WEBVTT - Lightning Stikes 🌩️ Water Bottles 🙅 Razor's Goodbye 👋 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:08.719 Hey, legends, welcome back to The Mason Cox Show. Big 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.440 episode today, Freo fans, we feel for you. A tough 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.640 way to end the season at Carlton. Congratulations. I guess 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:16.479 I'm not really too sure. We're going to talk about 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:18.880 that water bottle that was thrown against the Onpire. Seriously, 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.040 what is going on there. We're going to break that down. Lastly, 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:26.480 some retirees. Razor Ray the legend himself finishes up Dusty Martin, 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:28.400 one of the goats of the game. He's done. Also, 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:30.760 we're gonna break that down much much more so. Settle 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:38.880 in because we're starting now. All right, Legends, let's get 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.839 straight into this. There's a big, big episode coming out. 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:43.720 Without further ado, Welcome Breton car. 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:46.720 Get a ice speak. Coming to the end of the year. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.800 Sad times, but yeah I did. There was a bit 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.720 of a roller coaster on Sunday because the games were 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.800 all important. The other the other couple of days they 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.360 would just big blowouts to the finals teams. But I'm 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.240 giving my cl this week. I'm jumping straight into it 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.040 because I'm giving it. I'm giving it to the Free 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:10.480 Men football because what the hell Saint Kilda come out 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:12.959 and did exactly what they had to do, which was 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.160 no easy feit that the run over the top of Carlton, 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.600 and they did it in the dying seconds with Jack 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:23.119 Higgins snapping it across his body. Big celebrations scenes all 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.240 the Carlton fans. I kept showing them crying in the 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.080 in the stands, heads down. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:30.720 The finals were done. 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.240 It was like a twenty twenty two flashback where you 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.160 broke their hearts and all over again. They were having 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.600 all those traumatic experiences because alls that had to happen 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.319 for Carlton to get knocked out of the finals was 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.680 we go over to Perth and we watched Freo win 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.120 a home game against Port. Now we know Port's good. 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.440 We get around ken Hinckley. They're now second on the 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:57.560 ladder after the win. But come on, it was you know, 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:02.960 literally season on the line. Your whole year you've done. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.080 You started back before Christmas, all the hard sessions, you 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.440 go away, you come back, you do all more hard 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.720 sessions in the sun, the heat, Perth heat forty five 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:14.600 degree days, extras. 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:16.360 You're doing your two k time trials. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:21.040 You're skinnies, you're missing family and friends and sacrificing weekends. 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.320 No drinking, you're eating right, you're doing it all and 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.480 then you come up and you dish up that putridge. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:29.519 That was that football game. 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:30.040 You know. 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:34.960 I sent producer Harrow on the decks. I sent them 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:38.800 a message saying Rotchies reserves. They would have rocked up 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:40.920 and they at least would have had some ticker mace 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.560 because what they put out there. And I can look 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:47.040 down here and every Fremantle fan on the planet Earth 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.400 would be agreeing right now, nodding at the screen with 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.800 their headphones in because. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.240 That was putrid. Like one, pick up the ball. 0:02:55.960 --> 0:03:00.640 Two you've got that many forwards in your team list 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.880 of Fords. Yeah, you got big Dick Tracy. He's out 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.160 at the moment and he's an important pillar, But you 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.359 got that many Fords. Collingwood would kill to have one 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.600 of those blokes up there, but come on, they got 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:11.679 forty of them up there. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.480 Hit one of them, just hit one of them. Hit 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:14.880 a lead. 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.720 Move the ball quick so you can get some action 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:21.240 going because they just took so long and port was 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.880 just you know, meandering back into D fifty, clog out 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.600 of it and then they rebound out of there. Sarong 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.960 got tagged out of the game, first game in forty 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.120 years that he hasn't had over twenty disposals, probably not 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:38.240 the game for it. Uh. And the moment that Hayden 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.360 Young came off with his corked calf or whatever the 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.160 hell he had, it was done. It was game over. 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:48.000 And they just did so many stupid things, little fifty 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.240 metal penalties and like, so. 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.880 It's safe to say Fremantle Film of the Bag rather 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:57.920 than Port Adelaide won that game. They're having an absolute crack. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:03:59.560 Very evident thing. 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.320 And this is like disgusting for me to say. I 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.920 can't say this because I don't play footy at any 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.960 level and it's terrible. But looking at the two midfields, yeah, 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.600 you look at Port and you go, there's some savage 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.119 blokes that just want to win games of footy out there. 