Speaker 1: Hey, legends, welcome back to the Mason Cock Show. Plenty
Speaker 1: going on this week, the Adelaide Game thriller and the
Speaker 1: Goggle Snatcher. Yes, we talk about that. We've got the
Speaker 1: Swans and Gold Coast big wins over the weekend, Adam
Speaker 1: Simpson's feel a little bit of pressure, and we've got
Speaker 1: Gary rowan determinator. Yes, we'll go and tell a little
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Speaker 1: Without further ado, we'll get into the podcast starting now.
Speaker 1: All right, without further ado, let's get into it. Welcome Brighton,
Speaker 1: get a miss.
Speaker 2: You'll never guess what I was doing over the weekend. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: I spent most of the weekend in a New South
Speaker 2: Wales police station giving evidence. What Yeah, I was saving
Speaker 2: this for the podcast unfortunately. Sorry. Yeah, I was one
Speaker 2: of the witnesses to a murder over the weekend of
Speaker 2: Sydney against West Coast at the SCG Oh my god.
Speaker 2: They were crushed harder than the Titan mace. It was.
Speaker 2: It was I felt bad watching it, but it was
Speaker 2: like one of those car crashes that you couldn't look
Speaker 2: away anyway, I digress. Let's get into the clanger of
Speaker 2: the week. I had to go on there for a bit,
Speaker 2: didn't that You had?
Speaker 1: You reeled me in, you reeled me and it was
Speaker 1: such a murder scene that they had to push back
Speaker 1: the Freemantle lesson game by about five or times.
Speaker 2: It was rough Mace, But we'll get into it. Let's
Speaker 2: jump into the clanger of the week and this one.
Speaker 2: I don't know, there's some I got a tiptoe a
Speaker 2: bit around this because it's a bit sensitive. But Gary Rowan,
Speaker 2: now I know he didn't do it on purpose, but
Speaker 2: he's had a rough couple of weeks. So one he
Speaker 2: takes out Paddy Dangerfield coming back for his first game,
Speaker 2: punctured lung, broken ribs, got to drive back from Adelaide. Rough, right,
Speaker 2: Jeremy Cameron, We're not going to do jess to watch
Speaker 2: this week. Numbers were a little low. Moore prayers up
Speaker 2: this week if they were on opposite teams. This is
Speaker 2: cut and dry. Six weeks six weeks. Well, he runs
Speaker 2: Alexa bump if we were looking at it from like
Speaker 2: an MRO tribunal type of thing, turns his body, drops
Speaker 2: his shoulder, jumps off the ground, hits him right in
Speaker 2: the head out like a light goes to hospital. You know,
Speaker 2: they're all the the scary scenes, hallmarks of a lot
Speaker 2: of weeks on the sidelines. Unfortunately, like it seems rattled
Speaker 2: gas a little bit. According to his coach Chris Scott.
Speaker 1: Does would knocking out a teammate and seen him on
Speaker 1: the ground like that, take a little bit of a
Speaker 1: mental tour on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, it was pretty gruesome, and he kind
Speaker 2: of stayed with him until the stretcher came out. He
Speaker 2: went on from that moment, and credit to him to
Speaker 2: have an amazing game, like a really amazing game, probably
Speaker 2: one of the best on, if not the best on
Speaker 2: kicked a few goals, was good, getting out the back,
Speaker 2: used his speed. Now, if he could just tweak his
Speaker 2: game to stop killing teammates, he's like, oh, they you know,
Speaker 2: straight to the moon, So maybe hold back. Not a
Speaker 2: clanger in the way that it's like we normally give clangers,
Speaker 2: like you're an idiot, you're stuffed up. This is more
Speaker 2: like unfortunate set of circumstances.
Speaker 1: He goes hard at the ball and I respect that,
Speaker 1: and sometimes there's going to be a collateral damage in
Speaker 1: the fire line, and that's just unfortunately been back to
Speaker 1: back weeks four.
Speaker 2: Hey, we talked about your teammate and captain Heroic Captain
Speaker 2: Darcy Moore may may flail a bit flails a bit.
Speaker 1: Him and Nathan Murphy, they are one oh one. They
Speaker 1: are the people if you're get injured from someone, those
Speaker 1: are the two you're looking at.
Speaker 2: So there's there's just some blokes out there that you know,
Speaker 2: cause teammate on teammate injuries. Just reel it back in.
Speaker 1: You can do that, mate, Your gold guys keep doing anything, mate,
Speaker 1: it's just unfortunate for two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Keep doing his thing.
Speaker 1: We move on, Brandon, we move on. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: to my cleaner in the week and not footy related whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Now this really got me. We're going back to cricket
Speaker 2: because your cricket got Everyone was up in arms about
Speaker 2: you defending Ollie Robinson, the English player. Well it didn't
Speaker 2: work out for him, did it. Tuck Smack, who get
Speaker 2: the win? Mate?
Speaker 1: Tuck Smack got silenced and they got the loss. But
Speaker 1: my cleaner of the week is gonna go to It's
Speaker 1: a bit of a duel here the AMEX and ticket
Speaker 1: Tech website.
Speaker 2: Why may you ask Taylor Swift tickets. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: get them. I'm trying to get into the queue.
Speaker 1: I think there's four times as many people trying to
Speaker 1: get tickets as there are out there, and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to be first and best dressed. Unfortunately couldn't do it
Speaker 1: because the website didn't f and work. So I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here for hours on end on my day off, going
Speaker 1: t Swift. It's gonna happen, following us to your life,
Speaker 1: big mcg It's gonna be a hell of a night. Nope,
Speaker 1: they gotta f up the stupid website and now we're
Speaker 1: all missing out because you can't figure shit out. As
Speaker 1: if it wasn't gonna be blowing out? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: It's Taylor fucking Swift.
Speaker 2: This stuff seems to happen often with these ticket websites,
Speaker 2: Like maybe investibit of your money back into your website.
Speaker 1: You gotta realize there's going to be at least a
Speaker 1: million people coming on your website that day, at least.
Speaker 2: To be fair, Amex probably doesn't have a lot of
Speaker 2: money to spare on their website upgrade servers and stuff,
Speaker 2: skimp out on it, so it's a bit rough. Amex,
Speaker 2: if you want to come on as a sponsor, will.
Speaker 1: Help you build your brand back up from this telscope.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the PR disaster that is the Taylor Swift. That
Speaker 2: will help with the rebrand. Taylor Swift, I didn't know
Speaker 2: that you're a swifty, huge swifty. What's your what's your favorite?
Speaker 2: If you're in the car and you've got to put
Speaker 2: on three songs back to back to back.
Speaker 1: I want to go to the Red album. But my
Speaker 1: favorite song is Karma.
Speaker 2: I do like that one.
Speaker 1: It's good, a real good.
Speaker 2: I feel like, don't come at me Swifties. They come
Speaker 2: at you, they catch hard. But a lot of her
Speaker 2: songs are kind of like in the same mold, and
Speaker 2: it's that she does well to get it into your head,
Speaker 2: but a lot of similarities. It great.
Speaker 1: I'm going to cut you there before we get canceled.
Speaker 1: We're going to move on to the footy. Who got
Speaker 1: long versus Melbourne now Geelong gm HbA. The better the fortress.
Speaker 1: You best believe they held strong and got the w
Speaker 1: over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Lucky we got that Collingwood game later in the in
Speaker 2: the weekend, because I feel like with these by periods
Speaker 2: where we only get the one maybe two good games
Speaker 2: for the weekend, and I thought this was like our
Speaker 2: one and done, this Geelong Melbourne game, so lucky. The
Speaker 2: Collingwood game came along unfortunately. Yeah, Jazz knocked out cold.
Speaker 2: He posted a little update on his farm starting to bonfire.
Speaker 2: He's got a new cruise around jeep that he bush
Speaker 2: bashes around the farm on, so he's back up and
Speaker 2: you know, getting about. So that's we love to see that.
Speaker 2: I'd love to see Jazz. We'll park the Jazz watch
Speaker 2: for until he's going to be out next week obviously,
Speaker 2: but he'll like, yeah, he'll I'm no doubt he'll be back.
