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Speaker 1: Growing up in the Australian country town of Aubrey, Sally

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Speaker 1: get her hands on. In fact, it was soccer that

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Speaker 1: she associated burnout with soccer and lost her passion for

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Speaker 1: the game. But it was moving back to Aubrey that

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Speaker 1: helped her rEFInd her love for Ossie Rules. She was

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Speaker 1: the GWS Giants' first draft pick in twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: and capped off her twenty twenty three season as the

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Speaker 1: Giant's youngest ever club champion. That same year, at just

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Speaker 1: eighteen years old, she.

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Speaker 2: Picked up the League's Rising Star Award. My name's Sophie

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Speaker 2: and I'm the producer here at the Female Athlete Project.

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Speaker 2: Zali is now rounding out her third year of AFLW

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Speaker 2: and is making her presence known across the park. This

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Speaker 2: chat proves that if you have that passion and drive

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Speaker 2: and you don't need a backup plan, we hope you

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Speaker 2: enjoy it.

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Speaker 3: Darly Goldsworthy, Welcome to the Female Athlete Project. Thanks for

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Speaker 3: having me does It's great to be I actually just

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Speaker 3: forgot which podcast I was introducing you, just because we

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Speaker 3: also host the Giants podcast together, close rival of the

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Speaker 3: Tefat podcast, The Giants Podcast a close second, very close

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Speaker 3: second with our mate Alicia Eva. So we're going to

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Speaker 3: do that today as well to podcasts in a day.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know how we're going to go the content.

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Speaker 3: I better have some good content. You said a high

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Speaker 3: bar with your expectations of the content. Oh gosh, before

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Speaker 3: this podcast, I was looking you up on Wikipedia just

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Speaker 3: to check there wasn't anything about you that you haven't

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Speaker 3: told me any hidden secrets. How do you feel about

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Speaker 3: your Wikipedia page?

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Speaker 4: Ah, I don't really know.

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Speaker 5: It's a bit interesting that, Yes, someone's gone out of

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Speaker 5: their way to put that all together. I don't know

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Speaker 5: how they've found it all, but yeah, a bit of

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Speaker 3: Because we've got a fair bit like it's got a

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Speaker 3: lot about like your junior teams, who you played for

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Speaker 3: different sports. I didn't know about the cricket. We're going

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Speaker 3: to talk about soccer, the football, but I didn't know

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Speaker 3: a lot about the cricket.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, dabbled a little bit of cricket.

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Speaker 3: Yeah really, I.

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Speaker 5: Just dabbled in ale bit of everything. Like being a

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Speaker 5: country kid. I feel like most weekends were four or

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Speaker 3: That's a solid effort.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, like netball, cricket, soccer, footy was everything.

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Speaker 3: What were you like? Can you describe Zari as a

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Speaker 4: Oh, Nayli's little kid.

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Speaker 5: Was had a big ego and was a little troublemaker.

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Speaker 5: I think I had trouble with authority, didn't like being

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Speaker 4: Just pretty energetic, crazy.

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Speaker 5: I loved hanging that with the boys, so as you

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Speaker 3: And what was sport like for you at home? Like

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Speaker 5: Oh, it was pretty good, Like any sport you could

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Speaker 3: And you got pretty homesick when you moved here.

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Speaker 5: And yeah, and like just living with my sister, the

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Speaker 4: Talk about anyway.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so like you just see all the crowd in

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Speaker 5: But yeah, extremely close to them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and how have they impacted your sporting journey a lot?

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Speaker 5: I think that looking back on it now as a

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Speaker 5: I bring my broom box, my speaker in the town

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's look at your junior sport years. Yep, young matildas.

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Speaker 5: I went to that, correct, Yeah, I went to one

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Speaker 4: That was about it.

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Speaker 3: People it's like the media like jumping onto those things. Okay,

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Speaker 5: Uh? Soccer started? Like that was just my first sport.

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Speaker 4: I was doing soccer.

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Speaker 5: Yeah? So when I was in Sydney, I think that

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Speaker 5: Like I still did soccer, but I just did it socially,

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Speaker 4: Who are you? I know, I know, so I'm going back.

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Speaker 5: I was like, I'm really going to focus on school

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 3: I was like I missed that part of the story.

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Speaker 4: I never looked back and never really gave school a chance.