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:16.720 They got butters, they got. 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.719 Horny frank Like, they get in there, they rip the 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.200 ball out and they charge their team forward and it 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.880 just Freo didn't have that, which was very disappointing. 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:27.680 But that's it. 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:31.760 They're done, and I'm gonna this is probably a bit 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:35.440 for later, but they also cost themselves a draft pick slut. 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.160 We'll talk about later. We'll get into that letter. I 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.680 feel like you're still very hot. You've you've come off 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.520 the top with absolute steam coming out of your ears. 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.880 Hot because we give it a bit of energy that 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:47.479 it deserves. 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.839 And I'm just angry on behalf of the Frio fans 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:53.600 because that was past tackle. You know, you know they 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.960 put up the little they put up the Fox Footy 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:56.720 precious stats. 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:58.600 I don't know what that is, but they were in 0:04:58.680 --> 0:04:59.359 the poor. 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.760 Calculator is excellent one end and then there's free down 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.600 the other end in the poll on the red. So 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.800 you know, you think if the whole season's on the line, 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:09.520 you probably want. 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:10.200 To be up in the green. 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.880 Yeah, it makes sense anyway. Wow, Well, I'm going to 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.680 continue the grilling and my clanger of the week. Obviously 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.000 there's a bit of media you could say around this now. 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.400 In the Carlton versus Saint Kill the game, there was 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.800 a bit of a disgusting act as you could say, 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.960 that was done. A water bottle that was thrown at 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:33.560 a goal umpire, just absolutely ridiculous, weak, just weakest pissed, 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.880 you could say. Then they're going through the details now 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:38.520 trying to find the person on cameras and stuff that 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:40.080 did it. And try to ban them or whatever. The 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.120 you know, the retro band's going to be for that. 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.000 But that's just it's terrible as that from the beginning. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.200 But that's just like, that's just like you're a terrible 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.160 human to be doing that stuff. Like these people are 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.240 not getting paid the big money to be there. They 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.359 absolutely love football. They take all the criticism everything on board. 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.480 And you're going to do that to someone Like if 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.039 it was a player, it be just as bad, don't 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:02.400 get me wrong, but I'd feel like there'd be a 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.200 lot more uproar around it. Yeah, but because it's an 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:06.760 ompire's as much. But it I mean, the guy was 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:08.640 bleeding on the back of his head. They had to 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.720 take him off and put them essentially put them on 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.599 ice for the rest of the game. And for something 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.200 that is so controllable, like you would think even the 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:19.400 people around him after they him or her whoever did it, 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.039 would be sitting there going, mate, what are you doing? Yeah, 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.120 and they'd be pointing them out, saying, get that fella 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.240 or girl out of this joint. That's not acceptable. And 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:29.919 you hold people to a higher standard, you really do. 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:31.599 And I just think that was something over the weekend 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.200 you saw and just said, man, that is just that's 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.000 not what being a footy fans about. 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.400 We've talked about players overstepping the mark at times this 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.559 year when you know you might boo, but it brings 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.560 out the passion in you, and there's definitely a line 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.880 that you can cross, and I think throwing a bottle 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.920 at someone like you should be able to go anywhere 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:52.960 without being assaulted, but you should be able to go 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.760 to your workplace do your job without fear of being 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:00.480 assaulted by someone, especially with well, it's a weapon, it's 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.440 a projectile. So hopefully they tuck him down and there's 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:05.040 no way that they're not tracking down this. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.640 Person therest believe there are that many cameras and more. Boy, 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:09.880 if they haven't caught the person yet, I'm blown away. 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.800 You've got tickets of who's in what seats, you can 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:14.960 easily email them back. You know, everyone's got their email 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:16.800 attached to it. You've got all the camera angles, you've 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.280 got the people sitting around them, Like, I'm amazed they 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.680 haven't had the person ousted yet. It's incredible. 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.880 They'll have face scanning technology, they'll be they'll get them 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.120 and it wouldn't surprise me if it's one of those 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.040 self report things where in the light of day you 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.160 come out and you go, I've made a big mistake. 