Speaker 1: Hi, Legends, Welcome back to the Mason cock Show. Plenty happening.
Speaker 1: In this episode of the Sports Recap and Zach Week.
Speaker 1: We cover Anzac Day, an Zack Eve, all the games
Speaker 1: over the weekend, clanger of the week, also an injury
Speaker 1: update from myself. Plenty plenty to cover here. And if
Speaker 1: you haven't heard the Dustin Fletcher paw that came out
Speaker 1: before Anzac Day, you have to check that out. Absolute
Speaker 1: legend of the game. Some great stories from offseason travels,
Speaker 1: a few parties here and there, but if you haven't
Speaker 1: heard it, check it out wherever you get your podcast from.
Speaker 1: And without further ado, let's get into this podcast, all right,
Speaker 1: let's kick this off.
Speaker 2: Welcome Brandon.
Speaker 3: You did it to them again. Poor Essendon thought they
Speaker 3: had it, it was in their grasph and you just
Speaker 3: snatched it away from them. That's so harsh. I would say, like,
Speaker 3: sorry to the Essendon fans out there, but don't really
Speaker 3: get it.
Speaker 1: It's pretty obvious you're calling me fans. Well, we'll get
Speaker 1: straight into a cleaner of the week now. This one
Speaker 1: wild wild scenes from a Collingwood fan, was it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a Collingwood fan, And yeah, this one
Speaker 3: I put up on my Twitter because if you see something,
Speaker 3: say something mace. So if you see bad behavior, call
Speaker 3: it out. So obviously, this Collingwood fan gets the ball,
Speaker 3: it gets kicked into the crowd and he calls over
Speaker 3: an Essendon player Kyle Langford, to get the ball. He's like,
Speaker 3: here go, mate, got the ball for you. Kyle walks over,
Speaker 3: full well knowing what this idiot's gonna do.
Speaker 2: He had the look to he's about to do something
Speaker 2: shitty here.
Speaker 3: And he calls him over and just as he gets there,
Speaker 3: he throws the ball away and gives him the like
Speaker 3: up yours the hand gesture like right to his face and.
Speaker 2: Like we're just looking at him, like what are you doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I put it up there saying don't be this flog,
Speaker 3: which is just, you know, some pretty basic stuff. You
Speaker 3: wouldn't do it anywhere else. Anyway, all the mouth breathers
Speaker 3: came out of the woodworks on my Twitter and started going,
Speaker 3: oh mate, the world's gone bloody soft, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know what's soft, And I'll put this
Speaker 3: out there. You know what's soft is that bloke would
Speaker 3: not have done that if it was in the real world.
Speaker 3: Oh no, because because Langford would just slap him in
Speaker 3: the face. So he's only doing it because he's he
Speaker 3: knows that he's protected because the eyes of Australia are
Speaker 3: on it. There's one hundred thousand people in the stadium
Speaker 3: as witnesses, and there's broadcast cameras like catching their every move.
Speaker 3: So that's weak as piss. So everyone coming at me
Speaker 3: and saying, oh, the world's gone bloody soft. That guy's
Speaker 3: as soft as bloody tissue paper. The second thing that crack,
Speaker 3: the second thing that's bloody soft is the bloody advertars.
Speaker 3: In my replies having a crack that are thirty year
Speaker 3: old mouth breathers sitting in their mother's basement giving me shit.
Speaker 3: In my replies, have a cry jog on your losers.
Speaker 1: Well, favorite part about those Langard Langford actually kicks the god.
Speaker 2: It points to the dude.
Speaker 1: It was like take that, take that your body, colgood
Speaker 1: fan exactly.
Speaker 3: And if he was having a joke, and he's this
Speaker 3: lighthearted lark and that we all love, he would have
Speaker 3: had a laugh and gone good on your mate, nice one,
Speaker 3: you kick the goal. But no, he sat down like
Speaker 3: a little bitch and just sat there with his like
Speaker 3: fucking flat face, just couldn't cop it at all. If
Speaker 3: you're gonna if you're gonna play around, have fun, at
Speaker 3: least have a laugh when the blood gives it back
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 1: It's funny. People have just said that personifies a Collingwood
Speaker 1: fan to a tee. So the way that guy acted,
Speaker 1: everyone's like, that's.
Speaker 2: A colleage fan. Want to watch.
Speaker 3: That's it. And I'm trying to distance myself from that.
Speaker 3: See something, say something, call it out. Bullshit behavior, and
Speaker 3: that is the clanger of the week. I'm pulling it
Speaker 3: back to idiot a week. He's the idiot of the week.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of just I love anytime the audience
Speaker 1: gets an interaction with the players, because it's always great material.
Speaker 3: And that's what I'm not against those interactions. I think
Speaker 3: this bloke just went over the top. I'm not against
Speaker 3: the oh, where's the ball? It must be under my seat,
Speaker 3: give me a second way I go down and get it.
Speaker 3: That's not giving the dude up yours and throwing the
Speaker 3: ball away like some kind of like year twelve bully
Speaker 3: at school or something like. There's time, place, there's vibe,
Speaker 3: and I just don't think that this guy was getting it.
Speaker 1: But I must say this actually, and I'll call myself
Speaker 1: out for this, because whenever I first learned what IFL was,
Speaker 1: I had no idea you had to hand the ball
Speaker 1: back after a free kick, right. So at one point
Speaker 1: in my career down in Frankston, the bongo drums were
Speaker 1: going off up on the hill. The people were going nuts.
Speaker 1: We were up by about fifty on Frankston. They had
Speaker 1: no chance of winning before the game even started. And
Speaker 1: I'd given a free kick away and the umpire goes yep,
Speaker 1: free kick against Yeah Mason cocksball lot goes Frankston away
Speaker 1: and I look at him and I had the ball
Speaker 1: in my hand. I was like, that's a bullshit free kick.
Speaker 1: Threw it on the ground, like get fucked. I'm going
Speaker 1: back to defense. Safe to say that led to a
Speaker 1: fifty penalty in a shot on golf for that fella.
Speaker 2: I've never been more embarrassed in my life.
Speaker 3: That's there was ones like withint getting too old timing
Speaker 3: because they never used to have the like out on
Speaker 3: the fall or whatever back in the day, so you
Speaker 3: could just launch.
Speaker 2: The ball into the ground yeah.
Speaker 3: Miles away and just say go get it, but yeah,
Speaker 3: times have changed.
Speaker 1: Times have changed for the better, or we'll get into
Speaker 1: the game of the games of the week.
Speaker 2: We've got free O versus the Bulldogs.
Speaker 3: A bit of spice in this one.
Speaker 2: Spice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so off the top, obviously, Rory Lob went from
Speaker 3: GWS to Freo, then across to now playing at the Bulldogs.
Speaker 3: Frequent flyers must be through the bloody roof. But Freemantle
Speaker 3: fans didn't forget, and Freemantle players didn't forget because they
Speaker 3: went straight to him at the top off the bounce
Speaker 3: and they started jumper punching him and ripping him. And yeah,
Speaker 3: it was you.
Speaker 2: Know, it was all it was a target from day dark.
Speaker 3: But it was pretty obvious. Tongue in cheek. You can't
Speaker 3: go do the whole bravado thing, but you're all smiling
Speaker 3: and laughing as you're like punching each other in the head.
Speaker 3: Is a bit weird, But I don't know. It didn't
Speaker 3: last very long because that that bravado didn't carry over
Speaker 3: into the actual game and Western Bulldogs kind of had
Speaker 3: their way with it. Lob played a decent game, but
Speaker 3: he kicked I think one three If he had to
Speaker 3: kick four straight or something. He really had the last laugh.
Speaker 3: But Onton Pelly unreal. He's insane, one of the.
Speaker 1: Best, very like, he's very highly talented, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: but I still think he's quite underrated. Is what he
Speaker 1: does for that team, how important he is, and like
Speaker 1: the leadership he shows and then also being able to
Speaker 1: back that up. It is phenomenal what that man is
Speaker 1: doing on a weekly basis.
Speaker 3: It's just so silky. Yeah, thirty one touches two goals
Speaker 3: and yeah, I didn't look at his goal assists, but
Speaker 3: I'm sure they were through the roof too.
Speaker 1: Also, this though about lob I did respect the way
Speaker 1: you know they had the can, the beer can, the
Speaker 1: lobster tears and the whole like media thing around that,
Speaker 1: you know of him leaving and his nickname, And I
Speaker 1: like Chazz, I give credit to him because at the
Speaker 1: end of the game he held up one of the cans.
Speaker 1: He kind of played into the whole thing, had a
Speaker 1: bit of a laugh, and like that's what we were,
Speaker 1: like we like characters in the game. We always say it.
