WEBVTT - 🏆GRAND FINAL SPECIAL: PART 1🏆 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.160 Hey, Legends, welcome back to The Mason Cox Show. Massive 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:13.640 Grand final episode CAESU is done and we're premieres. 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:15.520 Baby, there's two parts to this thing. 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.279 It's so big, and the first part we're gonna talk 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:20.799 about everything. We talk about nerves, we talk about the 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.840 adrenaline beforehand the parade, Kiss goes on to the stage 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:27.280 and just rocks the joint. And then we get into 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:31.360 the actual game, the big moments, the key players, everything 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.400 that happens. There's so much to cover in this episode. 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:36.680 You're gonna have to settle amps. It is a massive 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.040 one before we even get into the second part of 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.240 the celebrations and everything else that goes on. So thank 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.599 you so much for getting into this, but we're starting 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:55.080 right now. Okay, Legends, there is a ton to go through. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.640 Let's be honest, without further ado, Welcome Brandon Cox. 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.200 We made to the finish line the football season. 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:03.640 Oh my god, man, this is the first time I've 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.120 seen you and really heard from you. I tried to 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:07.840 like give you your space and let you have your 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:11.560 time in the sun. But it's time to dissect. We 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.680 got questions that we need answered. We want to know 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:17.920 who's the best one who got the drunkest. We want 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.039 all the dirty details. We want to know all about 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:21.720 the game. We want to know about that smother from 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.720 Zach Bailey should have been fifty meters. I'm telling you, 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.360 I almost lost another TV may so I got to 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.759 get a sponsorship for TVs because I'm almost running out 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.360 of them every other week. There's plenty to go through 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.600 on this one. So I want to start by saying 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:39.160 congratulations Mason Cox premiership player. 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:40.000 Sounds good. 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:40.560 How's it for? 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:43.480 Yeah, it feels. It feels interesting. I don't know, like 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:48.280 there's like a word to really encapsulate it. There's I think, 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.800 like my mother asked me after the game. She was like, 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.000 you know, like how do you feel? I was like, 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:55.520 I kind of feel and we'll talk about more about 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.600 kind of this. I guess the emotions after the game 0:01:57.920 --> 0:01:59.600 a little bit later. But there's a sense of like 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:04.320 complete less completness to it. It's not fully complete, but 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.240 like to be able to go from zero to now 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:11.200 being a premiership player and experiencing AFL through the highs 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.680 and lows and everything it has to give, there's a 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.760 bit of like full circle kind of wholeness to it. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:18.280 If that makes sense. 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.360 Yeah, one hundred percent. I felt it after and like 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.480 watching you through every moment that it was like you 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.920 get your metal like post Siren, post Game, all of that. 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:28.560 And it just. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.880 And it is lucky. Not a lot of people in 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:38.440 their AFL career get to have a neat finish. Not 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:43.320 that you're done, but it's been a crazy movie like 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.960 experience highs and lows all the way through, and to 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.600 get a premiership towards the end, it just felt like 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:55.880 it meant like so much and it rounds out this amazing, 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.640 like incredible journey that you've had. And I can only 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:01.760 imagine we'll get into it, but it must have been 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:07.480 just overwhelming in that moment of just you took a 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:11.440 massive fucking risk doing everything that you did and coming 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:16.079 over here and a moment of like it's all been 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:20.040 for something, like it's complete. It's the journey is complete 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.840 with the result that you got, there's. 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.880 Still more to come. Look, I'd like to do it again. 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.200 Already we're like sitting a week or while or like 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.079 a week after it happened, I'm already sitting there thinking 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:30.000 about twenty twenty four. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:31.560 We got two more years, may as well go the 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:32.000 three pep. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:33.919 Yeah, that's I mean, that's the goal, right, got to 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.600 get to Justin Leappich and Craig McCray area kind of things, you. 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.600 Know, Yeah, when you got those two just sitting there 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.320 talking to you every week like smug bus. 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:46.200 But now we'll get into it. There's quite a bit 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:46.800 to cover. 