Speaker 1: All right, Part two The Mason Cock Show.
Speaker 2: Now we've got the breview of round one coming up,
Speaker 2: and we're also going to talk about do you want
Speaker 2: to get straight into a breakin the GWS game that
Speaker 2: we played.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, okay, yeah, I think people have been waiting
Speaker 3: for it. GWS Giants versus Collingwood Football Club. I won't
Speaker 3: even mention where it took place. I won't go that far.
Speaker 3: But there was some banter going into the games, which
Speaker 3: we love. We love banter, we love friendly banter, and
Speaker 3: a bit of marketing to sell some of the tickets,
Speaker 3: to make some of the make some of the squid
Speaker 3: heading into the game. So there was some back and forth.
Speaker 3: We had a petting zoo out there at the stockyards.
Speaker 3: It was great. We had a laugh. There was a
Speaker 3: cutout of yourself there, not that you would have seen
Speaker 3: it because you would have been down in the rooms.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it was all fun and games, you know.
Speaker 3: And then there was the pregame warm up, which is
Speaker 3: normally pretty uneventful, but in this circumstance it was quite eventful.
Speaker 3: Something happened and it was put out into the world
Speaker 3: as chaos. Chaos reigned, So essentially, I'll break down what
Speaker 3: we saw as pundits watching the vision, and you can
Speaker 3: explain if that's what happened or because it sounded like
Speaker 3: it sounded like GWS. We're in there doing their rock
Speaker 3: craft and Mason Cox comes in off the square and
Speaker 3: bang through the center of the pack, knocks into poor
Speaker 3: defenseless Shane Mumford. And that's the vision that we saw.
Speaker 3: Now everyone wants to know from your mouth, what happened,
Speaker 3: from your perspective, what happened in this circumstance.
Speaker 2: Geez, that would play really well into the storyline of
Speaker 2: the week, wouldn't it, Brandon, wouldn't it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean I think obviously, like there's been a lot
Speaker 2: of commentary around it. I've stayed off social mediaca, so
Speaker 2: I know it's a pretty hectic place with a lot
Speaker 2: of different things that are going on at the moment.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the whole story behind it, I probably didn't
Speaker 2: even think about it really, to be honest, until late
Speaker 2: that night I saw someone kind of mention it to
Speaker 2: me through text message. But yeah, before the game, as
Speaker 2: you do, each team, you know, gets to do a
Speaker 2: bit of a warm up center bounce, the rockman get
Speaker 2: to jump against the bag and each team, you know,
Speaker 2: is able to do that beforehand.
Speaker 1: So we did it. DC went and did a few jumps.
Speaker 2: I went and did a few jumps, and in this
Speaker 2: particular circumstance, you know, the very last one I was
Speaker 2: gonna do, we had the bagman there. DC was holding
Speaker 2: the bag and the bounce actually went pretty much outside
Speaker 2: of the circle, and I asked the umpire, I said, oh,
Speaker 2: do you mind if I just have one more real
Speaker 2: quick and yet no worries and he goes to bounce
Speaker 2: it again. And I wasn't really looking at what was
Speaker 2: going on with youb as what was happening. I was
Speaker 2: just trying to get a real quick last one in there,
Speaker 2: and that was kind of my mentality to try to
Speaker 2: focus on the game, get through it. And yeah, you
Speaker 2: just take it out of the rock. You're like, okay, cool,
Speaker 2: Like you move on. I guess you know, it's their
Speaker 2: turn to get in there. Like I didn't jump into him,
Speaker 2: didn't stick a knee into him, didn't do anything kind
Speaker 2: of crazy even just kind of got out of the way.
Speaker 1: It was like, yep, cool, y'all's turn. No stress.
Speaker 2: Got at least one good bounce in and that was
Speaker 2: kind of the story, but apparently something else happened.
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure.
Speaker 2: I did see the broadcast thing what BT said, and
Speaker 2: I think with broadcasts they get given vis of something, right,
Speaker 2: and that's just what they based it on. With that
Speaker 2: really understanding of what's probably going on behind the scenes
Speaker 2: or what's actually happened beforehand, and obviously the scenario of
Speaker 2: what was played out during the week and through the
Speaker 2: last world three months, I guess they've kind of play
Speaker 2: it out. It just made for good entertainment, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's pretty much just you know, one team warms
Speaker 2: up and the other team just kind of like kind
Speaker 2: of you know, pressures you out of it.
Speaker 1: And that's just the scenario of that.
Speaker 2: So for me, you know, whenever the umpire says you
Speaker 2: can do something, I go and do it.
Speaker 1: And that's what I did.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's that's the full story. That's turned into
Speaker 2: a bit of a whole debacle Bright and it's been
Speaker 2: a pretty wild forty eight hours. And like, to be honest,
Speaker 2: even after the game, like none of that. It was
Speaker 2: me probably playing a shit game. I was probably was
Speaker 2: more worried about what happened in a pre game between
Speaker 2: me and the next player who's now a coach there.
Speaker 2: It's it's kind of it's somewhat comical for me kind
Speaker 2: of sometimes the way media construes things and the way
Speaker 2: things are put out there, and I think nowadays with
Speaker 2: the way social media is, and you see one angle
Speaker 2: and you see one I guess perspective of it, and
Speaker 2: then people kind of make opinions based on that and
Speaker 2: comment on it.
Speaker 1: So you're kind of used to it by now.
Speaker 2: It's never ideal, but you do realize it's part of
Speaker 2: the media sphere. I'm sure it'll be commented on for
Speaker 2: the next like foot eight hours and whatnot. But to me,
Speaker 2: it's done. We've made the statement. I've made this little
Speaker 2: explanation of what it is we focus on Sydney.
Speaker 3: I saw it the first time like most people, through
Speaker 3: social media, and I knew there had to be more
Speaker 3: to it because you could see the Collingwood bag man
Speaker 3: in close vicinity. You could see the umpire bouncing the
Speaker 3: ball in the background, so I knew that had to be.
Speaker 1: Not don't let the truth get in the way of
Speaker 1: a good story break.
Speaker 3: It was a good continuation of the storyline that had
Speaker 3: been building on the way in now you did say
Speaker 3: that you weren't really aware of it until after the game,
Speaker 3: and it seems that GWS, the guys in the video
Speaker 3: weren't really aware either, because it doesn't sound like GWS
Speaker 3: have wanted a follow up. They didn't ask to investigate.
Speaker 3: It's kind of been driven by this broadcast vision that
Speaker 3: appeared online. AFL only really wanted to to investigate off
Speaker 3: the back of that.
Speaker 2: So and we've never the wild thing is like, ah
Speaker 2: this you know, I guess like you know, rivalry wherever
Speaker 2: you want to call it, that's been played up. We've
Speaker 2: talked about on this podcast many a times how good
Speaker 2: Gobas they were your team last year, like we talked
Speaker 2: about being like a top four team. We've given him
Speaker 2: a heap of credit and everything else, but that that's
Speaker 2: not important, Braydon. That doesn't make the news. That doesn't
Speaker 2: make what. You know, people want to hear. They want
Speaker 2: to hear something that's going to spark interest. And can
Speaker 2: Korn's Yeah, I made a statement about something that JJ
Speaker 2: Reddick put out there recently about people sometimes are more
Speaker 2: in tune too, you know, that kind of clickbait media
Speaker 2: that's going to get headlines rather than actually what's happened?
