Speaker 1: Hey, Legends, welcome back to The Mason Cox Show. Massive
Speaker 1: Grand final episode CAESU is done and we're premieres.
Speaker 2: Baby, there's two parts to this thing.
Speaker 1: It's so big, and the first part we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about everything. We talk about nerves, we talk about the
Speaker 1: adrenaline beforehand the parade, Kiss goes on to the stage
Speaker 1: and just rocks the joint. And then we get into
Speaker 1: the actual game, the big moments, the key players, everything
Speaker 1: that happens. There's so much to cover in this episode.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to settle amps. It is a massive
Speaker 1: one before we even get into the second part of
Speaker 1: the celebrations and everything else that goes on. So thank
Speaker 1: you so much for getting into this, but we're starting
Speaker 1: right now. Okay, Legends, there is a ton to go through.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest, without further ado, Welcome Brandon Cox.
Speaker 2: We made to the finish line the football season.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, man, this is the first time I've
Speaker 3: seen you and really heard from you. I tried to
Speaker 3: like give you your space and let you have your
Speaker 3: time in the sun. But it's time to dissect. We
Speaker 3: got questions that we need answered. We want to know
Speaker 3: who's the best one who got the drunkest. We want
Speaker 3: all the dirty details. We want to know all about
Speaker 3: the game. We want to know about that smother from
Speaker 3: Zach Bailey should have been fifty meters. I'm telling you,
Speaker 3: I almost lost another TV may so I got to
Speaker 3: get a sponsorship for TVs because I'm almost running out
Speaker 3: of them every other week. There's plenty to go through
Speaker 3: on this one. So I want to start by saying
Speaker 3: congratulations Mason Cox premiership player.
Speaker 2: Sounds good.
Speaker 3: How's it for?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels. It feels interesting. I don't know, like
Speaker 1: there's like a word to really encapsulate it. There's I think,
Speaker 1: like my mother asked me after the game. She was like,
Speaker 1: you know, like how do you feel? I was like,
Speaker 1: I kind of feel and we'll talk about more about
Speaker 1: kind of this. I guess the emotions after the game
Speaker 1: a little bit later. But there's a sense of like
Speaker 1: complete less completness to it. It's not fully complete, but
Speaker 1: like to be able to go from zero to now
Speaker 1: being a premiership player and experiencing AFL through the highs
Speaker 1: and lows and everything it has to give, there's a
Speaker 1: bit of like full circle kind of wholeness to it.
Speaker 2: If that makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. I felt it after and like
Speaker 3: watching you through every moment that it was like you
Speaker 3: get your metal like post Siren, post Game, all of that.
Speaker 2: And it just.
Speaker 3: And it is lucky. Not a lot of people in
Speaker 3: their AFL career get to have a neat finish. Not
Speaker 3: that you're done, but it's been a crazy movie like
Speaker 3: experience highs and lows all the way through, and to
Speaker 3: get a premiership towards the end, it just felt like
Speaker 3: it meant like so much and it rounds out this amazing,
Speaker 3: like incredible journey that you've had. And I can only
Speaker 3: imagine we'll get into it, but it must have been
Speaker 3: just overwhelming in that moment of just you took a
Speaker 3: massive fucking risk doing everything that you did and coming
Speaker 3: over here and a moment of like it's all been
Speaker 3: for something, like it's complete. It's the journey is complete
Speaker 3: with the result that you got, there's.
Speaker 1: Still more to come. Look, I'd like to do it again.
Speaker 1: Already we're like sitting a week or while or like
Speaker 1: a week after it happened, I'm already sitting there thinking
Speaker 1: about twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: We got two more years, may as well go the
Speaker 3: three pep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I mean, that's the goal, right, got to
Speaker 1: get to Justin Leappich and Craig McCray area kind of things, you.
Speaker 3: Know, Yeah, when you got those two just sitting there
Speaker 3: talking to you every week like smug bus.
Speaker 2: But now we'll get into it. There's quite a bit
Speaker 2: to cover.
Speaker 1: As you can imagine, there's it's a pretty massive, I
Speaker 1: guess moment in my life, pretty amazing experience for everyone involved,
Speaker 1: fans and everything else, and the intensity of the game
Speaker 1: and everything that happened. It's there's a lot of dice
Speaker 1: acting go through, and like even now sitting here, I
Speaker 1: still don't feel like I've fully had the chance to
Speaker 1: really understand everything that happened. Like I haven't really had
Speaker 1: a chance to look back through the whole vision of
Speaker 1: the game and listen to it and all that. You
Speaker 1: kind of get little bits here and there from people
Speaker 1: of what happened and what they were going through their
Speaker 1: heads at certain times, but I haven't really had the
Speaker 1: quiet moments myself to kind of look back on it
Speaker 1: all yet, which I'm kind of looking forward to.
Speaker 3: Well, you will have what an eighteen hour flight back home.
Speaker 2: To just sit download it loaded.
Speaker 3: Well, let's jump into it, and we won't start with
Speaker 3: the game. We'll start with the lead up because it
Speaker 3: is a big week. And last week, well, in the
Speaker 3: prelim week, you were talking about how it is just
Speaker 3: a normal week and everything's the same and you're all
Speaker 3: fine grand finals not like that Grand final. You got
Speaker 3: like the training where tens of thousands of rock up
Speaker 3: to see you just train sick, and then you've got
Speaker 3: the parade talk us through the week that was.
Speaker 1: We thought, well, it was quite stressful, if I'm being
Speaker 1: honest with you. There's a lot of people that come
Speaker 1: out of the woodworks. I think there was people texting
Speaker 1: me and this was a sign where someone texted me
Speaker 1: at one point and you know how you can see
Speaker 1: the last time someone texted you was like whatever date,
Speaker 1: it was like six years ago, and they were asking
Speaker 1: for Grand Final tickets and I was like, yo, homie,
Speaker 1: great to hear from you. First of all, let's just
Speaker 1: go back to that. Besides you just asking me for
Speaker 1: Grand Final tickets right away, and I was like, you're
Speaker 1: not going to get tickets over my family, Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you.
Speaker 2: In six years, bro.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So there's that many people I guess that I
Speaker 1: came out of the woodwork and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that came there and said, like, you know, good
Speaker 1: luck on the weekend. Like there's just a lot of
Speaker 1: influx of messages and stuff that you know, I've been
Speaker 1: able to meet so many incredible people over my experience
Speaker 1: here that you know, big moments like that in your career,
Speaker 1: in your life, a lot of people reach out, which
Speaker 1: is awesome, don't get me wrong, but it can feel
Speaker 1: overwhelming and you kind of have to get to that
Speaker 1: point where.
Speaker 2: I got to.
Speaker 1: It was like Thursday or Wednesday, and I just shut
Speaker 1: the phone off because it was just like I felt
Speaker 1: like I was just spending my whole day answering back
Speaker 1: to people on my phone and I'm saying thanks, thank
Speaker 1: you for all the kind words. So yeah, that was
Speaker 1: it was kind of full on, a lot of commitments,
Speaker 1: a lot of things come your way. I think I
Speaker 1: did the puck drop for the hockey, which was awesome
Speaker 1: to have an American teams over here, you know, and
Speaker 1: and be able to have the NHL here, which was sick.
Speaker 1: It was so cool to have that representation here and
Speaker 1: they loved it. All the NHL guys went to the
Speaker 1: prelim game, and even after the Granny, they were like
Speaker 1: messaging on Instagram. We're like, dude, unreal, congratulations. We watched
Speaker 1: like the game all while it was f and sick,
Speaker 1: like loving yet watch like yeah, and it's cool because
Speaker 1: like these people don't know what it is and they're
Speaker 1: kind of it's it's awesome to have them share an
Speaker 1: experience of kind of what I went through in the
Speaker 1: beginning of like learning what IFL is, finding out it's
Speaker 1: an incredible sport, and then kind of like getting stuck
Speaker 1: into it and becoming a fan. Like it's that kind
Speaker 1: of coming to understanding of what it is and that's
Speaker 1: exciting for people, and it was cool for the NHL
Speaker 1: guys and then to do that, and then there's a
Speaker 1: million other things. I try to keep it as normal
Speaker 1: as possible and you say no it to a lot
Speaker 1: of things which might upset people, but like you have to.
Speaker 1: You have to try to make time for yourself and
Speaker 1: that's kind of that's very hard in a grand final
Speaker 1: week where you feel like you're getting pulled from one
Speaker 1: thing to another. But you know, I took that time.
Speaker 1: I guess back towards the back end, or I was
Speaker 1: like sleep deprived still from the game, you know, on
Speaker 1: the weekend and I'll just spent a day to myself,
Speaker 1: which was quite nice and just got to relax, took
Speaker 1: a nap while like jazz and that kind of reset me,
Speaker 1: which is good. And then we went into the parade,
Speaker 1: which is the weirdest thing in the world. Did you
Speaker 1: a parade before you win? And like before you play
Speaker 1: a granny?
Speaker 2: Very odd? You have to admit Australians.
Speaker 3: It is weird.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it looked like celebrating the game, not the winner.
Speaker 3: It was a real stretched out looking one down past
Speaker 3: the Yarra this year.
Speaker 2: I fan of that, by the way.
Speaker 3: And you did get the oldest looking car out of
Speaker 3: the lot. It was weird that they just chucked in
Speaker 3: this old thing that they found on the phone.
Speaker 2: I know it was.
Speaker 1: It was an old school to highks, I want to say.
Speaker 1: And I I got to ask, like who do you
Speaker 1: want to be in the car with. I said like,
Speaker 1: I'm happy with whatever. I'm happy to go on my own.
Speaker 1: If there's an extra, which that was the case, is
Speaker 1: like there was a odd number, so it was like
Speaker 1: I'm happy to go on my own. A stress so
Speaker 1: I got my own car, which is like an old
Speaker 1: school one, which.
Speaker 2: Is just very me.
Speaker 1: I feel like it was very much like okay, that
Speaker 1: makes sense, right, and we went through it and like
Speaker 1: it's just kind of cast. We got like a bus
Speaker 1: from the club to John Kine Arena, which is literally
Speaker 1: across the street. Like it's absurd stuff like that, because
Speaker 1: it was just that many people and that much chaos.
Speaker 1: And then you go in there and you get prepped,
Speaker 1: you get into the truck and it's just it was
Speaker 1: cool because it was a different it was a different
Speaker 1: route you take, so you went through kind of like
Speaker 1: the park and you went up and then over a bridge.
Speaker 3: And yeah, like wasn't through the city or anything.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like they shut off a lot of roads,
Speaker 1: which I think was maybe a bit of a Cashi's.
Speaker 3: For the boats.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I went for the boats, which is a real
Speaker 1: cutback on the on the budget to now cutting back
Speaker 1: a little bit for the walk through the park. But
Speaker 1: it was awesome because there's more people I could come right, So,
Speaker 1: like you get a street and there's only like maybe
Speaker 1: three or four rows of people can have deep where
Speaker 1: this was like tons and tons of people and it
Speaker 1: went through the activation area next to the MCG which
Speaker 1: was really cool, and it just kind of went through
Speaker 1: that iconic area where all the sporting precinct is and
Speaker 1: that was awesome, and there's people all.
Speaker 2: Over the place. Got a Taylor Swift bracelet, huge show.
Speaker 2: Someone threw on that. I didn't see.
Speaker 1: It was on the ground next to me, and I
Speaker 1: was like, halfway through the parade, I looked at I
Speaker 1: was like, Taylor Swift bracelet, whoever.
Speaker 2: You gave me that.
Speaker 1: I also got some Taylor Swift bracelets shipped into me
Speaker 1: from California this week, so I'm getting him from everywhere.
Speaker 1: Huge fan excited for February, not from Taylor. Yeah, not
Speaker 1: stoked about her and Travis Kelcey, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: but it's still a Taylor fan.
Speaker 2: But now the parade was insane. It was so hot though.
Speaker 1: I was like, i'll talk about this later kind of
Speaker 1: how that I feel like affected me on Grand Final day,
Speaker 1: but going for like two or hours plus whoever was
Speaker 1: on the back of the truck with nothing, it cooked
Speaker 1: me for a bit, Like it was a bit wild.
Speaker 1: But there were so many people there and it was
Speaker 1: obviously like a majority Callingwood fans, which is awesome and
Speaker 1: you feel that love and energy and everything else, and
Speaker 1: every once in a while you get that Brisbane fan
Speaker 1: that just you know, and because Brisbane went first to
Speaker 1: the parade, Yeah, so I can imagine. We love Callingwood
Speaker 1: supporters obviously, but they can be a bit ruthless at times,
Speaker 1: you could say, and I don't know what was said
Speaker 1: to them, but once we got to that stage, I
Speaker 1: felt like they had just been through a trial.