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:33.400 What do you do band for life? 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.600 Yeah, you probably have to because life for sure. Yeah, 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.360 you can't like you can back someone in. Obviously everyone 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.480 gets a chance to be rehabilitated, but you probably lost 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.440 your privilege to be able to go and enjoy the 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.880 sport that other people are just there trying to enjoy. 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.240 We all do love the passion and is what makes 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:54.720 the sport what it is. 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:56.400 But you can't cross the line. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.480 So that's just beyond stepping over over the line. Yeah, 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:01.920 just want to that's my Clanier of the week because 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.400 it's unacceptable if I'm being honest with you. And yeah, 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.240 I understand umpires. You can get passionate about calls they're 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.600 making things like that, but there's definitely a line there 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.440 of letting them be able to go to their job 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.440 do their job without being assaulted by people in the 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.320 crowd like those absurd to think that actually happened. So 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:20.280 cleaniar to you. But let's get to the results now, 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:21.280 let's get into the next stuff. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.840 Ridiculous and we like the results this week because off 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:27.520 the top Melbourne they went down to the mighty Magpies 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.520 fifty seven and one oh three. That's a big win 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.439 to finish off the season for Collingwood. Hawthorne footy club. 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.040 Oh my god. Now I saw a couple of players 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.719 out there from the Hawthorn team getting stuck into the 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.080 North team. And it's pretty easy when you can say 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:42.880 we were tipped to be down the bottom with yours 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:43.880 and look where we. 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.160 Are seventy points. 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.600 You got to be as a North fan where you know, 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.640 we're very conscious about sticking the boots in. 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:51.200 We'll get that. 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.760 We'll get into that later. Geelong got the job done 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.040 over West Coast. They're happy to knockoff. I reckon for 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.160 the year. It would be very annoying to fly all 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.520 the way over here, all the way down to Geelong, 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.240 then all the way back. So I feel a bit 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.880 sorry for the West Coast Eagles players. So have a 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.839 good break, recharge, go again, Richmond, knockoff you're done to 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.520 big retirees. At the end of that, we saw a dusty, 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.040 teary eyed Dustin Martin coming from the field. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.720 Which is grimes different to see. 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.160 I loved seeing that a bit of the human side 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.680 come out and a bit of vulnerability as he walked 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:24.680 off the mcg. 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.000 Scorecast, Like you know, obviously demos over there coaching and stuff. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.880 There would have been people within that program that he 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.840 was connected with through his time at Richmond, so I 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.199 think emotional for him leaving Richmond, but also having those 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.079 kind of people like that were at the game that 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.120 he was competing the team was competing against, still be 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.240 involved as would have been a lot and. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.439 We saw another goodbye. Dyson Hepple got to say his 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.320 goodbye to all the loyal Brisbane Lions fans at the Gabba. 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:49.920 That was good to see. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.319 Got chaired off eighty seven points to sixty seven. 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.400 Real stinker. By the looks of the scoreboard. 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:00.760 Brisbane could have absolutely dominated, but just decided to kick goals. 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:03.880 They just wanted to do it one point at a time, 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.959 which was great for all the spectators. Sydney v Adelaide, 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:12.440 Sydney getting the points there, you know Adelaide so so yeah, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.280 very dangerous at times. 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.160 Had a few upsets Adelaide. They upset a few people 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:16.920 along the way. 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:18.640 And then a couple of stinkers along the way. So 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:24.200 Western Bulldogs GWS starting off the Super Sunday and that 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.839 was a wild game out of Ballarat windsor plenty. Western 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.360 Bulldogs got the job done, which locked them into finals 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.319 because we probably didn't you know, talk about that enough 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:34.920 that if they had lost that game, they were a 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.640 chance to miss the whole thing. So pretty well, but 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.440 they got the job done over GWS Carlton. 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.560 Wow, Wow, Wow, we we're going to dive into. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:51.000 Events losing to Saint Kilda. I don't know how you 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.280 feel about making finals after a loss. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.800 Yeah, but it was a real deprestating and exciting day. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.800 Or there's a lot of emotions on Sunday as a 0:10:57.840 --> 0:10:59.040 Carlton fan. If you're out. 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:06.720 And then free, oh my god, that's the worst. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.520 Anyway, let's jump straight into the big talking points, because 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.280 I do want to just we need to go back, 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.800 We need to acknowledge this, We need to do a 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.280 mini reflect on it, because it wasn't us to be fair. 