Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Mason Cox Show, the Sporting segment.
Speaker 1: Plenty plenty happening in the sporting segment today, we've got
Speaker 1: a fire at the Gabba looking to renovate for the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Starting this weekend. You got to scuffle at the mcg
Speaker 1: on and off the field. Yes, the fans are getting involved,
Speaker 1: and also have the top five moments from the weekend
Speaker 1: plenty happening on the pod this week Settle end's gonna
Speaker 1: be a big one starting now. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: into it. Big news this weekend, Brandon, Welcome to the pod.
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Speaker 2: How do you recall day?
Speaker 1: Mace?
Speaker 2: All right, let's get into it, Mace. Let's put our
Speaker 2: head over the nut.
Speaker 1: We're going to go.
Speaker 2: Hard this week. Well maybe not not as hard as
Speaker 2: we went last week, because we started with idiot of
Speaker 2: the Week. And now we've rebranded and we've gone the
Speaker 2: Clanger of the Week.
Speaker 1: We've had to go claner because for personal reasons, I
Speaker 1: kind of hope to be hired by these people eventually,
Speaker 1: so we had to kind of just downgrade it a
Speaker 1: little bit to Clanger of the Week because for the
Speaker 1: Clanger of the Week, I have the AFL in more
Speaker 1: specifically the AFL timekeeper of the North Melbourne Freemantle game
Speaker 1: because there was controversy written all over this one.
Speaker 2: And let's get into it because there's plenty to explain
Speaker 2: if you haven't seen it. So Freemantle were down by point,
Speaker 2: they were doing all the attacking. They pump it in long,
Speaker 2: one of the North defenders gets it and clears it.
Speaker 2: Now the ball deliberately goes over the boundary. Now that's
Speaker 2: cut and dry. But the whole thing was did it
Speaker 2: go over before or after the siren?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Now, the umpires on the ground said that the ball
Speaker 2: went out of bounds after the siren, thus ending the
Speaker 2: game right.
Speaker 1: Still called it deliberate though, didn't They.
Speaker 2: Still called it deliberate, so they ended the game. Game
Speaker 2: over Fox analyzing it after the game plays, the vision
Speaker 2: about a million times with the audio, so you can
Speaker 2: hear it and it kind of sounds like the siren
Speaker 2: went after the ball across the line. So it should
Speaker 2: have been a free kick for deliberate because you can
Speaker 2: hear the umpires say, yep, call it, that's deliberate. So okay,
Speaker 2: we're there, right, No, because AFL releases vision from the ARC.
Speaker 1: Oh the arc, Oh, the miraculous Arc, the State of
Speaker 1: the Art Arc.
Speaker 2: This's gout angles that we've never seen, an audio that
Speaker 2: we've never seen, except it's exactly the same, just terrible quality. Right.
Speaker 2: So they released this via the world's most you know,
Speaker 2: legit platform, Twitter, and they release it ONEADP. The frame
Speaker 2: rates all cooked and the audio. The biggest thing is
Speaker 2: the audio is out of sync. Right now, that's kind
Speaker 2: of important if you're saying this is the key evidence
Speaker 2: that roofs that you were in the right and your
Speaker 2: call was correct. So the AFL comes out says our
Speaker 2: call was correct. The game should have ended because the
Speaker 2: ball went out of bounds after the siren, so our
Speaker 2: call is correct. Here's the vision that shows that. Anyway,
Speaker 2: case in point, all wrapped up, nice little bow done.
Speaker 2: Moving on, except for what they release is, you know,
Speaker 2: just waterline chambos and I don't want to I don't
Speaker 2: want to use two harder language here because we've got
Speaker 2: to walk this typewrote right. But the audio is not
Speaker 2: in sync, and it's not in sync by a fair margin.
Speaker 1: Let's say to have the ball go over the line
Speaker 1: I think it was.
Speaker 2: And what's a fair margin you might ask, which that's
Speaker 2: a fair question. So the sound of the ball hitting
Speaker 2: the defender's boot happens before the visual of the ball
Speaker 2: hitting the.
Speaker 1: Defenders, So there's definitely discrepancy between the visual and the
Speaker 1: audio of the video.
Speaker 2: Now, the only thing that can't happen is the sound
Speaker 2: of the ball hitting the boot happened before the visual.
Speaker 2: That's the only scenario that can't happen, because the most
Speaker 2: likely scenario is you see the video of the ball
Speaker 2: hitting the defender's boot and then there's a delay before
Speaker 2: it hits the microphones of the broadcaster because there are
Speaker 2: a distance away. Sound traveling over distance it takes time
Speaker 2: mace physics. So the sound can come after, it can
Speaker 2: come exactly in line if the broadcast is a fucking genius,
Speaker 2: but it can't come before. So the vision that is
Speaker 2: released with the audio. It's not in sync. It's kind
Speaker 2: of impossible. Now, I'm not saying that it's the AFL
Speaker 2: is doing anything underward to prove their point or anything.
Speaker 2: I'm saying there's an issue that's happened along the way.
Speaker 2: It could be an encoding issue. It could be uploading
Speaker 2: to Twitter, which is an American account and we do
Speaker 2: stuff in Australian frame rates and audio and all that
Speaker 2: technical mumbo jumper. It's just a bit weird that the
Speaker 2: audio is before the kick.
Speaker 1: I looked at it and I go audio, yeah, bangs,
Speaker 1: Simon goes, hold on, there's two seconds until the freaking
Speaker 1: North Melbourne players celebrate. I don't know about you, but
Speaker 1: after I hear the siren, hands go straight up in
Speaker 1: the air, I don't wait half a second to a
Speaker 1: second to go, oh man, nope, celebrate yay. No, that
Speaker 1: shit happens instantly. I feel bad for Real fans because
Speaker 1: it is there wasn't a great game for them overall.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be wrong, but they should at least had
Speaker 1: a chance to get some points out of that game.
Speaker 2: And the other thing is everyone on Twitter that's taking
Speaker 2: screenshots of the clock being at zero that's completely irrelevant.
Speaker 2: That's a broadcast clock which isn't in sync with anything.
Speaker 2: That's why they normally take the clock off with like
Speaker 2: three seconds to go, but they didn't in this circumstance,
Speaker 2: so that doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: We gotta also talk about this because it was a
Speaker 1: big game. Now North Melbourne, like I said at beginning,
Speaker 1: they're back, they're punching hard, and I think after the
Speaker 1: game it was quite relevant that a lot of people
Speaker 1: probably took North Melbourne as being the Wooden Spooners of
Speaker 1: the year. Now I think a lot of people are
Speaker 1: looking at that going maybe not, maybe they're actually contenders
Speaker 1: to it out. It's a good start.
Speaker 2: It is a lot of these teams that are showing
Speaker 2: really promising signs that maybe people were written off. Saint
Speaker 2: Kilda is another one that you know, they're switching it
Speaker 2: up and playing this fast, attacking pace of footy and
Speaker 2: it's just overtaking some of the teams that are still
Speaker 2: stagnant or stuck on old game plans. So it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's really interesting. And another one I'm probably skipping a
Speaker 2: fair bit ahead here, but it's good to see some
Speaker 2: of these coaches come out, you know, Ross Lyon and
Speaker 2: Alistair Clarkson come out and you know the old dogs
Speaker 2: has still got some fight.
