Speaker 1: Hey, legends, welcome back to the Mason Cock Show as
Speaker 1: you can imagine, and insane week in football. To start off,
Speaker 1: Gil had an apology which we all knew was gonna come.
Speaker 1: We also had two Tigers last Hurrah, absolute legends of
Speaker 1: the club that played their final game, and of course
Speaker 1: that Friday night battle one versus two Collingwood versus Brisbane.
Speaker 1: So massive, massive podcast coming up, So settle in. Let's
Speaker 1: get into it. All right, legends, let's get into it.
Speaker 1: Welcome brighton, Oh Mason, don't be like that now. I
Speaker 1: know you've got some big news for us off the
Speaker 1: top that you want to just dive straight into.
Speaker 2: Straight in. Leather us up. We've got some good news
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: We're going to beyond the Valley. I hear there's a
Speaker 1: little festival here in Australia around the New Year's time
Speaker 1: that all the kiddos love to go to. Is a
Speaker 1: few doof sticks. You know, the old Matt Preston who
Speaker 1: was on a doof stick and someone sent me and myself,
Speaker 1: I think, on a dupe stick last year. So I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if we're going to come with our own doofstick,
Speaker 1: but I feel like that should be our one thing
Speaker 1: we should go to be on the Valley with surely.
Speaker 3: Now, I didn't know that it was a music festival, mate,
Speaker 3: so I thought you were asking me on a Lord
Speaker 3: of the Ring style adventure beyond the Valley. But I
Speaker 3: am very excited to be a part of it. And
Speaker 3: I'm actually starting to shit myself because great more and
Speaker 3: more people are like, oh my god, I'll be beyond
Speaker 3: the valley. I'll see you auld beyond the valley, And
Speaker 3: I'm like, jeezus, this is going to be concerning if
Speaker 3: a lot of people show up.
Speaker 1: Think a lot of people know that you've never done
Speaker 1: anything publicly in front of people. So I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see exactly how you respond, Braden.
Speaker 3: I'm excited to see how I respond. If there's alcohol
Speaker 3: at these things, right, maybe a couple of you know,
Speaker 3: bits of courage to fill me up. And there is
Speaker 3: women at these events too, mates, it's graded. I'll got
Speaker 3: one eye on the crowd, see how we go.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine telling that story you're running? Where'd you
Speaker 1: meet beyond the Valley? So did you check out the
Speaker 1: podcast stage your boy was on there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'll do yes, That's exactly how lead with
Speaker 3: I was on the podcast stage, man, so that's a
Speaker 3: pretty big deal.
Speaker 1: It is. Well, before we go too far into your
Speaker 1: future missages, we'll get into the podcast. There's a lot
Speaker 1: to cover here today and we'll start off with the
Speaker 1: clangers of the week. What do you go for us?
Speaker 3: And this was one of those weeks where we really
Speaker 3: have to short list it down from about twenty clangers
Speaker 3: that happened over this weekend.
Speaker 2: Because she's they're ramping it up.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, some of the officials getting into
Speaker 3: finals mode as well, so they're all ramping it up
Speaker 3: as well. But I will jump into mine, which is
Speaker 3: the West Coast Eagles. Now, it's probably the only time
Speaker 3: as a fan that you're sitting there as your team's
Speaker 3: taking the lead and you're going, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: What are you doing?
Speaker 3: Dude?
Speaker 1: We've been practicing all year for this.
Speaker 3: We've worked hard for this moment, and you're stuffing it up.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I get you want to win.
Speaker 3: Everyone wants to win, and it's all well and good,
Speaker 3: but you know, number one draft pick is also something
Speaker 3: to be very happy about. You can have your moment
Speaker 3: in the sun after the season is finished. But West
Speaker 3: Coast are really trying to fumble the bag. They got
Speaker 3: one game left to see how much they can lose by.
Speaker 3: But if they don't, I had flashbacks to the moment
Speaker 3: where Richmond won with like a kick after the siren,
Speaker 3: and it set a chain of events that happened that
Speaker 3: ended up them getting Dusty in the draft. But you know,
Speaker 3: come on, just take the l go back to Perth
Speaker 3: and get your number one draft pick.
Speaker 1: It's interesting though, I might have said Adamsinson's job at
Speaker 1: the same time, so they did have something to play
Speaker 1: for Bradon. We'll get into that later in the podcast.
Speaker 1: Mike Klanger for the week. Oh man, if everyone's watching
Speaker 1: on Friday night, this might be the biggest news that
Speaker 1: came out of it. Devin Robson, he's got a rig.
Speaker 1: He has got a rig. His shirt came off. Frozie
Speaker 1: ripped it off from behind him. He went full hook
Speaker 1: and then threw the whole thing off. He said, Nat,
Speaker 1: we're going full Duded here. Now I'm kidding half. We're
Speaker 1: almost went the full Monty. But he took his shirt off,
Speaker 1: and I think the statistics said he gained twenty six
Speaker 1: thousand followers overnight, and I'm just saying this. If I'm Devin,
Speaker 1: I'm just starting an only fan starting today, because then
Speaker 1: you can retire. You don't worry about anything else, just
Speaker 1: you know, continue that momentum. And yeah, he was, Hey,
Speaker 1: he's looking good. Just starting out there. Man, there's I
Speaker 1: guarantee you that twenty six thousand, probably twenty of those
Speaker 1: were females.
Speaker 3: A lot of thirsty, thirsty AFL followers out there just
Speaker 3: tuning into the game. Didn't know that it was going
Speaker 3: to turn into like a bit of a foreign SBS
Speaker 3: film late at night where if all the lads out
Speaker 3: there know what I'm talking about, But yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2: I didn't think it was that good. A rig was
Speaker 2: that that could run?
Speaker 1: It was pretty good. I'm gonna lie. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not taking my shirt off in the game. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you that, Brad. You know what, the guy was running
Speaker 1: around with the new jersey, I would have tried. I
Speaker 1: would have been darting straight for that guy to get
Speaker 1: a new jersey.
Speaker 3: A SAT I always liked that there's TV, there's high definition,
Speaker 3: standard definition, and there's zero definition.
Speaker 2: That's what I got to be here, so I can't
Speaker 2: really tell it.
Speaker 1: Let's listen again. We'll get into the games. There's a
Speaker 1: lot to cover here. The first one off the top,
Speaker 1: Richmond versus North Melbourne, Richmond with the win one on
Speaker 1: one to seventy two, and the big news that we
Speaker 1: talked about off the top, Jack Reewalt and Trench Trent
Speaker 1: Kutchin's last game as Richmond legends, which was an amazing
Speaker 1: thing to see them sent off in a beautiful style
Speaker 1: and very emotional before the game, as you'd imagine. But
Speaker 1: I had this thought, right, So I thought back to
Speaker 1: Hawthorne and you had Jared Roffead playing someone on in
Speaker 1: his last game, right, and I think he kicked like
Speaker 1: a bag and it was like anything that was beyond
Speaker 1: halfway down the field was going to him inside fifty Like,
Speaker 1: surely you do this with Jack and Trent in the
Speaker 1: last game, Like the game's done, You're not making finals,
Speaker 1: you're playing North Melbourne. They're at the bottom of the ladder, Like,
Speaker 1: surely that's the goal of this whole experience, is it?
Speaker 3: I think the only difference is small difference minute. They
Speaker 3: kind of did that, But Jack Reewoldt was kicking absolute
Speaker 3: sacks and Jared Ruffin was putting him through from anywhere.
Speaker 1: He was actually sold from what Yeah, he was just
Speaker 1: turn on a dime, just.
Speaker 3: Kicking a snab on the run and did like the
Speaker 3: Titanic slow motion run.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Jack Reewolt's first shot at goal, which was like one
Speaker 3: of the first, if not the first for the game,
Speaker 3: he just nicked one of his shoelaces I reckon on
Speaker 3: the way through and it went about twenty meters to
Speaker 3: the just ahead and to the far left, and it
Speaker 3: was like, it's going to be a long day if
Speaker 3: you keep kicking him like that.
Speaker 1: You could un retire for a game and fix that.
Speaker 1: Go for one more.
Speaker 3: There was a moment in this game. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you saw it. Jack Zebel took an absolute hanger
Speaker 3: and they're like, oh, he still got it, get him
Speaker 3: a contract. He looked inside and tried to pick off
Speaker 3: a kick into the middle direc turnover straight to a
Speaker 3: goal for the opposition.
Speaker 1: We don't remember that. I just remember the the speky bro.
Speaker 3: It's like that's so quick that it was like maybe
Speaker 3: I still got this. He's thinking as he's running back
Speaker 3: on the mark and then direct turnover and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: good last.