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.600 There's a lot of people in the media, probably too 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.520 many people, and a lot of them don't know what 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:25.400 to say, so they just throw ship. Now this is coding. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.000 Educated podcasters obviously would never do such a thing. Brandon. 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:30.880 See, well, if you're going to sling ship like I 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:32.880 sling shit at FREEO at the start of the podcast. 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.360 Do it in the last game so they can't come 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.040 out next week and win and make you look like 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:38.360 an idiot exactly. 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:38.960 So they're done timing. 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.800 I've got I've got six months of being right, So 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.520 that's how you do it. 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:45.600 Improve me wrong. 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.720 That's got to really anyway, everyone came out after three 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:54.120 coaches in particular, we got Chris Fagan, Kenny Hinckley and 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:58.000 we got bever Luke Beveridge. They were mid season, they 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:01.360 were all sacked. Everyone sacked him. You can't go on 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.800 after that last You can't go on after that last. Well, 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.760 it turns out every team sucked this year. They all 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.120 had patches. Even Sydney Swans that were so far ahead 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.400 had a terrible patch, a horrific patch. So that's whirred 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:15.160 those three coaches. 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:19.080 They're in finals, aren't they. 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:24.360 With a chance home final? But they sacked him midyear. 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.000 His fans were booing him off the field. They had 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.920 the sign as you entered Adelaide. I don't even know 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:34.600 if that was this year, because they want to sack 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:40.160 him every year. Talk about character building, resilience. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.439 Resilience, yes, resilience under pressure. Ken Henkley is your man. 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.440 Write a book, So write an absolute book. Do some talks, 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.400 because you could you hitimize it. 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.960 He could go on and he could be the CEO 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:56.520 of a Forbes Top one hundred whatever company on the 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:57.160 planet Earth. 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:00.559 He deals with pressure that well, it's sane. 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.440 Anyway, we were always going to give our Ken Henley 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:04.120 love every. 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.840 Week he's he's up the tippy top because then you 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:13.600 have Bevo and Fags who you know, Fags Brisbane started 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.920 slow rolled back into it. They're still probably one of 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.640 the more informed teams in the camp. Start with the 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.360 big home final up there against Carlton and then Bev 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.880 well we know that, we know that he likes to 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.280 finish and have a run at the flag from the 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.680 bottom four of the eighth. It's just where he's comfortable 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.200 doing it from. Who needs the double chance when you 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.760 can just you know, defy the odds. So he's back 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.120 in finals as well, he's taken him to a couple, 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:39.280 he's won them a flag. 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:41.880 Everyone needs to just chill with. 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.920 Just we give some space where we need a little 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:49.320 next year. The media like everyone I say, we but 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.840 are we we sit down, We reflect we don't go 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:53.760 as hard week. 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.280 To week because give it a feedback to the media, brod. 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:57.760 We have looked stupid at times. 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.679 Old of course not you were that you were overly 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:03.720 steadfast on Gold Coast. 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.040 Put your hand up for that one. That's that's on you. 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:11.280 But gws, I'm still here and I must be just 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:12.240 correct all the time. 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.040 Anyway, question you halfway through that you had a little 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:15.600 spot there. 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.400 You're going, oh much off the bad one. There's one 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.120 game off. I was one game off. 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:21.520 It's about four weeks. I'd say. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.080 Now we go into the North Melbourne situation, because this 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.560 is the whole you've missed them. Stats were kicking them 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.320 while they're down. To kick them while they're down, they've 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.000 got to be down, but they're never up. North is 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:34.720 never up, so we can't kick them. Why they're up. 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.320 They've been down for five seasons in a row. Now, 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.160 if you're a North fan, are you putting up with this? 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.680 MAT's twenty twenty three wins, twenty twenty one four wins, 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:44.800 so they're on the way up. Building twenty twenty two 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.880 two wins. That's half as many wins twenty twenty three 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:52.840 to three wins. Twenty twenty four three wins, so they 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.280 actually went backwards in percentage this year. So they got 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.440 beaten worse more often this year than last. 