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Speaker 5: Eight months of school, I reckon I wasn't even there,

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Speaker 3: I was like, wait, so you still don't know, still

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Speaker 4: How I got no idea.

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Speaker 3: I respect that. I how did you even have the

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Speaker 4: I just I didn't enjoy it. I think their trainings

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Speaker 5: And there was about four girls rocking up, so wow,

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Speaker 4: And I guess it just showed me.

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Speaker 5: And then when I was just in the interview, they

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Speaker 4: We're interviewing what makes you so special? Type thing?

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Speaker 3: Yes, isn't it interesting when they when someone sees your

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Speaker 3: Are you joking?

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Speaker 5: And yeah, as soon as I met the Giants, I

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Speaker 5: I've never looked back Stims, it's crazy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been. You've been a very very good addition.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I was just a huge Hawks fan growing up.

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Speaker 5: for me as a youngster. Watching them when their three

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Speaker 5: you lost. I was in tears, Like it could just

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Speaker 5: And like I wouldn't be playing footy if it wasn't

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy.

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Speaker 5: But I used to like just be such a nerd

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Speaker 5: and know like you could say twenty twelve round eight

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Speaker 3: Do you still know that or back in the day

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Speaker 4: I'd only know like certain games.

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Speaker 5: Okay, so don't test, like I don't do it.

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Speaker 4: It's something that I don't like to say because I

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, yeah, it's like when you say you're a

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Speaker 4: Felt out Seleen, Selene.

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Speaker 3: It's got to be Selene, got to be Sally Amazing. Okay,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, this is a bit of a night mare,

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Speaker 5: No. So I was playing out it with Noble and

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Speaker 5: I came off, and then it just slowly started to

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Speaker 4: I thought it was pretty serious.

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Speaker 3: Yea, as did we.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, as did everyone else.

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Speaker 5: And then I was in like getting an ultrasound and

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Speaker 4: I'm okay. And then they walked out of the room

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Speaker 4: and bars. He was like, whenever they offer you pain.

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Speaker 3: Meds, she's experienced in that area. Yeah. So I took

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Speaker 5: Like I was on the phone to my family because

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Speaker 5: was kept saying to all, like the coaching staff, how

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Speaker 4: Oh gosh.

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Speaker 4: And then we while we were.

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Speaker 3: Stop me, stop for a photo. Didn't he Yeah, he stopped.

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Speaker 5: It's pretty iconic of me drugged out on a wheel

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Speaker 4: Oh gosh.

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Speaker 5: And then we got to Sydney, and I just remember

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Speaker 4: I woke up and one of the coaches.

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Speaker 3: You didn't even eat yours. I didn't even eat my cache.

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Speaker 4: And I know, I know around, I know, like especially

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Speaker 3: Yeah, go I love that.

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Speaker 5: And then and then yeah, and then I had to

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Speaker 4: She took a couple of days.

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Speaker 5: I think she already had the days off work, and

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Speaker 5: I like, you had to basically look after me, and

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Speaker 5: I felt so bad. And then anyway, all scans came

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Speaker 5: back click just some bone bruising or it was basically

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, it wasn't. It wasn't a great first impression

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Speaker 3: It's quite a funny thing I reckon when you go

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Speaker 3: you that's like please be fine, like yes, be okay,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I just I.

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Speaker 5: Genuinely thought there was something, Like I that was the

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Speaker 4: And then I'm just being a cool and I think.

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Speaker 4: Well I hope so. I mean, I know that the

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Speaker 5: Of me at training, like getting my ankle basically like

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Speaker 5: are you serious, My ankle has just been stomped on?

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Speaker 5: You lucky I didn't go and get a scan or

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Speaker 5: in the team who give me a bit of casa

447
00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:48,960
Speaker 5: shit okay for it aren't probably the best in terms

448
00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,120
Speaker 5: of injuries anyway.

449
00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:51,639
Speaker 4: So I like that.

450
00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,560
Speaker 3: I like that, like little hinted, Yeah, I see what

451
00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:55,400
Speaker 3: you're getting out there.

452
00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,000
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, I think you know.

453
00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, so pwayed your first season, your debut. I think

454
00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:03,920
Speaker 3: round three in the derby, Yes, I am.

