Speaker 1: Hey, like, just welcome back to the Mason cock Show.
Speaker 1: Big episode today. We're going to talk about that Port
Speaker 1: Adelaide win over Sydney that was a big w for them.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the Collingwood versus Carlton game. Also,
Speaker 1: I donated to the AFL's Christmas fund. Yes, I got
Speaker 1: fined over the weekend, and I'm going to talk about
Speaker 1: that and much much more of what actually happened. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's all starting in this podcast right now. All right,
Speaker 1: like we mentioned off the top, big big podcast today,
Speaker 1: but we'll start off as we always do bread Welcome.
Speaker 2: Good a Mason. I've got some good clangers this week.
Speaker 2: There was actually too many to fit in the segment,
Speaker 2: but I did see one on social media, which is
Speaker 2: a good reminder to everyone not to go the early crow.
Speaker 2: We've all had mates that are celebrated too early, or
Speaker 2: for example, yesterday I went down to the Frio game
Speaker 2: with my housemate, a diehard Frio supporter, and that ended
Speaker 2: in tragedy for him. So this was a good example
Speaker 2: of what not to do. And I don't know if
Speaker 2: you've seen this, but a couple of Carlton fans sitting
Speaker 2: in the crowd. They were sitting side onto the McGovern
Speaker 2: shot after the siren and tough angle, and then you're
Speaker 2: looking for everyone around you. You're looking for cues. Does
Speaker 2: the players celebrate? Does the crowd cheer? Like what you're
Speaker 2: looking for cues because you can't see if it's going
Speaker 2: through the middle anyway. They're staring around, and as soon
Speaker 2: as the crowd rises and cheers, they just think that
Speaker 2: must mean goal. It's gone through the goal. So they're
Speaker 2: turning around, they're up on their seats, they're given it
Speaker 2: the double fisters. They've given it to everyone in the
Speaker 2: area because Carton just got the win over the Pies.
Speaker 2: And then they turn around and realized when they look
Speaker 2: up at the big screen that it hasn't gone through.
Speaker 2: And then they flipped the camera on the phone and
Speaker 2: the Pies boys are celebrating. They've given it back to
Speaker 2: the Carlton fans. So just a nice little clanger there,
Speaker 2: and don't go the early crow. You can't celebrate too soon.
Speaker 1: To celebrate after one nay.
Speaker 2: Comes that you're in a crowd of one hundred thousand people,
Speaker 2: bitter rivals. You want to make sure you've got it
Speaker 2: one hundred percent right. It reminded me of Oli Floren
Speaker 2: kicked that one after the It was going for the
Speaker 2: win after the siren against Port and a lead, got
Speaker 2: the double fister on the line, but he already thought
Speaker 2: that it had gone through and he was running and
Speaker 2: celebrating and tripped over and yeah, it's not it's not
Speaker 2: a good looks.
Speaker 1: It's also the whole thing of like you're in a
Speaker 1: mass amount of people, so to get out of there,
Speaker 1: you know you're just going to be tackled way out
Speaker 1: of the stadium. You're not going to hear the end
Speaker 1: of it. I did see that was that was gold.
Speaker 1: But my clanger of the week now, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you saw this pregame, there was this moment, right,
Speaker 1: beautiful moment. Scott's four hundred. The family's out there. You know,
Speaker 1: he's tried to get Darcy, his little girl, to go
Speaker 1: with him. She doesn't put jackstares and they run through
Speaker 1: the banner. It's a lovely moment. He gives the ball
Speaker 1: to Jackson, goes Jack's kick a goal kick a goal
Speaker 1: and you know Jackson goes up and he just wheels
Speaker 1: back and just boots this one. He goes straight towards
Speaker 1: the goals except for Jack. Chris Head was in the
Speaker 1: way and he's about giving him an HI before he
Speaker 1: even started the match. And the best thing was was
Speaker 1: like it was kind of in front of everyone, so
Speaker 1: like the whole team sawid. Jack's just absolutely helted Crispy
Speaker 1: in the head before the game and it was a
Speaker 1: it was a good life going into the very beginning,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it was. Chrispy was just like kind of
Speaker 1: blown away, like like thinking it was a player that
Speaker 1: kicked it, Like, who the hell turns our Jacks. I
Speaker 1: can't really be mad at a child.
Speaker 2: I can't put on blust Tanda Bury's son. That's like
Speaker 2: a good kick man.
Speaker 1: Try again, try again. Actually I'll stand in the market.
Speaker 2: And he liked that. Crispy put up the next day
Speaker 2: that he had a black eye. It's like, oh god,
Speaker 2: because I saw it at the time, and like Pendals
Speaker 2: was just I didn't see it hit Crispy, but Pendalls
Speaker 2: was laughing and then giving the ball back to Jacks
Speaker 2: to be like have another one, have another one.
Speaker 1: Almost fell on the floor. I was I was pissing myself.
Speaker 1: It was so funny. But that's my cloning of the week.
Speaker 2: Right down near the cheers squad. It would have had
Speaker 2: some good feedback a couple of laughs. We'll get into
Speaker 2: the results because it was a big weekend and every
Speaker 2: weekend from now and to the end is so close
Speaker 2: because teams that need to win keep falling over. Western
Speaker 2: Bulldogs aren't. Though they beat Melbourne Melbourne, I think you
Speaker 2: just put the que on the rack at this stage,
Speaker 2: like your couple games out, Gorn's got clear like ankle injuries.
Speaker 1: Still killing it though, yeah, still killing it one leg.
Speaker 2: He had forty four, forty five hitouts on one leg
Speaker 2: on the weekend. It's why West Coast got the job
Speaker 2: done over the Gold Coasts. Your boys, I think was
Speaker 2: that your luck again for the week? Jesus, you're on a.
Speaker 1: I'm killing it. I voted against my fucked against my
Speaker 1: own team this week and I was proven right.
Speaker 2: So rough one North Melbourne got the chocolates over Richmond.
Speaker 2: Now that could be problematic as we look to the spoon.
Speaker 2: Geelong got the win in a very narrow one against
Speaker 2: Adelaide who fought all the way to the end and
Speaker 2: like it went down to like the last twenty seconds,
Speaker 2: they still could have won it. Then we got Collingwood,
Speaker 2: big win over Carldon, sloped down at the end, just
Speaker 2: cruise to the line, easy win. That one port one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty eight to Sydney's thirty six. And I
Speaker 2: think that's flattering to Sydney. That's Sydney did not score
Speaker 2: a goal until the twenty third minute mark of the second.
Speaker 1: Quarter, so yeah, it was grimmed.
Speaker 2: Well that's yeah. And they're still half a game clear
Speaker 2: on top of the ladder after losing a heap of game.
Speaker 2: So we'll dissect that one. Gws in a nail biter
Speaker 2: against Hawthorne, coming back late, another great game Essen and
Speaker 2: talk about comebacks on the Saturday. Got the last minute
Speaker 2: win against Frio and Saint Kilda. Just you know, they
Speaker 2: had their big win last week, so they just packed
Speaker 2: it up for this Brisbane game and they're looking scary
Speaker 2: at the moment. So we'll have to jump into these
Speaker 2: big news stories. And I just want to put it
Speaker 2: to you because we talked about this all last season
Speaker 2: on the podcast. North getting that feel good win at
Speaker 2: the end of the season cost them Harley Reed, and
Speaker 2: as we know, Harley Reed is a great player. I
Speaker 2: haven't heard much about the draft this year.
Speaker 1: I actually haven't. I was just going to say that
Speaker 1: I don't know who the number one picks. It's not
Speaker 1: as clear cut as last year to.
Speaker 2: The point this stage. Last year we knew about Harley
Speaker 2: Reed and we knew how good he was, so this
Speaker 2: year it might be worth getting off the bottom of
Speaker 2: the ladder. But North won a game against Richmond, puts
Speaker 2: them above Richmond by a game. And now they're coming
Speaker 2: up against i think West Coast this week, so they
Speaker 2: got another chance to win another game, potentially go back
Speaker 2: to back wins, but it's back to back years where
Speaker 2: they may have cost themselves the number one draft pick.
Speaker 1: It is an interesting thing. You always played to win,
Speaker 1: right that end of the day. That's that's the statement, right,
Speaker 1: you always played to win. I will say it is interesting.
Speaker 1: I think we mentioned this is we think that rich Man,
Speaker 1: out of all the three teams are on the bottom
Speaker 1: of the ladder, they need the number one draft pick
Speaker 1: the most out of their three. I think like North
Speaker 1: Melbourne's pretty well set up with some people and in
Speaker 1: certain situations and now getting games into them, I think
Speaker 1: they're going to be a threat in the future. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like you look at that game and I think everyone's saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: well this is this is the number one draft game. Okay,
Speaker 1: whoever you essentially loses this, then there's a high probability
Speaker 1: they're going to have the first pick it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: still think there should be some kind of lottery though,
Speaker 1: of like, yeah, if you end up being last on
Speaker 1: the ladder, it doesn't guarantee you the first pick, but
Speaker 1: it gives you the highest percentage of winning the lottery
Speaker 1: to then get the first pick. So then if you
Speaker 1: do throw a game, was still technically a chance you
Speaker 1: may not get the first pick. Or like if you
Speaker 1: end up at the bottom of the ladder, there's still
Speaker 1: a probability that you may not get the first pick.
Speaker 1: So I love that situation. But yeah, this is this
Speaker 1: North game. Obviously, now it's rich events pretty much locked in.
Speaker 1: I think the first number one draft pick, and as
Speaker 1: we mentioned, you know, after the year they've had, they've
Speaker 1: had quite a few injuries and stuff throughout the year,
Speaker 1: but I think it would be a good little confidence
Speaker 1: booster for them to have that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they do need it, and I think they could
Speaker 2: be a bit of an exodus of players at the
Speaker 2: end of the year that they just try to pick
Speaker 2: up as many draft picks as they can and kind
Speaker 2: of start fresh. So it'll be interesting to see what
Speaker 2: they do with their trades. What else have we got here?
Speaker 2: Did you see Zane Durzman's mark in the weekend?
Speaker 1: She's always absolutely launched into the air its talking about
Speaker 1: it was the best mark of the round. Surely best
Speaker 1: of the round.
Speaker 2: Question that there was Radigalia had a nice little mind,
Speaker 2: but it was definitely the best mark of the round.