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.680 So that's you say that. But then I think like 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.840 in the beginning of the year, North like we were like, oh, dude, 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.640 North is putting up some numbers, like putting teams to 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.160 the sword because it used to be like two three 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:12.920 years ago. North was like, I mean, you look at 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.200 their scores and stuff. It was probably like a sixty 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:19.560 seventy point win from other teams like on average, and yeah, 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.160 I know over the weekend they got smashed. But like 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.440 at the beginning of the year, there's been a hope 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:25.120 for North, there was a bit of hope. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.760 That's a lot of leeway you're giving to a club. 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.120 I did write it out that it was if you 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:34.280 combine all the points they got from all their wins 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.920 over the last five years, so you take their last 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:38.680 five years, you canbine all the wins. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:43.000 They would have finished fifth this year on percentage. 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:44.880 Fifteen wins, you would be fifth. 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:49.240 Fifth with five years years over the winds, you can 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.240 buy them all up, and they missed the top four 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:52.040 on percentage. 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:53.400 Yeez, that's rough. 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:56.440 How do you sit there as a fan and you 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.280 just someone did something horrific? 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:03.320 Still fan that? Sorry? Yeah, North Melbourne fan. Credit to you. 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.520 Credit to you for sticking with them. You know it's 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.320 not easy. I'm sure it's tough over the last few years. 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.680 Every team has to go through this, right, but yeah, 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:13.640 just credit to you. 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:15.920 I mean, I know it's a disappointing point because everyone 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.160 says every team goes through it, but then you can 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.720 clearly identify a few teams that don't go through it, 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.240 like Sydney and Geelong, and you're like, they don't go 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.320 through it. But yeah, I get it because we've all 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.360 been there where it's like you've had a shitty week 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:30.880 at work and you just want to go home and 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:32.240 watch your team be good at foot. 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.880 You want to have some kind of hope, and all. 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.920 Through twenty twenty, all through the pandemic and then coming 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.880 out and still no good. But we can see the list, 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.000 the list should be getting better. So maybe it's a 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.880 mentals thing. Have a bit of a maybe a Bali 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:51.240 retreat by something over the off season and sparks some 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.040 I don't know, some juice coming kind of helps. 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.280 Anyway, We'll move to the next thing. We've got, the 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.320 wild card round. There's been a lot of converse sation 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.360 around whether or not this should be something they implement 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:06.040 next year or further years. I mean, next year's probably 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.800 a bit soon, but there's a lot of people saying 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:10.120 it's a possibility. Now. 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:11.120 Don't tune out. 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.400 If you're listening to the podcast now and you've heard 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:17.200 every shock jock talk about this shitty topic, don't tune out, 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:22.280 don't switch podcast, stay with us, because we're gonna It's 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:26.159 just the counterpoint for me that everyone talks about it 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:30.439 promotes mediocrity. You know, the seasons made up of X 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.159 amount of games, and you've got to win those. 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:33.080 First of all. 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:37.760 You obviously have the counterpoints of when it was back 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.840 in the day early nineties, there wasn't as many finals, 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.520 like there wasn't as many finalists. They expanded, more teams, 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:49.000 more finals. They've expanded a couple times now once Tazzy 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:54.399 comes in, more teams, more finals would make the most sense, 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.240 or at least a chance to have more teams in there, 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:02.120 because if you're at the afl AFL house, you want 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:06.600 fans to have glimmers of hope, like you want your team, 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.600 even if they're finishing in the lower end of the 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.400 of the top eight or whatever, top ten, you want 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.880 them to experience finals. And if you're looking at North 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.560 and you're go on fight, you've gone years and years 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:22.680 without finals. One, why would anyone want a barrack for North? 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.800 How do they get new well or any team? But 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.239 how do they how do they get new followers? How 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.280 do they get new fans? If you've got to if 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.120 you have a kid and you're like, na, trust me North, 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:33.120 it's a great team. 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.200 Like how do you support? They have no choice? 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.199 You've got to be a great marketer to get your 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.399 kid to come across the North Melbourne. But like things 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.080 like that. But yeah, I just feel like one the 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.399 fixture isn't even in the first place. Now obviously, I 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.240