Speaker 2: He's got he's got some competition for the Coleman which
Speaker 2: we'll get into soon. But how did you see this
Speaker 2: match panning out? Because it's quite close. It was close
Speaker 2: to the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I think it was the last what ten minutes there
Speaker 1: is five goals by Geelong. They kind of took over
Speaker 1: the game and really took out there. Yeah, and like
Speaker 1: I said before, I think this gm HbA thing, like
Speaker 1: they play their grounds so well and it's a very
Speaker 1: very tough ask, a lot skinnier ground than the MCG
Speaker 1: and they've got a good game plan for how to
Speaker 1: get w's down there and done in Geelong. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a great time. I mean, you have Jesse go down.
Speaker 1: You have Paddy Dansfield's out. You know, you have some big,
Speaker 1: you know, experienced key players that have not been playing
Speaker 1: at the time. And Joel No, Joel obviously retired so
Speaker 1: that you know, that's tough to be playing while you
Speaker 1: were retired, Brod and so no, it was it was
Speaker 1: a good win for probably a team that didn't have
Speaker 1: the most experienced players playing. And that's good science for
Speaker 1: Gelong in the future. And we're going to go into
Speaker 1: who's going to make my top eight and I reckon
Speaker 1: Geelong they're making the cut.
Speaker 2: So with all those guys out, I reckon their average
Speaker 2: age would have been right down to maybe like even
Speaker 2: thirty one or thirty two. We had Tommy Stewart. Now
Speaker 2: he got in a little bit of strife, which I
Speaker 2: thought was a bit over the top. Now, I don't know.
Speaker 2: The media and the fans don't like to overreact to much.
Speaker 2: They just call it as they see it, and it's
Speaker 2: straight down the line. We had Jack Viney looked like
Speaker 2: he hurt his shoulder or his collar bone and he
Speaker 2: was down, but it was in a contest with Tom Stewart,
Speaker 2: and then Tom Stewart pushes him down to the ground.
Speaker 2: My own personal opinion, I don't think that he knew
Speaker 2: that he was hurt.
Speaker 1: Nah, I don't think so either.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what everyone was getting on him to be like, oh,
Speaker 2: you're pushing an injured player, mate, Like.
Speaker 1: What happens in the moment. It's tough to determine an
Speaker 1: i'd serious injury, all that kind of stuff. Man, it's
Speaker 1: a move on. It's a move on.
Speaker 2: We give him the move on and the GMHBA. This
Speaker 2: is what I wanted to ask you. How like Fortress, Yes,
Speaker 2: but I don't like watching games from there because half
Speaker 2: the stadium's not Billy. It does look a bit ship,
Speaker 2: but it has to for them to be able to
Speaker 2: make it look better. Yeah, well, maybe park it and
Speaker 2: take her up the road. They got this little stadium
Speaker 2: up in the Melbourne town called the mcgah. You could
Speaker 2: just play there or whenever you want. I thought Geelong
Speaker 2: Melbourne at the mcg would have been a river. It
Speaker 2: would have.
Speaker 1: But the thing is, that's not home ground advantage. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a different ground size everything else. And I said,
Speaker 1: they play there, but it is it doesn't look great
Speaker 1: if you get a certain camera angle and behind the goals.
Speaker 1: It just looks like a bit of an emptiness that
Speaker 1: should be filled and it will get there, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, but like all these construction things in Australia,
Speaker 1: they take a little bit longer than probably expected. They
Speaker 1: have renovated I think the locker room and a few
Speaker 1: things over there, and that is just first class staff there.
Speaker 1: You know, you've got the Sydney Swan's just redone theirs.
Speaker 1: Geelong has redone theirs recently. Like there's some you know
Speaker 1: they're finally getting into. I feel like that professional, you know,
Speaker 1: capabilities with your facilities to do some amazing things, and
Speaker 1: they're the standards are lifting year by year. Whenever club's
Speaker 1: like this, you know, redo theirs and make it better,
Speaker 1: and then the next hub's going we're going to beat them,
Speaker 1: and then the next lub is we're going to beat them.
Speaker 1: And it's it's looking like a Schmick place down there.
Speaker 1: They just need to fill the gap, you know, fill
Speaker 1: the gap, put up.
Speaker 2: Some tops or something. But I feel like the guy
Speaker 2: they always cut to, the bloke that's been asked to
Speaker 2: stay back, the construction worker. I don't even know if
Speaker 2: he's construction worker. He might just be a geelong fan
Speaker 2: with mates that work on the construction. It's like my
Speaker 2: best job ever throw the ball back. You'd be getting
Speaker 2: some good coin for that. I reckon, you know.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you a funny story. Back in college, my
Speaker 1: brother did this for answiss with me. But like they
Speaker 1: were renovating the football stadium. And I'm not saying anyone
Speaker 1: should do this, have to put that out there for
Speaker 1: legal reasons, do not do this, but I'll tell you
Speaker 1: a story. Yeah, they're really doing the football stadium. This
Speaker 1: is like hollow ground at college right at university and
Speaker 1: there's only like a few, you know, fences you might
Speaker 1: have to happen stance and get through right to jump over.
Speaker 1: And they jumped over two or three and they played
Speaker 1: like a flag football game in the middle of the
Speaker 1: stadium and no one even knew And it was like
Speaker 1: middle of the night and they played a flag football
Speaker 1: game with like I think it was like a light
Speaker 1: up football or something like that. And he said it
Speaker 1: was like an epic scenario and then they bounce and
Speaker 1: it was like no one ever knew what happened. So
Speaker 1: not saying like hypothetically you could do that at GM HbA,
Speaker 1: but if it was an opportunity and you weren't gonna
Speaker 1: get in trouble, I think it would be a great experience.
Speaker 2: Move on, mate, because we've got someone post game huge.
Speaker 2: They wanted to join the Goggle Gang. Try Reece Stanley.
Speaker 2: He said that he was having some eye issues, as
Speaker 2: we all do, and he tried the Mason Cox goggles.
Speaker 2: He quoted Mason Cox goggles branded by your Australia. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you've got to get some. You got to get stuck
Speaker 2: in some cheddar for that. But it started to make
Speaker 2: me think of like, these guys are going to be
Speaker 2: wanting to get into the Goggle Gang now. Obviously Brodie
Speaker 2: Grundy wears contacts because he couldn't see people's faces. Who
Speaker 2: were we talking about? There was someone last week players
Speaker 2: for Richmond that had no bolt. No a bolter can't see.
Speaker 2: It's like, so there's a lot of blokes out there
Speaker 2: that can't see a lot. You know.
Speaker 1: I think a few of them heard about the initiation
Speaker 1: to the Goggle Gang and they're a bit as you
Speaker 1: would be. You're a bit nervous. It's inxtensive, it's very extensive.
Speaker 2: We're gonna I feel like we're going to have to
Speaker 2: make public the key criteria to join the gang, and
Speaker 2: we'll put it out there obviously number one at the
Speaker 2: top of the list. You guys have to be fucked
Speaker 2: gotta have fuck eyes.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 2: So, I don't know, twenty twenty vision. Maybe we can
Speaker 2: do the AFL's best twenty two blind players.
Speaker 1: Gosh, I like this.
Speaker 2: There's got to be a coach out there that needs classes.
Speaker 1: There's plenty of them. There's plenty of them.
Speaker 2: There plenty of it.
Speaker 1: Let's move in to the next one, saying Kilda versus Brisbane.
Speaker 1: This is Spud's Game, the Game for mental Health. Great
Speaker 1: great initiative they're doing over there, and they had the
Speaker 1: you know, the game within the game of some of
Speaker 1: the celebrities that came.
Speaker 2: Down and played.
Speaker 1: And pretty awesome to see these kind of I guess
Speaker 1: initiatives happen throughout footy. We talk about freezing in d round,
Speaker 1: you know, we talk about the Rewalt Vision Round, we
Speaker 1: talk about this now. It's it's incredible to see kind
Speaker 1: of the you know, impact you can have by creating
Speaker 1: these things through initiatives and raise some you know, very
Speaker 1: important money for a great cost.
Speaker 2: And they do it so well. Every year come out
Speaker 2: form the circle cool in the middle of the ground
Speaker 2: and have some speeches and relate it back to Spud
Speaker 2: and it's great. But it's the difference that this will
Speaker 2: make even if you Everyone always says it, but even
Speaker 2: if you touch one life, it's a massive outcome, but
Speaker 2: it'll make a massive difference.