455
00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:09,560
Speaker 5: Right, missing two weeks anyway with Lucky Yeah, I know, yes,

456
00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,000
Speaker 5: I missed those two weeks. And then yeah, first game

457
00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:15,440
Speaker 5: was the derby at the SCD kicked two yep, kicked

458
00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,160
Speaker 5: two goals four or something with Pollin out in the fall,

459
00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:19,000
Speaker 5: I think as well.

460
00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:21,720
Speaker 3: There was a pretty good goal celebration in that though.

461
00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:22,320
Speaker 4: Yeah.

462
00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:24,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was just it was almost like again, like

463
00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:28,040
Speaker 5: it was like fate that I'd missed probably two or

464
00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:30,000
Speaker 5: three before then, and I think they were at the

465
00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:30,520
Speaker 5: other end.

466
00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:33,200
Speaker 4: So to kick that goal, my.

467
00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:37,359
Speaker 5: Family was like probably twenty meters away, not even so

468
00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:38,760
Speaker 5: I just ran straight to.

469
00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:40,320
Speaker 4: Them, pointed at them.

470
00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,760
Speaker 5: Thought I was on cloud nine. I ran away from

471
00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,240
Speaker 5: all my teammates, like everyone was like, we're trying to

472
00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,360
Speaker 5: catch you, but you just ran away, so we just went, oh,

473
00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:49,480
Speaker 5: we're just going back to the square.

474
00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,240
Speaker 3: Then. Well, so now getting around you, I think I

475
00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:53,119
Speaker 3: couldn't keep up with you.

476
00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think like Barzi was there and maybe Elisha,

477
00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,200
Speaker 5: but then I mean, and also at that stage, we're

478
00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:02,159
Speaker 5: ten goals up, so I kind of took the sting

479
00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:05,200
Speaker 5: out of it a little bit. But yeah, I didn't

480
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:06,000
Speaker 5: even think about them.

481
00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,159
Speaker 4: I was off. I was like, my family's over there.

482
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:09,159
Speaker 4: I'm getting to them.

483
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:13,800
Speaker 3: How good. I know, that's great. Yeah, your preseason before

484
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,200
Speaker 3: season two, I remember sending you a text. This feels

485
00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:17,760
Speaker 3: like a lifetime ago, but I remember sending you a

486
00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:19,960
Speaker 3: text awards the back end of pre season and I

487
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,080
Speaker 3: said something to you like, I reckon, you are going

488
00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:23,680
Speaker 3: to absolutely kill it this year.

489
00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,480
Speaker 5: Yes, I know that was That was so special because

490
00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,320
Speaker 5: I feel like we we'd never really spoken before then,

491
00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,320
Speaker 5: so I was like, oh my god, Clodelin was.

492
00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:32,320
Speaker 4: Sending me a text.

493
00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:38,040
Speaker 3: It's practical that off the battle. But the reason I

494
00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,480
Speaker 3: said that was because you actually then ended up to

495
00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,080
Speaker 3: go on to have a ridiculous season. You took out

496
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,680
Speaker 3: pretty much every award at the Giants End of season Awards.

497
00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:53,239
Speaker 3: Gab trainer Rising Star Fearless Award, and you also were

498
00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,520
Speaker 3: named the AFLW Rising Star. Yeap, What on earth did

499
00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,560
Speaker 3: you do in that season could be that good?

500
00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,360
Speaker 4: I have no Honestly, I didn't even have the best preseason.

501
00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 3: I thought you did, thought you were looking good.

502
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,520
Speaker 4: I was injured for the first half.

503
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I actually think that that was like amazing

504
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,040
Speaker 5: because it meant like, let me go on the gym,

505
00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:15,439
Speaker 5: which I always say that me and going to the

506
00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,879
Speaker 5: gym is like a married relationship, like we don't get

507
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,399
Speaker 5: along at the times, sometimes bhammed and sometimes I'm like

508
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:26,280
Speaker 5: I want a divorce, Like I just I'm not and

509
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 5: you can probably tell, like I'm not the strongest.

510
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:31,600
Speaker 4: So I guess it just gave me six weeks.

511
00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:35,160
Speaker 5: To go in the gym, and I felt so different,

512
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,160
Speaker 5: like I was like, oh my god, like I am

513
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,919
Speaker 5: starting to finally see some results. And then I just

514
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:44,080
Speaker 5: guess that I hit preseason six weeks into whenever I

515
00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 5: was probably about halfway through and starting to feel it,

516
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:49,360
Speaker 5: and I felt refreshed, I felt motivated, felt better than ever,

517
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 5: And yeah, I guess it kind of kickstarted what was

518
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:54,160
Speaker 5: a good year.