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.960 As you can imagine, there's it's a pretty massive, I 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:54.160 guess moment in my life, pretty amazing experience for everyone involved, 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.880 fans and everything else, and the intensity of the game 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.920 and everything that happened. It's there's a lot of dice 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.960 acting go through, and like even now sitting here, I 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.040 still don't feel like I've fully had the chance to 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.520 really understand everything that happened. Like I haven't really had 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.080 a chance to look back through the whole vision of 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.400 the game and listen to it and all that. You 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:16.400 kind of get little bits here and there from people 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.560 of what happened and what they were going through their 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.320 heads at certain times, but I haven't really had the 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.200 quiet moments myself to kind of look back on it 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.240 all yet, which I'm kind of looking forward to. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.240 Well, you will have what an eighteen hour flight back home. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.600 To just sit download it loaded. 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.200 Well, let's jump into it, and we won't start with 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.720 the game. We'll start with the lead up because it 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.640 is a big week. And last week, well, in the 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.719 prelim week, you were talking about how it is just 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.120 a normal week and everything's the same and you're all 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:49.520 fine grand finals not like that Grand final. You got 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.200 like the training where tens of thousands of rock up 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.520 to see you just train sick, and then you've got 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.760 the parade talk us through the week that was. 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.960 We thought, well, it was quite stressful, if I'm being 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:03.719 honest with you. There's a lot of people that come 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.480 out of the woodworks. I think there was people texting 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.839 me and this was a sign where someone texted me 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.120 at one point and you know how you can see 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.719 the last time someone texted you was like whatever date, 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:14.960 it was like six years ago, and they were asking 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.120 for Grand Final tickets and I was like, yo, homie, 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.479 great to hear from you. First of all, let's just 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.359 go back to that. Besides you just asking me for 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.680 Grand Final tickets right away, and I was like, you're 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.600 not going to get tickets over my family, Like, I mean, 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:28.560 I'm talking to you. 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:29.200 In six years, bro. 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.159 Yeah, So there's that many people I guess that I 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:33.320 came out of the woodwork and there's a lot of 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.159 people that came there and said, like, you know, good 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:36.800 luck on the weekend. Like there's just a lot of 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.400 influx of messages and stuff that you know, I've been 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.880 able to meet so many incredible people over my experience 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.279 here that you know, big moments like that in your career, 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.080 in your life, a lot of people reach out, which 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.599 is awesome, don't get me wrong, but it can feel 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.200 overwhelming and you kind of have to get to that 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:50.760 point where. 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:50.960 I got to. 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.760 It was like Thursday or Wednesday, and I just shut 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:55.559 the phone off because it was just like I felt 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.720 like I was just spending my whole day answering back 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.120 to people on my phone and I'm saying thanks, thank 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.680 you for all the kind words. So yeah, that was 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.520 it was kind of full on, a lot of commitments, 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.400 a lot of things come your way. I think I 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.880 did the puck drop for the hockey, which was awesome 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.200 to have an American teams over here, you know, and 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.279 and be able to have the NHL here, which was sick. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.360 It was so cool to have that representation here and 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.400 they loved it. All the NHL guys went to the 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.159 prelim game, and even after the Granny, they were like 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.799 messaging on Instagram. We're like, dude, unreal, congratulations. We watched 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:26.760 like the game all while it was f and sick, 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:31.320 like loving yet watch like yeah, and it's cool because 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.200 like these people don't know what it is and they're 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.560 kind of it's it's awesome to have them share an 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.200 experience of kind of what I went through in the 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.880 beginning of like learning what IFL is, finding out it's 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.640 an incredible sport, and then kind of like getting stuck 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:44.640 into it and becoming a fan. Like it's that kind 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.479 of coming to understanding of what it is and that's 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.560 exciting for people, and it was cool for the NHL 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.919 guys and then to do that, and then there's a 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:53.559 million other things. I try to keep it as normal 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.640 as possible and you say no it to a lot 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.800 of things which might upset people, but like you have to. 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.200 You have to try to make time for yourself and 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.120 that's kind of that's very hard in a grand final 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:03.760 week where you feel like you're getting pulled from one 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.000 thing to another. But you know, I took that time. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.680 I guess back towards the back end, or I was 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:11.760 like sleep deprived still from the game, you know, on 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.320 the weekend and I'll just spent a day to myself, 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.120 which was quite nice and just got to relax, took 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.040 a nap while like jazz and that kind of reset me, 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.040 which is good. And then we went into the parade, 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.560 which is the weirdest thing in the world. Did you 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.520 a parade before you win? And like before you play 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:28.040 a granny? 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.640 Very odd? You have to admit Australians. 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:32.440 It is weird. 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:36.160 And yeah, it looked like celebrating the game, not the winner. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.520 It was a real stretched out looking one down past 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:40.840 the Yarra this year. 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:42.320 I fan of that, by the way. 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.640 And you did get the oldest looking car out of 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.000 the lot. It was weird that they just chucked in 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.520 this old thing that they found on the phone. 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:51.520 I know it was. 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.800 It was an old school to highks, I want to say. 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.520 And I I got to ask, like who do you 0:07:58.520 --> 0:07:59.640 want to be in the car with. I said like, 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.200 I'm happy with whatever. I'm happy to go on my own. 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.320 If there's an extra, which that was the case, is 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.000 like there was a odd number, so it was like 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.320 I'm happy to go on my own. A stress so 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:08.880 I got my own car, which is like an old 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:09.680 school one, which. 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:10.200 Is just very me. 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.880 I feel like it was very much like okay, that 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.920 makes sense, right, and we went through it and like 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:19.640 it's just kind of cast. We got like a bus 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:23.360 from the club to John Kine Arena, which is literally 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.960 across the street. Like it's absurd stuff like that, because 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:27.920 it was just that many people and that much chaos. 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:30.360 And then you go in there and you get prepped, 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.800 you get into the truck and it's just it was 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.280 cool because it was a different it was a different 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.600 route you take, so you went through kind of like 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.000 the park and you went up and then over a bridge. 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:41.440 And yeah, like wasn't through the city or anything. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.000 It wasn't like they shut off a lot of roads, 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.320 which I think was maybe a bit of a Cashi's. 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:47.240 For the boats. 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:48.840 Yeah, I went for the boats, which is a real 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.680 cutback on the on the budget to now cutting back 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.560 a little bit for the walk through the park. But 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.080 it was awesome because there's more people I could come right, So, 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:58.880 like you get a street and there's only like maybe 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.240 three or four rows of people can have deep where 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.880 this was like tons and tons of people and it 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.600 went through the activation area next to the MCG which 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.839 was really cool, and it just kind of went through 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:13.360 that iconic area where all the sporting precinct is and 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:14.720 that was awesome, and there's people all. 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.720 Over the place. Got a Taylor Swift bracelet, huge show. 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:18.839 Someone threw on that. I didn't see. 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:19.960 It was on the ground next to me, and I 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:21.360 was like, halfway through the parade, I looked at I 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:26.040 was like, Taylor Swift bracelet, whoever. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:26.400 You gave me that. 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.320 I also got some Taylor Swift bracelets shipped into me 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.400 from California this week, so I'm getting him from everywhere. 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.839 Huge fan excited for February, not from Taylor. Yeah, not 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.360 stoked about her and Travis Kelcey, don't get me wrong, 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:39.400 but it's still a Taylor fan. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.280 But now the parade was insane. It was so hot though. 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.000 I was like, i'll talk about this later kind of 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.280 how that I feel like affected me on Grand Final day, 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.960 but going for like two or hours plus whoever was 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:57.160 on the back of the truck with nothing, it cooked 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:58.840 me for a bit, Like it was a bit wild. 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:01.280 But there were so many people there and it was 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.040 obviously like a majority Callingwood fans, which is awesome and 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.200 you feel that love and energy and everything else, and 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:07.720 every once in a while you get that Brisbane fan 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.440 that just you know, and because Brisbane went first to 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:14.320 the parade, Yeah, so I can imagine. We love Callingwood 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.079 supporters obviously, but they can be a bit ruthless at times, 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.160 you could say, and I don't know what was said 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.480 to them, but once we got to that stage, I 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.760 felt like they had just been through a trial. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.440 It was a bit of rough. I felt like the 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.920 Callingwood fans might have been like you gotta. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:34.480 Get that's crazy to think of because you wouldn't like 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:36.320 I haven't ever thought of that, but it's like an 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.360 away team and it's just it's like Game of Thrones, 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.280 like this shame like they would have been like thrown 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:41.720 to us. 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.480 It was like a ninety percent calling it at least. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.280 And then like the funny thing is, remember I went through. 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.160 Every once in a while, you see a few Brisbane 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.080 supporters and they give it to you, and I was like, 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.040 if they're giving it to me as a one in ten, 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.040 like the nine out of ten would have been given 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.320 it to all the Brisbane players coming through beforehand, so 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:58.840 that would have been rough. It wouldn't have been an 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:02.240 ideal situation. It wouldn't been as enjoyable. That's probably I 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:03.400 enjoyed it on your head. 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.000 You're probably like, oh see the praise is. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:06.240 Going to be found. Great. 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.960 They're just berating you like game. Like you said, just 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:11.079 through the streets. 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:11.840 It was wild. 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:13.680 And I don't know if that's true or not, whether 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:15.480 that they did do that, I'm not here to confirm 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.960 and deny, but given them circumstances of what I heard 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.200 from some Brisbane supporters, I could only imagine what was 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.040 coming to them before us. 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:25.800 Yeah, that's you're just sitting in the back of the 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.680 yet in they hate going through, just people yelling at. 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:29.640 It, raiding you. 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:31.400 This is so good. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.880 Can't confirmed Andy in the comments let us know if 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:35.360 that's true or not, or maybe if you were one 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.680 of those people. But yeah, that was insane. It was 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.600 like a thirty degree day. I feel like it was 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:45.120 so hot, no shelter whatsoever. And we got up on stage. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.559 It was cool, like to be able to experience the 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:50.600 whole thing. Like I didn't see my family as we 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.000 went through, but I had one of my best friends 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:53.760 out of all the people I randomly saw them at 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.680 the very end, like smash through a crowd, and that 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:58.440 was awesome to see them. They've been there through my 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.959 whole journey, which was cool. But we got up to 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.000 the stage and the same thing happened in twenty eighteen 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.120 that happened here, and I look down the into the audience, 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.320 you know, and I see my dad who's already wearing 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:13.200 Cockzilla shirt, full Collingwood kit from head to toe. And 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.800 then he's got this iconic like full like mohawk hat 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.480 thing he had on, and his smile was just beaming 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.680 from ear to ear. It was the greatest thing to say. 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.880 And like all the boys are like, oh, Mason's dad 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.760 can't miss it, just bang right in front of their stage. 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:35.479 Just helps like it's strategic the hat, Like you got miss. 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.319 That's for sure. They're not missing that, man. 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.000 So I want to talk us through because you're up 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.640 on stage with all the boys. There's a little backstory 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.840 with the cup, so we all know the captain's presented 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:47.560 the cup, they hold it up in front of the 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:52.559 crowd for the photo opportunity. Then there's word that Fly 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.520 has given some instruction to Darcy about holding onto the 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.240 cup as long as possible. 0:12:59.559 --> 0:12:59.840 I'm not. 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.199 Maybe hopefully we get Fly on I can talk a 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.640 little bit further on this, because there was some there 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.160 were some things that were said and that we're done 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.360 on that stage that you know, rep up right. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.200 Maybe we'll bring Craig on at some point. 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.199 We've been talking about getting them on for a while, 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.000 so we'll get on and tell them that. But I 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:17.920 think there's even in twenty eighteen, there was a thing 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.240 and on stage right it's like whoever has their hand 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:21.880 on the cup last? You know, it's a bit of 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.920 like a power statement, right, like we're gonna be the 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.920 ones that win this, you know, And before you get on, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.080 it's like it's kind of a it's a known thing 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.680 by both clubs, I feel like, and our club is 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.480 really well aware of it. So as soon as you 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:41.559 lifted up, we're all sitting there going look. And then 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.680 they stood there for like ten seconds and they wouldn't 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.880 put it down, and they're just having a stare off 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.920 between the two of them, I feel like him and Harris. 