Speaker 1: In ut a bit of barking, no doubt about that. Well,
Speaker 1: we will go to the next one, which is one
Speaker 1: of the biggest news stories from the weekend, and it
Speaker 1: was like bang the lights went off. No one knew
Speaker 1: what to do. The Gabba had caught on fire. Very
Speaker 1: interesting circumstances, no doubt. I don't think anyone knew how
Speaker 1: to handle it or what was going to happen. There's
Speaker 1: so many different ideas getting thrown out of whether the
Speaker 1: game was just going to be cold at that point,
Speaker 1: if they couldn't get the lights back on. It was
Speaker 1: just nuts up in Brisbane over the weekend.
Speaker 2: It was very bizarre, like I don't know, and people
Speaker 2: are talking about there was like the game Saint Kildo
Speaker 2: out of Way Park or whatever where the lights went
Speaker 2: off and I think it was Malcolm Blight was up
Speaker 2: in the commentary box with a cigarette lighter doing his
Speaker 2: basic camera which is gold. So if it happened to
Speaker 2: you Collingwood playing a night game, lights go off, yep,
Speaker 2: and then you got told that you could have to
Speaker 2: wait up to an hour before you finish off the game,
Speaker 2: what would you be thinking.
Speaker 1: Well, it kind of reminds me back to the fire
Speaker 1: alarm of last year. I don't know if you remember this,
Speaker 1: but they had the smoke alarm grow the MCG in
Speaker 1: the game stop and everyone's looking around like what's going
Speaker 1: on and then they talk about, you know, the scoreboard
Speaker 1: catching on fire back in the day, and there's these
Speaker 1: kind of moments where something happens that's beyond control no
Speaker 1: one knows how to handle. And that was what happened
Speaker 1: over the weekend in Brisbane at the Gabba, and I
Speaker 1: think it's players. You just got to continually be ready
Speaker 1: to go because the once I mean like you already
Speaker 1: are behind on the scheduling, so you can imagine broadcasting
Speaker 1: and stuff. You know, they're having to push other programs
Speaker 1: back because of it, so they're going to try to
Speaker 1: pump this thing out as soon as they can restart it.
Speaker 1: They're going to try to restart it right away. So
Speaker 1: you have to be ready to go, and you continuously
Speaker 1: warm up, warm up, and warm up. And the funny
Speaker 1: thing is over the weekend though I remember hearing on
Speaker 1: the commentating it was like, oh no, it's thirty minutes
Speaker 1: and they'll call the game if they can't get it
Speaker 1: back on the It was an hour, and it was
Speaker 1: like no one really kind of knew what the ruling
Speaker 1: was on section twelve A of Section twelve code of
Speaker 1: the AFL Rules and Record. Who knows, Like it was
Speaker 1: scrambling to try to find that information that has never used.
Speaker 1: And I think as players, you just got to consistently
Speaker 1: be ready to go. And Brisbane, you know, they went
Speaker 1: into the rooms, they probably sat down for a bit,
Speaker 1: not knowing if the game was going to be over
Speaker 1: or not, and came back out and Melbourne made a run.
Speaker 1: Melbourn made a proper run and almost almost took a
Speaker 1: few points from.
Speaker 2: Them, which is another one of Chris Fagan's gripes. So
Speaker 2: apparently this is how it went. They both went down
Speaker 2: into the rooms, which we saw on the broadcast, but
Speaker 2: Brisbane got told to stay in the rooms, Whereas it
Speaker 2: seems that Melbourne was allowed out to warm up on
Speaker 2: the field five minutes before Brisbane. So you know, normally
Speaker 2: it would be pretty hard to read into that, but
Speaker 2: when you're forty points up and your team looks, you know, stagnant,
Speaker 2: and the other team is coming like a freight train
Speaker 2: after hardly kicking goals all night. It's a bit I
Speaker 2: can see his argument that it was unfair.
Speaker 1: You'd be very nervous because you know, like you can say,
Speaker 1: you know, coaches always look at those situations where you
Speaker 1: know mentally you might switch off as like kind of
Speaker 1: what people will say, right, And the fact that they
Speaker 1: had those five minutes be warmed up, ready to go
Speaker 1: and primed, where Brisban has just come out of the
Speaker 1: sheds and said, Okay, I guess we'll just start back up,
Speaker 1: like your mind's kind of thinking of the situation that's happening.
Speaker 1: This is kind of like a once in a lifetime
Speaker 1: maybe thing of the lights going out at the Gabba
Speaker 1: and like just kind of crazy chaos and maybe not
Speaker 1: as focused on the actual task at hand, thinking oh,
Speaker 1: we've already kind of got this game wrapped up, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I think they had that horse reality where Melbourne's like,
Speaker 1: now we're still chancey here, we're gonna have to go
Speaker 1: at it. And locally Brisbane, you know, still was able
Speaker 1: to pull it back and win the game, but you're
Speaker 1: not a not a great look overall, and a lot
Speaker 1: of learning lessons. Let's just say that a lot of
Speaker 1: the things we learned over the weekend with the situation
Speaker 1: at the Gabba, and one of the things I learned,
Speaker 1: they're going to demolish that place pretty soon and start
Speaker 1: building a new joint. And I think this is the
Speaker 1: way the government's going to get popular opinion to get
Speaker 1: a new place at the Gabba.
Speaker 2: Imagine if the Olympics were going one hundred meters final.
Speaker 1: Can you fathom that? Oh, you would think they would
Speaker 1: have a backup generator for these things. You would think
Speaker 1: that they would be able to go, Oh, something's happened.
Speaker 1: If one light goes out, the whole stadium doesn't go out,
Speaker 1: just that one light bulb goes out. It was just
Speaker 1: wild to think it's on one circuit.
Speaker 2: Like, surely the ground manages down at Bunnings this morning,
Speaker 2: getting the generator.
Speaker 1: Shit themself last night.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that if it was you, do you
Speaker 2: think your forty points up right? Would you just want
Speaker 2: the game to be called off at that stage?
Speaker 1: Uh, it's probably a time depending on how much time
Speaker 1: elapses between Like if it's getting to one am in
Speaker 1: the morning, it's like, dude, come on, what's your forty
Speaker 1: points up. I don't know what. I think it was
Speaker 1: our third or fourth quarter, I want to say. And
Speaker 1: it's just into that point where I think there is
Speaker 1: obviously the rule and place for that happening. And there's
Speaker 1: so much more that goes on just beyond the game.
Speaker 1: You know, you talk about rights, like the whole reason
Speaker 1: we were able to pay for these kind of events
Speaker 1: and stuff is because of the TV rights and what
Speaker 1: they're push back, like I said, And there's a lot
Speaker 1: more to it than just the game of football, I think.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you have to you have to have some
Speaker 1: point where you just cancel it. It's not like cricket.
Speaker 1: We can't play this forever. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And one thing Jonathan Brown brought up on the Fox
Speaker 2: broadcast was the fact that sports betting like pay like whatever.
Speaker 1: You think of it, it.
Speaker 2: Invests a lot of money back into the AFL and
Speaker 2: for the amount of odds and you know what is
Speaker 2: still live in the live betting, and to call it
Speaker 2: off throws that into shambles. There's no doubt in my
Speaker 2: mind that they were thinking about things like that.