Speaker 3: And he did also make comment on this. He's a
Speaker 3: lot of people have made comments the podcast corns.
Speaker 1: That's all.
Speaker 3: We have been waiting for the podcast to drop to
Speaker 3: hear it directly from your mouth. And that's what I
Speaker 3: think is the most disappointing part for me was that
Speaker 3: this has been out there without much context for people
Speaker 3: to run wild with be reported on, you know, public opinion.
Speaker 3: I think it wasn't a great move on GWS's social
Speaker 3: media team's behalf, because I know that they're trying to
Speaker 3: be edgy and they've got this really good brand building.
Speaker 3: But to put the clip up post game like they
Speaker 3: know exactly what they're doing, it's inviting vitriolic abuse towards
Speaker 3: a player with the caption will let you caption this?
Speaker 3: You know what the internet does. It's not going to
Speaker 3: go oh like post funny things or harmless things. It's
Speaker 3: going to be pretty vitriolic stuff towards yourself and the
Speaker 3: AFL doubling down posting the clip with a please explain.
Speaker 3: Both of those together got a thousand comments.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine too many of those impositives.
Speaker 3: Scrolling through some of those comments, it was pretty disgusting,
Speaker 3: to be fair, But yeah, I thought it was a
Speaker 3: bit disappointing that, you know, they put it up. They
Speaker 3: knew the reaction that it would draw. You can't work
Speaker 3: in social media and not expect that reaction when you
Speaker 3: put up something like that in a you know, a
Speaker 3: day and age where playerfare I should be front and center.
Speaker 3: I just felt like you were thrown to the wolves.
Speaker 2: I think I understand the AFL side of it, like,
Speaker 2: you know, you talk about grass roots footy and wanted
Speaker 2: to make sure the right image comes out there. And
Speaker 2: you know, people are you know, being able to look
Speaker 2: up to role models that do these kind of things
Speaker 2: right now. I get it from the AFL standpoint of,
Speaker 2: you know, please explain, that's what we'll do.
Speaker 1: We'll send them a message.
Speaker 2: And it's just it's kind of weird whenever you, I guess,
Speaker 2: interact with a lot of people at AFL and you
Speaker 2: have to go through these processes. They're very formal and
Speaker 2: everything else where. I feel like if you just wanted
Speaker 2: to chat to me, like you have my phone number,
Speaker 2: you're my boss, just call me, just call me.
Speaker 1: So I totally understand.
Speaker 2: From the AFL's perspective, of like the visual of it
Speaker 2: and all that they have the footage, they'll look at it,
Speaker 2: they'll kind of see it as it is, and you know,
Speaker 2: we'll see kind of what they say from it. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I totally understand both sides of the you know, the
Speaker 2: coin and you know, Braden, that's I understand kind of
Speaker 2: what you're saying, and that's you know, that's all part
Speaker 2: of it. We've seen many times these things happening through
Speaker 2: the media. I'm not I'm kind of a bit of
Speaker 2: an adult, I guess, and a bit older and can
Speaker 2: kind of deal with it and understand how it works.
Speaker 2: But you know, I've seen younger guys come through the
Speaker 2: system that I've had to deal with it. Those are
Speaker 2: the ones I think you probably, you know, a bit
Speaker 2: more wary of.
Speaker 3: It was interesting, it was an interesting way to start
Speaker 3: and I was thinking, it's great that we've got to
Speaker 3: please explain and it's not even round one.
Speaker 1: Mate.
Speaker 3: I did ask you to do something the day. I
Speaker 3: did ask you to do something, you know, to get
Speaker 3: some attention going into the next game. But boy, oh boy,
Speaker 3: well we we've started strong.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're going to do next week,
Speaker 3: but you know, keep the eyes peeled for this one coming.
Speaker 1: Out friend of mine, so we'll have a bit of trash.
Speaker 3: I'm sure he already started it. He said that he's
Speaker 3: going to grab your jump the next week after what
Speaker 3: you did to pick it. So it's going to be interesting.
Speaker 3: All right, Mace. That's enough of that incident because we've
Speaker 3: done it to death. We've we've talked about it.
Speaker 1: I've seen enough.
Speaker 3: Now we're moving on. We're moving on because there wasn't
Speaker 3: much to it. But let's jump into the game review.
Speaker 3: Because it wasn't great. It wasn't a great game. It
Speaker 3: wasn't fun to watch from a skill standpoint. You seem
Speaker 3: to have a lot of the ball you being Collingwood,
Speaker 3: you personally not as much. But yeah, Collingwood's inaccuracy woes.
Speaker 3: You had more scoring shots, and the data came out
Speaker 3: after it the expected score taking into consideration everything, it
Speaker 3: had you guys winning. So there's a lot of doom
Speaker 3: and gloom about this game. But I feel like there's
Speaker 3: a few more, you know, polishes that you could do
Speaker 3: to some performances. Kick a couple straighter goals and Bob's
Speaker 3: your uncle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot closer game that's for sure. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was such an interesting game going out there, like
Speaker 2: it was the credits tows. We've talked about them on
Speaker 2: the podcast. We'll say it again multiple times. They're a
Speaker 2: good squad. Their defense is your team for the year.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I said that probably kicked down from you
Speaker 3: didn't have a gun to my head last week. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I think their defense is so stingy. It was in
Speaker 3: there so much and you just weren't kicking goals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they they've got a very good defense.
Speaker 2: Taylor who plays back there and haven't with them stuff
Speaker 2: through the game.
Speaker 1: He's a hell of defender.
Speaker 2: And they've got quite a few others that are back
Speaker 2: there that are really good at doing their job. And yeah,
Speaker 2: over the weekend, they just seem to be getting you know,
Speaker 2: so much, I guess, like run off back and then
Speaker 2: the turnover and be able to get into their fifty
Speaker 2: and do it efficiently.
Speaker 1: I think was a big thing.
Speaker 2: Like I feel like a lot of those shots were
Speaker 2: set shots, you know, where you know, we were having
Speaker 2: shots from further out and you know, snaps and things
Speaker 2: like that that we're trying to convert now. But like
Speaker 2: you said, we weren't you know, as you know, great
Speaker 2: in front of goal as far as accuracy, and that's
Speaker 2: that's part of it. If we were a little bit
Speaker 2: better and be a bit of a closer score, who knows.
Speaker 1: What would happen.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they outplayed us, and it's you know, it's
Speaker 2: just part of the game.
Speaker 1: You know, can be.
Speaker 2: Able to win every single one Bright and this is
Speaker 2: part of the experience, right, But yeah, credit goes to him.
Speaker 3: On the flip side, you know, it's a bit of
Speaker 3: an overreaction. Colling would go up there. You're actually underdogs
Speaker 3: going into a GWS away game and you know, fair income.