519
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 3: And You've done it again multiple times this season. You're

520
00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,200
Speaker 3: the kind of player that when it looks like we're

521
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 3: in trouble, we need a huge momentum swhen you are

522
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 3: so often the person to step up and do that,

523
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,120
Speaker 3: whether it's getting a clearance in the midfield or kicking

524
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,159
Speaker 3: a goal in the forward line? What are you? Like?

525
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 3: Are you just in the zone? Like are you just flowing?

526
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 3: What actually happens in those moments?

527
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 5: I think it's just a bit of like I get

528
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 5: a lot of white line fever, so like, yeah, in

529
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 5: those moments, I'm probably like feman, like I'm I feel

530
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:28,640
Speaker 5: like I just want to help the team as best

531
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,360
Speaker 5: as I can. And so when and it's probably come

532
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,120
Speaker 5: at a time where the other teams kicked a couple

533
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 5: of goals and I'm in the forward line like kind

534
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 5: of watching it from a file like getting just yea,

535
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 5: like getting a bit worked out, getting bit itchy. Like

536
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,919
Speaker 5: so I guess me going in there is kind of

537
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:47,440
Speaker 5: letting out a bit of frustration and yeah, and I

538
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 5: guess I kind of like being the person that can

539
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,639
Speaker 5: take a step forward. And I really like being the

540
00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 5: person that is kind of like helping helping girls up

541
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 5: and like come with me kind of mentality. So I

542
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 5: guess when I do that, it's kind of yeah, it's

543
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 5: a bit of frustration, but it's also like I want

544
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,199
Speaker 5: to I want to take a step forward and I

545
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 5: want you gls to come with me kind of thing.

546
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that. Yeah, how have you learned to

547
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 3: deal with like the pressure in the big moments, because

548
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,639
Speaker 3: that also seems like something that you really want to

549
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,920
Speaker 3: step into and like you thrive in those moments.

550
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that it's just about you gotta want it,

551
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:30,160
Speaker 5: Like you gotta want those moments and uh, like you're

552
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,160
Speaker 5: not going to get them right all the time, but yeah,

553
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 5: you just gotta want those moments. And I guess even

554
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 5: this year, winning all those awards, like you could probably

555
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 5: any young player, it could change them a bit. But

556
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,679
Speaker 5: I guess like just even with yeah, like feedback, criticism,

557
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 5: I always just take it with a grain of salt,

558
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:50,239
Speaker 5: like and just control what you can control. Like if

559
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 5: you can't control the uncontrollables, then yeah, don't worry about it.

560
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 4: But with those moments, yeah, you just gotta you gotta

561
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:56,120
Speaker 4: want them.

562
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:57,919
Speaker 5: And yeah, as I said, if you don't get them right,

563
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,679
Speaker 5: you still gotta want them, like you gotta want to

564
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 5: have the ball in your hands to take, like the

565
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 5: final kick for a goal off starrnt or something like that,

566
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:05,400
Speaker 5: and if you.

567
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 4: Miss, you're still gotta want it because otherwise.

568
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 5: I feel like if you don't want it, the ball's

569
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,119
Speaker 5: gonna find you anyway, and if you've kind of scared

570
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 5: of it or something, and if you don't step into it,

571
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 5: then it.

572
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 4: Could And in a bit of a negative.

573
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 3: Way, I want to touch on that ego piece you

574
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 3: talked about being a kid with ego. I feel like

575
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 3: you are a really good balance, Like you have this

576
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 3: confidence about you, but not in a way that I

577
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,120
Speaker 3: don't like you, Like, yeah, yeah, you know.

578
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 5: What I mean.

579
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I can't stand arrogance.

580
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 5: I think that it's like anyone that is arrogant and

581
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 5: good at sport, I just can't stand them. Like I like,

582
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 5: I'm same as you. You need a level of confidence

583
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 5: and belief in your own ability. But like on the field,

584
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,159
Speaker 5: I guess I'll play with a bit of confidence, bit

585
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:56,680
Speaker 5: of flagger, but off the field, yeah, I'm probably always

586
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 5: the person that's like sarcastically putting myself.

587
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,679
Speaker 4: Down or something like that. But yeah, I don't know.

