Levi. Of course, as soon as I hit like
Speaker 1: nick nad Levi, I just darts off and his on.
Speaker 1: You never see him again.
Speaker 2: He's a genuine big boy. He's a big big boy.
Speaker 2: So do you ever do anything to g yourself up
Speaker 2: to play big games or against big boys.
Speaker 1: I do write notes on every single player, like before
Speaker 1: I play them. I wouldn't say it's probably like negative
Speaker 1: on them. It's more like you know the positive and
Speaker 1: you know, like if you kind of rooms for improvement,
Speaker 1: you might be able to exploit and then some other
Speaker 1: things that they do really well. So I don't think
Speaker 1: there's anything I do per.
Speaker 2: Sale you write little notes on them everyone, Yeah, do
Speaker 2: you just make up stuff to make yourself feel good.
Speaker 1: I'll just say, you know what I'm good at and
Speaker 1: what they're not as good at sometimes, and man, where
Speaker 1: you can, like I said, be able to have a
Speaker 1: little bit of an advantage against them, because I mean,
Speaker 1: like I've played until Brian for a long time, so
Speaker 1: I kind of like right now I could think of
Speaker 1: all different things. I'd probably be writing down my notes sheet.
Speaker 1: We won't go.
Speaker 2: And something very big happened throughout the week. Yes, Scott
Speaker 2: Emblebrie and your coach, Fly Craig and Craig Craig, as
Speaker 2: you like to say in America, sign new contracts. Pendal's
Speaker 2: on for one more year, fly on for another two.
Speaker 2: We know Pendals is really going to sign on for
Speaker 2: another ten one year.
Speaker 1: I just want to see him hit four hundred. He's
Speaker 1: going to get it pretty easier, would mate. He's just
Speaker 1: going to keep he deserves it. He deserves four hundred games.
Speaker 2: Well, he just he's not getting bad. He's just still
Speaker 2: a really high standard. You look at all the stat
Speaker 2: sheets and he's still up the top, which is pretty
Speaker 2: crazy because I feel like something that we do with
Speaker 2: these legends of the game, is like when they drop
Speaker 2: ten percent on their lofty heights, we're like, oh they're done.
Speaker 2: Where it's like ten percent on their lofty heights is
Speaker 2: still twenty five percent above everyone else. So yeah, but
Speaker 2: not saying that about our fearless leader. Scott Pendlebury an
Speaker 2: amazing career to date, and I just feel like it's
Speaker 2: got twenty more to go. And back in the day
Speaker 2: he used to say, it feels weird when you start
Speaker 2: to celebrate these moments because it feels like it's getting
Speaker 2: wrapped up where he just feels like he's.
Speaker 1: Got plenty of Yeah, keep going.
Speaker 2: So it'd be pretty amazing to see he'll knock off
Speaker 2: that record, I reckon and fly another two years.
Speaker 1: That's the reward for effort. I'd say that's Adelaide takes
Speaker 1: some notes.
Speaker 2: I was thinking two years pretty easy. Just not had
Speaker 2: a bit of.
Speaker 1: Free time now after quitting your day job, so just
Speaker 1: saying you should do it.
Speaker 2: So excited for the game on the weekend, Yeah.
Speaker 1: It would be good. It'd be good to get back
Speaker 1: out there and just get back into the week I
Speaker 1: guess schedule of you know, game every weekend We've got
Speaker 1: a few six day breaks coming up, but yeah, this
Speaker 1: is it's been nice to get away for a bit,
Speaker 1: feel refreshed, and then we'll start kind of getting into
Speaker 1: you know the details of the game this week, which
Speaker 1: would be good fun.
Speaker 2: You feel fresh, like fresh fresh.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I'm staying well. I had COVID before and
Speaker 1: then like went on the like I was just like exhausted,
Speaker 1: and then went to Bali and then got a massage
Speaker 1: every day and was doing ice bass and sign us
Speaker 1: every day to wake up at like seven am, and
Speaker 1: doing the gym, and it was just nice to have
Speaker 1: a bit of structure in a sense of like recovery
Speaker 1: for a week and then enjoying like real nice food
Speaker 1: and the cy balls and smoothies and juices and like
Speaker 1: all this stuff just to you know, cleanse the body
Speaker 1: a bit, which was good. And it was also thirty
Speaker 1: degrees every day, which definitely helps.
Speaker 2: And I saw your tweet. Your tweet was like, hey,
Speaker 2: I went to a gym and some bullshit that you tweeted.
Speaker 2: You're just tweeting that as like, hey I'm going to
Speaker 2: the gym. All the coaches at the gym.
Speaker 1: There was no photo evidence right.
Speaker 2: Inside there's nothing in the bullshit.
Speaker 1: I was at the gym every single day. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: it was just to take a sognage and dip in
Speaker 1: the pool. That's up for a debate.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I'm glad to have you back,
Speaker 2: but we're back at it.
Speaker 1: You rolled in.
Speaker 2: I was like, you look all nice and cleansed. I've
Speaker 2: been back here slaving away in the trenches as per usual.
Speaker 2: But that's it for this episode.
Speaker 1: That is it. It's been a packed full episode for
Speaker 1: a bye week, but it's been very good and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be exciting week I had. It's some big matches
Speaker 1: coming up this week. Like we said, Geelong versus Melbourne
Speaker 1: is the one I think I'm gonna look out for
Speaker 1: the most. It's gonna be it's really interesting over there.
Speaker 1: Gm h B I. But make sure you listen in obviously.
Speaker 1: Tune in next week too. We'll have another Footy wrap
Speaker 1: up from the week.
Speaker 2: You guys say goodbye to the Sunday slot. That can
Speaker 2: piss right off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that can just get But in all honestly, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a great week ahead. It's gonna be some
Speaker 1: exiting stuff and we keep saying it, but we will,
Speaker 1: we will launch the march.
Speaker 2: It's coming. It is genuinely definitely.
Speaker 1: Your issues along the way, but we get we're getting there.
Speaker 1: It is it is coming. To make sure you have
Speaker 1: a lookout for that. But that is it for the week.
Speaker 1: Thanks everyone for tuning in and we will chat to
Speaker 1: you soon, yeah,