Speaker 3: The home team won and it was like the biggest
Speaker 3: shock ever. But will we digress because as inaccurate as
Speaker 3: Collingwood was, g w Wes they couldn't miss they when
Speaker 3: in at one stage they went in four times for
Speaker 3: three goals and they had Cal Brown kick five straight.
Speaker 1: Jesse Hogan, they're efficient.
Speaker 3: Jesse Hogan the Hulk, he hold up kick.
Speaker 1: Four big hands on the day.
Speaker 3: Brett Daniels he kicked four. Now, Toby Green, I don't
Speaker 3: know if you remember this goal, but he's getting tackled,
Speaker 3: he's on the boundary and he Bana na nah is
Speaker 3: it through straight through the middle and it's like these
Speaker 3: guys are taking the piss. He couldn't kick give us
Speaker 3: one of them down the other end. But yeah, it
Speaker 3: was incredible to watch their highly skilled team and they
Speaker 3: are a very fun team to watch. Now that they're
Speaker 3: not playing Collingwood from now on, I can jump back
Speaker 3: on a bit. Fun aren't to watch when they're not
Speaker 3: up against Collingwood because jeez, they're good. They're clinical almost
Speaker 3: the way that they kick it around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're going to be one of those
Speaker 2: teams that is a big force in the league. And
Speaker 2: you know, they do live up in Sydney so that
Speaker 2: so you don't really see probably as much of the
Speaker 2: media around it here in Melbourne. But they're going to
Speaker 2: come down and really, you know, shake it up. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of teams are off the top of the ladder.
Speaker 2: They're going to you know, put the sword to and
Speaker 2: it's going to be an interesting year. Like I think
Speaker 2: they're going to be one of those teams that's definitely
Speaker 2: going to be up to the top of the ladder
Speaker 2: at the end of it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it was it was a good a good
Speaker 1: experience for us to go up.
Speaker 2: There, and you know, we'll learn from that, we'll move
Speaker 2: on from it, and it's just part of the you know,
Speaker 2: part of the season. Really like it's one game out
Speaker 2: of a much larger experience, and you know, we'll learn
Speaker 2: from it, and well, we'll make the most of the
Speaker 2: you know, the situation, and we'll be able to hopefully
Speaker 2: apply some of those learnings to Sydney this week.
Speaker 3: I think they evened it up on you because I
Speaker 3: reckon you tore them a bit of a new one
Speaker 3: last time and Sam Taylor, you took a mark O
Speaker 3: rim kicked the goal and geez, Sam Taylor is just
Speaker 3: a good defenders. Is let's touch on your game. We'll
Speaker 3: just do a little quick, quick, quick little bit. I
Speaker 3: just want to know, because everyone wants to know what's
Speaker 3: going through your head at halftime when you haven't had
Speaker 3: a touch of the pill.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's kind of one of
Speaker 2: those things. I don't really probably stress about it too much.
Speaker 2: You kind of you think of it, right, and you
Speaker 2: think of like the contest you're in, and you know,
Speaker 2: they had a very kind of like tall back line
Speaker 2: that sense of like they you know, had a lot
Speaker 2: of a lot of tolls on the team that were
Speaker 2: coming across and all that, and yeah, sometimes you're not
Speaker 2: going to have a million marks in the game, like
Speaker 2: sometimes you're rolling the teams to bring the ball to ground.
Speaker 2: You know what, I've liked to take in more marks
Speaker 2: in that game. Of course, I think that's pretty obvious
Speaker 2: statement there. But I think you kind of look at
Speaker 2: that and you go, Okay, let's just focus on the
Speaker 2: things I can do.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: That's part of my role to try to kind of
Speaker 2: turn this thing around. And you know, there's there's things
Speaker 2: in the rock that I was, you know, focusing on
Speaker 2: trying to make the most of my time in there
Speaker 2: if the Ford stuff wasn't going as well, and you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's one of those things that you're not going
Speaker 2: to be on every single game.
Speaker 1: And yes, I was off on the weekend. That's that's
Speaker 1: part of it.
Speaker 2: I think it just given the scenario and the circumstances,
Speaker 2: it was probably you know, extrapol it out to be
Speaker 2: a lot bigger deal. But yeah, I think in the game,
Speaker 2: you're going to halftime and you know, I wouldn't have
Speaker 2: known if I had to touch it out, to be honest,
Speaker 2: So I can't really try to worry about that too much.
Speaker 2: But I know I hadn't kicked a goal, like you know,
Speaker 2: I've done well in center bounce in that sense, but
Speaker 2: you know, there was probably a bit more impact I
Speaker 2: was wanting to have on the game and I wasn't
Speaker 2: having at that time. And you know, you obviously look
Speaker 2: at it and you go, okay, how can I turn
Speaker 2: this around? You know what's happens happens in the past,
Speaker 2: and you know, you just look towards the future.
Speaker 3: And it's always good because it's I feel like it's
Speaker 3: either you stand up and have a good one and
Speaker 3: DC is a little quiet, or d C stands up
Speaker 3: vice versa. D C twenty touches to go right around
Speaker 3: the ground. It's good to see. We will talk about
Speaker 3: some positives. Charlie Dean playing his first game. He was
Speaker 3: thrown into the fire. He had to play on Jesse
Speaker 3: Hogan up in the forward line.
Speaker 1: Not an easy task, not an easy task, not.
Speaker 3: An easy task to line up against any of their forwards,
Speaker 3: the very dynamic. But it was good to see him
Speaker 3: out there first game get rewarded for, you know, all
Speaker 3: the work that he's done in the leader.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, he's an incredible story. Like he's had very
Speaker 2: unfortunate circumstances with his feet and injuries and everything else
Speaker 2: throughout his career and to be able to finally get that,
Speaker 2: you know, the opportunity to share it with his family
Speaker 2: that came up and everything else.
Speaker 1: It's it's one of those things that makes you think back.
Speaker 2: To your first game, right and like the experience that
Speaker 2: was and being able to bring the people I mean
Speaker 2: so much to you into the you know, the opportunity
Speaker 2: that you get and to have him in the rooms
Speaker 2: and everything else, like obviously, you know, we would have
Speaker 2: loved to win that game. I'm sure him going into
Speaker 2: the room seeing his family after that would put a
Speaker 2: smile on his face and be like, you know, all
Speaker 2: these experiences of probably doubt at times or frustration around
Speaker 2: the injury and things like that, like to be able
Speaker 2: to finally have you know, a bit of light there
Speaker 2: to be like, oh, look like I've you know, I'm
Speaker 2: definitely making progress in my career and it's still kind
Speaker 2: of going in the direction I want. And it would
Speaker 2: have probably meant a lot to him as soon. And
Speaker 2: you know, like I said, you kind of think back
Speaker 2: to your first games, Like we had Lucky Schultz who
Speaker 2: plays first game for the club, and Langa's you know,
Speaker 2: Tom Langdon came in and gave a little little speech
Speaker 2: old number eight from back in the day. It was
Speaker 2: good to see him again, and yeah, he's got his
Speaker 2: family there and stuff too, And it's those kind of
Speaker 2: moments that you kind of think of and you're like, man,
Speaker 2: this is like a this is an experience in life
Speaker 2: you won't forget. You know, these are one of these
Speaker 2: kind of milestones that you always look finally back on
Speaker 2: and whenever you see someone else go through that, it
Speaker 2: definitely puts a smile on your face.