Speaker 1: It's a credit to him for just owning up to it,
Speaker 1: having a bit of a laugh, drinking a little sip
Speaker 1: beer after the game from the Lobster Tiars and they
Speaker 1: we've got plenty of marketing that beer company.
Speaker 3: And then that's what I think. I think it all
Speaker 3: gets muddy when people are like, you know, the guy
Speaker 3: throwing the ball away, his characters and fun and all
Speaker 3: that stuff, and then like what lob did is characters
Speaker 3: and fun and all stuff. There's nuance to all this stuff.
Speaker 3: There's like there's you know, context to things that exist
Speaker 3: in the world, and it's I think, you know, one's happy,
Speaker 3: go lucky, fun and then the other is just an idiot.
Speaker 3: So but there's a line that needs to be walked.
Speaker 3: And I like characters in the game. Half the stuff
Speaker 3: that you don't do brings like character to the game
Speaker 3: and makes the game better. And it's always funner when
Speaker 3: you know the players are the one driving it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we've got Alex Pearce. We want to want
Speaker 1: to mention this because I know he's captain. He's first
Speaker 1: first year captain's captaincy for the Freer Dockers and he's
Speaker 1: having a bit of a rough go at the moment
Speaker 1: and it kind of reminds me of Coggs from GWS,
Speaker 1: And you know, they had the big Amazon series and
Speaker 1: covered him and his struggles through through cabin see in
Speaker 1: his first year. It's a very interesting situation right with
Speaker 1: him at the moment, like and really he's actually a
Speaker 1: legend Alex. He's like the nicest person I've ever met.
Speaker 1: And he was one of the first people to get
Speaker 1: into LB before that game. And it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you follow the captain, everyone else joins him, and it's
Speaker 1: it's a bit of a change obviously, with five changing
Speaker 1: roles and not becoming not being captain anymore, and and
Speaker 1: him taking the reins. It's it's a tough thing. It's
Speaker 1: tough to see someone like somewhat struggle in that role.
Speaker 3: It is a yeah, it's a weird one for him
Speaker 3: because well, yeah, he had a shocker on the weekend.
Speaker 3: It was a real stinker. And you know, it's it's
Speaker 3: not too often that your captain's probably not your best
Speaker 3: player on the team. Like it's pretty easy to pick
Speaker 3: the best guy that's probably never going to see another
Speaker 3: game of reserves football ever again. But yeah, it's always
Speaker 3: awkward when it gets to this position where it's like, well,
Speaker 3: if he was any other player, would he just be
Speaker 3: dropped for his poor performance. Yeah, it is. It is
Speaker 3: a weird one for him and something that they're going
Speaker 3: to have to work through. But Coggs worked through it
Speaker 3: and now he's playing awesome foot. He had a massive
Speaker 3: game on weekend, so you know it can happen. Wait
Speaker 3: and see, Wait and see. It's only twenty seven. It's
Speaker 3: not like he's over the hill.
Speaker 1: You just go get his head rocked around all the
Speaker 1: all the leadership stuff that comes with out. I think
Speaker 1: now the next game Port versus West Coast Eagles.
Speaker 3: Now down here, it says will Scofia. Now I don't
Speaker 3: know that if if you know, but he retired, He
Speaker 3: did retire, but he is playing in the twos for
Speaker 3: the Eagles. The man's wanting to return and there is
Speaker 3: a possibility he might get the mid season draft. So
Speaker 3: is that what this means? Come back playing the reserves
Speaker 3: like we all know, as uh, West Coast have no
Speaker 3: players left.
Speaker 2: It's a rough try for them at the moment.
Speaker 3: They run it on empty. So so you think that's
Speaker 3: that's the plan here, come back through the twos and
Speaker 3: get picked up in the mid season draft.
Speaker 1: I would love to see it. I would love to
Speaker 1: see he looks about forty, but heard's still playing. That
Speaker 1: man has had hair for for twenty years.
Speaker 3: He's looked forty since he was toad.
Speaker 2: It's like that man.
Speaker 1: Oh he's got the hell of a kick though, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd love to see Will be one of those players
Speaker 1: the kind of like retire. He's doing the podcast, I
Speaker 1: feel the media things and he's like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I think I've still got it. I've got a medal,
Speaker 1: I've got to twenty eighteen Premiership metal. I can come
Speaker 1: back and play. And it would be great to see
Speaker 1: somewhat of a person who's thought they've retired moved on
Speaker 1: come back and just really show what's left in the tank.
Speaker 3: And if someone said that he had come back, we'll
Speaker 3: give you one hundred grand for half a years.
Speaker 2: I'm saying yes, everyone's saying yes. Now.
Speaker 1: The other thing I want to I want to mention
Speaker 1: this is a bit of a heavier topic now. Jeremy
Speaker 1: finn Layson, what he's doing right now is phenomenal. And
Speaker 1: his wife prays up to her she's she's gone through
Speaker 1: a really tough time and I just want to shout
Speaker 1: him out man, like it's I can't help to try
Speaker 1: to put myself in his position, and I couldn't put
Speaker 1: it on, you know, like you wouldn't put it on
Speaker 1: your worst end of me kind of stuff, you know.
Speaker 1: And the way he's being able to handle it, the
Speaker 1: way I think both of them have been so open
Speaker 1: about the whole journey and what's happening is is such
Speaker 1: a credit to him. It can be such a tough
Speaker 1: time to have to go through that, and it's it's
Speaker 1: absolutely just amazing to see the way they're handling it
Speaker 1: and the way he's playing giving all the circle sanss
Speaker 1: that's going on. So I want to give a shout
Speaker 1: out to him because he's what he's performing, what he's doing,
Speaker 1: what he's going through, and what the family is having
Speaker 1: to deal with. It's it's it's a credit to him.
Speaker 1: I seriously cannot speak highly of highly more highly about
Speaker 1: him and what he's having to go through and how
Speaker 1: he's handling it. So to shout out to Jeremy Finlayson,
Speaker 1: the whole family, and I just want to wish you
Speaker 1: all the best in the fight ahead.
Speaker 3: And he's actually like not that it matters in the
Speaker 3: slightest in like what's going on, but he's playing amazing
Speaker 3: for me. Like on top of all of that, like
Speaker 3: strong character to come out and kind of still compete
Speaker 3: and do what he's doing with so much that would
Speaker 3: be weighing on his mind. Yeah, So shouts out to
Speaker 3: Jeremy and the family.
Speaker 1: We'll move on next to jail us versus Brisbane, catch road, take.
Speaker 2: The whole de place hard.
Speaker 1: Charlie Carey kicks another bag, kicks another bag.
Speaker 3: I wish that he didn't now, Charlie Cameron kicks seven.
Speaker 3: Wasn't even at home so music didn't play, which is great.
Speaker 3: Can you tell me where West Virginia is? I assume
Speaker 3: it's west of Virginia.
Speaker 1: It's like where all the Bogans of America live. And Nolan,
Speaker 1: my brother, just says all the time. He says, there's
Speaker 1: nothing more fitting than a whole bunch of Queensland Bogans
Speaker 1: talking about the place in America where allans live.
Speaker 3: Did you says, Brisbane, Queensland is the West Virginia in Australian, it's.
Speaker 2: Very much so. I love Queensland. Talking to me wrong.
Speaker 1: But if you were to say where most Bogans live,
Speaker 1: I think every Australian would say Queensland's probably number one
Speaker 1: on their list.
Speaker 3: Which is yeah, well, I feel like what about this.
Speaker 3: I heard this the other day when someone's like, oh,
Speaker 3: what type of music do you listen to? And it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: I listened to all music. Country music is still excluded
Speaker 3: from that, like all music, it's except for in Queensland.
Speaker 3: It sits outside of all genres. But Charlie Cameron also
Speaker 3: one of his seven was an amazing goal. Now, I
Speaker 3: don't know if you've seen this, but it was. It
Speaker 3: was a soccer goal, but not a traditional you know,
Speaker 3: kick it and it comes forward off the boot and
Speaker 3: goes through the goals. It was like a cross in
Speaker 3: from the corner and he like flattened out his boot
Speaker 3: and glanced it through the goals. It's a freaking yeah.
Speaker 3: And I do another podcast with Adam Trelaw and Josh Dunkley,
Speaker 3: and dunk said that Charlie was showing everyone the replay
Speaker 3: on his and he was claiming that, you know, he
Speaker 3: did it on purpose, which makes sense. He was also
Speaker 3: claiming that he got a hand to it and guided
Speaker 3: it down to the boot, which on the replay the
Speaker 3: balls like two meters away from his hand. So I
Speaker 3: don't know if it's like delusion, but yeah, it was
Speaker 3: like a really soccer esque kind of just helping it
Speaker 3: on its way to the back corner type goal. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know how he does half the stuff that
Speaker 3: he does, but let's move ahead and go straight into
Speaker 3: the Grand Final. Rematch was built up whole week and
Speaker 3: it was exactly that I checked my foxtowl bucks to
Speaker 3: make sure that I wasn't playing a replay of the
Speaker 3: Grand Final because Geelong went out there and just smashed
Speaker 3: Sydney from you know, go to w It was. It
Speaker 3: was basically an identical game.