Speaker 1: Sports bet dot Com do AU is the AFL's protected
Speaker 1: partner for betting, and they won't allow anyone else players
Speaker 1: included to be sponsored by betting companies, So I'm sure
Speaker 1: they had a few phone calls with them to make
Speaker 1: sure that their odds were okay.
Speaker 2: Geelong, the Bagger's telling you favorites for the premiership. Uh,
Speaker 2: Geelong starting oh and two. First time the premiers had
Speaker 2: done it in a long long time. Should they be worried?
Speaker 1: I don't think word yet. It's a long They still
Speaker 1: got twenty one games of the regular season left. There's
Speaker 1: plenty of football to be played. I think one thing
Speaker 1: I've come to realize is how important Tom Stewart is
Speaker 1: to their team. That man who really kind of was
Speaker 1: one of the leaders. I think in the back line
Speaker 1: he used to take marks like crazy and they would
Speaker 1: just release off that ability to take a mark. I
Speaker 1: think now they're trying to find who's going to fill
Speaker 1: that role for him, or if they're going to move
Speaker 1: things around to play differently, and they're trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what that kind of goldilock zone kind of area
Speaker 1: is going to be for them. And yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: I say, it's only the third time Wooden Spoon starts
Speaker 1: to and O or North Melbourne Kangaroos start to and
Speaker 1: o and the Premier start zero to two, which is
Speaker 1: pretty crazy, pretty crazy. But yeah, I think I don't
Speaker 1: think it's panic mode. I don't think it's you know,
Speaker 1: pressed a big red button for Geelong and write them
Speaker 1: off yet because they still have some absolute guns in
Speaker 1: their team. We'll talk about old Jesse Cameron later. And
Speaker 1: I think it's almost the compiment to Carlton. Carlton looked good.
Speaker 1: Carlton looked really good over the weekend.
Speaker 2: So do you think it's more for Geelong? Do you
Speaker 2: think it's more of a like a personnel issue, like injuries,
Speaker 2: Like they're missing half their back line, So do you
Speaker 2: think that's more of an issue than you know, premiership
Speaker 2: hangover or whatever people want to subscribe to.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think it's premiership hangover. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's other at all. I think it's Yeah, they've got
Speaker 1: a few injuries and they're trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: their best football is without these people playing, it's tough.
Speaker 1: Like whenever you lose some big guys in your team,
Speaker 1: some leaders in your team, whatever it may be, you
Speaker 1: think like, oh, it's just one player, like you'll be okay,
Speaker 1: but if that player is literally setting up everything and
Speaker 1: holding everyone to account, then you know, you really lose
Speaker 1: direction in the team. So I think of them, it's
Speaker 1: trying to figure out, you know, how they're going to
Speaker 1: play here going forward. And unfortunately they had two very
Speaker 1: strong games to play against in the first two rounds.
Speaker 2: And as for Carlton, they go on a dream run
Speaker 2: now like they have a lot of those mid to
Speaker 2: lower tier teams coming up in a row there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know it. It's still question marks for me
Speaker 2: over their late game fitness. At the end of last year,
Speaker 2: they weren't really running out games and then you'd like
Speaker 2: to see them come out fit and firing. And then
Speaker 2: against Richmond they kind of fell off and you know,
Speaker 2: got the drawer in the end, and then this game
Speaker 2: again they were well up and you know they clawed
Speaker 2: it back again. So but I don't think we'll probably
Speaker 2: get a chance to see that now because they should
Speaker 2: be really putting these teams to the sword, and who knows,
Speaker 2: they might be eight and two again and then we
Speaker 2: get to see what happens from there.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that, well, we'll see. I think they'll
Speaker 1: have a look the first half of the season. I
Speaker 1: think they'll be very well set to have a solid
Speaker 1: back into the year. And like I said, I've so
Speaker 1: I don't want to say it again. I think the
Speaker 1: Backers are top eight this year. I know it might
Speaker 1: hurt collingwand fans to hear that, but I think Carlton
Speaker 1: will be top eight. And look, I can't imagine if
Speaker 1: a Carlton Kin would final game happens in the postseason,
Speaker 1: that would be insane.
Speaker 2: Hey, some of those teams that are up the top end.
Speaker 1: All the all the big kind of clubs that have
Speaker 1: the big games and stuff, were up at the top
Speaker 1: of ladder at the moment going pretty well. So it's
Speaker 1: it's setting up for a juicy year, some of the
Speaker 1: big games to talk about, Like, you know, he's gone
Speaker 1: pretty well at the moment, and an Zac Day coming
Speaker 1: around the corner. It's there's gonna be some massive games
Speaker 1: this year between some of the bigger clubs. I think
Speaker 1: we got Richmond on Friday and that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: big one too.
Speaker 2: Now, speaking of Richmond, they went across to Adelaide and
Speaker 2: had a It was a nervous affair for them because
Speaker 2: you know, they were up by a fair margin and
Speaker 2: then Adelaide come you know, romping back into it and
Speaker 2: took the lead for what felt like a micro second
Speaker 2: before they absolutely got crushed. But they had the game
Speaker 2: the week before against GWS where it was like thirty
Speaker 2: something degrees post teams slugged it out, so you can
Speaker 2: kind of see why they everyone on that team was
Speaker 2: cramping every week. Something happens when it comes to the
Speaker 2: MRO and Broad, Nathan Broad had a sling tackled. It
Speaker 2: really didn't look good. Yeah, player got knocked out, it
Speaker 2: was out of bounds, so it tackled inbounds to out
Speaker 2: of bounds, slammed their head. It didn't look good and
Speaker 2: you could see on the mark straight away that he
Speaker 2: was like damn, Like.
Speaker 1: He knew there was a fine or a suspension, and
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: I think we're all in the same basket when it
Speaker 2: comes to the sling tackle. But some of these circumstances
Speaker 2: really hard to avoid.
Speaker 1: It's tough to think about because I always think about
Speaker 1: the tackle, the person is actually making the tackle right,
Speaker 1: and like you're trying to bring a person to ground,
Speaker 1: and like if you you don't want them to get
Speaker 1: the ball out, so you try to like I guess,
Speaker 1: leverage your weight to get them to the ground, and
Speaker 1: some people overdo it and that's where the sling actually
Speaker 1: comes in. But you also you can't just like fall
Speaker 1: on top of them since in the back, so I
Speaker 1: think there's a way people are shifting the weight and
Speaker 1: then it turns into a sling tackle and you always
Speaker 1: try to get like the arm under so that they
Speaker 1: can't get it out and things like that, And there
Speaker 1: was one in our game obviously with Jamie Elliott who
Speaker 1: that happened, and it's an interesting like situation. I think
Speaker 1: the AFL, obviously with concussions and like this was a
Speaker 1: circumstance over the weekend was they're going to take a
Speaker 1: very stern look at this and probably be very very
Speaker 1: harsh on it, which is fair, Like you know, the
Speaker 1: guys go head. He's got knocked out like essentially, so
Speaker 1: you know you have to be able to look after
Speaker 1: the players. But yeah, it's it's a hard one to
Speaker 1: so I guess adjudicate. I think it's an umpire going Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I want the game to continue to be live play,
Speaker 1: so I don't want to you know, like I don't
Speaker 1: want to call a stoppage. But then the player's tackling
Speaker 1: also is like, well, I need I want to stoppage,
Speaker 1: so I'm trying to like hold it in. So then
Speaker 1: there's this awkward moment between the umpire calling the whistle
Speaker 1: saying it's a stoppage, and then also the player going Okay,
Speaker 1: I need to do more to make this a stoppage.