Speaker 1: I tell you one of my favorite Spud stories. Right,
Speaker 1: So I'm going on Fox Footy and Spud's there and
Speaker 1: we're doing some kind of promo thing before I go
Speaker 1: on to I think it was the Bounce RN And
Speaker 1: I'm on the stairs and he's like, oh, yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: do like a little you know, social clip of like
Speaker 1: you marking the ball and you know, I'll punch you
Speaker 1: out of your your hands.
Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, whatever, you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting on there and I kid you, no, Spud,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there and they throw the ball up. I
Speaker 1: go to mark and Spud just clips my ears, just
Speaker 1: full over the back of the head, punches the ball
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what the fuck dude.
Speaker 2: He's like, Oh, Mike, can't take big contact.
Speaker 1: Your message hear massage and the shit out of me.
Speaker 1: I was like, it kind of shocked me. I didn't
Speaker 1: know what to expect. I was like, oh, the golden fist.
Speaker 1: You know, there's the reason he was giving it out, So.
Speaker 2: The has to do it. Let's jump into the game
Speaker 2: because Rossie, our boy been under the weather, under the wall,
Speaker 2: had a bit of a flu going on, so he's
Speaker 2: got to sort that out. Didn't do any pre match
Speaker 2: interviews or anything, just sat up in the box ready
Speaker 2: to get that too. It's a good excuse for anyone
Speaker 2: in today's day, and as I've got a bit of
Speaker 2: the sniffles. But it was a big win, away win
Speaker 2: for Brisbane Lines to come down here and do what
Speaker 2: they do after. It's not the MCG, right, we'll get
Speaker 2: that one out of the way. It's not the MCG,
Speaker 2: it's Marvel Stadium, which they do have a pretty good
Speaker 2: record at Marvel Stadium.
Speaker 1: Did chatter on this this week about their record at
Speaker 1: Marvel Stadium compared to the MCG. Now into the statistics
Speaker 1: of it, one win the past fourteen games at the MCG,
Speaker 1: but at the Marvel Stadium won seven of the last eight,
Speaker 1: so you could say it is a fair difference between
Speaker 1: the two experiences.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I heard this stat reeled out over the weekend.
Speaker 2: I've got i think two different opinions on it, right,
Speaker 2: So this would have to be over the last couple
Speaker 2: of years. So the difference between teams that play at
Speaker 2: those stadiums, so you've got like North Melbourne haven't had
Speaker 2: you know, a stall a couple of years. You got
Speaker 2: like it would be like Saints and Essenon and those
Speaker 2: teams that are kind of thereabouts. Yeah, so I don't
Speaker 2: feel like like you can really read into it too much.
Speaker 2: And then the difference between how many times they play
Speaker 2: there where I think this year they play at Marvel
Speaker 2: like four times and it's like one time at the MCG.
Speaker 2: So it's like, how do you get form anywhere if
Speaker 2: you're only playing there one time?
Speaker 1: Sound like whenever we played Adelade, I think it was
Speaker 1: like the second time in like two years, and the
Speaker 1: other time they played US was sorry, the last time
Speaker 1: I played the MCG was against US like two years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah. See, and if you lose like your one game
Speaker 2: that you play there every ten years, Like imagine if
Speaker 2: you went down and played in Tazzy and then they
Speaker 2: could reel out the stat like oh shock and record
Speaker 2: at Tazzy never win there. You've lost one hundred percent
Speaker 2: of your games there. It's like, yeah, but we played
Speaker 2: once there back in like nineteen ninety six. Mate, Like,
Speaker 2: so yeah, I feel like they pluck out these stats
Speaker 2: to make it sound Figs was like, if we don't
Speaker 2: talk about it, it's not a thing. I think that's
Speaker 2: a great strategy. He's like, he's like, oh, people keep
Speaker 2: bringing up the mcg thing, it'll be a thing. But
Speaker 2: if we don't talk about it.
Speaker 1: He also helps her winning the MCG well. In this game,
Speaker 1: Hipwood kicked four, he's kicked in in the last three.
Speaker 1: We love a big man kicking snags.
Speaker 2: Especially because the partnership that he's up there with Danaher
Speaker 2: and Cameron, so he's a bit of third fiddle and
Speaker 2: he's he's a thorough out to split all the goals
Speaker 2: between the three of them, That's what I mean. Now,
Speaker 2: he's just well and truly out there in front of
Speaker 2: just being the big man smashing it.
Speaker 1: Man. It's good to see the big man getting the
Speaker 1: big jukes out and kicking some snags.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Another one person that's been going really well, Harris Andrews,
Speaker 1: big defensive man, captain of the club. It's good to
Speaker 1: see him just absolutely dominate. He's one of the best
Speaker 1: defenders in the league.
Speaker 2: At the start of the year when Robo put out
Speaker 2: he's twenty two and you critiqued it, you said, Harris
Speaker 2: Andrews needs to be in there, give the defenders some love.
Speaker 2: So you're happy with his progress to this point in
Speaker 2: the season. Yeah, of course he's interests.
Speaker 1: I say, I think he's one of the best defenders
Speaker 1: I've played against it in the lead a moment, so
Speaker 1: it's credit him. He's a really good lockdown defender. Comes
Speaker 1: across well, he's you know, can be you know, dominating
Speaker 1: in the air and really locked down that back line
Speaker 1: as leadership's massive form. So he's very important to that squad.
Speaker 2: Does take a good mock. He a bit. He annoys
Speaker 2: me a little when it hits the ground, and he's
Speaker 2: just a bit laconic, just a bit chill axed about
Speaker 2: the whole thing. Get a bit of it. I like
Speaker 2: the urgency, get the urgency about you. But we know
Speaker 2: you like your calming voice down back, so he must
Speaker 2: be that calming voice. One thing that I pulled out
Speaker 2: of this and I want to address it here on
Speaker 2: the podcast exclusive I caught the team song the Brisbane
Speaker 2: team SiGe, which I think is like the French nationalist
Speaker 2: France or something. But at the very end where they
Speaker 2: do like you hear the mighty raw and then they
Speaker 2: go whooa, yeah, why don't they raw? It just makes
Speaker 2: the most sense. And you said you hear the mighty raw. Ah,
Speaker 2: it's stupid. It's the dumbest that think about it for
Speaker 2: a second and then fix it. Because it's dumb. It
Speaker 2: is a good way to do it.
Speaker 1: And maybe they're going to catch on to this. Braidon Man,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a thing either the mighty roar you
Speaker 1: just go now, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I thought it was stupid, So I'm just saying maybe tweaked.
Speaker 1: That good feedback from Bredon on the on the winning song.
Speaker 2: Huge.
Speaker 1: Well, another thing came out here. Stocker was reported for
Speaker 1: a dangerous tackle. We can't go into these things because
Speaker 1: the AFL Finals, so just a lot heads up everyone,
Speaker 1: so we'll move on to the next game. Swan's West Coast.
Speaker 1: Holy shit, I don't even know how to get into this.
Speaker 1: This is absurd. Just you feel bad.
Speaker 2: Well, it's real hard to say this player played well.
Speaker 2: That player played well because about twenty two of Sydney's
Speaker 2: players kicked four goals or more. It was a massacret
Speaker 2: and Nobuddy Buddy would have been sitting on the sidelines
Speaker 2: feature because he would have probably gone up to second
Speaker 2: on the all time goal kicking list if he had
Speaker 2: a play, well, they would have done a bit of
Speaker 2: you know, Bud, he's padded, could just clear it out
Speaker 2: and he gets the whole fifty to himself. But it
Speaker 2: wasn't to be. But it didn't matter because they had
Speaker 2: Isaac Heeney who kicked him in a burst. I reckon,
Speaker 2: but Isaac Heeney five goals, four would have had a
Speaker 2: real day, but he still got the bag. The bag
Speaker 2: by today's standards.
Speaker 1: Isaac in Yeah, that was you said. That was kind
Speaker 1: of pushing it there with that one. But yes, that's
Speaker 1: going to be my goal for old Isaac keene Have you.