Speaker 2: It was rough.
Speaker 1: I thought, like, I think Sidney is a great team
Speaker 1: and they've beaten Richmond and stuff this year. They've played
Speaker 1: some good games, and yeah, I was the same. Whenever
Speaker 1: I saw the score, I was like, is this Like
Speaker 1: is there something wrong with what's going on? Like I
Speaker 1: was so confused by it, and you just kind of
Speaker 1: thought that, you know, with what happened last year and
Speaker 1: everything else, they'd have that motivation to come out and
Speaker 1: just try to spank Gelong, you know, like anytime someone
Speaker 1: beats you in the Grand Final or like having an
Speaker 1: experienced that also, it's like you have a point to prove.
Speaker 1: And whenever I sat there I looked at the score,
Speaker 1: I was just I was baffled.
Speaker 2: I was blown away. I was absolutely blown away.
Speaker 1: And it does speak to Geelong's ability to play at
Speaker 1: home at GMHBA. They're a very very good home team.
Speaker 3: I think that was the interesting thing though, because I
Speaker 3: think the stat going into it was like Sydney had
Speaker 3: beaten Geelong at their home like two of the last
Speaker 3: three times. And then I was like, okay, so you
Speaker 3: start to get this okay, and they're going to come
Speaker 3: out and it said that they were going to use
Speaker 3: the you know, grand final pain to like spur them
Speaker 3: on to try harder and stuff. So coming out fully
Speaker 3: gat up and ready to take them on, full of
Speaker 3: confidence and then just get wiped off the park. That's
Speaker 3: got to do some like mental scarring type damage to
Speaker 3: like Sydney. But like, they're definitely going to be better.
Speaker 3: They'll get the mccartin's back, they'll get Rampy back. I
Speaker 3: think they'll get Hickey back. Like losing, they lost a
Speaker 3: lot of personnel and it doesn't help having zero defenders
Speaker 3: when you're coming up against Jeremy Cameron and Tom Hawkins.
Speaker 2: Kicking a bag.
Speaker 1: Both of them kicked five oh straight shots.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, brutal. Jeremy Cameron on target to kick
Speaker 3: a hundred for the season. Still and it's we're heading
Speaker 3: into a round set.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a noise for every single time Jeremy
Speaker 1: Cameron takes it bags. It'll be like cuntry road take
Speaker 1: me out. Maybe like a little move, that's all I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: Jeremy Cameron give them every time he kicks a bag,
Speaker 1: which is every freaking week, don't mind it.
Speaker 3: And another story from their forward line. Sam Simpson got
Speaker 3: really horrifically concussed in the twenty twenty Grand Final early
Speaker 3: on and kind hasn't really seen footy since then. Super
Speaker 3: popular within the club. Came out kicked the first goal
Speaker 3: of the game. Talk about feel good moments. All the
Speaker 3: boys got around him, had another couple for the game.
Speaker 3: It's great to see him back and just a real,
Speaker 3: you know, feel good story.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was awesome to see him back out there, like
Speaker 1: you always talk about, like the Alex Johnson's of the world,
Speaker 1: you know that had his acl has done so many
Speaker 1: times and whenever they come back out and are able
Speaker 1: to perform at the highest level. It's awesome, so cool,
Speaker 1: And shout out to Alex Johnson because whenever he came back,
Speaker 1: he played on me and shut my ass dout.
Speaker 3: So really he's shoulder there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know he was a pretty good player if
Speaker 1: you had decent knees, but yeah, I know. It's it's
Speaker 1: awesome to see these players who have gone through the
Speaker 1: ringer with injuries.
Speaker 2: It's such a hard.
Speaker 1: Thing with rehab and being on your own at times
Speaker 1: and not being feel like you're part of the club
Speaker 1: whenever everyone else is playing and shadows to Sam, It's
Speaker 1: it's pretty pretty cool to see someone who's been through
Speaker 1: the ring or be able to come out and kick
Speaker 1: the first goal to and see the players get around
Speaker 1: him as such a special moment.
Speaker 3: He'll never forget now talk about special moments. Hawthorne v
Speaker 3: crows what a game. People were lining up around the
Speaker 3: block to go to this one. I think it was
Speaker 3: in Tazzy and I think about twelve people rock though.
Speaker 3: But those twelve people were in for a game because.
Speaker 1: They get the Tazzy team. It's gonna be great. It
Speaker 1: was a nail buter the the AFL, we don't have
Speaker 1: to spend on.
Speaker 3: It's a harsh one because people are saying stuff like that,
Speaker 3: but it's like you couldn't pay me to go to
Speaker 3: a Hawthorn v Crows game. You couldn't give me enough money.
Speaker 3: But it was Darcy Fogg and he kicked the what
Speaker 3: you'd call the match when I had a minute to
Speaker 3: go on the you know, on the fence he was.
Speaker 3: He was sitting on the fence and everyone would have
Speaker 3: gone the snap or the banana or kicked it across
Speaker 3: the body. He went dead straight drop punt, split the sticks.
Speaker 3: It was a great goal. They Adelaide held on to
Speaker 3: win by you know, a couple of points. But you
Speaker 3: know Collingwood coming up against them next week. They are
Speaker 3: in four. They have a surprise packet of the season.
Speaker 1: So I think they're going under like under the under
Speaker 1: the radar a bit just because they're from Adelaide, Like
Speaker 1: they're not the Melbourne team. We don't see as much
Speaker 1: news around them everything else. Like, I think they're playing
Speaker 1: really good football at the moment and it's going to
Speaker 1: be a great showdown at their home ground. But luckily
Speaker 1: we've got a little bit experience thanks to the gather
Speaker 1: round of a little bit of playing it out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: essentially a game before there, so our second helm at
Speaker 1: the moment, we've played more, we've played just as many
Speaker 1: games there, I feel like as the MCG after this game.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it would be a great game. Like the
Speaker 1: Crows are on a bit of a role and the
Speaker 1: Hawks are struggling a bit. You know, they're they're in
Speaker 1: the race for the wooden spoon and they're they're leading.
Speaker 1: I think they're leading the charge of the moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not there's not too many in that race.
Speaker 3: Like normally we'd just assumed North is down there, going
Speaker 3: going for it hard. But Hawks give them a real
Speaker 3: challenge run for their money. It's gonna be interesting Hawthorne.
Speaker 3: We all always knew they were going to suck.
Speaker 1: The rebuilding, like it's part of the experience. It's part
Speaker 1: of you know, like they had their building from nothing,
Speaker 1: they have their premiership years and that's how it always goes.
Speaker 1: It's a sickle cool kind of thing, you know. Now
Speaker 1: you bring these new young kids in, you have to
Speaker 1: get some games into them. And now they have experienced
Speaker 1: at a younger age with these games and from this
Speaker 1: year and the years before, so it's part of the
Speaker 1: rebuilding process.
Speaker 3: That's yeah. I guess the way up between Hawthorn and
Speaker 3: North is like you probably if you're Aworn fan, sitting
Speaker 3: there with like three flags back to back to back,
Speaker 3: you're probably pretty happy. Yeah, North haven't done much since
Speaker 3: you know, the two thousand's kicked off and we're twenty
Speaker 3: three years in h.
Speaker 1: North is like North is always Look, they almost beat
Speaker 1: us last year, so like they have potential.
Speaker 2: They do have potential.
Speaker 3: How good it almost wins They're the best heading into
Speaker 3: the cart and Saint killed the game. This was a
Speaker 3: good one because I was pumped for this because it
Speaker 3: was one of those every and then you come across
Speaker 3: a game that's like, okay, let's test out these teams.
Speaker 3: You don't know where Saint Kilda's really sitting. You don't
Speaker 3: know where Carlton's really sitting. Well, Saint Kilda's still firmly
Speaker 3: sitting on top of the ladder number one. Carlton's you know,
Speaker 3: down there punch in a way. It was a really
Speaker 3: exciting game, probably up until midway point of the third quarter,
Speaker 3: where Saint Kilda really just ran away with it, which
Speaker 3: is yeah, you know, it's surprising Carlton have the last
Speaker 3: two Coleman medalists and they just really struggle to kick
Speaker 3: a goal. So you assume it's a bit more up
Speaker 3: the field. That must be the issue to be getting
Speaker 3: the ball in there quicker, because you know, if you
Speaker 3: were a midfielder and you're looking down at Harry and Charlie,
Speaker 3: you just get it in there the rest. Yeah, at
Speaker 3: the moment that even the Ford line they're trying to
Speaker 3: separate those two because they can. You're almost spoiled for choice.