Speaker 2: But people always their first thing is to compare it
Speaker 2: to the other best marks of the year, which obviously
Speaker 2: Jamie Elliott's and Bobby hills marks. Does he have either
Speaker 2: of them covered?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a little bit biased, you could possibly
Speaker 1: say yes, But Bobby's just just clean landed, clean kicks
Speaker 1: the goal in front, now leg each shoulder, just what
Speaker 1: an iconic specky is. Jamie's also very very good and
Speaker 1: also gets over the person so like even even kind
Speaker 1: of higher you can almost say where Bobby kind of
Speaker 1: uses them to lift off them. Toilet player, Yeah, toilet
Speaker 1: player a key back. So I mean, I still don't
Speaker 1: know really, between Jamie and Bobby who's better. We'll let
Speaker 1: the deciders of the fans figure that out I think
Speaker 1: whenever it comes down to the end of the year,
Speaker 1: but I don't think. I don't think this one was better.
Speaker 1: In either one of those, it was good, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, it was good. It was good, But gosh,
Speaker 1: the other two is just tough to look past.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a bit more of a hang, that's
Speaker 2: what I like. That's why I've got Bobby's first, because
Speaker 2: it was like he rode the first bloke in to
Speaker 2: the second bloke and then got the post levitated, and
Speaker 2: it was the first mark that I've ever seen where
Speaker 2: the bloke lands on his feet. But it looks cool.
Speaker 2: He kind of like strutted off after the mark, like
Speaker 2: it's I think, like Ashley Sampy lands on his feet.
Speaker 2: That's probably the highest that I've seen. And then someone
Speaker 2: lands on their feet. But even that, I remember that
Speaker 2: back at the time, everyone's like, oh, if you had
Speaker 2: to landed on his spine and fold it up, it
Speaker 2: would have been so much cooler. It's weird how sadistic
Speaker 2: we were.
Speaker 1: Like gladiators just watching people just try.
Speaker 2: His neck, that would have been way better.
Speaker 1: Alex for solid.
Speaker 2: That was scar his head.
Speaker 1: Oh that got me cringe for let's go to the
Speaker 1: next thing we got.
Speaker 2: I want to know, does Ken Hinckley re sign with
Speaker 2: port now.
Speaker 1: Rhetorical question, man sign them, sign them for as long
Speaker 1: as a contract as you can. We are big Ken
Speaker 1: Henkley fans on this podcast, and like when over sitting
Speaker 1: over the weekend, you could say it was a big
Speaker 1: win for the club, you know, and maybe this is
Speaker 1: a good time to extend someone's contract. So it's kind
Speaker 1: of interesting. You're going into what three games off in
Speaker 1: the season, massive win over the people who are on
Speaker 1: the top of all ladder, and if you had kind
Speaker 1: of already penciled this in as something to do in
Speaker 1: your time, you know, as coach for the year, you
Speaker 1: would think it'd be now. You would think that port
Speaker 1: Aloud be coming out this week and saying, look, we
Speaker 1: just signed Ken to X amount of de x amount
Speaker 1: of years for a deal after what they performed on
Speaker 1: the weekend. You want to ride the high, right, You
Speaker 1: don't want to sit there and be like, oh, we
Speaker 1: signed Ken, you know, and they lost this weekend. So
Speaker 1: now you don't do that like you do it whenever
Speaker 1: you have a big win. So you think, if it's
Speaker 1: already in the heads of Port Adelaide that they want
Speaker 1: to sign him again, they'd be coming out with it
Speaker 1: this week.
Speaker 2: That is very true. If you were going to do it,
Speaker 2: and you were planning on doing it, you should do
Speaker 2: it this week, I think in the minds of every fan.
Speaker 2: So I would have to think in some minds of
Speaker 2: people at the club, the fact that he hasn't gone
Speaker 2: through to the Grand Final or like had any like
Speaker 2: silverware success at the club, that's just an unknown because
Speaker 2: they've done this before where they've signed him off the
Speaker 2: back of a great like season, they get to the
Speaker 2: finals and they go out in straight sets, or they
Speaker 2: have a real unlucky loss. They've had a lot of
Speaker 2: I was looking back earlier in the season when they
Speaker 2: wanted to sack Ken Hinckley, and they've had some really
Speaker 2: unfortunate losses. There was like the one where Luke Shouey
Speaker 2: did the shoulder up dive and he kicked it after
Speaker 2: the siren for the win, and like they've had a
Speaker 2: really rough run, or like they've come up against Hawthorne
Speaker 2: Dynasty team and lost that way, and stuff like losing
Speaker 2: in finals isn't as black and white as like looking
Speaker 2: at the you go back look at the stats sheet
Speaker 2: and go, oh, we lost. It's like you get caught
Speaker 2: on the wrong end of like a three peet hawthorn
Speaker 2: for like, no shit, A lot of people lost in fun.
Speaker 1: Like everyone lost in final.
Speaker 2: And they probably should have beaten them in one of
Speaker 2: the ones at the g which is crazy to think.
Speaker 2: So I hope Kenny just gets in there performs well
Speaker 2: in finals. I don't know what that looks like. If
Speaker 2: they make top two and get a home final, you
Speaker 2: kind of need to go like home final, home final,
Speaker 2: Grand find in everyone's heads.
Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit though, it's like how
Speaker 1: ruthless their fans are and how much expectation they have.
Speaker 2: I was reading stuff.
Speaker 1: I think that's like one of the reasons that like
Speaker 1: we always have the media always talks about kin Henckley's
Speaker 1: contractors because their fans are so passionate about like whether
Speaker 1: their team wins or losers, and they look at like,
Speaker 1: if you don't win the whole thing, it's an unsuccessful year,
Speaker 1: and that's like their mindset. I feel like every year
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, don't get me wrong, like you want
Speaker 1: to win the thing every single year, but like you
Speaker 1: have to realize that there's ten teams that are not
Speaker 1: even making finals every single year, and this guy is
Speaker 1: getting you in those top eight teams every single year.
Speaker 1: Like it's hard enough to get into that much less
Speaker 1: when the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I definitely feel like if your only chance
Speaker 2: happiness is winning a flag, like have that as everyone
Speaker 2: wants to win a flag, that's the ultimate. But if
Speaker 2: you're making finals, you're seeing more wins than losses every year,
Speaker 2: and that's it's a six month journey of happiness. Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like there's so many other teams,
Speaker 2: Like you think of North, You like they haven't won
Speaker 2: They've been winning five games a year for the past
Speaker 2: five years. Like that's that's rough. You want to talk
Speaker 2: about rough, that's rough. Yeah. So I don't know. I
Speaker 2: would like to see him signed, but I just think
Speaker 2: there's so much pressure. They're going to wait it out
Speaker 2: to see how the finals pan out. But I did
Speaker 2: want to ask because Port is on such a hot
Speaker 2: streak at the moment and nothing bigger than on the
Speaker 2: weekend absolutely demolishing the team on top of the ladder.
Speaker 2: But I just wanted to know in the lead up,
Speaker 2: like how important is a massive win like this going
Speaker 2: into finals, having that finals form like did you have
Speaker 2: that in the lead up last year where you had
Speaker 2: a big win or were you all tied all the
Speaker 2: way through? And then what does that do to the
Speaker 2: mentality that you can beat the best in the in
Speaker 2: the league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's like whenever you play some of
Speaker 1: the better teams, like we talked about, you want momentum
Speaker 1: as much as possible going into finals, and you know,
Speaker 1: a big scalp over a team that's at the top
Speaker 1: of the ladder is kind of like proof of the
Speaker 1: pudding and the confidence that you know, we can keep
Speaker 1: up and beat the best teams that are out there,
Speaker 1: and you sait there and go, okay, well if they're
Speaker 1: the best team on the ladder right now, like technically
Speaker 1: we're beating the team that's you know, predicted to be
Speaker 1: the Grand Final winner. So I think more than anything,
Speaker 1: it's like it's a confidence booster to say, you know what,
Speaker 1: we believe in our system so much that we're going
Speaker 1: to win games that there's no one else that can
Speaker 1: stop us as long as we play our way and
Speaker 1: to play the way we want to play. I think
Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing, and like for them going into
Speaker 1: finals as a major confidence booster, especially with a score
Speaker 1: line that happened for them to be going okay, like
Speaker 1: who's going to stop us? And how the hell are
Speaker 1: they going to do it? Right? And there's I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll look at it. I'm like, man, they're probably five
Speaker 1: six weeks ago people are questioning whether they're going to
Speaker 1: make the eight and it's like, then, Western Bulldogs, these
Speaker 1: teams have got to be a momentum right now. People
Speaker 1: are going, well, who's going to beat them? Yeah? So
Speaker 1: it's kind of this whole you know, flip of the coin.
Speaker 1: Now you got Brisbane in there too, is one quite
Speaker 1: a few of them right now of teams that were
Speaker 1: looked at as like no chance and then now at
Speaker 1: the right time, they're getting the right form and people
Speaker 1: are starting to go, well, you know, they're they're probably
Speaker 1: one of the best chances to win the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then yeah, on the flip side of the coin,
Speaker 2: what's it like coming up against the team that you
Speaker 2: know is on like a crazy good role, like coming
Speaker 2: up against Brisbane who's nine in a row. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: guess it depends where you are on the ladder. As well,
Speaker 2: because if it's like North coming up against Brisbane, that's
Speaker 2: one nine in a row, my god, it's we've had
Speaker 2: some down weeks or whatever. But like there'd be a
Speaker 2: part where you want to accept the challenge. There'd be
Speaker 2: a part like I imagine that you focus like crazy
Speaker 2: throughout the week to make sure everything's absolutely right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you always love rarning someone else's party. I do know.
Speaker 1: It's just like someone have always enjoyed. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you play up against those teams. You want to
Speaker 1: beat the best of the teams, best teams in the
Speaker 1: in the league. But also there's like there's little like
Speaker 1: wins within and little competitions within games, you know, whether
Speaker 1: it be like playing on Harris Andrews is one of
Speaker 1: the best defenders in the league, you know, and seeing
Speaker 1: how you can do against him, or playing in the
Speaker 1: Rock versus Oscar Market mcnernie, who's one of the best ruckmen.
Speaker 1: There's like little you know, competitions within competitions. So I
Speaker 1: test yourself against the best out there, and every time
Speaker 1: you do that, I feel like you kind of pick
Speaker 1: little things up of like okay, like I'm still bettering
Speaker 1: my game every time I play against these people. So
Speaker 1: there's that too, I think, And yeah, you want to like,
Speaker 1: you know, you play this game to try to be
Speaker 1: the best, right and to be the best, you have
Speaker 1: to beat the best. And I think that's one of
Speaker 1: the biggest things when we play the teams that are
Speaker 1: going well and are in a hot streak and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. I was like, all right, like, let's let's
Speaker 1: test our game plan against someone who's you know, in
Speaker 1: hot form right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I do always like seeing like pendles and croops
Speaker 2: line up on each other.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fun. I just wanted to bring up this
Speaker 2: news segment that I was thinking about. You let me
Speaker 2: know if this we could keep this or if this
Speaker 2: is I don't know. This is a nice little segment
Speaker 2: this week in players playing on after it looked like
Speaker 2: they were unconscious.