Speaker 3: I didn't know Langer's had that gear in him. He's
Speaker 3: been working on his stand up routine since he's been
Speaker 3: stepped away from footy. That was one of the funniest
Speaker 3: things I've ever seen him do. For those who haven't
Speaker 3: seen the clip, he said, I'm going to give you
Speaker 3: a brief history on the number eight, which is what
Speaker 3: he's given to shooter Lucky Shultz, and he goes over
Speaker 3: to his backpack says, hold on our second boys, and
Speaker 3: he pulls out a massive binder full of paper because
Speaker 3: already you're ready. That's gold that's some good gear.
Speaker 1: It is good. It is very good.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of Tyson gold Sack whenever he retired.
Speaker 2: He goes, oh, I'm just going to cover a few
Speaker 2: things here, and he pulled out like the scrawl, and
Speaker 2: the scrawl fell to the ground and rolled out like
Speaker 2: another five meters in front of him.
Speaker 1: It was like, just a few things to take off. Boys,
Speaker 1: you got some time, don't you.
Speaker 3: Timeless classic, one of the best things that I've ever
Speaker 3: seen with my eyes. We've got Nick Daikos, not to
Speaker 3: be confused with his brother Josh. He just you know,
Speaker 3: destroyed gravity. There was a moment in time where he
Speaker 3: got the ball. He was in traffic, but he was
Speaker 3: off balance and he somehow kicks it with the outside
Speaker 3: of his boot, but it goes the reverse direction of gravity.
Speaker 3: And I don't know how he kicked it. I don't
Speaker 3: know how it went that far off no balance and
Speaker 3: no step. Yeah, Like I feel like there needs to
Speaker 3: be an investigation, Like it's witchcraft.
Speaker 1: It's witchcraft what he does with the footy.
Speaker 3: I don't know how he did it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've got to the point in my life
Speaker 2: now where I've seen dates do so many frequently good
Speaker 2: things that I just don't question it. Yeah, I'm just like,
Speaker 2: you know what, there's just some people that are just
Speaker 2: gifted with just inate abilities that I know I will
Speaker 2: never have. And that's okay, that's all right. He'll never
Speaker 2: be seven feet that's fine, he'll never be six for
Speaker 2: eleven and that's.
Speaker 3: Just gut it.
Speaker 1: That's the facts of life. Okay.
Speaker 3: You can get stuff from the top shelf. That's he
Speaker 3: has to ask for help. You have to get a
Speaker 3: little step on light ball with no issue. Dang done.
Speaker 3: You have the duck going into doors. That's not really
Speaker 3: a pro.
Speaker 2: But I took a flight. We talked about me on
Speaker 2: flights going to the restroom. That's a bit of a sight.
Speaker 3: Just don't But I thought that was crazy. I watched
Speaker 3: the replan. I was like, you can't actually do that,
Speaker 3: So can we just call it back because we need
Speaker 3: to do that again now. Bo McCreary, he's savage. He
Speaker 3: needs to be locked up because he just he tackles
Speaker 3: with an intensity and a ferocity. There was moments where
Speaker 3: I don't know why if you can hear him or
Speaker 3: see him, or he's breathing on your neck, just get
Speaker 3: rid of the freaking because you're about to be smashed.
Speaker 3: And he did it a couple of times, got a
Speaker 3: couple of free kicks. But there was one incident where
Speaker 3: he grabbed Callen Ward. Now callen Ward, he's nicknamed Cement.
Speaker 3: Heead like he's a solid bloke, and he just smashed
Speaker 3: him into the ground. Fair tackle because obviously nothing no
Speaker 3: case stands for smashed him, just smashed him. And this
Speaker 3: is a two way praise. Because kel Ward got up,
Speaker 3: people were calling for the ambulance.
Speaker 2: They were like confused because it was usually goes straight
Speaker 2: into the stoppage of bowl goes up, and it was
Speaker 2: kind of like this like stopped but didn't continue to play,
Speaker 2: like like the umpire kind of like took extra time.
Speaker 2: I was on the line. I was sitting there and
Speaker 2: Taylor was next to me, and he was just kind
Speaker 2: of like we're kind of like okay, let's go, like
Speaker 2: let's come on, let's play on, like.
Speaker 1: Let's play the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that kind of looked and I saw Hi
Speaker 2: underneath and I was like, oh no, Like he's a
Speaker 2: tough player. I was like, something's going to be wrong
Speaker 2: if he's taken it. If he's slow to get up, yeah,
Speaker 2: or like something's going to be proper wrong. In credit Tom,
Speaker 2: he just gets up. He's like, nah, she's all right, mate.
Speaker 3: I don't like so on the white shot, they stay
Speaker 3: in the white shot and players are doing the come
Speaker 3: quick quick, we need help, we need help. It's either
Speaker 3: ambulance or.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one oken hand or you're like, you know something's happened,
Speaker 2: like seriously. We're like, there's a bone that's been like
Speaker 2: cracked her, like skin's been poked out or whatever it is.
Speaker 3: And it goes in and cow Ward's standing there and
Speaker 3: he's got this lump sticking out of his shoulder and
Speaker 3: you're like, well, I can see something's not right internally, mate,
Speaker 3: you should probably get off, and players are telling him
Speaker 3: to mate, maybe just jog off to the bench or whatever.
Speaker 3: Cal's like, no, I'm good, just throw her up. And
Speaker 3: as he's saying that, whatever's lump is underneath it, it's
Speaker 3: moving around. It's like under the skin, and you're like, look,
Speaker 3: we're not going to keep going until you get off
Speaker 3: because your arms about to fall off. Mate.
Speaker 2: He was just ready to rock tough cookie. Oh man,
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's done it. Before, but I
Speaker 2: was just like I was just like I was like,
Speaker 2: like I could see that something was kind of wrong.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I understand, like we don't want
Speaker 2: to stop the game, but I was like, mate, like
Speaker 2: I'm the opposition, take your time.
Speaker 3: It was like, imagine if Jeremy Howe got up last
Speaker 3: year and just was like, no, let's go for it,
Speaker 3: and his arms flopping around.
Speaker 1: Like gumby arms up. It was like they.
Speaker 3: Cut to Cal sitting on the bench and he looked miffed,
Speaker 3: like he was like like it was like he was
Speaker 3: muttering ship under his breath, and I don't know whether
Speaker 3: it was like I'm gonna be injured out for a bit,
Speaker 3: or it was like pricks, I could have played through this,
Speaker 3: like I could have kept going.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It blows my mind, like some of the stuff that
Speaker 2: players go through, and like the pain they fight through
Speaker 2: and stuff. Like some people, I feel like they've played
Speaker 2: AFL for a while, their pain tolerance is just so high.
Speaker 2: Yeah that like they could go through anything. I think
Speaker 2: they're fine.