Speaker 3: You got too many good forwards up there. Yeah, how
Speaker 3: did you see this one? It was an interesting match
Speaker 3: because Carlton had a lot of touches. They had the
Speaker 3: top six disposal getters. Four of those had mid to
Speaker 3: hide thirties and it didn't seem to help them at all.
Speaker 1: I've said this multiple times. Stats midfielders win Brownlows. Does
Speaker 1: this mean that brownlows are not important?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just throwing it out there. Maybe give one to
Speaker 1: like a forward or defender at some point. I mean, like,
Speaker 1: when was the last time a Brownlow me winner it
Speaker 1: was a defender?
Speaker 2: Geez.
Speaker 1: You just know as a defender you had no chance
Speaker 1: of winning that thing. But it was it was interesting
Speaker 1: because they did dominate in the middle with the you know,
Speaker 1: touches and everything else, but they just couldn't convert them
Speaker 1: into goals. And it's they're very kind of contest teams.
Speaker 1: So they kicked down line Carleton and they want the
Speaker 1: contest and then they kind of you know, spread from
Speaker 1: there and if that doesn't work, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: what's what's planning? B Like they the same killed a team.
Speaker 1: They put that pressure on if they can bring it
Speaker 1: to ground. They're really good at bouncing, really good at
Speaker 1: bouncing back and kicking goals. So yeah, it was it
Speaker 1: was interesting. Harry had a bit of struggle in front
Speaker 1: of goals. Yeah, and it's yeah, it's it's a you know,
Speaker 1: every player got to these all you know, confidence laws.
Speaker 1: I guess whenever it comes to goal kicking. And I
Speaker 1: think you mentioned it before, the part about him kicking
Speaker 1: like six different types of kicks for goal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they showed it on the couch. He had
Speaker 3: no consistency, no routine. He would you know, play on
Speaker 3: from one kick, a snap kick, a banana, you know,
Speaker 3: the drop punt like he did everything under the sun,
Speaker 3: but probably just needs more consistency by the looks of it.
Speaker 3: You know, try a drop punt, Oh it fades right, Okay,
Speaker 3: adjust that and go from there. But you know he's
Speaker 3: got to be something like if you're going to go
Speaker 3: to snap, just go all snaps, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like like Rewat did that for a year or two.
Speaker 1: He's just like snapping from literally dead in front.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's an interesting one for me because he
Speaker 3: looks like he kicks like a really good snap and
Speaker 3: he can kick distance like most guys they do it
Speaker 3: within thirty yep, but he can comfortably kick it, you know,
Speaker 3: forty forty five close to fifty meters on the snap.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it would be good to see him pick something,
Speaker 3: pick one of them.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, it's like do something, do one really well,
Speaker 1: and just commit to that and training that throughout the week. Look,
Speaker 1: what's our retiring stuff, Harry. If you want some help,
Speaker 1: happy to help you out and get that thing sorted.
Speaker 3: That is you said, everyone goes through these down patches,
Speaker 3: and you ever had a down patch goal kicking because
Speaker 3: everyone kind of pumps you up for your goal kicking acts.
Speaker 3: Would knock on would don't worry, I'll knock you down.
Speaker 2: No, thank you.
Speaker 1: No, I've had little like yips in my I think
Speaker 1: a lot of it was never had my eye issue
Speaker 1: and like that changed my death perception of actually like
Speaker 1: dropping it. Yeah, I was like, where's the ball? Just
Speaker 1: swing it something we've kind of fixed an ap, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was something I think everyone goes through
Speaker 1: a certain like confidence lull, and you know, you might
Speaker 1: miss two or three or four from a certain angle.
Speaker 1: And like I have my like Bermuda triangle that like
Speaker 1: I know I'm not as good kicking from. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to tell you where that is, but like I
Speaker 1: have a little area that I know I'm probably not
Speaker 1: as confident from because I tend to somehow, for some reason,
Speaker 1: like not make as many percentage shots as that from
Speaker 1: that angle. So everyone has their yips, like and you know,
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing is probably just getting back
Speaker 1: to basics kicking goals from as close to the goals
Speaker 1: as possible to give you a higher percentage. And even
Speaker 1: in training is like do that get really good at
Speaker 1: that kick like five.
Speaker 2: In a row, make feel better?
Speaker 1: Then kick you know, ten meters back and then team
Speaker 1: meters back, and then you go on the angles and
Speaker 1: you kick those, so like you start getting your confidence
Speaker 1: up knowing that, like if I can kick one in front, yes, tick,
Speaker 1: Like I'm not worried about, you know, missing a shot,
Speaker 1: Like the chances of missing a shot from there is
Speaker 1: like zero, So then you kind of work back your
Speaker 1: confidence from there to get better at it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there's yeah, I hope Harry starts getting stuff storted because
Speaker 1: he's a freak. He's a really good player, great hands
Speaker 1: on the man, great hands and be able to take
Speaker 1: a contested mark. And if he can kick goals for
Speaker 1: that team, that team can there's no, no, no limit
Speaker 1: to what they can do.
Speaker 3: One thing that shits me up the wall, and I like,
Speaker 3: I don't want to get into you know, old man
Speaker 3: at the pub territory. But why do people do long
Speaker 3: run ups set shots to goal? Like if you were
Speaker 3: taking a field kick and you have to hit someone
Speaker 3: across the field at thirty forty meters away, you could
Speaker 3: take two steps and hit them, you know, nine out
Speaker 3: of ten times, Maybe not you, maybe someone good. But like,
Speaker 3: why don't players just go take the mark two three
Speaker 3: steps back, kick it through the sticks? Why do you
Speaker 3: have to do something so unnatural? You don't go back
Speaker 3: thirty forty meters off the mark and do a massive
Speaker 3: plot in run.
Speaker 2: Really pick it out one player on your head.
Speaker 3: Not just all of them, Like like what player when
Speaker 3: like pedals doesn't mark the ball like in the midfield
Speaker 3: and then go back thirty forty meters to try and
Speaker 3: make a field kick. It's something that seems so unnatural,
Speaker 3: but like, all these forwards are really good field kicks,
Speaker 3: So why don't they just go back five meters and
Speaker 3: kick it off a step or two?
Speaker 2: Brandon, I'd love to be able to give you that answer, but.
Speaker 3: It's because people tell you what you have to do. Oh,
Speaker 3: this is what we've done forever.
Speaker 1: If I'm ten meters out, if I'm two meters out,
Speaker 1: if I'm fifty meters out, if I'm forty or thirty,
Speaker 1: the exact same routine and the exact same amount of
Speaker 1: steps and the exact same amount of flips of the
Speaker 1: ball before.
Speaker 2: I kick it.
Speaker 3: I think, as dumb as shit, I have a crack
Speaker 3: AFL players suck at kicking it through the sticks. There
Speaker 3: you got a nine meter gap across that you just
Speaker 3: got to put this tiny little ball through.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should actually put you in front of goals
Speaker 1: at different angles, and let's see what your percentage shut
Speaker 1: shot would be. Just go, get a crowd of like
Speaker 1: twenty or thirty people just to give you shit from
Speaker 1: the sidelines and see how you go.
Speaker 3: But I suck. So it's like if you everyty probably
Speaker 3: longer than I have, every player could hit another person
Speaker 3: standing thirty meters over there. Yeah, ten out of ten times.
Speaker 3: But then you put this massive nine meter like gas
Speaker 3: in front of them.
Speaker 2: It's a head game.
Speaker 3: Mentally weak people play football.
Speaker 2: It must be this. I agree to complaining about people
Speaker 2: in this DMS.
Speaker 3: So I don't know what it's like. You don't know
Speaker 3: what it's like to copaid online, mate.
Speaker 1: Of course, not all right, We'll move into the next one,
Speaker 1: Gold Coast, North Melbourne. We've got the ANTAC data. It's
Speaker 1: a big ending to this. We've got to get through it.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we've we've gone to Gold Coast in North Melbourne.
Speaker 1: I know you're real excited about this.
Speaker 3: One, built up to this one. Let's just skim it.
Speaker 3: Prayers up, we've got a prayers out. Took Miller probably
Speaker 3: one of my favorites going right, greatest athlete in the NFL. Runs.
Speaker 3: I reckon, he's he's got an actual engine inside his body.
Speaker 3: They've done patrol, he does, he just keeps going. I reckon,
Speaker 3: that's yeah. He must just stop by the bench. They
Speaker 3: fill him up with diesel and off he goes. But yeah,
Speaker 3: unfortunately he's got a bit of a knee injury. But
Speaker 3: he escaped in a cl so there's some good news there.