Speaker 2: Seen many two hundred scores in your time in Australia.
Speaker 1: I've never seen two hundred score. This is the first
Speaker 1: time and I kind of whenever I looked at it,
Speaker 1: I was like, holy, I didn't know, like like what happened.
Speaker 1: I was kind of those moments and yeah, two hundred
Speaker 1: points is insane, Like I think it was like the
Speaker 1: oh what the biggest loss for West Coast in the
Speaker 1: history of their club. I think it was something around
Speaker 1: like the fifth there. I don't quote me on this,
Speaker 1: but it was like one of the largest like margins
Speaker 1: any ones ever won from in AFL history. It was
Speaker 1: up there.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: Rough.
Speaker 2: Now we got to drill down a little bit into
Speaker 2: this because obviously immense heat comes onto their coach, Adam Simpson,
Speaker 2: which if you unpack it and give it a little
Speaker 2: bit of context, surely, like the injuries kind of decimated
Speaker 2: the team. And then you've got a team like made
Speaker 2: up of like a Hodgepodger like guys they picked up
Speaker 2: in the mid season draft. You got some veterans that
Speaker 2: are like left over that have seen success and now
Speaker 2: they're coming back down to getting flogged every week by
Speaker 2: like one hundred points. And then you've got some guys
Speaker 2: coming through that are draftees and all of that stuff.
Speaker 2: Can we judge anything off like the team that they're fielding, Like,
Speaker 2: is the pressure justly on Adam Simpson? Does he need
Speaker 2: to figure something out? Like how do we assess what's
Speaker 2: going on?
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the way the media works and
Speaker 1: it's a circlicol thing, right, So if there's someone that's underperforming,
Speaker 1: who's the first person we go chopping heads out? It's
Speaker 1: the head coach. Now, it's been frustrating for me to see.
Speaker 1: I guess a lot of this criticism towards him because
Speaker 1: there's no one in this world that would be able to,
Speaker 1: you know, turn this team into, you know, being able
Speaker 1: to win some of these games because they just haven't
Speaker 1: had the people in the park. They've been just like
Speaker 1: their team has been decimated. So to put that kind
Speaker 1: of pressure on a head coach whenever it's almost out
Speaker 1: of his hands, it's it's frustrating to see.
Speaker 2: But I know this is how the media works.
Speaker 1: I know this is a very easy thing in the
Speaker 1: way they're going to take it after you know, you know,
Speaker 1: West Coast is a pride club. They want to see
Speaker 1: w's on the board and if they don't see that,
Speaker 1: they're going to get angry and they're going to start
Speaker 1: lynching people and trying to figure out who's going to
Speaker 1: be the person who get fired and all this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. And it's always the head coach is the
Speaker 1: first person I look to. But I just can't see
Speaker 1: it being really his fault, if that makes sense, Like
Speaker 1: I think it's just the fact that there's been so
Speaker 1: many injuries. It's just it's impossible to purely blame him
Speaker 1: and say, you know, he's the reason that they're not
Speaker 1: going well. It's like it's a situation that's been taken
Speaker 1: out of his hands.
Speaker 2: So you've got a coach that you know can win
Speaker 2: a premiership because he's done it. If you asked everyone,
Speaker 2: would you sell the farm to have one crack at
Speaker 2: a flag and potentially see some more down years, but
Speaker 2: you have a flag, would you go for it? A
Speaker 2: lot of most people argue you would say yes. So
Speaker 2: if you say yes to that, then are you going okay, Well,
Speaker 2: there's inevitably going to be a big down period after that.
Speaker 2: Your coach that got you that success, does he deserve
Speaker 2: a chance to have a crack at that down period
Speaker 2: and up? Because most people assume by that point they're exhausted,
Speaker 2: they're done, they've got no inspiration, they've got no way
Speaker 2: of getting them out of this hole. Let's replace him
Speaker 2: and have this circuit breaker that everyone talks about one
Speaker 2: Who are you going to get in to replace that?
Speaker 2: That is a premiership credentialed coach that you know can
Speaker 2: do it. Most of the time it's off speculation. Now
Speaker 2: it's worked with someone like Fly because that's speculation. But
Speaker 2: most of the time it's like, who are you going
Speaker 2: to get in to fill that void? It could be
Speaker 2: catastrophically bad coming out of that, and then you could
Speaker 2: be stuck in a ten year hold. There's so many
Speaker 2: things that you can think about. But I feel like
Speaker 2: the easy thing is for everyone to say, Ah, sack
Speaker 2: the coach. But it's weird when he wants to be there,
Speaker 2: you know that he can win a flag, and people
Speaker 2: are still saying, sack the coach. But I feel like
Speaker 2: this is going to be their reality for a bit
Speaker 2: because they're going to have a whole bunch of these
Speaker 2: old premiership like favorites finish up and retire and they're
Speaker 2: going to be left with these kids. They're gonna have
Speaker 2: draft picks and they're really going to have to start again.
Speaker 2: So then they're gonna have to ask the question, do
Speaker 2: they start again with with their tried and tested and
Speaker 2: passionate coach Adam Simpson, or do they try their luck
Speaker 2: and try to find someone else.
Speaker 1: My hope is that he sees out the year, he
Speaker 1: gets another opportunity to coach next year, and they have
Speaker 1: a decent run of you know, positive injuries or no injuries,
Speaker 1: let's say, and then you judge them based off that,
Speaker 1: and then like you know, you make the decision there
Speaker 1: because I just think with injuries, man, like we've had
Speaker 1: this at Collingwood, Like we had a year where his
Speaker 1: injury after injury after injury, and like you're barely fielding
Speaker 1: a team out there on the park and that takes
Speaker 1: away so much of your capacity to win games. And
Speaker 1: you can't field a team like they have two people
Speaker 1: I think in the waff of at the moment, that's
Speaker 1: the Like they have twenty what five players that are
Speaker 1: healthy and that's it. It's like you're sitting there going
Speaker 1: mid season draft. That guy's probably gonna play within like
Speaker 1: a week or two and he's just literally walked into
Speaker 1: the club, isn't even know how you play, He's already
Speaker 1: pretty much gonna get picked. It's like insane to think that,
Speaker 1: but that's the situation there ends so like to sit
Speaker 1: there and judge someone based off that, I just I
Speaker 1: can't fathom that that would be the correct way.
Speaker 2: Of going about the circumstance. It can work positively too.
Speaker 2: I feel like Clarkson probably didn't want to leave Hawthorne
Speaker 2: and that kind of went down pretty messy in the end,
Speaker 2: But I feel like both teams came out of that
Speaker 2: with a positive outcome, Like Hawthorne have showed really positive
Speaker 2: signs with Sam Mitchell and North have shown really positive
Speaker 2: signs with Klarko and you know, some caretaker coaches, So
Speaker 2: there is some upside to be had there now. I
Speaker 2: this was something that was brought up throughout the week
Speaker 2: that it's maybe the game plan because you're just bringing
Speaker 2: in guys from mid season draft, you got like kids
Speaker 2: coming through, and then you've got the seniors, Like, maybe
Speaker 2: the game plan is just unachievable at this point in
Speaker 2: time with the guys that you have to send out there.
Speaker 2: Is it worth just going no game plan or let's
Speaker 2: play on instinct or or just setting them like one
Speaker 2: goal for the week, Like how how would you kind
Speaker 2: of go about it?
Speaker 1: Oh, from a guy that's got pretty much zero experience coaching, No, it's.
Speaker 2: But from a players point of view, like you would
Speaker 2: know if the coach.