Speaker 1: Because what a name for a segment.
Speaker 2: We can workshop the name because I reckon it could
Speaker 2: be a little shorter, but it's something that happens every week.
Speaker 2: So we get the big marks, you get the mark
Speaker 2: of the year, or we get the big goals, you
Speaker 2: get the goal of the Maybe it's like unconscious Player
Speaker 2: of the week or something. But I've got another contender
Speaker 2: for you, because we've had a fair few, and this
Speaker 2: week's is Ben King because there was a moment in
Speaker 2: the game where he went into a contest got headbutted
Speaker 2: in the face pretty severely and it looked like he
Speaker 2: was knocked unconscious. So that's that's the name. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you can there's a correlation anyway, So he
Speaker 2: went down. He stayed down for ages. A teammate came
Speaker 2: up and immediately started waving for the doctors to come over.
Speaker 2: He wasn't moving this whole time.
Speaker 1: In fact, six.
Speaker 2: People came out and you know, braced his body and
Speaker 2: held his neck in position because they saw fit that
Speaker 2: it was a pretty bad situation for him. All this time,
Speaker 2: it still hadn't moved. Actually, they cut to a side
Speaker 2: shot and he had his eyes closed at this point
Speaker 2: in time, and he was kind of saying stuff and
Speaker 2: it didn't look great. He was on the ground for
Speaker 2: a lengthy period of time and it takes two people,
Speaker 2: two doctors to help him back up to his feet.
Speaker 2: He's a heavy unit, and he's got blood streaming from
Speaker 2: his nose and he's feeling for a loose teeth because
Speaker 2: he got a feeling head butted in the face so
Speaker 2: bloody hard. Anyway, they help him off the ground and
Speaker 2: then at this point in time, I'm like, oh, well
Speaker 2: he's out for the game, like a safe assumption when
Speaker 2: someone has been down for an extended period of time.
Speaker 2: Multiple doctors come out. You're bracing his neck, he's bleeding
Speaker 2: from the nose, he's feeling for his teeth as well.
Speaker 2: He passes his HIA, comes straight back out. I don't
Speaker 2: get it, Mace, but there is a weird correlation. And
Speaker 2: I'm not saying these things are all aligning. It's just
Speaker 2: funny that it's been Jeremy Cameron in a tight game
Speaker 2: where they needed to win. Not saying anything, not suggesting anything.
Speaker 2: Harris andrews Brisbane fine for an incident where he got
Speaker 2: told to come from the ground, didn't. It took pretty
Speaker 2: much a quarter for him to get off the ground.
Speaker 2: And he passes HIA after that, and then he got
Speaker 2: concussed in another incident later in the final quarter, so
Speaker 2: he got you know, he got concussed, and then Harry
Speaker 2: McKay didn't come straight off, passed his HIA, went out
Speaker 2: there and then had delayed illness, I mean illness. He
Speaker 2: had illness and then he missed and now we're just
Speaker 2: waiting on Ben McKay, ben Keith to see if he
Speaker 2: has any delayed symptoms in the space. But that's just
Speaker 2: a nice one because there'll be one each week and
Speaker 2: we can call it out. We'd talk about it.
Speaker 1: The concussion police. Is that what you're doing that?
Speaker 2: I think it's probably pretty important in twenty years though,
Speaker 2: people will look back at me as a bit of
Speaker 2: a you know, trailblazer in the field, me and Kinney.
Speaker 2: I know that he stands up for I don't know
Speaker 2: if I really want to be linking it, but like
Speaker 2: you know, we got to keep see something, say something
Speaker 2: they say, and I see a lot of unconscious people
Speaker 2: coming back out onto the field, see something saying put
Speaker 2: your hand up. Maybe he shouldn't come back out, but
Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll see if there's another one next week,
Speaker 2: and we'll see if Ben King delayed concussion symptoms.
Speaker 1: And then the AFL is going to hire you to
Speaker 1: be the eyes in the sky.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, someone's got to be because I can
Speaker 2: blind Freddy's not at at the moment. We move on
Speaker 2: to the big winners.
Speaker 1: I did not endorse that last Covet.
Speaker 2: We're moving on to the big winners because Port Adelaide
Speaker 2: we've already had a bit of a discussion about him.
Speaker 2: But there's some good stats. So they kept obviously Sydney
Speaker 2: gole Is to the twenty three minute mark of the
Speaker 2: second quarter, one hundred and twelve point winners, Mace, if
Speaker 2: you don't mind. And they had a couple of good
Speaker 2: players out there on the day, surprisingly and there well
Speaker 2: actually no surprises who they were. Zach Butter's thirty touches,
Speaker 2: two goals, this Rosie twenty seven and a goal, and
Speaker 2: then their.
Speaker 3: Ford line any finds for butteris no fines way oh clean,
Speaker 3: Well you don't have to do.
Speaker 2: You're punching them up on the scoreboard. You don't have
Speaker 2: to punch them up out on the field. But you've
Speaker 2: got Rioally got four, Georgiadi's got four, Dixon got three.
Speaker 2: So when Ford's are getting those numbers, no, it's not.
Speaker 1: Good, it's the chance you're probably going to win that game.
Speaker 2: I'd say, oh my goodness, I think that was.
Speaker 1: One obviously the biggest wins over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Yes, well literally and a.
Speaker 1: Statement game, like a huge statement game for Port Adelaide
Speaker 1: and Swans. You know, we play them next week, so
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say too much, but yeah, this
Speaker 1: was a shock. To be honest, I think this game
Speaker 1: was playing out whenever we had just kind of finished
Speaker 1: and you know, someone said that they hadn't scored in
Speaker 1: you know, like a quarter and a half and it
Speaker 1: was like seventy something to zero, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I looked at the person and told me. I was like, okay, seriously,
Speaker 1: what's the score And they were like, now, it's like,
Speaker 1: that's actually it. I was like, holy smoked. I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe it.
Speaker 2: But it was the little ticker in the bottom corner
Speaker 2: of Fox footy and I was just like I just
Speaker 2: keept ticking over. It looked like when I was putting
Speaker 2: fuel in the car, like it just kept I was like,
Speaker 2: what's happening down there?
Speaker 1: Geez so much? Yeah? Interesting, but yeah, it was. It
Speaker 1: was an interesting game. And credit to Port Adelaide for
Speaker 1: the big win.
Speaker 2: It's good to see him out there doing good things.
Speaker 2: A lot of interstate teams. We know, this is why
Speaker 2: the AFL is getting more fine money than ever because
Speaker 2: they're getting all these interstate teams in the top eight
Speaker 2: and then they're not going to be able to cash
Speaker 2: income finals.
Speaker 1: Oh we're going to talk about find here in a bit,
Speaker 1: don't you worry about that? Yeah, boys got a little
Speaker 1: bit of cash to pay to the AFL's Christmas party.
Speaker 2: We got GWS. That's another massive win because it was
Speaker 2: a real come from behind job. They kicked seven goals
Speaker 2: won in the last quarter to win it by a
Speaker 2: kick which Hawthorne only managed to kick the two goals one.
Speaker 2: They were up by about five goals heading into the
Speaker 2: last which is insane that so many comebacks this week.
Speaker 2: So lucky you guys held on. But they they've won
Speaker 2: five in a row and that one puts them back
Speaker 2: in the top four. How scary did GWS look at them? All?
Speaker 1: Your team? They're coming home strong, strong question? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it was credit to them. It was Hawthorne Sendado. They
Speaker 1: kind of had it like, you know, they're a decent amount.
Speaker 1: I've had it in the bag. And then credit to JBS.
Speaker 1: They came home strong, and yeah it's a big win
Speaker 1: for them. You know, getting into the top four there,
Speaker 1: you know, you obviously want to have that double chance.
Speaker 1: So that's I feel like every single game you talk
Speaker 1: about the team's trying to make the eight, but there's
Speaker 1: also those teams trying to make the top four and
Speaker 1: then obviously score differential kind of plays within that too
Speaker 1: and g w as you know, that double chance is
Speaker 1: a massive, massive advantage. So yeah, crowd to them getting
Speaker 1: the win over Hawthorn, who's now like Hawthorn is one
Speaker 1: of those teams it's falling into trying to find the eight.
Speaker 1: So it's you know, it's a big scout for them,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it's important for them, I think for the
Speaker 1: final chances.
Speaker 2: And Jesse Hogan man, that guy can take some one
Speaker 2: on one marks and he's just.
Speaker 1: Out of the way of other people trying to kick goals.
Speaker 1: You know, like last week he got peltered in the
Speaker 1: head by one of his own teammates.
Speaker 2: He's just a ball magnet at the moment because it
Speaker 2: just keeps finding it. But it's amazing. Just another one
Speaker 2: of those Hall of famers that smokes darts. See we
Speaker 2: got to sorry what you're talking about. We're talking about kids,
Speaker 2: don't listen to this part. But we have Max Gorne
Speaker 2: out there, one of the best players ever in the
Speaker 2: ruck and he's ex dart smoker. Then we've got Jesse
Speaker 2: Ogan darts smoker and he's kicking darts at the moment.
Speaker 2: Just it's we need more data on it. We need
Speaker 2: more data on it. I'm not saying start mace, but
Speaker 2: you might want to have a look at a pack.
Speaker 2: We go to have a look at him to go
Speaker 2: to that. He just popped into my head.
Speaker 1: Just pulled out of the who the next segment.
Speaker 2: Adam Trelaw two hundred and fiftieth game. He had thirty disposals,
Speaker 2: kick two goals, six clearances, eleven score involvements. He is
Speaker 2: playing incredible footy. He's got to be in all Australian
Speaker 2: He's at least got to make the squad. I don't
Speaker 2: know who beats him, but if he's not in the
Speaker 2: big squad, what are they doing? But there was an
Speaker 2: amazing moment between himself, Kimmy rav was there, his partner
Speaker 2: and then his other partner's partner in crime Josh Dunkley
Speaker 2: and his daughter Georgie up in the stands and ads
Speaker 2: gave him the love heart and uh yeah, it was
Speaker 2: a very nice moment.
Speaker 1: It's very cute. He's a he's a very much a
Speaker 1: family man, loves his family, and he's an incredible person.
Speaker 1: Like I've always had massive love for him, and it's
Speaker 1: in a messager. Yeah during the two hundred and fiftieth game,
Speaker 1: and you have to play big. You know, I played
Speaker 1: very well on a big time moment for your career
Speaker 1: and yourself is always cool to see and yeah, they
Speaker 1: had a big wing went over the weekend. And to
Speaker 1: kick a goal in that kind of milestone game too
Speaker 1: and show love to the family, I know that would
Speaker 1: have meant a lot to him. So now it's a
Speaker 1: great to him. I love good people having good things
Speaker 1: happen to him, and I think over the weekend that
Speaker 1: was one thing. Two hundred and fiftieth game obviously a
Speaker 1: massive accomplishment, but just a lot it's of him being
Speaker 1: able to play well within that and be able to
Speaker 1: celebrate it with his teammates and his family. Was a
Speaker 1: feel good moment, you know, it's a feel good moment
Speaker 1: of the weekend.