Speaker 1: Game, good last game. You know I've made my mac
Speaker 1: Dustin Martin had an amazing game. Turned back to Clark Shy.
Speaker 1: Bolton kicked four, But we got to go back to
Speaker 1: this Nick Larky. We've talked about this man a few
Speaker 1: kick six on the day. He is the Oscar Alland
Speaker 1: of North Melbourne.
Speaker 3: He's still only just getting started too. Like he's he's
Speaker 3: got plenty of years left ahead of him, big lad,
Speaker 3: like big unit can still move like yeah, it's He's
Speaker 3: had an incredible season, especially where North are and as
Speaker 3: you mentioned, Oscar Allen, we pretty much give him a
Speaker 3: shout out every week.
Speaker 1: North as we mentioned every single week when we go
Speaker 1: do this again, Hey, they were in it for a
Speaker 1: decent they're competitive. There are fourteen points ten minutes into
Speaker 1: the second term and it's only a nine point difference
Speaker 1: going into the fourth quarter. At Richmond rolled him in
Speaker 1: the end. But like we said many times, you know
Speaker 1: it's good signs for North Melbourne's good signs. We have
Speaker 1: a bit of positivity with them, right, a bit of
Speaker 1: positivity okay.
Speaker 3: And who they got next week again, it doesn't matter,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: They're going down to the old home ground down there
Speaker 1: in Tasmania.
Speaker 3: Which is bullshit. If you think like Gold Coast, I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: Gold Coast versus North in Tazzi last game of the year,
Speaker 3: I'd forfeit. If I was Gold Coast, I'd be forfeiting
Speaker 3: that game. What's the point why send us down there?
Speaker 3: It was the cruelest fixture at the start of the year.
Speaker 3: You're not doing the fixture and going like geez, I reckon,
Speaker 3: if we put North gold Coast it might be for
Speaker 3: a top four spot. Let's chuck that down. And no,
Speaker 3: it was dumb. Whoever's doing it has like beef with
Speaker 3: one of these teams like that. There's no way that.
Speaker 1: You're just trying to draw up the Tazzi, you know,
Speaker 1: like experience. They didn't know if taz was gonna get
Speaker 1: a team or not. Maybe this is the last chance
Speaker 1: to be really you know, get the crowd going down there.
Speaker 1: Imagine that is seldom point.
Speaker 3: We will touch on it. Dimmer said, I won't start
Speaker 3: for two weeks. Now I know why. It's like, I'm
Speaker 3: not going down.
Speaker 1: Boys, I just fent to the Gold Coast for good weather.
Speaker 1: You have to go to Tasmania. Well, speaking of Demo,
Speaker 1: we're going to the next game. Sons versus Carlton. You
Speaker 1: would have probably go into this game thinking Carlton's what one,
Speaker 1: eight or nine on the trot, probably going to roll
Speaker 1: the Signs who are not making finals. But it was
Speaker 1: a really good game. Might be the second best game
Speaker 1: of the round. I'd say Carlton fans would have been sweating.
Speaker 1: Carlton looked completely off it, like at the start, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if part of it is you know,
Speaker 1: they used to like playing it the g OR in
Speaker 1: Melbourne with a massive following and they just really ride
Speaker 1: that wave of momentum. They had none of it in
Speaker 1: the Gold Coast.
Speaker 3: It was a day game off Broadway, like their fans
Speaker 3: rolled in, but definitely nowhere near an mcg experience, and
Speaker 3: Gold Coast was all over them early and it was
Speaker 3: all Gold Coast pressure, like they were manic and like
Speaker 3: Carlton had like nowhere to go, no breathing room, and
Speaker 3: I don't know, it didn't look good early.
Speaker 1: For the Signs. David Swaller kicked a career high four
Speaker 1: gold Twoke Miller had twenty nine disposals and Jed Wetz
Speaker 1: had thirty eight hit outs. So those were the big ones.
Speaker 1: But you talked about the momentum shift in that third
Speaker 1: quarter soon said twenty five turnovers and that's whenever the
Speaker 1: Carlton Blues essentially said, boys were taken over here, we're
Speaker 1: going to win this game and we're going to lock
Speaker 1: in a final spot, which they did. And yeah, they're official,
Speaker 1: officially playing finals. And the lid almost got put back
Speaker 1: on Carlton. But it's still off, baby, it's still off.
Speaker 1: The lids are well and truly off. As everyone's been saying.
Speaker 3: It did cook that last game, the last game of
Speaker 3: the year, would have been Carlton vgw WES to make finals,
Speaker 3: which would have been an exhilarating game, but they took
Speaker 3: that away from us. Charlie and Harry playing together again.
Speaker 3: Harry fair to say, he didn't do too much. Baked
Speaker 3: the goal, but he was coming back into the team
Speaker 3: coming back from injury, so you don't expect a massive
Speaker 3: one from him. He did kick a goal, but it
Speaker 3: was Charlie that got it to him over the top.
Speaker 2: So yeah.
Speaker 3: Charlie however, looked scary good, like scary good, and you
Speaker 3: can finally see him playing in finals like where he belongs.
Speaker 2: This guy's like a.
Speaker 1: He's a box office he's a ticket seller.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you could see at one moment where they
Speaker 3: needed him most, took a mark outside fifty, wheeled around
Speaker 3: and just smashed it home. And it was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: to see him do that at somewhere like the mcg
Speaker 3: in finals is going to be pretty scary good.
Speaker 1: And he kicked five on the day, so we crown
Speaker 1: you put the king on. I think that's Syler's one.
Speaker 1: And I want to also shut this out because not
Speaker 1: only was he good in the forward half, at the
Speaker 1: very end of the game, he got put into defense
Speaker 1: and actually took the mark ND fifty. They probably sealed
Speaker 1: the game for Carleton, gave him the win, which is
Speaker 1: super impressive. He now sits eight clear of text Walker
Speaker 1: text Walker Ranger Okay, okay, not laughing over hear the name,
Speaker 1: and yeah, essentially Carleton's now going into play playing finals.
Speaker 1: They're locked in crips. Did go down to the rooms,
Speaker 1: I think in the first quarter and it came back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I played, but he had I noticed that he
Speaker 3: had one of those massive rib guards on, you know
Speaker 3: where they try to hide it to be like I
Speaker 3: don't have smashed up.
Speaker 1: This is what I love though, because we get this
Speaker 1: break before finals, right, And I think this allows all
Speaker 1: these teams to have a little bit of you know,
Speaker 1: issues here and there, maybe their body's a bit sore,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, to really kind of get fresh to
Speaker 1: show the best of the best whenever it comes to finals.
Speaker 1: So Carlton's on the nine game winning streak, and it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see them finally playing finals, and they're
Speaker 1: going to be a threat, there is no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: In form at the right time of year. Now the
Speaker 1: next game we're going to you be super stoked about
Speaker 1: this game.
Speaker 3: Boys. I am sitting here pretty proud of my boys
Speaker 3: getting the job done. Gws absolutely pile driving Essenon into
Speaker 3: the dirt. This was I feel like, I'm just going
Speaker 3: to reel back in when I was like, oh, Essenon
Speaker 3: has had a successful year, because I don't know anymore.
Speaker 1: I mean, the score is one sixty two to thirty six.
Speaker 1: Whenever that came up and I was looking at the scores,
Speaker 1: I was like, is this is this an incorrect Like
Speaker 1: someone screwed up the scoreboard. I was kind of confused
Speaker 1: by Jesse Hogan kicks nine and they were trying to
Speaker 1: get him ten your best nine. That hurts deep, deep down. Oh,
Speaker 1: I would be filthy if I was him right now,
Speaker 1: going I was one goal away after having an absolute
Speaker 1: blinder of a day from getting ten goals for a
Speaker 1: career high.
Speaker 2: He was limping, he was like in everything.
Speaker 3: He had a shot with second like a minute left
Speaker 3: just outside the goal square while being tackled.
Speaker 2: And missed his boot. Oh so close.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he said he'd never been near ten before,
Speaker 3: so like it was a massive effort and you know
Speaker 3: they've still got stuff to play for Essendon. On the
Speaker 3: other hand, boy, oh boy, where we when you're playing
Speaker 3: and you can see them trying to get one of
Speaker 3: their teammates ten goals and they're subbern out Toby Green
Speaker 3: to just chill on the bench to rest up, and
Speaker 3: it's like, surely you're sitting out there going like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, we're like when non competitive at this point
Speaker 3: in time.
Speaker 1: It was interesting. I mean, Bomber's still mathematical chances what
Speaker 1: I've been told.
Speaker 3: I think they have to beat you by like one
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty or something. Wow, doable because.
Speaker 2: They hear of the day.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at this, Wow. But Jesse Hogan
Speaker 1: maybe pros up to you for not making that's.