Speaker 2: It was a bit of rough. I felt like the
Speaker 2: Callingwood fans might have been like you gotta.
Speaker 3: Get that's crazy to think of because you wouldn't like
Speaker 3: I haven't ever thought of that, but it's like an
Speaker 3: away team and it's just it's like Game of Thrones,
Speaker 3: like this shame like they would have been like thrown
Speaker 3: to us.
Speaker 1: It was like a ninety percent calling it at least.
Speaker 1: And then like the funny thing is, remember I went through.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while, you see a few Brisbane
Speaker 1: supporters and they give it to you, and I was like,
Speaker 1: if they're giving it to me as a one in ten,
Speaker 1: like the nine out of ten would have been given
Speaker 1: it to all the Brisbane players coming through beforehand, so
Speaker 1: that would have been rough. It wouldn't have been an
Speaker 1: ideal situation. It wouldn't been as enjoyable. That's probably I
Speaker 1: enjoyed it on your head.
Speaker 3: You're probably like, oh see the praise is.
Speaker 2: Going to be found. Great.
Speaker 1: They're just berating you like game. Like you said, just
Speaker 1: through the streets.
Speaker 2: It was wild.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if that's true or not, whether
Speaker 1: that they did do that, I'm not here to confirm
Speaker 1: and deny, but given them circumstances of what I heard
Speaker 1: from some Brisbane supporters, I could only imagine what was
Speaker 1: coming to them before us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's you're just sitting in the back of the
Speaker 3: yet in they hate going through, just people yelling at.
Speaker 2: It, raiding you.
Speaker 3: This is so good.
Speaker 1: Can't confirmed Andy in the comments let us know if
Speaker 1: that's true or not, or maybe if you were one
Speaker 1: of those people. But yeah, that was insane. It was
Speaker 1: like a thirty degree day. I feel like it was
Speaker 1: so hot, no shelter whatsoever. And we got up on stage.
Speaker 1: It was cool, like to be able to experience the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Like I didn't see my family as we
Speaker 1: went through, but I had one of my best friends
Speaker 1: out of all the people I randomly saw them at
Speaker 1: the very end, like smash through a crowd, and that
Speaker 1: was awesome to see them. They've been there through my
Speaker 1: whole journey, which was cool. But we got up to
Speaker 1: the stage and the same thing happened in twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: that happened here, and I look down the into the audience,
Speaker 1: you know, and I see my dad who's already wearing
Speaker 1: Cockzilla shirt, full Collingwood kit from head to toe. And
Speaker 1: then he's got this iconic like full like mohawk hat
Speaker 1: thing he had on, and his smile was just beaming
Speaker 1: from ear to ear. It was the greatest thing to say.
Speaker 1: And like all the boys are like, oh, Mason's dad
Speaker 1: can't miss it, just bang right in front of their stage.
Speaker 3: Just helps like it's strategic the hat, Like you got miss.
Speaker 2: That's for sure. They're not missing that, man.
Speaker 3: So I want to talk us through because you're up
Speaker 3: on stage with all the boys. There's a little backstory
Speaker 3: with the cup, so we all know the captain's presented
Speaker 3: the cup, they hold it up in front of the
Speaker 3: crowd for the photo opportunity. Then there's word that Fly
Speaker 3: has given some instruction to Darcy about holding onto the
Speaker 3: cup as long as possible.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 1: Maybe hopefully we get Fly on I can talk a
Speaker 1: little bit further on this, because there was some there
Speaker 1: were some things that were said and that we're done
Speaker 1: on that stage that you know, rep up right.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll bring Craig on at some point.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about getting them on for a while,
Speaker 1: so we'll get on and tell them that. But I
Speaker 1: think there's even in twenty eighteen, there was a thing
Speaker 1: and on stage right it's like whoever has their hand
Speaker 1: on the cup last? You know, it's a bit of
Speaker 1: like a power statement, right, like we're gonna be the
Speaker 1: ones that win this, you know, And before you get on,
Speaker 1: it's like it's kind of a it's a known thing
Speaker 1: by both clubs, I feel like, and our club is
Speaker 1: really well aware of it. So as soon as you
Speaker 1: lifted up, we're all sitting there going look. And then
Speaker 1: they stood there for like ten seconds and they wouldn't
Speaker 1: put it down, and they're just having a stare off
Speaker 1: between the two of them, I feel like him and Harris.
Speaker 1: And then eventually I think the first was taking the
Speaker 1: photographers just kind of like this is getting super awkward.
Speaker 2: Can we move it on?
Speaker 1: We got yeah, like you you could stop, you can
Speaker 1: stop pozy, right, So they turned around and it's kind
Speaker 1: of like they're both like stop lifting it up. They're
Speaker 1: both handy, like hand on the handle like next to
Speaker 1: their hip, just looking at each other. And then eventually
Speaker 1: Harris gave it up first, and then we all were like, ah.
Speaker 3: That was because they showed they were talking about it
Speaker 3: on the TV and it was like, oh, you can
Speaker 3: see the trophy shift, which must have meant like Darcy
Speaker 3: Moore held it last. Meanwhile, like if you just looked
Speaker 3: at fly flies doing double fist pumps.
Speaker 2: Eating up, he was like he was turning over.
Speaker 1: He was like, enjoy it, guys, like this doesn't come
Speaker 1: around every single year, Like you have to enjoy, you know,
Speaker 1: this this moment in life, like some people might be
Speaker 1: the only time they get to experience this, you know.
Speaker 1: Or so I'm like, you know, you might be fortunate
Speaker 1: to experience a few times, but every time it's different
Speaker 1: and for different reasons, So like, soak it all up
Speaker 1: while you can't, like and he's always been like that,
Speaker 1: you know, enjoy the experienced kind of person. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it was so funny up there, like everyone's going around
Speaker 1: Darcy and there's no chance Darcy.
Speaker 2: Was gonna I mean he would have took that thing home.
Speaker 2: I feel like if you had a chance to.
Speaker 3: It's like a box face off when you're like staring
Speaker 3: them down, and like some people think like I've got
Speaker 3: them in this moment, like I won the stair down.
Speaker 2: I wonder to do that, like Captain should do that.
Speaker 1: Screw the cup hold, let's just go straight face off
Speaker 1: and then one pushes the other and then both teams
Speaker 1: getting a massive scuffle and then it's on for film.
Speaker 3: I think young and old Fly would be at the
Speaker 3: front and giving his celebrations.
Speaker 1: Now the ninety thousand calling supporters probably wouldn't up the
Speaker 1: stage and.
Speaker 2: Just walk their ass.
Speaker 3: Now you talk about like some people don't get to
Speaker 3: enjoy it. One person that did get to enjoy it
Speaker 3: late call up Billy Frampton franchise all well, I was
Speaker 3: going to say all week it was discussed who comes in,
Speaker 3: who comes in? But Fly kind of did it everyone
Speaker 3: in the favor, including Billy himself, which I'm sure he
Speaker 3: would have appreciated the most. But announced it early, said
Speaker 3: look you're in the team, You're going to play early
Speaker 3: in the week, so took all those like questions out
Speaker 3: of it and like who like to talk through the
Speaker 3: media all week? And I guess he really got to
Speaker 3: enjoy the moments as much, if not more than most.
Speaker 3: How was that within the group, When did you guys
Speaker 3: find out what was kind of that moment? Because at
Speaker 3: the same time as you have that moment, you've got
Speaker 3: two three teammates that have unfortunately missed out on the opportunity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was I think like our first training session,
Speaker 1: the question was always going to be there, right because
Speaker 1: whenever Dan went down, we found out would be like
Speaker 1: six to eight weeks PCL whatever it was with the knee,
Speaker 1: and there's obviously a void to be filled. And we
Speaker 1: knew Harris Andrews is a massive threat of there, so
Speaker 1: we couldn't just leave that open. So we'd have to
Speaker 1: put someone in that position that would be able to
Speaker 1: handle his ability. So that first training session I kind
Speaker 1: of thought like, well, I might just play forward DC
Speaker 1: plays full time rock. We just shift things around that
Speaker 1: way and we maybe don't feel that gap or I'm
Speaker 1: the one that feels like gap and I just take
Speaker 1: play less rock. Time we were in training, I sat
Speaker 1: there and the first thing you see the board of
Speaker 1: everyone on the board in what position they're playing, and
Speaker 1: Billy Franmftin was in the Ford line.
Speaker 2: I was like, I guess this is happening, k big bf,
Speaker 2: let's go.
Speaker 3: He had such a trial by fire because obviously filled
Speaker 3: your role in the ruck when you were.
Speaker 1: Down Darcy Camera's out, I was out. He played like
Speaker 1: six weeks in the rock.
Speaker 3: Plays back obviously, and now I've been launched forward for
Speaker 3: the Grand Final.
Speaker 1: He's played more games out of position than actually in position,
Speaker 1: which is quite funny, Like I don't think he would
Speaker 1: have played one or two games in defense probably the
Speaker 1: whole year, and played like ten games throughout the season.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize that he's a big boy.
Speaker 1: He's massive, dude, He's he's only he might be the
Speaker 1: strongest sky of the club.
Speaker 2: Really is huge.
Speaker 3: It looks unassuming him and bel.
Speaker 1: Can like definitely bitch more than me, no doubt, and
Speaker 1: it's like he's just a beast. He's impossible to move.
Speaker 1: So yeah, whenever he was put in that position, it
Speaker 1: was it was called early, which is awesome because then
Speaker 1: Billy doesn't have like the anxiety around it.
Speaker 2: He knows he's playing.
Speaker 1: He can mentally get ready for the experience and the
Speaker 1: you know, like the craziness that comes with it. So
Speaker 1: for him to get that early is like, you know,
Speaker 1: the coach showing confidence in him to be able to
Speaker 1: fill that role in that position, and knowing what he
Speaker 1: would have to do on the weekend early allows him
Speaker 1: to prep for that with proper time. So it was
Speaker 1: cool and Billy, you know, obviously we'll probably talk about
Speaker 1: a bit more during the game, but like you know,
Speaker 1: he didn't have the most touches, but probably was one
Speaker 1: of the most important people on the ground for us.
Speaker 1: So it was incredible what he was able to do.
Speaker 1: And he's a journeyman. You know, he's been to Adelaide
Speaker 1: and Portolaide number here, and he's a person that's probably
Speaker 1: been tossed around, never really known exactly where he's going
Speaker 1: to fit in the side, and he's always filled roles
Speaker 1: and that's what we did throughout the year. And then
Speaker 1: you know, has this amazing opportunity to play in a
Speaker 1: Grand Final and he made the most of it.
Speaker 3: And then unfortunately early week Taylor Adams was trying to
Speaker 3: get up through his hamstring injury. Unfortunately didn't get there.
Speaker 2: And did it again yeah, trying to get back for it.
Speaker 3: What are the boys do? What can you do? You're
Speaker 3: trying to focus on your game going into the week
Speaker 3: you got the heartache of like one of the leaders
Speaker 3: of the club going down was almost best one in
Speaker 3: the twenty eighteen Grand Finals, so it would have been
Speaker 3: pretty much hard ache to get back to this situation.
Speaker 3: How do you reach out to someone and what do
Speaker 3: you feel that you can say?
Speaker 2: And that's situation. There's nothing you can say that can
Speaker 2: fix the problem? Right?
Speaker 1: Can you there for support for him and all that?
Speaker 1: It's a terrible situation. Tays like he was because he's
Speaker 1: obviously gone to Sydney now, Like he he's a leader
Speaker 1: of the club, someone who it would have hurt so
Speaker 1: much for him not to be a part of that
Speaker 1: like and not to have him at all at the
Speaker 1: end of it, and it hurts everyone that he's not
Speaker 1: able to have that fulfilled because he's been such an
Speaker 1: integral part for our club for so long and creating
Speaker 1: the culture and holding upholding the culture a lot too.