Speaker 1: Said the baby out of the bathwater, right I don't
Speaker 1: think you just start from scratch like that's that's crazy
Speaker 1: because most of the people that are playing in that
Speaker 1: game or in that team, you know, we're going through
Speaker 1: the preseason of learning this, you know, style of play
Speaker 1: and all like our stuff, no matter what their age is, right,
Speaker 1: So most people are on this game plan. Whether you
Speaker 1: tweak a few things and say, look, you know, we're
Speaker 1: just gonna play forward footy now and if we get
Speaker 1: a chance kick it forward, we're gonna take territory. We're
Speaker 1: just gonna lock it in as long as we can
Speaker 1: to try to give us the best chance of scoring
Speaker 1: and keep them from being in our half. Right, maybe
Speaker 1: it's something like that, I'm not really sure, and you
Speaker 1: just take the gamble to say, look, we're gonna back
Speaker 1: in contest going forward, or maybe you say, you know what,
Speaker 1: like we're gonna take a bit of the sting out
Speaker 1: of the game, We're gonna switch the ball a lot,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do a lot on contested marks. Whoever it
Speaker 1: might be, but you do you have to have a
Speaker 1: guidance if you are going to change things, like, you
Speaker 1: have to have a guidance that overarches everything. Right, It's
Speaker 1: like a style of play though over core plan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like a core plan where everyone's on the same page
Speaker 1: of how you want to play. Yes, you can tweak
Speaker 1: a few things here and there, but like you need
Speaker 1: to have a style of play that everyone can revert
Speaker 1: back to to know that that is your DNA for
Speaker 1: the week.
Speaker 2: Coach Cox. I like it, well, Coach Cox, So let's
Speaker 2: jump into the next game. Free oh, sendon. I feel
Speaker 2: like this was the most out of We don't get
Speaker 2: many predictable games like especially not this year, but Freo
Speaker 2: v esenon Essendon going across the Perth the verse free Mantle,
Speaker 2: and I feel like it turned out the way that
Speaker 2: it should have now. Freo should have done that to
Speaker 2: Richmond a couple of weeks ago and they wouldn't be
Speaker 2: in a little bit of a hole. But now they've
Speaker 2: dug themselves out a little bit with this win over Essendon.
Speaker 2: Comfortable win in the end, what twenty eight points. Luke
Speaker 2: Jackson back to form kicking three goals. It helps when
Speaker 2: they've got a ruckman and he can push forward.
Speaker 1: Very very important for their team, and him coming back
Speaker 1: kind of settled them, I think. And another person wants
Speaker 1: shout out five he found a five being back every week.
Speaker 1: We musta shout this guy out. Such a dude. I
Speaker 1: love watching him players, all my favorite players to watch play.
Speaker 1: Just goes hard at it and he's clean. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: so good to watch.
Speaker 2: Well, it was good to see Walters up and about.
Speaker 2: He's started to play some really good footing and get
Speaker 2: back into consistent forms after signing a two year deal.
Speaker 2: So it's great to see him out there. And they're too,
Speaker 2: kind of the future stars the current stars, but you
Speaker 2: know future superstars Sarong and Brayshaw, future leaders of them,
Speaker 2: of that team. Yeah, they're taken over now. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it was good to see. I think both of them
Speaker 2: got mid thirties and just another day after them. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was a good game. But you know, if not
Speaker 2: predictable now gold Coast Hawthorne, this was the win that
Speaker 2: gold Coast needed to have and it was a little
Speaker 2: disappointing for Hawthorne, who's strung together a bit of good form,
Speaker 2: but gold Coast doing it pretty comprehensively.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they got the w up there and it's not
Speaker 1: called metro Con anymore. Whatever it is, we'll be there
Speaker 1: next week. But yeah, I think it was it was
Speaker 1: tough for Hawthorn. I was like, oh man, we've been
Speaker 1: mentioning this every single week ever since the Tazzy news
Speaker 1: came out. They were like, you know, we're showing up.
Speaker 1: You know, we're going to make sure that we're staying
Speaker 1: in this thing. So gold Coast is just too good
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, and they've been playing
Speaker 1: some really decent football. So it's going to be a
Speaker 1: great challenge for us coming up against them this week
Speaker 1: up there at their home ground. And yeah, gold Coast
Speaker 1: keeps their finals alive. They're right on the edge that eight.
Speaker 1: They're right in there, and I think, oh, I'm just
Speaker 1: going to say it and make them on top eight.
Speaker 2: Braiden. We've already locked them in in previous weeks, so
Speaker 2: they're a lock. So you've got three other slots to
Speaker 2: fill of that bottom four of the top eight. But
Speaker 2: we'll get to that. Bailey Humphrey, now I don't know
Speaker 2: if you saw this incident, but he had a snap
Speaker 2: out of congestion and it went through for a goal
Speaker 2: and they were before they could even start to signal
Speaker 2: that they were going upstairs to the big guy. Bailey
Speaker 2: Humphrey was, you know, a bit of honesty policy. He
Speaker 2: was like, nah, touched it.
Speaker 1: What a nice guy.
Speaker 2: I couldn't for the life of me seeing you do that.
Speaker 2: No fucking chance can we. I'd be celebrating.
Speaker 1: I'll be like, no, I didn't touch it because sometimes
Speaker 1: you know, there's no there's no sound or anything else
Speaker 1: as far as touching the football. There's no you know,
Speaker 1: spike on the arc or whoever it is, so you
Speaker 1: might be able to get away with it, you know,
Speaker 1: if they don't get the right angle or if it
Speaker 1: may be you want to make sure you're celebrating. As
Speaker 1: Tom Lynch, I ever came to that final where you
Speaker 1: didn't celebrate the snap and I said, well, we took
Speaker 1: in his reaction. Must to you know, whether or not
Speaker 1: it was a goal. You have to celebrate everything, even
Speaker 1: if it's a question mark.
Speaker 2: So let's jump into the absolute game of the round.
Speaker 2: Collingwood Adelaide. I don't know if you had a chance
Speaker 2: to see this one, but it was an absolute nail bider. Adelaide.
Speaker 2: Gotta say this. Off the top. Adelaide played exceptionally well.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about it for a long time. Adelaide
Speaker 1: is a top eight team who theyre eight at the moment.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you they are going to put anyone
Speaker 1: to the sword.
Speaker 2: See and a lot of people like you cop heat
Speaker 2: on the stats sheet and it says Adelaide loses at
Speaker 2: the MCG. This is very competitive. And to come over
Speaker 2: and compete against a team that's top of the ladder
Speaker 2: go down by two points, see that, there's no context
Speaker 2: in those stats. So they're a bloody good team. And
Speaker 2: we got to see that firsthand in the third quarter
Speaker 2: where they just blew ye out of the water. Did
Speaker 2: you guys come out of the rooms after halftime or
Speaker 2: is what happened?
Speaker 1: I think after you're half time, we came out and
Speaker 1: they go there was literally this was so they're gonna
Speaker 1: climb at us, and they're gonna come at us hard,
Speaker 1: and you best fucking.
Speaker 2: Believe they did.
Speaker 1: Came all over red hot crack, it was wild maw,
Speaker 1: it's sit in the like, and I was like, we
Speaker 1: have to somehow stem this flow. And yeah, they blew
Speaker 1: us out in the third quarter, and luckily, en after
Speaker 1: you have the fourth quarter rolls around, we kind of
Speaker 1: you know, reeled in the bed, get a few scores
Speaker 1: on the board, and we're able to kind of pip
Speaker 1: them for the wind again.
Speaker 2: It was one of those quarters for them that it
Speaker 2: was like nothing could go wrong, Like their forwards were
Speaker 2: relatively quiet in the first half, and then you know
Speaker 2: they just came and starts kicking from everywhere. So Text
Speaker 2: now leads the Coleman off the back of it. And yeah,
Speaker 2: they were just clunking them and kicking dead straight. They're
Speaker 2: just they've got really good foggity or fogginy, whichever one.
Speaker 2: He's just a dead straight kick, obviously Text dead straight kick.
Speaker 2: And then they got very dangerous small forwards, so they're
Speaker 2: going to be such a They're a good team.
Speaker 1: You've got lots of respect for him, and every time
Speaker 1: we played them, they've taken a sill line and they're
Speaker 1: a team that you know if you if you don't
Speaker 1: respect them, they'll get you.
Speaker 2: So now we've got all of that praise out of
Speaker 2: the way. They must freaking hate you. Like there wasn't too.
Speaker 1: Many smiles after the game from them, as you would expect.
Speaker 2: It's like leave them alone, but it's like what it was.
Speaker 2: I feel like you've beat him by two points five
Speaker 2: points two points or one point five points two points,
Speaker 2: all of them have been well within a kick, which
Speaker 2: is oh man, and there've been a couple of comeback
Speaker 2: from behind and it's just but you did kind of
Speaker 2: kick it all off. Now, I don't I know, you
Speaker 2: don't like praise, you don't like attention, you don't like
Speaker 2: all of that stuff. But you did kick two pretty
Speaker 2: pivotal goals. One just fell right into your arms.