Speaker 3: Rough, and we will say one of your favorites, Phil
Speaker 3: Davis retired one hundred and ninety two games over fifteen years.
Speaker 2: That's a massive career.
Speaker 1: Is one of the absolute like you talk about like
Speaker 1: good guys at footy who are just super nice, loving
Speaker 1: person like just an absolute legend, very well spoken, very
Speaker 1: nice fella. So Phil Davis does retire off one hundred
Speaker 1: and two games, and I'm going to miss him out though.
Speaker 1: He's just one of those people you enjoyed like he
Speaker 1: was a tough competitor. Don't be wrong, but I think
Speaker 1: he's one of those people you enjoyed talking to after
Speaker 1: the game. You know, what do you what are you
Speaker 1: to man? Like, what are you doing? And he's I
Speaker 1: was excited to talk to everyone. And he's a really
Speaker 1: good fellow, really good fellas. He's going to be missed
Speaker 1: in the in the AFL world, but I think he
Speaker 1: will have a job in media. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: He could move into a lot of things.
Speaker 1: I reckon Yeah, I think he'll do a bit of
Speaker 1: Channel seven commentary if I had to tell you, guys.
Speaker 3: Every time he goes on there, he wears the very
Speaker 3: smart spectacles part of the gang, the Goggle Boys, the Goggle.
Speaker 1: Boys, Classes Gang, Google Gang.
Speaker 2: Oh it's not full goggles, not full Goggle, we'll get them. Well,
Speaker 2: no one was a full Goggles.
Speaker 1: It's a one man show.
Speaker 2: Let's jump into this next one. Saint Kilda v. Geelong.
Speaker 3: Interesting, Geelong really running out of stem late late in
Speaker 3: the season, tried to find their winning form that saw
Speaker 3: him win a flag last year but obviously couldn't do it.
Speaker 3: Chris Scott no longer a Geelong the danger if they
Speaker 3: make finals because they can't make finals at this stage.
Speaker 3: But ross Lyon this is the story. It's not Geelong
Speaker 3: kind of missing the eighth, which is pretty big, but
Speaker 3: ross Lyon taking this Saint Kilda team that not a
Speaker 3: lot of people had making finals at the start of
Speaker 3: the year. They're a top two defensive team in the
Speaker 3: league and to win flags you got to be good
Speaker 3: in defense.
Speaker 1: Defense wins championships.
Speaker 3: My brothers Ross Lion, top top two defensive team and
Speaker 3: now they're starting to put it on the scoreboard.
Speaker 2: So they scored eighty eight for this.
Speaker 3: Game, which you know, it's not going to blow anyone's
Speaker 3: socks off, but that's pretty good when you're a Stinger's
Speaker 3: Saint Kilda. So yeah, it's I think it's they're gonna,
Speaker 3: you know, rattle a few cages come finals.
Speaker 1: They held Jaulon to fifty five points. I think with Geelong,
Speaker 1: like yet Hawkends was injured a few weeks ago, I
Speaker 1: reckon there's some of these guys are trying to get
Speaker 1: them over the line, you know, and coming back probably
Speaker 1: before they're one hundred percent, which you're never one hundred
Speaker 1: percent football, but we're really pushing to try to get
Speaker 1: their team to make it the finals, maybe get that
Speaker 1: week to like rest up and then be able to
Speaker 1: go again. But yeah, Geelong officially out the premiers of
Speaker 1: last year and not making finals this year, which I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what the mathematical chances of that are, but
Speaker 1: not very high. And it's yeah, it's pretty sure. But
Speaker 1: I want to bring to attention to something that happen
Speaker 1: in this game because I was looking at as we
Speaker 1: do on this podcast. We like to have a thing
Speaker 1: for plumbers, right, so if you get fifty ten to
Speaker 1: the straight, so that's my thing, right, disposals and stuff.
Speaker 3: Who cares anyone can get thirty touches show me fifty hitouts.
Speaker 1: Many people in this world's done that. So anyway, I
Speaker 1: looked at it and roand Marshall had twenty eight hitouts.
Speaker 1: That's good, don't get me wrong. But the weird thing
Speaker 1: I saw when if you click the hitouts thing was
Speaker 1: the next one was six. So you're telling me between
Speaker 1: the two major ruckmen there was thirty four hitouts and
Speaker 1: that was it. Was there any stoppages in this game?
Speaker 1: Or was just thirty four center bounces could get those
Speaker 1: numbers zones? I've never seen anything like that, Like it
Speaker 1: was the and then I think Hawkins had maybe four
Speaker 1: after that, so there wasn't It wasn't like there was
Speaker 1: a ton of stoppages or ability to have hitouts. Apparently,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe they just kind of hugged each
Speaker 1: other and made love in the middle and let it
Speaker 1: drop and didn't touch it.
Speaker 3: I mean, most people would love free, free flowing foot,
Speaker 3: but not not the rucks.
Speaker 1: Not the rucks. Those numbers, yeah, and the Mids don't
Speaker 1: give it to.
Speaker 3: Us that I will back over it. Fifty five. Geelong
Speaker 3: scored fifty five with.
Speaker 2: Hawkins Cameron Henry.
Speaker 3: They've got so Stengle like, they've got so many forwards
Speaker 3: it's it's very impressive and they're gonna hockon. They're gonna
Speaker 3: do some damage out there. Now, we got to get
Speaker 3: to this game because it is the biggest talking point
Speaker 3: and obviously could have been Clanger of the week, Mats.
Speaker 1: Can I preface this game before?
Speaker 2: This is Clanger of the years?
Speaker 1: Hands down, Mace on this podcast, right, we've gotten in
Speaker 1: trouble a few times. I'm gonna let you lead this one, Brandon,
Speaker 1: and if I don't say anything, you know, take it
Speaker 1: how you may set.
Speaker 2: The scene, if you could at least be a scene center.
Speaker 1: To give a bit of context to people out there.
Speaker 1: Adelat lost this game, which therefore means they're not playing finals,
Speaker 1: so it's have to say big decision. Whoopsie.
Speaker 3: Let me give it a little flavor now that you've
Speaker 3: set it up a little salt here. So ben Key's
Speaker 3: right kicks a blinder on real kick by the way
Speaker 3: from the corner, and it goes through. It goes through
Speaker 3: so much that he's so convinced that he's off celebrating
Speaker 3: in the front row, pointing to his head. You don't
Speaker 3: do that if you think it missed, Mace. Yeah, you're
Speaker 3: not trying to convince anyone you think it's a goal.
Speaker 2: It is so close.
Speaker 3: But I've never seen someone with so much conviction go like,
Speaker 3: I swear on my life that was a point and
Speaker 3: I'm not going to change my mind. Signals the point
Speaker 3: off they run, so it's like, I don't get the point.
Speaker 3: Pardon the pun of the score of you if we're
Speaker 3: not going to use it, come up with a solution,
Speaker 3: because then you roll out Gil, who's in a sling.
Speaker 3: I don't know why Gil's in a sling, but he's like.
Speaker 1: The off season for him, after.
Speaker 3: The year when a flavor, so they're good on holidays
Speaker 3: and yeah, he's like, yeah, yeah, if we had a
Speaker 3: look at it, oh, would have been a goal. It's like, well,
Speaker 3: tough tits mate, it's too late at latest book. In
Speaker 3: their mad mondays, AFL took ownership to say they were
Speaker 3: doesn't matter. People's excuses are like, yeah, but you know,
Speaker 3: we should have done better in the first three quarters.
Speaker 3: That's where we really lost the game or whatever. No,
Speaker 3: you put yourself in the position to win the game,
Speaker 3: and you won the game and it was taken from you.
Speaker 1: They could have won the game, but Sidney could have
Speaker 1: if it was considered a goal, Sidney would have gone
Speaker 1: this ston a bount to try get forward, so Sydney
Speaker 1: would have had an opportunity still win. But the matter
Speaker 1: of the fact is the arc vision wasn't used when
Speaker 1: it should have been used. And I look at it now,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking at the Women's World Cup at the moment,
Speaker 1: VAR right, that thing can figure out whether or not
Speaker 1: it is a finger length over the goal line. If
Speaker 1: it's a fingernail over the goal line, Surely looking at that,
Speaker 1: we can just call up the VAR people and go,
Speaker 1: how the hell do you do this?
Speaker 2: Give us what they're going to give us.
Speaker 1: What they've got. There is literally a test scenario in
Speaker 1: Australia for soccer at the moment doing its job and
Speaker 1: doing it well. Surely we could just say, let's payback
Speaker 1: off that shit.
Speaker 3: In all of this mace we learnt. One thing is
Speaker 3: if you slap the post, the sniko goes out the window.