Speaker 1: I think over the weekend, he tackled him, and he
Speaker 1: realized the boundary line was there, and he saw this
Speaker 1: kind of a second opportunity. He slung him over the line,
Speaker 1: and that's what ended up happening. But yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's never gonna be perfect, Like anything in the AFL,
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be a tough thing to adjudicate from
Speaker 1: the AFL standpoint. I'm sure they'll be pretty harsh on
Speaker 1: on Brody here, But yeah, it's not gonna be the
Speaker 1: last time I can guarantee you this year.
Speaker 2: Now, before we move on from the Adelaide Richmond game,
Speaker 2: you lit up my phone on the weekend saying that
Speaker 2: you had a new favorite player picket.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, mate, but you got suspend it, so I
Speaker 1: gotta go for someone else. And I will get back
Speaker 1: to you. You don't worry about that picket. I'll get
Speaker 1: back to you. But over the weekend, Adelaid's Rochelley who
Speaker 1: by this man loves a celebration. I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of it. He gives the punch after he kicks a goal,
Speaker 1: and he goes and slipes everyone's high five in the audience.
Speaker 1: The crowd's there, he just gets everyone in filved.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of this man. Old A Shelley,
Speaker 1: Shelley Shelley. He's a big man, big, big fan of
Speaker 1: this guy. And he makes people like me who are
Speaker 1: obnoxious prick whenever they kick a goal. I feel a
Speaker 1: lot more comfortable celebrating. I liked the getting the crowd
Speaker 1: into it, like a big fan of that.
Speaker 2: Like, if you got a home game and you're trying
Speaker 2: to get back into the game, if you're a bit behind,
Speaker 2: go across, get him into it. I'll get more fired up.
Speaker 2: I really like that. The boxing one. I don't know
Speaker 2: where that came from, but I liked it too.
Speaker 1: He was hyped. Hey, after I saw it, I was
Speaker 1: hyped too. I don't watch many out of the games.
Speaker 2: Hey, you're back at the drawing blood gone, jeez, I
Speaker 2: got to up my game. Max Gorne. We've been talking
Speaker 2: about the Gorne Grundy combo all year, all pre season,
Speaker 2: all off season. Max corn is going to be out
Speaker 2: for four to six weeks with a medial injury. And
Speaker 2: he looked flat and everyone, the whole footy community took
Speaker 2: a big sigh of relief when they realized it wasn't
Speaker 2: an ACL it was a medial. So Grundy's gonna have
Speaker 2: to cover the loss of Max Gorn and they're gonna
Speaker 2: have to find a second ruckman. How do you feel
Speaker 2: or how do you see this playing out at Melbourne
Speaker 2: in terms of like their ruckstucks.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's interesting because this was one of the biggest
Speaker 1: stories of the year, was Grundy Gaunt and the fact
Speaker 1: that it's now going to be a four to six
Speaker 1: weeks to really see this kind of thing blossom is
Speaker 1: going to be frustrating for these fans. There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about that. But yeah, gone friendly fire on the weekend
Speaker 1: just frustrating, I think from his standpoint of, you know,
Speaker 1: not really being something that you couldn't like, you couldn't
Speaker 1: predict that to happen, you know, it's just going to
Speaker 1: happen in the AFL and there's the vision of him
Speaker 1: just looking really depressed, I guess in the rooms. And
Speaker 1: I didn't like that because I feel like I know
Speaker 1: Goney and I've met him over the years and stuff,
Speaker 1: and that's not really kind of the person he'd have
Speaker 1: that moment of thinking like, oh, this sucks. But he
Speaker 1: would have been stray back out their supporting his team,
Speaker 1: being the captain of that club, and yeah, frustrating for him,
Speaker 1: no doubt, Like I can only imagine now he's going,
Speaker 1: oh I wish i'd you know, obviously, everyone wants to
Speaker 1: be playing out there, and after a loss like that
Speaker 1: against Brisbane, it'd be frustrating not to be able to
Speaker 1: lead your team back out for the next game to
Speaker 1: hopefully win. And it's a big, big ass for Grundy
Speaker 1: now essentially replace an Australian ruckman with well another Australian ruckman.
Speaker 1: So it's a bit of an ass for Grundy. I'm
Speaker 1: sure like they kind of had this mentality before coming
Speaker 1: into the season that they're going to have some kind
Speaker 1: of shared responsibility in that rock role. But now Brody's
Speaker 1: going to have to really carry the heavy load. Of it.
Speaker 1: They've got other guys, you know, you got Ben Brown,
Speaker 1: got Tom McDonald will have to help out doing a
Speaker 1: bit of rockwork too. But yeah, it's like we talked
Speaker 1: about with Geelong, they're going to have to restructure things
Speaker 1: around to try to make them a better team and
Speaker 1: try to get through the next a little bit until
Speaker 1: Gone gets back.
Speaker 2: Could you see it as a positive because Grundy's no Now,
Speaker 2: we all know we don't want to see Gorn injured
Speaker 2: in any way, shape or form, but Brody's missed a
Speaker 2: lot of footy like over the past couple of years,
Speaker 2: so it could you see it as a good thing
Speaker 2: to get his fitness up early season. You know he's
Speaker 2: still an All Australian ruckman. It's the worst person to
Speaker 2: fall back on, but could you see it as a positive?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Look, I know Brodie Grundy pretty well and I've
Speaker 1: had conversations with him and he's told me over the
Speaker 1: off season they were training like hell, like it was insane,
Speaker 1: so some of the hardest training he's ever had to do.
Speaker 1: So I've got no doubt Brodie Grundy's fit. There's no
Speaker 1: doubt about that, because he's been in the system for
Speaker 1: a long time. If he's saying that, that means that
Speaker 1: he's done the work in the off season. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think it's a good way for him to kind of
Speaker 1: get this form back to know, you know, like you said,
Speaker 1: he hasn't played footy in a while, so for him
Speaker 1: to be able to get back into it playing AFL games,
Speaker 1: feeling like he can really get into that full time
Speaker 1: rock role. I think it would be good for him,
Speaker 1: and maybe it just gives him a bit more experience
Speaker 1: and opportunity in the rock where God might have come
Speaker 1: in and done a bit of a backup rock, but
Speaker 1: now it's going to really be heavy lifting for Brody
Speaker 1: and I have.
Speaker 2: Some rolling effects because I'll have to bring probably Tom
Speaker 2: McDonald up from the forward line and then that shuffles
Speaker 2: that around and you know a bit of chaos for him. Good.
Speaker 2: I reckon that's good?
Speaker 1: Do you reckon? Ye?
Speaker 2: Figure it out?
Speaker 1: Like I think, Gone Gone's good for the game. I
Speaker 1: love Gone. He's a He's an absolute character of the game,
Speaker 1: and the game's better for him being in it. And
Speaker 1: we hope that he gets back and recovers well and
Speaker 1: we'll see him back out there before Queen's birthday.