Speaker 2: It's one of those ones like throughout his career, he's
Speaker 2: had a few injuries, but as soon as he does
Speaker 2: and I know it's annoyed him at stages where he'll
Speaker 2: people like write him off when he's done a hamstring
Speaker 2: or whatever. And the way that he's playing footy at
Speaker 2: the moment two fifty three hundreds not out of reach,
Speaker 2: and to play that across three different clubs is quite amazing.
Speaker 2: I can't think of a player that's played to the
Speaker 2: level that he has that free.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy one of the ogs up there, wouldn't
Speaker 1: he Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah. To start, he was like in the
Speaker 2: original like part of the original team. Yeah to yeah.
Speaker 2: Now three clubs later, it's pretty crazy to think.
Speaker 1: Man, some of the stories from there other days j W.
Speaker 2: They used to train at like a public gym with
Speaker 2: like other people, like just like like just some fitness.
Speaker 1: Like eighteen year old essentially to can you imagine Can
Speaker 1: you imagine just like a bunch of eighteen year olds
Speaker 1: just starting up in the ANFL club and just being
Speaker 1: in Sydney were like no one bothers.
Speaker 2: You ten years old and they were training out of
Speaker 2: a shipping container. Imagine starting your AFL experience in a
Speaker 2: shipping contenter. You'd be like, oh, I thought you.
Speaker 1: Would have showed me that when our first came over here,
Speaker 1: be like here's our facilities and it's a shipping there,
Speaker 1: be like you can get stuffed man, I'm going back
Speaker 1: to America.
Speaker 2: I did want to ask you this because you did
Speaker 2: bring up that you sent a text over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Max Gorne on Triple M said that you sent him
Speaker 2: a text message saying welcome to pre Limp Folklore when
Speaker 2: he kicked five goals in the prelim final in two
Speaker 2: thousand and one. Is that true.
Speaker 1: I don't have his phone number. It was a tweet.
Speaker 1: I think it was a tweet whatever he said. I
Speaker 1: was like, Max, No, I'm happy to have you on
Speaker 1: the podcast. We will love we would love to chat
Speaker 1: to you, mate, don't get me wrong. But now I
Speaker 1: didn't text him. I think I tweeted it out. I
Speaker 1: don't know. We have to go check the x verse
Speaker 1: or twitter verse wherever it is. But three is a
Speaker 1: bit of a joke. So I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: I just love the big fellas, the big Ruckman just
Speaker 1: dominating them big games. Like I don't know, obviously, I'm
Speaker 1: going to have a bit of a soft spot for Ruckman,
Speaker 1: And it was great to see him just, you know,
Speaker 1: play a big game in a big moment.
Speaker 2: That get that. It was good that it got into
Speaker 2: the Grand Final. It was good that it got brought
Speaker 2: back up because I feel like some of that stuff
Speaker 2: that was COVID times just got glossed over.
Speaker 1: And it's like, I think everyone was in some real
Speaker 1: docres during that time that we're all trying to forget
Speaker 1: those two or three years even existed.
Speaker 2: As he kicked one on the run from like outside
Speaker 2: fifty and that was what goal.
Speaker 1: Square baby with this guy, not the Sinner Square Gold Squad.
Speaker 2: Anyway we're talking about kicker is.
Speaker 1: Does it makes sense that is a rectangler square.
Speaker 2: Jeremy Cameron just another one. Will give a bit of
Speaker 2: love to six goals, seventeen disposals, nine score involvements, eight marks,
Speaker 2: and he won the game off his own boot because
Speaker 2: in the dying minutes he went on an absolute gut
Speaker 2: busting run and took a mark in front of a
Speaker 2: pack that only he could take, went back, slotted the
Speaker 2: snap and celebrated hard.
Speaker 1: He said, very good celebrating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a few expletives in there. I'm not
Speaker 2: one for reading lips, but I could read what he
Speaker 2: was saying. But just yeah, we've sung his praises for
Speaker 2: years now, but he just does stuff that other people
Speaker 2: can't do.
Speaker 1: And I love the fact that Geelong just kind of
Speaker 1: like lets him go. Yeah, Like he just I feel
Speaker 1: like he does not have any structure to his game whatsoever.
Speaker 1: He's like I see ball, I go get ball. It's
Speaker 1: like go wherever you want, wherever you think kick gold
Speaker 1: you just be there.
Speaker 2: It's good luck going with him too, because he's like
Speaker 2: six foot whatever.
Speaker 3: He can run. You just see him the four line.
Speaker 3: He's in the back line. You're like, does he actually
Speaker 3: have a legit position on the field.
Speaker 2: He's an amazing field kick. He's field kicking incredible. But yeah,
Speaker 2: just another shout out to him because they definitely definitely
Speaker 2: wouldn't have won that game if it wasn't for Jeremy Cameron.
Speaker 2: On the weekend, a couple of special shout outs. Brisbane
Speaker 2: nine wins in a row, but you know they beat Saints,
Speaker 2: but they've beaten every you know, major team in the
Speaker 2: in the top eight. Western Bulldogs just keep winning and
Speaker 2: obviously got the win over Melbourne Essendon. It was they
Speaker 2: got the win. They did it the hardest way possible.
Speaker 2: Like I said, I was there and they were terrible
Speaker 2: for you know what this is we were talking about
Speaker 2: this last week is like they go to games, they
Speaker 2: stick it out, but they just seemed defeated, rolling up
Speaker 2: like like no one was hyped. Every goal they were like,
Speaker 2: like every goal in the first three quarters they were like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, cool, like watch your stuff this up or whatever.
Speaker 2: Frio was louder, and I was like, oh this. Going
Speaker 2: into the last quarter when Frio was up by like
Speaker 2: their five goals or whatever, I was like, oh, Esena's
Speaker 2: not going to fire a shot, like this is just
Speaker 2: another one like last week. And then out of nowhere,
Speaker 2: they kicked a goal, then kicked another one, and the
Speaker 2: crowd just woke up like they were just asleep. They
Speaker 2: weren't even complaining about free kicks or holding the balls
Speaker 2: or anything. They were just quiet. And then out of nowhere,
Speaker 2: they just blew the lid off the joint and I
Speaker 2: was like, Okay, they're here. And then they just got
Speaker 2: all this momentum off the back of it, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: if you just cheered them, But it's like I get
Speaker 2: why they're scarred, that are very scarred, but like if
Speaker 2: they just got right behind them, like I feel like
Speaker 2: they need to be as irrational as Carlton fans. Like
Speaker 2: Carlton fans think they could go out on the weekend
Speaker 2: and beat Prime Real Madrid or something like. They just
Speaker 2: they think they can beat anyone anywhere, anytime. And I
Speaker 2: don't know where they get that belief because they haven't
Speaker 2: done that forever. So like they need that belief. They
Speaker 2: need that level of delusional belief that Carlton has and
Speaker 2: that'll get them some more wins. Like you look when
Speaker 2: Carton had that in the finals last year. Scary to
Speaker 2: come up against them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure they were. They were definitely a force
Speaker 1: of finals. Yeah, likely.
Speaker 2: To get a stop somewhere and there. Let's talk about
Speaker 2: the big losers. We got Sydney on top of the ladder.
Speaker 2: It's hard to believe they're big losers.
Speaker 1: But they striking dissence of losing the top spot.
Speaker 2: They could get knocked off the top of the ladder
Speaker 2: this round, which is crazy. It's actually crazy that they've
Speaker 2: lost five of their last six and are still on
Speaker 2: the top. Like it just showed how far out in
Speaker 2: front they were. They got their wins early. It's the
Speaker 2: biggest loss for Johnny Longmeyer. He doesn't know what to do.
Speaker 2: Biggest loss by an eventual premier ever is one hundred
Speaker 2: points back in nineteen forty five tough, and that was Carlton.
Speaker 2: So Carlton back in nineteen forty five lost a game
Speaker 2: by one hundred went on to win the flag. So
Speaker 2: they're going to have to break that record to go
Speaker 2: on and win this flag this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, interesting, it's interesting. I'm just more impressed that
Speaker 1: you pulled that stat out of your ass. Stuff.
Speaker 2: It doesn't happen, Like, it just doesn't happen, Like the
Speaker 2: eventual premier has like a massive flogging.
Speaker 1: But this is the thing, right, Like he can sit
Speaker 1: there in himself, like Sidney's gonna make top four. I
Speaker 1: think we can all pretty much guarantee that. Ish, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, I Like, I don't I haven't looked at
Speaker 1: the score or the numbers yet, Like that's a.
Speaker 2: Well so close, do you think two rounds ago Carlton's
Speaker 2: second now the eighth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's I mean, I think like the top
Speaker 1: four are pretty I don't know anyway. Sydney Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they've lost four and sorry, five of the last six,
Speaker 1: but I think everyone that goes up against them knows
Speaker 1: how good Sydney can be. Therefore, if you drop your
Speaker 1: standards by even a little bit, you know that you're
Speaker 1: gonna get smacked by them. Yeah, Like I think everyone
Speaker 1: knows because they've seen how good Sydney's been all year
Speaker 1: that Sydney at their best can beat anyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's that same feeling that like last year, everyone
Speaker 2: was like, we need to get Collingwood. Collingwood just kept
Speaker 2: getting over the line. There was moments later in the
Speaker 2: year where you had a couple of losses leading into finals.
Speaker 2: Everyone threw it out the window Collingwood and like, no good,
Speaker 2: they're not going to do anything. I feel like, if
Speaker 2: anything we've learned this year and we're being patient, is
Speaker 2: that every big call that anyone's made this year, you
Speaker 2: just look like a goose, Like every big call, like everyone, Well,
Speaker 2: Bevo was sacked. Now he's got the hardest team in
Speaker 2: the camp. Hinckley was sacked. He's got the hottest team
Speaker 2: in the camp. Like GWS they lost their way like everything. Brisbane, Oh,
Speaker 2: they're done for Sack Fagan. Sack Fagan off the back
Speaker 2: of a Grand Final and like five years of success
Speaker 2: after taking them off the crap heap, and we're sacking Fagan.