Speaker 1: Yep, you know, I think it's a bit of bodywork, right,
Speaker 1: But yes, one was a chesty that goes.
Speaker 2: Down contested mark bang, But it just it was like
Speaker 2: a little baby just coddled that thing in. So you
Speaker 2: went back and you kicked that goal. And we're back
Speaker 2: to the point, which I feel like, is that that's
Speaker 2: your thing? Now?
Speaker 1: Oh, we figured it out. We need a fan velt.
Speaker 1: We need a fan velt for what's their favorite celebration.
Speaker 1: We need to figure it out.
Speaker 2: Maybe like goggles or something, the telescopic cuts. Bring it back.
Speaker 2: And then not too long after that, you got a
Speaker 2: free kick for holding, and then you went back slotted
Speaker 2: your second goal. Very important, and then talk us through
Speaker 2: what happened next. You started you started a fight. Oh,
Speaker 2: it was a scuffle more than anything, Brandon. Yeah, Now,
Speaker 2: so Jesus is really reminiscence of Round one versus radically.
Speaker 2: He kicked the goal right, and as you do, you
Speaker 2: know the game needed a bit of energy. It genuinely
Speaker 2: needed spot bit flat d mcg after Adelaide came back
Speaker 2: and was real steam rolling us through that third quarter.
Speaker 1: So after I kicked the goal, I essentially do this
Speaker 1: sharp front. As you do, you know, you get little
Speaker 1: classic bump, Hey, how you going. And as soon as
Speaker 1: I did that, he grabbed my jumper. And then as
Speaker 1: soon as that happened, it was on for young and old,
Speaker 1: you best believe it.
Speaker 2: And as soon as that I thought.
Speaker 1: Where's the wild braided Maynard I.
Speaker 2: Was waiting for.
Speaker 1: It was a long way from defense, but you will
Speaker 1: realize and whenever you watch the vision again, luckily there
Speaker 1: was the wild tailor Adams. You best believe he's just
Speaker 1: as good. He gets in there. He has boys on on,
Speaker 1: let's get at it. He was playing forward during the game,
Speaker 1: so he was right in the thick of it, just
Speaker 1: having a go great person to back you up taken and.
Speaker 2: Then what happened, So you had four or five blokes
Speaker 2: hanging off. Yeah, you're throwing jump of punches.
Speaker 1: My jobber is getting pulled from four different directions front, backside,
Speaker 1: and side.
Speaker 2: What happened to your goggles?
Speaker 1: The goggles are actually detachable in the back, right, the
Speaker 1: strap can come off, Ah right, Yeah, So all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I just feel this pressure and it's like
Speaker 1: it's flung, you know, like it's a discus. It's like
Speaker 1: flung out into the open. And at this point I'm
Speaker 1: too busy getting in the scuffle to really know what's
Speaker 1: going on. But you look at it afterwards and old
Speaker 1: keys wouldn't be part of the Goggle Gang. So he
Speaker 1: done hiffed them.
Speaker 2: You can't blame him. Everyone wants to be part of
Speaker 2: the Goggle Gang.
Speaker 1: It's a very very unique club. And then so, like
Speaker 1: I said, there's a lot of initiation to get in
Speaker 1: their keys. So if you want to you've got to
Speaker 1: do better than that.
Speaker 2: Four blokes you're seeing start double vision. You're fighting eight
Speaker 2: blocks in what's going through your head when you've got
Speaker 2: no eye protection on?
Speaker 1: Don't get scraped in the It is probably the first
Speaker 1: thing that's going through my head. But the biggest thing
Speaker 1: whenever you get in those fights are scuffles. As you
Speaker 1: would call him, He's not going to ground. You know,
Speaker 1: as a big man, you don't want to go to ground.
Speaker 1: So I've got like four guys ripping through, you know, front, backside, inside,
Speaker 1: like I was saying, and eventually we did, you know,
Speaker 1: and he would get on the ground. We still I
Speaker 1: wouldn't let go of his jump. It was the biggest thing.
Speaker 1: I get back up and I'm looking around and I'm like,
Speaker 1: where did these things go? And he didn't just drop
Speaker 1: them on the floor, He full flong them like it
Speaker 1: was a frisbee throw, and it was like out by
Speaker 1: the fifty Like I was looking around, like you know
Speaker 1: Velma from you know, Scooby Doo, going like where is
Speaker 1: these things at? And even the trainer couldn't find And
Speaker 1: then finally we walked over. Oh shit, he's piffed him
Speaker 1: out that way.
Speaker 2: I think there's a photo of Lippa yeaggles, oh the legend.
Speaker 1: He just comes over and says, I think you drop
Speaker 1: these and he hands it back. He's a nice guy ever,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it was it piffed and I reckon he'll
Speaker 1: probably get a fine from the AFL.
Speaker 2: Is that one feeling? Because I was thinking it's it's
Speaker 2: like protective you know equipment. You need these things, just
Speaker 2: like throwing away. If someone was to get a bunch
Speaker 2: of concussions and they start wearing a helmet, it's like
Speaker 2: ripping their helmet off and throwing it across the field
Speaker 2: like it's yeah, I don't know. It tore the public
Speaker 2: because there's obviously you got a lot of admirers out
Speaker 2: there on social media. It was very split what type
Speaker 2: of act this was. But yeah, I guess we wait
Speaker 2: and see. But the AFL definitely needs to pay for
Speaker 2: their Christmas party, so they you could step on a
Speaker 2: stick out there and they give you a fine.
Speaker 1: Kills going away pay for itself. Braak, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2: Well, it was a very big tick for the durability
Speaker 2: of your goggles because they were straight back on, straight
Speaker 2: back into the rock. So that was good to see.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: One of your teammates speak of mid season mid season
Speaker 2: pick nopes massive when the game was right on the line,
Speaker 2: like under a minute left in it, and he's streaming
Speaker 2: out on the wing first to get the ball in
Speaker 2: the first place and get it up the ground, and
Speaker 2: then when it got turned over and it was coming
Speaker 2: back in to leave his man sprint forward and just
Speaker 2: land a tackle on the wing, act and most importantly
Speaker 2: not to let the ball get out of all the
Speaker 2: handball because they had runners stream and forward forward. Now
Speaker 2: your coach, fly Yeah, was saying postmatch, like he just
Speaker 2: kept cutting everyone off the questions and they were like,
Speaker 2: to just see Nomes' tackle on the link. He did
Speaker 2: it about three different occasions. Was like, let me just
Speaker 2: bring it back to Nomees tackle on the wing. Where
Speaker 2: were you did you see this all unfolding or was
Speaker 2: it like, thank god someone stopped that whole thing?
Speaker 1: I was you could see it, I kind of unfolding
Speaker 1: from out of theload's side of Like if they get
Speaker 1: past that tackle, they have like two players streaming forward
Speaker 1: handball receives and stuff. You probably get easy inside fifty.
Speaker 1: But Noble, I guess, like you know, he, like you said,
Speaker 1: he came off as man almost like suicide squeezed to
Speaker 1: land that tackle, to keep the ball in, to create
Speaker 1: noother stoppers for us to set up behind the ball
Speaker 1: and get numbers behind it. So little thing like that,
Speaker 1: you know, just being able to keep that ball in
Speaker 1: it actually leads to maybe us winning that game. John Noble,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this last time we
Speaker 1: played them, also kicked the game winning snag. So there's
Speaker 1: one thing Allaied probably hates about our team. It's John Noble.
Speaker 1: Man has a decent little track record against him. And
Speaker 1: yeah there was two instance where he laid tackles. And
Speaker 1: you know, I think in those dire moments and everything else,
Speaker 1: we talk about the team we want to be, we
Speaker 1: talk about the team that you know, the DNA that
Speaker 1: we show that you know describes our team the best.
Speaker 1: It's those moments under the pump, fourth quarter, games on
Speaker 1: the line and you're fighting and scrapping for everything, trying
Speaker 1: to make sure you give us the best possible scenario
Speaker 1: going forward. And John Noble did that and it's a
Speaker 1: credit to him. I'm sure you get a lot of
Speaker 1: praise this week whenever it comes to the meetings. And
Speaker 1: you know, that's what we value about his game so much.