Speaker 2: Moving on the same Kilda Bulldogs team because I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't think a lot of people saw Saints doing
Speaker 2: what they're doing early and likewise, I don't think many
Speaker 2: people saw that the Dogs having the start that they had,
Speaker 2: So it was such an interesting game, and even more
Speaker 2: so to see ross Lyon's game style be fast attacking footy.
Speaker 1: It was laid back man in the world. It's now
Speaker 1: playing fast footy and we're a big fan of that.
Speaker 1: Ross Lyne, he's a bit of a character himself. Saw
Speaker 1: his pretty great impressor. He's a pretty funny fella. Because
Speaker 1: he had spilt coke all over the was it all
Speaker 1: over his like sheets and stat stuff and had to
Speaker 1: like swipe it off with a piece of paper.
Speaker 2: Wiping it onto the floor is the most.
Speaker 1: Ross line thing you'll ever see. I loved it though,
Speaker 1: and he owned up to it. He has a laugh
Speaker 1: about it, you know, and I think it's good. He's
Speaker 1: good comedic value. And yeah, I always kind of thought
Speaker 1: he'd be playing a bit more of a conservative brand,
Speaker 1: but the Saint kill was just gunning for it, absolutely
Speaker 1: gunning for it.
Speaker 2: One thing watching ross Lyne have the fun that he's
Speaker 2: having I reckon the stint in the media did him
Speaker 2: absolute wonders because as much as you said that he
Speaker 2: was a you know, happy, go lucky, stress free guy,
Speaker 2: he was a pretty brutal operator towards the media. So
Speaker 2: I think a little stint in there and realized that
Speaker 2: people have got to feed their families and you know,
Speaker 2: make money and stuff, and you got to answer these
Speaker 2: questions because he would have been asked some hard questions
Speaker 2: over his time in the media that he had to
Speaker 2: answer because that's your job. He spoke to Shane McInnes's
Speaker 2: pregame and they were laughing and stuff. I swear he's
Speaker 2: having a few cheech and chunks in the car before
Speaker 2: he comes in. He's that relaxed.
Speaker 1: First year as a coach. Though sometimes you got to
Speaker 1: realize first year coach is not as much pressure as
Speaker 1: you probably think because it's like everyone thinks.
Speaker 2: He's coached like a million games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the first year of the new like new team, even.
Speaker 2: His first time with Saint Kilda. But when they're winning,
Speaker 2: that's when it's easy to be happy.
Speaker 1: Exactly. Well, I want to get into this. It's a
Speaker 1: feel good story. Love Ross. Ross's a legend and Dan,
Speaker 1: We're going to go into another opportunity to talk about
Speaker 1: something that I saw this week, and it's in the
Speaker 1: World Sport, and there's I'm a big fan of the marathons.
Speaker 1: Love the marathons. I go to the New York City
Speaker 1: Marathon every single year, love to support them. And there
Speaker 1: was someone who accomplished something just in fathomable, like it
Speaker 1: was amazing to see the vision of this. Now the
Speaker 1: man is Alex Roca Campilo. I might be pronouncing that well,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but he has cerebral palsy and he's
Speaker 1: got a seventy six percent disability and was able to
Speaker 1: finish a marathon. Absolute insanity, Like the vision of this
Speaker 1: person being able to do this while having cerebral palsy
Speaker 1: is phenomenal and an absolute inspiration to anyone out there
Speaker 1: that thinks, oh, half marathon's tough. Try a marathon was
Speaker 1: of seventy six percent disability insane.
Speaker 2: That's insane. I can't even fathom running a marathon full stop.
Speaker 2: So like crazy, Yeah, some people out there, they just
Speaker 2: do like the most inspirational stuff.
Speaker 1: The mental capacity to fight through that and make it
Speaker 1: over the finish line forty two kilometers is just I
Speaker 1: seriously don't know how to put it into words.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, have you you haven't run a marathon before?
Speaker 1: No, I mean I barely run ten k's in the
Speaker 1: game prade.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, and good on Alex that.
Speaker 1: It's phenomenal, phenomenal stuff, inspirational. If you haven't seen that,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, we'll put it up on the socials.
Speaker 1: It's pretty pretty amazing powerful stuff.
Speaker 2: Now I'll go in the other directions. Memphis women's basketball
Speaker 2: player Jamaiah shoots sucker punches Bowls Green player in the
Speaker 2: face as Memphis loses the WNIT tournament. Jamairo was charged
Speaker 2: with AsSalt. So all just dirty scenes. So coming off
Speaker 2: doing the handshakes, they're walking past each other, words were
Speaker 2: shared and bang punches are in the face. Now this
Speaker 2: begs the question. It just popped into my mind straight
Speaker 2: away when we see these incidents in sport, and in
Speaker 2: particular football AFL, should it just automatically to assault charges
Speaker 2: when you see someone get punched in the face. Should
Speaker 2: players be charged with the salt if they punch other
Speaker 2: players in the head?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's why would you Why should it be treated
Speaker 1: any differently because it's on a football field, Like, an
Speaker 1: action is an action. Whether it's in the sport or
Speaker 1: if it's you know, on the street, doesn't matter. Like
Speaker 1: you should definitely press charges on that because someone has
Speaker 1: reacted inappropriately and done something that can affect you for
Speaker 1: the rest of your life.
Speaker 2: The Barry Hall one, for me, was just a straight
Speaker 2: up king hit to an unsuspected person, and it's watched
Speaker 2: by one hundreds of thousands, if not like a million
Speaker 2: plus people are witnesses. All the people in the stadium,
Speaker 2: all the kids and families. We hold the people in
Speaker 2: the stands to the you know a standard. They get
Speaker 2: banned from life for the MCG because they get on
Speaker 2: the piss and have a brawl.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's even more public than the actual you
Speaker 1: know something like this happening, Like if you're doing it
Speaker 1: in sport, like you're actually promoting that to a larger
Speaker 1: audience than doing it on the street. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: the ramifications got have to be have to be steep
Speaker 1: for that player. There's no doubt it reminds me. I
Speaker 1: mean last year, Magic Doll essentially came up to me.
Speaker 1: It was a couple of years ago Majic Doc came
Speaker 1: up to me in a VFL game and essentially swung
Speaker 1: at me from behind while I wasn't looking and bruised
Speaker 1: my treky and I couldn't talk for three weeks.
Speaker 2: I remember that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. It was like during the COVID days
Speaker 1: and like no charges repressed, nothing was done in that sense,
Speaker 1: but like it was definitely on purpose, There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: Was anything asked of you for that, Like, was anyone
Speaker 2: come up to you and go like would you like
Speaker 2: to press charges or anything like that?
Speaker 1: No? No, they essentially the vision I guess got released
Speaker 1: somehow and someone found it and then the club wasn't
Speaker 1: going to do anything until I guess the vision got
Speaker 1: released and somehow Fox Footy or Tom Orrison like that
Speaker 1: got ahold of it and put it out there. And
Speaker 1: it's pretty it's pretty ridiculous, to be honest, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it set me out in three four weeks, couldn't play.