Speaker 3: There's a couple of players like that. Like if I
Speaker 3: ever see Pendles stay down for an extended period of time,
Speaker 3: I'm like he's in trouble because like he just doesn't
Speaker 3: do it. So there's a few players like that out
Speaker 3: there that are like, you know, it's like time out
Speaker 3: kind of injury. When you see him staying down pendals
Speaker 3: is normally he's just snapped one of his million fingers.
Speaker 3: It's like the bridless bones of all time. Anyway, let's
Speaker 3: jump out of that game, and I'm happy to never
Speaker 3: discuss that one ever again. I will say, just kick
Speaker 3: a couple more like goals instead of points, because just.
Speaker 1: To kick more goals.
Speaker 3: Actually dusted off Twitter just to put out a tweet
Speaker 3: on the weekend because I haven't used it in that
Speaker 3: that long. But I said, if Collingwood could just get
Speaker 3: forty nine more scoring shots, there are a chance.
Speaker 1: Here forty nine scoring shots.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you're just cap kicking behind mace. So like,
Speaker 3: kick a couple of guys, no worries.
Speaker 1: Thanks for advice. I appreciate that. We'll take it into it.
Speaker 3: Let's jump into the preview Round one finally here. Maybe
Speaker 3: we're here so round zero doesn't count. As we all know,
Speaker 3: no incidents carry over. Let's jump into it. Thursday night,
Speaker 3: Carlton v. Richmond where it belongs round one at the
Speaker 3: g Are you excited for this one? Because I feel
Speaker 3: like now seeing round zero, it's probably going to be
Speaker 3: a bit of a massacre.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think probably it'll be interesting to see
Speaker 2: what the line is as far as the batting line,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean, I don't know. Richmond will definitely
Speaker 2: be looking to try to, you know, make up for
Speaker 2: being beaten up in Gold Coast, and Carleton will try
Speaker 2: to continue the momentum.
Speaker 1: And it's it's one of those.
Speaker 2: Big rivalries where it's two big clubs going at it,
Speaker 2: like you just never really know exactly what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like, you know, whenever you have a
Speaker 2: big game, players play up to the moment at times.
Speaker 2: You know, I think this is one of those games
Speaker 2: where everyone's going to be watching first game in Melbourne.
Speaker 2: There's going to be a massive crowd, Like it's there's
Speaker 2: energy in the area and I think that allows players
Speaker 2: to play at their best and there's no telling kind
Speaker 2: of what will happen. You know, we'll say who we
Speaker 2: think will probably win, Like I'll pick Carlton over this
Speaker 2: just given you know, the experience in round zero, but
Speaker 2: I'm not to say that Richmond's totally out of it. Mark,
Speaker 2: there's still a lot of really good players that play
Speaker 2: for him. I'm excited for cray Fish Old same Sam
Speaker 2: Naysmith in the Rock. He's had a crazy experience in
Speaker 2: his football career and you know, I've seen the journey
Speaker 2: over the years, and to see him get a gig
Speaker 2: at Richmond, I'm really excited for him.
Speaker 1: I hope he goes really well.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's one of those things, a big game,
Speaker 2: you know, you just you never know, Dusty might kick twelve.
Speaker 2: We just go, it's just like and you know what
Speaker 2: the crazy thing is, You probably go, yeah, that's possibility. Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe that does happen, Like so it'd be interesting. But
Speaker 2: it's exciting to have, you know, footy back in Melbourne.
Speaker 2: It's exciting to have you know, some of the big
Speaker 2: clubs going at each other for around one first game
Speaker 2: in Melbourne. We'll say that that makes sense, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is gonna the zero in round one thing.
Speaker 3: After this we'll.
Speaker 1: Be back on.
Speaker 3: We won't ever mention round zero again. The one thing
Speaker 3: that you know, it concerns me about Richmond is watching it.
Speaker 3: They didn't really have that big dominant presence up for
Speaker 3: that they've always had. They've got bolt who's up there,
Speaker 3: and they got Bolton, Bolton and bolta Yeah maybe the
Speaker 3: two Bolts, but they're up there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Just they're really wanting Lynch back, but be massive. At
Speaker 3: the same time, Carlin's got all these inns to come in,
Speaker 3: so they're only going to get better. But yeah, maybe
Speaker 3: you do want to get them now. Well they don't
Speaker 3: have Walsh and Weatering and the like, but we will
Speaker 3: jump across the front because we go MCG mcg mcg.
Speaker 3: We're just hitting up the mcg Collingwood Sydney massive game
Speaker 3: kicking off Friday night under lights. We've got the flag unfurling,
Speaker 3: which is it's cool. I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I don't really know how it works. You have to
Speaker 1: kind of walk me through this.
Speaker 3: Well, there's like normally like a big parade of people
Speaker 3: that kind of come in with the big carpet looking
Speaker 3: flag and then they kind of just unfurl it and
Speaker 3: it goes up and people like.
Speaker 1: See and then they take the pull back down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they just take it back down.
Speaker 2: I don't it must be like do people listen to
Speaker 2: this and like describe it and go it's a little weird.
Speaker 3: We always get corrected in our comments, So like if
Speaker 3: you know the history behind the flag unfurling, I'm guessing
Speaker 3: it's a history thing. It's like a you know, jack
Speaker 3: jump is an ant someone was telling us, because we
Speaker 3: always say we have no idea what things are. Jack
Speaker 3: jump is an ant.
Speaker 1: We're here to teach people and to also learn.
Speaker 3: That's a vicious bite, but I think it used to.
Speaker 2: Obviously you'd have your home grounds, you don't veil the
Speaker 2: flag out. But because the NCG is, like you know, there's
Speaker 2: like seven different teams or six different teams that have
Speaker 2: a home ground, you can't have that hanging up there Brisbane.
Speaker 2: If Richmond's playing Carlton like the first round, you can't
Speaker 2: have Collingwood twenty twenty three like flying in the background.
Speaker 1: That's kind of weird.
Speaker 3: Well, you have the flag, you have more hanging up
Speaker 3: in your training facility.
Speaker 2: We've got like banners there, and then I think we've
Speaker 2: got the flags in like kind of the historical area,
Speaker 2: if that makes sense. So we've got like big banners
Speaker 2: in our you know, I guess the room where we
Speaker 2: have the weight room and the kicking ground and everything
Speaker 2: inside Yeah, and then we've kind of got the flags.
Speaker 1: I think they're in a different area.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure we'll see the cup the couple come out.
Speaker 3: I think people like the cup more than the flag.
Speaker 3: But you say we're gonna win a flag.
Speaker 2: The Cup's more of an iconic material thing for winning it.