Speaker 2: The nicest guy on the planet, seriously, the nicest, Like
Speaker 2: in the first half of the season. Like, I think
Speaker 2: we all need to take breaths, because we've tried it
Speaker 2: at times to have a couple of little hot statements,
Speaker 2: but it's just it doesn't work. So let's just chill
Speaker 2: out a little bit on Sydney, especially because I feel
Speaker 2: like they can definitely still do some damage. They only
Speaker 2: had a couple of injuries. It's not like they lost
Speaker 2: them all. But we'll wait to see how that all
Speaker 2: plays out because it's going to be an interesting one
Speaker 2: and obviously we know who they got this week all right,
Speaker 2: now moving on to Carlton because obviously they lost to
Speaker 2: Collingwood on the weekend four hours of the last five
Speaker 2: they've lost, which is a bit concerning. More concerning the
Speaker 2: one was North so that's not, you know, a big scalp.
Speaker 2: And then more concerning than that, the four that they've
Speaker 2: lost to have all been kind of in and around
Speaker 2: finals with gws Port, the Bulldogs, the hot teams. They
Speaker 2: all went down to those, and then Collingwood are on
Speaker 2: the precipice of doing something amazing hopefully and making finals.
Speaker 2: So that's you know, a few worrying signs. They're still
Speaker 2: getting scored against heavily they're not a great they're a
Speaker 2: great team for scores for, not so much scores against.
Speaker 2: For me, they're one crack away from Heaven Forbid Wetering
Speaker 2: goes down or something.
Speaker 1: That's weeding third.
Speaker 2: He's their best player if they didn't have him.
Speaker 1: Fripsenham like mad don't get wrong. Yeah, obviously the two
Speaker 1: forwards up top two, but like government, late in.
Speaker 2: The game, we're impossible to get pasted. It couldn't get
Speaker 2: it past them, so they kept pumping it back in.
Speaker 2: But they're just equally as important to each other. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know if how they can stand up through
Speaker 2: the I said it last week, but you know, finals
Speaker 2: gets more defensive. You need to be able to stop scores.
Speaker 2: And if they can do that come finals is the
Speaker 2: big question mark Heaven Forbid if they if they make finals,
Speaker 2: because there's still a chance they don't make finals.
Speaker 1: This week was saying they lost to US, which is
Speaker 1: chomping off the vandwagon. I was like, your team didn't.
Speaker 2: Know, said if they lose the Collingwood, they're done. They're
Speaker 2: not going to make finals. They'll go on, They'll get
Speaker 2: rolled by Hawthorne and whoever else. Somehow and get knocked out.
Speaker 2: We'll wait to see. I did want to know because
Speaker 2: obviously you kept their key forwards to one goal combined
Speaker 2: Harry and Charlie, which they've probably historically done really well
Speaker 2: against you guys in the past. So are they too
Speaker 2: reliant on those guys moving forward or is it still
Speaker 2: fine because if they spill it, if they drop it, it
Speaker 2: goes to their small forward.
Speaker 1: I think they do have like a bit of reliance
Speaker 1: on them kicking goals, right, Like you look at the
Speaker 1: games they win, those two guys are probably kicking two
Speaker 1: three goals apiece. But no, I think it was kind
Speaker 1: of like a credit to the Darcy Moore as a
Speaker 1: Jeremy Howse that I was like coiners to Billy Frampton's
Speaker 1: that you know, them playing defense over the weekend to
Speaker 1: keep them to that score line. But yeah, obviously you
Speaker 1: know they score really well and then on the other
Speaker 1: side sometimes they give up a lot of points as well,
Speaker 1: So like it's kind of a you know everything, like
Speaker 1: go hard to go home kind of thing, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's like you know everything and nothing, And I'm
Speaker 1: sure they're probably trying to figure out kind of what
Speaker 1: that looks like and how to fix that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's like they for them to win, like
Speaker 1: the numbers would say, like they need to kick goals
Speaker 1: and for them to do that usually the two people
Speaker 1: they look to do that is obviously the two big
Speaker 1: forwards and Harry and Charlie. So yeah, I mean, I'll
Speaker 1: give credit to our defense over the weekend and those
Speaker 1: are two, you know, really good forwards, some of the
Speaker 1: best in the league that I think they'll have one
Speaker 1: of them at least make the Australian squad. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you look at that and you go, okay, you know,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna win games, you gotta almost put the
Speaker 1: pressure on them, which is never a good feeling for
Speaker 1: them because a lot of it comes out of the midfield.
Speaker 1: And you look at the last quarter and their ability
Speaker 1: to pump the ball in and pump the ball in
Speaker 1: and pump the ball in and they got goals out
Speaker 1: of it. If they could have done that for four quarters,
Speaker 1: we would have never been in that game, you know.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's yeah, it's it's a credit. I think
Speaker 1: are tolls standing up in those mamas because if you
Speaker 1: looked at, like I said, the inside fifties in the
Speaker 1: last four quarter were insane. I feel like we didn't
Speaker 1: meet the ball past midfield. You're sitting there and you're
Speaker 1: seeing Jeremy How just punch and you're seeing you know,
Speaker 1: Darcy Moore punch on out and.
Speaker 2: Eight spoils or something ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Seem just like one after another. It was just like,
Speaker 1: good lord, let's get it out of that side.
Speaker 2: But they were good spoilers, those him and Jeremy How even.
Speaker 1: Iconic, Like have you seen the deflation of the ball
Speaker 1: the punch. Oh, we're gonna get a couple of this.
Speaker 1: It's like he's like punching the ball and like full
Speaker 1: spoiling and the balls like deflated in his hands. Essentially,
Speaker 1: it's epic. It's one of the best photos of the year.
Speaker 2: I think I think most fans would not be able
Speaker 2: to appreciate how the pill is hard as shit for
Speaker 2: like a normal person, that thing is hard as a rock.
Speaker 2: When you're kicking a fresh one points it's not great.
Speaker 2: So like punching it.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get the belly of the ball,
Speaker 1: that's for sure.
Speaker 2: That's not great. Let's move on. We've got a couple
Speaker 2: of special mentions because Frio really fumbled the bag again.
Speaker 2: They've had a chance to really go second out right,
Speaker 2: and then you're looking at the double final double final
Speaker 2: in Perth, like it's so important that they finish up
Speaker 2: there and they're fumbled the bag twice.
Speaker 1: Now, I was really gunning from over the weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw them. Actually, I was going for a walk
Speaker 1: in the afternoon. I saw them kind of going to
Speaker 1: their games. Hapthy Board was Matthew, one of the assistant coaches,
Speaker 1: one of the nicest guys. He was like helping them
Speaker 1: load the truck up. I was like, y'all love when
Speaker 1: iver I see like coaches or the assistant coaches helping out.
Speaker 1: A lot of shout out to Maddie Board.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of really nice guys they still have.
Speaker 1: I'd say, is the nicest team in the league.
Speaker 2: Is that good?
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's good, but like long, he's
Speaker 1: just an absolute legend, boy's absolute legend. I feel like
Speaker 1: Alex Pearce is the nicest human you've ever made. He's
Speaker 1: that's just such just great people, just good humans.
Speaker 2: You know, stand by if that's a good thing, or
Speaker 2: we'll just stand by that because I don't know if
Speaker 2: you're going to be a bit of a prick to
Speaker 2: win games a footy Melbourne Melbourne the other one there,
Speaker 2: Like I said, kill on the rack, wrap it up,
Speaker 2: give your boys the surgeries they need, start the process.
Speaker 2: Now let's go forward to the next year, because.
Speaker 1: Do you reckon it's after Petrokker out injury. They've kind
Speaker 1: of shoveled a bit. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I really thought that Clayton Oliver would probably stand up
Speaker 2: a bit more than they had Trent Rivers going to
Speaker 2: the midfield, and he's been good. But yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2: I think my logic wasn't mathing because it just means.
Speaker 2: It just means like if like people are going to
Speaker 2: put in work like normally, like a tag is like
Speaker 2: I've got to pick who I'm going towards. And now
Speaker 2: if no tracks out there, you can just like put
Speaker 2: more effort into Clarity or put more effort into Rivers
Speaker 2: or whatever. So yeah, I just don't think it's been
Speaker 2: their year. They've still got some pieces. You probably got
Speaker 2: to get some trades in. Some of their kids is
Speaker 2: like coming on really well, so interesting to see. I
Speaker 2: think Hodgy said that it's it's the end of the
Speaker 2: Melbourne era.
Speaker 1: Wow, I don't know about that. That's a statement from Hodgie.
Speaker 1: It doesn't give too many statements like that, big statement.
Speaker 1: He's getting reeled into these old clickbait things, isn't he.
Speaker 2: That's good. Let's move into the Collingwood game. Because Scott Pendlebury,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know if anyone he's aware
Speaker 2: of this, but he played four hundred games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how many people have done that?
Speaker 2: Five, five or six something. That's a real guest. I've
Speaker 2: seen him in the photos. I'm trying to close my
Speaker 2: eyes and imagine them sitting there. They were talking about
Speaker 2: it on the radio and Kevin Bartlett like one of
Speaker 2: his last games he had like forty touches and kick
Speaker 2: seven or something.
Speaker 1: Just casually.
Speaker 2: Bloke was forty years old, like real.
Speaker 1: Gered raph had but them I want to say, in
Speaker 1: his final game, it's just like everything inside fifty kick
Speaker 1: to him.
Speaker 2: Calm down anyway, Pendall's had a great game. I did
Speaker 2: want to say this off the top because I did
Speaker 2: see this this and then it just gets sadder and sadder,
Speaker 2: and I don't want to kick Essendon down. Pends has
Speaker 2: been in the league for twenty years. He's won two flags,
Speaker 2: he's won a Norm Smith. He's recorded over ten thousand disposals,
Speaker 2: he's won five Best and Fairest, very good any time
Speaker 2: in the league. But he's never seen Essendon win a final.
Speaker 1: It's just that's a lot hagging free.
Speaker 2: Why how of these players like Jack Inovan. I was
Speaker 2: having a Twitter fight last year with someone and it
Speaker 2: was like, I don't think jack Inavan was born. That's
Speaker 2: like you got people from birth all the way up
Speaker 2: to their life as a footballer and they've never even
Speaker 2: seen him. When that's no wonder. They're so deflated. Anyway,
Speaker 2: this is a thing about Pendles. I want to ask you.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to give a dry by and aid
Speaker 1: it didn't y. There was no reason for you to
Speaker 1: pull that statistic out. You're just like, oh no, let's
Speaker 1: let's beat him by their down.
Speaker 2: It's just an amazing thought. It's actually hard to fathom.
Speaker 2: I did see the thing Footscray got their first win
Speaker 2: in ten thousand days because they are the Western Bulldogs
Speaker 2: and they played his footsground the weekend and they got
Speaker 2: to win his.
Speaker 1: Footscro did see it on the ladder.
Speaker 2: That was interesting, Yeah, so interesting. But the Pendlebury song,
Speaker 2: Dude's so good.
Speaker 1: Loved it.
Speaker 2: So what happened did he come in?