Speaker 3: They can't use it, so every defender is just going
Speaker 3: to be slapping the post when the ball's going through,
Speaker 3: So that technology is now null and.
Speaker 1: Voyage if you have to stop the game to make
Speaker 1: sure you get that decision correct. In such a pivotal
Speaker 1: time of the game, you have to stop it. I
Speaker 1: understand the IFL wants to make the game free flowing
Speaker 1: and wants to make it quick and wants to make
Speaker 1: it exciting. But in that moment, in the pressure of
Speaker 1: the game, whoever's running the arc needs to get down
Speaker 1: to the umpires on their mind and say stop it
Speaker 1: for at least five more seconds until we can get
Speaker 1: this correct. If it means that maybe like you can't
Speaker 1: get that exit kick wherever it is is Sydney and
Speaker 1: be able to get get out fast. That's just the
Speaker 1: scenario and that's what it is. But in that pressure
Speaker 1: of the game, you have to be able to make
Speaker 1: sure with all due diligence that you're making the correct decision. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're all talking facts. Anyway, Sydney's on a six game
Speaker 1: winning streak.
Speaker 2: How good are.
Speaker 1: How good a US bad news for them though. Tom
Speaker 1: mccarton did get cited for two weeks for essentially a bump.
Speaker 3: So they are going to challenge which we don't know
Speaker 3: the outcome of, but it. I was surprised they're challenging it.
Speaker 3: Watching it live, I was like, oh, look, it looked
Speaker 3: like a huge bump. But it looked like a good bump,
Speaker 3: and then they showed the replay you know that thing
Speaker 3: that you can see if you get it back, and
Speaker 3: it clearly showed head contact. So electa bump hit the
Speaker 3: head gone, It's pretty obvious.
Speaker 1: We'll move on to the next game after that one,
Speaker 1: the Bulldogs versus Eagles. What the fuck?
Speaker 2: Shit just kept getting more frustrating as the weekend went on.
Speaker 1: Mess this weekend, how we landed here?
Speaker 3: Which which fan was watching this game and was happy?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think anyone was happy leaving
Speaker 1: this ground. The Bulldogs lost eighty five to ninety two.
Speaker 1: The Eagles have now lost the first round draft pick.
Speaker 1: The Dogs are out of finals. Adam Simpson does probably
Speaker 1: get to keep his job out of this, and now
Speaker 1: the pressure's probably on Babe. So you can say that
Speaker 1: the Adelaide game was controversial, but then backing into this
Speaker 1: game after that, you could almost just say we've doubled down.
Speaker 3: I just imagine that an Eagles fan and a Bulldogs
Speaker 3: fan barracking for the same thing in the crowd.
Speaker 2: Eagles fan, they've got the ball, They're like, kick it
Speaker 2: the other way, kick it the other way. Bulldogs like yeah,
Speaker 2: kick it the belt forward line.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: What My favorite part of this game was Adam Simpson's
Speaker 1: comments after the game.
Speaker 2: So good, so good. I was telling you a little
Speaker 2: bit of character.
Speaker 3: Not great for graphics because it was full tongue in cheek,
Speaker 3: but essentially he was like, we were really trying to
Speaker 3: tank at that last three minutes and we just couldn't
Speaker 3: get it done.
Speaker 2: It's like, that's gold.
Speaker 3: Obviously, people in the media and fans are like saying
Speaker 3: that they were tanking the other week by not putting
Speaker 3: man behind the ball. Well, I actually put a man
Speaker 3: behind the ball in this one. They threw Oscar Allen
Speaker 3: back late, so there was a bit of a difference
Speaker 3: in there. But I really did appreciate the joke.
Speaker 1: It was good. I like Adam Simpson.
Speaker 2: I like personality.
Speaker 1: The people give personality. I want, I need to stay
Speaker 1: in the game and we're excited. We actually didn't really
Speaker 1: talk about it up there. A dimma's back. Yeah, talk
Speaker 1: about personality. Dimmers back at the Suns baby six year deal. Hey,
Speaker 1: how you going by the holiday house and just kick back?
Speaker 3: Well yeah, well we may as well carve out a
Speaker 3: little section for the coaches now because Obviously Adam Simpson
Speaker 3: going into this game was going to get sacked. Everyone
Speaker 3: is saying, oh, he's going to get sacked. He's going
Speaker 3: to get sacked. Obviously not your opinion, but fans h
Speaker 3: and co that is alike. And then it was completely
Speaker 3: flipped on its head. Obviously, then pressure went over to
Speaker 3: bev that's you know, you put the pressure on when
Speaker 3: you're like, we're a top four list and you're not
Speaker 3: making finals. So all of that pressure and why do
Speaker 3: you want to be a coach? Well, Dimmer said he's
Speaker 3: got more. He's hungrier now than ever going up to
Speaker 3: the Suns for six years.
Speaker 2: They're looney, they're crazy people.
Speaker 3: I don't get you can't come out of it and
Speaker 3: be the same as you went into it.
Speaker 1: I think you'd have to be a little bit crazier.
Speaker 1: Say I want to wear the Gold Coast Suns polo
Speaker 1: because that thing looks disgusting.
Speaker 2: Macas shit, the.
Speaker 1: Old Maca's shirt. Oh, it was quite funny. It just
Speaker 1: seemed a bit weird seeing him and that.
Speaker 3: But yes, Dimmer said that he they were like, oh,
Speaker 3: you're going to take Dusty, You're going to proach Dusty,
Speaker 3: which I don't even know if it's the right move anyway,
Speaker 3: But that's neither here nor there. But he was like,
Speaker 3: I think that I've got everything I need within the
Speaker 3: four walls. Ellipses pause, and then he says for now
Speaker 3: before he just like poaches on the improvement.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I don't want to throw one under
Speaker 1: the bus at the moment.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. I haven't been inside the
Speaker 3: four walls. I mean living it up in France or
Speaker 3: wherever I've been. But I reckon they see him pretty good.
Speaker 3: Maybe he just watched the first half of the Carlton
Speaker 3: Gold Coast game and missed the second half because maybe
Speaker 3: they could go some guys that could run out four quarters.
Speaker 1: Hey, it's gonna be interesting. And hey, as a Gold
Speaker 1: Coast Signs fan, we've said this before on this massive
Speaker 1: Gold Coast Sun fans.
Speaker 2: Oh you are We're back.
Speaker 1: We're back, baby, bringing us back to bring us. No,
Speaker 1: he's not bringing us back to false bringing us two
Speaker 1: finals for the first start next year.
Speaker 3: So would you go on record and say that you
Speaker 3: could see them getting their best ever result next year,
Speaker 3: which would be I think higher than twelve.
Speaker 1: Oh for sure, I'm on record right now, Big cool
Speaker 1: he's eleven. I'm saying they making top eight next year.
Speaker 3: You didn't even have to say that. You had wiggle room.
Speaker 3: You could have said eleven, round top eight, go big
Speaker 3: or go home. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: But last thing about this game, I want to talk
Speaker 1: about Bulldogs players walking off the field a real you know,
Speaker 1: deja vu about it, didn't it? This is javu to
Speaker 1: Carlton whenever they had lost a few yar arlier in
Speaker 1: the year.
Speaker 3: No one really learned from that situation. Carlton fans just
Speaker 3: forgot that they were doing it, and now they're all
Speaker 3: back on the wagon, and it is Yeah, it's always
Speaker 3: sad to see it happen, and this is vile abuse,
Speaker 3: which wild well, obviously we don't condone it. We would
Speaker 3: go as far to say that we condemn it, but yeah,
Speaker 3: it was disgusting. Obviously they're not going out there to lose.
Speaker 1: Whenever someone braded you like that, your own supporters, it
Speaker 1: makes you feel like this and this is not all supporters,
Speaker 1: this is just the ones that do this. It makes
Speaker 1: it feel like they're very fickle. Yeah, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like.
Speaker 3: Well, you got no one to turn to, no one
Speaker 3: to back you up. Like you already feel like you're
Speaker 3: in a hole, Like who do.
Speaker 1: You felt like calling supporters now? I've noticed over the
Speaker 1: last two years especially, and it's not only just calling supports.
Speaker 1: I feel like people that support Collingwood just in general,
Speaker 1: and even if we lose the game, we get clapped off,
Speaker 1: you know, like that's a great effort, where like in
Speaker 1: this situation like that it was just vile behavior. And
Speaker 1: I just kind of feel like over the last two years,
Speaker 1: especially that I've really seen a shift and probably fan
Speaker 1: you know, engagement and love for the club, Like it's
Speaker 1: really been quite incredible to see, and like, I feel
Speaker 1: like there's a lot of people I do feel like
Speaker 1: it's family now.
