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Speaker 2: Till the End of Time. This doesn't feel like the
Speaker 2: right song for us to introduce our special guest this morning.
Speaker 2: Carton coach Michael Voss, George Michael, father figure.
Speaker 3: It's not exactly what you've played in the change room.
Speaker 2: To play looking outside at the sunrise ag am I
Speaker 2: on a late night show, Late night love show. Michael Voss,
Speaker 2: thank you very much for coming in this morning.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure what sort of mood that got me in. Yeah, No,
Speaker 4: that's good being here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now, obviously we want to get you on. Obviously
Speaker 2: it's a good luck this season as well, amazing run
Speaker 2: last year and hopefully obviously better stuff for this year.
Speaker 2: And as you're a coach and a former player, we're
Speaker 2: doing this thing at the moment called Mini Motivators where
Speaker 2: we're getting kids to record these pump up speeches for
Speaker 2: their teams ahead of round one next week. So we
Speaker 2: thought you get in before you listen to some Does
Speaker 2: it make a difference right when a coach does a
Speaker 2: really inspirational speech, say you're it's a three quarters as
Speaker 2: you're losing, but you can win it back. Does can
Speaker 2: that turn a game around?
Speaker 4: My experience. Yes, it's not the only factor, but it
Speaker 4: is a factor. So sometimes where the really powerful ones
Speaker 4: come in is if they give a little bit of hope,
Speaker 4: they give a little bit belief hope knowing when when
Speaker 4: to use that. But then the other one is when
Speaker 4: you sort of need a kicking the button, you sort
Speaker 4: of need to be corrected a little bit and sort
Speaker 4: of men up a little and and sort of get
Speaker 4: on with the job. So I think the art of
Speaker 4: being able to do a good speech, if you want
Speaker 4: to call it, that, is actually knowing where the group
Speaker 4: is and what they need to be able to make
Speaker 4: a difference.
Speaker 2: And can you still yell now? Or is that like, hey,
Speaker 2: you know that it's a different time. Now, you yelling
Speaker 2: at anyone, you'll be on that You'll be a front
Speaker 2: page of the Herald son as a yeller.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, it's you can yell with your head. I'm
Speaker 4: just getting a bit nervous, don't yelling like that. Trying
Speaker 4: to remember one of my one of the ones I
Speaker 4: got when I was playing, I remember sitting at the
Speaker 4: end of the game, and so it wasn't necessarily on
Speaker 4: an inspirational speech. I clearly hadn't gone that well, and
Speaker 4: you know, back in the day, it was about sort
Speaker 4: of one on one because that's the only feedback that
Speaker 4: you got.
Speaker 3: Well, the coach would go around one on one.
Speaker 4: One on one, and so the bad ones of the
Speaker 4: character assassination so that you can raise your voice, but
Speaker 4: if it could becomes personal when you sort of probably
Speaker 4: stretches the line too far, but yeah, he sort of
Speaker 4: looked at me and said, you know, VOSSI, you promise
Speaker 4: a lot and you deliver very little. You come in
Speaker 4: here with your hat on backwards, looking at your muscles
Speaker 4: in the mirror, thinking you're pretty pretty good. You know.
Speaker 4: You make sure you train on Wednesday Sun. And I
Speaker 4: actually missed twelve weeks with the injure myself that day,
Speaker 4: so I wasn't.
Speaker 3: Feeling great about myself after no belief.
Speaker 2: Or hoping that's hot to move forward with.
Speaker 4: No, I didn't give me a lot of didn't give
Speaker 4: me a lot other than a real massive correction. So
Speaker 4: I had twelve weeks to think about it because I'd
Speaker 4: hurt my knee in that game and I actually got
Speaker 4: glandel fever through that period of time, so wonder so
Speaker 4: it took me about ten weeks to get over it.
Speaker 4: But look at it. It ultimately ended upheld me, but
Speaker 4: it took a little while to get over it.
Speaker 2: And so where are the sort of motivation for the
Speaker 2: team right now? Have you had those chats like in
Speaker 2: January about what you want visualizations and all the sort
Speaker 2: of mental process you can do now? Have you had
Speaker 2: those chats? Is it more about just getting ready for
Speaker 2: a round one next week and who you're playing?
Speaker 4: No, I think that it's never one particular conversation. I
Speaker 4: think it's a series of conversations that you need to have.
Speaker 4: But yeah, you set your ambition, so you have to
Speaker 4: have your hooks. I mean that's the important thing about
Speaker 4: about being able to deliver a good pre match or
Speaker 4: even during the season.