Speaker 1: Is an absolute competitive.
Speaker 2: And you've got so many of them. I reckon there
Speaker 2: needs to be a sprinkling of those mid season picks
Speaker 2: and rookie picks throughout a team just to give it
Speaker 2: that grunt, because they work harder than anyone. I reckon
Speaker 2: those blokes. You did win the game, but right at
Speaker 2: the death. Now, I'm not sure how much you can
Speaker 2: talk about this, but the Adelaide crow Skipper Dawson, great player,
Speaker 2: an amazing game, what an absolute game, almost single handedly
Speaker 2: dragged him across the line. He copped a high from
Speaker 2: Jamie Elliott and the AFL's come off and said, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: should have been a high. But the umpire didn't have
Speaker 2: a clear view of the incident, so got a lucky
Speaker 2: one there. Did you see the incident? No, I didn't
Speaker 2: see it. Maybe the goggles. The goggles are a bit.
Speaker 1: Damage, that's of course, yeah, and that's unfortunate that I
Speaker 1: didn't see that.
Speaker 2: But the Pies have won eleven of fifteen when trailing
Speaker 2: at three quarter time. Doesn't that just blow your mind.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty good low statistic, isn't it. I'd love
Speaker 1: for us not to have to get the three quarter
Speaker 1: time and like now to do this all stressful comeback
Speaker 1: gray hairs type scenario. But a wins a win at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, so I'm happy. It is
Speaker 1: just we sometimes stress our fans out and stressed you know, myself,
Speaker 1: the players, the coaching staff, everyone, But in this scenario, right,
Speaker 1: so you think of fourth quarter games, and I said,
Speaker 1: this is someone. I said, like, whenever we got to
Speaker 1: the end of that game, I never felt stressed. That's
Speaker 1: like a weird thing, but like we've been in this
Speaker 1: scenario so many times. We talked about this over and
Speaker 1: over again of handling the moment and managing the minutes right.
Speaker 1: So whenever it comes to the end of the game
Speaker 1: and we're down by whatever it is and we know
Speaker 1: we need to maybe we need to lock it down,
Speaker 1: we talk about the very end of the game. You know,
Speaker 1: through the midfield we were able to get stoppage after
Speaker 1: stoppage after stoppage, just to run the clock down to
Speaker 1: be able to make sure that they didn't have a
Speaker 1: chance to be able to bounce on us. And we've
Speaker 1: just been in that situation so much. We have so
Speaker 1: much confidence with it. Like I just don't think we
Speaker 1: stress about it. We just go yep, cool. We know
Speaker 1: exactly where we need to be at certain times, and
Speaker 1: what position we need to play, and who needs to
Speaker 1: go behind the ball and what position needs to fill
Speaker 1: that spot and everything else that it's almost second nature now.
Speaker 2: No circumstances when you are going rolling stoppages, who are
Speaker 2: the calm voices. Who do you hear above the crowd
Speaker 2: sixty five thousand out there going off their nut Who
Speaker 2: can you hear? It's probably a lot of that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a bit of everyone, to be honest,
Speaker 1: But I think the old heads you know of Pendles
Speaker 1: and Darcy and some of the more experienced players, how
Speaker 1: we and all that kind of stuff really make ownership benett.
Speaker 1: But there's the guys like Tom Mitchell, who was like
Speaker 1: a first you know, year playing with us, Like he
Speaker 1: takes ownership two and he jumps in, knows exactly what
Speaker 1: he should be.
Speaker 2: Doing and win.
Speaker 1: And it's a credit to everyone that's buying in to
Speaker 1: the game plan. And like I said, it's not it's
Speaker 1: not just one or two players telling everyone what to do.
Speaker 1: It's like one or two players looking around going yeah,
Speaker 1: we're pretty well set up. Oh, just make sure you
Speaker 1: cover that angle orhoever it is, you know, make sure
Speaker 1: you're on that guy on this shoulder, or whoever it
Speaker 1: may be. And it's not like we're sitting there having
Speaker 1: to tell them in the moment of the game exactly
Speaker 1: what to do. It's more of just like a oh, yep,
Speaker 1: cool tick, you're good, yep. I'm good, Yep, you're good, Yep,
Speaker 1: I'm good. And everyone's on the same page.
Speaker 2: Now. We talked about the end of the game and
Speaker 2: like the in the trenches, so to speak. Three quarter time.
Speaker 2: Talk us through what was going on at the huddle.
Speaker 2: Is it more of you've been in that situation? Fifteen?
Speaker 2: You know you want eleven of your last fifteen? Is
Speaker 2: fly just going? You know, boys? What to do, like
Speaker 2: get out there? Or is it a bit of urgency
Speaker 2: or what's going on?
Speaker 1: Look, I pay ten flies for a time addresses, right.
Speaker 2: I feel like no players listen to these coaches addressing.
Speaker 1: I'm always up the back, so sometimes it's hard to hear.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: I know the gist of it right by what was
Speaker 1: written on the board, right, So you write certain things
Speaker 1: on the board. He talks about moving back whatever it is, right,
Speaker 1: And the gist of it was to get the ball
Speaker 1: forward and be able to try to hold territory and
Speaker 1: just give us as much opportunity as we could in
Speaker 1: the forward half because we needed to kick goals, right,
Speaker 1: That was the gist of it. So we have like
Speaker 1: a certain game play we go into and stuff like
Speaker 1: that which was on the board that you can understand.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was just to play forward foot and
Speaker 1: you have to and that's like scenario you're down, you
Speaker 1: want to win the game, like you need to kick goals,
Speaker 1: so you need to get territory. You need to be
Speaker 1: able to get the ball inside fifty to be able
Speaker 1: to do that. So that was kind of the three
Speaker 1: quarter time address. And a lot of times whenever we
Speaker 1: start playing aggressive football and like wanting the ball forward
Speaker 1: like that suits our game plan, we go well. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of a unique thing to to almost want
Speaker 1: to always be in that kind of motive like aggression
Speaker 1: and wanting to like be really good if with your
Speaker 1: ball movement, without you know, I guess pulling back and
Speaker 1: saying like, okay, we're being too aggressive. There's almost like
Speaker 1: no such thing as too aggressive for us, which is
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a bit of you know,
Speaker 1: all or nothing, but the games. Yeah, we live in
Speaker 1: the chaos and we enjoy it and we like thrive
Speaker 1: in it. So maybe it's just something that you know,
Speaker 1: we look at and we go, you know what, like
Speaker 1: we're just going to constantly play just go football.
Speaker 2: Now we talk about leadership, I know, Darcie Moore pre
Speaker 2: game was well, halftime was doing the huddle, had the
Speaker 2: boys around? Is that is that you know all amp up?
Speaker 2: Is that? Is there a point of amping you boys up?
Speaker 2: Or is it calming you down? Or is it? What
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 1: He kind of reviews the game plan, amps us up
Speaker 1: a bit. It does rotate around those so it's not
Speaker 1: always Darcy that speaks in those kind of circles. So
Speaker 1: Tay Adams, I think over the weekend jumped in. I
Speaker 1: can't rememberf it was three quarter time or halftime. He
Speaker 1: jumped in, and you know he has said to say,
Speaker 1: so there's other players that kind of jump in there
Speaker 1: and you know, are able to have their say. So
Speaker 1: then the leadership is spread over, you know, the whole group,
Speaker 1: rather than just relying on one person to be able to,
Speaker 1: you know, to be able to I guess, tell the
Speaker 1: game plan to everyone else and make sure we're on
Speaker 1: the same page, which I think is great because then
Speaker 1: you get players from different lines, you get players that
Speaker 1: you know, play different positions, and it's not just reliant
Speaker 1: on one person to make sure we're all know what
Speaker 1: we're doing. We can spread that load across the team.
Speaker 2: They have a pointed at the big Mason said, Mace,
Speaker 2: final words.
Speaker 1: The day that happens, you.
Speaker 2: Roll out. I don't know. You'll have to have a
Speaker 2: plan because it'll come one day.
Speaker 1: Your moment will look at me, Mason, any final words,
Speaker 1: I go, yeah, boys, just kick it through the big sticks.