588
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 4: Kind of a weird one.

589
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,639
Speaker 3: Talk about the two way dialogue that you have with

590
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 3: the fans in the crowd. We've discussed this a few

591
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 3: times on the Giants podcast, and a lot of the

592
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 3: time after you've kicked a goal, there's a pretty good

593
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 3: component of your highlight reel that involves interacting with the

594
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:19,679
Speaker 3: opposition in the crowd.

595
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 5: Yes, well, as I said, like, I've just been a

596
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,159
Speaker 5: big footy fan since like day one, and one of

597
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 5: my favorite things to do is go to the footy

598
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 5: and yell out to the people on the field. And

599
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 5: I've just always been I love when in the men's

600
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 5: or and the women's when a player kicks a goal

601
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 5: and the crowd was given them a bit, that they

602
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 5: turn around and they just give them a bit of

603
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 5: salute or something like that. So I'm a big believer. Yeah,

604
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:47,880
Speaker 5: if you're gonna talk to talk, you better be ready

605
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 5: to walk the walk. So yeah, if if they're giving

606
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 5: me a bit and I kick a goal, I'm in

607
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 5: every right to turn around and give it straight back.

608
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 4: I love it. Yes, it's a two way conversation we're

609
00:26:58,600 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 4: basically having.

610
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 3: Yeah that, and I think it brings like a real

611
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,640
Speaker 3: favor is a bad word, but I feel like, yea yeah,

612
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 3: brings a good amount of that to the game, because

613
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 3: I think like that's a whole part of like growing

614
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 3: the sport, and the whole thing about AFLW is like

615
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 3: the more characters there are and the more stories there

616
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,120
Speaker 3: are of people like you, Like you could have been

617
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 3: this kid who was like going to be the Giants

618
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 3: first round draft pick, who was going to be amazing,

619
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 3: and you could have come and been a cookie cutter

620
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 3: with a boring personality.

621
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 4: Yeah.

622
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:33,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, we probably wouldn't have been friends, probably, But I

623
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 3: feel like what you do, like when you give it

624
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 3: back to the crowd, it's cheeky, but it's such a

625
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 3: good way, like it builds your personality in the Giants'

626
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:41,640
Speaker 3: personality at the same time too.

627
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I think like it's cheeky to an extent, like, yeah,

628
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 5: obviously you're not going to go over the top with

629
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 5: it and you're not going to let it like change

630
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 5: the way you play. Yes, but yeah, like in those

631
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 5: moments I always say too though, that like the thirty

632
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 5: seconds after you kick goal, like that's kind of your

633
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,640
Speaker 5: moment to just take a breath, like, and it's kind

634
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,199
Speaker 5: of like you can do whatever you want because no

635
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 5: one can take the goal off you, and I guess

636
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 5: it's kind of like all the hard work you're putting in,

637
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 5: it's thirty seconds to be like like, yeah, it's working.

638
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 4: Take a moment.

639
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 5: Whereas because I just don't think that you can get

640
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 5: that too much post game like yeah right, yeah, Like

641
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 5: results just don't go your way, so you're probably a

642
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 5: bit influenced by how the game went, Whereas once kick goal,

643
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,679
Speaker 5: you've got thirty seconds to just reset and yeah, like

644
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 5: I guess, take a breather and whatnot.

645
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 3: And some people say if they do something either really

646
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 3: good like your goal, or they make a mistake, can

647
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 3: get caught in that moment, but you seem quite good

648
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 3: at like you'll either celebrate or get pissed off at

649
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 3: yourself and then you're onto the next Like what do

650
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 3: you do to move on to the next thing?

651
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 5: Well, I think they're like it's just especially afl like

652
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 5: you'll like when you make a mistake, I think you

653
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 5: think that ten thousand people are watching you, but really,

654
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 5: like when you're watching foody as a spectator, you're not

655
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 5: worried like about those things too much, like obviously unless

656
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 5: it's glaringly obvious. But a lot of those little mistakes

657
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 5: that you think you've made. You can't even notice them

658
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 5: on the broadcast or when you're rewatching the game, like

659
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 5: you will notice them, but yes, not many other people will.