Speaker 2: What's a hook?
Speaker 4: Well, a hook could be just something like, you know,
Speaker 4: an ambition that we want to go after. It could
Speaker 4: be the reason why they play. It could be something
Speaker 4: something quite personal that they like, a bit of background
Speaker 4: of their own story, something about them saying about what
Speaker 4: they want to achieve. So there's a whole lot of
Speaker 4: levers that are out there that you can do.
Speaker 2: You have a do you have a You must need
Speaker 2: a hook as well, because it's a lot of pressure
Speaker 2: on you season.
Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, yeah, and that constant reminder around why you
Speaker 4: do things and why you wake up every day and
Speaker 4: have yourself judged freely every single day.
Speaker 3: So how do you remember whole team's hooks? Do you
Speaker 3: have like minila folders.
Speaker 2: With got I've got it, yeah, around your mirror in
Speaker 2: the morning on post it notes all the various players.
Speaker 4: I think my wife might be a little concerned if I've.
Speaker 2: Got a.
Speaker 3: Team members on the wall streams from.
Speaker 2: One to the other, and you got that baseball cap
Speaker 2: on back to front.
Speaker 4: Again, that's a special room that goes downstairs and it's
Speaker 4: under the it's under the under the sofa.
Speaker 2: Be Ceial Keller's lad. That's the players that don't play well.
Speaker 2: All right, We're going to take a break for the
Speaker 2: news when we come back with our guests this morning.
Speaker 2: Then super coach Michael Voss, he's to listen to the
Speaker 2: mini motivators. These are you super fans if you're under eighteen,
Speaker 2: recording your messages pump up speech for your team. So
Speaker 2: that's great ones to go through the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: He begins next Thursday night. Many motivators. We're asking any
Speaker 2: kids super footy fans under eighteen to become a mini
Speaker 2: motivator and motivate your team. Record a message for them
Speaker 2: whenever we announcing the winner next Thursday, right on the
Speaker 2: eve of round one and the prizes are shoes shacky boy?
Speaker 2: What does the winner get?
Speaker 3: A family membership to their club and one thousand dollars
Speaker 3: to spend at the AFL store.
Speaker 2: Now, I especially guesterday, I just about to hear some
Speaker 2: of your entries. Is going its team are going to
Speaker 2: be opening up next next Thursday night? Is Michael Vosstrom?
Speaker 2: You've got another question about the box the coaches bonded.
Speaker 3: Yes, Andy Lee from Hamish and Andy Huge super I
Speaker 3: think you're aware of who he is, Huge Superman number
Speaker 3: one club. He's trying to I want you to debunk
Speaker 3: this for me. He's trying to convince us that he's
Speaker 3: he's gone for a coffee with you before he's even
Speaker 3: sat in the box during a game. He's trying to
Speaker 3: convince us that he's a unofficial coach of the Carlton
Speaker 3: Football Clubs. How much does he actually add behind the scenes.
Speaker 4: Well, I've I've always value his input. I just felt
Speaker 4: like in the coaches box. When he suggested that Jacob
Speaker 4: Wheder and go from full back to full forward is
Speaker 4: probably a bit much.
Speaker 3: Really thrown the mag around, so I said.
Speaker 4: And I said, look mate, yeah that's probably a bit
Speaker 4: too far. Let's just keep this real. And yeah, he's
Speaker 4: been he's been fantastic, he said, massive supporter.
Speaker 3: Yes, but I mean with the heaps of massive supporters
Speaker 3: him in the box. Keep the door locked.
Speaker 4: No, that's true. Now we do have we do have
Speaker 4: some people that do come in. And yeah, I remember
Speaker 4: I asked my dad to come in the first coach well,
Speaker 4: first game that I coached, and there sat in the
Speaker 4: coaches box and you're sitting right behind me. And then
Speaker 4: he didn't because he's normally he normally likes to barrack
Speaker 4: and get into it and behind you. Every now and
Speaker 4: then he would he would just give it a little
Speaker 4: murmuring and that's okay. It wasn't It wasn't too bad.
Speaker 4: And then I got out after the game. I said,
Speaker 4: as you go, Daddy, Gays. I am never sitting in
Speaker 4: the coaches box ever. Again, I hated it. It's the
Speaker 4: most intense environment I've ever bring in, he said, I couldn't.
Speaker 4: I needed to say something. I couldn't say anything.
Speaker 3: It's like a hit in there. You guys have got
Speaker 3: all those like red flashing lights when somebody's not running
Speaker 3: fast enough.