Speaker 3: I think there is a lot of fickle supporters across
Speaker 3: the league that it's like it's easy to forgive and
Speaker 3: forget if you're winning more than you're losing.
Speaker 1: I won't say that about our supporters, is I love
Speaker 1: our supporters obviously, but I can't speak for other teams.
Speaker 1: Nice We'll go to the next game, Melbourne versus the Hawks.
Speaker 1: Big story out of this Clayton Oliver got tagged by
Speaker 1: the Shutdown King called Finn McGuinness.
Speaker 3: So we can be tagged because everyone does the whole
Speaker 3: like you know those inside ball winning bulls that it's like,
Speaker 3: why even tag him. He's still going to get thirty
Speaker 3: touches because he's in at the coal face the coal
Speaker 3: face who like anyway nineteen hundred, but he can be
Speaker 3: tagged by Finn McGinnis. I'm not sure that he's really
Speaker 3: back to full fitness. I won't Clayton Oliver. I won't
Speaker 3: right off what Finn did because he's been like shutting
Speaker 3: down some massive. He played on Nick Dacos and did
Speaker 3: a number on him, and yeah, so he's been massive,
Speaker 3: but it was he's broken. Clayton Oliver had multiple Clayton
Speaker 3: Oliver streaks, so he was fifty three games consecutive games
Speaker 3: with five plus clearances and one hundred and fifty four
Speaker 3: games with fifteen or more touches. Ye, both out the window, yep.
Speaker 1: And I think it came out to be what he
Speaker 1: had like fourteen or something on the day and had thirteen,
Speaker 1: so as a Finn had essentially one less disposal on him.
Speaker 1: But Simon Goodman after the game said that like he's
Speaker 1: not obviously he's not trying to go for the ball,
Speaker 1: which maybe he didn't see the status after some of these.
Speaker 1: Probably one of those comments he's gone out okay fair
Speaker 1: after the game, but yeah he did a he did
Speaker 1: a decent job on that, or Clayton Oliver. And there's
Speaker 1: another thing I want to bring up, leaver in May
Speaker 1: massive in the game back line.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wanted to say that. It's like, you know,
Speaker 3: whenever Melbourne's been good across the journey, it's been like, oh,
Speaker 3: leave in May. How do we stop leaving May? They've
Speaker 3: been saying it for years, how do we stop leaving
Speaker 3: in May? And no one has really figured it out.
Speaker 3: Every now and then they might have a down game
Speaker 3: or one might get injured and it's just relying on
Speaker 3: the other. But like, why aren't teams heavily investing in
Speaker 3: these defenders because you see him make massive differences to
Speaker 3: teams like you got Darcy Moos, like coming out.
Speaker 1: More, Jeremy how is now playing the forward line, was
Speaker 1: playing the back line?
Speaker 3: Versatile player like so many teams have these, Like I
Speaker 3: don't feel like they get the props they deserve, but
Speaker 3: I'm like a really good center half back off like
Speaker 3: full back now, like they just intercept mark and set
Speaker 3: up the whole offense. But it's still like these key
Speaker 3: forwards and mids that are getting a million dollars.
Speaker 1: I think you need the you need the lockdown defender,
Speaker 1: so it takes down the best forward, right, so maybe
Speaker 1: a big defender takes down the first they're the biggest
Speaker 1: and best forward. And then you've got the interceptor. It
Speaker 1: just floats around, plays a little bit of whatever he wants,
Speaker 1: you know, and just kind of comes across old mcgovernent
Speaker 1: style and just you know, because you think of like
Speaker 1: brass McGovern brass lockdown mcgovernent, float across, taking as many
Speaker 1: marks as you want. You look at Geelong, Geelong Scott's Stewart,
Speaker 1: Stewart who comes across, and then you have blitzebs who
Speaker 1: might lock down the toll. Like there's it's kind of
Speaker 1: like I feel like the you know how you kind
Speaker 1: of structure a team in the defense. You need to
Speaker 1: have those two people to offset each other to really
Speaker 1: be as successful as possible. Now, but it is, I mean,
Speaker 1: defense wins championships and it's such an important part of it.
Speaker 1: But you know, we all love goals.
Speaker 2: Times have changed so much.
Speaker 3: I reckon like, it's not like the pocket plumber and
Speaker 3: like the lockdown and they can have no skills and
Speaker 3: be slow and all that stuff. It's like there's no
Speaker 3: bad kicks in Collingwood's back line and they all set
Speaker 3: up the offense and that's where your speed comes from,
Speaker 3: whether it's like Noble or Quinn or like streaming out
Speaker 3: of heart, like half back puts all the pace on
Speaker 3: the game and stuff like. It really starts from half
Speaker 3: back like a lot of these teams and it's.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, so you got Connor McKinnon. It's like, you
Speaker 1: know this pace to get it out of the defense,
Speaker 1: get a good kick and they just a good kick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they break lines. I want to go into the VFL
Speaker 1: from Melbourne now because Brodie Grundie was dropped for this game.
Speaker 1: Tom McDonald was playing the VFL kick three, So there
Speaker 1: are some people in the VFL. They're gonna cost some
Speaker 1: headaches or something.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't going into finals. As far as selection, which would
Speaker 1: be very interesting to see and how that pans out.
Speaker 3: Ailey Fritch would be pretty close to coming back. And
Speaker 3: that's that's the last knock on Melbourne at the moment
Speaker 3: is like defensively, they're just shutting down teams, but they
Speaker 3: just got to get the score on the scoreboard. But
Speaker 3: at the moment they're just there. They've got no forwards,
Speaker 3: like they're going to get some of these forwards, tall
Speaker 3: forwards in form and yeah, it's it's gonna be a
Speaker 3: real race to finals to see who they can get in.
Speaker 1: There will be interesting to who they are. All kind
Speaker 1: of shakes out to be who and who starts in
Speaker 1: their team.
Speaker 3: But they've got Jake melchcham is like their key forward
Speaker 3: and he's kicking threes and fours and stuff. But it's
Speaker 3: like you're going to have some big pillar up there.
Speaker 3: They could probably go to Luke Jackson type.
Speaker 1: Who knows. That's interesting comments. We'll go to the Freemantle
Speaker 1: versus Port game Freemantle fifty eight Ports seventy four Port
Speaker 1: essentially now obviously top four locked in and get the
Speaker 1: win over there in Freemantle or in Perth. So Rosie
Speaker 1: thirty one in a goal, he didn't have that goal
Speaker 1: over his head, that's pretty interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a pretty good snap. Kids got some talent,
Speaker 3: I will say that. And who there's Tom Emmont as
Speaker 3: well for free kick two on debut, which you always love,
Speaker 3: had the old joelso would head wrapped up. It's always
Speaker 3: good for you. Just want some good photos from your
Speaker 3: first game. Your head's all caved in, Bailey, Bailey Banfield
Speaker 3: now talk about Rosie's like snap goal over his shoulder.
Speaker 3: It was good Bailey Banfield would have kicked one of
Speaker 3: the old timers.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately the AFL came out and used the score of you,
Speaker 3: which I don't know why you would, and it came
Speaker 3: off the defender's arm. But he went for like full
Speaker 3: Ronaldo bicycle kick speck and hit it flush, went straight
Speaker 3: through the middle, but unfortunately graised the hair or two
Speaker 3: on the defender's arm, which you know that party poopers
Speaker 3: just I'm sick of goal umpires. Why don't they just
Speaker 3: use their intuition and just went through the sticks.
Speaker 1: The most entertaining solution to whatever it is I want.
Speaker 1: If someone who cares if they've touched, you count that.
Speaker 1: If someone kicks the last second goal, who cares you,
Speaker 1: you give them the goal.
Speaker 3: They had what's his name long in the Grand Final
Speaker 3: run and from fifty kicked it and they could have
Speaker 3: sworn they touched it on the line. Back in ninety
Speaker 3: three called it a goal because it was fun. Now
Speaker 3: we don't have any of that anymore. But I will
Speaker 3: say my boy Horn Francis Dangerfield comparison last weekend, Dangerfield
Speaker 3: comparison this weekend, same guy. I reckon Danger's just got
Speaker 3: a mullet and he goes back to Adelaide on the
Speaker 3: weekends and he plays the game for Port. This was
Speaker 3: in Perth, so might have to tinker with that theory
Speaker 3: a little bit. But just bust out of the pack,
Speaker 3: kicks goals on the run. He can do it all.
Speaker 3: But yeah, freo competitive kind of like their season, not
Speaker 3: really there, but you know, I think it was a
Speaker 3: good hit out for Port going into final.
Speaker 1: You want to know what the best part of this
Speaker 1: game was? What retro kick?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was sick.
Speaker 3: It's literally went for free on the day I and
Speaker 3: it's my favorite retro kit in the league. I mean
Speaker 3: Colling would have none retro.