660
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 5: And so I think that just switching off on those

661
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 5: moments and just like switching back on as quick as

662
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 5: you can, Like like when I think it was round three,

663
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 5: I kicked it into the girl in the mark in

664
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 5: the goal square, which was not a great moment, but like,

665
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 5: you just gotta smile, and I knew. I knew that

666
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 5: was going to get another opportunity in that game. So

667
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 5: I just thought, like I still want the ball in

668
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 5: my hands, like yeah, like you just got to want

669
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 5: those moments, got to own it, yea, And yeah, just

670
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 5: in a way like laugh it off, like that's always

671
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 5: something like inside I was like, you're a bloody idiot,

672
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 5: but like outside I was like, no, just smile it off.

673
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 5: Just yep, smiled away, don't worry about it.

674
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 3: It's fine, that's good.

675
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 4: And yeah, you just got to want the moment again.

676
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's cool. I want to talk about your Rising

677
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 3: Star speech acceptance. How much did you practice, because I

678
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 3: think you're pretty nervous.

679
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 5: I was so nervous I had like Alicia even next

680
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 5: to me at the w Awards, and she was like

681
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 5: kind of saying.

682
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 4: Like, you're a real chance.

683
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 5: Here, and I had like a couple of wines in

684
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 5: front of me and I was just like having the

685
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 5: waters and she was like, yeah, like you're a real chance.

686
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 4: I'm like, if I can't get.

687
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 5: Up on the stage, like I'm looking around at the

688
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 5: room and like the superstars of the game, I'm like,

689
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 5: I honestly don't want the award, like, don't let me

690
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 5: get up on that stage.

691
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 4: Don't let me get up on that stage. And then

692
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 4: I won it, and I got up on the stage.

693
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 5: And you know of it well thankfully, because I can

694
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 5: I can tell when I'm nervous and I'm talking because

695
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 5: I talk really fast and my heart goes and my

696
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 5: voice goes a bit like this is so after the

697
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 5: first half of that speech is so nervous, and I

698
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 5: can tell I start to like mix up words and

699
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 5: then I get caught up on it. But then I

700
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 5: also am trying to spit out words, so it's like

701
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 5: my brain is going a million.

702
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 4: Miles an hour.

703
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 5: And yeah, and I guess luckily I didn't say anything

704
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 5: too stupid.

705
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 3: I reckon you nailed it. It was good.

706
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 5: Well, it's it's a bit of like that self criticism.

707
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, always yeah, always didn't love it, but yeah,

708
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 5: I mean it ticked a box.

709
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, well no, I think you did good this year

710
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 3: with the Giants to spend rough you haven't got a

711
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 3: lot of wins on the board. Yeah, what's it like

712
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 3: when you feel like you're playing well but your team's

713
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 3: not getting results. It's tough.

714
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it is tough, And it's just about finding

715
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 5: the right balance because like it's always like you should

716
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 5: always be team first, and I'm always team first. Like

717
00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 5: when Giants don't win, absolutely, I'm like filthy for that,

718
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 5: like whole night and I stay up at night and

719
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 5: you can't sleep and you're just thinking about all the

720
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 5: things you could have done. But I guess it's that

721
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 5: like we have a twenty four hour where it's like

722
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 5: we're gonna lose. You got twenty four hours to get

723
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 5: over it, and I think by the next day, I'm

724
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 5: always like I'm okay, Like I've had my night, I've

725
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 5: had a bad night's sleep, But don't let it impact

726
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 5: too many of the next days following, because you just

727
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 5: you got to prepare for the next game, and yeah,

728
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 5: I guess it's also just finding that balance that you like,

729
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 5: don't you don't want to get yourself down if you're

730
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 5: playing well, but also if like there's been a couple

731
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 5: of games this year I had a sinker, but the

732
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 5: team's gone well, and I was like, like, that's so

733
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 5: fine too, Like you also don't want to be like

734
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 5: just so individualized, Like you just kind of got to

735
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 5: be what the team needs you to be in those moments.

736
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 5: I like that, Yeah, like you don't want to be

737
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 5: missus positive, like oh, I've just waltzed off the ground

738
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 5: kicked them up five like you don't and like you're

739
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 5: looking round and everyone's kind of put their heads down,

740
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 5: like you don't want to be that type of person,

741
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 5: But then you don't want to be the total ops

742
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 5: that where you might not have played well on the

743
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,959
Speaker 5: Giants and one and you're kind of like, oh, gosh,

744
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 5: I shouldn't kicked the goal blah blah blah. Yes, it

745
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 5: was just fine of that balance and yeah, what the

746
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 5: team needed to be in that moment.

