WEBVTT - Bali Mayhem 🌴 Backing BT 💙 Scrap Father-Son 👨‍👦 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:08.520 Hey, Legends, welcome back to the Mason Cock Show. We've 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:11.799 got a big episode today. We talked about the big winners, Yes, 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:15.160 Brisbane is back, baby, Brizzie's back, Yes, and then we 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.360 talk about the big losers, how about Melbourne, whether or 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.240 not they had a tough game where North Melbourne's just 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.320 that good. And then we also get into a bit 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.599 of what's happened in the bye week and whateveryone's been 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:28.600 up to, what I've been up to in Balie, and 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:30.640 then we talk about clangers. There's a few good ones 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:33.360 in this episode, so listen in. It's gonna be an 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:41.640 epic one. We're gonna start it right now. Our legend 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.680 has been a bit of a break. Apologies, I will 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:45.560 take full ownership of that. I've had a bit of 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.159 a Balie holiday and a concussion a few other things. 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:49.879 It's been a bit of a bit of a mixed back. 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.040 But we're gonna get straight into this one. There's a 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.680 lot to cover, so without further ado, Braden, welcome to 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:55.319 the Pollen Well. 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:57.240 I don't want to ruin the podcast off the top, 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.960 but I'm glad that you're back to I guess review 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:04.920 one of the most boring weeks football history. Let's have 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.560 a few blowouts. Oh my god, I don't know what 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:11.040 the hell that was it, But let's get into it 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.759 because we have some fifty one hundred point blowouts to review. 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.000 But I want to give my clanger of the week. 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.600 We'll jump straight into that. Focus on the negatives here 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:24.200 on this podcast. Geez, that's what we like to do, 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.440 just bring it all back down to negatives. And I 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.560 want to give it. Maybe someone can tell me who 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:31.880 I'm giving this to, because I reckon there was no 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.000 winners in my clanger. There's a bit of umpire, a 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:39.160 bit of player. We'll put it out there. So Stephen May, 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:46.679 he's been fined for well, Steve's staging. Yeah, you got 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.400 fine for staging, which is a real kick in the 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:52.360 balls when you get in fined for that. He could 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.640 have bought a seventy five incher for what he got fined. 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.720 But I'll talk you through it. If you did miss 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.640 it over in there and the bar, he didn't get reception, 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.800 but he got tackled by Eddie Ford. So let's have 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.560 a quick guess at the scales. I'd say Stephen May 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.600 is weighing in ad probably about one hundred, one hundred 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:12.480 and ten big fella and Eddie Ford. He with sideburns. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.800 I reckon he'd be sixty kilos, but without him he's 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:19.440 probably fifty five kilos. Ringing wet. He tackles Stephen May. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.280 Now I don't know what he's expected to do, because 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.360 it was reminiscent of Chuka day Is going to the 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.480 old rodeos and seeing the little feller up there on 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.240 the big ball he's riding as he's bucking and bumping 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.959 him off. It does a three sixty seven twenty. I 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.760 thought that's a free kick. Ten eighty, no whistle? What 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:39.239 are we doing? 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.600 Where the rules changed again? While I was gone? 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:43.760 They on smokers Because I didn't know what the hell 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.840 was going on. He's still on his back for a 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.640 ten eighty. Takes him to ground because what else is 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.040 he going to do? His feet aren't on the ground, 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.160 so he can't. He's not really in control of what 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:57.520 the hell's going on. He goes right, wait on, we're 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.360 still about twenty seconds away from an umpire to decision. 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:05.360 They both land on the ground. Replay shows that Stephen 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.400 May's head does not hit the ground here, but he 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.880 starts holding his head like he's can cast, which is 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:17.480 that's disingenuous. So I won't blame him though, because when 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.919 the whole rule is set up for players to take 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.560 advantage of it, who are we going to blame here? 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.760 Are we blaming the system or are we blaming the players? 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:28.880 Don't hate the player, hate the game, they say. Now 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.600 they're laying on the ground long enough spooning that I 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.800 start to think they're a couple. But we're waiting on 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:40.280 this whistle. Whistle comes, everyone's like, oh there is an 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:45.640 umpire today. Turn around, he's like, ah, I'll give that 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:48.240 dangerous tackle and they're like, oh, sick mate, thanks. It 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.160 wouldn't have been dangerous if you had a blown the 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:54.760 bloody whistle two spins ago. But here we are, and yeah, 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.840 it's not the you figure the dangerous tackler would have 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:02.120 got the sanction, but no, Eddie Ford, he's an innocent 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.560 bystander in all of this. And Stephen May gets sanctioned 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:10.440 for the you know, faking the head injury, which we 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:14.280 don't want because I get the part where it's we 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.800 don't want players to get head injuries, so we don't 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.040 want them faking that they do have head injuries. So 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:23.159 Stephen Maye, don't be doing that, but that everyone involved 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.000 in that, I'm giving them the clangu. 