Speaker 1: He pre game that he came in pre game against
Speaker 1: free Mail. Never I got knocked out at that game,
Speaker 1: and great memories. I do remember this part of the
Speaker 1: night though. In pregame he came in. There's this kind
Speaker 1: of went off on TikTok a bit. I think you've
Speaker 1: liked this whole thing of like him kind of given
Speaker 1: an ode to Pendlebury on his guitar and he comes
Speaker 1: out and like Craig does some really funny stuff pre game, right,
Speaker 1: he wore clown shoes this week. You know, he does
Speaker 1: some unique things. He juggled some lemons this week. It's
Speaker 1: very impressive.
Speaker 2: I must say, figure out how that goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's used the field from Pendles and such that
Speaker 1: we got too. But it was yeah, it was it
Speaker 1: was I don't know, it was good. It was good.
Speaker 2: I liked it.
Speaker 1: I liked it. I was impressed. I just needed my
Speaker 1: shoes back after he finished. But no, he he came
Speaker 1: in pregame and he like sang the song and it
Speaker 1: was just like hilarious, man like, and everyone got in
Speaker 1: and one started clapping and cheering, you know, and doing
Speaker 1: the same stuff. And singing with him, and you know, Pendles,
Speaker 1: he's a humble man, like he doesn't want to say
Speaker 1: anything like out of line. So it's just funny to
Speaker 1: see him almost feel uncomfortable with us giving him so
Speaker 1: much praise. It's like kind of makes us do it more.
Speaker 1: I think at times like, well he deserves at one,
Speaker 1: but I think it was quite funny. So he actually
Speaker 1: came back and then performed that in front of the
Speaker 1: whole stadium pregame. Yeah, and we were down at the
Speaker 1: room so we didn't actually hear it, but he did
Speaker 1: a few changes I think.
Speaker 2: To this song, the lyrics for the three hundred plus
Speaker 2: one at the G and all that's it was, because yeah,
Speaker 2: I thought the first one was really cool.
Speaker 1: But imagine this guy who's just put together a song,
Speaker 1: put it on TikTok, and next thing you know, you're
Speaker 1: performing to like eighty ninety thousand people at the G
Speaker 1: in the same year.
Speaker 2: Sometimes social media, like the tiniest amount of times can
Speaker 2: have like a really positive violin check.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, dude, she's awesome. I love that girl. She's cool.
Speaker 1: She's very good.
Speaker 2: A's done some wild ship in their pregames before, like
Speaker 2: the hovercraft.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's my favorite things I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: I just one day I want to get on that thing, Like, where.
Speaker 2: Is it at the bottom of the arrow? It sank
Speaker 2: in the era? No, it's sank it in the era.
Speaker 1: You're kidding that.
Speaker 2: I had to pull it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my, I didn't know this. Can we clip
Speaker 1: that into the video? Even?
Speaker 2: I think Collingwood had on VIC Park they was it
Speaker 2: Collingwood vic Park or Carton Icon, but they had an
Speaker 2: elephant out there running around.
Speaker 1: Sorry, what an elephant? An elephant?
Speaker 2: I don't even know where you get an elephant.
Speaker 1: Front it's a picket full forward in an elephant for
Speaker 1: pre game? Yeah, wow, what is the weirdest thing? How
Speaker 1: do people describe it? I just don't get it. They
Speaker 1: used to do and then being able to get in scuffles. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll get into that kid going.
Speaker 2: When I first started in the league, they had they
Speaker 2: tried to bring in dances like cheerleaders.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like like Rugby has.
Speaker 2: Like at the Big Bash. The Big Bash has the
Speaker 2: dances on the side and stuff, and it's like the
Speaker 2: amount of times they try to bring in crap and
Speaker 2: people are just like, we like the football, Like, we
Speaker 2: like the game. We don't need Katy Perry coming down,
Speaker 2: Bloody Katy Perry. Anyway, let's get into it.
Speaker 1: Do you ever feel like a bag? Just actually, you
Speaker 1: know what my phone I think was listening to us
Speaker 1: last week because that song came on like three times
Speaker 1: this week and I was like, can you stop? I
Speaker 1: did not enjoyed this. Move to the next one. Play raw.
Speaker 2: It's better than a new one. But I want to
Speaker 2: know highlight from the week because they would have been
Speaker 2: so much. Scott Pendlebury in your week, what was a highlight.
Speaker 1: For there was a lot. It was really cool. We
Speaker 1: had like kind of a moment where we went to
Speaker 1: a theater and credit to all the other guys. I
Speaker 1: think Kevin Barblo was the only one that wasn't there
Speaker 1: because he had just had some kind of operation or something.
Speaker 1: But to have the other four hundred gamers come in
Speaker 1: and like show respect in that sense, that was really cool.
Speaker 1: Dustin Fletcher has been on this podcast. You know I
Speaker 1: was there, so I got to say high to him.
Speaker 1: But that was kind of a cool moment I think
Speaker 1: where you do realize, I guess the connection that AFL
Speaker 1: has with some of these guys, you know, they're kind
Speaker 1: of forever you know, associated with each other now and
Speaker 1: that was that was really neat for them to kind
Speaker 1: of show respect and show up in that moment and
Speaker 1: do all the photos and stuff with them because like
Speaker 1: they're not getting paid for that, you know, like they're
Speaker 1: not getting anything extra. They're just doing it because you know,
Speaker 1: they understand how how big of a moment that was
Speaker 1: and how big of a you know, experience it is
Speaker 1: for him to be able to reach four hundred games.
Speaker 1: So that was really cool for me. And then like
Speaker 1: Pendall's family, Like I think people talk about him how
Speaker 1: he's not like kind of soft hearted now and he's
Speaker 1: got his kids and his wife and you know the
Speaker 1: rest of his family were there over the week, and
Speaker 1: it was just cool to see them so involved throughout
Speaker 1: the whole week and him just you know, being a dad,
Speaker 1: like being like an awesome dad who's you know, just
Speaker 1: loves the hell out of his kids and wants to
Speaker 1: get them as involved as much as possible, and you know,
Speaker 1: getting them inside the inside the team song and singing
Speaker 1: it with us and stuff like that, like that stuffs
Speaker 1: really cool. I think that's like something that you you
Speaker 1: look back on, you know, throughout your life and you say,
Speaker 1: those are some of the best moments. Whenever you get
Speaker 1: to have the whole family there and have them involved
Speaker 1: in some of the stuff is pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Now, old dog new tricks. Yeah, Pendle's pulled out the
Speaker 2: banana from deep in the pockets.
Speaker 1: I almost lost it so good. I was in the
Speaker 1: rock and I was like in the middle of the
Speaker 1: ground and I saw it come off of his boot
Speaker 1: and I was like, there's a chance, Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: fair chance. And it was. It was probably like half
Speaker 1: a foot like I mean like millimeters from actually going through.
Speaker 2: And nick the inside of the post and went through.
Speaker 1: Insane it's and it was a dart.
Speaker 2: He puts some like speed on it.
Speaker 1: There was no arc to it. It was just like
Speaker 1: it was like he missed it and then he kind
Speaker 1: of like smiled after it and he turned around. We'll
Speaker 1: hosk it. Elliot's just like laughing and pissing himself of
Speaker 1: like if that would have gone in and this place
Speaker 1: would have just lost itself and just you tear the
Speaker 1: joint down like it was unreal. It was. There's a
Speaker 1: decent kick, but unfortunately I didn't go through.
Speaker 2: It was like in my head, I'm like, you're already thinking, Okay,
Speaker 2: he's going to center and he's going to do this
Speaker 2: and that, like what he is.
Speaker 1: I do love the audacity of going the banana from
Speaker 1: the boundary on your four hundred. If anyone could do it, well,
Speaker 1: I just slide on that one.
Speaker 2: Jeez. Yeah, it would have been that insane. I just
Speaker 2: wonder where he's practiced then, because it's like you've never
Speaker 2: seen him pull it out in a game really, so.
Speaker 1: Like we're not on the run. Yeah, probably one of
Speaker 1: those little cheeky sat shots for a coffee at the
Speaker 1: end of the training session. But yeah, far if it
Speaker 1: would have gone through, man, I would have lost my mind.
Speaker 2: Well, he did have a good game, twenty seven touches,
Speaker 2: nine clearances and pivotal late got into a couple of
Speaker 2: good positions late in the game and held up some
Speaker 2: time and hit a composed target. Yeah how did you see?
Speaker 2: I guess how did you see his game? But how
Speaker 2: did you see how the whole game panned out? Because
Speaker 2: you started well, first three quarters was you know, back
Speaker 2: to Collingwood's you know footy, Yeah, as Fly said postgame,
Speaker 2: and then you know the last quarter. It was just
Speaker 2: holding on for dear life.
Speaker 1: So I think they started winning the center clearances in
Speaker 1: the last quarter, and that kind of put our defense
Speaker 1: under pressure, bur.
Speaker 2: Because Jordi went down and he was having a hell
Speaker 2: of a game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Jordi went down to his hamstring out of
Speaker 1: the middle. So then we you know, we brought in
Speaker 1: Patty Lepenske. You played really well, I thought, and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, we lost a few center clearances and they
Speaker 1: were coming out and whenever you lose territory that quickly,
Speaker 1: and obviously like them after a first goal, second goal,
Speaker 1: a bit of momentum. It was. It was, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was looking pretty rough there for the fourth quarter, but
Speaker 1: you know, luckily enough our defense kind of held up
Speaker 1: at the very end and was able to stop him
Speaker 1: enough times. They did have an opportunity obviously on the siren,
Speaker 1: but I think there was probably oh cheese. It feels
Speaker 1: like there have been ten other entries that could have
Speaker 1: been you know, marked and kicked for a goal before that.
Speaker 1: So it was it was a back and forth game.
Speaker 1: It's kind of everything you asked for in a football game,
Speaker 1: you know, like the back and forth two arch rivals,
Speaker 1: a big crowd, like, you know, a big momentous occasion
Speaker 1: of four hundred games for a person and then you know,
Speaker 1: to win on his four hundredth and like it just
Speaker 1: seemed like everything was falling in place for this beautiful
Speaker 1: kind of moment for him, and so yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was great and Pendles played really well. I think,
Speaker 1: like you always talk about those clutch moments and having
Speaker 1: people I can handle the pressure and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: Like he was just seemed like he was finding space
Speaker 1: where there wasn't space and being able to get out
Speaker 1: of the kind of pressured situation. Whenever we're in our
Speaker 1: back half and you look at the last kind of
Speaker 1: minute and a half, there's a few little kind of
Speaker 1: handballs and getting it out to the outside that were
Speaker 1: quite important for us to be able to, you know,
Speaker 1: chew it a time off the clock.
Speaker 2: You yourself two goals on the on the night wine,
Speaker 2: the big double arm wing spread. I couldn't even fit
Speaker 2: it into the Instagram picture.