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.559 And then eventually I think the first was taking the 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:55.440 photographers just kind of like this is getting super awkward. 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:56.240 Can we move it on? 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.360 We got yeah, like you you could stop, you can 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.240 stop pozy, right, So they turned around and it's kind 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.680 of like they're both like stop lifting it up. They're 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.760 both handy, like hand on the handle like next to 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.520 their hip, just looking at each other. And then eventually 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:15.560 Harris gave it up first, and then we all were like, ah. 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.600 That was because they showed they were talking about it 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.200 on the TV and it was like, oh, you can 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.760 see the trophy shift, which must have meant like Darcy 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:27.400 Moore held it last. Meanwhile, like if you just looked 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.120 at fly flies doing double fist pumps. 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:31.640 Eating up, he was like he was turning over. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.400 He was like, enjoy it, guys, like this doesn't come 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.120 around every single year, Like you have to enjoy, you know, 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.240 this this moment in life, like some people might be 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:39.920 the only time they get to experience this, you know. 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:41.840 Or so I'm like, you know, you might be fortunate 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:43.880 to experience a few times, but every time it's different 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.200 and for different reasons, So like, soak it all up 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.320 while you can't, like and he's always been like that, 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.840 you know, enjoy the experienced kind of person. And yeah, 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:53.880 it was so funny up there, like everyone's going around 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.680 Darcy and there's no chance Darcy. 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.040 Was gonna I mean he would have took that thing home. 0:14:58.080 --> 0:14:59.280 I feel like if you had a chance to. 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.600 It's like a box face off when you're like staring 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.000 them down, and like some people think like I've got 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.120 them in this moment, like I won the stair down. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.080 I wonder to do that, like Captain should do that. 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.760 Screw the cup hold, let's just go straight face off 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:13.560 and then one pushes the other and then both teams 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.800 getting a massive scuffle and then it's on for film. 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:17.720 I think young and old Fly would be at the 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:19.080 front and giving his celebrations. 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:22.200 Now the ninety thousand calling supporters probably wouldn't up the 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:22.680 stage and. 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:23.480 Just walk their ass. 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.680 Now you talk about like some people don't get to 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.040 enjoy it. One person that did get to enjoy it 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.760 late call up Billy Frampton franchise all well, I was 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:34.840 going to say all week it was discussed who comes in, 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:38.320 who comes in? But Fly kind of did it everyone 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.840 in the favor, including Billy himself, which I'm sure he 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.720 would have appreciated the most. But announced it early, said 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.280 look you're in the team, You're going to play early 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.160 in the week, so took all those like questions out 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.800 of it and like who like to talk through the 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.880 media all week? And I guess he really got to 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:58.840 enjoy the moments as much, if not more than most. 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.240 How was that within the group, When did you guys 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.200 find out what was kind of that moment? Because at 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.480 the same time as you have that moment, you've got 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:12.200 two three teammates that have unfortunately missed out on the opportunity. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.320 Yeah, it was I think like our first training session, 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:17.760 the question was always going to be there, right because 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.880 whenever Dan went down, we found out would be like 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.080 six to eight weeks PCL whatever it was with the knee, 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.640 and there's obviously a void to be filled. And we 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.080 knew Harris Andrews is a massive threat of there, so 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.920 we couldn't just leave that open. So we'd have to 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.600 put someone in that position that would be able to 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:38.600 handle his ability. So that first training session I kind 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.240 of thought like, well, I might just play forward DC 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.960 plays full time rock. We just shift things around that 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:45.640 way and we maybe don't feel that gap or I'm 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:46.880 the one that feels like gap and I just take 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:50.480 play less rock. Time we were in training, I sat 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:52.400 there and the first thing you see the board of 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:54.200 everyone on the board in what position they're playing, and 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:55.520 Billy Franmftin was in the Ford line. 0:16:55.560 --> 0:17:01.120 I was like, I guess this is happening, k big bf, 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:01.600 let's go. 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.200 He had such a trial by fire because obviously filled 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.040 your role in the ruck when you were. 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.159 Down Darcy Camera's out, I was out. He played like 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:11.440 six weeks in the rock. 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.879 Plays back obviously, and now I've been launched forward for 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:15.639