Speaker 2: That's crazy, That is really crazy. Yeah, I forgot all
Speaker 2: about that incident. And that's pretty much dead on what
Speaker 2: we're talking about. So you should be able to ask
Speaker 2: the player if their welfare is okay and if they
Speaker 2: want to progress something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll say this he did text me after and apologized,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't take back what you did. Like, I
Speaker 1: won't go further on that one, Brandon.
Speaker 2: Let's jump into your game. Collingwould be port. Yes, you're
Speaker 2: giving us plenty for the podcast, which I really appreciate.
Speaker 2: So this week and we had an influx of messages
Speaker 2: come through the Instagram. If you ever have questions, drop
Speaker 2: them in the dams.
Speaker 1: We love it.
Speaker 2: You kick the goal, yep, and then you gave the shush? Yes,
Speaker 2: what's this premeditated or is it aimed at someone?
Speaker 1: See? The thing is I kicked the goal. There was
Speaker 1: someone talking trash behind me to my left. Now, whenever
Speaker 1: I kick a goal, right, I am zoned into that
Speaker 1: that purpose of kicking a goal. I don't care who's
Speaker 1: in front of me, side of me, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: because no one can influx you or and I guess,
Speaker 1: like you know, get in your way of being able
Speaker 1: to kick that goal. So it's just like you ball sticks.
Speaker 1: It's all matters, nothing else, nothing else can change. Right,
Speaker 1: And someone was talking trash behind me to the life.
Speaker 1: I don't hear. I just hear gobble gobble words whatever
Speaker 1: it is, you know, Like I don't know what it's said,
Speaker 1: and I know it's trash talk because of who it is.
Speaker 1: And you wouldn't have your own players talking to you
Speaker 1: while you're like literally about to try to kick a goal.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they know you said shut pretty good,
Speaker 2: you're pretty good?
Speaker 1: Right. Yeah? As soon as I kicked the goal, I
Speaker 1: just kind of turned around, just faced him and just
Speaker 1: gave him the as then quite down, quite down, also
Speaker 1: that I was kicking Port Adelaide side, So I will
Speaker 1: say that also I can double up and go towards
Speaker 1: the power of Port Adelaide fans that were behind the goals.
Speaker 1: So that is the reason I shushed a home crowd.
Speaker 2: Surely Port Adelaide fans they wouldn't be giving you any
Speaker 2: stick or anything at all with the of.
Speaker 1: Course not you know, most fan bases love me Brandon's
Speaker 1: oh my god.
Speaker 2: But saying that, and you know you're a versatile player.
Speaker 1: You get around of course, marks.
Speaker 2: You played rock, you play forward, you play.
Speaker 1: Bench benches up there at the top three.
Speaker 2: On the weekend. Yeah, big buddy spoiled, big body, spoil
Speaker 2: across old ball, drilled the port. Like is that you're
Speaker 2: thinking about moving down back more permanently?
Speaker 1: Or no chance. No chance in hell. My speed not great.
Speaker 1: The only reason I was able to make it to
Speaker 1: THEO is because I was like exhausted from the previous
Speaker 1: previous play and I was being a little bit lazy
Speaker 1: sitting behind the ball. Turn over kicks it up in
Speaker 1: the air. I was like, well, I guess I'll go
Speaker 1: over this one. It just landed. It was that perfect
Speaker 1: time in the air where like he marks it right
Speaker 1: at the time you make contact kind of thing, and yeah,
Speaker 1: left him a bit bruised. I'm sure he's probably feeling
Speaker 1: it today as I am. For a few contests I
Speaker 1: was in. But yeah, I don't think I'll be going
Speaker 1: to the back line anytime soon ever. Once while as
Speaker 1: a rock, you know, you like to make your appearance,
Speaker 1: maybe take a mark back there and say, boys, I gotcha.
Speaker 1: But that's not where you make the money. You know,
Speaker 1: that's in the forward line. Forward lines where you get
Speaker 1: the bills.
Speaker 2: You're like an old steam locomotive. You can see you're
Speaker 2: building up faces. You you know, loped across the midfield.
Speaker 2: But there was another incident, so I like, you've just
Speaker 2: build into incidents. You're like you're like a magnet for
Speaker 2: into plenty of content on the wing. You got I'm
Speaker 2: gonna guess a free kick. You actually got some free
Speaker 2: kicks wild. It was absolute absurd. Absolutely, they'll be going
Speaker 2: after we just talked all this shit about the AFL
Speaker 2: off the top. But so you get the free kick
Speaker 2: and the ball bubbles over the over the line. All
Speaker 2: your teammates just run off and don't throw you back
Speaker 2: the ball, and then what you're in a standdown contest.
Speaker 2: You and light set, we're in it. Yeah, so the
Speaker 2: free kicks paid. The ball goes out of the balance
Speaker 2: behind like sat and I'm like five meters raided for
Speaker 2: someone to throw me the ball. You just kind of
Speaker 2: assume someone's going to pick up the ball and throw
Speaker 2: it to you, right, No one did, So the ball
Speaker 2: just sat there and like Scott's sitting there. I'm sure
Speaker 2: the umpire's probably gone stand so he's like, I can't
Speaker 2: go get the balls.
Speaker 1: Told me stand otherwise fifty minute penalty. So he's just
Speaker 1: standing there. I'm looking at Scott. Now, I look at
Speaker 1: the umpire and the poba looks at me, and I
Speaker 1: look at back at Scott. I'm like, I guess I'll
Speaker 1: get it. Chet, I pick it up. So I'm kind
Speaker 1: of walk over there and like just casual. I think
Speaker 1: we're up by like a decent amount of points. Of
Speaker 1: this time in the game, you weren't in a rush.
Speaker 1: I was in zero rush whatsoever. And I remember just
Speaker 1: sitting there and Craig's talking to me as I'm walking
Speaker 1: up to the ball, telling me like we're to kick
Speaker 1: it or something like that and just pick it up
Speaker 1: and just waltz on back and then just turn the
Speaker 1: ball over on the next kick. So that was good.
Speaker 1: But have a little bump tap, Yeah, a little bump
Speaker 1: tap on the way up to Scott and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: great sports sportsmanship, man, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: It was just keep an eye out for cast. I
Speaker 2: know you're going to do something. He touched the ball.
Speaker 2: But so you weren't the only one that had a
Speaker 2: good game. Every teammate I feel like on Collingwood had
Speaker 2: a good game. Let's jump into a couple of the
Speaker 2: plays specifically. So I just love seeing Bobby Hill in
Speaker 2: the black and white stripes. He just is exciting and
Speaker 2: you can never really every time they think they're going
Speaker 2: to catch him with the ball, he just slams it
Speaker 2: on his boot and gets it forward and then everyone
Speaker 2: swarms forward. So I want to ask you this, what
Speaker 2: was the better goal? Jamie Elliott to Bobby Hill. He
Speaker 2: does the one too, snaps the goal snap very hard.
Speaker 2: Scott Pendlebury. It's the mc great's handball after he keeps
Speaker 2: it in over his head to Nick Dacus. Nick Dacos
Speaker 2: gets around a tackle, kicks it on the run and
Speaker 2: celebrates before it even leaves his big foot laces straight through.
Speaker 2: Which one is a better?