Speaker 1: And he did his hamstring like he was every day
Speaker 1: he was in the club. That that little sliver of
Speaker 1: hope that he could get back he made the most
Speaker 1: up and he's doing all the rehab, all the running
Speaker 1: in there every day, like spending as much time as
Speaker 1: he could, doing everything possible to make sure it was
Speaker 1: all right. And then it was maybe like a couple
Speaker 1: of training sessions before he had I don't know if
Speaker 1: he pined it again or something happened where he simply
Speaker 1: was ruled out. So you look at that if someone
Speaker 1: who's been the journey since he's been here since like
Speaker 1: what twenty fourteen and twenty thirteen, where it's been he's
Speaker 1: been here throughout that long period and not being able
Speaker 1: to get the ultimate success, and then sees all the
Speaker 1: other people he's gone through that journey with be able
Speaker 1: to have that like it's a shot to the guard
Speaker 1: for sure. You look on the other side, you look
Speaker 1: at John o. Will played every single game, didn't get
Speaker 1: to play in the final series, like he won probably
Speaker 1: two games off his boot, you know, So like who's
Speaker 1: to say we're in that position with at him? And
Speaker 1: then you look at the last person, damn Stay, who
Speaker 1: was the reasoning Essentially he kicked two goals in a
Speaker 1: prelim like without him, we don't even win the prelim
Speaker 1: and he does an injury towards the back of it
Speaker 1: and can't play to Granny, like those three people and
Speaker 1: I've talked about before. He's like, I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: we acknowledge them. I don't know if we do medals
Speaker 1: for the twenty three and then like rings for the
Speaker 1: rest of the people on the team that you know
Speaker 1: we're a part of it or played a game, whatever it.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's got to be some way that they can
Speaker 1: have some kind of acknowledgment after winning a Granny, And like,
Speaker 1: that's always always a topic after it happens, right because
Speaker 1: there's always some amazing, beautiful store and there's some heartbreak
Speaker 1: story from mc granny. I feel like, and those guys
Speaker 1: were kind of those stories for us this year, unfortunately.
Speaker 1: But there's got to be some way in the future
Speaker 1: for us to be able to acknowledge them with something
Speaker 1: because I feel like a lot of times you finish
Speaker 1: and you go, man, I was just as more. I
Speaker 1: was just as much a part of this, Like dam
Speaker 1: probably played more games than I did throughout the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like all the like John played more games than I.
Speaker 2: Did throughout the year.
Speaker 1: So today, like they're the reason we're in this position
Speaker 1: to be able to have this success, but they don't get,
Speaker 1: you know, the ultimate kind of prize of a medal
Speaker 1: at the end of this. It's just it doesn't seem right,
Speaker 1: doesn't sit with you, right, Yeah, I know that's like
Speaker 1: the Australian way and the Australian culture of like the
Speaker 1: twenty three on the day wherever it is. But it's
Speaker 1: just like a mentality I guess of mine, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: that's that's great. Twenty three performed on the day, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, but there's so many other people that
Speaker 1: helped you get those twenty three in that position, and
Speaker 1: now it's it's sad not to see them be able
Speaker 1: to have the same I guess acknowledgment that the rest
Speaker 1: of them do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it shouldn't. Then I reckon you get
Speaker 3: the Premiership medals for the player that played on the day.
Speaker 3: But then I reckon it should just carry over to
Speaker 3: the club, like you're doing it all for the club anyway,
Speaker 3: So I feel like it should just be club's best
Speaker 3: and fairest. You get awarded with something on that night,
Speaker 3: every player that played or played the X amount of
Speaker 3: games or contributed to the season celebrate them in some
Speaker 3: way reward them with something.
Speaker 1: I know something of the coaches get like a miniature
Speaker 1: like cup, a n Enture Premiership Cup that has like
Speaker 1: a plaque on it says that you're part of the
Speaker 1: program for that year.
Speaker 3: Because the coaches don't even get medals at the end
Speaker 3: of the.
Speaker 1: Game, Craig gut one that was like different from the
Speaker 1: rest of ours, which is pretty cool. I thought it
Speaker 1: was like we all of us got the same one,
Speaker 1: but he got there's like a special coaches medal that
Speaker 1: looks kind of similar but different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I don't know if they're almost harder to get,
Speaker 3: rare and to gain.
Speaker 1: They're rare for sure. Yeah, but it's got an idea
Speaker 1: that exists. There's a lot of things I learned from
Speaker 1: the Grand Vibrated learning while it was happening, figuring it.
Speaker 3: Out on the fly. Well, let's get into the actual
Speaker 3: game or the final stages of the lead up. So
Speaker 3: the night before, Yeah, how did you fare the night before?
Speaker 3: Did you stay by yourself or were you surrounded by
Speaker 3: a friend's family? How did all that go?
Speaker 2: Dow.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty ruthless in my prep and stuff, so that
Speaker 1: just when you're a prick. Yeah, I was, which was
Speaker 1: a prick to my family's traveled half a world away.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, now I won't see you tonight.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: So even like two nights before the game is whenever
Speaker 1: I start my prep two nights four her my own
Speaker 1: dinner night for herme own dinner. Had lunch with all
Speaker 1: of my friends the day before and that was good
Speaker 1: just to have a bit of normalcy around it, you know,
Speaker 1: like it kind of chaos around everything that was going
Speaker 1: on for the weekend, but it was good to have
Speaker 1: a bit of time just to relax. And then the
Speaker 1: rest of the afternoon on Friday, had to myself, had
Speaker 1: a dinner by myself, and then yeah, I walk up
Speaker 1: Saturday and it was We've been playing so many night
Speaker 1: games that usually have like a nap beforehand, but like
Speaker 1: this was obviously a day game, which we'll go into
Speaker 1: day versus night Grand Final later in this podcast. But
Speaker 1: I kind of walk up and you're kind of just
Speaker 1: like banks straight away going and doing it, so it's
Speaker 1: not like you kind of have a lot of time
Speaker 1: to chill out and think about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is that good?
Speaker 2: It's kind of good.
Speaker 1: I liked to take a nap on the day because
Speaker 1: I don't sleep well before game days because you're kind
Speaker 1: of thinking of all the things that might happen and
Speaker 1: this this you know, and like you know this ruckman
Speaker 1: does this. I need to make sure that you're like
Speaker 1: you're going through all the scenarios in your head before
Speaker 1: the game, right, it's like the day of the game,
Speaker 1: the night before the game, I would have max slept
Speaker 1: eight hours and it would have been super interrupted. And
Speaker 1: you're also hydrating, so you're up taking a piss every
Speaker 1: two hours, I feel like, because you're sitting there and
Speaker 1: smash the whole hydra light and there's all this stuff
Speaker 1: out to right, So I didn't get the best sleep.
Speaker 1: I didn't have the best prep going into it. I
Speaker 1: was a bit exhausted. The parade was a bit hot,
Speaker 1: like all this kind of stuff, and I got to
Speaker 1: the game day and I was kind of like walk
Speaker 1: up and I was like, I don't I don't feel great,
Speaker 1: like and I don't think you ever do, because you're
Speaker 1: like you're excited. The energy is like pumping into you,
Speaker 1: but you're sitting there going like let's let's conserve this adrenaline,
Speaker 1: like you're trying not to think about it, and you're
Speaker 1: trying to say, Okay, I need this to hit me
Speaker 1: whenever the game starts. I don't need this to hit
Speaker 1: me for like four hours before the game. So you're
Speaker 1: constantly trying to bring back this energy from like being exposed,
Speaker 1: which is a weird feeling because it's like the whole
Speaker 1: whole day. You're like, it's happening today's day day. It
Speaker 1: might be the greatest day of my life, might be
Speaker 1: the worst day of my life. Like we'll find out,
Speaker 1: and like you're like I'll come home in eight hours
Speaker 1: and like this would be a great time, or I'll
Speaker 1: be fucking depressed. Like like you're thinking of all these things, right,
Speaker 1: a million miles a million miles in your mind, just
Speaker 1: playing your mind, just going over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: And yeah, now you kind of like get to the ground.
Speaker 1: So you get to the club, we do our prep
Speaker 1: and you see some of the other boys. That kind
Speaker 1: of calms you down because it's back to normal normously.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, we get to the ground and you
Speaker 1: go through your prep and you kind of there's a
Speaker 1: different vibe on a Grand Final, right, there's a lot
Speaker 1: more security, there's a lot of people around, there's a
Speaker 1: lot more attention trying to people, there's like cameras.
Speaker 2: It's just a different experience.
Speaker 1: And yeah, we go into the game and I probably
Speaker 1: didn't feel hundred percent, and then.
Speaker 2: We'll go into it.
Speaker 1: I guess like the next thing is probably like the
Speaker 1: the coach's addressed beforehand. Yeah, so that's kind of like
Speaker 1: the first time the whole team's in the same room.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: So there was a moment where the cameras on the
Speaker 3: broadcast cut to the rooms Brisbane looking all serious and
Speaker 3: kind of switched on, And in the moment it cuts
Speaker 3: to the Collingwood rooms and Fly is revving everyone up.
Speaker 3: Everyone's laughing, cheering, smiling, and he's waving a towel over
Speaker 3: his head, and alls we could think of is like,
Speaker 3: what's his like angle, what's his story? How's he hyping
Speaker 3: up the game? What's he doing in there? But he
Speaker 3: had a bit of an announcement.
Speaker 1: It was a huge announcement, and it was I was
Speaker 1: like emotional before the game because I was like, there's
Speaker 1: this whole thing, right. So there's a few partners that
Speaker 1: were pregos, right, you got Christie's missus. Michayla was pregnant,
Speaker 1: very heavily. And then Gabby who's Craig's wife, that's also
Speaker 1: very heavily pregnant, and there do I think, like a
Speaker 1: week apart from each other, and Gab was doing Grand
Speaker 1: Final day he's Craig's partner, and we get in there
Speaker 1: and he's kind of like pacing around and I'm like,
Speaker 1: is he right?
Speaker 2: Like something's up.
Speaker 1: I know it's Grand Final, so it's like a big occasion,
Speaker 1: don't get it wrong, but I was like, some something's happened,
Speaker 1: like something's going on. Maybe he's really amp for this
Speaker 1: or something. I feel a different energy from him.
Speaker 2: And it was the first thing he was like saying,
Speaker 2: is oh, you know such and such and blah bah blah.
Speaker 2: And then he announced that they had the baby girl
Speaker 2: that morning, Maggie, and I was like, holy shit. I
Speaker 2: was like, that is insane.
Speaker 1: He's like it's the greatest day in life and like
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, and like I'm so happy because he's
Speaker 1: such a loving, like emotionally amazing human, right and to
Speaker 1: have that kid on that morning, it was.
Speaker 2: Just like, holy crap.
Speaker 1: There is probably so much going through this guy's mind
Speaker 1: right now, Like he's here coaching. He's literally probably working
Speaker 1: up at like six am this morning to like go
Speaker 1: see his kid be born and then comes straight into
Speaker 1: a Grand Final and preps for that, and then now
Speaker 1: he's about to go into his battlefield. Like it's just
Speaker 1: such a crazy day for him and like it will
Speaker 1: be the most emotional roller coaster day of his life guaranteed,
Speaker 1: Like there's nothing I mean, like, how do you how
Speaker 1: do you top that? From a career and like personal
Speaker 1: side of things, Like there's not many things I feel
Speaker 1: like that can happen on the same day. They're going
Speaker 1: to have the same emotional stress and up and down
Speaker 1: that he would have had on.
Speaker 3: The day every anniversary, every year, every birthday. It's just
Speaker 3: going to bring it all back up for him as well.
Speaker 3: Oh it's going to be insane. So what did that
Speaker 3: do for the playing group? Like I can only imagine
Speaker 3: that it kind of puts stuff into perspective that it's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: we're going we've got a game to play, but like life.
Speaker 2: Is pretty big celebration, right, And that's Craig.
Speaker 1: Craig I always kind of he'd always have a joke
Speaker 1: before the games, you know, and it was never like
Speaker 1: a super serious like we were serious on the aspects
Speaker 1: of footy and whatnot we had to cover for the game,
Speaker 1: but he would always kind of have a joke or
Speaker 1: a laugh about something outside of it, just to break
Speaker 1: the eyes. Because everyone goes in there and everyone's like
Speaker 1: hyped up, extremely nervous to go play wherever game is,
Speaker 1: and he kind of is able to calm everyone down
Speaker 1: and then have a laugh and then get into the specifics, right,
Speaker 1: So for him to kind of start off with that,
Speaker 1: everyone was so stoked and he's probably waving the towel
Speaker 1: around then, you know, just like everyone was just so excited,
Speaker 1: and like that just took her mind completely off the
Speaker 1: fact that we're about to play a Grand Final. We
Speaker 1: would just so hyped for him to have a baby
Speaker 1: girl and everyone be okay and happy and healthy, and
Speaker 1: then you go into the footy side of things, like
Speaker 1: oh shit, now get back to work. But that's kind
Speaker 1: of like that moment. I feel like you talk about
Speaker 1: the dress and everything else, but like that was the
Speaker 1: one that stuck out that everyone was just so excited
Speaker 1: for him. That's a sign of the culture and how
Speaker 1: much of the family it is, and like how amazing
Speaker 1: it was for everyone to go to be a part
Speaker 1: of that, and how excited he was to tell everyone,
Speaker 1: Like he didn't really tell anyone, so it was like
Speaker 1: the first time being somewhat public about it, and everyone
Speaker 1: was just so stoked for him. So like the day
Speaker 1: started off perfect essentially, and going into that meeting was
Speaker 1: just another sign that it was going to be a
Speaker 1: pretty special day.