Speaker 1: It's a scene thing.
Speaker 2: Black and white. We got the white and the black.
Speaker 2: We got black and white with a little pinstrip. We
Speaker 2: got white and black with a black.
Speaker 1: The swoop jersey this year you don't even wear it,
Speaker 1: be able to wear it, but it would be cool.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just like it.
Speaker 1: He would lose his mind.
Speaker 3: I just like the use of like obviously the anchor
Speaker 3: front center delicious, but I like the green.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because no one uses no one us. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like piss yellow for Hawthorn.
Speaker 2: It is like piss yellow. Like that, you said that
Speaker 2: we'll move into.
Speaker 1: The last game, the Friday night thriller, Collingwood versus Brisbane
Speaker 1: one versus two at the beautiful, incredibly immaculate Marvel Stadium.
Speaker 3: Now you've already said that you're not saying stuff to
Speaker 3: piss off the AFL, but there was no tone to
Speaker 3: that that was legitimate. And he loves Marvel Stadium. Did
Speaker 3: you hear Jack Greenwalt's comments about Marvel.
Speaker 1: Geez now that he's retarding.
Speaker 3: He did in his last press conference. He's like, I'm
Speaker 3: going to miss so many things like Marvel Stadium. And
Speaker 3: then he laughed and said, nah, that they can burn
Speaker 3: that joint.
Speaker 2: To the ground. Oh damn, that's coming in hot.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: There's there's so many things to come out of this game.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna we're gonna have to move.
Speaker 2: Our way through this.
Speaker 3: But unfortunately Collingwood couldn't get the job done over Brisbane.
Speaker 3: Now they're oh, and two against Brisbane, once up at
Speaker 3: the Gabbar, now once at the spiritual home of football,
Speaker 3: Marvel Stadium. So you know, but Collingwood had a fair
Speaker 3: few outs. No Acoss, no Degoi, no Bobby Noymore. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: forgot him. He's just he's a minor.
Speaker 1: One somewhat important someone.
Speaker 3: So you know, someouts. So I don't think most Collingwood
Speaker 3: fans are anything. We're you know, sinking the ship, but
Speaker 3: it was you'd like to get the win, obviously. But
Speaker 3: one thing that did come out of this, Mason Cox
Speaker 3: back in the AFL squad named as a late sub.
Speaker 1: Needed a bit of speed to check that speed the game.
Speaker 3: My brother, we're looking a bit flat out there, getting
Speaker 3: Mason up, get him warming up, sub going. But yeah,
Speaker 3: so what was your week like? Because I had no idea.
Speaker 3: I was sitting there and I'm like, oh, who's the
Speaker 3: sub to my housemate, He's like, checks notes Mason Cox.
Speaker 1: I was like, what the Yeah. So essentially it was
Speaker 1: talked about of me possibly being sub earlier in the
Speaker 1: week and then didn't really announce it until the day of.
Speaker 1: So you kind of prepped the game as per usual
Speaker 1: as if you'd play and I was announced as a sub,
Speaker 1: which was yeah, unique, Like I wasn't quite sure, Like
Speaker 1: I know, I've been playing one in the VFL, but
Speaker 1: you weren't really kind of sure what was gonna where
Speaker 1: the kind of dominoes were going to fall. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it was an interesting decision. I guess to play a
Speaker 1: big man as a sub doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 3: Always risky.
Speaker 1: Was very risky. Last time was the sub. I came
Speaker 1: in for Scott Pilburg and played like absolute dog shits.
Speaker 1: So the same speed, yeah, same, the same speed, fun ones. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's kind of how a background basketball background if you
Speaker 1: knew did you know that? Did you know I'm American?
Speaker 3: I thought he was American. I thought you were Australia.
Speaker 1: Something like that. I don't know, but yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a unique week to play this sub. It's always a
Speaker 1: different feeling because you know you're not going to start
Speaker 1: the game, but you might have to if someone goes
Speaker 1: down and I had to go in. I think at
Speaker 1: the very end of the third quarter. Jacob Ryan, unfortunately
Speaker 1: on his debut game, ended up getting concussed. Second quarter,
Speaker 1: second quarter, Sorry, that's what I think. Into the second
Speaker 1: quarter and very frustrating. You can imagine for Jacob like
Speaker 1: his whole family over there, like friends. You have this
Speaker 1: incredible experience, you know, and once in a lifetime you'll
Speaker 1: only debut once, and to go off with concussion very
Speaker 1: very frustrating, you just imagine. So as soon as he
Speaker 1: kind of went down, every time a player goes down,
Speaker 1: you kind of jump off the bench start warming up.
Speaker 1: That's kind of exactly what happened. And the physios came
Speaker 1: over to me goes, look, he's gonna cost We're gonna
Speaker 1: assess them downstairs. We're pretty certain of this before he
Speaker 1: even goes down to just be prepared to go on.
Speaker 1: So when in in the second quarter, I was able
Speaker 1: to play the rest of the game.
Speaker 3: And play you did, Mace, because they threw you in
Speaker 3: the ruck, which just a bit of a catch up
Speaker 3: for everyone not watching the VFL. Mace has had one
Speaker 3: hundred hitouts in two games. Kind of two games. You
Speaker 3: played three quarters of the last week, but threw you
Speaker 3: into the ruck. Twenty five hitouts in a half, So
Speaker 3: technically on track for a plumb, it.
Speaker 1: Wasn't a half because there were I did go into
Speaker 1: the second quarter right into the second quarter, so oh,
Speaker 1: it was a pop up that I appreciate that it was.
Speaker 3: I was I'd give it someone leave it in the
Speaker 3: chat if we give it to him. But a big
Speaker 3: game for a half in the ruck got a fair
Speaker 3: amount of pump up through the media, which is very
Speaker 3: rare silver service to likes of Scott Penderbury, who it
Speaker 3: did end up getting, you know, thirty odd touches kicked
Speaker 3: for sure. Yeah, so Pendle's you know, turn them back
Speaker 3: the clock. But you just kept tapping it down to him.
Speaker 3: How did you feel out there back in the back
Speaker 3: in the big time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was good. It's yeah, it's nice to get
Speaker 1: back into the IFL and be able to play that.
Speaker 1: Like I said that being the sub was a unique experience.
Speaker 1: I hadn't done that in a long time. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we had the idea probably going in, if
Speaker 1: you know, obviously covering Darcy Moore's injury, having Jeremy how
Speaker 1: on the forward line, like we could shift things around
Speaker 1: and move him into the back line if we needed to.
Speaker 1: We had kind of a few different options, right, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it was able to go in and play mostly rock
Speaker 1: so won a few center bounces and kind of got
Speaker 1: you know, pushed into there to stay there, and we
Speaker 1: kind of came back in the third for a little
Speaker 1: bit before it kind of Brisbane took it away in
Speaker 1: the fourth. But it was a nice little run there,
Speaker 1: and you know, the likes of Scott Pennbury just making
Speaker 1: it look good by making sure he gets to the
Speaker 1: right spot at the right time definitely helps.
Speaker 3: Now, there was a moment because the big feller gets
Speaker 3: up and down the ground when you're the rock defensive
Speaker 3: fifty econom McKenna one on once he was just staring
Speaker 3: into the goggles of greatness.
Speaker 1: Oh man, you know whenever you see someone that's about
Speaker 1: three times as fast as you and you're corralling them
Speaker 1: from thirty meters away, just like he used to God,
Speaker 1: kick the fucking ball.
Speaker 2: Just buying time.
Speaker 1: Come on, someone, please help me, Oh help, help help. No.
Speaker 1: I was eating like d fifty and he was like
Speaker 1: like turned and he kind of looked at me and
Speaker 1: that you know whatever still looks at you goes, oh
Speaker 1: oh gotcha, crap, I know that I'm gone. Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's essentially what happened.
Speaker 2: Hopefully word hasn't come back from Ireland.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this seventh foot American is not very fast and
Speaker 1: he took me out. Luckily, you know, I kind of
Speaker 1: got blocked and I could kind of take that as
Speaker 1: the reasoning I couldn't catch up to him. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he took me on, kicked it, and I think they
Speaker 1: got out of D fifty. But it was kind of
Speaker 1: one of those funny moments in the game where you
Speaker 1: kind of look at it and you're like, it's like me,
Speaker 1: like today training we had a tackling draw and I'm
Speaker 1: going against Bobby Hill. I'm like, i mean, come on, realistically,
Speaker 1: this is not a great match up, and yeah, he
Speaker 1: just he took me home. It was pretty funny. It
Speaker 1: was something out of the game. But another few things
Speaker 1: if you kind of little injury. So Archie he fell
Speaker 1: on his back taking a mark and felt it for
Speaker 1: the rest of the game. I think he came off
Speaker 1: towards the end and that looked right on the sacred
Speaker 1: like real just vulnerable, vulnerable position, going up for the mark,
Speaker 1: coming back on his back, he looks steep and.