Speaker 2: Through the big ones of six. Just learned that now
Speaker 2: before we wrap it up. Friend of the podcast, Jeremy
Speaker 2: how mate's return looking pimped out in that sleeve? Love it?
Speaker 2: Steph Curry, how good? How good was it to see
Speaker 2: him back and what influence did he have back there? Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's good man.
Speaker 1: He's one of the leaders of the team, so his
Speaker 1: influence back there and his aerial presence was something we
Speaker 1: definitely missed and it's good to see him doing his
Speaker 1: thing back out there. And we've had him on the
Speaker 1: podcast if you haven't listened to the podcast to have
Speaker 1: a look. It was a great chatter around what he
Speaker 1: had to go through to be able to get back
Speaker 1: on the ground and be able to play again and
Speaker 1: some of the darker and tougher times that he had
Speaker 1: to go through.
Speaker 2: And I don't think.
Speaker 1: People realize just how serious the injury was, Like obviously
Speaker 1: the bone breakage and all that kind of stuff that happened,
Speaker 1: but his hospital stay and the infections that happened, and
Speaker 1: you know, him debating when or not he's still going
Speaker 1: to play football and wanting to quit, and all this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff came through his mind and it was
Speaker 1: a great kind of podcast around I guess being able
Speaker 1: to fight through those darker moments and fight through the
Speaker 1: adversity to be able to get to where he's out
Speaker 1: over the weekend, and I'm sure him and his family
Speaker 1: and it was great after the game. They had the
Speaker 1: photos of him and his little kid out out there
Speaker 1: and just the smile on his face is just massive,
Speaker 1: you know, and it just meant so much. I'm sure
Speaker 1: to be able to get back to that point to
Speaker 1: be able to play I felt football and it's a
Speaker 1: credit to his resilience more than anything, and is a
Speaker 1: phenomenal person, one of the most positive, genuine human joy
Speaker 1: for meat and it was great to see him back
Speaker 1: out there and enjoying US football.
Speaker 2: Ripping Blurke and I think we should see the sleeves
Speaker 2: stick around even long into the future. You have to
Speaker 2: get it ticked off by the AFL. Imagine if someone
Speaker 2: ripped off and threw it on the ground. A bit
Speaker 2: real dick move. But it's been a good couple of
Speaker 2: weeks for the Carlen Football Club. No loss again this
Speaker 2: week and north Port Richmond Bulldogs and Giants with the
Speaker 2: other teams having the buyer this week. Before we wrap
Speaker 2: things up, we've been teasing this all podcasts. You've said
Speaker 2: every team in the league is going to make the
Speaker 2: top eight. Now unfortunately there's not enough slots. So I
Speaker 2: want to put it on you. Let's say that the
Speaker 2: top four that's a lock. Yeah, so I want your
Speaker 2: teams that are going to finish fifth through eighth, Gold
Speaker 2: Coast already being a lock for one of your spots.
Speaker 1: It has to be just eight teams. Is that how
Speaker 1: it has to be eight? I feel like I've gone
Speaker 1: to the top fourteen at times. Yeah, it's going to
Speaker 1: be interesting, So I think like five through eight, not
Speaker 1: in order in this. Like I said, like, this is
Speaker 1: not disrespectful towards any team. This is just what I'm
Speaker 1: thinking at the time, given the way teams are playing. Okay,
Speaker 1: Gold Coast lock lock, Geelong lock, I like it, you
Speaker 1: like it, Fremantle.
Speaker 2: Lock, Uplonge come on, and the last one.
Speaker 1: Adelaide I think adelaide I think they'll be I think
Speaker 1: adelaide Al must be five might be a big call
Speaker 1: for some people, but I reckon they're going to go
Speaker 1: up the ranks a little bit and get a bit
Speaker 1: of steam going into finals. There'll be a very hard
Speaker 1: team to beat.
Speaker 2: So you've got Essendon Saint Kilda dropping way off.
Speaker 1: I think they'll be right on the edge. I reckon
Speaker 1: towards the end of the year, there's going to be
Speaker 1: like a game where it's going to have to be
Speaker 1: like a winner, go home game for one of those teams.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be very interesting because there's it's really close
Speaker 1: that kind of like you know, six to ten kind
Speaker 1: of range or twelve. Those teams are a game or
Speaker 1: two off each other, so you know, we still have
Speaker 1: like ten more games or something like that to play,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna have you tight finish.
Speaker 2: It's a Grand Final rematch this weekend. Both teams are
Speaker 2: currently sitting outside of the eight. Pretty crazy. So yeah, well,
Speaker 2: now we've got something to hold you accountable too. We've
Speaker 2: got something that we can lock in.
Speaker 1: So only eight, Mason, only eight. We did say this
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the podcast, and we'll say it
Speaker 1: at the end the March, the merch has dropped and people,
Speaker 1: we are just doing this bare bones as far as pricing.
Speaker 1: We're not taking any kind of cuts or anything. We
Speaker 1: just want to get the merch to y'all because you're
Speaker 1: ogs the people that have got us to where we
Speaker 1: are today, so that there's any time to get it.
Speaker 1: It is these next two weeks that we're doing this
Speaker 1: kind of tip of this type of merchandise that has
Speaker 1: the crown on it.
Speaker 2: Very unique.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go to a different symbol after.
Speaker 2: That, but limited edition.
Speaker 1: This is the edition only two weeks, and we're doing
Speaker 1: it at a discount, like the most discount a week
Speaker 1: in discount because we just want you all to get
Speaker 1: our gear and just be able to wrap it because
Speaker 1: we have so many messages of people when you're going
Speaker 1: to do this, you keep teasing this thing. It's done.
Speaker 1: It's out there, it's on the website. You can buy
Speaker 1: it now and it is a great cost that's not
Speaker 1: going to be like that forever, So get out there
Speaker 1: and get it. Rep the March, appreciate the love and
Speaker 1: it's finally finally happened. So check it out link and
Speaker 1: the buyer. Yes, the Carlton Draft, the old legends over there.
Speaker 2: That's what. Yeah, Oh jeez, we have. We can't thank
Speaker 2: you enough, but this is our little way of saying thanks,
Speaker 2: because it has been one hell of a ride to
Speaker 2: this point. And I feel like July, August, September is
Speaker 2: going to be pretty massive as well. So I'm very
Speaker 2: much looking forward to seeing how the year pans out.
Speaker 2: We know, I just can't know how. I see.
Speaker 1: It's going to be the first person wearing our merch
Speaker 1: out in public. That's going to be a real humbling moment,
Speaker 1: like real cool. I'm not gonna lie. I hope where
Speaker 1: it is that's out there listening to this, it's where's
Speaker 1: the merch? To a training session? Where it may be
Speaker 1: are at a game?
Speaker 2: Hey, mad Love, you know you're getting a photo for show.
Speaker 2: You can't tune them down. Roll up in the.
Speaker 1: Ogach you're getting the og merch. You're getting the photo.
Speaker 1: Love it all right, that's it? Surely, surely that's it. No, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it all right. Everyone, Thanks so much for listening
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Speaker 1: it might be, and thank you so so much for
Speaker 1: the love over socials and everything else. You all are amazing,
Speaker 1: amazing community, and we continue to grow this thing and
Speaker 1: we are so thankful for everything you've done to give
Speaker 1: us to this point and launch us to the moon
Speaker 1: going forward. So thanks everyone so much. I appreciate you
Speaker 1: and dad. Check out Abby Holmes later this week. Huge
Speaker 1: podcast drop. That's the last part. I forgot to say.
Speaker 1: Absolute legend. We went into her commentating, we went into
Speaker 1: her love for the NT. Maybe some barrel Monday, she's
Speaker 1: caught over there.
Speaker 2: You gave us some dating advice.
Speaker 1: He did gave us some dating advice which is in there.
Speaker 1: So you best believe that's going to be a great episode.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for that to go out. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be real fun. She's an absolute legend, good friend of
Speaker 1: mine and someone who's you know, breaking all kinds of
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Speaker 1: You'll understand that if you listen to the app. All right,
Speaker 1: enjoy the rest of the day. We'll speak to you soon.
Speaker 2: Peace. Yeah,