Speaker 2: Turnobyl. Is it about to go? Is it going to be?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 2: It looks so stressful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it looks like a bit of a mosh
Speaker 4: bit in there sometimes, but lots of data coming out.
Speaker 4: But the important thing is just a really simple So
Speaker 4: it's funny what the glass does to here. You have
Speaker 4: glass and you can sort of act what however you want.
Speaker 4: But then you go on the other side of the
Speaker 4: glass and you're all calm and normal. So I don't
Speaker 4: know why that happens. Everyone can still see you.
Speaker 2: Yeah we can't. We see you, see you throwing that
Speaker 2: little headset to the ground. All right, then, just have
Speaker 2: to listen to some of the we'd love your teat
Speaker 2: then about the impact you think on players for some
Speaker 2: of these messages from the mini motivator. Let's go all right,
Speaker 2: so this is Hudson and he's a Lions fan.
Speaker 5: Okay, lines, you can do this.
Speaker 1: You're the best team ever.
Speaker 5: You can win the flag, you can win the Cup,
Speaker 5: and you're the best team ever, the best, best best
Speaker 5: guy the lion.
Speaker 3: You would have heard that from Lee Matthews.
Speaker 4: Probably oversold the dream a little on that one, but
Speaker 4: now I liked it. It had passion. It was some passion.
Speaker 2: And then these are two brothers, mad North fans, their
Speaker 2: Bruce fans. Michael fourteen wrote this and gave it to
Speaker 2: his younger two of your brother Luke.
Speaker 1: Come on, Kangers, pull yourselves together. We've already lost one
Speaker 1: brother to another club due your average performances over the.
Speaker 3: Last three years.
Speaker 1: Where's that shim bona spirit gone? Come on, Cagers, new coach,
Speaker 1: new captains, new year, new attitude. Let's win that flag.
Speaker 1: As Almodo says, victory demands dedication, up the money.
Speaker 2: What do reckon all? That one?
Speaker 4: A bit of pain and pleasure in that current last year,
Speaker 4: and there was a little bit of both so to inspire.
Speaker 4: I didn't mind a little bit of a hook at
Speaker 4: the end. So no, there's there's plenty of passion in it.
Speaker 2: Again, this is young Ryland, who's eight pints fan. Sadly already.
Speaker 4: We're going to we need to train hard to get it.
Speaker 2: Last year.
Speaker 4: We didn't quite.
Speaker 5: Make it last year, but we're going to make it.
Speaker 1: Yes, maybe I'm playing harder in all your number ones.
Speaker 2: I love that. Maybe I don't know, play harder? Would
Speaker 2: it kill you?
Speaker 4: I didn't think it was. I didn't think it was
Speaker 4: a cute colling and supporter out there, But I don't
Speaker 4: think we just found one. But no, it's that's that's
Speaker 4: it's really really good. So I've gatined plenty of passion,
Speaker 4: but there's lots of cuteness. Can you not follow that? Yeahsiration,
Speaker 4: isn't it? Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Now we've got a young blues fan here? All right,
Speaker 2: so this could be someone who could be coming into
Speaker 2: your locker room. This is from Evelin, who's seven Bossy Famous.
Speaker 5: Okay, blue boys, we need to talk. Let's get real here.
Speaker 5: You know it, I know it. The last few years
Speaker 5: hasn't been your best, but now it's time to give
Speaker 5: it your all and make twenty twenty three the year
Speaker 5: we take out the finals.
Speaker 2: Go celting Bossy's tearing up.
Speaker 4: Wow, that level was brilliant. He just hit right in
Speaker 4: the heart, didn't he right there? So no, he was
Speaker 4: Obviously if we're talking about using the head and the heart,
Speaker 4: I think you just went straight for the heart. So no,
Speaker 4: very very inspiration, very personal for just nice little level.
Speaker 4: Didn't have to raise his voice there at all. Is
Speaker 4: just quite deliberate, nice execution.
Speaker 2: Okay, So have you got one bit of advice for
Speaker 2: kids then, because we've got another six days left on this.
Speaker 2: For the mini motivators, what is it? More passion?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Well, again, I think that the pitch and the tone
Speaker 4: and maybe the veriability of the tone can sometimes come
Speaker 4: into effect the passion. The little hooks. I like the
Speaker 4: a lock where they went with some of the hooks
Speaker 4: that they had there. So yeah, anythink that just makes
Speaker 4: it a little bit personal, a little bit relatable to
Speaker 4: the players always helps.
Speaker 2: Great. Okay, good luck next Thursday Night's one. Good luck
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