Speaker 2: It's shiny, yeah, I and everyone drinks out of it,
Speaker 2: like everyone loves to drink out of some kind of cup, right,
Speaker 2: Like that's what you want.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It'll be nice, it'll be fun. I'll be really excited
Speaker 2: for it. It'd be great to share it. It'd be
Speaker 2: great to share with the fans. I think the fans
Speaker 2: will get excited to see us back at the home ground. Yeah,
Speaker 2: be able to kind of you know, seal lot twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three, and then now you know we you know,
Speaker 2: we continue on with our campaign twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Another rivalry. I think that every team wants to have
Speaker 3: a rivalry with Collingwood just so they can boost up
Speaker 3: those ticket sales. But Collingwood Sydney, last time you went
Speaker 3: head to head, they were bashing into Nick Dacos. So
Speaker 3: that'll be interesting to see if he gets the tag,
Speaker 3: if he doesn't get the tag if he runs wild
Speaker 3: and kicks gravity defying goals. But you got another exciting,
Speaker 3: juicy little matchup you v. Brody Grundy in the ruck.
Speaker 3: Well there'll be some help. But how do you see
Speaker 3: that one? Panna now? Because he's already started talking a
Speaker 3: bit of shit on the socials. He said he's gonna rag.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's gonna grab your jumper. You put a
Speaker 3: little kiss after it.
Speaker 1: It's all friendly heart XX.
Speaker 3: Do you see it? Are you going to smash him?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: It's exciting, man.
Speaker 2: It's always kind of weird to play against Brody, like
Speaker 2: you're playing against friends, you know, Like I never grew
Speaker 2: up with people they played football with as kid. Right,
Speaker 2: some of these people have been playing with each other,
Speaker 2: you know, in the you know, eighteens or whatever. It's
Speaker 2: kind of leagues throughout their life. So the people that
Speaker 2: have kind of moved on from the club and got
Speaker 2: traded wherever the situation is after this is the only
Speaker 2: like kind of previous kind of friendship that I can
Speaker 2: play against, which is kind of unique. Right, So Branden
Speaker 2: A sorry Braiden Brody who went over. I play against him.
Speaker 2: It's always good fun. We always have a bit of
Speaker 2: a chit chatter. Obviously you cross the line, like friendship
Speaker 2: kind of goes out the door, like it is pretty
Speaker 2: much just straight business. But we always kind of after
Speaker 2: the game you kind of just laugh about how, you know,
Speaker 2: different directions life has taken us and kind of how
Speaker 2: we end up there, and you know, we're good mates
Speaker 2: and he's an absolute lunch.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy for him up in Sydney.
Speaker 2: I think he's going to have an incredible career up
Speaker 2: there and it's going to be great for their clubs.
Speaker 2: He's an incredible human on the field obviously, but like
Speaker 2: off the field, he's amazing, Like he's the most caring
Speaker 2: book you ever met, and I've read nothing but high
Speaker 2: praise for him. Will I try to stick my neck
Speaker 2: like nea through his head? Yes, and will he try
Speaker 2: to do the same thing, of course, Like that's just
Speaker 2: part of footy.
Speaker 1: But you know it's all.
Speaker 2: In that, you know, good competition and it's going to
Speaker 2: be it's gonna be a fun litt around. Always love
Speaker 2: playing against them, so it's a it'll be interesting.
Speaker 3: Are you gonna let him cut you off like you
Speaker 3: did to Mexico?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean, like you can't really do anything against that. Like,
Speaker 2: I won't reveal exactly what I'll do, but I have
Speaker 2: something in my mind that I'm in the middle mat
Speaker 2: I might have. I might text him this week what
Speaker 2: I'll do if you tried that ship, don't do that
Speaker 2: to me? Yeah, but no, I think it'll be it'll
Speaker 2: be a good it'll be a good matchup. I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously DC and myself gone at him, and you know
Speaker 2: that that rock battle is always something that we love,
Speaker 2: and Brodie obviously is you know a lot of people
Speaker 2: play a question marks as to you know, how you
Speaker 2: go this year, and we've always kind of backed to him.
Speaker 2: I've always kind of known, you know, what he's capable
Speaker 2: of and and have massive faith.
Speaker 1: In what he's going to be able to produce this year.
Speaker 1: So it'll be a good little matchup.
Speaker 3: Now Saturday we kick things off Essendon Hawthorn. It doesn't
Speaker 3: matter where they are in the ladder. They hate the
Speaker 3: ship out of it each other. It's going to be
Speaker 3: a fun one to watch. We'll skip through some of these,
Speaker 3: we've got to get through them. Who you got in
Speaker 3: that game? Essendon Hawthorn.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go Essendon. We've talked about Essen and
Speaker 2: all the trades and everything else. We're excited to kind
Speaker 2: of see where they're going to go for the year.
Speaker 2: Hawthorn young team they're going to be. It's still be
Speaker 2: a good game, but I think Essen will definitely get
Speaker 2: the chocolates.
Speaker 3: How's this for like a bit of you know, I'm
Speaker 3: going to say some doomsday stuff right here, this Essendon
Speaker 3: Hawthorne game. If Essendon don't win this one, there's a
Speaker 3: massive chance they could be and seven. What was that?
Speaker 3: If you look at their fixture, they have a rough
Speaker 3: one and if you can't be beaten Hawthorn first up,
Speaker 3: it doesn't get any easier for him from then on out.
Speaker 1: Oh interesting.
Speaker 3: I don't envy them, but it's a hard one because
Speaker 3: you don't we have no idea how to gauge how
Speaker 3: good they're going to be. They got in you know,
Speaker 3: Ben Mackay, they got in Dursmar, they got in Gresham,
Speaker 3: they got in Goldstein, so that could just top up
Speaker 3: their club and they could be really good. So it's
Speaker 3: it's one of those ones. They could be Owen set
Speaker 3: but wait and see, isn't it and smash Hawthorn. But
Speaker 3: it's round one. We get to see where all these
Speaker 3: teams are at GWS versus North Melbourne Football Club up
Speaker 3: at enng Stadium.
Speaker 1: A rough game for North Melbourne if we're.
Speaker 3: Doing the tips. Yeah, I can't see North really firing
Speaker 3: a shot.
Speaker 2: But hopefully North what they call North ball, northball, northball, northball.
Speaker 2: They never know, maybe northball will work at the ground.
Speaker 1: Who knows.
Speaker 3: I would love to see North just turn it around
Speaker 3: and come out and just start smashing them. But I don't.
Speaker 1: Do you think North will finish in the top twelve
Speaker 1: this year?
Speaker 3: No, but it's not a that's not a reflection direct.
Speaker 2: Cause a lot of people, some people are having them
Speaker 2: around that twelve mark. It's yeah, we'll learn. Like obviously
Speaker 2: over the weekend we'll see a you know, first kind
Speaker 2: of proper hit up for them for the year with
Speaker 2: with points on the line. So I'll be I'll be
Speaker 2: very interesting to see how it kind of goes and see,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously I kind of think Jobs is going
Speaker 2: to take this one. But yeah, I think North Melbourn
Speaker 2: like it'll be a showing for them to just have
Speaker 2: an absolute crack and just say let's let's just how
Speaker 2: we go.
Speaker 3: They have to get good at some point they have
Speaker 3: to start turning it around at some point. The problem
Speaker 3: is I look at the fixture, I look at the teams,
Speaker 3: and they're just they're all good. They're all good. I
Speaker 3: probably just got West Coast finishing last personally. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't Outside of that, I don't know who they
Speaker 3: go past. But let's jump into the next one. Because
Speaker 3: Geelong Saint Kilda in Geelong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an absolute cracker GMHBA Stadium.