Speaker 1: It look like an idiot, it looks. And then you
Speaker 1: got the mouth guard in, you got the booty shorts
Speaker 1: and the tank top, and you're just like, man, what
Speaker 1: am I doing?
Speaker 2: I feel like I feel like watching you, I could
Speaker 2: see the little roller decks in your head going through
Speaker 2: the celebrations, like what do I just arms out? Just
Speaker 2: do something, Just give me well, I want to know
Speaker 2: your second goal. You run up to Nick Newman, who
Speaker 2: was manning the mark, and it was like, you're going
Speaker 2: to get him a bit of beef. But he realized
Speaker 2: you were coming ahead of time and grabbed your jumper
Speaker 2: dragged it to the ground, which I thought might have
Speaker 2: been a free kick.
Speaker 1: The rules, but you would think so, but.
Speaker 2: It sparked a bit of a malle Now talk me
Speaker 2: through that.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing, right, I don't know I got
Speaker 1: fined over the weekend. I understand I was in a
Speaker 1: melee and not just being in it apparently is enough
Speaker 1: to get a fine nowadays. Someone else, someone else tries
Speaker 1: to elbow you in the head and grab your jumper
Speaker 1: and throws you to the ground. You didn't actually touch
Speaker 1: anyone like That's that's a whole nother conversation. But I'm guilty.
Speaker 1: I'm guilty, Braden, Yes, but I feel bad for Luck.
Speaker 1: He's Schultz and then Jordan Boyd because they also got
Speaker 1: fined the same amount as myself. And then Nick Newman,
Speaker 1: who kind of I would say, is probably the main
Speaker 1: instigator and this whole thing you could, yeah, you could
Speaker 1: say that would instigate something. Right, he kind of gets
Speaker 1: the same penalty, but because it's his second offense, he
Speaker 1: gets a little bit more money. Right, So we're all
Speaker 1: under the four of us essentially all get fined, and
Speaker 1: I have the same reasoning for the fine. But then
Speaker 1: Schultz and Jordan Boyd like who were just kind of
Speaker 1: pulling people off each other. I was like, and Jordan Board,
Speaker 1: I think just like fell into me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, I mean like he's opposition, Like, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, but like I kind of felt bad.
Speaker 1: I was like, come on, man, like that's really twelve
Speaker 1: fifty just to like fall into me.
Speaker 2: Like what Sultz was a weird one. Shultz went up
Speaker 2: there and he likes out of grabbing players to look
Speaker 2: like the pull, and then he was gone before the
Speaker 2: group even dispersed, and he got fined. I don't know
Speaker 2: how they pulled his out randomly, but I did want
Speaker 2: to bring this up because it is interesting because obviously
Speaker 2: the finds are in place to incentivize people getting in
Speaker 2: malaise because it's a bad look there's families, there's kids
Speaker 2: at the ground, and you want to you don't want
Speaker 2: it trickling down to the lower leagues and the kids
Speaker 2: and all of that stuff. But why do they promote
Speaker 2: it on social media and on the AFL website.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a great question, Brandon. I mean, you can't
Speaker 1: have your cake and eat it too, right. You can't
Speaker 1: sit there and find players but then promote it as
Speaker 1: one of the highlights of the game or something that
Speaker 1: you want to put on social media. Yeah, like it's
Speaker 1: either one or the other. You can't. That's where I
Speaker 1: kind of am a little bit annoyed, I guess by
Speaker 1: the situation of saying like, hey, we're going to promote
Speaker 1: it on social but also we don't want you to
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, it's like, if you don't want to do it,
Speaker 1: then you probably don't promote it to socials. And the
Speaker 1: reason you don't want to do it is because you
Speaker 1: don't want some people to see it. You don't want
Speaker 1: to be promoted to at a younger age. Then why
Speaker 1: are you putting it onto platforms that are dedicated to
Speaker 1: showing it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, and kids are going to see it, they
Speaker 2: have more access to it. They get to watch it
Speaker 2: over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: But I'm guilty, Brandon, I'm not going past this.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: I am guilty.
Speaker 2: It's just weird. I don't I don't get it. And
Speaker 2: it's it's not like it's always listed up as some
Speaker 2: journalistic thing where it's like, terrible incident happened, avoid doing this.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, Mason.
Speaker 1: Boiled over, here we go. The fans love it. The
Speaker 1: fans love it, but we don't like it.
Speaker 2: It is a bit of fun, costly, costly fun. But yeah,
Speaker 2: there was a bit of I thought it was weird.
Speaker 2: Luke Darcy calling out for fines during the Yeah.
Speaker 1: Luke, hey, Luke, don't be calling out for fine. As
Speaker 1: soon as you say fines, you know what the AFOL
Speaker 1: is going to do fine your ass. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: look after the players to be one of.
Speaker 2: Them on the broadcast. I don't mind it when the
Speaker 2: umpires are saying, boys, there's going to be fine, because
Speaker 2: that's normally what they do. They just give you a
Speaker 2: little bit of warning and then people go, yeah, actually,
Speaker 2: I want to buy a new TV. I want to
Speaker 2: play it. Actually got a weekend coming up, so anyway,
Speaker 2: I did want to bring up Jordan to go his
Speaker 2: injury because out for the rest of the season, which
Speaker 2: is tragic. He's had a bit of a bad run
Speaker 2: this year. Yeah, and kind of trying to find a
Speaker 2: place in there. Obviously not at one hundred percent, And yeah,
Speaker 2: did high hamstring a bit of tending out for the year.
Speaker 2: How do you know, how do you attempt to cover
Speaker 2: that because I imagine you can't really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Jeordi obviously is a hell of a player.
Speaker 1: It's very tough to try to fill his shoes, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. But you know, he's, like you said, he's
Speaker 1: been injured for quite a bit of the year, so
Speaker 1: we've had some different people go through there, and you know,
Speaker 1: it gives opportunities to other players to play in that
Speaker 1: kind of midfield role. And yeah, would love to have
Speaker 1: Jordi out there, of course, like he's you know, in
Speaker 1: our best twenty three and unfortunately over the weekend he
Speaker 1: had the hamstring injury and we're not going to be
Speaker 1: able to see him for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like I said, it gives opportunities to other people. Hopefully,
Speaker 1: you know, we can get someone else to step been
Speaker 1: to that role and you know, be someone who can
Speaker 1: break lines and be able to do some special stuff
Speaker 1: that we know Jordi can do and fit into our
Speaker 1: game plan like you know they have over the last
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen weeks. I feel like really, so you know,
Speaker 1: Jordie's had his I think it's been as groins and
Speaker 1: a few of the things he's had issues with, so
Speaker 1: you know, other people have had to be able to
Speaker 1: play different positions to cover for that. So we'll continue
Speaker 1: to do that as a team and you know, hopefully
Speaker 1: it gets better as soon as possible.
Speaker 2: And he's not an old dog. They're always saying, oh
Speaker 2: the old dogs are going to start falling off, and
Speaker 2: as these young bucks coming through. This one now the
Speaker 2: most important one for the podcast. The game ended up
Speaker 2: in Mitch McGovern's hands as he had a shot after
Speaker 2: the siren, and I thought the one bloke I didn't
Speaker 2: want to see the ball in his hands with him,
Speaker 2: so or maybe Blake Acres because he has a man
Speaker 2: he has a way of kicking goals. But yeah, Mitch
Speaker 2: McGovern's mark, where were you and then you ended up
Speaker 2: manning the mark for the final kick?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I was I was downline, so I kind
Speaker 1: of you know, hoping we kick the ball, you know,
Speaker 1: towards the boundary. You waste a bit more time. And
Speaker 1: I kind of look up and I see McGovern kind
Speaker 1: of just darts and just takes off four Hi'm going,
Speaker 1: oh shit. So of course, me knowing that's kind of
Speaker 1: my god, I've got to try and sprinting good after him.
Speaker 1: So I was about four to five steps behind him,
Speaker 1: and you know, the ball gets thrown in, I'm thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: four or five steps, like by the time it actually
Speaker 1: hits hands, like I'll be able to get to him
Speaker 1: and hopefully be able to you know, be able to
Speaker 1: man him up. And unfortunately, like Pitta, takes out of
Speaker 1: the rock and snaps it right away, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, And I just see it kind of fall
Speaker 1: straight into his life, and I was like, you gotta
Speaker 1: be kidding, Mail, Like it's could have gone anywhere else
Speaker 1: in the ground. You're like, would have been able to influence,
Speaker 1: but like that one little kick, and I was like shit. So,
Speaker 1: so the mark as you want to as the biggest
Speaker 1: guy on the ground, you know, so you definitely want
Speaker 1: to be the person on the mark. He's about forty out,
Speaker 1: so you're going maybe he has to kick fifty to
Speaker 1: fifty five, and yeah, you kind of like the game's
Speaker 1: out of your hands really, like you can't really do much.
Speaker 1: And yeah, he just sit there. The umpire comes up
Speaker 1: to you and he goes only up and down, don't
Speaker 1: move anywhere else, and you're like, all right, don't screw
Speaker 1: that up. Yeah, don't give him fifty.
Speaker 2: Did you ask about that or did he just tell you?
Speaker 1: They usually tell you if it's in a kind of
Speaker 1: a moment where there's extra time that might happen, like
Speaker 1: it'll kind of make sure that that's the case. Some umpires,
Speaker 1: some do, some don't. But kind of said that in
Speaker 1: the moment he goes, look, you can only jump up
Speaker 1: and down, I was like, yep, done this before, mate,
Speaker 1: And yeah he lines up and yeah, being the person
Speaker 1: on the mark, you know, you're kind of like the
Speaker 1: first person to see the ball come off the boot.
Speaker 1: I feel like, so whenever he was kind of coming up,
Speaker 1: I kind of saw it and it didn't come cleanly
Speaker 1: off his boot, and I kind of knew from that
Speaker 1: moment like that it was probably not going to go
Speaker 1: through unless some wind picked up in the MCG and
Speaker 1: took it about ten meters left, So yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was a scary feeling because it's you're a man
Speaker 1: who's kind of like, come off you in that moment.
Speaker 1: It was smart play by him to be honest to
Speaker 1: push forward. But yeah, it's a bit of a scary moment.