Speaker 3: He'll be out a few weeks and he'll just be
Speaker 3: running straight back into the team, no doubt. Ben King
Speaker 3: another kicks a another good story, like seeing Ben King
Speaker 3: out there first few weeks. He was a bit fumbly,
Speaker 3: dropping kind of everything coming his way. Kicked five on
Speaker 3: the weekend. It's always good to verse North, just get
Speaker 3: you into a bit of form. But apparently it's coming
Speaker 3: to Collingwood next year, so it's good to get him
Speaker 3: into a bit of form. Slots straight into the site.
Speaker 2: I don't know how we'd handle a big forward like that.
Speaker 1: He kicks goals like we haven't really had one of
Speaker 1: those since probably like trave Cloak, there's always been like
Speaker 1: a very even spread.
Speaker 2: I feel like of.
Speaker 1: Fords, where it's not just like we have one option
Speaker 1: to go to or one like preferred option. It's like
Speaker 1: we have five that are going to hit you up
Speaker 1: and like try to get the ball and everyone can kick.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's beyond me who comes to the club.
Speaker 1: But it'd be so interesting, I guess for us if
Speaker 1: we played a big ticket like Forward who were paying
Speaker 1: bolt Coin be up there kicking snags.
Speaker 3: I don't I'd love to see him there, but shee's
Speaker 3: the pressure. Don't do it to yourself, son.
Speaker 2: Lights See, if.
Speaker 3: He was playing at Collingwood and he had the first
Speaker 3: few games that he did where he was dropping you know,
Speaker 3: marks and stuff, he would have been crucified for the
Speaker 3: past month in the media, which wouldn't have made things
Speaker 3: any better. And we probably didn't have seen a five
Speaker 3: gold game from him because he'd just be shattered, you know, mentally.
Speaker 3: So you know, maybe it's not worth playing for some
Speaker 3: of the big clubs sometimes.
Speaker 1: Beyond my decision, Brandon. But we'll move into the next one.
Speaker 1: The Anzac Eve match. This okay, I'm going to ask
Speaker 1: you what's better, Anzac Eve match or Queen's Birthday, King's birthday.
Speaker 2: Sorry r Ip.
Speaker 3: Bears up to the Earth.
Speaker 2: Monarchy.
Speaker 3: It is good. I don't know. The intro is great,
Speaker 3: like the nighttime, just.
Speaker 1: A visual of all the like flashlights, you know, and
Speaker 1: you get the cold room so cool.
Speaker 3: See there are the moments for the nighttime games. You
Speaker 3: have some special nighttime, Daytime Grand Final, Nighttime King's Birthday. No,
Speaker 3: what don't we zack eve anzack. So they got the horse,
Speaker 3: they got the torch, they got everyone had their like
Speaker 3: lights out. It just looks great.
Speaker 2: It's special, amazing visual.
Speaker 3: I think the celebrations across the whole weekend are great.
Speaker 3: Where they do, you know, the last post and stuff
Speaker 3: before every game, everyone stands there, pays their respects, national anthems,
Speaker 3: the works. It's all great. AFL again big Tickford what
Speaker 3: they do to celebrate occasions.
Speaker 1: But did you love the IFL? You just support the
Speaker 1: if I feel like we're two options.
Speaker 2: This fact I got it.
Speaker 3: From from because every time we do a podcast, you're
Speaker 3: just shitting on him.
Speaker 2: Keep them in line.
Speaker 3: So this game, Van Roy and everyone in the crowd
Speaker 3: I don't very close to, very close to, and I
Speaker 3: don't think it's Van Ruin, but he was. He was,
Speaker 3: they said after the game.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 3: He said after the game that he was one rotation
Speaker 3: off getting subbed out of the game. And they said,
Speaker 3: I we'll take Brodie off, he'll have a rest and
Speaker 3: then we'll sub Van Royan out of the game. Get
Speaker 3: him off. He's been junk anyway in that span of
Speaker 3: that one rotation. He comes out, just starts clunking pack
Speaker 3: marks and kicking snags, and you know, he grew in confidence.
Speaker 3: He looked like, you know, he.
Speaker 1: Told the light at the end of the tunnel that says, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give it all here. I'm going to
Speaker 1: get subbed off anyway. And what happens now, we're not
Speaker 1: subbing you off anymore. Mate, You've gone well, we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep you out.
Speaker 3: Talking about sliding doors. Moments like those are things that
Speaker 3: can like, you know, progress your career, you know, big
Speaker 3: steps really quickly. He yeah, he looks like he's going
Speaker 3: to be a ripper. And they were speaking to him
Speaker 3: postgame and speaks really well to like it's just, you know,
Speaker 3: seems to be enjoying being out there, and he wasn't.
Speaker 3: You know, some players come out nicknake us bit that
Speaker 3: give us a bit? Is it just that he's too professional?
Speaker 3: Take us But we'll get to that. What we will say, though,
Speaker 3: is what what I'll say. I'll distance you from this.
Speaker 3: But Richmond stinking it up. One win, four big ols
Speaker 3: and a draw. I don't know what's going on there
Speaker 3: because they got two absolute stars in over the off season,
Speaker 3: and I don't know if there have been like the answer,
Speaker 3: it takes a bit for players to pick up the
Speaker 3: game plan and start to gel with other teammates.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's that or what. They've had
Speaker 1: a pretty solid schedule to start the season. They've lost
Speaker 1: their ruckman, who's one of the captains on to say
Speaker 1: with Nanke Curvis, the big nank, and you know rewol
Speaker 1: was injured for a little bit too, and the head
Speaker 1: Castional Arts.
Speaker 2: So there's been a few injuries and stuff. They've rolled
Speaker 2: through that team.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of interesting though, because a lot of
Speaker 1: people go, oh, man, I like Lauren Bells Richmond's wanting for.
Speaker 1: But any team that's going up against Richmond that week
Speaker 1: or you best believe that they realize Richmond can come
Speaker 1: out and just spank them. So every team's on edge
Speaker 1: every time you play that team. There's no whether they're
Speaker 1: one and there could be one win for the whole season.
Speaker 1: Being the last game, you're still worried about what they're
Speaker 1: going to be able to produce.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that's fair to say about most
Speaker 3: of the competition.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty even.
Speaker 3: But and another thing that I would say is just
Speaker 3: jumping back to Saint Kilda. Saint Kilda have so many injuries.
Speaker 3: They're going to get true half their team back and
Speaker 3: they're going to be better again. Collingwood they're going to
Speaker 3: get half their team back and be better again. And
Speaker 3: these teams are up the top of the ladder. So
Speaker 3: I don't see it as an excuse. You can't go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, we've got a few injuries. We get to
Speaker 3: be shit like. Yeah, it's it's a very interesting there's
Speaker 3: there's a few teams and we'll.
Speaker 2: I think Richmond will have a run. I win five, six,
Speaker 2: seven straight and then this whole thing will just even
Speaker 2: out and they'll be like eight and four.
Speaker 3: It's an interesting one because everyone's just waiting for a run.
Speaker 3: But it's like, is it the Richmond of old or
Speaker 3: are they just old?
Speaker 2: You know, time will tell, Brandon, so Ime will tell.
Speaker 3: Now. I want to get into this because you finally
Speaker 3: get to feel what it freaking feels like to watch
Speaker 3: Collingwood from the sidelines and it's torture.
Speaker 2: I'm sitting there, absolutely torture.
Speaker 3: Trick me every time. I'm sitting there going like already
Speaker 3: you know, got the got the tweet, sitting in the
Speaker 3: drafts going oh, well, good try, we'll get them next
Speaker 3: week type type shit in my Twitter draft. But god damn,
Speaker 3: you just come back and what what the hell happened?
Speaker 3: Seven goals to nothing in the last quarter? What was that?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's not the first time, Bright and so the fact
Speaker 1: that you don't expected I think you probably have learned
Speaker 1: your lesson a few times before this.
Speaker 2: But it was awesome.
Speaker 1: The day ninety five plus one thousand at the g
Speaker 1: it was one of the best atmospheres I've ever seen,
Speaker 1: like amazing. Obviously, the day within itself super super memorable
Speaker 1: for anyone that experiences that, but then to have the crowd,
Speaker 1: the two teams be up the top of the ladder,
Speaker 1: and the rivalry and everything that goes with it, it
Speaker 1: was an atmosphere one oh one, one of the best
Speaker 1: I've ever experienced.
Speaker 3: Let's go back and talk us through the week because
Speaker 3: it's a big week Anzac's Anzac Day, but at Anzac Week,
Speaker 3: because so much stuff happens, how did the club kind
Speaker 3: of celebrate it.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's I don't know if it's necessarily probably celebration,
Speaker 1: but more recognition. It's always an interesting one of how
Speaker 1: to describe Anzac data people. But during the week every
Speaker 1: single year, I feel like we always have a veteran
Speaker 1: or someone who's served in the ANZACs or is at Anzac.