Speaker 3: Starting off quick and another one of those ones where
Speaker 3: it's like a Geelong going to be good or not,
Speaker 3: Saint's going to be good or not. It's question marks
Speaker 3: all around them. It has gone past Geelong. Are they
Speaker 3: going to start dipping or are they just topped up
Speaker 3: and ready to go?
Speaker 2: Well, I feel like we keep saying this though every
Speaker 2: single year. We kind of keep saying this, they getting older,
Speaker 2: they getting older, they getting older. And then you're like, well,
Speaker 2: Tomahawk might kick five, you know, Patrick Dangsfield might have
Speaker 2: thirty in the middle on Jerremy twenty clearances, Like Jeremy
Speaker 2: Caeron could just go off and he might take ten
Speaker 2: contested marks in the back line and somehow still kick five.
Speaker 1: Goals in the front line.
Speaker 2: Like there's there's a lot of different points of attack
Speaker 2: I feel like that Geelong has and the biggest thing
Speaker 2: is just staying healthy with a lot of it.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: So if they can get a full season healthy, I
Speaker 2: think they'll be all right. And I think there's all
Speaker 2: this kind of chat around them and how they're going
Speaker 2: to go and what's going to happen in the future
Speaker 2: and all that, Like you shut that up if you
Speaker 2: can stay healthy. Obviously that's a lot easier said than done.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it'll be it'll be interesting to see how
Speaker 2: that because Saint killed on the other side. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: made the eight last year and you know finished probably
Speaker 2: a tick you know for them, like you know they
Speaker 2: finished at the top eight. And yeah, I think it's
Speaker 2: going to be a juicy little match up them having
Speaker 2: to play away at gm HbA Stadium and see.
Speaker 1: How Geelong kind of goes about it.
Speaker 3: Who do you have?
Speaker 1: I'll go Geelong on this one.
Speaker 2: I think they play well at home, different style of
Speaker 2: stadium and yeah, I don't know. I just I struggled
Speaker 2: to tip Geelong against them. Whenever they play a home game.
Speaker 2: There's something about them a home I think they just
Speaker 2: enjoy you know, that's just short drive for them where
Speaker 2: they're having to drive Melbourne.
Speaker 3: And that's all they have to do. They just have
Speaker 3: to win their home games and bang their back into finals.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to out of you know, pointed, I'm
Speaker 3: going to say something. I want them to have a
Speaker 3: bit of energy, come out strong, hit the ground running.
Speaker 3: It's a litmus test for where they're at. It's going
Speaker 3: to be interesting Geelong. You know, they obviously started slow
Speaker 3: last year, so this home game and that they only
Speaker 3: had the practice game at the in Geelong the other week,
Speaker 3: so that they haven't had to travel around in the
Speaker 3: preseason or anything. So they should be fresh and ready
Speaker 3: to rock. So if Saints can get over a big
Speaker 3: tick for them. First up, let's jump into Gold Coast
Speaker 3: Verse Adelaide at People First Stadium, which if you don't know.
Speaker 1: I love that name, People's First.
Speaker 3: You know it's in the Gold Coast. If you didn't know,
Speaker 3: it's Metroc it was the old the new met old
Speaker 3: metric on whatever you say. But Gold Coast Adelaide, talk about.
Speaker 1: Mate, this is the game of the round.
Speaker 2: I think this outside of obviously, like I always going
Speaker 2: to say, our games again of around, but like this
Speaker 2: is the game outside of ours. I'm looking forward to
Speaker 2: watching my boys, the Suns against Later's got a lot
Speaker 2: of hype this year. There's a lot of hype and
Speaker 2: they are an exciting group. It's going to be an
Speaker 2: absolute bloodbath at Gold Coast, absolute bloodbath.
Speaker 3: Blood be how many rally you got? How many clearances
Speaker 3: does he get?
Speaker 1: Rally? Matthew Cow I'll go fifteen.
Speaker 3: I thought you're gonna say fifty fifteen rally.
Speaker 2: O'Brien's good, right, Yeah, tough to go against them and
Speaker 2: be able to get on the hit outs, I think
Speaker 2: so ferocious. No, I'll say that. I think my tip
Speaker 2: would be Gold Coast. I know it's a little bit controversial,
Speaker 2: but them at home. I think the Homes Stadium definitely helps.
Speaker 2: And you know there are people first kind of club.
Speaker 3: I want to say Gold Coast because I want to
Speaker 3: buy into the hut.
Speaker 2: I know, buy into the Gold Coast Signs man, buy
Speaker 2: the McDonald's T shirt and just get into it. I'm
Speaker 2: a wear a Gold Coast Signs T shirt into this
Speaker 2: podcast one day.
Speaker 3: Have we done our top eight because I reckon it's
Speaker 3: just a top ten.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the top eighteen, I'd say hard to pick.
Speaker 3: We jump into Sunday where we got Melbourne versus the Bulldog.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, every matchup is just juicy question marksk
Speaker 3: Law is Melbourne good? Donna? Is are the Bulldogs good? Donna?
Speaker 3: Couldn't tell you? Could not tell you. I feel like inconsistent.
Speaker 1: Bulldogs are Melbourne.
Speaker 3: But I'm just saying that early. But like Bulldogs, I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, they're getting flogged by Hawthorne in the
Speaker 3: first half of the Pracckic game and then they end
Speaker 3: up starching them and I feel like their best is
Speaker 3: obviously great, very good, but then we don't always see
Speaker 3: their best.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'd be interesting.
Speaker 2: I mean, like round zero with Melbourne, they'd be pretty
Speaker 2: frustrated with losing, you know, and the opening round.
Speaker 1: But here we all know Melbourne's a good team.
Speaker 2: Melbourne is a team that just consistently is up in
Speaker 2: the top eight, consistently is able to get the finals.
Speaker 2: And I've got them beating the Western Bulldogs. It could
Speaker 2: go either way again on this one, like this is
Speaker 2: we talk about the latter being so even this year,
Speaker 2: I feel like every single matchup you're not convinced one
Speaker 2: hundred percent that someone's definitely going to get over the
Speaker 2: line against someone else.
Speaker 1: The Western Bulldogs.
Speaker 2: They've got a great midfield also, you know, so it's
Speaker 2: going to be some big battle in there with BoNT
Speaker 2: and the Troca and Oliver and then Gone and you
Speaker 2: know you've got this big kind of you know, not rivalry,
Speaker 2: but like just these big boys in the middle that
Speaker 2: are going to go at it and it's going to
Speaker 2: be you know, as a midfielder, I know it's going
Speaker 2: to go in the midfield.
Speaker 1: I love these little matchups, Love these little matchups.
Speaker 3: I don't know who I'm tipping. I got to say Melbourne.
Speaker 3: I feel like Melbourne. But if you know, Bulldogs rock
Speaker 3: up at their best, they could easily win this game.