Speaker 1: But luckily it kind of worked out in our favor
Speaker 1: and we got to win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was we went I think it was Jordan
Speaker 2: Lewis or someone on the coverage was saying like it
Speaker 2: was a really high i Q play for Mason Cox
Speaker 2: to make sure that he got on the mark first
Speaker 2: man in the market. So we won't tell him that
Speaker 2: it was your man.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, but it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was amazing. Like I said, I saw him
Speaker 2: get the ball and I was like, not him and
Speaker 2: then yeah, I don't know. It looked like he just
Speaker 2: tried to kick the shit out of it and skewed
Speaker 2: off the boot and yeah, go lucky in especially late
Speaker 2: in the game. So yeah, there was a little moment
Speaker 2: where Patrick Cripps was doing a fist pump before he
Speaker 2: kicked it, which was very interesting because I don't know
Speaker 2: if he was trying to convince himself that he was
Speaker 2: going to kick it or if he was that convinced
Speaker 2: that he was going to kick it, but unfortunately for
Speaker 2: Kripper and the Carlton team, he didn't kick it. So yes,
Speaker 2: very interesting. There was another moment that I'll just say
Speaker 2: what and I'm going to skip straight past it, but
Speaker 2: it was fifty seconds left, ball on the wing and
Speaker 2: it goes to Jamie. I'm like, game over. He's just
Speaker 2: going to run it all the way to the forward
Speaker 2: line and he just let it go out of bounds,
Speaker 2: like half grabbed it, looked up, dropped it over the
Speaker 2: line and just jogged off and I was like, no,
Speaker 2: that's very important that you got that ball, mate. But
Speaker 2: it all turned out fine, and he's probably got a
Speaker 2: couple of clutches up his sleep.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, drop, that's fun. The first person that's
Speaker 1: mentioned that the game.
Speaker 2: So that hurt my heart that moment. I was like
Speaker 2: what happened because I was like he's away anyway. Let's
Speaker 2: jump into the previews long podcast Sydney Collingwood SCG Sydney
Speaker 2: coming off the massive loss, Collingwood coming off and nail
Speaker 2: biting win, Massive Finals implications Sydney could lose the top spot.
Speaker 2: Collingwood needs to win every game to be a chance
Speaker 2: to make the top eight. How are you feeling going
Speaker 2: into the game. That was a great promo.
Speaker 1: I'm up, yeah, up in Sydney. So we got to
Speaker 1: fly to Sydney SCG at their home, oh Stadium, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure Alamia is going to give them a little
Speaker 1: bit of a rocket up their ass. Sorry Lomier, Lomar, Sorry,
Speaker 1: is going to give bit of a rocket. So it's
Speaker 1: going to be Yeah, it's going to be a tough game.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. Sydney top of the ladder
Speaker 1: for a reason.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: We've said it multiple times, and they seem to play
Speaker 1: well in these big games where you know, I think
Speaker 1: the last time we went up there was jeez, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I always go back to that free limb. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I always go back to that prism. I think we've
Speaker 1: played them since then. I go back to that game
Speaker 1: and that was back and forth. Was unreal. But yeah, Sydney,
Speaker 1: we know their top of the ladder for a reason.
Speaker 1: They're a good team and it's going to be a
Speaker 1: challenge for us to go up there and try to
Speaker 1: get the win. But yeah, hopefully we can.
Speaker 2: Do that and We talked about it earlier in the pod.
Speaker 2: If you go up there get the win against Sydney
Speaker 2: and Sydney you get the confidence carry you all the
Speaker 2: way home, so you'll love to see it. So we're
Speaker 2: hope and Collingwood goes up there and gets the w.
Speaker 2: We've got Brisbane VGWS at the GABA. There's so many
Speaker 2: big games this year.
Speaker 1: For spot. Yeah, Brisbane trying to continue their little streak
Speaker 1: they've got going at the moment, the gab Bar the Fortress.
Speaker 2: Still Yeah, I think Brisbane win this.
Speaker 1: Win this game.
Speaker 2: I shocked either way, though.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked by I know it's going to
Speaker 1: hurt you going against your boys the same, but Brisbane
Speaker 1: on a roll, smashed, absolutely smash their opposition this week,
Speaker 1: So you can't go past the side.
Speaker 2: I've had a bit of Devil's Advocate. You got Jesse
Speaker 2: Hogan versing Harris Andrews. But then outside of that, the
Speaker 2: defense kind of falls off. A lot of injuries in
Speaker 2: the Brisbane defense, a lot of good goalkickers in the GWS.
Speaker 1: True, true, true, It's going to come down to the
Speaker 1: small forwards. I'll say, oh, that's.
Speaker 2: A massive call from Mason Cox you heard it here
Speaker 2: first on the Mason Cock Show. North Melbourne versus West Coast,
Speaker 2: Bloodstone and Arena. I think that Tasmania down in Tazzi
Speaker 2: every week do they have home games here?
Speaker 1: Well, they're trying to get as many games as they
Speaker 1: can before the Tasmanian team comes in.
Speaker 2: What we're going to win this too and go back
Speaker 2: to back?
Speaker 1: I reckon they will.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean if you're West Coast now, like going to
Speaker 1: Tasmania and playing they're knowing you're not making finals, and jeez,
Speaker 1: it would just be a grind, absolutely grind. Let's grim. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll go North Melbourne on this one double two on
Speaker 1: the trot.
Speaker 2: That's fine. You just can serve your energy West Coast
Speaker 2: because then you've got Carlton next week at home, so
Speaker 2: you load up on that one. Free o versus Geelong
Speaker 2: optus another massive one.
Speaker 1: This is a This is almost the game of the week.
Speaker 1: I'd say, I still wo.
Speaker 2: This is free free. Off the back of that disappointing
Speaker 2: last they get a bit of the river, they come
Speaker 2: out here, they beat you along. Who's not very convincing
Speaker 2: at the moment either for a team that's inside the
Speaker 2: top eight.
Speaker 1: Let's go Jeremy Cameron over under five goals.
Speaker 2: Oh he has these pockets of form, so I'd say
Speaker 2: anders but four but like four and twenty six.
Speaker 1: Casual, just another day now the park, another down the park, free,
Speaker 1: We'll go freeer winning.
Speaker 2: At home Essendon, Gold Coast Marvel Stadium.
Speaker 1: Geez, this is just interesting. Gold Coast really probably out
Speaker 1: of the eight now and realizing that truly.
Speaker 2: Real drop when you know you're done done.
Speaker 1: Some teams do, and I'll be interested to see, like
Speaker 1: this is the thing. Gold Coast is always like yeah,
Speaker 1: you get to like three quarters away through and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's a chance, there's a chance of making the top eight,
Speaker 1: and then they kind of they just don't get over
Speaker 1: the line, right essid In obviously needing a win to
Speaker 1: keep the phonal finals hopes alive. Man at Marvel, Cheeky
Speaker 1: B wants to go gold Ghost. I actually just wants to.
Speaker 1: I don't think it happened, but you know, I'm all
Speaker 1: for big comments and big statements. Man, put it in
Speaker 1: cock lock. That thing gold Coast signs beating at Marvel gesus.
Speaker 1: That's why, man, you're beating down that's in for no reason.
Speaker 1: I've joined the squad.
Speaker 2: I'll go even I felt about them all podcast Melbourne
Speaker 2: v Portack in Melbourne, do they put the Q on
Speaker 2: the rack? I wonder if they rest Gorne or something
Speaker 2: like that, knowing I'll they've still got a cheeky winning
Speaker 2: I'm reckon, but I'm going to go Port at the
Speaker 2: G because if they can do this, then they can
Speaker 2: kind of do anything.
Speaker 1: I think it'd be a good experience for Port to
Speaker 1: be playing the MCG as much as they can for
Speaker 1: it back end of the year. They obviously playing Adelaide Light,
Speaker 1: Skinnier Oval and everything else, so there's much opportunity for
Speaker 1: them to play at that ground. Knowing that they if
Speaker 1: they make it all the way, they'll have to play
Speaker 1: there eventually in the finals. It's a good opportunity for
Speaker 1: them to get a win and feel confident on that ground.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's a good call. Carlton Hawthorne. This is
Speaker 2: a massive game. Carlton needs to win two on the
Speaker 2: run home to make finals, and they've got some two
Speaker 2: or three. Yeah, they got some pretty like easier games
Speaker 2: they got West Coast than they got Saints, so they
Speaker 2: can lose and still make it. But you don't want
Speaker 2: to be flirting with that form. Yeah, I'm I think
Speaker 2: I've got pretty much every cuck clock.
Speaker 1: You do not sound confident, whatsop.
Speaker 2: I think I've got every cock clock right for the year,
Speaker 2: like I'm on Farker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because your vy ass was going real.
Speaker 2: In the beginning. So I'm going to say Hawthorne is
Speaker 2: going to win this game.
Speaker 1: With the g.
Speaker 2: Wow, I just wanted to.
Speaker 1: We're just pissing off the biggest fan bases.
Speaker 2: Just because it just it's just another crazy layer for
Speaker 2: the ladder. I just want the ladder to be as
Speaker 2: close as possible top the bottom going into the last round.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just like every game being so important, insane. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Hawthorn too. I know
Speaker 1: that's four. That's a big statement. They're gonna have to Yeah.
Speaker 2: They're gonna have to win it if they're going to
Speaker 2: make finals.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think man, Hawthorne's just gotta they get
Speaker 1: that swag baby.
Speaker 2: In the weekend really hurt them against GWS Richmond Saint
Speaker 2: Kilda at Marvel. I'm going Saints in this one. I
Speaker 2: feel like Richmond knows they needs like just simmer off
Speaker 2: for the rest of the.
Speaker 1: Year Saint Kilda essentially not a home game for Saint Kilda,
Speaker 1: but pretty much on their home deck. I'm going to
Speaker 1: go Saint Kilda to get the dub.
Speaker 2: Still a super frustrating year for Saint Kilda fans because
Speaker 2: they were nowhere and now they're coming home with.
Speaker 1: The finals last year. Yeah, can you imagine that? Can
Speaker 1: you think? Like it's crazy to say that because it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like it seems like it was ages ago, but.
Speaker 2: They actually the web sale and for what they're going
Speaker 2: to finish like twelfth or thirteenth or whatever, it is,
Speaker 2: Like that's just so frustrating for their fans. Anyway, I'm
Speaker 2: going to go Saints in that one, and then Adelaide v.
Speaker 2: Brisbane in Adelaide versus Brisbane, I mean Adelaide versus Western Bulldogs.
Speaker 2: The Bulldogs have been beating everyone, but Adelaide have been
Speaker 2: Adelaide too more threw over teams on the way home
Speaker 2: and they play an exciting brand footy and when they
Speaker 2: get the right matchups they can beat anyone. So this
Speaker 2: is a real hard one too. I'm going to go
Speaker 2: Bulldogs just because they're in just exceptional form.
Speaker 1: Of them I'm going to go Adelaide in an alb Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just man, I just like being the upset city.
Speaker 1: I see that stuff it, I can see it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Anyway, that's it for the pod.
Speaker 1: Is it from the pod? Yeah? Thanks everyone for listening
Speaker 1: and I hope you enjoyed that. Hopefully. What are the
Speaker 1: games over the weekend? Unreal, so many close ones, exciting
Speaker 1: for all fans involved. Hopefully your team won.
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