747
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 3: I like that. I ask everyone with everyone this question,

748
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 3: and it's what is your favorite failure?

749
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 4: Oh, I know straight away.

750
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 5: Wow, Yeah, it's actually in footy.

751
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 4: It was a.

752
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 5: I think it was a school's game, like year eight

753
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 5: school game in in Aubrey and our team we were

754
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 5: I think it was like a year eight and nine

755
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 5: team doing the state championships and we if we won

756
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 5: this game, we got to go on a trip away

757
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 5: to Camera I think it was, which back in those

758
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 5: days was like a mini camp.

759
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 4: Real high.

760
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a real highlight and we were coming

761
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 5: up against Billabong High else something.

762
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 3: Oh where is that It sounds like a funny place to.

763
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 5: Go somewhere near, But yeah, we were coming up against

764
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 5: them and like they were, we were real underdogs, like

765
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 5: we were tiny commared to them. And there was a

766
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 5: moment in the game, I think it was probably about

767
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 5: thirty seconds left, took a mark in the sent a

768
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 5: square area played on and would have been probably about

769
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 5: thirty five forty out and kicked it. Basically started celebrating

770
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 5: like or like I was kind of hugging my friend.

771
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 4: We're like, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.

772
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 5: And it was a rainy day and it slipped to

773
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 5: the point and to this day, I'm still like, oh, like,

774
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 5: if only that had gone through Like nothing would have

775
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 5: changed obviously, but I think like that was so good

776
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 5: for me to experience that because I feel like up

777
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 5: at that stage, i'd never really had a moment where

778
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 5: that had kind of happened, like I'd lost the game.

779
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 5: It was always the other way around, right, And for

780
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 5: a kid who again like was a bit of an ego,

781
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 5: it was the best thing for us, like humbling. And

782
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 5: I remember I was prying to my mom, I was

783
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 5: crying of my dad and they were kind of like, oh, she's.

784
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 4: Never cried before. Wow, we do so Yeah, it was

785
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 4: like it was my best It was the best thing

786
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 4: for me. Yeah, which, yeah, that's probably why I like that.

787
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you were chatting to a little kid who

788
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 3: just loves sport, maybe love for you, what's your advice, Well.

789
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 5: I guess like you just gotta have passion for it.

790
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 5: You gotta want to do what you're doing. I guess

791
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 5: that's probably a reason why I never really was successful

792
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 5: in soccer, because I just I didn't have a passion for.

793
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 4: It, whereas.

794
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 5: Footy you like I've yeah, you just got to want

795
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 5: to do it. And it's also the things you do

796
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,879
Speaker 5: when nobody's watching, Like I've always said that you got

797
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 5: like you can't be going out the back and doing extras,

798
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 5: lick in your backyard because you think your parents are

799
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 5: watching or anything like, it's the things you do when

800
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 5: no one's watching. Yeah, And it's the same with like

801
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 5: AFL the giants, Like I can't go out and do

802
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 5: extras and be.

803
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 4: Like, hey, Cam are you seeing this?

804
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 5: Like yeah, so you just you gotta have a passion

805
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 5: for it, and yeah, you got to do the extras

806
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 5: because if you think about it, everyone else is training,

807
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 5: everyone else is getting better, everyone else is doing the same.

808
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 5: But it's the one percenters and the extras that no

809
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 5: one sees that's what makes it gets better.

810
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,240
Speaker 3: What do you want to achieve in your AFOW career?

811
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 5: Gosh, I have no idea just coasting. Yeah, I'm literally

812
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 5: I'm just taking it one game at a time, one

813
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 5: season at a time. I think that AFOW is so

814
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 5: good for me because I probably wouldn't be very successful

815
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 5: outside of footy, Like I don't love having a job

816
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 5: and working that nine to five, but and I'm probably

817
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 5: not as committed as having that outside job. Whereas yeah,

818
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 5: I guess footy has been great for me that I

819
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 5: it's allowed me to do what I love and get

820
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 5: paid for it. So yeah, that's all I'm happy with

821
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:08,760
Speaker 5: at the moment is just living out my youngster years

822
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 5: and getting to do what I love with my friends,

823
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 5: living the dream.

824
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 3: What do you reckon then? Post foot you could be

825
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 3: a coaching career for you?