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.479 There's to full spill the whole thing. You've come hot 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.159 firing shots fired from the beginning of this podcast. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:32.960 Well, when your life is shit, Mace, you just want 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.640 to sit down and watch some games of footy over 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.640 the weekend and get a little bit of bloody joy 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:41.839 in your life. And I have to watch that shit. 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.400 Look at that one hundred and thirty eight or seventy five, 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.320 seventy three to one hundred and fifty two. 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.680 We're going to get into the rest of the game spreading. 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.080 But there's interesting one from the week. 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.560 Look, if I'm Stephen may Like as a player, right, 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:54.480 you're trying to save as much money. The AFL kind 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.200 of screws you over on these things pretty quickly, and 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:57.760 that's just part of the process. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:04:59.880 You're taking that challenge. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:01.720 This is the thing, like Stephen, just be like, oh, 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:03.440 you know, like I twinged a nerve in my back 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.640 by my neck. You know, there's like there's a million 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.400 excuses you could go with. I feel like that the 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:11.560 AFL can't really provide any real reason as to them 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.720 being like Oh, well, if that's the case, then we're 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:15.760 still going to find you like that doesn't exist. 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.440 Not in his body, and I would just go, oh, 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.520 I did a ten eighty. I was dizzy, so I 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.880 was holding my head trying to get focused. 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:23.680 I feel like, if I'm Stephen, may I take that 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.080 to this drubunal. That's all I mean. You can think 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.400 of a million excuses to get through that easy. Are 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.000 we going to myke cleaner of the week now? WS 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.280 is a famous goal kicker, you could say, name Jesse 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.880 Hogan who does a lot of the goal kicking. Yes, yes, yes, yes, 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:37.640 Now it gets a bit of a free kick and 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:42.120 he's having to take the shot from essentially the boundary right, 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.200 And that's what everyone practices whenever you go out there. 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.359 You want to get the nice, silky, smooth, you know, 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.440 skillful around the corner, rather than practicing the ninety percent 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.320 chances of you getting a set shot in front right. 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.679 Who cares about that? You know, practice how you play, 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.080 You practice the one percenters. And this is one of 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.560 those times that that one percenter does come in handy 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.760 because he's on the bound and the umpire is looking 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.520 at him and he's, you know, as you do, you 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.280 kind of try to gain a meter or two, get 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:06.880 a bit of you know, a bit of the angle, 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.359 and the umpire keeps telling him to essentially move to 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.039 the parking lot, trying to figure out how to banda 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.200 this one from outside the stadium back around somehow gets 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.680 some win three sixty kick the ball and then come 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.599 back on it. And he literally at one point tells 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.599 him behind the post, so he's essentially telling him to 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.600 kick it from outside of the field to play. 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.040 Which doesn't understand what's happening. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.760 That's physically possible that he tells him to essentially move 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.080 into the stands to try to kick the ball. But 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.080 it was a classic just comedy of airs. And then 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.400 the next thing you know is he gets nowhere near 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.479 the goals, he actually just hits the belly of the ball. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.440 It goes across the face of the goals and they 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.599 end up marking it too, so it actually kind of 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.760 maybe worked out for a better angle at goal after 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:56.359 this whole debucle and spiel. But the clamm gonna go 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.719 with is well one the kick and he was probably 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.120 so frustrated with how the umpire made him kick from 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.240 behind the goals that he just was like stuffed this whatever, 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:05.200 and then that two's going to be the clanger for 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.280 the umpire, just trying to tell him to essentially kick 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.200 it from the stance at this point because it was 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.760 not even a feasible kick that you could actually make. 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:16.200 Yeah, because Jesse almost tries to take the piss by 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.440 like taking two meters over the boundary, going like you 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.560 want me to kick it from here, and he's like, yeah, yeah, 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:21.160 that's the spot. 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.200 Actually, yeah, just there, stay there. That's it. 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:27.320 When he said behind the post, how's that the line? 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:28.960 Because he's like, oh, you've got to be on the line. 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.920 The line's behind the post. I don't get it. 