Speaker 1: Gu Love Nick's goal? Love pendles over the head two times.
Speaker 1: He's done it last week and he's done it this week,
Speaker 1: and it leads to miraculous things both times. But I
Speaker 1: think Bobby's, like you said, I love Bobby in the
Speaker 1: Ford line. He is just one of those players. As
Speaker 1: soon as he gets the ball, the crowd just goes, oh, snap,
Speaker 1: what's it going to do next? You know, like he's
Speaker 1: just excitedly. He's an exciting player. You just never know
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. And ever he gets the ball, and
Speaker 1: I think that's just something everyone looks forward to. But
Speaker 1: having zippy people like him, Amy Elliott everything else on
Speaker 1: the forward line, you just have that chaos that you
Speaker 1: know you can kick a goal out of nothing. And
Speaker 1: that literally was I think it was. Bobby got it,
Speaker 1: handball to Jamie, Jamie gets tackled, handballs it back to Bobby.
Speaker 1: Someone just like literally throws it on his boot and
Speaker 1: goes to the sticks. And I don't know if anyone's
Speaker 1: ever tried to do that, but there's a very low,
Speaker 1: secretly few Bruskies for Breaden in the podcast today. But
Speaker 1: throws it on his boot and it goes to and
Speaker 1: it was phenomenal. Like I was sitting there on the
Speaker 1: bench going, that's that's something special. That's definitely something special,
Speaker 1: and I think both the goal is amazing. Don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, Nick, I'm not downplaying it whatsoever. It didn't
Speaker 1: come out of a very weird situation where everyone thought
Speaker 1: the ball was out of bounds and everyone just like
Speaker 1: stood around and then damn it. Gray was just like,
Speaker 1: I guess we're still playing, all right, let me just
Speaker 1: hand all this off and we got a goal out
Speaker 1: of it. But yeah, i'd have to go to with
Speaker 1: Bobby Dazzla. Bobby Dazzler's goal.
Speaker 2: It is so cool seeing just the excitement up in
Speaker 2: the forward line, the pressure seeing those two together and
Speaker 2: then you got Bo McCreary roaming around. That guy is
Speaker 2: just like a shark every time he's in that I
Speaker 2: just hear did and because he's gonna get Yeah, the
Speaker 2: two on one on the wing tackles the first bloke
Speaker 2: he falls over, tackles the second bloke gets the ball
Speaker 2: handballs it off, and then the next blok.
Speaker 1: Stuff three tackles in like thirty seconds. I was like,
Speaker 1: that's three weeks worth of tackles for me and he's
Speaker 1: done in thirty seconds. Yeah, he's a machine. So the
Speaker 1: Dekos brothers, Yeah, big game of the weekend.
Speaker 2: I feel like if Josh didn't have the last name Dacas,
Speaker 2: he'd be like everyone would be talking about him as
Speaker 2: this superstar. But they put him in a line behind
Speaker 2: his dad, Peter and Nick already. But it's he's what
Speaker 2: he got twenty six kick two. They combined the both
Speaker 2: Dakos brothers combined for fifty eight and four. It's insane
Speaker 2: and he's They've got to be the best brothers in
Speaker 2: the camp. Can you think of any other good brothers
Speaker 2: in the camp?
Speaker 1: The only ones I think at the moment they could
Speaker 1: really stack up as the Mika brothers. They're very very good,
Speaker 1: but different players like different players, you know. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're getting the statistics that the Decos brothers are
Speaker 1: at the moment. And they're a bit older than the
Speaker 1: Deaycoss boys, so they you know, don't have as many
Speaker 1: years ahead of them.
Speaker 2: Some time to cook.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I just I'll think of it like fifty
Speaker 1: eight disposals, four goals. Yeah, thank heavens for the Father's
Speaker 1: un rule.
Speaker 2: I was thinking, Pete, it's not too late to have
Speaker 2: another run. You can have a third boy. He'll come through,
Speaker 2: You'll run.
Speaker 1: Hey, I have a girl. Even we'll take them at
Speaker 1: ifl W.
Speaker 2: It's so good to have that, you know, that next
Speaker 2: elite talent coming through, and it's.
Speaker 1: Great to see the younger generation stacking up to the
Speaker 1: older generation of guys on the team. Like to see
Speaker 1: players playing at that level and seeing guys that have
Speaker 1: been around for a long time like Pendles and being
Speaker 1: able to see them seamlessly working together. It's it's pretty special,
Speaker 1: Like you don't see that a lot of times. You'll
Speaker 1: see like the older guys, you know, and they're just
Speaker 1: trying to bring along the younger guys, trying to bring
Speaker 1: them along where whenever you have the younger guys stacking
Speaker 1: up to what some of the older guys are doing
Speaker 1: is something that doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 2: A right, But it doesn't stop there, because you've got
Speaker 2: an absolute banger coming up this Friday night against Richmond,
Speaker 2: two big teams going head to head, Richmond coming off
Speaker 2: a win. How do you see this one playing out?
Speaker 2: Because jezu, it's going to be exciting.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought last week was going to be
Speaker 1: a crazy game portolet coming off a big win over Brisbane.
Speaker 1: Now this Richmond game, Richmond Collingwood always brings a big crowd,
Speaker 1: always brings it. I'm talking and there would be ninety thousand,
Speaker 1: I reckon, and it's tough to explain to people what
Speaker 1: it feels like to be on the ground with ninety
Speaker 1: thousand fans going off their head, off their head because
Speaker 1: it's a big game. There's a bit of rivalry, you
Speaker 1: could say, between the two of us. Very similar game styles,
Speaker 1: very similar game styles. The high pressure teams love to
Speaker 1: kick some goals, and I think it's going to be
Speaker 1: one of the most entertaining games of the year. Maybe
Speaker 1: I will go out and make that statement early. This
Speaker 1: will be one of the most entertaining games of the
Speaker 1: year anyway. But yes, we will have a big blockbuster
Speaker 1: coming off on Friday under the lights. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a massive one, big question marks around Dusty Martin
Speaker 1: at the moment might be injured.
Speaker 2: So are you going to say big question marks about
Speaker 2: the lights if they'll stay on or not. But no,
Speaker 2: this isn't the Gabba. I think they were saying that
Speaker 2: they've got scans on Dusty's hamstrings, so that's touch and go.
Speaker 2: But I don't think you sub him out just to
Speaker 2: you know, watch him or whatever.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's interesting though, like a big game
Speaker 1: like this, do you risk him early in the season,
Speaker 1: you know, just because it's a big game, because this
Speaker 1: is value to the same amount of points as a
Speaker 1: week later.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you just played on its merits.
Speaker 1: You try to play because if you have the big crowd,
Speaker 1: big supporters there and they want to see an action
Speaker 1: pack game.
Speaker 2: Had to be Collingwood home game. It'll be about ninety
Speaker 2: thousand pier supporters. You broke the record for a Collingwood
Speaker 2: Port game by nine six sixty on a Saturday, pretty good,
Speaker 2: So the hunger is there to watch the pires back
Speaker 2: in action and this one will weird, absolute fun burner.
Speaker 1: It is going to be epic.
Speaker 2: What's the next celebration?
Speaker 1: I did when if I kicked the goal over the
Speaker 1: weekend with Port Adelaide. I did, and then Darcy Cameron
Speaker 1: came out to me and.