Speaker 3: It was it was murph. It was kind of that
Speaker 3: tunneling motion, but one of those ones that was like
Speaker 3: completely incidental.
Speaker 2: By the way, what.
Speaker 1: Happened to tunneling just doesn't get cold that now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there was a lot of it on the
Speaker 3: week the weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very interesting. I don't know, just a bit of advice.
Speaker 1: But Nathan Murphy officely a few cork legs came off Jacobrian,
Speaker 1: like we said, with concussion, concussion as there's a few little.
Speaker 2: Things I was going to miss.
Speaker 1: Bo got suspended for a game. I think it was
Speaker 1: for a dangerous tackle, so he might miss again the
Speaker 1: last game of the season and then should be back
Speaker 1: for finals. But yeah, some other stuff out of this
Speaker 1: John Noble and saying, go, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: saw that, just did like a pair of wet pair
Speaker 1: of wet ballerina, just let me dart one from forty
Speaker 1: five inside.
Speaker 3: I think there's going to be so many offended Collingwood
Speaker 3: players out there. But I Reckon he's in my top
Speaker 3: three favorites out there, and then I've probably got.
Speaker 1: Is it because he was like a mid season draft. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and just as like really had to work for a spot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like those Nuggets that try real hard. Yeah,
Speaker 3: probably have Biden have Braidon Maynard in there for number
Speaker 3: two because same name, just like we go about it
Speaker 3: the same like We're both tough, nice, both leadership material, handsome,
Speaker 3: really well spoken.
Speaker 1: It's getting real quiet here.
Speaker 3: I'll just leave the number one spot open.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Darthy Moore. So anyway, another one. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw this. Eddie bats Nev Jetta had
Speaker 1: a little box up there with this guy, some guy,
Speaker 1: some guy who named Luke Comes. Luke Comes. As if
Speaker 1: anyone out there doesn't know who that is, he's one
Speaker 1: of the most famous country music stars out there at
Speaker 1: the moment, and he was at the game, which was cool.
Speaker 1: And I always find it funny because like anytime someone
Speaker 1: who's internationally known goes to an AFL game, or Jack
Speaker 1: Harlow wears a free mental hat, the AFL loses its shit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they are just all over it. They're like, how
Speaker 1: can we leverage this man's popularity to get the rest
Speaker 1: of the world to give a shit about our sport.
Speaker 1: And they did that on the night.
Speaker 3: Well they they kind of did, but first time the
Speaker 3: camera went up there, they were like, oh, there's Eddie
Speaker 3: Betts and like, oh my god, it's Eddie Bits And yeah,
Speaker 3: they didn't realize who they were sitting to.
Speaker 2: I have to.
Speaker 3: Admit, I have no idea who it is, but I
Speaker 3: can imagine you're a big country Western fan with your
Speaker 3: big belt buckle and your cowboy hat and boots. So
Speaker 3: you went to his concert?
Speaker 1: Was it? Went to the concert on Saturday night? Very good,
Speaker 1: favorite song, favorite song, fast Cars, and it's most popular.
Speaker 2: I feel like everyone's done a version of fast Care.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's not actually his song. Yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: his most popular song. But I did sit next to
Speaker 1: Nico Heinz the NRL players, Oh yeah, yeah, absolute legend,
Speaker 1: nicest guy over me. Now I did realize this is
Speaker 1: one of the biggest difference between a f L and NRL.
Speaker 2: No one knew who he was Nico, No people.
Speaker 1: Knew who he was, Like rolling around Nico went up
Speaker 1: on stage and shock under bureauth he comes. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine if an AFL player did that, Melbourne would lose
Speaker 1: its shit, would just say that is not acceptable in
Speaker 1: our community.
Speaker 3: It's still on like on brand for them, like they
Speaker 3: like openly accept that.
Speaker 1: And they're cool with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I feel like AFL players do it. They just
Speaker 3: it's not's not public. They don't pump it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, RL's like this is our identity.
Speaker 3: If if Taylor Swift comes to Melbourne, It's like Mason
Speaker 3: Cups Spotlight comes down. She's like, come up here and
Speaker 3: do it shoey with me.
Speaker 1: Without a questions that come with that for that life moment.
Speaker 2: The Grand Final week.
Speaker 1: Yep, still I'll do a boot. I will just do
Speaker 1: a shoe.
Speaker 3: It's jack It's your version of Jack Rie. Well, it's
Speaker 3: like mister bright Side.
Speaker 1: It is Taylor Swift per form of the Grand Final.
Speaker 3: And then what do you sing?
Speaker 1: It? Awesome? What am I singing? Karma Coma's really good?
Speaker 1: Cruel Summers Elite to.
Speaker 2: But they're just hot?
Speaker 3: Now what do you do? Like a throwback to like
Speaker 3: one of the.
Speaker 1: Others and Mike get horrible? That's not really a pop
Speaker 1: up song, that's a.
Speaker 3: Really what's the duet one where the film clip is
Speaker 3: like the dudes in like the.
Speaker 1: Which album folklore?
Speaker 3: I don't know the album now, but like he's got
Speaker 3: the sign in his house across the road and they're
Speaker 3: like the neighbors next door and they're like flirting with
Speaker 3: each other.
Speaker 2: You could like do that play.
Speaker 1: That store with her. Maybe I'll make I am on
Speaker 1: the floor and I assume I'll be a head above
Speaker 1: shoulders of everyone else.
Speaker 3: So you've got to do something to get attention.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe we leave this in the comments everyone, What
Speaker 1: can I do to get Taylor Swiss attention? To get
Speaker 1: her bracelet on the day?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna have a is a sign a bit much?
Speaker 1: She's pretty tall?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you have said tall girls gravitate the tall guys.
Speaker 1: True, it's a proven fact. I've done the orange.
Speaker 3: She could write a song after you jesus be like.
Speaker 1: You know'd be like what am I blakey on? Rolling?
Speaker 1: Rolling in the deep? Yeah, it'd be like essentially Adele.
Speaker 1: Every time she gets in a relationship and breaks up
Speaker 1: with someone, she writes a fire album, an absolutely insanely
Speaker 1: good album.
Speaker 3: Or you could just say it's like Taylor Swift because
Speaker 3: she does exactly that after she breaks up with it.
Speaker 1: Well, we just went from a footy podcast in the
Speaker 1: entertainment podcast Real Quick, where you go back to the football.
Speaker 1: Now this week, what are we looking forward to?
Speaker 3: Well, I just want to say I'm looking forward to
Speaker 3: it wrapping up now, like after that Adelaide Sydney result,
Speaker 3: and we'll look ahead for the games. But it really
Speaker 3: just kind of ruined the last round, so let's get
Speaker 3: that done because then we have a week off the
Speaker 3: women's game starts.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: I was driving in here yesterday coffee. Son was hitting
Speaker 3: the window in my car. You know, even if it's
Speaker 3: a little coldor outside, but you're sitting in your car
Speaker 3: and the sun's coming through the window and it's like
Speaker 3: feels warm. You can feel it on your skin. And
Speaker 3: I looked ahead in the app at the weather. We
Speaker 3: got like eighteen eighteen eighteen, all sunny. I mean, anyone
Speaker 3: that doesn't live in Victorious laughing.
Speaker 1: At us right now, why would you choose to live there?
Speaker 3: But eighteen and Sonny, I'll take that every day of
Speaker 3: the week. Start cracking beers outside, sun stays up a
Speaker 3: little longer, barbecue starts rolling out of the covers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just looking forward to finals Footy.
Speaker 1: Hypothetically, if you had to pick a favorite beer, would
Speaker 1: it be Do we have a sponsor Carlton Draft?
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, boy.
Speaker 1: We're throwing it out there. You know what, fuck it
Speaker 1: tag Carlton Draft. That's what we need. We need to
Speaker 1: put pressure on the sponsors. What's reverse psychology? This shif?
Speaker 3: I can if I mean, you call the zeros.
Speaker 1: I'll do the zeros, you do the full strengths.
Speaker 3: If we can get a beer sponsor going into finals,
Speaker 3: that will save me so much money because I really
Speaker 3: I really ramp up come finals time and the Sun's coming.
Speaker 1: Out cash air product. What are you looking for Friday night?
Speaker 1: I mean, like we went on this whole Sunday you
Speaker 1: know games, all that kind of stuff, But the Friday nights,
Speaker 1: Friday night MCG, last game of the season. Essendon Collingwood,
Speaker 1: big rivalry, like this is why you play.