Speaker 3: Before you get into your rant about day night Grand Final.
Speaker 3: Could you hear Kiss from the room?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I heard Black Eyed Peas in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: I was thinking I'd hear the same thing, but I
Speaker 1: couldn't hear Kiss.
Speaker 3: They were good. I will say that they could. In
Speaker 3: my head. I was thinking, imagine all the kids watching this,
Speaker 3: going like, who the fuck are these.
Speaker 1: There was kids on the ground, though, weren't they, So
Speaker 1: they're trying to make it, you know. Yeah, both people
Speaker 1: like you know, I'd be happy with it.
Speaker 3: It was actually great. Like I I was never a
Speaker 3: big Kiss fan, but like they rolled out like three
Speaker 3: or four songs.
Speaker 2: A song like word for word, whether you're a fan
Speaker 2: or not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then yeah. There was some moments where players
Speaker 3: slipped over in the middle of the field and kind
Speaker 3: of looking at this Kiss performance. They were spraying a
Speaker 3: lot of petrol all over the place with this like
Speaker 3: the fire they had flame, and I was like the
Speaker 3: ground keeper. Normally, if you step on the ground in shoes,
Speaker 3: the groundskeeper wants to take your head off. I'm thinking
Speaker 3: looking at Kiss spray and petrol and fire and like
Speaker 3: everything everywhere, I'm like, God, this guy's going to have
Speaker 3: an aneurysm. But talk me through those final moments, because
Speaker 3: I want to know what it's like if you can
Speaker 3: take me there. First of all, you come out, I
Speaker 3: imagine that it's a big booming chant and we've heard that.
Speaker 3: We live through the prelim and all of that kind
Speaker 3: of stuff. Grand final day, arm in arm with all
Speaker 3: your teammates. They played the national anthem, She kills it,
Speaker 3: and then there's always that moment of silence and then
Speaker 3: the big booming cheer of the crowd. Are you present
Speaker 3: in that moment? You're looking around every seat to the rafter.
Speaker 3: Is this full everything's going on? Are you there in
Speaker 3: that moment or are you just floating around?
Speaker 1: You're kind of like it's kind of like this weird
Speaker 1: euphoric state, right of like the adrenaline's about to hit you,
Speaker 1: and once that crowd roars, it's like bang and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, this rush just hits your body and
Speaker 1: you're like it's go time, you know. Like it's a
Speaker 1: weird thing to explain. Probably not many people understand it
Speaker 1: that haven't been there, but it's amazing to do the
Speaker 1: welcome to country pretty awesome, like experience that, done that
Speaker 1: three times of it throughout finals and amazing kind of
Speaker 1: the words to do that into the Australian national anthem,
Speaker 1: which I found interesting because most people don't actually sing it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like the only one singing it and I
Speaker 1: was like, because you're looking at the TV that's rolling
Speaker 1: through every player right going through a player by player
Speaker 1: by player to the coach and think goes by player
Speaker 1: by player by player. No one was singing it and
Speaker 1: I was like, am I the proudest Australian here?
Speaker 3: I always keep an eye out for who the singers are.
Speaker 3: I think it's important.
Speaker 1: It's important, it's important stand it's like the manly macho
Speaker 1: we're going to take you on.
Speaker 2: But it's the national anthem. I think.
Speaker 3: Proud hand on heart.
Speaker 2: You don't do the hand on heart. I found out
Speaker 2: very quickly this year.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that you take the hat off, that's
Speaker 1: about that's abouts patriarch as you get you a bit upset.
Speaker 3: They didn't do the US nationally.
Speaker 2: National anthem after Now there's plenty of USADA.
Speaker 3: But there was one more moment before I forget it,
Speaker 3: Darcy Moore beaming smiling. I thought he was like smiling
Speaker 3: at the singer, but obviously his dad, Peter Moore presented
Speaker 3: the cup post game, but he was their pregame. Darcy
Speaker 3: walked over and gave him a big hug. It must
Speaker 3: be a pretty crazy experience to like have big captain
Speaker 3: of the team but also be going through all of
Speaker 3: those emotions and stay present in what's going on.
Speaker 1: You can imagine like how much Doarcy would analyze his
Speaker 1: dad growing up and being in the Collingwood rooms and
Speaker 1: all that.
Speaker 2: So and I know, like Darcy pretty well.
Speaker 1: It's like so special for him to be captaining the
Speaker 1: club now and like following his father's footsteps and doing
Speaker 1: it in his own way, and it's it's incredible, And
Speaker 1: like to have his dad there was cool because I've
Speaker 1: known his dad throughout the years too and be like
Speaker 1: family to me, and it was awesome to see that
Speaker 1: moment cause I was like, I mean, like after the game,
Speaker 1: whenever he handed it, before he hinded the cup, I
Speaker 1: saw like Peter on the field and I was like, mate,
Speaker 1: like just enjoy this next ten minutes because it's going
Speaker 1: to be something special you'll never forget, like giving the
Speaker 1: cup to your son who's now the captain of the
Speaker 1: club and now like just want a premiership.
Speaker 2: Like it's it's fairy tale stuff. And I remember just
Speaker 2: sitting there and be like my congratulations, like just to
Speaker 2: just soak it up, like just enjoy it. Man, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be insane. But yeah, that was cool to see
Speaker 2: him there and you know he's he's just much of
Speaker 2: a calling with fans anyone. Come on boys those boys. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you got those boys?
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is pretty epic, and that's kind of it's
Speaker 1: just a beautiful, like family moment, you know, Like you know,
Speaker 1: they had Lee Matthews obviously part of a massive premiership
Speaker 1: era for them, being part of the like the cup
Speaker 1: represented for Brisbane and then Darcy's dad who played two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty nine games like one away from two fifty,
Speaker 1: being our representative it was just oh at aither way right,
Speaker 1: and it was awesome to see then be able to
Speaker 1: share that family moment together and like for someone who's
Speaker 1: seen them throughout the years and seeing kind of him
Speaker 1: develop as a person and how much of an incredible
Speaker 1: human being he's become, it's cool to see them share
Speaker 1: that moment of somewhat of transferring of like the legacy,
Speaker 1: you know, like onto the sun another part of it.
Speaker 1: So obviously they've kind of both had their own legacy,
Speaker 1: but yeah, you kind of do that, and then you
Speaker 1: have the national anthems and the last thing I do
Speaker 1: before I go on out as a fist pump Abby Holmes.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so I did it like before the Melbourne game.
Speaker 2: Jana.
Speaker 1: She's like, she's been an awesome support for me and like
Speaker 1: a really good friend in the industry and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So I did it before the Melbourne game.
Speaker 2: Then we won.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'll do it again in the Grand
Speaker 1: Final again. So we won three for three. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if Abby can make it to every game
Speaker 1: next year. She can, that'd be appreciated. But now she's
Speaker 1: an absolute legend and one of the best in the
Speaker 1: biz and someone as a female who's absolutely killing it
Speaker 1: in the very male dominated industry, which is great to see.
Speaker 1: So fist bump and then roll out and essentially get
Speaker 1: into game time.
Speaker 3: And you've been entrusted with the first bounce for the
Speaker 3: since you run through Max Gorn at least share sirn
Speaker 3: goes first bounce, massive anti climax. Come on, guds, we've
Speaker 3: done this.
Speaker 2: We know.
Speaker 1: So funny because you know the umpires and I go
Speaker 1: to before lumpos, I go, are you going to do
Speaker 1: the first bounce?
Speaker 2: So you know who's going to do it right And you.
Speaker 1: Just sit there and you can tell they're just as
Speaker 1: nervous as anyone else out there.
Speaker 3: Imagine how huge those nerves would be, because it's like,
Speaker 3: you've got your role to play. Everyone's got their role
Speaker 3: to play. He has to start the whole thing. Millions
Speaker 3: of people watching around Australia and you've got hundreds of
Speaker 3: thousand in attendance, and it's on you to bounce this
Speaker 3: oval shaped freaking ball dead straight in the air. They've
Speaker 3: picked you out, They're gone, mate, You're the best bouncer.
Speaker 3: Thanks more pressure, great, heap it on and then you
Speaker 3: stuff it up and everyone groans the whole thing. You
Speaker 3: gotta restart it. No one wants it, no one likes it, even.
Speaker 2: Though he's still a fan.
Speaker 1: First center bounce of every quarter is a bounce, and
Speaker 1: then everything else is a ball. That's that's my opinion
Speaker 1: on it. I will consistently take that side of it,
Speaker 1: but I will say this, before the first bounce, you
Speaker 1: can always hear the umpire. He goes down, gets both
Speaker 1: hands on both nubs of the ball, right and you get.
Speaker 2: And it is literally in his mind going, don't fuck
Speaker 2: this all right? Here we go fuck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's the it's the awkward Rai's hand from
Speaker 1: the umpire. I've dune stuffed up. Could someone go retrieve
Speaker 1: the ball for me and give it back? And it's
Speaker 1: probably the most embarrassing thing you can possibly have on
Speaker 1: a football field that's round. You can shank a goal
Speaker 1: from fifteen meters out, and I still think fucking up
Speaker 1: the center bounce is worse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, first bounce fun, but that's what I reckon.
Speaker 3: I've heard this argument like, let's just keep it the
Speaker 3: first bounce for the opening quarters or whatever, but that's
Speaker 3: when it's you don't want that anti climax moment. The
Speaker 3: most like that's when it's like the most painful. If
Speaker 3: you stuff up a bounce at the ten minute mark
Speaker 3: of the second quarter, people just go right big shit,
Speaker 3: like bring it back. It's the first one. That's the
Speaker 3: most pivotal one.
Speaker 1: And so I think you go see because there's not
Speaker 1: many umpires that can bounce well, right, and they're dwindling
Speaker 1: by the moment. We've got guys out there that are
Speaker 1: sixty years old bouncing the ball because there's no one
Speaker 1: that's coming through. But if you designated like there was
Speaker 1: like six umpires, right, oh, you need avoid there's eighteen teams,
Speaker 1: so you need nine umpires that can bounce the ball
Speaker 1: and they got to bounce the ball four times a game,
Speaker 1: and that's it. You get one umpire just to be
Speaker 1: the bouncer and he does the beginning of every single inning, sorry,
Speaker 1: every single quarter to start to throw this out and
Speaker 1: then he just umpires the rest of the game. Right,
Speaker 1: So you only need nine people in all of Australia
Speaker 1: to be able to bounce the ball on a center bounce.
Speaker 3: He's still making concessions for this stupid bounce that is
Speaker 3: it's it.
Speaker 1: Well, because the traditionalists are never going to want to
Speaker 1: see it go. So I'm trying to find a middle
Speaker 1: ground for.
Speaker 3: Wrap the bounce and bring back the jumping and handstands
Speaker 3: on the mark and stuff.
Speaker 1: The handstands on the mark. We should have brought that
Speaker 1: back now, that should have never gone. That is absurd.
Speaker 1: That makes this game hilarious and we should be all
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 3: We need to move on because like out we digress.
Speaker 3: But so opening quarter, Yeah, actually got a mini jump
Speaker 3: on him, and what turns out to be like your
Speaker 3: biggest leader of the game.
Speaker 2: The twelve is the only quarter we actually won.
Speaker 3: Yeah, twelve point margin, which is great. Good start grow.
Speaker 3: So you had a little moment that we will talk about,
Speaker 3: which I wholeheartedly believe was a fifty mint penalty. But
Speaker 3: you take a nice little was it a mark on
Speaker 3: the defensive fifty ish?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think a free kick? Yeah, micro free kick,
Speaker 2: I can't remember now.
Speaker 3: But you turn to take your kick, step off your
Speaker 3: line and Zach Bailey is there, mate? What protected zone?