Speaker 1: And we went to the shrine as a team. We're
Speaker 1: told some really cool stories about some past players that
Speaker 1: have played for the club that I've gone and fought
Speaker 1: in the wars, And it was just a phenomenal, kind
Speaker 1: of humbling experience whenever you kind of have those those
Speaker 1: people tell those stories and see some of the memorabilia,
Speaker 1: some of the physical stuff that's from from World War
Speaker 1: One and World War Two. And there was a there
Speaker 1: was a cigarette holder that we talked about and there
Speaker 1: was a bullet that hit it and saved a person's
Speaker 1: life and it was in its breast pocket. And it's
Speaker 1: just like there's these little stories like that, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's just like little, you know, a little difference
Speaker 1: between life and death and war and the craziness of
Speaker 1: how one little thing and change and allow you to
Speaker 1: essentially make it through such a terrible, like scarring experience.
Speaker 1: And we go to the Eternal Flame, have a chat
Speaker 1: there and stuff as a club and it was it
Speaker 1: was really kind of moving, like and every single time
Speaker 1: this comes around this day, it's it's pretty phenomenal just
Speaker 1: to how so many people get behind it and pay
Speaker 1: such respect to it. And every one here I feel
Speaker 1: like has some kind of link or experience through a
Speaker 1: family member or someone they know with war like and
Speaker 1: it's so prevalent in Australian history that it's it's pretty
Speaker 1: amazing to have a day where we can honor the
Speaker 1: ANZACs and play and bring attention to what they've done
Speaker 1: through football.
Speaker 2: It's really cool.
Speaker 1: And shout out to Tashidi, who you know, has created
Speaker 1: this whole thing to be able to create this experience
Speaker 1: for everyone and to see how many ANZACs were there
Speaker 1: on the day and have the cards go around and
Speaker 1: it was just awesome. Like every single year, it's the
Speaker 1: you know, it's the one you look at on the calendar.
Speaker 1: You so, I can't wait to play this game.
Speaker 3: It would Yeah, it's cool. As a player it's got
Speaker 3: to be like one of the biggest draw cards for
Speaker 3: coming to the coming to the club. Like it's a
Speaker 3: massive day, it's a massive occasion. How did you spend
Speaker 3: it in the stance?
Speaker 1: Stressing? Just stressing so much. I think whenever you're in
Speaker 1: the stands, you see how you know how the game
Speaker 1: is supposed to be played, you know, whenever someone like
Speaker 1: messes up or someone does something really well, and like
Speaker 1: you're just like constantly like kind of judging the game
Speaker 1: because you know the background information behind it.
Speaker 2: It's just like, oh, you just live on the edge.
Speaker 2: You really live on the edge.
Speaker 1: And you're sitting there, You're like, oh, I'm going down
Speaker 1: a halftime and give you know, I can help out
Speaker 1: Billy frames to Tom this or that that's happening in
Speaker 1: the game, or give them a pump up wherever it is.
Speaker 1: And you're like, what can I do to help us
Speaker 1: team kind of win the game? And you do feel
Speaker 1: kind of helpless in the stands, like because you want
Speaker 1: to be on the ground playing and be able to
Speaker 1: physically do something that can change the result of the game.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was it was stressful, but like it
Speaker 1: was so cool to see people and you know, Eston
Speaker 1: was up by like twenty thirty points, and then that
Speaker 1: first goal and then the second goal and the third fourth,
Speaker 1: and it goes seven goals in a quarter and then
Speaker 1: Collin would chant and then fans going nuts and giving
Speaker 1: it to everyone else, and it was just like the
Speaker 1: atmosphere just like kind of.
Speaker 2: Grew and grew and grew and grew and grew.
Speaker 1: And then you know, we hit the front and then
Speaker 1: we kick another one and another one and both finishes
Speaker 1: off with the you know, the kick after the siren
Speaker 1: to make it. And it was just such a cool,
Speaker 1: cool time to like to be there in an ANZAC day.
Speaker 2: That's very different from me.
Speaker 1: I always prefer obviously playing, but it was a really
Speaker 1: cool experience to be on the other side watching it
Speaker 1: and having that connection to the players, and don't know,
Speaker 1: I was just like so proud of them after like
Speaker 1: in I remember like someone was telling me I was
Speaker 1: on broadcast and sitting there and I was just like
Speaker 1: looking at the team. I was like, you almost get
Speaker 1: like emotional, like it's such a cool experience that everyone
Speaker 1: has in life that you'll never forget. And I remember
Speaker 1: like talking to Bobby Hill, I was like Bobby this
Speaker 1: would be a game that will live on in your
Speaker 1: life forever, in your head, like you'll never forget this.
Speaker 3: Well, those big games, they literally talk about them forever,
Speaker 3: Like in the week leading up, it's all, what was
Speaker 3: your favorite Anzac Day moment? What was your favorite like
Speaker 3: game moment. You know, Blairy's soccer through zaharacis goal swany
Speaker 3: kicking four, Like, there's always moments within a game that
Speaker 3: literally talked about forever. So it is a pretty you know,
Speaker 3: big occasion. Were you sitting there at the start of
Speaker 3: the fourth confident being five goals down that you can
Speaker 3: get the job done or you get the nerves kick in.
Speaker 1: Ah, you always got a little bit of nerves because
Speaker 1: they were up by I think it was like twenty
Speaker 1: or something through a quarter of time, and I knew
Speaker 1: we had to we had to get like the first.
Speaker 1: We need to get a bit of momentum. We had
Speaker 1: to get like one. We couldn't let them score like
Speaker 1: a goal or two goals or story off the quarter.
Speaker 1: We had to get the first and gain that momentum
Speaker 1: and just build from it. That's what we do, Like
Speaker 1: we do that really well, and we handle the situation
Speaker 1: and the pressure. I feel like very well as a club.
Speaker 1: And I think we went into a bit more of
Speaker 1: an attacking kind of game style, which we for some
Speaker 1: reason anytime we go into attacking and we're like just go,
Speaker 1: just go, we kick goals, like just almost think we
Speaker 1: should just constantly playing this kind of attacking mode because
Speaker 1: it just always seems to go really well for us.
Speaker 2: And yeah, we went into.
Speaker 1: That and just you know, one after another, and you know,
Speaker 1: we just got that confidence and just kept rolling with
Speaker 1: it as if you know. I talked to Nick after
Speaker 1: the game and he was just like, man, how good
Speaker 1: is this? And I was like, you just you feel it.
Speaker 1: You're like, you know, if it was a one off,
Speaker 1: you kind of bui up on my gosh. But like
Speaker 1: whenever you get that first goal, he's like, we've been here,
Speaker 1: We've done this, We're going to do it again. Like
Speaker 1: today's a day and you just another goal, another goal,
Speaker 1: and you just have that belief that you're going to
Speaker 1: actually win the game, even though you might be down
Speaker 1: by like fourteen twenty points. What it is, You've got
Speaker 1: that momentum. You know the goals will come and the
Speaker 1: time that you have.
Speaker 3: Left and you speak about needing the first goal. Now
Speaker 3: Billy Frampton, massive game playing in the rock.
Speaker 2: He God bless the man.
Speaker 3: He like drifts down and takes a mark on Sam
Speaker 3: Draper and goes back and kicks the guy. Now, most teams,
Speaker 3: if you're down by like four or five goals and
Speaker 3: you kick a goal, you're probably not really trying to
Speaker 3: show too much emotion because I don't know if it's
Speaker 3: just Australia or whatever, you kind of keep a lid
Speaker 3: on it. But everyone Darcy Moore from like you know,
Speaker 3: the back line gets all the way up and gets
Speaker 3: around Billy Frampton because it's his first goal. The team
Speaker 3: just seemed, you know, alive in that moment and full
Speaker 3: of confidence and it was like okay, we're on.