Speaker 3: It's still going to be big and they always get
Speaker 3: up for like you. It's like West Coast always gets
Speaker 3: up for Collingwood, Essendon, Carlton, the Tigs. They always get
Speaker 3: up for Collingwood.
Speaker 1: And it's going to be got a target iner back
Speaker 1: all year, you know. But it's it'll be a good game.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming a massive crowd as per usual, and good
Speaker 1: be playing back at.
Speaker 3: The MCG, even if it's not a massive crowd because
Speaker 3: Essendon's just you know, packed her up and gone on
Speaker 3: postseason trip. Collingwood's gonna rock up. Collingwood fans last last
Speaker 3: chance to get a taste of it before finals, and
Speaker 3: tickets get a little harder to come by But yeah,
Speaker 3: get out there Friday night footy heading into finals.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna do shout outs. What's your shout out?
Speaker 2: I want to say, just GWS in general.
Speaker 1: The big big sound, a big big sound.
Speaker 2: Just the vibe of the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the fact that they're kind of propping up the
Speaker 3: last round because it's the last game of the last round.
Speaker 2: All comes down to them.
Speaker 3: If Bulldogs get the w over the Cats down at
Speaker 3: the Cattery, GWS needs to win to make finals, so
Speaker 3: it gives that last game a bit of spice. But
Speaker 3: then yeah, everything in general. G WS has just been
Speaker 3: good little battlers this year because no one expected anything
Speaker 3: from them and everyone was like, Toby, why don't you
Speaker 3: move away? Like sticking it out with this team. It's like,
Speaker 3: well now, now, who's laughing. He's going to be all
Speaker 3: Australian captain And when you.
Speaker 1: Said this before, I can't wait for that smoke on
Speaker 1: his face.
Speaker 2: And they're gonna he's going to take his team to finals.
Speaker 1: That's so good. I want to give a little shout
Speaker 1: out to Lionel Massey. That man is bringing soccer back
Speaker 1: to America and he's making soccer great again.
Speaker 3: It is good to see.
Speaker 1: I feel like every time I flick my phone on,
Speaker 1: he's got some other highlight reel from the game. Every
Speaker 1: single game he plays, he just kicks like a ridiculous
Speaker 1: set shot or like a ridiculous free kicking. You don't
Speaker 1: call it and set player. I've actually been transferred over
Speaker 1: and he's just killing it. And it's cool to see
Speaker 1: like US soccer because growing up like soccer in the
Speaker 1: US is not that big and it is blown up
Speaker 1: yet the David Beckham came over, Tierri came over and
Speaker 1: played for the New York team, and now Messi's playing
Speaker 1: for Miami, and it's just great to see these big
Speaker 1: names coming over and making soccer big back home.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't be a hard sell, would it.
Speaker 3: They're like, come over here, we'll give you hundreds of millions,
Speaker 3: we'll give you part ownership in the team, and you
Speaker 3: get to live in Miami.
Speaker 1: Yep, when no one probably knows who you are.
Speaker 3: And you get to play. But essentially for you, it
Speaker 3: would be like playing like Dive four resis like that last.
Speaker 1: Week they kicked forty one goals in a game.
Speaker 3: It's just no one who's going to a new highlight every week,
Speaker 3: it just gets to go out there and play against
Speaker 3: another level.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Now, before we get into games to
Speaker 1: watch out for this week, I want to make mention
Speaker 1: of this because it was big news over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Jack Zebel obviously played his last game probably out for
Speaker 1: drink you could possibly say, after at the Osborne and
Speaker 1: essentially it was king hit really outside of this establishment
Speaker 1: and now has had some serious damage done to him.
Speaker 1: And we just want to first of all say prayers
Speaker 1: up to Jack, like hopefully you know, you get better mate.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, Steven. I don't know the situation, what happened
Speaker 1: to anything like that, but it's ridiculous to think that
Speaker 1: this is this outcome of something, whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: And I feel for him on the night that he's
Speaker 1: probably wanting to be a memorable one where he gets
Speaker 1: to enjoy himself. This now is a situation that's turned
Speaker 1: into something bigger. It really just shipped in. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to put this in a nice way, like it really
Speaker 1: gets my good grinds my ears, like to a ridiculous point.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like it's just it's just a sorry and so,
Speaker 1: and it's such a thing here. I feel like I
Speaker 1: don't know. I didn't really see this as much back home,
Speaker 1: but there just seems to be an aggression with people
Speaker 1: whenever they drink. And if that is the case with
Speaker 1: any of your friends, remove them from the scenario and
Speaker 1: tell them to go home. There's no need for them
Speaker 1: to be in a public environment if they're one of
Speaker 1: those rage machines. And we all know that person that
Speaker 1: does get a bit drunk and does get a bit
Speaker 1: physical wherever it is, take them home, tell them to
Speaker 1: go to sleep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's you want to He wanted to celebrate his
Speaker 3: career and move on with the rest of his life.
Speaker 3: Now that's kind of stalled a bit with this. He's
Speaker 3: got to go through hospital. He's got to get a
Speaker 3: facial surgery. So yeah, it kind of puts the brakes
Speaker 3: on that for a bit. But prayers up to Jack's abel. Yeah,
Speaker 3: no one deserves to get King hit.
Speaker 1: No. But yeah, I just there's that much education right now.
Speaker 3: I don't get violence in this any way, shape or form.
Speaker 1: But yeah, anyway, we'll get into just how to cover that.
Speaker 1: But wanted to get into the games to watch out
Speaker 1: for this week obviously, the last round of the season
Speaker 1: twenty four rounds.
Speaker 3: We have twenty four rounds which we do have, but
Speaker 3: only play twenty three because you got to buy. Collingwood
Speaker 3: can lock away a top spot if they beat Essendon
Speaker 3: Friday Night North v Suns in Tazzy. We already talked
Speaker 3: about that one, but I think I think I'm just
Speaker 3: getting getting the call in now. If you if you
Speaker 3: get on the website now, I think there's a couple
Speaker 3: of tickets left that you can pick up for that one.
Speaker 3: Surely there's going to be poor thirty forty people there. Wow,
Speaker 3: well I can't imagine what are you going for? Whack,
Speaker 3: why you're rocking up just to see ifl mate even
Speaker 3: even Tazzy people are like, yeah, they've come down a
Speaker 3: couple of times. We saw them, We saw them, Well
Speaker 3: what were they going to? It's the first time we
Speaker 3: can see the Suns move on Brizzy via the Saints
Speaker 3: at the Gabba, Saints on an absolute heater, So not
Speaker 3: really sure what comes of that. Like Brizzie can lock
Speaker 3: in that top two we.
Speaker 1: Think is the biggest thing they're coming out of that
Speaker 1: for either team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and man Brisbane top two finish, I reckon it
Speaker 3: almost guarantees them a Grand Final.
Speaker 1: Spot home fortress. We've talked about many times on this podcast.
Speaker 1: They don't lose a.
Speaker 3: Home Gabba Gabba MCG, and then it's whether they can
Speaker 3: get it done on the MCG. Bulldogs v Cats the
Speaker 3: only real game that can cause some turbulence shift. So
Speaker 3: if Bulldogs win, they are in the top eight and
Speaker 3: then it comes down to gwsv Carlton.
Speaker 2: GWS need to win to then make finals.
Speaker 3: If Bulldogs lose that GWS are in my boys and
Speaker 3: Sydney v Melbourne at the SCG.
Speaker 1: That would be good. I'm actually Prome, but it's just.
Speaker 3: What they're doing, like what they're playing for, as you said, momentum.
Speaker 3: But it's not really like a position thing or anything.
Speaker 1: It's just two good teams going at it and Sydney
Speaker 1: Melbourne obviously had them on the ladder. At Sydney now
Speaker 1: making finals like they'll be wanting to make a bit
Speaker 1: of a statement before they go into it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there could be two Sydney teams in the eight this year.
Speaker 1: Just quite interesting. And who said expansion is not good
Speaker 1: for the game.
Speaker 3: It looks like probably it'll be Carlton GWS first week
Speaker 3: of finals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, double so two times in three weeks.
Speaker 3: If that is the case, they're going to have a
Speaker 3: lot of intel on each other. So then it's like
Speaker 3: you show your cards. But yeah, you kind of have
Speaker 3: to wait for that. Bulldog's a long game to play
Speaker 3: out first. Yeah, before you start playing a bit of poker.
Speaker 1: Very true, very true. Well, it's going to be a
Speaker 1: great week of football. We're excited. We're getting to the
Speaker 1: end of the season and we're wrapping up this season.
Speaker 3: When Mason Cox starts to shine coming into the.
Speaker 1: Fil just big games, but it is going to be
Speaker 1: an exciting month ahead. Job on board, tell you friends
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