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter, but he's there. What's what's happened in
Speaker 3: that moment? In your head? Did you hear everything that
Speaker 3: was playing out? What did you just shit yourself going?
Speaker 3: I need to fix this, like what happened in that
Speaker 3: circumstance going.
Speaker 2: Back another one?
Speaker 1: Right, So you know I talked about like the parade
Speaker 1: and not feeling one hundred percent probably going into this game.
Speaker 1: I did the first balance, I did the first sprint,
Speaker 1: and I was like, holy shit, this is going to
Speaker 1: be a long day. I was cooked after one sprint
Speaker 1: and I'm sitting there going like what's wrong with me?
Speaker 1: And I think I'd managed my adrenaline wrong and then
Speaker 1: also hadn't like properly recovered from being in the sun
Speaker 1: for like four hours a day before. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if anyone's been like this. You're out in the sun.
Speaker 1: The next day, you try to go for a run,
Speaker 1: you're just cooked. Like that was me on Grand Final
Speaker 1: day and I was like, holy shit, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be in for a long day.
Speaker 3: So did you did that actually set into your mind
Speaker 3: of like fuck, like panic moment, like oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah for a little bit, yeah, And it was like okay,
Speaker 1: And this was my mindset going into this game was
Speaker 1: like I need to wear down Oscar Macnoni in every
Speaker 1: possible way, and Darcy Cameron and myself need to be
Speaker 1: able to like have an influence by making sure he
Speaker 1: does not do what he's used to be doing right
Speaker 1: and him being able to. He got like ten clearances
Speaker 1: in the day, so he actually played pretty well, but
Speaker 1: him as far as hitouts and stuff, we dominated him
Speaker 1: in that sense. So any chance I got to like
Speaker 1: take energy out of him, I made sure I did,
Speaker 1: because I knew I was pretty cooked. I don't know
Speaker 1: how Darcy stand felt at the time, but I was like,
Speaker 1: if he tries to run off on me, any chances
Speaker 1: are I'm probably not going to be able to catch him.
Speaker 1: So I was like, any chance tries to run on me,
Speaker 1: chest bang hit that, make sure you bump or by
Speaker 1: it right. So I took that marker where the free kicker,
Speaker 1: wherever it was, and all mates, just because in the moment,
Speaker 1: right like the crowd is so like loud you can't
Speaker 1: hear anything. Usually in a game you can hear the
Speaker 1: umpire go moving on, play on, right, In this game,
Speaker 1: it's so loud you can't hear an umpire's voice. You
Speaker 1: can only hear his whistle. So I kind of thinking like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's about that time. I'll just move it on and
Speaker 1: play on whoever it is, and I'll go to kick it,
Speaker 1: and I it was literally like Pikachu came out of
Speaker 1: the grass, like I had no idea he was even there.
Speaker 1: And the Pokemon appears out of nowhere and he just
Speaker 1: smothers it, and I'm already fucking exhausted. He smothers it,
Speaker 1: I think like Q tries to hit him because C's
Speaker 1: the one that was he was on, and he ran
Speaker 1: by me, which got him into the projector zone, which
Speaker 1: there's a whole question mark around that, and then and
Speaker 1: then Murphy tries to tackle him on the boundary and
Speaker 1: then I'm kind of like corked behind him, trying to
Speaker 1: like catch up, like a just a slow like hippopotamus,
Speaker 1: staring gutty with no idea of what I'm doing, and
Speaker 1: and he snaps an incredible goal, like incredible goal, and
Speaker 1: then I was so exhausted. I didn't even see the
Speaker 1: fight that happened after, because usually I'm all about it, right,
Speaker 1: but I was so cooked. I'm just sitting there staring
Speaker 1: at the sideline, going please to God put my number
Speaker 1: up so I can get subbed off. That was my
Speaker 1: mindset after it happened, and I apologized Tom, I apologize
Speaker 1: to cure and everyone else is in that scuff. I
Speaker 1: think Will Hoskin and I it was there too that
Speaker 1: I didn't get in it, But I just I didn't
Speaker 1: even I did. What was like my mindset was so
Speaker 1: focused getting off the ground.
Speaker 3: You weren't going to help.
Speaker 2: I wanted to.
Speaker 1: In my mind looking back, is a poor, poor decision
Speaker 1: by me played to play on and also to do that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was. It was a question marker whether
Speaker 2: that's legal or not, but.
Speaker 3: I feel like it was the I had flagged it
Speaker 3: earlier in the year. The Petrarca did it a number
Speaker 3: of times, keeping more of an eye on the person
Speaker 3: with the ball and kind of meandering through the protected
Speaker 3: zone waiting for the smother probably needs to be called.
Speaker 3: You had one foot on the paint. He was like
Speaker 3: fifteen meters away. He's they're not Amanda. But you know
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter now. But at the moment, oh boy,
Speaker 3: big moment for you in front of a quiet crowd. No,
Speaker 3: not many people watching it. Yep, there was a moment
Speaker 3: on the broadcast where they say the big Fellow's going downstairs.
Speaker 3: I started bit of panic sets in Mason Cops going
Speaker 3: down into the rooms. They're saying things are getting bad
Speaker 3: to worse on the bench, it's all crumbling down. What
Speaker 3: happened because you came back out and you were you
Speaker 3: played out the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it was kind of a weird scenario.
Speaker 1: So I took a mark and like as I took
Speaker 1: the mark, like clench hamstring, calf, both cramp, same time,
Speaker 1: left side see you later, not working. So I'm sitting
Speaker 1: up gone. I knew it was about my rotation to
Speaker 1: come off. So I was sitting there and I've kicked
Speaker 1: the ball along said stuff that don't need that pill anymore.
Speaker 2: You guys, hit it away, get it away from me.
Speaker 2: I'm not being able to do anything more. So I
Speaker 2: turned around.
Speaker 1: I think my name might have been up on the
Speaker 1: So I just came off and as soon as I
Speaker 1: touched the line the doc everyone else was like bang
Speaker 1: right on it.
Speaker 2: And I'm like what's going on? And they're like, are
Speaker 2: you're right? You're right? I'm like, yeah, I'm fine.
Speaker 1: They're like come down to the rooms, and I was like, gosh,
Speaker 1: just really turned into panic stations very quickly. What is happening?
Speaker 1: Like did I do something? Is my like left finger
Speaker 1: hanging off or like what.
Speaker 3: The fuck's going on?
Speaker 2: Like what did they see that?
Speaker 1: I'm not feeling it from this adrenaline, and I go
Speaker 1: down to the like it was literally like five steps down.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there where Jack Reewalt kind of climbs up,
Speaker 1: you know, to creep up the stairs. And I was like,
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, you're right, yeah, just like cramping, like
Speaker 1: I can't stop, Like it's just and this is like
Speaker 1: a third quarter. I saw have another like quarter and
Speaker 1: a half to play, and they're like, oh okay. I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, let's go up. It was just like
Speaker 1: went back up the stairs. And then they're like pickle juice, hodge,
Speaker 1: you like, whatever it is, cramp like monsieur gets into it,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. And that was that was it.
Speaker 1: So I was like third quarter. You know, I said
Speaker 1: the first quarter was cook. Third quarter My body was
Speaker 1: actually physically telling me that was cook, Like I have
Speaker 1: another quarter and a half plus to play this game out,
Speaker 1: so yeah, go and then got some water into being
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. And even in the first quarter,
Speaker 1: I felt exhausted. I went to the bench. I sit
Speaker 1: there and looked behind and there's our Jared Wade, who's
Speaker 1: are kind of my performance managers behind me, and I
Speaker 1: look at myself. I'm pretty pretty exhausted here, like I'm
Speaker 1: not feeling like one hundred percent. I said, do you
Speaker 1: have anything to eat? So he's like, oh, I'll sort something.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what would come out of the rooms.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if he'd be full a vocado toast,
Speaker 1: but it fed on top of you a nice little experience.
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm sure this, I'm prepared.
Speaker 1: And they come back like a couple of minutes later
Speaker 1: and he has this toppleware box and it's Jam sandwiches.
Speaker 1: I think I would ate three Jam sandwiches within thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: I just hoofed it down, one thing after another, just
Speaker 1: trying to get some kind of energy into me, and
Speaker 1: I felt so much better after it. But it was
Speaker 1: quite funny that Jam sandwiches maybe got me through a
Speaker 1: Grand Final in Jay.
Speaker 2: I should have yeah, I should have requested it.
Speaker 3: Imagine the panic stations downstairs where they're like, we need
Speaker 3: some food, we need.
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 3: Did play with a couple of injured players throughout the game,
Speaker 3: none bigger at the time than Murph obviously copped another
Speaker 3: head clash, putting his head where you know other players
Speaker 3: fear to tread. Yeah, and kind of saved the day
Speaker 3: there for a bit, went off past his Hia, came
Speaker 3: back out a bit dazed and confused and then got
Speaker 3: subbed out of the game. Did everyone realize what was
Speaker 3: going on in those moments? Like what happens to the rejig?
Speaker 3: Who moves around? Who's communicating that? Is it something that
Speaker 3: like Pendals is saying or or is it all coaches
Speaker 3: off the bench? Like what was happening during that kind
Speaker 3: of pivotal time because Brisbane had a little moment.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think like me personally, I don't see it
Speaker 1: too much because I'm pretty like simplified in my role.
Speaker 1: Like it's the if the Rockman goes down, I definitely know,
Speaker 1: or like the top four goes down, I definitely know.
Speaker 1: They were big back. But he went down and I
Speaker 1: kind of was aware that he looked a bit woozy.
Speaker 1: Whenever it happens, I was like, Oh, there's going to
Speaker 1: be a bit of question marks in the five minutes
Speaker 1: where it is to be on the sideline all that,
Speaker 1: But as soon as I saw Patti Lepinski in, I
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, it's the decision has been made. Right,
Speaker 1: and he's got to be on the bench. So all
Speaker 1: those decisions get made by the coaching staff, right, So
Speaker 1: you got to think in the moment. So we pulled
Speaker 1: Billy Frampton back, take him off Harris Andrews. Do we
Speaker 1: move someone else into that position, which was Jeremy how
Speaker 1: I Think into playing on Hip or whoever it was.
Speaker 1: So a lot of that stuff happens, but if it's
Speaker 1: not in your direct line, you don't notice it as
Speaker 1: much because it's like there's not a change in personnel.
Speaker 1: So I didn't really I didn't really notice it too
Speaker 1: much until I saw Patty on. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: we've made the move. Wherever the magnets fall as far
Speaker 1: as moving things around, they fall, and we just sort
Speaker 1: it out. We'll just figure it out, you know, because
Speaker 1: we've got options.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: That was the beauty of having Billy Frampton come in.
Speaker 1: He's played multiple, multiple roles for us in different positions,
Speaker 1: so luckily enough we had how I think, moved roles
Speaker 1: into someone else and we just kind of made it
Speaker 1: up from what we had already and he played an
Speaker 1: incredible game. So I didn't really notice it too much,
Speaker 1: I would say, until you probably see him on the
Speaker 1: bench on the on the bench behind the bench where
Speaker 1: he's got the coat on, and he's essentially you know,
Speaker 1: you've been subbed at that point.
Speaker 3: And then in the wrap up it's very selfless of
Speaker 3: him to kind of go out there and say, look,
Speaker 3: I'm not right, hand up. Yeah, still not dealing with it,
Speaker 3: not feeling well. I pull myself out of the game.
Speaker 2: That is going to beget concussion. You can't drink.
Speaker 3: Oh really, So he was sober for all the celebrations.
Speaker 2: Geez, that's rough. That's real rough, isn't it.
Speaker 3: And when you find out, because I'm sure your reaction
Speaker 3: was the same as mine and most Collingwood players as
Speaker 3: soon as you see Murph go down or someone with
Speaker 3: the history of concussion, yeah, definitely, it's more concerning. And
Speaker 3: in that moment, it was like straight away I was like,
Speaker 3: I know, like, yeah, does that hit you? Does that
Speaker 3: affect you? Or it'd be such an overwhelming thing in
Speaker 3: the moment.
