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Speaker 1: Christian Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: It's the Christian O'Connell Show, and right now we're looking

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Speaker 2: for your stories. It could have been me. Maybe you

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Speaker 2: had sporting greatness as a kid, as a teenager, you

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Speaker 2: were really good at footy. It was all there for you, all.

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Speaker 3: Ahead of you, Kane.

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Speaker 1: Now are we yeah? Good?

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Speaker 3: Kine? So what was your story?

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Speaker 1: I literally missed out. I reckon my about five minutes.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't allowed to play football the kid, because number

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Speaker 1: was always skill was going to get hurt lo and

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Speaker 1: behold something happened. I started playing when I was fourteen,

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Speaker 1: or my fourth game. I was drafted by Melbourne. I've

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Speaker 1: played the Melbourne under fifteen, seventeen nineteens. I made the

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Speaker 1: reserves by Tom Old sixteen. After about five games in

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Speaker 1: the reserves, got pulled away at halftime of a game

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Speaker 1: when this old fellow goes you and you come with me.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who this old fellow is. He had

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Speaker 1: a ten minute abusive message to us and said keep

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Speaker 1: playing on the way you're playing, and next week with

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Speaker 1: me and went okay, and we've walked out and our

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Speaker 1: coach at the time said, how'd you go? I said,

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Speaker 1: apparently we're playing with his AULSA next week and he goes,

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Speaker 1: you know who that was? I said, I have no idea,

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Speaker 1: and he goes, that was John Nordy, the head coach

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Speaker 1: of the Melbourne Football Club. Great, we've made it. We

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Speaker 1: were wrapped. The last five minutes of the game. I

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Speaker 1: had a total new reconstruction and yeah, so and the

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Speaker 1: kiger was is that it is? The doctor said don't play.

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Speaker 1: You'll never make it. You'll never make it. And I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty stubborn and I wanted. I was that close. I

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Speaker 1: had to try again. And I played local football till

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Speaker 1: I was forty and I've had now had three knee

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Speaker 1: reconstructions on the left knee until in the right. Man.

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Speaker 3: That is heartbreaking. I mean, Reddy could have been you.

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Speaker 3: It almost was. I mean touch and distance, you're there.

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Speaker 1: Well, the other guy who got picked actually made it.

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Speaker 1: And his name was David Swartz. Oh you're kidding. Wow, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so we just missed out.

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Speaker 3: Melbourne's history could be different. It wouldn't be the sad

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Speaker 3: story it's been for.

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Speaker 1: The last year.

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Speaker 3: New seasons coming next month. We've got Ben Brown. It's

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Speaker 3: gonna be us. Ben Bran's actually I heard, Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I don't think he's starting the season.

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Speaker 2: No, you got to hold him back.

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Speaker 3: You gotta hold him back.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it's like Monday Rock.

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Speaker 1: You can't start the season away with it.

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Speaker 3: So what was that like at that age? It must

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Speaker 3: have been heartbreaking for you.

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Speaker 1: It was actually, yeah, I said, I didn't plan of

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Speaker 1: quite Ford because Mum just said, you're not going to

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Speaker 1: do it, You're going to get hurt. I'm like, I

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Speaker 1: won't get hurt, won't be silly. And eventually I played

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Speaker 1: in there and to have her for the next twenty years.

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Speaker 1: I told you so. I told you so. It was

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Speaker 1: the worst and but yeah, I was just It's just

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Speaker 1: one of those things. I guess. I was pretty stubborn

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Speaker 1: and I wanted to make it. And I got back

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Speaker 1: to the reserve. I got back to the back in

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Speaker 1: those days, the VFA which in spring Vale. I got

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Speaker 1: to play with them for it and then had my

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Speaker 1: second ear Riko, And so I'll keep going. I'll keep going.

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Speaker 1: But here now, I mean I wish I had to

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Speaker 1: stop to my legs and the back it now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they are Wow, incredible, long story. Sorry to hear that,

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Speaker 3: I really am.

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Speaker 2: You're exactly who we were we're looking to talk to

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Speaker 2: this morning.

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Speaker 3: It's an incredible story. And what do you do now, Kane.

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Speaker 1: I'm actually a six foot nine lanescape gardener.

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Speaker 2: That's all then in reconstruction it's actually five two, but

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Speaker 2: every time they build up another knee, it's just mainly

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Speaker 2: knee one, mostly one on the left side.

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Speaker 1: More obviously, No, I'm want to have been more like

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Speaker 1: seven foot four, and.

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Speaker 3: You're basically a tree? Is a tree gardening? No, it's

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Speaker 3: kan Isn't that the worst job to do?

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Speaker 2: If you've got a dodgy knee like all that bending

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Speaker 2: and it's probably out roots.

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Speaker 1: It's probably it's probably not the best thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: but being so tall with bad know that it is

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Speaker 1: hard getting up and down. But you know it's look

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Speaker 3: Is it called Big Fellow Landscaping?

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Speaker 1: That's what I called myself business name.

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Speaker 2: If Bill Fincher was back in this city in make

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Speaker 2: a beeline for Kine on this guy. I love the

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Speaker 2: idea of all former players. Landscape is there with Ron

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Speaker 2: Barrassi lunch break Now, this is great, Cain. We're going

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Speaker 2: to send you a prize. I love talking to you. Okay,

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Speaker 2: thank you very much for picking up the phone.

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