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.600 I don't understand now the mic or the umpire just 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:35.320 shouldn't be there. 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.080 Yeah, you know, I don't know. 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:41.360 Yeah, just there's sometimes you just go, yeah, we're just 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.080 going to hit the big red dump button. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:47.280 Where I reckon this weekend that just came and gone, 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:51.080 it's a Mulligan weekend. We have that one off. I 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:52.800 don't know what the hell that was. Let's have a 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.840 look at some of the results, because we go Carlton 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.040 bashed Geelong in the last quarter port. I don't know, 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.600 at home, they're just not quite there. Got flogged by 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.840 Brisbane GWS Sydney the Battle of the Bridge. It's pretty 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.200 one sided at the moment, with Sydney getting the dub 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.040 Melbourne just knocked off, went home three quarter a time. 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.400 Essenon getting the chocolates over West Coast and they're sticking 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.640 in that top four, which is interesting because a lot 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.280 of us thought they would kind of fall away as 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.240 they go, but they beat West Coast. West Coast did 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.680 try it. They're a competitive team at the moment and 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.160 Freo got the chocolates over Gold Coast in Perth. So 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.120 let's have a look at some of the big questions 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:33.839 from the week, and I want to ask you some 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.280 of these because we're coming out of a buy. The 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:40.079 buyers are done. Yeah, we're finished with those buyers, and 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.520 I tell you, for one, I am stoked that they're 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:48.959 gone because they were just so spread out. Yeah, how 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:50.559 many you had two buys, didn't you? 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.160 Well, we had the round zero, so then we had 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:54.760 a buy for that, and then we had our buy 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.000 during the midseason, so we had two buys yet. But 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.360 then I think because we had like Anzac Day fell 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.439 in the middle of the week and stuff. Yeah, then 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:05.080 you make that buy in there, so you don't have 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.439 like a three or four day or five day break, right. Yea, 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:08.040 that makes sense. 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:12.480 So I want to ask you how the buys rolled out, 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.320 but the buyers in general, should we scrap this whatever 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.960 this was this year? Scrap that? Scrap Probably let's start 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:20.600 with opening around. Are we scrapping that or are we 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.120 keeping that? Oh? 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:28.160 Man, I wasn't a massive fan of it. Yeah, I 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.440 think like after we went all the way to a 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.080 Grand Final playing that and then like having less kind 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.480 of recovery time into it. And I think also the 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.280 people who are playing around zero are usually the teams 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.480 that make finals, yeah, right, because they're trying to pump 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.880 it up to be a big ordeal or like a 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.400 kind of rematch or like some kind of rivalry or 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.439 whatever it is. And usually the people who are kind 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.640 of bringing those kind of I guess viewers to TV 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.040 that they're trying to put in that slot are the 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.440 ones that haven't had as much time off since their 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:54.199 last game, So. 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.079 You get even less prep time as a as someone 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.680 that goes deep into finals, you're already starting late and 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:01.480 then you start early the next year. 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:05.120 Yeah, And I think that's it's not ideal, you know, 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.520 like everyone's got their benefits I guess of being a 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.000 Melbourne team or travel or all these kind of things 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.760 that people say there's an unfair advantage of. But that's 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:15.600 one that's kind of the way I looked at it 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.679 in the way I kind of saw around zero and 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:19.520 it did allow for I guess, a break, you know, 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.240 four or five weeks into the season for us, a 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.439 little bit longer break. I mean, no one gets enough 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.080 time to go travel anywhere. Really, it's just like an extended, 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:29.920 like three day break, right, so it's not like a 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.200 massive kind of break like the mid season break. But 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.560 I don't really love the way the buy system is 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.720 set up. It just seems like, I mean, for a 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.640 long time, I feel like everyone was like, oh, Sydney's 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:43.480 top of the table and they've got a buy still 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.079 still waiting to use, Like they've still got another buy 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.640 this guy. And I'm like, how long is this buy 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:50.440 going to be put in this pocket? Like is this 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.960 actually going to be used at somewhat? And I just 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:54.800 have no idea because then you look at the ladder 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:56.920 and you're like, oh wow, these teams are in the 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:58.719 top eight. Then you're like, oh, but there are two 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:00.920 games behind someone else he hasn't played, and you're like, well, 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:02.680 the ladder makes no sense, and then why are we 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.760 even looking at this thing? And so if we all 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:06.840 have the same buy, or like maybe the two week 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:10.040 you know, decision between the two buys, then you maybe 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.200 make some sense of what you're looking at. But until 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.400 everyone's back on the same amount of games they've played, 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.079 the ladder makes no sense. And it doesn't matter people like, oh, dude, 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:20.840 all of a sudden, we won this game. We're top four, 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.040 we're top eight. It's like yeah, but then there's another 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.160 team who is, you know, one game behind playing you. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.960 If they essentially tire with a game, then they're kicking 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:28.640 out of the top eight. 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.880 Yeah. This week, I think we're what fifteen rounds in. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.880 It's the first week where the ladder is fully up 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.640 to date. Yeah, that's a long time to be waiting 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.840 to see how it's all panning out. And I don't know. 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.240 If I had my ideal by system set up, I'd 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.000 just go the half and half over a two week period, 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.920 half teams off, half teams on, flip it, and then 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:51.760 we're back into it. 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:53.880 Well, that what it comes down to is broadcast rights. 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.319 They want a game every single week, right, They want 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.040 to be able to show something on Channel seven and 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.960 like have that as a primetime game. And I get 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.880 that side of it, But also I think even people 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:05.560 in the industry and stuff would love to have a 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.240 full shot down period of everything, because you think people 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.520 are an AFL house. People are working at Fox Footy 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.200 or Channel seven wherever it is, like even for the 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.400 week that technically is a bye week, like that goes 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.240 over two weeks, so then they don't actually ever have 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.200 a bye week. They're still traveling, you know, Announcers still 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.400 going there, commentators still having to go across the country. 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.679 They don't actually get a break. So I think for 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:27.679 everyone to sit there and go cool, everyone's having their 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.160 break at this specific week, just that just makes a 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:31.920 bit more sense to me. 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:33.880 Yeah, I don't like it's a long year. I don't 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.520 like the pre finals by from a fan perspective, where 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.960 you just don't get anything to watch or do and 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:41.800 you have to just wait an extra week for the 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.480 finals to roll around when you're like amped up and 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.080 ready to go. I don't like that. I can see 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.480 the benefits from a player's point of view. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.199 I think it allows for a better viewing. 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.800 It makes the finals better overall. But I feel like 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.120 something should be in that week. So if that's where 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.480 they slot a wild card round, that would make sense. 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.440 Or you know, put some kind of charity game where 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:05.320 all the teams that didn't make finals you can recruit 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.240 from all those teams and have that game played in 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:12.040 the finals by or do a basketball game or something 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:13.600 of like all the teams that didn't make finals and 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:15.319 like put together a five y five game or something like. 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.000 The AFL could fill that somehow. 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.839 Yeah, but it's already footy by then, is already weak 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.760 because you've got teams that aren't making it. They've like 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.240 started booking players in for surgeries and stuff like. We 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.120 don't need another warded down, weak ass game. Bring AFL 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.600 X back for a round or something. No, I'm good. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.079 I don't need to see that. I don't need to 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.000 see are you not a I don't need to see 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.520 AFL players out there living out there dream of being basketballers. 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.079 I'm more of a deadly gay. YEA. 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.199 Let's jump into the father son rule because people have 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.640 been talking about this in the past. Couple of weeks. 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:51.480 How many numbers and points do you get trading in 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:56.080 picks and whatever to get your father's son. It's they're 0:13:56.080 --> 0:14:00.120 trying to dilute it a bit that you know, it's 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.320 pretty obvious. The teams that have issues with it are 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.480 the teams that haven't really been sufficiently rewarded by the 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.960 father son rule. Where I see it is I think it's, 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:14.000 you know, luck falls your way, like it's pretty even 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:15.760 for most teams, the teams that I see that. It 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.560 wouldn't be even for other teams that haven't been around 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:24.280 as long as others. But saying that, I think as 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:29.360 we take like we strip out things that are very 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.920 unique to our game, like year on year we're stripping 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.160 it back, stripping it back. I feel like father son 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.040 is one of those awesome things that have been in 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:43.000 footy forever that it's you know, oh, my dad played 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.240 for the club, his dad played for the club, and 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.520 now the fans get right around a father's son coming 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.520 to the club. They're looking forward to it for years. 