Speaker 1: It is like there's so many things that are going
Speaker 1: through your head as far as the game right. So
Speaker 1: to see that he wasn't like out cold was a
Speaker 1: good sign. You know, like you see the ones that
Speaker 1: go out cold and are gone for a bit and
Speaker 1: you're really worried. But to see him still like walking
Speaker 1: around and stuff, it's like, okay, like he's he's still functioning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously he's had a concussion to not ideal and we
Speaker 1: feel from in that sense. But I don't know if
Speaker 1: he would remember any of the game, if I'm being
Speaker 1: honest with you, I don't know, Like I haven't talked
Speaker 1: to him about it, but seeing him go down, he's
Speaker 1: been such an integral part to the back line. He's
Speaker 1: one of the most underrated players as far as a
Speaker 1: back line. Like he's kind of a goofy, gangly dude,
Speaker 1: you know, and he's a bit funny and whatnot.
Speaker 3: I started the game on fire, yeah, and he's kind of.
Speaker 2: Come out of nowhere, like no, no, nowhere.
Speaker 1: But like, I don't think a lot of people three
Speaker 1: years ago would have thought Murph would be in the
Speaker 1: position he's in now Yeah, and being such an integral
Speaker 1: part to that defense. So it's a credit to him.
Speaker 1: It's pretty incredible he's been able to do. And to
Speaker 1: see him go out it was of a moment of like, oh,
Speaker 1: we definitely have a role in a hole that needs
Speaker 1: to be filled. Because it's a key player that we have,
Speaker 1: and they have, you know, Charlie Cameron, they've always got,
Speaker 1: They've got Eric Hipwood, and they've got joe Danaher, which
Speaker 1: is like the Big three. So you have to play
Speaker 1: someone into that position. You can't just leave it empty.
Speaker 1: So him going down was probably a bit of a worry.
Speaker 1: But then, like I said, we had plenty of players
Speaker 1: that have played different positions throughout the year, and I
Speaker 1: mean you could put Jeremy how forward and then then
Speaker 1: Billy Franton back and swap by the player, but like wee.
Speaker 3: It floats back at times. He was one out with
Speaker 3: Joey Danner.
Speaker 1: Like, well I can there's just people I just we
Speaker 1: just get it done. They just go, yep, no stress,
Speaker 1: I'll sort it like I'll play that position, no questions, no, no,
Speaker 1: nothing asked. So yeah, him going down not ideal, But.
Speaker 2: Luckily enough we were able to fill the role and
Speaker 2: be able to get done.
Speaker 3: And there was a moment later in the game Jeremy
Speaker 3: Howe taking a kick out of defensive fifty and just
Speaker 3: got lined up from Charlie Cameron, who got under his
Speaker 3: arms up into the rib cage and shattered his ribs
Speaker 3: to a million pieces. You could tell he's a pretty
Speaker 3: tough blow, how he And he's laying on the ground
Speaker 3: gasping for air. Someone came over to help him up,
Speaker 3: and he's like, just just give me a sack, Just
Speaker 3: give me a moment, because this sucks.
Speaker 2: This sucks.
Speaker 3: And it's another one that's the courage of someone like
Speaker 3: that to go on in that moment knowing that they've
Speaker 3: got some pretty bad damage and when he's really needed
Speaker 3: because Murph is off to play through that. People have
Speaker 3: their views on the incident itself and how that can
Speaker 3: be okay when someone else can get suspended or fined
Speaker 3: for a lesser incident. Yeah, how do you kind of
Speaker 3: look at that as just a teammate and as a
Speaker 3: bloken like the amount of respect that you have for
Speaker 3: Howie and kind of playing through that and still doing
Speaker 3: a great job. He outmarked Hipwood with broken ribs.
Speaker 2: With broken ribs.
Speaker 1: He's a freak drumw Like, Yeah, he's a bit of
Speaker 1: a heart and soul player as you do have to
Speaker 1: you know, like him. He's always he would never be
Speaker 1: a person that would pull himself off in a granny
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, you know, why I wasn't aware
Speaker 1: he actually broke his ribs until after like the game. Really,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he probably would have known there was
Speaker 1: something wrong right away. And I don't know if we
Speaker 1: need to, I guess like get that out of the game.
Speaker 1: We talked about picket leaving the ground and hitting people
Speaker 1: are vulnerable.
Speaker 2: And stuff like that.
Speaker 1: It's like the shorter guys like trying to throw their
Speaker 1: weight into someone to like inflict pain.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well you look at that incident and it was
Speaker 3: like no doubt in my mind, from my opinion, he
Speaker 3: is tackling someone like he's going to inflict the pain,
Speaker 3: Like he's not going to do anything else than inflict pain.
Speaker 3: Because it was And you can talk about microseconds, but
Speaker 3: players know when they're not going to get there in time, and.
Speaker 2: You know he's not. He's not tackling them. His arms
Speaker 2: are on out.
Speaker 1: He's literally put a chicken wing in his arm to
Speaker 1: make sure he's going to get full like momentum into.
Speaker 3: Elected to bump and knew that there's a fair chance
Speaker 3: he was going this year.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you're like picking out the scenario, but like
Speaker 1: it's something I think the AFL should definitely look at
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: That's loud.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because at the moment, you just go, I can
Speaker 3: do this because I know it's just going to be
Speaker 3: down the field, free kick the balls, already going. We're
Speaker 3: in defensive fifty even like you know, even less of
Speaker 3: a repercussion from the incident. So yeah, I feel like
Speaker 3: there's got to be something we're moving towards in every
Speaker 3: facet protecting the player. Yeah, I feel like it's a
Speaker 3: no brainer to add that one to the list.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think it will in the next little chunk. True.
Speaker 2: The AFIL listens to this podcast and takes notes, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well they listen to just line up your fines.
Speaker 3: Now we're talking about your talk about your fines, because
Speaker 3: we'll say that you landed one of the craziest knockout
Speaker 3: blows of all time, this ruthless, ruthless bump that you
Speaker 3: landed somehow posing.
Speaker 2: Like this, but the min just the hands up.
Speaker 3: In a glass box. But Brisbane player unfortunately ducked his
Speaker 3: head and ran straight into you. From what I could tell,
Speaker 3: when did you find out that you got a fine?
Speaker 1: I think I was in mad Monday about probably five
Speaker 1: shots deep, three beers deep. I'm going I get this
Speaker 1: kind of like text from the guy who deals with
Speaker 1: the fines and suspensions, and he's like, oh, it's going
Speaker 1: to be a fine of two thousand dollars and I
Speaker 1: facetim and Baker sent him a video message back and go,
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty I'm pretty loose at this point, right,
Speaker 1: I'm like, mate, let's take it to court. I'm taking
Speaker 1: it to the IFL. Let's see if we get this
Speaker 1: thing to nothing.
Speaker 3: Card Lawyer's done, they finished in the finals. That he's
Speaker 3: got time.
Speaker 1: Oh I know, I think it would have been hilarious
Speaker 1: for me to show up absolutely smammered to the AFL
Speaker 1: like tribunal and just make a mockery of the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Well, I think the one good thing is you probably
Speaker 3: made up the two thousand dollars in free drinks, So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, Yeah, there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 3: Over that week, Oh now, we got to keep going
Speaker 3: through all these players because there were so many impressive performances,
Speaker 3: none more because he got the award on the day.
Speaker 3: Norm Smith medalist, Bobby Hill amazing game, four goals, could
Speaker 3: have had seven passed off, one dependals missed, a couple,
Speaker 3: was everywhere eighteen disposals I think thirteen in the front half,
Speaker 3: which is mind blowing. So many assists, score involvement, setups, pressure, tackles, bumps.
Speaker 3: He was doing it all. Not to mention one big
Speaker 3: specky scene looking right into the sun that.
Speaker 2: Was ridiculous watching talk.
Speaker 3: To us about Bobby Hills, not only his game and
Speaker 3: how he played on the day, but his journey leading
Speaker 3: up to that, leaving gw Wes. You beat them in
Speaker 3: a pre limb. He recovers from having cancer to play
Speaker 3: in the Grand Final and have an amazing final series,
Speaker 3: and then to be best on in a Grand Final,
Speaker 3: a winning Grand Final, and insight like, how do you sum.
Speaker 2: Up all of that?
Speaker 1: He's more for people of the club, Like he's just
Speaker 1: the nicest, quietest guy, not quite like fully liked and
Speaker 1: doesn't talk to people, but he's just like a very
Speaker 1: kind of humble nature of person.
Speaker 2: And he's a beautiful missus who's you know, heavily pregnant
Speaker 2: at the moment.
Speaker 1: He's got a kid already, and you got to think,
Speaker 1: like he went through testicular cancer, he's traded, like you said,
Speaker 1: he's traded teams. He's been through quite a bit in
Speaker 1: the last year and for that to accumulate into the
Speaker 1: final series that he had was pretty special. And he's
Speaker 1: a player that you know, you sit there and you go, well,
Speaker 1: what's he gonna do? And you just have this excitement
Speaker 1: around him whenever gets the ball. And there was a
Speaker 1: moment I think where he sits there and he kind
Speaker 1: of like got the ball, faked one way, turned the
Speaker 1: other way, snap goal. I'm still looking at him like, mate,
Speaker 1: you're just a freak. Like you're just a freak dude.
Speaker 1: Like it's insane what he can do on the football field,
Speaker 1: and he's the nicest human off it. So it's awesome
Speaker 1: to see those people who are just genuinely good people
Speaker 1: like have that kind of acknowledgment and recognition on the
Speaker 1: biggest stage and stuff like that. And the Norman Smith
Speaker 1: like it is such an incredible on. I don't think
Speaker 1: he probably realized. He's like, Oh, it's you, And I'm like, mate,
Speaker 1: you like want a Norm Smith? Like this changes your life?
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh really, yeah, it's a big deal.
Speaker 3: Well, he said he was watching Cyril really highlights pre game,
Speaker 3: which inspired his like little marking effort.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was insane, and he's just He's just a
Speaker 2: zippy forward that you just you know he can make
Speaker 2: something out of the smallest window of opportunity.
Speaker 3: Speak about you didn't sleep the night before. I imagine
Speaker 3: his opponent that would be the scariest prospect.
Speaker 1: Like trial, the camera's the same like he I mean,
Speaker 1: like whenever he had I think he was playing eyes
Speaker 1: that corner, taps the ball, one dribbles and then snaps
Speaker 1: one from.
Speaker 2: The top of the goal square like just freak stuff.
Speaker 1: And you're like, how do you You can't teach that,
Speaker 1: Like it's just comes somehow naturally and just figure it
Speaker 1: out in the moment. But yeah, Bobby to kick the four,
Speaker 1: like I said, he was unselfish in the end, gives
Speaker 1: one off the Pendles, which is a massive moment for
Speaker 1: him as obviously a huge person at the club to
Speaker 1: kick an important goal in the moment.
Speaker 3: And a steadier because you always were missing a lot,
Speaker 3: so like for him to get that go back put
Speaker 3: it through, big moment for both of them. But big
Speaker 3: man for the cloud.
Speaker 1: Oh it's cool and it kind of shows I guess
Speaker 1: a bit of you know, the unselfish nature of our
Speaker 1: football club of like we don't care who scores as
Speaker 1: long as we score. And Peddles is obviously a great
Speaker 1: set shot and it was a better opportunity, I guess
Speaker 1: in a better angle. But that would have been a
Speaker 1: great moment for Pendles, I know that, and like Bobby
Speaker 1: was able to gift that to him, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 1: He could have quicked seven on the day. I think
Speaker 1: God's insane. Like on the day, it's just as like
Speaker 1: kick it where he's at, just kicking that vicinity.
Speaker 2: He's quick enough.
Speaker 1: Or if you just kick at the space in front
Speaker 1: of him, he'll beat the guy next to him and
Speaker 1: he'll go another fifty meters and then just kick it goal.
Speaker 1: Like it was just he just couldn't go wrong on
Speaker 1: the day, and it's it would have been the best
Speaker 1: feeling ever to like take that specky over him and
Speaker 1: like the ultimate Bobbie Hill type freaking specky yeah, and
Speaker 1: just one two grabs and then bring it in then
Speaker 1: kick then slot the goal after to like finish off
Speaker 1: the experience would have been absolutely incredible. We were cell
Speaker 1: hyped for him after the game, like you can see us.
Speaker 1: Whenever they announced in as normal Smith, everyone just like
Speaker 1: lost their mine because it was it probably wasn't a
Speaker 1: person you would place a.
Speaker 2: Bet on being an orst before the game, if it
Speaker 2: makes sense.
Speaker 1: But I think we all knew his value at the team,
Speaker 1: what he could do, and like for him to be
Speaker 1: able to show that and prove that on the biggest
Speaker 1: stage is pretty pretty eppic.
Speaker 3: Well, the best game of his career and the and
Speaker 3: the absolute game to pull it out too, But he was.