Speaker 2: Goes, where'st the cat claws? The cat claus?
Speaker 1: I didn't do it. Briefly, that's a bit of a
Speaker 1: joke with him.
Speaker 2: Can we get an update on the cat claws? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, update cat claws. I can confirm it was not
Speaker 1: cat claws, which can also confirm I have a dumb ass.
Speaker 2: So good when I found out that it wasn't cat cloth.
Speaker 1: For sure heard it.
Speaker 2: I just held.
Speaker 1: Cat claws yours truly is a freaking idiot.
Speaker 2: I held it in because everyone was like, his cat
Speaker 2: closes cat clothes. And then once I knew, I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm so happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't cat claus. It was a I think
Speaker 1: it was. I can't hear you. Unfortunately for me, I've
Speaker 1: come out on the worst end of that one. But
Speaker 1: we're going to the last thing, the top five moments
Speaker 1: of the round, and I have to say we've collaborated
Speaker 1: with a fel Sentol, big fan of them, check them
Speaker 1: out on the Instagram. But they have gone through with
Speaker 1: us and we've put our top five moments of the weekend.
Speaker 1: We'll start off with number five. What do you have?
Speaker 2: Starting at number five? Jeremy Cameron is the best player.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say best forward, but I think he's
Speaker 2: just the best player to watch in the game.
Speaker 1: Best player in the camp.
Speaker 2: Like he's goal kicking, his elite, gets up the ground,
Speaker 2: takes the marks, an amazing field kick, so mobile.
Speaker 1: I think I saw him in the forward, back in midfield.
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I don't know what position he
Speaker 1: was playing, because I feel like I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's a forward. The next thing I know, he's taking
Speaker 1: a mark in the D fifty in the goal square
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what is Jeremy Cameron doing there? I
Speaker 1: thought he was literally on the other side, like the
Speaker 1: man covers the whole damn field. I don't know how
Speaker 1: he does it.
Speaker 2: Six goals, twenty five touches and he got all around
Speaker 2: the ground. It was nuts. He's got to get the
Speaker 2: three in a losing side, which is always incredible. But
Speaker 2: what do you have for number four? We've got Samson Ryan,
Speaker 2: he is back. He was absolutely crushing it for Richmond,
Speaker 2: absolutely crushing at the big fil You know me love
Speaker 2: the big forward. Are excited. If you you get up
Speaker 2: next to him on the weekend, we'll.
Speaker 1: See how totally really is.
Speaker 2: Number three. Hot pies at the MCG. Now, I loved this.
Speaker 2: Everyone was like, oh, they won so many close games
Speaker 2: last year, they're going to lose half of those and
Speaker 2: they're going to struggle this year. Well they're just blowing
Speaker 2: contenders out of the water, left, right and center. So
Speaker 2: you know it's exciting. Everyone's up and about. Now we
Speaker 2: just wait for Richmond, just keep ticking them off the list.
Speaker 1: It's still very early in the year, still very early
Speaker 1: in the year.
Speaker 2: Number three.
Speaker 1: We are excited. It is good times at the Congo
Speaker 1: Football Club. The few wins to start off the season,
Speaker 1: and yeah, we look to continue that momentum. It's about
Speaker 1: the most pp kind of way of doing it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's exciting times in big game. Got to prove ourselves
Speaker 1: on the big stage in front of a big crowd.
Speaker 2: Now let me take number two because I want you
Speaker 2: to have number one. Yes, you for number two, So
Speaker 2: I say the young guns, although everyone says, oh, he's
Speaker 2: the next Nick. He's the next Nick dak Us. Nick
Speaker 2: Dakos is Nick Dakas and he's absolutely smashing the competition
Speaker 2: at the moment. But it's also good to see Ashcraft
Speaker 2: up at Brisbane absolutely dominating. He had a massive game
Speaker 2: on the weekend and she's all the North getting the cross,
Speaker 2: getting plenty of touches. There's also a couple of other
Speaker 2: little ones like I saw Philipoof for Saints on the weekend.
Speaker 2: He brought so much energy to the forward line kick
Speaker 2: three schnaggles and we love that. So I reckon number
Speaker 2: two is the young guns coming through the competition.
Speaker 1: They are shining bright, the young guns. There's a bright
Speaker 1: future for the IFL there with these players coming through.
Speaker 1: I'll take number one. You know, big fan of this team.
Speaker 1: I said it before on the podcast. The North Melbourne
Speaker 1: Football Club is back back baby. North Melbourne Football called
Speaker 1: the shin Boners two and our start ladies and gentlemen
Speaker 1: take them serious. We might call him flag favorites. I
Speaker 1: don't know. The North Melbourne Football Club is showing everyone
Speaker 1: up at the moment there, telling everyone who doubted him
Speaker 1: to get come in. Bit of drama in the preseason
Speaker 1: with him. They've come out just guns are blaring, got
Speaker 1: two wins, they've already matched their wins from last year.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you they're only they're moving up why
Speaker 1: because that's the only direction they can go.
Speaker 2: They got Nick Larky just kicking him from everywhere. He's
Speaker 2: on I think ten goals for the seat. He's on
Speaker 2: track to kick a hundred for the years.
Speaker 1: So good young guys just murdering people. It's awesome to see.
Speaker 2: The best part from the weekend. Obviously played Freo over
Speaker 2: in Perth and when Klarko thought he had it in
Speaker 2: the bag, they cut to the camera down on the boundary.
Speaker 2: He's doing the double head and fish posts. That was
Speaker 2: before Freo started to come back. Now, if Freo had
Speaker 2: a one after the siren Ah, that would have been
Speaker 2: slammed that vision, so I'm guessing he was sweating. But
Speaker 2: it's good to see North up there. Cankakega kanga.
Speaker 1: Is that it like? I know their stuff?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know this stuff.
Speaker 1: But anyway, thanks so much, AFL Sential check them out
Speaker 1: on their socials. Absolute legends. Thanks so much for being involved. Now, yes,
Speaker 1: Bright and we're almost to the end of this, but
Speaker 1: I have to make him mention because there's some exciting
Speaker 1: news on the podcast coming up this week later and
Speaker 1: unfortunately no entertainment this week. Why is that? We've got
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a Crisp episode later in the week.
Speaker 1: On Wednesday afternoon, we're dropping Jack Crisp as our first
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Speaker 1: I am too, don't get me wrong, But Jack Crisp
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Speaker 1: be a great chat with the great man Crispy.
Speaker 2: Back to back Copeland middleist, back to.
Speaker 1: Back, one of the most underrated players in the IFL.
Speaker 2: I think, I don't know why they keep underrating and
Speaker 2: what what's he gotta do?
Speaker 1: Seriously, I don't know. Maybe kick more outside fifty old
Speaker 1: steak nods. I don't know. He's an absolute legend on
Speaker 1: and off the field. He's got plenty of stuff going
Speaker 1: on off the field also, so believe me, it's a
Speaker 1: jam packed episode you do not want to miss.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be it, right everyone, Thanks so much for
Speaker 2: listening in.
Speaker 1: See us on Wednesday afternoon dropping the crispy episode. Check
Speaker 1: it out.
Speaker 2: Sam