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.000 They finally get to do the whole thing where it 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.320 runs out. Yeah, every other year you might get a 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.280 Nick Dakos that, you know, if your team's up the 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.520 top of the ladder, So that's another and of luck. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.480 Your team's at the top of the ladder when a 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:06.200 father son seems to line up with your club, Like, 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.960 that's all like luck that goes into it. So I 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:13.040 don't see it as favoring one team over another. And 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.320 then the teams that aren't really benefiting from it at 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:20.640 the moment are like Sydney like based like GWS or 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.680 Gold Coast. But they've got plenty of things that you 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.400 know they are taking advantage of, like academy wise and 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.800 getting all these jets in they've had all the top 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:33.520 ten draft picks for the past two decades. Just chill out. 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.400 I feel like the father son is just one of 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:39.920 those super innocent, awesome, wholesome things that you like, love 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:43.000 to see the father son stay connected to that club, 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.840 and you still it's so much luck, but so much 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:50.120 you know, the dad has to play a hundred games 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.440 for that club. There's there's emotional tie to it. And 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.920 our game isn't this robotics stiff as thing. It's there's 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.760 a lot of gray area melded in there. And something 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.920 that's cool is the father son rule. What do you think, master, 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:03.480 I will say this. 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.440 If you like the father son rule, make the most 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.320 of it while it's around. In ten years time, I 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.800 can almost guarantee you that will not be a thing 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:16.680 because of competitive advantage. Teams will bitch and one because 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.840 they don't have anyone that's coming up through the system 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.520 that's a father son or whatever, and I'll say it's 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:23.880 unfair and a disadvantage and all this kind of crap, 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.600 which I always found it interesting, like a father son rule, 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.240 because it is just so unique, right, I've never heard 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.920 of it until I came here. And it's not necessarily 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.480 an advantage it is. It is purely somewhat luck right 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.480 of whether or not you've an offspring that essentially are 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.200 good at football one and then two you know your 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.040 dad or mother plays x amount of games, and then 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.040 you can kind of, I guess, get priority picks. But 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:50.520 it does add for a great feel good experience of AFL, right, 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.400 like seeing someone whose parents have played, seeing them at 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.840 games and seeing them given the jumper or whatever it 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.200 may be. You know, I think that's such a it 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.800 is such a feel good moment as a player is 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.919 played a hundred games. I find it really weird because 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.879 people are like, hey, get to one hundred, you know, 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:10.359 and then you know what that means. And I'm like 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.600 what They're like, well, you can have sex with someone, 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:13.760 have a kid, and then the kid will play for 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.520 the play for the Mighty Bagpipes. And I'm like, well, 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.439 let's start step one. Let's let's find partner here six 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.800 oh man. But it's it's a it's a weird dynamic 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.000 when people kind of like start telling you whenever you 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.320 hit a hundred or like put pressure on to have kids, 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.360 and You're like, look, I don't have kids for them 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.800 to play a fl I have kids for the you know, 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:37.320 the enjoyment of like wanting to raise a child, like, 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:41.159 not forcing them into a sport. Yeah, but I I 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.639 literally think the father son will be gone in a decade. 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:46.919 For starters, I don't. I can't imagine many people are 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:48.960 coming up to you saying, quick, Mace, we need your 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:49.959 father son selection. 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:54.000 Yeah no, that's not happening out. I'm going look, I 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:57.240 appreciate the cinnamon, but my kid's going into the NBA. 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:00.720 Is he is my retirement or she is going to 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.520 be my retirement plan? And you best believe he ain't 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.560 doing he ain't touching a football. He's only touching the basketball. 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.600 And then I would say we hear a lot less 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:11.680 about it when a father's son goes to a team 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:16.040 that's lower on the ladder. So I reckon that tells 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.440 me more that it's it's a real non issue. It's 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:23.400 people that are complaining, complaining because if you're looking at 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:29.400 unfair competitive advantages, it's just showed you freeman 's travel schedule. Yeah, 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.199 and if you're not fixing that before you're fixing the 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.920 father son rule, you've got rocks in your head because 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:38.879 they travel every second week from Perth. They went, where'd 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.879 they go? They were Alice Springs, then they're in Melbourne, 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.440