Speaker 1: He was killing them, like Melbourne game and the GS game,
Speaker 1: so like it was it was coming, you know, like
Speaker 1: he had good he had a good kind of momentum
Speaker 1: into that game, and we.
Speaker 3: Have spoken about like you want to be playing well
Speaker 3: in finals, and now he's put himself up there as
Speaker 3: he's a finals player, and like, without doubt we will
Speaker 3: talk about Scott Pendlebury because there's been a lot made.
Speaker 3: You know, he's obviously had a shining career, but there's
Speaker 3: been a lot made about his Grand Final. He was
Speaker 3: out there conducting the orchestra and so you talked about
Speaker 3: you can't hear the umpires, you can't hear this. There's
Speaker 3: a adrenaline the crowds pumping Scott Pendlebury in those middle
Speaker 3: stoppages to reset even like pointing out people's positions, where
Speaker 3: they need to go, what they need to do. Yeah,
Speaker 3: can you hear him in those moments? And how much
Speaker 3: does he say when he's out there and how much
Speaker 3: does he kind of like lead in those moments? Is
Speaker 3: he like another coach out there?
Speaker 2: Oh? For sure? Is now?
Speaker 1: I think I noticed that the most. And we got
Speaker 1: to center bounce right, you have your moment to take
Speaker 1: a breath. He sets everything up, He goes, we're doing
Speaker 1: this this play to this person, this this area right,
Speaker 1: And those are the moments you kind of you really
Speaker 1: see his leadership shine. Like obviously around the ground, he
Speaker 1: gets people in position, does all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: And obviously, you know, his ability stands up in the
Speaker 1: you know, the biggest stressful moments.
Speaker 2: So I do see that in him.
Speaker 1: And he's an incredible leader and incredible human, incredible player
Speaker 1: like most dispuzzles in NFL VFL history, and he's had
Speaker 1: all these accolades come his way, you know, and he's
Speaker 1: still killing it. Like it's not like he's going and
Speaker 1: subsiding off into the sunset. You know, He's like he's
Speaker 1: still somehow like continually getting better.
Speaker 3: I feel like hiding him in the big moments, they're
Speaker 3: not putting him in the back pocket.
Speaker 1: Or like I mean, out of anyone in that last quarter,
Speaker 1: he would have had the best last quarter anyone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, eleven disposals in the last and everyone was important, pivotal,
Speaker 3: spoiled too. But like you look behind the goals and
Speaker 3: he's set himself up to be there for that moment,
Speaker 3: Like he's behind the play in the hole in the spamman,
Speaker 3: pointing others as where to go. In the dying moments,
Speaker 3: he's telling you know, players to go wide, to get
Speaker 3: into space, to get the kick, to take time off
Speaker 3: the clock. Like I think it's underrated and probably not
Speaker 3: spoken about it. That's why I ask it so often,
Speaker 3: is like are you present in those moments? Are you
Speaker 3: in that time and space and you're thinking clearly where.
Speaker 2: Not a lot of players are.
Speaker 3: Oh, you ask players about the game and their memories
Speaker 3: of it and stuff, and it sounds like it's just
Speaker 3: a big fog. But he's there in those moments, looking
Speaker 3: at what they're doing, looking at the bench for the times,
Speaker 3: he's telling people to get in positions, he's setting up
Speaker 3: the next play, he's looking at time management, like to
Speaker 3: be doing all of that stuff in that moment on
Speaker 3: the Grand Final, one hundred thousand people like chanting, screaming,
Speaker 3: like all of that, Like as good a player as
Speaker 3: he is with the eleven touches and all of that stuff,
Speaker 3: Like that's massive to have someone like that in your
Speaker 3: team in those moments, because when it comes down to
Speaker 3: the Grand Final and there's one kick in it, it's
Speaker 3: who can set up better?
Speaker 2: Who can you know, who can handle the moment?
Speaker 3: Yeah, who can handle the moment better? And he just
Speaker 3: puts you in the best position to handle that moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think you see you definitely see it
Speaker 1: on the ground, like we've been in so many close
Speaker 1: games throughout the year and throughout the final series really,
Speaker 1: and it's those people that give you that calmness in
Speaker 1: the storm you kind of talk about, you know of like,
Speaker 1: you know, the chaos of the situation can overwhelm people,
Speaker 1: and there's some people that just you know, they see
Speaker 1: it from a very like just clear perspective. And he's
Speaker 1: one of those, Like it's never I've never seen him
Speaker 1: kind of fluster to the points we should do this,
Speaker 1: we should usually goes boys like look, this is what's happened,
Speaker 1: this is what we're going to do.
Speaker 2: This is gonna work. This is what we're going to do.
Speaker 1: And he's one of those people you just have extreme
Speaker 1: confidence that whatever he says will work.
Speaker 2: Because there's no questions though it's like, cool, all right,
Speaker 2: that's what we're doing, you know, it's not like, oh,
Speaker 2: I kind of think this is a better idea.
Speaker 1: Pendles would fbably look at you and go, you could
Speaker 1: shut the fuck up, But no, it's he's an incredible,
Speaker 1: like kind of leveler for our team, I feel like
Speaker 1: in some of the most stressful moments. So he's a
Speaker 1: huge reason why we've been successful. Lock him and his
Speaker 1: ability to yet be another voice on the field for
Speaker 1: the coaches and know the game plan from front to
Speaker 1: back and every position like we do our walkthroughs before
Speaker 1: games and he's telling forwards and midfielders and backs where
Speaker 1: they should be even though he doesn't even play those positions.
Speaker 1: And so it's pretty incredible his ability and what he
Speaker 1: brings to the club. And he's been a massive reason
Speaker 1: for us to be able to win games and those
Speaker 1: you know, those dire circumstances at the end of it,
Speaker 1: and it was.
Speaker 3: Probably at his hottest Brisbane kicked a couple of consecutive goals.
Speaker 3: They got out to about thirteen points was there biggest margin.
Speaker 3: But every time they seem to get a goal, Collingwood
Speaker 3: had a quick reply, and more often than not it
Speaker 3: was coming from the center stoppage, and there was a
Speaker 3: moment that you know, all these moments are great throughout
Speaker 3: the course of the game, but people remember the last
Speaker 3: five minutes more than any Sena bounce, Pendals yourself, Nick Dacos,
Speaker 3: Jordan Degoie, the awesome force them they put him in there.
Speaker 2: Probably the terrific three soome and some idiot looking over
Speaker 2: their shoulder.
Speaker 3: Talk us through that center bounce. What was said and
Speaker 3: then you know, obviously led to an amazing Jordan Degey
Speaker 3: goal that now will go down in history.
Speaker 2: Just kind of up to the moment.
Speaker 1: We all kind of sit there and everyone has that
Speaker 1: breath of us in that kind of miniature huddle of
Speaker 1: the four of us, and he changes to him, he goes, look,
Speaker 1: don't stress, we've got time. Like, there's plenty of time.
Speaker 1: There's at least five minutes. We'll be guy like, we
Speaker 1: don't need to get a goal right away. We don't
Speaker 1: need to do anything. That's like two out of it's
Speaker 1: going to cost us, right, we don't need to take
Speaker 1: too much of a risk here. So we just had
Speaker 1: the idea of, like I think it was, you know,
Speaker 1: a bit of a get it forward, you know, get
Speaker 1: it going our way and try to get inside our fifty.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I think we went the head out and
Speaker 1: then bang bang, one person to another Nick with the
Speaker 1: handball off that like jumps up and then handballs off
Speaker 1: to Jordy why he's in the air, and Jordy finishes
Speaker 1: one from fifty, and I think in the background, I'm
Speaker 1: just like I'm bowlown away because I'm sitting here looking
Speaker 1: I've got three of the best players that might ever
Speaker 1: play the game for Collingwood, right, and then my dumb
Speaker 1: ass in there. I'm like, I'll get the hit out
Speaker 1: and I'm like, they're so good they'll sort the rest out.
Speaker 1: Like I don't need to be in the handball chain,
Speaker 1: nor do I really want to be at times, right,
Speaker 1: So it goes from bang to bang bang. I'm still
Speaker 1: kind of like at the I kind of towards the
Speaker 1: center circle, and I'm just watching this whole thing kind
Speaker 1: of like play out in front of me. And I
Speaker 1: remember just like Jordi getting the ball, having like just
Speaker 1: that slimmer, a slim bit of space hitting the shot
Speaker 1: from fifty and I just put my hands up like
Speaker 1: you're a freak and think the Lord, you're on my team.
Speaker 2: Like it was such a cool.
Speaker 1: Moment for him, Like I know, talking to him before,
Speaker 1: we had talked about twenty eighteen and what this. You know,
Speaker 1: the opportunity has missed and being able to be in
Speaker 1: another Grand Final and taken advantage of it, and like
Speaker 1: in the dire moments that matter the most, for that
Speaker 1: player to stand up would have been it's so incredible
Speaker 1: to have his journey, you know, be able to have
Speaker 1: that moment, I mean, would have meant so much to him.
Speaker 1: I'm super proud of, you know, the person he's become
Speaker 1: and the human he is, and it's it's it's pretty
Speaker 1: incredible for him to be able to perform, like we said,
Speaker 1: with a lot of people in those moments, that moments
Speaker 1: that matter most, and you look to those big time
Speaker 1: players to make a big time statement and he did
Speaker 1: in that moment, and I was just like.
Speaker 2: Blown awhile I was like, how good is this? Like
Speaker 2: you wouldn't want anyone else in the center bounce with you.
Speaker 2: But these three guys, there's.
Speaker 3: A classic Jordan to Goy goal, you know, the power goal,
Speaker 3: a couple of steps through, just the big seal. Later
Speaker 3: it was great. Nick's handball over his shoulder, like while
Speaker 3: in mid air kind of changes his you know, thought
Speaker 3: pattern because Bucks mentioned that he said to him post
Speaker 3: game that he was just going to go the big
Speaker 3: thump forward. Yeah, and while he's in air, his Jordan
Speaker 3: call out for him, so instead of punching it forward,
Speaker 3: decides the handball out to Jordan in space. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it's pretty crazy. And up until that point, Jordy obviously
Speaker 3: had had a massive Final Series, huge game against GWS
Speaker 3: going into that one, said he would just do whatever
Speaker 3: it took to just win the game. And Josh Dunkley
Speaker 3: played on him and was towered to play on him
Speaker 3: all week and did a very good job on him,
Speaker 3: kept him to eighteen disposals. But it was just two
Speaker 3: tiny moments, and it was he took those moments. So
Speaker 3: the first goal outside fifty he would have kicked it
Speaker 3: from fifty five to sixty to the first one at
Speaker 3: the end of the quarter after the Sirene bang goal,
Speaker 3: and it just sets up for another massive quarter, and I.
Speaker 1: Think we kick goals on the siren three times on
Speaker 1: two times, Crispy and his And that's a that's a
Speaker 1: bit of like a momentum crazy, a killer for someone
Speaker 1: who's got a few golds and put some momentum back
Speaker 1: into our sides. Like him kicking that one, Crispy kicking
Speaker 1: the other one on the on the fifty from the angle,
Speaker 1: Like those are big kind of shifters in momentum.
Speaker 3: Two massive ones. When you think of I guess we'll
Speaker 3: touch on it a little bit. The any accuracies that
Speaker 3: were happening in the game. Thirty scoring shots, does that
Speaker 3: start to creep in?
Speaker 2: I definitely didn't help.
Speaker 3: You took the market. That's a stock standard Mason cock
Speaker 3: set shot go. You mark it down every day of
Speaker 3: the week. The other one the diving, throw your big
Speaker 3: flipper at it.
Speaker 2: We can understand that one missing.
Speaker 3: That one looked like it was going to go through.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that was I was the first one's at
Speaker 1: the mark and it was like I'd got like bashed
Speaker 1: and like lost my breath and I was, like I
Speaker 1: said before, so I was exhausted in the games. The market,
Speaker 1: I'm like just trying to catch my breath and I'm
Speaker 1: looking out and I'm going, oh my god, we have
Speaker 1: ten seconds, so I have to kick this off, to
Speaker 1: just kick going. I remember being like so exhausted, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of like swaying as I'm like running up and
Speaker 1: I missed it, and that would have been so cool.