Speaker 1: It was it was cool like Billy taking that mark
Speaker 1: on Draper, who like he had a big, big role
Speaker 1: that day, Like you got the two big Phillips and
Speaker 1: Draper who are going against some too legitimate ruckman and
Speaker 1: a guy who backman it doesn't play much rock and
Speaker 1: he's in his first year at the club. Like its
Speaker 1: credit to Bill, like amazing what he's doing right now
Speaker 1: and filling a role that the team needs and he's
Speaker 1: going really well out i'd say yeah for him. I
Speaker 1: remember whenever he took that mark, there was I can't
Speaker 1: remember what player it was, but there was a player
Speaker 1: behind him. If you look at the vision, he turns
Speaker 1: around to the defenders and says, come in, because like
Speaker 1: sometimes you kind of forget it's a first goal of
Speaker 1: someonce because you're in the moment everything else right, You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: kick this goal. He's line back up all that, and
Speaker 1: one of the players had the thought process to turn
Speaker 1: around and said, no, it's his first got everyone come in,
Speaker 1: and he pointed to the defenders, and then you see
Speaker 1: this crowd of just the rest of the players come
Speaker 1: in and get around him, and yeah, to kick your
Speaker 1: first goal on anzact day, especially for someone who's a defender,
Speaker 1: who doesn't get many opportunities to do it, and he
Speaker 1: was dead set right in front, kicked it. And I
Speaker 1: think that, you know, that momentum of just belief and
Speaker 1: happiness and joy for someone like just bleeds into the
Speaker 1: next thing, bleeds into the next inner bounce, bleeds into
Speaker 1: the next stoppage, bleeds into the next you know, inside
Speaker 1: fifty and that confidence just keeps growing. So yeah, like
Speaker 1: little moments like that, I think are a lot bigger
Speaker 1: than people realize.
Speaker 3: And speaking on you know, infectious joy in little moments.
Speaker 3: Rayden Maynard, kicking in from a fullback, has an absolute stinker,
Speaker 3: slides off his boot, goes to an opponent who kicks
Speaker 3: a goal, cuts to him and he's having a laugh
Speaker 3: about it. His teammates come over there having a laugh
Speaker 3: about it. Cuts to the bench and Fly is having
Speaker 3: a laugh about it, and even one of the assistants
Speaker 3: is having a laugh about it. So the whole team
Speaker 3: is having a laugh about this absolute shocking mistake that
Speaker 3: leads to a goal in a big game, in a
Speaker 3: massive game, in a big moment. And I don't know,
Speaker 3: you can probably speak more on it, but it just
Speaker 3: seemed like, you know, let's not punish these errors, let's
Speaker 3: not harp on it. Let's move on to the next contest.
Speaker 1: There's a little bit of information behind this that people
Speaker 1: don't know about. Before the game, Craig had made a
Speaker 1: commentary he said, like, you know, mistakes are going to
Speaker 1: happen in this game, Like just move on, smile about
Speaker 1: move on, Like it doesn't mean you're kick. It just
Speaker 1: means he made one mistake and life is going to
Speaker 1: go on.
Speaker 2: We play on. It's all good.
Speaker 1: So whenever I think he sprayed that, it was kind
Speaker 1: of almost like it was coming to fruition, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden it happened. Everyone just kind of laughed
Speaker 1: because we had already talked about this going to happen,
Speaker 1: and then everyone just kind of is like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: this is he predicted the future, and like it just
Speaker 1: kind of moved on.
Speaker 2: It's I think that's one thing our team does really well.
Speaker 1: It's like we don't sit there and you know, just
Speaker 1: think about the mistakes we just made for a long time,
Speaker 1: Like we just say, you know what, that's that moment.
Speaker 2: We move on to the next one.
Speaker 1: And it was just I think the reason everyone was
Speaker 1: smiling because of the comments that we made before the
Speaker 1: game about it and yeah, it coming to to truth,
Speaker 1: which was pretty funny with her itself. But yeah, we're
Speaker 1: really good at just being able to live in the moment,
Speaker 1: I think, rather than worry about the moments I had passed.
Speaker 1: And that's some one of our strengths as a team,
Speaker 1: and that leads to I think these these fourth quarter
Speaker 1: comebacks where we don't stress about thinking, oh we could
Speaker 1: have done this, we could have done that. It's like,
Speaker 1: what can we do in the next twenty minutes to
Speaker 1: win this game?
Speaker 3: Now we can't go any further without bringing up the
Speaker 3: goat the current Scott pen.
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you. On the wing, I was very gonna
Speaker 2: say something else.
Speaker 3: On the wing goes up and cops are hit in
Speaker 3: the face and goes down. And whenever I see Pendles
Speaker 3: on the ground, I know it's bad because he doesn't fake,
Speaker 3: he doesn't pretend, he doesn't wing. He just goes on
Speaker 3: like with the business. But he stayed down. Cut into
Speaker 3: him and he's holding his eye and look he gets
Speaker 3: a poke in the eye. Another thing he said he
Speaker 3: got cracked in the nose. But you know, that's what
Speaker 3: I thought. The nose was there to protect his eyes.
Speaker 3: It's that big. But yeah, so he's gone down with
Speaker 3: an eye injury. And then just you know, flashbacks of
Speaker 3: Mason injury. Retina's all this stuff just started hitting me.
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, it's happened again. So do you have
Speaker 3: any word on Pendles? Is he all right?
Speaker 2: He might be joining the Goggle Gang for a little bit.
Speaker 2: To join the Goggle Gang, that's that's merch.
Speaker 3: We need.
Speaker 2: Goggle God called gang no, I did. I did see
Speaker 2: it happen.
Speaker 1: It was kind of you get punched the face, and
Speaker 1: because of the eye injury sometimes like you don't really
Speaker 1: know it happens until like later, and like he had
Speaker 1: his eye was like really swollen after the game. But
Speaker 1: I did see him after the game. I was just
Speaker 1: kinda tell so that there's anything, let me know. But
Speaker 1: I asked him, I said, do you see floaters? And
Speaker 1: one one sign is like if you see a bunch
Speaker 1: of black dots running around everywhere, like in your site,
Speaker 1: it's not a good sign. And he said, now he
Speaker 1: didn't see any that, So I kind of was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you might might be all right here.
Speaker 3: Do you get money outside the cap for being like
Speaker 3: an eye specialist for the club.
Speaker 1: I've had that many issues now I feel like I
Speaker 1: could diagnose someone just looking at him. But now he's
Speaker 1: he seems to be all right. I'm not really too
Speaker 1: sure kind of what we're all land. I think it
Speaker 1: might be a few eyedrops or probably have to take
Speaker 1: something like that to make sure it doesn't get infected
Speaker 1: anything like that. But we've had a few players like
Speaker 1: Jack Chris had an eye injury, Brody Grundy haad eye
Speaker 1: injury and in training. This is all after I had him.
Speaker 1: So the guy who's our specialist is very much he
Speaker 1: loves Collingwood Jonathan and he would be working over with
Speaker 1: our team now. I feel like that man has got
Speaker 1: that many are clients come through Jonathan yelle y e oh.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give a shout out to him. Cause's
Speaker 1: the reason I'm playing foot Boss. Tell you're the reason.
Speaker 3: He's probably got a yacht.
Speaker 1: Many recommendations for the man. He does a really really
Speaker 1: good job mad calling supporter. So he'll have a look
Speaker 1: at him. They'll get a bit of an update. I
Speaker 1: think hopefully you should be all right.
Speaker 3: Now from the current goat to the future goat. We
Speaker 3: talk about Nick dake Us now, okay, let's just touch
Speaker 3: on it. He had forty disposals, nine score involvements, two
Speaker 3: goals when it absolutely mattered in the last quarter, basically
Speaker 3: winning the game. So throughout the week he copped criticism,
Speaker 3: unnamed criticism. Everyone kind of just skirted around it, going like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, some people are talking shit. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Not me, I wouldn't talk shit, but maybe if there's
Speaker 3: people are you know, insinuating that he gets most of
Speaker 3: his kicks off cheap handballs running around the back. Say it.
Speaker 3: No one else is going to say it. But there's
Speaker 3: a reason to that. Surely. Reason is he one of
Speaker 3: the best kicks in the game. And does he set
Speaker 3: up nine goals on Anzac Day with his forty touches?
Speaker 2: Yeah he does. He does.
Speaker 1: Like Look, I've said this, I've told Nick, this is
Speaker 1: like the way Australia works. The way the media is
Speaker 1: is they're going to build you up, and they're building
Speaker 1: him up well and truly building him up, and they're
Speaker 1: going to try to tear his ass down at some
Speaker 1: point and it's shit out, but it's just the way
Speaker 1: media works. And I told him be prepared for that
Speaker 1: moment where people are going to try to take cheap
Speaker 1: shots out of you, pot shots, and people are going
Speaker 1: to try to bring you back down to size, And
Speaker 1: don't fucking listen to him, because you're an amazing player
Speaker 1: who's gonna do amazing things for this club and the league.
Speaker 1: He'll be one of the best players to ever play
Speaker 1: the game. And you get these people who want to
Speaker 1: make these little comments and things like that. Oh he
Speaker 1: gets these easy touches and everything else. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: because if I were to mark the ball, you guys
Speaker 1: fucking believe I'm gonn give it to the nick day
Speaker 1: costs because his asking kick it five times.
Speaker 2: Better than I can, probably more than that. Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: going to be hitting hit ups that I wouldn't even
Speaker 2: dream about.
Speaker 3: He's getting cheap touches. Stop here, Yeah, why are you stopping?