Speaker 3: Let's jump into Port West Coast. Let's jump out of
Speaker 3: Port West Coast because that's how boring this game is
Speaker 3: going to be. Port Domination Sea West Coast, Port Adelaide.
Speaker 3: It's in Adelaide.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in Adelaide, Yeah, I think Port.
Speaker 3: Yeah, bold bold prediction there. Mason free O versus Brisbane
Speaker 3: Optis Stadium makes it a bit more difficult to tip,
Speaker 3: or does it.
Speaker 2: I've got Brisbane one of this one Brisbane will definitely
Speaker 2: come back after you know, the Carlton game, losing by point,
Speaker 2: it would not sit right with them and they go
Speaker 2: back and review that second half and be wanting to
Speaker 2: start off strong and Freemantle at home.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a that's a positive form.
Speaker 2: But I think Brisbane being the team they are and
Speaker 2: the caliber of people are having that that that team
Speaker 2: is going to be tough to beat them. And I've
Speaker 2: got them tip tipping them over Freemantle out there in
Speaker 2: Perth at Opti Stadium.
Speaker 3: God, I want Freo to win for Freo's sake, but
Speaker 3: I don't think they're going. Brisbane are just that good
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 1: They're a very good team.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't know. I don't know if you
Speaker 3: can read too much into it if Freo loses, although
Speaker 3: it is a home game. Brisbane are just a very
Speaker 3: good team.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't. Yeah, We've said this before, like Perth.
Speaker 3: Might be rough this year, Frio, It's like where do
Speaker 3: you go? Where do you go? It's going to be
Speaker 3: like if they don't start off semi well, it's going
Speaker 3: to be a very long year, a lot of pressure
Speaker 3: to come. But that's the preview for round one mass.
Speaker 1: That is it.
Speaker 2: It's look, it's been a bit of a it's been
Speaker 2: a bit of a podcast brand. Let's be honest with ourselves,
Speaker 2: it's been it's been a big day. It's been a
Speaker 2: big day. It's been annoying to deal with the times,
Speaker 2: but we've got through it. And like you know, this
Speaker 2: is you probably have a lot of people listening in
Speaker 2: right now that maybe you haven't heard the show before,
Speaker 2: maybe don't know as much about it. Obviously with the
Speaker 2: situation that's happening over the week, there's enough credit or
Speaker 2: enough stuff that's kind of been covered on it. Hopefully
Speaker 2: there's a bit of clarity now around that. But yeah,
Speaker 2: this is a podcast where we try to preach positive things. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we try to talk about positive things. We try to
Speaker 2: have a good time with it. Obviously it's a bit
Speaker 2: of a you know, just a frustrating week, I guess
Speaker 2: you could say. But yeah, it's we're all about positivity
Speaker 2: on this podcast. We're all about talking about footy, having
Speaker 2: a good laugh and join ourselves with it and you know,
Speaker 2: bringing a community along that enjoys it too. So whether
Speaker 2: you're a Collingwood fan with you're a Brisbane fan, whether
Speaker 2: you're a Freemont fan, whatever fan you are of the
Speaker 2: club that you support. You know, we're here to entertain you.
Speaker 2: We're here to have a good time, and you know,
Speaker 2: hopefully you provide a bit of context some stuff.
Speaker 3: I apologize if you are a Freeo fan, because I've
Speaker 3: gone pretty hard on free But I'm sticking there because
Speaker 3: my housemates free I love watching them, watch them every
Speaker 3: single week.
Speaker 1: Carlo a big fan.
Speaker 3: I'm riding the highs and lows with you, but yeah,
Speaker 3: it is good.
Speaker 2: Before we leave that, I'll like to do a little
Speaker 2: bit closing comments. Maybe something from your life that's happened,
Speaker 2: that's you know, going on, and I'm happy to start
Speaker 2: this off. I'll let you have a bit of a think.
Speaker 2: I like to do something right. You look after yourself right.
Speaker 2: We talk about like what it be, mental health, we
Speaker 2: talk about physical health, all these kind of things. Recently,
Speaker 2: I had a piece cut out of me actually, and
Speaker 2: it was one of those things you'd go to the
Speaker 2: dermatologist and get it cut out of you. And that
Speaker 2: was one of those wake up calls in life. I
Speaker 2: think about how important it is, especially going into summer.
Speaker 2: Obviously we're going out of it, but like slipstop slap,
Speaker 2: as Australians would say, how important sunscreen is important to
Speaker 2: be able to do that and look after your body.
Speaker 2: You only have one of them. It was a bit
Speaker 2: of a I guess, a bit of a humbling moment
Speaker 2: to be like, oh, no, matter what happens with it.
Speaker 2: And I haven't got the results back or anything on
Speaker 2: those lines, but it is a gentle reminder of how
Speaker 2: important sunscreen is whenever you go outside. So that's my
Speaker 2: little closing comment. If you've got kids, yourself, parents, where
Speaker 2: it is slipsop slap, boys and girls and gentlemen and
Speaker 2: ladies out there and everyone else, and yeah, look after yourself.
Speaker 2: You only get one body to live with, so make
Speaker 2: the most of it.
Speaker 3: And it's bloody hot out there, so hot.
Speaker 2: Forty degrees the other day I didn't experience. I was
Speaker 2: in Sydney, but terrible.
Speaker 3: They slid back the summer. They slid it back. I
Speaker 3: don't know who they are, but they slid it back.
Speaker 3: That's a good point, Mace. I will say, summer hot. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'd be investing stocks into Messina ice creams, Messina caramel
Speaker 3: white chalk at Messina. And then I change up my
Speaker 3: second flavor, because I get a two scoop cup. Then
Speaker 3: I get like a milk chok fudge. Yeah, peanut fudge.
Speaker 1: Thing, peanut butter chock fudge. Not that I would.
Speaker 3: Now I've knocks my socks off, and you hit it
Speaker 3: with the double combo. You get the grilled across the
Speaker 3: road and then you get the messina and you laugh. Yes,
Speaker 3: that's it. That's all I'm doing for too. I'm going
Speaker 3: to eat that tonight.
Speaker 1: Hit the calippos.
Speaker 3: It gets tonight again, say it like it's a rare thing.
Speaker 3: I ate that every other night.
Speaker 2: Well, there you got a ladies and gentlemen. That's a
Speaker 2: two nuggets you didn't expect out of the podcast.
Speaker 1: That we're gonna end was profound, Mom was somewhat profound.
Speaker 2: Yours just a I love a dirty burger es suially
Speaker 2: as what you said, and ice cream to top it all.
Speaker 3: It's the sweet chili chicken on traditional. You get the
Speaker 3: sweet potato fries. For one.
Speaker 2: They're not paying the podcast. Let's move on night, but everyone,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for listening in. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you got some enjoyment from that one Part one
Speaker 2: and part two. Appreciate you being part of the community,
Speaker 2: listening in and everything else that comes with it.
Speaker 1: For the socials, as.
Speaker 2: We always say, we always appreciate the love on there
Speaker 2: and a massive massive thank you for everyone for tuning
Speaker 2: in and I hope you have an incredible week ahead.
Speaker 1: Peace,