Speaker 1: I know I've kicked one in a granny and it
Speaker 1: was a great feeling. Fortunately didn't get to do it
Speaker 1: at this time. Hopefully the next one. But and then
Speaker 1: the other one was the I think it was out
Speaker 1: of a stoppage and kind of to me Jill, I
Speaker 1: handle it out and I got it, and I was
Speaker 1: falling away and try to kick one, and of course
Speaker 1: this is I haven't actually told Hi about this, but
Speaker 1: it was like I kick, I miss it. Of course,
Speaker 1: as soon as I get up, I see who else
Speaker 1: but the best player in the league sitting there could
Speaker 1: have handball received too.
Speaker 2: Probably stop and Nick's going give me the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 2: my bad, falling the ground you get in.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought. But in all honesty, a better play.
Speaker 1: Give it to Nick. As always, Mason, that is the play.
Speaker 1: Give it to Nick.
Speaker 3: We can't all just change our thought process mid movement
Speaker 3: and tackle and all this stuff, and he jumps in.
Speaker 2: The air and changes it in hands and enjoying it.
Speaker 2: At the top of me. He don't have that capacity, mate,
Speaker 2: don't have that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, there's so many amazing moments throughout this whole game.
Speaker 3: I want to go to almost a flashback to what
Speaker 3: we said last week. GWS Steele, we joked asking for
Speaker 3: the handball, said he couldn't kick over a jammed in
Speaker 3: probably had thirty in him at most. Well, the old
Speaker 3: dog came out or new tricks gets a fifty and
Speaker 3: the man on the mark is on the fifty arc.
Speaker 2: Yeah, long way out, long way out, long way out,
Speaker 2: looking of steel strapped up there. You're going, no chance
Speaker 2: on help.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's he was cramping when he got the fifty.
Speaker 3: He's stretching out his leg that's taped back together. And
Speaker 3: I think everyone on the planet is thinking, top of
Speaker 3: the goals, do the fake out? Steele has other plans,
Speaker 3: goes back and drains from fifty five meters, does the
Speaker 3: little mini arc just to get the extra distance, and
Speaker 3: it goes through half post height. They don't even try
Speaker 3: to touch it. What's going through your mind at that
Speaker 3: because in the vision, almost poetically, here comes big Mason
Speaker 3: with his arms out, sprinting through like the square, going
Speaker 3: he's bloody kicked.
Speaker 2: It over me.
Speaker 3: He's bloody kicked it over me. And after I gave
Speaker 3: him shit last week? What was going through your head
Speaker 3: when the old fella put it through?
Speaker 1: Oh he had fifty whenever he mocked. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is I know this is going right for sure.
Speaker 1: And credit to him earning the moment and kicking that
Speaker 1: and like you said, it was he could have kicked
Speaker 1: sixty oero and we went above anyone on the on
Speaker 1: the line. But in my mind, I'm sitting there, I'm
Speaker 1: exhaust I'm going have to push off here and lead
Speaker 1: and hopefully we get just nice CHESSI out in front.
Speaker 3: You know, big Muments suckstandard Mason cocks classic.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I haven't heard the commentators, but I assume the
Speaker 1: commentators are probably on the same wave talking options. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're talking options, they're talking goals. For sure, they're talking
Speaker 1: this is not going to happen. But as soon as
Speaker 1: he left his boot, it was like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: this is a chance, and you're just going are you
Speaker 1: freaking kidding me?
Speaker 2: Straight dead straight straight through the sticks.
Speaker 1: And it was just like one of those insane can't
Speaker 1: believe it moments of like old mate who has just
Speaker 1: been through the ringer just launches one.
Speaker 3: From late in the game, hot day, Old wins.
Speaker 1: The game off that kick, and insane to think I
Speaker 1: was like able to roost it that far incredible, awesome,
Speaker 1: crazy experience. I was in disbelief whenever it happened. I
Speaker 1: was just like, holy shit, did that just go through.
Speaker 3: It's so funny hearing his teammates go like the whole
Speaker 3: list is like nah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no one and the audacity to do it too.
Speaker 1: I have to give him credit because me probably in
Speaker 1: that scenario, like I would in a probably gone for goals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, like, there's nothing more disappointing in front of
Speaker 3: all those people, everyone, the whole expectation. You kick it
Speaker 3: and it drops short, short but not short enough for
Speaker 3: a marking option, and it just gets thumped over.
Speaker 2: Just get stumped over and it's real depressing. And he
Speaker 2: just he launched it there like launched at fifty five.
Speaker 2: I still can't believe, like, and it was at an angle.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that straight? Like at an angle. It was just incredible,
Speaker 1: like just one of those and it's like like twenty eighteen, Jordi,
Speaker 1: you got pendles, you got steel and these moments that
Speaker 1: are so like important standing up and just slotting them
Speaker 1: like it's so good to see this kind of full
Speaker 1: circle experience for them, like to be able to stand
Speaker 1: up in the biggest moments.
Speaker 3: And that's what I thought that you know, all the
Speaker 3: inaccuracies not really like a big day for the like
Speaker 3: key forwards like Joe Danaher like to his credit, just
Speaker 3: kept fighting. But for the old dogs on the team
Speaker 3: plus Jordi probably more senior play now getting there to
Speaker 3: just stand up and slaughter through the leadership that you
Speaker 3: need to stand up on those big occasions. It reminded
Speaker 3: me very much of like the stories that you hear
Speaker 3: the folklore of like the mum lifting up the car
Speaker 3: off her baby and stuff like the adrenaline something just
Speaker 3: goes through and you can get those extra inches. But
Speaker 3: it's a miracle on grass territory. But we'll get towards
Speaker 3: the end of the game because that was the winner.
Speaker 3: But there was a couple more moments late in the
Speaker 3: game Joe Danaher gets the ball with a minute thirty left,
Speaker 3: plays on and kicks the goal. Takes all the stress
Speaker 3: out of it because we never know where the ball
Speaker 3: is going to go from a Joe Danahert said shot
Speaker 3: and I'm thinking he knew that, so he just takes
Speaker 3: the quick snap.
Speaker 2: The snap from fifteen dead in front goes.
Speaker 3: Through the middle, and then everyone kind of has a
Speaker 3: moment of like, well, every well, I guess fans from
Speaker 3: both sides would have been thinking, shit, where we're back on,
Speaker 3: Like it looked dead and buried, and we're back on.
Speaker 2: It's looked like a bit of like a cover the
Speaker 2: we're not going to be able to get over it.
Speaker 1: And then I still to this day, I don't believe
Speaker 1: that was a setup for Joe Danho to mark that.
Speaker 1: I still think he was going for goals and shake
Speaker 1: the ship out of it. But yeah, we'll let him
Speaker 1: answer this.
Speaker 3: Because there was another moment earlier in the game. I
Speaker 3: forget who I think Zorko from the pocket tried to
Speaker 3: kick it to the top of the square uncontested. Tom
Speaker 3: Mitchell mark, Yeah, not what you're right up, dumb she
Speaker 3: corner two? Yeah, oh, flash back, flash lord. But there
Speaker 3: was yeah, it went his way, kicked the goal, played
Speaker 3: on chaos in shumes like it's it's back to game on.
Speaker 3: You don't want to lose this after everything that's happened. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what's the thought patterns going through your head? Goes back
Speaker 3: to the center bounce a little little more chaotic? Are
Speaker 3: you in the center? Bounce for that dying moments you
Speaker 3: stayed out there?
Speaker 2: You cooked? At this point, I'm sitting there. After every goal,
Speaker 2: I'm looking looking to the substitute forty my eyes, it's
Speaker 2: not too good. Is that a forty yet? That looks
Speaker 2: like it? No, it's a four and six.
Speaker 3: Next it's like a mirage, the little wavy lines across
Speaker 3: the desert.
Speaker 2: I send the message hard enough, like matildale will happen.
Speaker 1: I was cooked, But like you get back to ciner
Speaker 1: bounce and I'm like, I can't really remember the exact
Speaker 1: things of it, but I know what did happen was
Speaker 1: not what was supposed to happen. So the center bounce happens,
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure I was supposed to hit to
Speaker 1: the left right. Yeah, and I don't know what happened,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if I missed hit it wherever
Speaker 1: it was, but it actually lands to the right and
Speaker 1: there's no one there and the ball and I hit
Speaker 1: the ground.
Speaker 3: I go, oh fuck, because the only thing you don't
Speaker 3: want time and space for them. Clear, Senate, Clear, that's
Speaker 3: exactly what you're going.
Speaker 2: That's what happened. And I saw you running on first
Speaker 2: sprint of the game, fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Minute thirty the gap and I sprint over there and
Speaker 1: I'm like, and then it gets that point where you
Speaker 1: kind of face off with someone. The ball's probably ninety
Speaker 1: ten right and you're like, I'm not going to be
Speaker 1: able to get to this, and I kind of started
Speaker 1: stepping and I missed the tackle and thank God cues
Speaker 1: there to say that, and he hits him as he
Speaker 1: kicks it. It doesn't really make it into forward fifty
Speaker 1: as far as they probably want.
Speaker 3: It's a real pop up kick to the top of
Speaker 3: the arc. Lucky Neil gets taken below the knees qu
Speaker 3: and gets a free kick. Play on, goes out to
Speaker 3: Zach Bailey kick over his head almost into inside fifty,
Speaker 3: calls play on advantage, Collingwood mop up kind of escape
Speaker 3: backs are half forward in that moment. So much you've
Speaker 3: talked already about can you hear it? Can't you hear
Speaker 3: it in that moment? Can you hear whistles? Can you
Speaker 3: hear free kicks? Can you hear advantage? Can you hear
Speaker 3: what's going on?
Speaker 1: You can't hear anything. You can hear the person talking
Speaker 1: next to you. It was that loud, so like, even
Speaker 1: in the moment, I didn't even know it was a
Speaker 1: free kick. In the moment, I had no clue that
Speaker 1: the whistle was blown.
Speaker 2: It was so lad.
Speaker 1: He couldn't hear the whistles much less here with I
Speaker 1: was saying so like whenever he played on, everyone like,
Speaker 1: there's not a person that stopped on the ground if
Speaker 1: you look at the vision. Everyone was just like, keep
Speaker 1: going right. And then I guess he called the play on.
Speaker 1: And then you know, they punch it and they goes
Speaker 1: to a stoppage. McNary myself lying up again, hit out,
Speaker 1: Tom Mitchell gets it. Oscar goes to tackle as a ruckman.
Speaker 1: Here's a little clue, don't tackle a young fella or
Speaker 1: a little fella. He gets the high free kick.
Speaker 3: Which would be they were hard to come by all day,
Speaker 3: so he put his head in there.
Speaker 1: And but pretty obviously whenever a ruckman tries to tackle
Speaker 1: a midfielder, they'll give.
Speaker 3: It away, and there was a bit of yeah it
Speaker 3: was it was a bigger one, like it was a
Speaker 3: bit more force behind it because he is a big
Speaker 3: fella guy after a smaller guy.
Speaker 2: And Tom's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah getting the h Yeah, yeah, put your head in.
Speaker 1: Then we chip chip chip down line, and then you're
Speaker 1: kind of unaware of how much times you laugh, Like
Speaker 1: you know there's we have a thirty second sign, so
Speaker 1: we know there's at least they were sorry. Most thirty
Speaker 1: seconds are around thirty seconds or less. And they kick
Speaker 1: down line. They I like, tap it down and Will
Speaker 1: and Will kicks the four of the siren goes right,
Speaker 1: and then the game's over and it's like a moment
Speaker 1: that I just I just like was just so exhausted.
Speaker 2: I just fell over and I was like, that's it.
Speaker 2: I get Starne. Thank God, all right, everyone, thank you.
Speaker 1: That is Part one, done and dusted, and you best
Speaker 1: believe things are about to get even more dusty, because
Speaker 1: we have the celebrations of the Grand Final and all
Speaker 1: those stories to come here in part two. And here
Speaker 1: is a little snippet for you to enjoy. You're a
Speaker 1: Premiership player. It's like, oh god, I snubbed the kid too.
Speaker 1: I don't think I gave the handshake and I went
Speaker 1: straight to the double cobras. I just sat there, just
Speaker 1: soaked all in. I was like, holy shit, like it's happened,
Speaker 1: like it's it's actually happened. Well, I came to that
Speaker 1: realization of like it's it's completed, like you've done it.
Speaker 1: Everyone starts partying and it's pretty loose, like on the bus,
Speaker 1: I was chugging beers out.
Speaker 2: Of the cop like I was.
Speaker 1: I was college drunk, hung sitting there in the fetal position,
Speaker 1: sweating in the middle of that hospital bed on my
Speaker 1: own in just areas.
Speaker 2: What was I thinking