826
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I don't know about coaching.

827
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 5: I mean maybe, but I definitely do want to stay

828
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 5: in sport, Like that's my passion. So I do love

829
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 5: list management and like, yeah, I love like managing teams

830
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 5: and just seeing it from the like the business side.

831
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 5: It is very yeah, business like and just looking at

832
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 5: a team and seeing like, I know what you need

833
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 5: type thing that would do, and like, yeah, you'd just

834
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,800
Speaker 5: be going and watching footy all day, but you wouldn't

835
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 5: be a player and having to prepare for a game

836
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 5: the next day.

837
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 3: So that could be nice, eating meat pies watching like having.

838
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 5: A dream about dream the dream and getting paid for

839
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 5: it too, Like why not saying an expensive hotels could

840
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:03,240
Speaker 5: be nice?

841
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:09,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, putting on the pullman Rod, she's envisioned the live already,

842
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 4: Yeah that could be the dream.

843
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 5: And then yeah, if coaching is the path I take,

844
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 5: then yeah, that could also be something I look at doing.

845
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 3: Okay, what if you have to do a university degree

846
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 3: to get one of those roles?

847
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 5: Then what I think you actually do have to do

848
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 5: some courses to do some of them, Like, I'd be

849
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 5: fine with it because it'd be again something that I

850
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 5: enjoy doing. I just think that my problem would be

851
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 5: is that you always have the option deferring. So I

852
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 5: would always like think in the back of my mind,

853
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 5: could just when things get stuff just put like I

854
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 5: think I.

855
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 4: Wouldn't be too bad. I was actually okay at school,

856
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 4: like I can.

857
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 3: You just have to find something that you like.

858
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, you've got to find something amly passionate about it

859
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 5: because and you have your own knowledge, so you're not

860
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 5: just getting it all from a book. You can actually

861
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 5: add in your own stories and anecdotes if you will.

862
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 3: All right, I like that. Yeah, I've got a would

863
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 3: you rather to finish us off? Because you tell me

864
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 3: you better come with the good content. It's actually a

865
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,439
Speaker 3: little bit of it is story time. So recently Riley

866
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 3: and I went to the Hunter Valley for a friend's wedding,

867
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 3: and we got there quite late. We were just saying,

868
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 3: like a little airbnb on this cool little farm stay,

869
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 3: but it was quite late at night unpacking our suitcase

870
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 3: when we got there and we were like, we forgot

871
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 3: the toothpaste. Groceries with clothes, like supermarkets were close. We're

872
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 3: looking it up. We were like, is there somewhere. I

873
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 3: was going to go and knock on someone else's daughters

874
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 3: to borrow toothpaste, but I was like, we can't be

875
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 3: doing that. No, so we brushed our teeth with a

876
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 3: toothbrush with no toothpaste on it. Would you rather do

877
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 3: that for the rest of your life or do the

878
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,359
Speaker 3: you only have tooth paste and you brush your teeth

879
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,280
Speaker 3: with you, You know when you like stay at someone's

880
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 3: house after a few beds and you like do that

881
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:54,879
Speaker 3: one with the toothpaste.

882
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 5: What do you can if you just use the toothbrush,

883
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Speaker 5: Can you still have like breath mince or anything like that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I had. I had chewing gum and then brush

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Speaker 3: my teeth cold turkey on the toothbrush. Oh, it was

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Speaker 3: pretty gross.

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Speaker 4: Toothbrush.

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Speaker 3: I think toothbrush.

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Speaker 5: I don't think sticking a finger in your mouth is

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Speaker 5: overly hygienic.

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Speaker 3: It's not good and I still feel like you end

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Speaker 3: up with fairy teeth, Like no matter whether you have

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Speaker 3: the toothpaste in there on it.

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Speaker 4: And surely you can make some sort of concoction that's not.

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Speaker 3: Toothpaste crush up, some like chewing mince or.

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Speaker 4: Something just for that mince taste.

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Speaker 3: For the minty freshness. All right, thank you very very

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Speaker 3: much for coming on today. It was it was very

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Speaker 3: good to chat. I'm a big fan of you just

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Speaker 3: as a person and as a footy player. I really

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Speaker 3: like you and I'm stoked to have had you on

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Speaker 3: the podcast at all.

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Speaker 4: Thanks so much for having me anytime.

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