Speaker 2: He's nineteen years old. Can't be that good?
Speaker 1: Right when Anzac Dave mettals over the house, there's a
Speaker 1: freaking gun. But it's I think the thing is like
Speaker 1: he does get those touches or gets handballverseason, it's one
Speaker 1: two and all that kind of stuff. And the reason
Speaker 1: is because he's a gun player who can hit kicks
Speaker 1: and give handballs and stuff like that that other players
Speaker 1: can't do. So plenty of your strengths allow him to
Speaker 1: do that and be able to move the ball forward
Speaker 1: where other players wouldn't be able to hit those kicks.
Speaker 1: And that's why he does that, and that's why we
Speaker 1: trust him to be able to get the ball forty
Speaker 1: times a match, because you know, those forty touches are
Speaker 1: going to be a lot better than if we try
Speaker 1: to go back, take our time and try to do
Speaker 1: something else. It's like give to him, want to move
Speaker 1: the ball forward quickly and try to get over the back.
Speaker 3: I remember Dane Swan. Now I don't reference Dane Swan
Speaker 3: very often for you know, nuggets a wisdom, but I
Speaker 3: remember at a press conference once someone said, oh, you
Speaker 3: got this praise from someone in the media, how does
Speaker 3: that make you feel? And he said, well, if I
Speaker 3: don't listen to him when they're talking shit, why would
Speaker 3: I listen to him when they're giving me praise? And
Speaker 3: I always thought that's a good way to think about it.
Speaker 3: Just don't listen to him.
Speaker 2: Ever, well, mine doesn't worry about the opinion of sheep.
Speaker 3: Well that's probably just a wise way of saying what
Speaker 3: a dance one would say. But there was a very
Speaker 3: wise man we talk about Darcy Moore, the general, the captain.
Speaker 3: He probably saved you from about thirty goals on the weekend.
Speaker 3: Was everywhere I will play on six forwards nuts. He's
Speaker 3: doing a lot back. There a lot of people missing
Speaker 3: from defense at the moment, but you only need one
Speaker 3: Darcy more. And it wasn't what he did on the
Speaker 3: field during the game it was what he did on
Speaker 3: the field post game with his speech that he made
Speaker 3: when he received the ANZAC Day Trophy. Now talk to
Speaker 3: us about this because everyone always seems dumbfounded that a
Speaker 3: footballer can you tie together a sentence, but he just
Speaker 3: you know, Uza's maturity and just leadership.
Speaker 1: He's a phenomenal person, like, not just a footballer, but
Speaker 1: I think even more a person away from the field.
Speaker 1: It's it's cool to see that Sean whenever he has
Speaker 1: opportunities to speak up and he spoke at the Nicky
Speaker 1: Wimmar thing last week, spoke really well there. Obviously the
Speaker 1: ANZAC Trophy presentations, spoke really well there. And the fact
Speaker 1: that he you know, you can go in there and
Speaker 1: just say, look, I don't want to you know, talk
Speaker 1: too much or anything like that.
Speaker 2: You know, he goes in.
Speaker 1: He made sure that he hit every single part of
Speaker 1: being an ANZAC, whether it be the families, whether it
Speaker 1: be the people who've been overseas, would be the veterans.
Speaker 1: He hit every single one. And it's a credit to him. Man, Like,
Speaker 1: it's not easy to go up there and have those
Speaker 1: speeches in front of one hundred thousand people, like it's
Speaker 1: it would be so nerve wracking, and then also you know,
Speaker 1: the energy of the game then being exhausted and everything
Speaker 1: else on top of it and just sit there.
Speaker 2: Rock Up speaks so well.
Speaker 1: With such maturity in front of a crowd like that,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I don't know, I don't know how
Speaker 1: to put it.
Speaker 2: It's a bit weird to say you're.
Speaker 1: Proud of a guy that you like cond mates with,
Speaker 1: but like so like so freaking proud of him, what
Speaker 1: he does and the way he handled himself and represents himself.
Speaker 1: He will be one of the most successful players, not
Speaker 1: only on the field, but I think post career whenever
Speaker 1: he finishes up that man, if he is not a
Speaker 1: CEO of a damn company, whenever he finishes up, I
Speaker 1: don't know who's going to be a better fit. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm happy to put him CEO of the AFL right
Speaker 1: now because apparently they're not going to decide, so happy
Speaker 1: to put his name up for that.
Speaker 2: But in all honestly, he's an amazing human.
Speaker 1: Cannot have more you know, admiration for what he does,
Speaker 1: and it's just a credit to his family.
Speaker 2: Being brought up, your school captain.
Speaker 1: He's worked really hard for these things, and he's one
Speaker 1: of those people that I don't think you'll find many
Speaker 1: that will ever have a bad word to say about him.
Speaker 1: And he's just going to lead this club into so
Speaker 1: much success. I'm just so excited for it.
Speaker 3: One day you'll say some nice stuff about me like that, mate.
Speaker 3: I reckon Collingwood's made some really good decisions like getting
Speaker 3: in like fly to coach, getting Darcy on his captain,
Speaker 3: getting you know what, would have to be the AFL's
Speaker 3: best American player of all time easily, just doing all
Speaker 3: the right things at the moment. And I will say
Speaker 3: the second highest home and away game of all time.
Speaker 2: I want to say yeah, yeah, because.
Speaker 3: I think Melbourne Collingwood again in nineteen fifty eight number one,
Speaker 3: which I don't think will be obtained again because it
Speaker 3: was like ninety nine thousand and with the way the
Speaker 3: mcg is all set up. But it was a great day,
Speaker 3: great win. I think what is a good way to
Speaker 3: finish is an update on your injury, because there was
Speaker 3: a few moments there where we needed the big Feller back.
Speaker 2: We were looking forward to Jamie Ellen's the tallest guy
Speaker 2: in the four line. You're going, oh jeez, they were shot.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of short blokes out there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what are we? Are we all clear? Are you allowed
Speaker 3: to train?
Speaker 1: I've got some good news. Yes, I did have the
Speaker 1: CT scan. Doc clued me for being able to run,
Speaker 1: not contact yet, so can't play games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just throw them out there. Everyone calm down. But
Speaker 2: I can train.
Speaker 1: So I've been essentially of not being able to do
Speaker 1: any physical activity. So it's been very chilled. So I've
Speaker 1: lost a bit of conditioning. So these next two weeks
Speaker 1: or however long it's going to be, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to get absolutely flogged, like absolutely flogged by the team, sorry,
Speaker 1: by the by the high performance manager and the conditioning coach.
Speaker 1: But I'm excited.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: It's good to feel like you can actually do your
Speaker 1: job again. Like it's weird to something have something stripped
Speaker 1: away from you that you essentially you're there for, like
Speaker 1: your career is to work out and to be playing,
Speaker 1: and to have it stripped away so quickly was, you know,
Speaker 1: a bit of a slap in the face.
Speaker 2: But it's so nice now.
Speaker 1: I had my first run before before the game, and
Speaker 1: it was just the feeling of being able to get
Speaker 1: back to doing things like a normal athlete was awesome.
Speaker 1: So we'll get another doctor check up before, sorry, after
Speaker 1: the Adelaide game this week, and then that will kind
Speaker 1: of give me an idea of whether I can play.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's good scigence, it's good signs. We're
Speaker 1: head in the right direction, which is good.
Speaker 3: So no more beers, pizza. You have to throw the
Speaker 3: vape away. You're like back into.
Speaker 2: It the gatorade bottle.
Speaker 3: You see, you had a good one on the weekend.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, hey, now to finish it off day. I
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Speaker 1: so much. Absolute awesome episode. Hopefully you've enjoyed it. Some
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Speaker 1: if you haven't heard the Dustin Fletcher episode, you have
Speaker 1: to listen to it.
Speaker 3: He tells a story about Alessio getting the spray from
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Speaker 1: of a twist. There's a bit of a twist. He
Speaker 1: might not have played a twist. There's and then he
Speaker 1: talks about some big parties in the off season, some
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Speaker 3: They were raising revenue just for off season parties. Could
Speaker 3: you imagine that now?
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Speaker 1: it for the catch up, the sports pod catch up,
Speaker 1: and a massive one thank you to all the ANZACs
Speaker 1: out there for serving. Thank you everyone that's made this
Speaker 1: week such a memorable week and being able to represent
Speaker 1: the ANZACs in such a special way. It's a credit
Speaker 1: to this country and what they do and us on
Speaker 1: the show. We just want to say a massive thank
Speaker 1: you for doing what you do to give us the
Speaker 1: freedoms and rights to be able to do stupid shit
Speaker 1: like this.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Everyone having an amazing weekend ahead and we'll speak to
Speaker 1: you next week.
Speaker 3: Prayse up, defend us, Praise up,